Somewhat Useful Facts Thread

[Aeries]

Useful fact: I'm 19 today! <3

[JimmyB76]

More Usefuller Fact:  I turned 32 the day before yesterday

[Aeries]

Useful fact: Jimmy calls himself old, yet he is in fact quite young. He also needs a nice cooler, some pop corn, and some good trek to keep him awake. :3

[lint]

he is young at heart, i guess thats what counts.

[captain_obvious]

he is young at heart, i guess thats what counts.

so is my old man and yet he still walks around like a man with a farked knee..

oh wai...

[JimmyB76]

lol you people are freaks

anyway - Captian Obvious - i shrunk this down to within the avatar limits (i think they are anyway) if you wanted it...
not sure how it will look tho...

[JimmyB76]

Quagmires

As Dubya's personal counsel, Harriet Miers was the "decider" who led the search to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court.  Her search came to the same conclusion as Dick Cheney's when asked to choose Dubya's running mate - they both nominated themselves.

At her Congress confirmation, her Judicial Committee Questionnaire required a "do-over" after her answers proved her knowledge of constitutional law "inadequate."  Opposition to ehr nomination snowballed, even among conservative Republicans, and when the White House refused to turn over records of her service for reasons of "national security", her nomination was withdrawn.

Her chief qualification seems to have been that she considered Dubya "the most brilliant man I ever met" and "the best governor ever."


_{169 Days Left!}

[captain_obvious]

lol you people are freaks

anyway - Captian Obvious - i shrunk this down to within the avatar limits (i think they are anyway) if you wanted it...
not sure how it will look tho...

I doth love thee

[Senator]

[captain_obvious]

The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 :p

[Senator]

Napoleon destroyed it. :p

[AdmiralKathryn]

 Somewhat useful facts? Here are a couple I just recently discovered...

Alexander Enberg who plays Vorik in Voyager is actually the son of Voyager and TNG producer Jeri Taylor.

The father of actress Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing fame) was a guest star in Voyager Episode Resistance, playing the character Caylem.

Voyager actor Raphael Sbarge has done Voice Overs for many games including Mass Effect.

[JimmyB76]

Our Favorite Articles Of Impeachment

Under the constitution, the executive branch cannot spend monies without congressional appropriation.  Prior to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the military buildup in Kuwait to secretly prepare for the launch of the attack on Iraq. 
According to Bob Woddard in Plan Of Attack, these funds could only have come from monies specifically appropriated for the response to 9/11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan.

- From Article I of House Resolution 1106: Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States, introduced by Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on December 8, 2006


_{166 Days Left!}

[Senator]

Right now, an average hard disk is around 250Gb. This is enough to hold the information of 125000 books.
It is worth noting that in 1970, 80Mb of brand new storage cost $12000
Today, 2008,  2Tb  of brand new storage costs around $400.

The Library of Congress is estimated to hold about 70 Terabyte of data. Thus, if digital, it could be stored in 35 2Tb discs for almost the same cost for 80Mb in 1970. (Cost does not include the cost of doing a heck lot of scanning).

[limey BSc.]

You've also failed to take inflation into account. That $12000 was worth more in 1970 than it is today.

[Senator]

Today's date is:

08 / 08 / 08

[JimmyB76]

Providence, Rhode Island (the city where i live) was just named the 4th Hardest-Drinking City in the US by
Forbes 
(lol go figure )

5th - Chicago, Illinois
4th - Providence, Rhode Island
3rd - San Fransisco, California
2nd - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1st - Austin, Texas

[captain_obvious]

Today's date is:

08 / 08 / 08

As the great S.a. Brain once said

"It's brains you want"

Brains Smooth FTW!!

[Senator]

And now time for some terrorist propaganda: :mrgreen:

[Senator]

Million
Billion
Trillion

But what goes after that? Ever wondered about that? After all, how are you going to explain to people how many years you'd like to live?
In case you ever wondered then, here is how the list goes after that (up to 10¹²⁰)

quadrillion    1,000,000,000,000,000
quintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
nonillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
decillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
undecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duodecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tredecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuordecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quindecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sexdecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septendecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octodecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemdecillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
vigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
unvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duovigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
trevigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuorvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quinvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sexvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septenvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octovigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemvigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
trigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
untrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duotrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
googol    10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tretrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuortrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quintrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septentrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octotrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemtrigintillion    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

For the record, life from the unicellular level and the subsequent evolution of it, is about 3.7 billion years old.
Earth itself, as a solid planet, is abut 4.5 billion years old
The Sun concetrated and ignited, about 4.59 billion years ago
And the Big Bang which from the looks of it created this local universe, happened 13.73 billion years ago.

As you can understand, a quintillion alone is a pretty big number then. And a novemtrigintillion, a really big number.

Not as big as 10⁵³²⁷ also known as: "one hundred milliaseptingenquattuorseptuagintillion" of cource. But big enough. 8)