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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:55 pm

FatCat wrote:
Your iPhone has more computing power than the entire Apollo Mission control centre.
#facts
I don't see any f*ing iPhone flying to the moon btw


I think you mean the Apollo command modules. At least that's the fact that used to go around (wasn't a factoid, its actually true). I suppose we could be approaching (or have passed) the point where we've surpassed Johnson space center mission control capability. (Speaking specifically of the mission control room)

To address the last part. iPhones don't have rockets or thrusters yet :P waiting for Android to release theirs first maybe? This EU fine on google may slow that down.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:36 am

There are 7 sheep for every person in New Zealand.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:03 am

Russian settlements were into California when the Mexicans controlled Alta California.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:24 am

Erebus wrote:
There are 7 sheep for every person in New Zealand.

There are 150 reindeers every person in Finland.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:55 pm

FatCat wrote:
There are 150 reindeers every person in Finland.


In 2016, a lightning strike killed 323 reindeer in Norway.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:57 pm

Erebus wrote:
FatCat wrote:
There are 150 reindeers every person in Finland.


In 2016, a lightning strike killed 323 reindeer in Norway.

Not to be pedantic, but I was talking of Finland.
There's a whole Sweden inbetween!
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:38 am

vikkyvik wrote:
In the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, the ship Discovery traveled to Saturn's moon Iapetus/Japetus (in the movie, it traveled to Jupiter).

But in the sequel novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur Clark decided to largely follow the movie version, and it is set around Jupiter.

2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey are not really direct sequels, as they follow some of the same characters, but some history/events have been changed.

Makes it all slightly confusing, but still great reading.

Also, "traveled" and "travelled" are both acceptable spellings of the past tense of "travel", and I can never decide which one I should use.


The verb stem is "travel;" not "travell," so that should make it easier.

"Kine" is a plural of "cow" and is the only plural-form noun in the English language that contains none I say NONE of the letters found in the singular form.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:51 am

Your body can lose up to two cups of water an hour while flying.

If you jump in the air on a plane, physics are that you will actually momentarily increase the weight of the plane. So sit your ass down.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:42 pm

Airstud wrote:
The verb stem is "travel;" not "travell," so that should make it easier.


Clearly I laged behind in understanding this, as it has knoted up my brain for some time now. I guess my thinking will have to be transfered to your suggested line of thought.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:12 pm

There are more stars in the universe than Grains of Sand on All of the Earth's beaches.

There are more atoms in a grain of sand than stars in the universe.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:58 pm

casinterest wrote:
There are more stars in the universe than Grains of Sand on All of the Earth's beaches.

There are more atoms in a grain of sand than stars in the universe.


A piece of paper large enough to contain all the zeroes in a googolplex couldn't be stuffed into the known universe.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:17 pm

Erebus wrote:
casinterest wrote:
There are more stars in the universe than Grains of Sand on All of the Earth's beaches.

There are more atoms in a grain of sand than stars in the universe.


A piece of paper large enough to contain all the zeroes in a googolplex couldn't be stuffed into the known universe.


Which is a moot point, because no one has had anywhere near enough time to write out a googolplex on a piece of paper, even if they started right at the Big Bang.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:08 pm

If you fold a piece of paper 103* times its thickness will be greater than the observable Universe.

(*It is unlikely you will be able to fold it 103 three times.... but the record book is looking for who can get to 14 folds!)

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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:20 pm

vikkyvik wrote:
Airstud wrote:
The verb stem is "travel;" not "travell," so that should make it easier.


Clearly I laged behind in understanding this, as it has knoted up my brain for some time now. I guess my thinking will have to be transfered to your suggested line of thought.


Well playyed, sir. Well playyed indeedd.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:56 pm

Tugger wrote:
If you fold a piece of paper 103* times its thickness will be greater than the observable Universe.

(*It is unlikely you will be able to fold it 103 three times.... but the record book is looking for who can get to 14 folds!)

Tugg


If you cut a piece of apple pie, and kept dividing it by 2 each time, it would take 90 successive cuts to get down to a single atom.

(But of course the knife wouldn't be sharp enough, the pie may be too crumbly and the atoms are too small to be seen in any case.)
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:26 pm

Erebus wrote:
Tugger wrote:
If you fold a piece of paper 103* times its thickness will be greater than the observable Universe.

(*It is unlikely you will be able to fold it 103 three times.... but the record book is looking for who can get to 14 folds!)

Tugg


If you cut a piece of apple pie, and kept dividing it by 2 each time, it would take 90 successive cuts to get down to a single atom.

(But of course the knife wouldn't be sharp enough, the pie may be too crumbly and the atoms are too small to be seen in any case.)


Then you can sell the tiny pieces as atoms apple pie.
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:58 am

Completely pointless to non-musicians, but the Star Wars Cantina music tempo is 240 beats per minute, or 4 beats per second....
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:09 am

If the rule is "I before E, except after C"... then Einstein was wrong... twice...
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Re: Useless and Random Factoids

Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:12 am

Yearly, more people in the world die making a selfie, than by shark attacks. #facts
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