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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: buckwheat]
#5546767 - 04/23/06 07:19 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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buckwheat said: I thought they caught some video of one in the wild a few months back.
Yes the Japanese did it. Pictures http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html
Story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4288772.stm
edit: oops, viking already posted this
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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Phred]
#5546769 - 04/23/06 07:21 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Phred said: 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.
Yep misprint. The coldest temperature ever measured was -89 celsius in Vostok Antarctica. (-129 F)
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
#5546839 - 04/23/06 08:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
That's simply amazing, as are most of the others.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: DICK]
#5547503 - 04/23/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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DICK said: 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.
4.56 billion years old is the oldest rock ever found. It was dated using Uranium radioactive decay. They use standards to try to make sure that its accurate and not contaminated. The rock was found in Austrailia somewhere. We talked about this in one of my geology classes. But this is the leading theory. As for the moon being as old as Earth, they think the moon came from the earth so it would have been formed after the earth. And I think the sun came before the earth.
But you know that isn't true, the Bible says the Earth and universe is only 6000 years old. Haha
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: minesstudent]
#5547612 - 04/23/06 02:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah didn't you know that god put fossils and old looking rocks on earth to test our faith?
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5547693 - 04/23/06 02:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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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.
So the moon is glorified jello?
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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
#5547695 - 04/23/06 02:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Phred]
#5548306 - 04/23/06 05:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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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. Still, that's just about minus 40 and I can't even imagine it.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: dr0mni]
#5548313 - 04/23/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"a million billion thousand bajillions"
hahahaha exactly what I was thinking. Definitely meant to boggle the minds of sheep people.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: DICK]
#5548529 - 04/23/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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DICK said: 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.
A theory isn't a guess. A theory is a well founded answer supported by a large body of evidence. A hypothesis is a guess. Science rules, you don't, end of story.
DON'T YOU EVER SAY " there is no way to know for sure." Unless you study biology and chemistry non stop like I do. Don't even dip your nose in the arguement if you know nothing about it.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: downforpot]
#5548733 - 04/23/06 07:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow, that was aggressive
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Konnrade]
#5549523 - 04/23/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: Wow, that was aggressive
You have no idea man. I used to be one of those religious faggots, thank "God" for giving me the power of knowledge. Fucking ignorant mother fuckers. Pieces of shit need to stop benefiting from scientific discoveries if they can't grasp basic scientific concepts. Mother fucker.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: downforpot]
#5549543 - 04/23/06 10:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What kind of science are you using that allows you to "know for sure"?
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: downforpot]
#5549635 - 04/23/06 11:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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downforpot said:
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Konnrade said: Wow, that was aggressive
You have no idea man. I used to be one of those religious faggots, thank "God" for giving me the power of knowledge. Fucking ignorant mother fuckers. Pieces of shit need to stop benefiting from scientific discoveries if they can't grasp basic scientific concepts. Mother fucker.
Easy now, calm down... there's no need to get worked up. This is a friendly discussion. 
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He has a point, by the way. One of the tenets of science is the notion that the "facts" are not assumed to be 100% certain. If they have been demonstrated to be true, they are trusted as our best understanding of the matter, but we are supposed to keep in mind the fact that they may be false. That way, if new evidence is unearthed, we are less likely to cling to tradition and resist further discovery.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: chunder]
#5549665 - 04/23/06 11:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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chunder said: What kind of science are you using that allows you to "know for sure"?
It's not all 100%, it is all theories. What pisses me off is that morons think theories are guesses. They need to realize that a hypothesis is a guess and theory is something that is backed up by a large body of evidence.
So far we are pretty sure that earth is not fucking 6 thousand years old. The only people that think it is are ignorant religious fucks and ignorant religious fucks who got a PhD in science so that they don't look like ignorant religious fucks when they argue that radiometric dating is completely false and that God created the earth in 6 fucking days.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: downforpot]
#5549852 - 04/24/06 12:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
Imagine that...
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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
#5549865 - 04/24/06 12:46 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
wikipedia under World Population Approximately one fifth of all humans that have existed in the last six thousand years are currently alive
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: inv3rse]
#5550135 - 04/24/06 03:19 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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inv3rse said: 82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
Imagine that...
yeah.. how they do they make theories on that and a lot of the other things in the list? Fascinating...
"78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang."
This one really piques my interest, but it's poorly explained..
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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5550139 - 04/24/06 03:22 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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cybrbeast said: Yes the Japanese did it. Pictures http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html
Story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4288772.stm
edit: oops, viking already posted this
Man. Could you imagine seeing that when scuba diving? That thing freaks me out.
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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Konnrade]
#5550163 - 04/24/06 03:51 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: 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
Konnrade is right...
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