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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2020 on: May 18, 2011, 11:32:16 AM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 18, 2011, 08:59:27 AM
May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol

My parents hadn't even met ;)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2021 on: May 18, 2011, 11:57:01 AM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 18, 2011, 08:59:27 AM
May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol
mind if i call you grandpa ? :evil:
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2022 on: May 18, 2011, 12:36:28 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 18, 2011, 08:59:27 AM
May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol

The figure I find more fascinating about that was that the actual eruption released 24 megatons of thermal energy, which is equivalent to 1,600 times the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2023 on: May 18, 2011, 01:24:35 PM »
correction - i hadnt yet turned 4, i turned 4 about 2 1/2 months later :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2024 on: May 18, 2011, 03:00:10 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 18, 2011, 01:24:35 PM
correction - i hadnt yet turned 4, i turned 4 about 2 1/2 months later :P

You're still a grandpa :P *runs*
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2025 on: May 18, 2011, 05:10:21 PM »
me and baz were 7, and Tiq was probably graduating. so don't call HIM grandpa...or i'll whack you with my walker, ya whippersnapper!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2026 on: May 18, 2011, 05:18:34 PM »
Quote from: King Class Scout on May 18, 2011, 05:10:21 PM
me and baz were 7, and Tiq was probably graduating. so don't call HIM grandpa...or i'll whack you with my walker, ya whippersnapper!

Ok Great-Grandpa :P *runs*

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2027 on: May 18, 2011, 06:04:44 PM »
oh gee ... I knew we have an old man (Jimmy) on board but I now there's some real elders here ... and this is really useful fact ... for funny names inside BCC :P just for future reference... incase I would be blamed for off-topic :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2028 on: May 18, 2011, 08:47:08 PM »
Quote from: eclipse74569 on May 18, 2011, 05:18:34 PM
Ok Great-Grandpa :P *runs*

Interesting ST Trivia:  The TNG uniform Zipper in the back actually zipped down, not up

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2029 on: May 19, 2011, 05:17:10 PM »
I came into existence on July 29th 1994,...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2030 on: May 19, 2011, 07:27:46 PM »
Quote from: Killallewoks on May 19, 2011, 05:17:10 PM
I came into existence on July 29th 1994,...

WAHOOO!!!! I'm not the baby anymore! April '89 baby :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2031 on: May 20, 2011, 12:24:57 PM »
Instead you're a brat. 1983 here :D

interesting fact: My surname became to existence back in 1500's when a German Hansa-merchant crossed the pond and married a local girl.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2032 on: May 20, 2011, 12:51:53 PM »
carefull...we'll get yarped at for hijacking the thread.

I have a learning disability that's Endemic to the British Isles (but probably not the Celtic cultural group)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2033 on: May 20, 2011, 02:06:42 PM »
Europe is the only continent without a desert...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2034 on: May 20, 2011, 02:45:31 PM »
    Accona Desert - a semi-Desert in Southern Italy
    Bardenas Reales - a semi-desert in Navarra, Spain (455 km?)
    B??dowska Desert ? a desert located in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (32 km?)
    Deliblatska Pe??ara - a desert located in Vojvodina, Serbia (300 km?)
    Highlands of Iceland ? the interior plateau of Iceland; not a desert by climate, but effectively one because precipitation penetrates the volcanic soil so quickly that it is unavailable to plants
    Monegros Desert - a semi-desert in Arag?n, Spain
    Oleshky Sands - a desert located in Ukraine near Askania-Nova biosphere reserve (15 km in diameter)
    Oltenian Sahara ? a desert spanning approximately 80.000 hectares or 800 km? in the Romanian historical province of Oltenia
    Piscinas - a desert located in South-West Sardinia, Italy (5 km?)
    Stranja Sahara - a desert in southeastern Bulgaria near the city of Burgas. It is about 80,000 hectares, sometimes estimated to about 850 km sqaured. It is near the borders of Turkey and northwestern Greece.
    Tabernas Desert ? a desert in Almer?a, Spain (280 km?)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2035 on: May 20, 2011, 04:16:38 PM »
oh shut up, dont question me...   :dontcare:
go fix those 500 internal server errors :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2036 on: May 20, 2011, 07:10:52 PM »
The German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt was sunk during the 1942 Battle of the Barents Sea when she mistook the British light cruiser Sheffield for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.
Silly destroyer!

On 7 November 1943, 2nd Lt. William E. Roach of 358th Squadron/355th Fighter Group was escorting B-17s of the 8th Air Force's 1st and 3rd Air Divisions. Becoming disoriented in poor weather, with fuel running low and after watching the squadron leader crash land, Roach began looking for a suitable airfield for an emergency landing. He spotted a field and landed, followed a vehicle to a parking place and shut down. Only then did Roach realize the people surrounding the P-47 were Germans. Lt. Roach spent the remainder of the war at Stalag Luft I and had provided the Luftwaffe with its first intact P-47.

Even silly-er pilot!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2037 on: May 25, 2011, 05:22:43 PM »
Holy....carp


13.14 BILLION lightyears away!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2038 on: May 30, 2011, 01:27:33 PM »
it takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth...
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2039 on: May 31, 2011, 09:09:13 AM »
You can get from any article on Wikipedia to "Philosophy" by following the first non-italics, un-parenthesised link on a page.

I've tried about a dozen varied start points, and the longest chain I have so far is 18 for "Jeremy Paxman" now from Stargate, at 24 steps. I've yet to find one that doesn't work. Though I did almost get in an infinite loop with that sequence around various Greek articles.

In fact, most seem to take 16 steps.

EDIT: "Mobile Technology" gets stuck in an infinite loop. The first I've found out of dozens that doesn't work.
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