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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5545068 - 04/22/06 07:34 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

9/ Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

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64/ There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

75/ Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

77/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5545288 - 04/22/06 08:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

80 is nothing startling. -35 degrees Celsius is no big deal for Antarctica. Hell, it hits -40 Celsius a couple of times every winter in Ottawa and Montreal, Canada. In Alaska and northern Canada it hits -40 degrees Celsius every damn day for weeks and weeks at a time. I used to walk a mile to school regularly in -40 temperatures when I lived in Churchill, Manitoba. Walked to school on colder days than that, actually.

That must have been a misprint.



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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Thin White Duke]
    #5545296 - 04/22/06 08:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

27/ The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo :jawdrop:


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Tattoo]
    #5545446 - 04/22/06 09:09 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Not to be a dick but #5 is wrong. Sure, the earth is moving at 67,000 mph but ...in relation to what? =)

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5545490 - 04/22/06 09:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.



100/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5545513 - 04/22/06 09:24 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Could you link to the site you got that from?


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Konnrade]
    #5545530 - 04/22/06 09:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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87/ The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

I thought that antarctica was the largest desert in the world :confused:




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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Konnrade]
    #5545573 - 04/22/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

18/ -------  :thumbup:


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You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
    #5545801 - 04/22/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Here's 2 other facts that isn't on the list that I really like:

1.) No-one has ever seen a Giant Squid in the wild.
2.) The biggest Giant Squid that has ever washed ashore had a sucker radius of roughly 4 inches (if memory serves). Sucker scars have been found on Sperm Whales that are over 4 TIMES the diameter of this!


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Viking]
    #5545835 - 04/22/06 11:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I thought they caught some video of one in the wild a few months back.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: buckwheat]
    #5545842 - 04/22/06 11:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

31/ The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.


i wish my pot plants would grow that tall.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: buckwheat]
    #5545861 - 04/22/06 11:14 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

they did.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: splifner180]
    #5545916 - 04/22/06 11:33 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Not to be a dick but #5 is wrong. Sure, the earth is moving at 67,000 mph but ...in relation to what? =)

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: hoboblues]
    #5545934 - 04/22/06 11:41 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

^^ they must mean tangential velocity^^

"67/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

68/...and now they are already past the Moon."

I think this is an interesting detail regarding the unseen nature of our reality...


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: dr0mni]
    #5545954 - 04/22/06 11:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

most of the things on that list sucked though. There were either "wow, look at all these big numbers!" (which couldn't even be put into scientific notation so that they made more sense than 'a million billion thousand bajillions...') or they were boring analogies of astronomical ratios using houshold items, or they were just repeats of earlier ones.

I think an interesting science fact is that coral is not a single living organism but a myriad of organisms living in close symbiosis. I fact, inside the cells of coral live single celled algea that collect energy from the sun to be used for the whole coral.

Or that organic proteins have been found on meteorites and comets and such...


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: dr0mni]
    #5546159 - 04/23/06 12:59 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

this one was my favorite

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: emptywisdom]
    #5546222 - 04/23/06 01:22 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

98/ Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.

99/ Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: fresh313]
    #5546410 - 04/23/06 02:33 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I stopped 25% through. A lot of those are only 1/2 true or partialy wrong. Sorry. :shrug:


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: theuser]
    #5546736 - 04/23/06 06:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: DICK]
    #5546761 - 04/23/06 07:14 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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>>> 97/ If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.


This one amazed me most. Just one galaxy, soooo many stars... And the one star we really know something substantial about has over 50 planets and moons orbiting it.




Recent estimates put the total number of stars in the universe at: 70.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 stars
That is more than the total number of grains of sand in all the Earth's beaches and deserts. And that's only in the visible universe.
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some are just opinions not facts... like:

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

there is no way to know for sure. there are too many theories.



Also the Moon was created after the earth. A Mars size object smashed into the earth, the debris disc that formed around the earth, later congealed into the Moon.


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