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100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most?
    #5544595 - 04/22/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.

3/ October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.

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

5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6/ Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

7/ When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

8/ The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

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

10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

11/ In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

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

13/ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

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

15/ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

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19/ If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

22/ The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

23/ One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.

24/ DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

25/ The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

26/ The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

27/ The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

28/ Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

29/ Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

30/ Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

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

32/ Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

33/ The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

34/ An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

35/ 'Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

36/ The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

37/ The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

38/ In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

39/ Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

40/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

41/ Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

42/ Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

43/ There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

44/ An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

45/ Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

46/ On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

47/ The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

49/ A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

50/ Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

51/ At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

52/ The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

54/ Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

55/ More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

56/ The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

57/ The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

58/ A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.

59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

61/ The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

62/ If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

63/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

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

65/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

66/ Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

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.

69/ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

70/ Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

71/ The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

72/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

73/ Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

74/ Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.

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

76/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

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

78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

79/ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

80/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

81/ At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

83/ The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

84/ The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

85/ The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

86/ The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

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

88/ The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

89/ The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

90/ The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

91/ The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

92/ In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.

93/ A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.

94/ A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

95/ 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.

96/ To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.

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

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.

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]
    #5544604 - 04/22/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

>>> 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.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544606 - 04/22/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544610 - 04/22/06 04:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

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.





You're right so I changed the thread title to match.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544616 - 04/22/06 04:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544617 - 04/22/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

"Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth." -- That one's crazy

And then " There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth."


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #5544636 - 04/22/06 05:04 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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

:blush: Universes in universes :P


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544658 - 04/22/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

18/ -------

:lol:

40/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

I knew that one already... Still makes me think the most out of all of 'em.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: AngeloWish]
    #5544675 - 04/22/06 05:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

46/ On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Viking]
    #5544692 - 04/22/06 05:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

how can that be proven?

49/ A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

thats disguisting, damn lumber jacks.


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544702 - 04/22/06 05:33 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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]
    #5544719 - 04/22/06 05:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Man if i was a pig for a day...


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544756 - 04/22/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

gravity man... gravity!


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544763 - 04/22/06 05:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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

Is that true?


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544794 - 04/22/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

72/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang. (What exactly does this mean?)

85/ The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

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


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5544827 - 04/22/06 06:11 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Just out of curiosity, could someone explain to me the science behind the age of the earth compared to the moon, and why it's not accurate enough to be called anything more than an "opinion"?


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: KidgardFromSRQ]
    #5544830 - 04/22/06 06:12 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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

That definitely scares me.

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

That, I find quite remarkable.


Quote:

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53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

how can that be proven?


Well, if astronomers have located 101 billion galaxies with their high powered telescopes, it stands to reason that The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.  Of course, I am not certain as to how they arrived at the noted suggestion.


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

Is that true?


Given the hypothesis that the big bang exploded matter outwards at the speed of light, then it could be extrapolated that The Universe is expanding at the rate of approximately 1 billion miles per hour.



Thanks Wiccan - that was a cool read :thumbup:


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Re: 100 amazing science facts & factoids: which one amazes you most? [Re: knowhereman]
    #5544832 - 04/22/06 06:13 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

Man if i was a pig for a day...





...Then you would not get laid and even if you did: Would you want to pork a girl who's into pigs?


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: geokills]
    #5544837 - 04/22/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)



Quote:

Given the hypothesis that the big bang exploded matter outwards at the speed of light, then it could be extrapolated that The Universe is expanding at the rate of approximately 1 billion miles per hour.




Even if it didn't it threw out photons at the speed of light :smile:

What baffled me too is that we're constantly bombarded with that outrageous number of neutrinos O_O


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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: Asante]
    #5545012 - 04/22/06 07:21 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.


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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.

18/ -------

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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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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    #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.

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    #5546159 - 04/23/06 12:59 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

this one was my favorite

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



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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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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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    #5546839 - 04/23/06 08:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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

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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.




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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Yeah didn't you know that god put fossils and old looking rocks on earth to test our faith?  :smirk:


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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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    #5548306 - 04/23/06 05:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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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    #5548313 - 04/23/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

"a million billion thousand bajillions"

hahahaha exactly what I was thinking. Definitely meant to boggle the minds of sheep people.


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    #5548529 - 04/23/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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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.




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.

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Re: 100 amazing science facts: which one amazes you most? [Re: downforpot]
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Wow, that was aggressive :shocked:


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Wow, that was aggressive :shocked:




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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What kind of science are you using that allows you to "know for sure"?


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Wow, that was aggressive :shocked:




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. :grin:

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What kind of science are you using that allows you to "know for sure"?




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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    #5549665 - 04/23/06 11:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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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)

82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.


Imagine that...


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    #5549865 - 04/24/06 12:46 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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

wikipedia under World Population
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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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Yes the Japanese did it.
Pictures
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Story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4288772.stm

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Man. Could you imagine seeing that when scuba diving? That thing freaks me out.


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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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82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
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Imagine that...





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    #5550193 - 04/24/06 04:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I'm curious how is antarctica a desert??


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So cold as to not allow any precipitation at all, which is what defines a desert.


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    #5550202 - 04/24/06 04:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Most deserts consist of rocks instead of sand btw, thought I'd mention that.


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    #5550271 - 04/24/06 06:11 AM (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.




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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    #5550573 - 04/24/06 09:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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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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    #5550838 - 04/24/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Awesome, I was right about a fact that will not positively effect my life in any way :tongue:


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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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    #11981686 - 02/07/10 12:56 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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


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Some badass facts and factoids in there.
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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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