In the world of unique human beings, we all know something that others may not know.
Kinda like the DMF People & Resources thread, I think if we all share one very important thing, we'll be helping each other out (likely able to use the new knowledge on our colleagues to make us the alpha male at the job site...or at home if you struggle with your dominance).
I'll start:
Did you know 70% of statistics are made up.
Dana
Quote from: Dana on June 26, 2008, 11:37:18 PM
I'll start:
Did you know 70% of statistics are made up.
Dana
But only 50% of the time...
Apparantly, statistically it`s possible to break your thumb off if inserted into your arse ;D
If you plug a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier into the power grid, you could power 400,000 homes...
on the inside of the back cover of those little claw grab teddy bear machines, there is a switch to set how often you can actually pick something up based on claw pressure, so it will be like 60 min off, then 2 min on etc etc. so if you ever do win something, keep playing because you'll probably keep winning till the setting goes back to off again.
and its also possible to set it to always off... [bang]
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Cat urine glows under a black light
Mel Blanc who was the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
There's a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha. The name of the temple is “Temple of the Tooth.â€
funnyfact.com
The letter J was the last letter added to the English Alphabet. Before that, the letter I was used in its place. U was the second to last letter added, and usually replaced by V.
In 1858, Hyman Lipman received the patent for the first integrated pencil/eraser writing utensil. Normally, this would be the end of the story, but not for Lipman, who'd created a world-changing product by conveniently combining two pre-existing world-changing products. Fortunately for Lipman, the Feds were late in figuring this out, and by the time they decided to revoke his patent, the crafty inventor hadâ€"according to most sourcesâ€"already sold the rights for $100,000. [clap] suckers!!!
Alien Hand Syndrome is a condition that conveniently defines itself: AHS sufferers believe that one of their hands acts completely on its own. A 1990 medical journal tells the story of one longtime smoker who repeatedly put a cigarette into her mouth with her good hand, whereupon her alien hand would remove the cigarette before it could be lit. The disorder is generally caused by brain damage resulting from strokes or physical trauma.
You can take the filter from a cigarette twirl it into a point and use a flame on it. It will get hard and can be used as a stabbing or cutting tool.
If you take the cardboard flap of a pack of matches fold it in half twice. In the second fold put a penny. Take that and put it into a parking meter. After jamming it in there add 5-8 pennies and the meter will fail, free parking. Works on NYC electric meters, not mechanical. Will probably work on electric meters in other places as well.
Cougars, pumas, mountain lions, and panthers are all the same animal. Just different names depending were you go.
Orientals can't get disoriented. ;)
birds dont pee. I found that out yesterday. Interesting.
In a group of 23 or more people, chances are that at least 2 people have the same birthday.
The capstone at the top of the Washington Monument is made of pure aluminum. At the time of its construction, aluminum was worth more than silver, gold or platinum.
While Coke used to contain an extract of the coca plant, not cocaine per se, the original recipe for 7up contained lithium citrate. It was originally marketed as a hangover cure.
The venerable gin and tonic was created to help British troops in India fight off malaria. They began adding gin to their quinine tonic to make the drink more palatable. The addition of lime juice helps fight scurvy, too.
The human head weighs 8 pounds
[laugh]
if you drink a large grape shush from sonic burger..... your poo will be green the next day.
YMMV
Quote from: Monsterlover on June 27, 2008, 10:29:23 AM
The average human head weighs 8 pounds
Fixed.
Then you have people like me. My "extended cab", as I call it, causes my head to be about 10 lbs.
That, and my skull is really dense.
Quote from: bobspapa on June 27, 2008, 10:33:50 AM
if you drink a large grape shush from sonic burger..... your poo will be green the next day.
YMMV
If you eat two marble sized chunks of wasabi your poo is dark green and burns (not the toilet) :-[
re-sabi
Speaking of poop - A human can have pure white poop. White poop means that the bile from the liver is not entering your gut :o
The French inventor of the turbocharger was laughed at for trying to patent a fish (turbot).
Double overhead cams, four valves per cylinder... This "modern" engine design dates back to the 20s. It was used in small displacement racing cars by Aston Martin and large displacement street cars by Duesenberg, among others.
