Something cool you know.

[steeple]

I know this thread is wicked cool, not enough?

very well...
DNA is built from the same basic mollecules in all living things, one of them is phosphorus. arsenic has a similiar structure, and because of that the enzymes (proteins that help fasten the processes that happen in the cells, among others) that are in charge of re-creating the DNA can confuse phosphorus with arsenic. the problem is that arsenic has a much lower magnetic level then phosphorus, making the hydrogen bonds that connect the arsenic and the other mollecules weaker then they should have been if phosphorus was used.
for this reason, arsenic is considered poison for almost all living creatures...

learned it from the Nasa discovery that was mentioned here a few months ago (ya know, the whole "its gonna be aliens" thing?)

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language, thanks in part to the several different meanings the word buffalo has attached to it. For those who don't understand what the sentence is saying, it means in layman's terms: "Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community."

 

[Weskerbot3000]

i know how to stimulate someones heart by rubbing their feet

 

[steeple]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language, thanks in part to the several different meanings the word buffalo has attached to it. For those who don't understand what the sentence is saying, it means in layman's terms: "Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community."

Im so using that in my oral exam!

 

[Cheesus333]

The Portal gun must ignore the laws of physics, primarily the law of gravity.
This is because there are gravitational forces between all objects in the universe, especially large bodies in space (ex: stars).
If a Portal is created at position A and another at position B, and both positions are in the same room, the gravitational forces at odds with each other would not be that big of a deal. However, if portal A is in your basement, and portal B is on Mars, it would technically be as if our two planets were touching. The gravitational forces at play would seriously throw one or both planets out of orbit, and/or destroy one planet (probably Mars)

This is why putting a Portal on the Moon is silly.

And this is also why game physics =/= real physics.

While we're on it, pouring a finite volume of water down an infinite portal chute (one above, one below - you know the routine) and then intercepting it with a water wheel connected to a turbine would... well I don't even know. It would create infinite energy, I guess. Somehow. Maybe.

That's probably what powers the whole Aperture facility.

On an unrelated note, snooker balls were originally made out of ivory. Ivory, as most people know, comes from the tusks of elephants.

 

[KaiRai]

Some scientists believe there is a loch ness monster, and it's just a very de-sized and evolved Plesiosaur.

The only ship to survive Pearl habour was sunk by the British 40 or so years after.....It was called the USS phoenix, although at the time of said sinking, it was called the Belgrano, and was sunk during the Falklands conflict.

 

[DoctorPhil]

Did you know birds are the last living descendants of the dinosaurs? yeah, you ever see those little sparrows? Those are fucking dinosaurs.

 

[nukethetuna]

A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.

 

[amadhatter]

babies don't have kneecaps. fact.

 

[Tharwen]

The Portal gun must ignore the laws of physics, primarily the law of gravity.
This is because there are gravitational forces between all objects in the universe, especially large bodies in space (ex: stars).
If a Portal is created at position A and another at position B, and both positions are in the same room, the gravitational forces at odds with each other would not be that big of a deal. However, if portal A is in your basement, and portal B is on Mars, it would technically be as if our two planets were touching. The gravitational forces at play would seriously throw one or both planets out of orbit, and/or destroy one planet (probably Mars)

This is why putting a Portal on the Moon is silly.

I understand what you mean, but gravitational fields aren't conserved through portals. If they were, you would get pulled sideways into a blue portal on a wall if the orange one was on the floor, for example. Also, sound isn't transferred through them either. It seems to just be specific forms of matter that get through.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Antarctica.

Yes, I did that.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Wow, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. Imagine if he did took it?

 

[Laser Priest]

I actually am a necromancer.

I think it's pretty cool at least. Most of my legion agrees.

 

[thedevilscousin]

A woman's brain is actually smaller than a man's brain, it's true, look it up!
I'm seriously serious it is true.

The most succulent piece of meat on a human is the muscle between your thumb and pointer finger. Don't ask how I know that...

It is possible to lick your elbow, I've seen it done, TWICE

99% of people can't lick their elbows.

 

[Ranorak]

When you land your air plane in Amsterdam, you're 4,5 meters below sea level.
In fact, without proper usage of dykes The Netherlands would look like this:

With the white parts being the ones that are not flooded with seawater.

Another cool fact, I live in one of those save zones! yay me.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Jersey Shore is called "Macaroni Rascals" in Japan.

 

[Gladiateher]

More people have been to the Moon and back than have sumitted Mt. Everest, Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Elbrus, Puncak Jaya, Aconcagua and both Geographic poles.

Do you mean that there are less people who have summited all of those places personally than have gone to the moon or combined? Cause that's alot of different places.

You can place your hand in pure liquid nitrogen and emerge unharmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjsMV1MglA4

 

[Avaholic03]

More than half the cost of building a rocket engine is making a turbopump which can feed the engine bell fast enough to produce thrust.

Does that include the man-hours of engineering, or just the materials and fabrication?

Wow, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. Imagine if he did took it?

Perhaps then the education would have improved enough to teach you that you should have used "take" instead of "took" in that sentence.

OT: A common misconception is that the cheetah is the fastest animal in the world. In fact, that title belongs to the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach speeds in excess of 200 mph (320 km/h) in a dive.

 

[Rayne870]

So I want to know what you know.

Tell me.

Oh and it can be about anything, as long as it's cool.

Ducks have corkscrew dicks that are the opposite way of the corkscrew in female ducks which also leads to several false deposit areas so that when a male duck rapes a female duck she can forcibly not get pregnant

It might not be cool, but I read it when I was bored and it has been a great conversation topic at work.

 

[Avaholic03]

The pistons in the typical car engine experience shocks in excess of a thousand times gravity every cycle, do this without failure for millions of cycles, all while enduring pressures and temperatures that boggle the mind.


Truly amazing for a chunk of aluminum, eh?

That's nothing compared to the rubber in your tires. Every rotation, a given piece of tread will go from a dead stop (when touching the ground) up to 2x the speed of the vehicle (when at the top of tire) and then back to a dead stop. For an average car (24" tire diameter) traveling at highway speeds (70 mph) this happens every ~0.06 seconds. A typical tire will last somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million rotations.