Interesting Facts...

The_B_Man wrote:

i think dark can go faster than light!

You have been reading too much terry pratchett

Do not underestimate the nerdiness of trekkies

lol

I think I have possibly heard of slowing light down but then I really don't read much about this sort of thing. Most of what I do know comes from one or two sources.

Another interesting fact:

Scientists have noticed that light rays (ot atoms or something like that) coming from distant stars vibrate in such a way that is completely different to our galaxy. Therefore they theorise that our laws of physics might not apply outside of our part of the universe.

Healio wrote:

The distance from your elbow to your wrist is the size of your foot.
i.e left foot is the length of right elbow to right wrist, and right foot is the length of left elbow to left wrist.

I refuse to try to verify that on myself..... also yur gonna have to change yur sig now healio

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.

The name Lincoln and Kennedy each contains 7 letters.

Both were particularly concern with Civil Rights.

Both were Annes lost children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on Friday. Both were shot on the forehead.

Both were shot in presence of their wives.

The secretary of both President warned them not to go to the theatre and to Dallas, respectively.

Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

Southerners assassinated both. Southerners succeeded both.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names have 15 letters.

Booth ran from the theatre and was captured in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from the warehouse and was captured in a theatre.

To cap it off, Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trial.

78.9% of all statistics are just made up on the spot - fact

98.4297% of all threads on After Hours are crud.

Canis Lupus wrote:

I think I have possibly heard of slowing light down but then I really don't read much about this sort of thing. Most of what I do know comes from one or two sources.

Another interesting fact:

Scientists have noticed that light rays (ot atoms or something like that) coming from distant stars vibrate in such a way that is completely different to our galaxy. Therefore they theorise that our laws of physics might not apply outside of our part of the universe.

Never heard the last bit before, but from the clustering of galaxies and the spectrometer readings of the constituents the rules appear the same.

As for light, the speed of light is not constant. It does change. The quoted "constant" is in a vacuum with no gravitational field. Light travels slower through other mediums, kitchen experiment - take a pint glass of clear water put a straw in it, look through the glass at the miniscuss (top, lip, surface etc) and see the "warp" in the straw, this is defraction, the simplest example of the change in the speed of light. Recently scientists slowed light down to something like 46 meters per second, by shinning a laser through a supercooled substance, can't rem the gas off hand.

Couple of other interesting facts :

1) all embryos start out female, only a change in hormone production flips the switch to create males, hence why men have vestigial nipples.

2) thalydamide, the morining sickness pill from the sixtes, is now being used, with great success, as a cure for leporosy.

3) cats always land on their feet - except when they can't see the ground, blindfold your cat and have hours of fun!

4) Female breasts are comprised of 95% fat 5% gland, so next hear girls / women talking about weight, just mention this, great reactions!!

5) the number 0 was invented by an arab mathamitician

6) william shatner can't sing

half of these facts aren't interesting, just smarted assed or humorous

mp3guy wrote:

half of these facts aren't interesting, just smarted assed or humorous

58.75% of people that can't come up with an interesting fact try and denegrate others (the percentage may vary, terms and conditions apply)

nobody really cares about statistics. so you should all stop with them now....

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule wont

Frogs can vomit. First they vomit up their stomach so it is hanging out of their mouths then they scrape out the stomach contents with their forearms and swallow their stomach again.

Neat, Huh?


We share 60% of are genes with bananas............which are herbs apparently...........so does that mean we can season chicken with people?