Triumph and other British marques justified oil seeping in their vehicles as a way of preventing corrosion. Once the Japanese dominated the market, Triumph began an ad campaign for its ancient Bonneville design that played off nostalgia and skill required to start the bike ("tickling the carburettors, setting up the kickstart..." and other macho bullshit that attempted to cover up the fact they were selling an outdated and unreliable product)
Ferrucio Lamborghini began his career converting war machines into farm equipment after the First World War. He became a wealthy tractor and air conditioning manufacturer by the 1960s, and was a rabid sports car fan. No cars completely satisfied him, he always found some major flaw that drove him nuts. He decided he'd build his own GT car to satisfy his desires. The 350GT was the closest to his original idea; after that the design department strayed from his mindset with the Miura and the following supercars (and dreams of racing). He never condoned racing, and he never intended his company to make bonkers supercars that were hard to drive on a daily basis. An apocryphal story claims he was so fed up with his Ferrari that he personally visited Enzo to complain and got blown off, but this is more legend than fact. It is possible that he fixed his Ferrari with tractor parts, however.
During the early 1990s when Chrysler owned Lamborghini, Lee Iacoca ran a ridiculous ad that compared the performance of the new Diablo with pedestrian cars like the Dodge Stealth, the Spirit R/T and the Eagle Laser. It was meant to show that Chrysler was a "performance car company", but claiming Lamborghini as a halo car for a series of ordinary Detroit iron was like claiming Fiat econoboxes were in the same league as a Ferrari F40 while Fiat owned Ferrari.
Quote from: msincredible on June 27, 2008, 10:02:55 AM
In a group of 23 or more people, chances are that at least 2 people have the same birthday.
I am suspect of this one...in 58 years , I have only met one other person whose birthday is the same as mine..... June 28.
Quote from: DoubleEagle on June 27, 2008, 11:28:04 AMI am suspect of this one...in 58 years , I have only met one other person whose birthday is the same as mine..... June 28.
That's a totally different statistical problem to the one that I described.
Group of 23 people: chances are > 50% that ANY TWO people in the group have the same birthday.
1 person: chances are 1/365 that another person you meet has the same birthday as you.
BTW: Happy birthday! [beer]
In the late 80's the 737-400 was introduced as a higher capacity Jet meant to replace the aging 727. The 400 model was a "stretch" over the previous 300 series, about 10 feet longer than before, with a max capacity of 188 seats. Because of the extra payload the more powerful CFM56 engines were employed. In addition Both engines on the newer 400 series would now run the air conditioning & pressurization duties rather that Just the #2 engine like on the older planes. The cockpit also made a change from analog to "Glass"
The latest 737 is the 900ER series that has more payload, up to 215 passengers, Flies up to 3,200 nautical miles, Weighs 9,550 pounds less than the airbus A321, and has lower operating costs than the A321; about 6 percent lower per trip, and 4 percent lower per seat.
the three color, RGB color gamut is larger than the four color, CMYK color gamut.
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on June 27, 2008, 11:50:43 AM
the three color, RGB color gamut is larger than the four color, CMYK color gamut.
Meaning capable of more individual, distinct colors?
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 27, 2008, 11:54:05 AM
Meaning capable of more individual, distinct colors?
that is correct [clap]
you may go home early :)
Quote from: Monsterlover on June 27, 2008, 10:29:23 AM
The human head weighs 8 pounds
[laugh]
haha...i was waiting for that one [clap]
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on June 27, 2008, 11:56:18 AM
that is correct [clap]
you may go home early :)
That does seem to be my trick, doesn't it? :-\
;D
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands when typing
If you microwave a marshmallow for a couple of seconds it will at least double in size and the inside crystallizes.
If you microwave a hardboiled egg for a minute or two in a glass of water and remove it, it will explode. The egg pieces that come out are hot enough to put a 2nd degree burn on to your hand.
Quote from: Pakhan on June 27, 2008, 12:26:35 PM
If you microwave a hardboiled egg for a minute or two in a glass of water and remove it, it will explode. The egg pieces that come out are hot enough to put a 2nd degree burn on to your hand.
For some reason I feel like this should probably be followed with a DAMHIK.
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 27, 2008, 12:29:20 PM
For some reason I feel like this should probably be followed with a DAMHIK.
;D no worries, ask away.
It is not a structural engineer's job to design a building to stand through any earthquake. It's their job to make sure it stands long enough for you to get out. [roll] (Unless, of course, you pay them to design it to stand through any quake but that's not cheap.)
The most common law suit a structural engineer faces is floors that are too bouncy. [roll]
In a large earthquake you're more likely to be killed by non-structural elements breaking and falling (bookshelves, light fixtures) than structural failures (building falling down).
Concrete doesn't dry, it cures. Curing is a chemical reaction that requires water so that's why it seems like it's drying. Also, concrete never totally finishes curing. It is always getting stronger.
