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Offline JimmyB76

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1160 on: June 17, 2009, 07:21:01 PM »
... anyway moving on :P

the human brain is insensitive to pain...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1161 on: June 17, 2009, 07:22:47 PM »
This Week @ NASA 06 17 09

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1162 on: June 17, 2009, 08:20:40 PM »


More Hatchetfish (Admit it, it's the best "souls of the damned" impression you have seen a fish do)

And btw, yes, their eyes are permanently fixed rolled upwards.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1163 on: June 17, 2009, 10:19:13 PM »
Quote from: Vanguard on June 17, 2009, 07:08:44 PM
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If a game of Pandemic 2 starts in Madagascar (The hardest country to infect), it is 100% impossible to complete. (With only one port and no airports, by the time the infection reaches another country two will lock down.) So you may want to start a new game. Wink

Not true, i love starting in madagascar, as the place locks down if you start elsewhere and buy the 'sneezing' symptom.
I was about to correct this, based on personal experience.  How dare you beat me to it! :argh:  (j/k)

Quote from: USS Prime on June 17, 2009, 08:04:48 AM
Mythbusters state the obvious in each show (If you have a logical brain, you'll be able to predict the outcome of every experiment).
Wow.  So not true.

Quote from: Senator on June 13, 2009, 05:44:31 AM
"By the word of the LORD one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but the man refused.
So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him."

1 Kings 20:35-36
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ANYWAY, a galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1164 on: June 18, 2009, 12:41:32 PM »
at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1165 on: June 19, 2009, 06:48:28 PM »
children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1166 on: June 19, 2009, 09:21:14 PM »
Quote from: Senator on June 16, 2009, 08:49:07 PM


Hatchetfish


Sometimes, I cannot help but feel that God MUST have a sense of humor. Look at those things. Who would've created that without laughing? They're what I imagine Nebula looking like. >_>

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1167 on: June 21, 2009, 06:48:57 AM »
more than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year...
ummmm how?
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1168 on: June 21, 2009, 10:09:18 AM »
the zipper on the edge cuts them during a pillow fight??

I don't know....
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1169 on: June 21, 2009, 10:25:42 AM »
Asphyxiation perhaps?
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1170 on: June 21, 2009, 05:50:40 PM »
101 dalmations, peter pan, lady and the tramp, and mulan are the only disney movies where both parents are present & dont die through the movie
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1171 on: June 21, 2009, 10:51:44 PM »
Quote from: Nebula on June 21, 2009, 10:09:18 AM
the zipper on the edge cuts them during a pillow fight??

I don't know....
That happened to me.  Didn't have to go to the ER, though...

A 'dry heat' is when the temperature is high, but there is little humidity.  This feels cooler than a 'wet' or 'sticky heat' because with less humidity, sweat is able to evaporate more quickly.  This evaporation cools the body.  When it is very humid, evaporation takes place at a slower rate.  Thus, you feel hotter.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1172 on: June 22, 2009, 10:48:08 AM »
Yeah, I live on the coastline so I have always wet heat.
I HATE summers.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1173 on: June 22, 2009, 10:53:50 AM »
There are still some that are, aren't there? ;)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1174 on: June 22, 2009, 04:01:43 PM »
A boy in Germany was nearly killed by a pea sized meteor. What did happen was that it hit his hand and has now left a scar. Talk about good timing!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1175 on: June 22, 2009, 04:16:58 PM »
I read that on MSN news a while ago. Lucky kid, he is.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1176 on: June 24, 2009, 08:50:08 PM »
Another walk through of the ISS

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1177 on: June 25, 2009, 12:11:54 AM »
Wikipedia has been printed as a book with a few examples from the page making it 5000 pages long.



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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1178 on: June 25, 2009, 01:34:34 AM »
Quote from: 1DeadlySAMURAI on June 25, 2009, 12:11:54 AM
Wikipedia has been printed as a book with a few examples from the page making it 5000 pages long.





Uhm...why not just make it several volumes like any NORMAL encyclopedia...

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1179 on: June 25, 2009, 02:34:36 AM »
The studio model of Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer had a little toy soldier on it's side.
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