_Whimsical_ wrote: » When you switch to a channel on your tv that is not tuned in and see snow on the screen 1-2% of that snow is created from heat left over from the big bang.
retalivity wrote: » Westmeath has the lowest high point of the 32 counties - Mullaghmeen at 238m. Im trying to find out the county with the highest low point, if anyone can help me out - i think its laois
Chancer3001 wrote: » A certain type of cave bat has gay sex every day. 10,000s of them all flutter around frantically trying to have sex and the men sometimes just find another man.
David attenborough did a documentary piece about them
steddyeddy wrote: » Our atoms come from stars.
FanadMan wrote: » It's in here. Complete hippy song.....but the sentiment is there
Wibbs wrote: » Nope.
pickarooney wrote: » I'd love to go on a date with Candie. Don't care what she looks like but there'd be so much to talk about.
Junkyard Tom wrote: » There was a punch-up in the Apollo 11 orbiter to see who got to be first to set foot on the Moon as NASA hadn't thought to decide on it.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » They had already defeated the Japanese Sixth Army a little earlier in 1939* in perhaps the most important WWII battle that most people haven't heard of. It meant that the Empire of Japan would strike south to the East Indies and East into the Pacific instead of going through Mongolian. It meant Russia didn't have to fight Japan as well as Germany. It meant that the US was drawn in to the war earlier than they might have otherwise.*OK they had a little help from the Russians.
Sorge is most famous for his service in Japan in 1940 and 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union, although he did not succeed in finding out the exact date of the attack. In mid-September 1941, he informed the Soviet command that Japan was not going to attack the Soviet Union in the near future, which allowed the command to transfer 18 divisions, 1,700 tanks, and over 1,500 aircraft from Siberia and the Far East to the Western Front against Nazi Germany during the most critical months of the Battle for Moscow; one of the turning points of World War II. A month later Sorge was arrested in Japan on the counts of espionage. The German Abwehr legitimately denied he was an agent; USSR repudiated him and refused three offers to spare him through a prisoner exchange. He was tortured, forced to confess, tried, and then hanged in November 1944. Two decades passed before he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964.
steddyeddy wrote: » Our atoms come from stars. I think Neil Degrasse Tyson said it best: "The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…"
Skylinehead wrote: » You missed the bit about where they had help from the Russians It did change things quite a bit, the Army wanted resources from Siberia. This battle changed their thoughts towards the Navy-favoured Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the south instead.
EndaHonesty wrote: » Do you really believe that the Japanese chose to pick a fight with the US because they were afraid of the mighty Mongolian army?
ohnonotgmail wrote: » That is like kicking somebody unconscious on the ground.
Cianmcliam wrote: » Well, as it turns out the results and pictures of the colour wheel test in the article are actually a fraud. They were staged for a BBC documentary using a different test for a separate experiment. In fact the study only showed that the tribe members had slower reaction times identifying the different colours and it seems that none of them actually failed to see the difference at all. See quotes from the researchers admitting it was a set up for the TV cameras:http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237"The BBC's presentation of the mocked-up experiment — purporting to show that the Himba are completely unable to distinguish blue and green shades that seem quite different to us, but can easily distinguish shades of green that seem identical to us — was apparently a journalistic fabrication, created by the documentary's editors after the fact, and was never asserted by the researchers themselves, much less demonstrated experimentally. This explains why the "experiment" was never published, and why the stimuli shown in the documentary don't make sense."
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