Concrete explodes under extreme loads. [evil]
Quote from: DoubleEagle on June 27, 2008, 11:28:04 AM
I am suspect of this one...in 58 years , I have only met one other person whose birthday is the same as mine..... June 28.
My daughter's bday is the 28th of june, her cousin (my sister's kid) is born a year earlier on the 28th of june.
My wife and I were born on the 30th of December
Jimmy Hoffa is still curing
Sort of like that ^^
But not quite
Recycling actually costs a lot more than taking trash to a landfill. And has no proven environmental benefits over the latter.
All of the US's garbage for the next 1000 years could be contained in a single landfill, if someone was willing to build one about 12 miles square (need to check that sizing, can't remember the exact number).
A climate crisis was forseen in the mid-20th century. Scientists and environmentalists were claiming man-made emissions were having an effect on the earth's temperature. Only thing was, they claimed it was COOLING the earth, not warming it. This theory was tossed out in the 1970s when a warming trend began, after a cooling trend from the late 30s to the 70s, the peak of industrial development during and after the Second World War.
Combusting gases in an engine cylinder produces a nearly invisible flame front. Contrary to what the animations would lead you to believe, it doesn't burn orange.
The average human being emits 1kg of carbon dioxide per day, about 4% of the gas content of exhaled breath. This means that humans alone account for over 2 billion tons of CO2 annually, not counting animal and plant sources.
Metal in an internal combustion motor is not static. It flexes by many degrees in high-load areas such as the valvetrain, the conrods and the crankshaft. If you were to watch these areas under a strobe light at high rpm you would see visible shifting.
The main advantage of desmo valves in the current Grand Prix bikes is not power, or valve control - it's fuel economy. No one is quite sure why.
Venturi port intake systems have recently been announced as a cheap and effective way of boosting engine efficiency and fuel economy. This is nothing new - venturi ports (narrowing of the port to accelerate fuel mix flow) has been a tuning trick on certain racing engines for many decades. For example, Ducati singles were particularly receptive to venturi port shaping.
Antilock brakes have been around on bikes for a lot longer than you think. The 1920s Rudge Four single cylinder had a mechanical antilock system - with linked brakes. It also had a four valve head (hence the name), bleeding edge tech for the 1920s.
Titanium needs to be welded in an inert argon gas environment. If it isn't, it will absorb hydrogen and oxygen from the ambient air and becomes brittle. BSA learned this the hard way on its ill-fated Titanium motocross bike - when in-the-field repairs needed to be done, traditional welding methods were used and the frames subsequently cracked. The whole ill-thought-out boondoggle cost the company millions. The cost per frame was 4500$ in the 1960s, about 400 000$ PER BARE FRAME in todays dollars.
Quote from: VisceralReaction on June 27, 2008, 03:41:43 PM
My daughter's bday is the 28th of june, her cousin (my sister's kid) is born a year earlier on the 28th of june.
My wife and I were born on the 30th of December
That's very cool for sure and very coincidental I might add. My mother was born on her Mother's birthday.
Fire only burns in an environment with at least 18 % Oxygen
The Greatest picture ever is on you tube
Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame and Blackmore's Night used a 278 watt Marshall Major Head in "Purlpe",his trademark Fender Strat was purchased from one of Jimi Hendrick's Roadies after Ritchie saw Jimi play for the 1st time Most Beatles song riffs were rearranged from Black American R+B Artists
The angle of the Dangle, is equal to the beat of the meat , if the mass of the ass is constant
A GE Evolution Series locomotive weighs about 420k pounds.
It runs on a V-12 4400 hp engine that is built to last 20 years under full throttle ("notch 8" in railroad terms). Don't you wish our cars were built to that spec?
75 mph is roughly it's top speed (We got to 55 mph on a the test track yesterday).
The fuel tank holds just under 5k gallons of diesel, which is about a $25k fill-up at the pump. Suddenly a $50 fill-up doesn't sound so bad.
It'll cost you close to $2M out the door with a good list of options. You Aussies are getting a model that pushes $3M for your Rio Tinto line.
Did you know one of Monsterlover's eyes contains two different colors?
Bookkeeper is the word in the english language with the most pairs of letters next to each other. Can you name another with as many adjacent pairs (3)?
Scuba divers who routinely dive to depths much greater than about 130 feet do some really funky things to their breathing gases, to be able to survive and function. This includes breathing trimix (helium, oxygen, and nitrogen) and heliox (helium and oxygen). A side effect of breathing helium is that you lose body heat more rapidly than if you were breathing normal air. That, and the funny sounding voice. To combat the change in voice, deep dive communication devices shift the pitch of the voice to be lower, so that it's more understandable.
