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By *P_80 OP Man
over a year ago
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I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus. |
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus."
What timeliness separates the Internet and the Internet.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Did you ever realise that in the right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equa to the sum of the squares on the other two sides?"
Is this not from the Simpson's?  |
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Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for the moon landing went all the way to the moon and did everything except land. Because the Apollo astronauts were primarily test pilots and were very cocky and confident, NASA deliberately short fueled the lunar lander in case they chanced a landing. If they did they wouldn't have been able to get back. |
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By *ordjeffMan
over a year ago
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus."
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies. There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. Still think you’re alone?
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By *P_80 OP Man
over a year ago
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When you look out into space you are actually looking back in time because light takes time to reach us. For example; the sun is 7 light minutes away from Earth which means if you look at the sun (not recommended) you are seeing it how it looked 7 minutes ago.
On a more extreme level, some of the stars you see in the night sky have already died thousands, if not millions, of years ago but their light hasn't reached us yet so we are seeing them how they were before they died.
Also, if an alien species 65 million light years away from us were somehow able to point an incredibly powerful telescope at Earth, they would be looking at how Earth was 65 million years ago. They would be witnessing the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Science rocks!!!! |
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies"
No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band  |
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By *P_80 OP Man
over a year ago
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"Spot the big bang geeks.lol"
Never watched it. I'm more of a Science Documentary geek.
If you want your mind absolutely blown then check out the 'Double Slit Theory'.
I couldn't even begin to describe it in words on here. It's incredible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies
No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band "
And thankfully that became extinct too. "Wanna be in my gang?" Err, no ta. |
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies
No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band
And thankfully that became extinct too. "Wanna be in my gang?" Err, no ta."
Er, that was Gary Glitter |
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies
No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band
And thankfully that became extinct too. "Wanna be in my gang?" Err, no ta.
Er, that was Gary Glitter "
Oh wait, I see you meant glam rock in general.  |
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.
is that cos T/rex and humans are carnivores.
And old steggys are veggies
No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band
And thankfully that became extinct too. "Wanna be in my gang?" Err, no ta.
Er, that was Gary Glitter
Oh wait, I see you meant glam rock in general. "
Aww, T Rex made a good sound. Mental lyrics somewhat, but a good sound nonetheless. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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No, it's because Mark Bolan and T Rex were a 70's glam rock band
And thankfully that became extinct too. "Wanna be in my gang?" Err, no ta.
Er, that was Gary Glitter
Oh wait, I see you meant glam rock in general.
Aww, T Rex made a good sound. Mental lyrics somewhat, but a good sound nonetheless. "
Yeah, a bit flaky but I concur. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Spot the big bang geeks.lol
Never watched it. I'm more of a Science Documentary geek.
If you want your mind absolutely blown then check out the 'Double Slit Theory'.
I couldn't even begin to describe it in words on here. It's incredible."
Just did and gutted! Thought it was gonna be a threesome or two for one |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Did you ever realise that in the right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equa to the sum of the squares on the other two sides?"
Pythagoras is that you? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Prior to becoming German chancellor, Adolf Hitler got away with the murder of his step-sisters daughter, a girl he was in love with and obsessed about. But she was in love with Hitlers Jewish Chauffeur  |
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The Antechinus is a small Australian mammal that has so much sex, it disintegrates. He mates with as many females as he can, in violent, frenetic encounters that can EACH last up to 14 hours at a time. This is because his body stops making sperm abruptly and irreversibly - so he has to get all the riding done that he will ever do in a short space of time. So he literally dies trying ; he exhausts himself so thoroughly that his blood courses with stress hormones, his fur falls off, he bleeds internally, his immune system fails and he gets riddled with gangrene. A few weeks shy of his first birthday, he is dead - along with all the other male Antechinus in the area....
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The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies. There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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With a capacity of 5 million terabytes the Internet, if you measure the weight of each electron, comes in at an impressive 0.2 millionths of an ounce. About the same as a grain of sand. |
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I guess time travel is impossible otherwise someone who discovered it in the future would be back saying hello....
Trump must have ended the world before time travel could be discovered.
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"I loves a bit of science me. I just came across a fascinating fact while browsing the interwebs:
On a timeline of history, less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separates Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus."
There's a bit of a beast in all of us .....  |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
What I always found fascinating is how absolutely huge space is.
For starters, all the planets in the solar system would fit comfortably between the earth and the moon.
Another interesting and mindboggling thing is how close the Voyager 2 probe is to earth still. It was launched into outerspace in the 70s and is travelling at a speed of about 17,000 kilometres per hour yet in that 40 years at that tremendous speed, it's only gone about 0.01 lightyears away. |
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"Seeing as this thread is all educational Can someone tell me what a tracker mortgage is ? "
It's a mortgage that is tied to the European Central Bank's own interest rate. So local fluctuations like our recent recession don't directly affect it. Now our banks are slowly cranking up interest rates to replace the $ they lost in the recession, they can't if you've got a tracker. They may however offer to buy you out of it but I just laughed at them. |
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By *P_80 OP Man
over a year ago
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"What I always found fascinating is how absolutely huge space is.
For starters, all the planets in the solar system would fit comfortably between the earth and the moon.
Another interesting and mindboggling thing is how close the Voyager 2 probe is to earth still. It was launched into outerspace in the 70s and is travelling at a speed of about 17,000 kilometres per hour yet in that 40 years at that tremendous speed, it's only gone about 0.01 lightyears away. "
Same here, I find the size of space and the objects in it so interesting.
