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By *awk90Man
over a year ago
Amsterdam |
"New one I learnt yesterday. When something is moving it is travelling slower in time than something that is stationary "
A funky thing about this is that, from the travelling object's point of view, YOU will appear to be travelling more slowly through time |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"New one I learnt yesterday. When something is moving it is travelling slower in time than something that is stationary
A funky thing about this is that, from the travelling object's point of view, YOU will appear to be travelling more slowly through time"
My brain hurt for a while yesterday  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"New one I learnt yesterday. When something is moving it is travelling slower in time than something that is stationary
A funky thing about this is that, from the travelling object's point of view, YOU will appear to be travelling more slowly through time
My brain hurt for a while yesterday "
Moving clocks run slower.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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the earth takes 23hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds to complete a full revolution.
for the sun to appear in exactly the same spot in the sky from day to day you have to add on approximatly 4 minutes each day due to the earth's orbit around the sun (approximatly 1' of rotation)(can vary by +/- 14 minutes/day but the average over the year is +4 minutes).
The moon's affect on the earth through the tides acts as a break on the earth's rotation causing it to slow hence the need for the occasional leap second. (this is added on june 30th or december 31st) i its decemner 31st then the last minute o the day has 61 seconds |
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"Morning all. Six out of seven dwarfs are happy  "
“Aren’t”
There are more stars in the visible universe than there are grains of sand on the earth, yet there are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are stars in the visible universe |
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"The man who campaigned to get the clocks moved back in the autumn was a golf playing builder who wanted to play golf after work. He was Chris Martin's (from Coldplay) great great grandfather  "
Chris Martins dad used to own “Martins Caravans” just off the M5 near Exeter |
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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago
Market Harborough/ Kettering |
"The smallest county in England depends on the tide
At low tide Isle of Wight
At high tide Rutland
Useless facts bought by QI
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Surely at high tide the Isle of Wight will be even smaller than at low tide?? |
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"The reason our fingers and toes go wrinkly when in water for extended periods of time is to give us more grip  xxx"
On that topic, there is still slight 'webbing' at the bottom and between our fingers from the time we were aquatic. |
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Licoln Kennedy
Both assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, were born in '39 and were known by their three names, composed of fifteen letters.
Booth ran from Ford's Theatre and was caught in a warehouse; Oswald ran from the Dealey Plaza warehouse and was caught in a theater.[5] |
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