Something cool you know.

[Azriel637]

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.

Ron Burgundy taught me that.

 

[Wes1180]

Fires can be put out by explosions

If you drop a penny from the top of the empire state building, the wind will blow it onto ledges below, although even if it did not do this the penny's terminal velocity is not high enough to kill you

 

[Wapox]

The end of a shoelace is called the aglet.

Dammit!! I was so hoping no one knew this...

Also: A liver weighs around 15 grammes/a little more than ½ ounce

 

[A Raging Emo]

Sickle Cell Anemia is common in West Africa. This is because people who have it are resistant to Malaria. Due to this, Sickle Cell Anemia is carried on by the people who survive having Malaria because they are immune to it. Sickle Cell Anemia is carried on a recessive allele, which means that two people who have it could have a child who doesn't, so the child may die before the parents.

Isn't that interesting?

 

[Zantos]

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.

I kinda think thats cool.
I can tell you cat facts that are ._. if you'd prefer

It'd just create a discontinuity in the Riemann tensor at that point. Either things would be fine with it, or a singularity would form and destroy the universe. We'll get back to you on which when we have more data.

OT: Richard Feynmann, one of the major physicists who worked on the atom bomb decided he didn't want to watch the first bomb test through blacked out glasses. Instead he got in a vehicle to shield himself from UV rays from the blast and watched it with his naked eye. He went blind for several days afterwards.

 

[Biodeamon]

It's nearly impossible to detect sarcasm when writing on a computer. It's true.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

It takes approximately 45-60 minutes to apply the facial prosthetics and makeup to the actor playing the Phantom of the Opera. Also, there is literally no backstage room, so all of the elaborate set pieces (including the giant staircase and the crypt) are all hanging above the stage, all the time.

 

[twistedmic]

Here's something cool. Due to the shape, texture and movement of a domesticated cat's tongue, they actually create a vacuum/drinking straw effect when they drink water.

 

[ace_of_something]

The most common body parts that people try to sneak contraband into jail/prison are the vagina and the grundle (on women and men respectively)

The grundle is the non technical term for the fold of flesh between your genitals and inner thigh. (not to be confused with the taint)

Other common hiding places include: in thick hair on the head, in armpit hair, under the breast, between the toes, between the gums and cheek, and in the anus.

 

[Rayne870]

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

I suspect if that happened Israel would be a nuclear power...oh wait...

Seriously though that is something that would be interesting.

 

[Anarchemitis]

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.

12 People have been to the Moon.
Fewer than that have been to all those places in their respective lifetime.

 

[Anarchemitis]

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?

The Engineering.
Being able to pump an Olympic swimming pool of fuel through a pipe about the diameter of a basketball continuously every few seconds that also must be able to keep that pace up for several minutes is a pretty tall order for any sort of technical design. The materials wouldn't surprise me though.

 

[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.

12 People have been to the Moon.
Fewer than that have been to all those places in their respective lifetime.

Ah ic, thank you.

 

[Anarchemitis]

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.

12 People have been to the Moon.
Fewer than that have been to all those places in their respective lifetime.

I challenge that notion. Top Gear drove to the north pole. Jeremy Clarkson and James May made it in the televised car, but they also had a camera guy, sound guy, polar expert, and a couple of mechanics with them. So unless you're going to tell me less than five people have scaled all those other mountains and been to the south pole then it's bunk.

Clarkson and the people in that exact crew have all made the summits? Or were they separate crews?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

You guys know Felicia from Darkstalkers? That isn't actually an elaborate and very revealing outfit she is wearing.

That's her fur. Technically, she is naked.

<<<

 

[Feralcentaur]

Ants are the true rulers of this planet and the Human race will fall!
Neat huh?

 

[Agayek]

Random fact of the day:

When in a stressful situation, when the "fight or flight response" has taken effect, humans suffer from relatively extreme forms of erectile dysfunction and constipation.

 

[Mark Flanagan]

A piece of string is twice half its length

 

[Fetzenfisch]

The largest land mammals known to have existed were giant rhinoceroses with long, giraffe-like necks.
Fuck yeah, paracaratherium:

why just old pictures

 

[wfieldb]

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.

...Still has nothing to something that gets ripped about several thousand times a minute with forces equalling several thousand times gravity all while dealing with surface temperatures in excess of 4,000 degrees and pressures well above 1,000PSI.


Tires are noobsauce.

The pressure in gasoline engines on the power stroke averages about 600psi, only diesels reach over 1,000 psi. The temperature of gasoline engines when ignited very very rarely gets over 2,500 degrees, I can't speak for diesel on this point though but diesel does run hotter than gas, still I can't see it reaching 4,000 degrees. Just trying to clear up some points