Canis Majoris, thought to be the largest(in size) star discovered so far, is estimated to be so big that if it was placed in the center of our solar system where our sun is, it would reach beyond the orbit of Jupiter, and some estimate that it would almost reach Saturn's orbit.
Also if our sun was scaled down to the size of a football, Earth would be almost 24 meters away and incredibly, Pluto would be almost a kilometer away.
Check this out, it's fascinating: http://htwins.net/scale2/ |
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"Biology, the clitoris contains 8,000 deliciously sensitive nerve endings, double the nerve endings in the glans of a penis. Sorry, guys."
8k! and I still can't make a woman orgasm* 
(*this is not true) |
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"Than Apollo 10 fact stunned me... way to go Fab, entertaining, stimulating AND educational "
I have more. Apollo 12, the second landing on the moon was struck by lightning 30 seconds after liftoff. Most of the systems onboard went offline and the rest remained powered on by batteries. The craft continued skywards basically on "autopilot" the loss of data created a certain pattern of "gibberish data" on the screens in mission control. One technician recognised the pattern from a simulation a year previously. He told them to flip a certain switch in the craft. No one was familiar with the switch except for one of the three astronauts. He flipped it and everything came back on.
That technician was 26 years old. |
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"Than Apollo 10 fact stunned me... way to go Fab, entertaining, stimulating AND educational
I have more. Apollo 12, the second landing on the moon was struck by lightning 30 seconds after liftoff. Most of the systems onboard went offline and the rest remained powered on by batteries. The craft continued skywards basically on "autopilot" the loss of data created a certain pattern of "gibberish data" on the screens in mission control. One technician recognised the pattern from a simulation a year previously. He told them to flip a certain switch in the craft. No one was familiar with the switch except for one of the three astronauts. He flipped it and everything came back on.
That technician was 26 years old. "
Sure everyone knows if an electronic device is not working properly you just turn it off & back on again |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
"What I always found fascinating is how absolutely huge space is.
For starters, all the planets in the solar system would fit comfortably between the earth and the moon.
Another interesting and mindboggling thing is how close the Voyager 2 probe is to earth still. It was launched into outerspace in the 70s and is travelling at a speed of about 17,000 kilometres per hour yet in that 40 years at that tremendous speed, it's only gone about 0.01 lightyears away. "
Sorry folks. Have to correct myself. Got a little mixed up on the details as it's been a while since i read it. The voyagers are actually travelling at around 35,000 miles an hour. The 17,000 figure is actually how many metres they travel EACH FUCKING SECOND. |
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"Biology, the clitoris contains 8,000 deliciously sensitive nerve endings, double the nerve endings in the glans of a penis. Sorry, guys.
8k! and I still can't make a woman orgasm*
(*this is not true)"
What is elusive is beautiful |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Than Apollo 10 fact stunned me... way to go Fab, entertaining, stimulating AND educational
I have more. Apollo 12, the second landing on the moon was struck by lightning 30 seconds after liftoff. Most of the systems onboard went offline and the rest remained powered on by batteries. The craft continued skywards basically on "autopilot" the loss of data created a certain pattern of "gibberish data" on the screens in mission control. One technician recognised the pattern from a simulation a year previously. He told them to flip a certain switch in the craft. No one was familiar with the switch except for one of the three astronauts. He flipped it and everything came back on.
That technician was 26 years old. "
That was me!  |
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"Seeing as this thread is all educational Can someone tell me what a tracker mortgage is ?
It's a mortgage that is tied to the European Central Bank's own interest rate. So local fluctuations like our recent recession don't directly affect it. Now our banks are slowly cranking up interest rates to replace the $ they lost in the recession, they can't if you've got a tracker. They may however offer to buy you out of it but I just laughed at them."
wow so that's what it is |
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"Than Apollo 10 fact stunned me... way to go Fab, entertaining, stimulating AND educational
I have more. Apollo 12, the second landing on the moon was struck by lightning 30 seconds after liftoff. Most of the systems onboard went offline and the rest remained powered on by batteries. The craft continued skywards basically on "autopilot" the loss of data created a certain pattern of "gibberish data" on the screens in mission control. One technician recognised the pattern from a simulation a year previously. He told them to flip a certain switch in the craft. No one was familiar with the switch except for one of the three astronauts. He flipped it and everything came back on.
That technician was 26 years old.
Sure everyone knows if an electronic device is not working properly you just turn it off & back on again "
Or thump it |
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"Than Apollo 10 fact stunned me... way to go Fab, entertaining, stimulating AND educational
I have more. Apollo 12, the second landing on the moon was struck by lightning 30 seconds after liftoff. Most of the systems onboard went offline and the rest remained powered on by batteries. The craft continued skywards basically on "autopilot" the loss of data created a certain pattern of "gibberish data" on the screens in mission control. One technician recognised the pattern from a simulation a year previously. He told them to flip a certain switch in the craft. No one was familiar with the switch except for one of the three astronauts. He flipped it and everything came back on.
That technician was 26 years old.
Sure everyone knows if an electronic device is not working properly you just turn it off & back on again
Or thump it"
Funnily enough on Apollo 12 while on the moon astronaut Alan Bean pointed the TV camera at the sun by accident frying the sensor. He wasn't aware what did this so he attempted to fix it any way he could. This included hitting it with his hammer.
It didn't work.
Can you tell I'm a moon landings buff? |
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science!
That fascinating fact is actually quite fascinating 