US Naval Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg, had a name that rhymes with orange.
Not fact-checked, but I've heard it somewhere.
The sun is 400 times larger than the moon. It is also 400 times more distant. Making the sun and moon appear almost exactly the same size in the sky...
Quote from: trenner on June 30, 2008, 03:44:40 PM
Bookkeeper is the word in the english language with the most pairs of letters next to each other. Can you name another with as many adjacent pairs (3)?
Bookkeeping ;D
Quote from: msincredible on June 30, 2008, 04:42:54 PM
Bookkeeping ;D
[laugh] You live up to your name once again.
[drink] to you
I, apparently, am a retard. [laugh]
Quote from: NeufUnSix on June 27, 2008, 07:13:59 PM
All of the US's garbage for the next 1000 years could be contained in a single landfill, if someone was willing to build one about 12 miles square (need to check that sizing, can't remember the exact number).
Isnt that Staten Island? :P
Quote from: BWClark on June 30, 2008, 04:28:13 PM
Not fact-checked, but I've heard it somewhere.
The sun is 400 times larger than the moon. It is also 400 times more distant. Making the sun and moon appear almost exactly the same size in the sky...
Sun
Distance from Earth: 149,597,900 km
Equatorial Radius: 695,500 km
Volume: 1,412,200,000,000,000,000 km3
Mass: 1,989,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Moon
Distance from Earth: 384,400 km
Equatorial Radius: 1737.4 km
Volume: 21,970,000,000 km3
Mass: 73,483,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
The Sun is WAY bigger. Even when compared to Jupiter which dwarves us
Jupiter
Distance from the Sun: 778,412,020 km
Equatorial Radius: 71,492 km
Volume: 1,425,500,000,000,000 km3
Mass: 1,898,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
and for comparisons sake
Earth
Distance from the Sun: 149,597,890 km
Equatorial Radius: 6,378.14 km
Volume: 1,083,200,000,000 km3
Mass: 5,973,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
But according to your numbers, his statement is correct.
Distance to the sun / distance to the moon = 149.6 x 10^6 km / 384.4 x 10^3 km = 429 and change.
Frontal area of the sun facing the earth / frontal area of the moon facing the earth = (2 x Pi x 695,500) / (2 x Pi x 1737.4) = 400.31
So as he said: because the ratio of distance:radius is roughly the same, both appear to be roughly the same size.
If Jupiter were 15,800,000 km away, it would appear roughly the same size as the moon. However, since its about 628,800,000 km away, it looks very wee indeed.
And having busted out the 'ol adding machine to do all that makes me a huge dork. [bang]
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 30, 2008, 08:01:41 PM
But according to your numbers, his statement is correct.
Distance to the sun / distance to the moon = 149.6 x 10^6 km / 384.4 x 10^3 km = 429 and change.
Frontal area of the sun facing the earth / frontal area of the moon facing the earth = (2 x Pi x 695,500) / (2 x Pi x 1737.4) = 400.31
So as he said: because the ratio of distance:radius is roughly the same, both appear to be roughly the same size.
If Jupiter were 15,800,000 km away, it would appear roughly the same size as the moon. However, since its about 628,800,000 km away, it looks very wee indeed.
And having busted out the 'ol adding machine to do all that makes me a huge dork. [bang]
Thumbs up for dorks! [thumbsup]
I kinda had a feeling "400 times" would not be nearly enough, but that's the number that was in my head. Looks like it was based on something!
Hmmpf...... :P Math is hard, and you got some fancy figurin'. Don't reckon I'd know how to repeat that frontal area eeequation anyhow so I'll take ur wurd for it. ???
Ants don't sleep.
Quote from: trenner on June 30, 2008, 03:44:40 PM
US Naval Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg, had a name that rhymes with orange.
Quote of the week? [laugh]
Quote from: someguy on June 30, 2008, 09:09:07 PM
Ants don't sleep.
Neither do children, dammit. >:(
[laugh]
Did you know that I have a photographic memory.
Quote from: Super T.I.B on July 01, 2008, 01:14:17 AM
Did you know that I have a photographic memory.
N, that's
pornographic memory...
Quote from: NAKID on July 01, 2008, 01:15:57 AM
N, that's pornographic memory...
That too.
I know that Jemma has a mole.
Is that what they're calling it these days?
Quote from: NAKID on July 01, 2008, 01:23:40 AM
Is that what they're calling it these days?
Yep, as we Aussies would call it, she is a MOLE!