Strange but interesting facts

elviscostello wrote: »

63.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Thats only 42.76% accurate.:D

cock robin wrote: »

Thats only 42.76% accurate.:D

33% of people actually believe that...:pac:

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Albert Einstein's nurse was the only one in the room with him when he died and she told friends/family that he said something to her before he died.
People were sure that it was something very important to do with his work, but we'll never know...


his nurse didn't speak German.

:mad:

Einstein also spoke English, he probably just cursed in German saying he was about to croak it.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAeinstein.htm
(3) Eugene Wigner first met Albert Einstein in 1925. He wrote about this meeting in a book published in 1979.

The personal characteristic of Einstein that is most vividly in my mind and that I like to recall most is his feeling of equality with his colleagues, his appreciation and in fact reciprocation of their friendship. My love and early admiration of physics (I studied chemical engineering) owes very much to the seminar he organized in the early twenties in Berlin on statistical mechanics. Many of the participants at the seminar, including myself, were encouraged to visit him at his home, to have personal conversations with him. We discussed, at such occasions, not only statistical mechanics, not only physics, but also personal problems, and the problems of society. His deep insights had a lasting effect on most of us, but the exchange of opinions was on an equal basis and he responded with interest to the remarks which his visitors made. In somewhat later years the subject of such conversations often turned toward politics, and his condemnation of all dictatorships, particularly Hitler's, had a great deal of influence on his friends and students. But even as far as the USSR is concerned, he wrote, when he was asked to sign a petition: 'Because of the glorification of Soviet Russia, which it includes, I cannot bring myself to sign it.'

It became more difficult for him to maintain a similarly cordial relation with his colleagues, older and younger, after moving to Princeton. Though he could speak English, he never felt at home with it. But his relations with numerous collaborators in Princeton were always cordial and, even though they were not only less widely recognized, but also considerably younger than he was, he never talked down to them, and treated them as equals. He loved to take walks, often with friends like myself, with whom the conversation was in German.

nobby grande wrote: »

Einstein also spoke English, he probably just cursed in German saying he was about to croak it.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAeinstein.htm
(3) Eugene Wigner first met Albert Einstein in 1925. He wrote about this meeting in a book published in 1979.

The personal characteristic of Einstein that is most vividly in my mind and that I like to recall most is his feeling of equality with his colleagues, his appreciation and in fact reciprocation of their friendship. My love and early admiration of physics (I studied chemical engineering) owes very much to the seminar he organized in the early twenties in Berlin on statistical mechanics. Many of the participants at the seminar, including myself, were encouraged to visit him at his home, to have personal conversations with him. We discussed, at such occasions, not only statistical mechanics, not only physics, but also personal problems, and the problems of society. His deep insights had a lasting effect on most of us, but the exchange of opinions was on an equal basis and he responded with interest to the remarks which his visitors made. In somewhat later years the subject of such conversations often turned toward politics, and his condemnation of all dictatorships, particularly Hitler's, had a great deal of influence on his friends and students. But even as far as the USSR is concerned, he wrote, when he was asked to sign a petition: 'Because of the glorification of Soviet Russia, which it includes, I cannot bring myself to sign it.'

It became more difficult for him to maintain a similarly cordial relation with his colleagues, older and younger, after moving to Princeton. Though he could speak English, he never felt at home with it. But his relations with numerous collaborators in Princeton were always cordial and, even though they were not only less widely recognized, but also considerably younger than he was, he never talked down to them, and treated them as equals. He loved to take walks, often with friends like myself, with whom the conversation was in German.

I know he also spoke English quite well... it's just that he was on his death bed and probably said it to whoever was there, not really knowing what language they understood.

It's just one of those facts that we don't know what his final words were because he said them in German and the nurse spoke none.

Way to totally overanalyse it :P

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There are more squid in the oceans than fish.

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

captainjack wrote: »

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

A LOT more.

Estimated there is 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth.
Estimated there are between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars in our GALAXY.
The the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10

So even taking the lower estimate of stars in the Milky Way and assuming that it is the average number of stars in each galaxy (which it probably isn't since our Milky Way seems to be a relatively medium to medium-small galaxy then:
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21

So, rounding the numbers for clarity to a number of sand grains at 10^20 and round the number of stars to 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

A LOT more.

Estimated there is 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth.
Estimated there are between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars in our GALAXY.
The the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10

So even taking the lower estimate of stars in the Milky Way and assuming that it is the average number of stars in each galaxy (which it probably isn't since our Milky Way seems to be a relatively medium to medium-small galaxy then:
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21

So, rounding the numbers for clarity to a number of sand grains at 10^20 and round the number of stars to 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.

Pics or GTFO :pac:

Gulliver wrote: »

Pics or GTFO :pac:

Every "star" seen in this picture is a galaxy.
Edit: wrong picture... wait a sec til I find the right one.

Oh, and http://www.google.com/sky/

Most people are only alive because it's illegal to kill them and the number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

RichieC wrote: »

If you place coins on a chess board with exponential growth, the final square would reach our nearest neighboring star Proxima Centauri, that's about 4-1/4 light years.

I call shenanigans....

1^x = 1.... unless you start with two or more coins you'll always only have one coin on each square....