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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: inv3rse]
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82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
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Imagine that...



If you wanted to trip on neutrons, you'd OD yourself with ThimbleTEK :blush:


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: nunciate]
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I'm curious how is antarctica a desert??


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: hawksapprentice]
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So cold as to not allow any precipitation at all, which is what defines a desert.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: nunciate]
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Most deserts consist of rocks instead of sand btw, thought I'd mention that.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: RedNucleus]
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I think the temperatures you mentioned are decreased further by wind chill. Wikipedia says the record low for Ottawa is -36.1 Celsius in 1943.


I did say Ottawa and Montreal. And -- as is so often the case -- Wikipedia gets it wrong. According to http://www.angelfire.com/ma/maxcrc/temp.html the record low for Ottawa is -38.9 C and for Montreal it is -42 C.

However, I should note the temperatures which appear in record books are those taken from Ottawa International Airport data. Because of the location of Ottawa's airport, these temperatures are lower than those in the city center, but higher than those in outlying areas.

I remember many times in the Seventies hearing weather reports on the radio of temperatures of -40 C without windchill (with windchill quite often bringing it down to lower than -50 C).

Be that as it may, someone else has already noted the misprint in the number for Antarctica... I just wanted to point out that Wikipedia is renowned for its factual errors. It's a decent place to get a quick overview on a particular topic, but it's a bad idea to accept their pronouncements as the final word on a subject.



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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: nunciate]
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nunciate said:
So cold as to not allow any precipitation at all, which is what defines a desert.


There's snow in Antarctica, right?

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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: cybrbeast]
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Because there is little precipitation, the entire continent is technically a desert and is thus the largest in the world.

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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Cowgold]
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Awesome, I was right about a fact that will not positively effect my life in any way :tongue:


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: cybrbeast]
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cybrbeast said:
nunciate said:
So cold as to not allow any precipitation at all, which is what defines a desert.


There's snow in Antarctica, right?


Artic is also a desert. It doesn't matter if there is snow, what matters if the amount of humidity and how dry it is.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
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A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.


edit: i forgot to add any one know when this was written, im assuming 99, also i wonder what  plants we  lost

Edited by hidenseek (02/07/10 02:12 PM)

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: hidenseek]
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Some badass facts and factoids in there.
Good post.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Frost]
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they need to hurry up and make evolution a fact they found skeletal remains of a human in "transition" mode like months ago and one before it like years ago


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