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    #362
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.


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    #363
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Cartouche wrote: »
    OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.

    Does Alanis know? :D


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    #364
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Ferns, Kilkenny and Carlow Town were all once the capital of Ireland


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    #365
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    By a tragic coincidence, two young Dominican Major League Baseball stars, Andy Marte and Yordano Ventura, both died on the same day i.e. yesterday 23rd January 2017 in unrelated road accidents in the Dominican Republic.


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    #366
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Ferns, Kilkenny and Carlow Town were all once the capital of Ireland

    Kilkenny should have stayed as the capital, just saying ;)


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    #367
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb


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    #368
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Kilkenny should have stayed as the capital, just saying ;)

    I've just realised that you're not actually a white supremacist.


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    #369
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    The nearest galaxy to us is Andromeda, 2.5 million light years away. If there is life in Andromeda and they have developed a telescope powerful enough to observe the surface of the Earth close-up, they will not see the human race, or anything we created. In fact, the continents won't even appear as they do now. They will observe Earth as it was 2.5 million years ago.


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    #370
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,545 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    The character played by Spike Milligan in Life of Brian (he played this guy) was written in at the last second after the Monty Python crew found out he happened to be in the country on holiday while they were filming.


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    #371
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    On the same theme, it can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth


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    #372
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    stimpson wrote: »
    I've just realised that you're not actually a white supremacist.

    I should really have thought about my username more.


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    #373
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    KKkitty wrote: »
    I should really have thought about my username more.

    I kinda like it. Racist, but fluffy.


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    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    On the same theme, it can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth

    The excellently composed and perfectly exposed photos taken in '69 in Holywood on the surface of the moon were probably subject to a fair amount of photon exposure and other electron-magnetic projections from the surface of the sun.

    The medium format film sized camera was likely a fairly clumsy device to use with space gloves, under zero gravity, there was also no viewfinder present as a space saving measure.


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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    osarusan wrote: »
    The character played by Spike Milligan in Life of Brian (he played this guy) was written in at the last second after the Monty Python crew found out he happened to be in the country on holiday while they were filming.

    Which is fair enough considering MP basically ripped off Spike's ideas.


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    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    If your brain was a hard drive it could store up to 3000 terabytes.

    If your eyes were a camera they would be 576 megapixels.
    That second part is not entirely true, our eye sight is actually not great comparatively with our brain filling in a lot of gaps.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5Q3UXkGd0

    ^^^ It mentions your figure of 576 and why the more accurate number is closer to 7 megapixels.


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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    In the early 90s, the actor voicing Mickey Mouse married the actress voicing Minnie Mouse. In real-life like! :D


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    Joe Moneybags
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Joe Moneybags


    From the first confirmed powered manned flight on 17 December 1903, flight speed was less than 7 mph

    it took almost 44 years to Oct 14 1947 to officially break the sound barrier: Mach 1.

    It took only another 12 years to get to Mach 2: Dec 15 1959


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Joe Moneybags wrote: »
    From the first confirmed powered manned flight on 17 December 1903, flight speed was less than 7 mph...

    It always amused me that Orville Wright's first flight of 120 feet is considerably shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. :D


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    Riddle101
    Registered Users Posts: 8,378 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Steve Buscemi was a Fire Fighter before he started acting. During 9/11, he rejoined his old fire engine company to help out. He worked 12 hour shifts digging through rubble for survivors. Despite this though, he has remained quiet about it for a long time, refusing to do interviews about it, and there is no photographic footage.


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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    The 7th largest building in the world by useable volume is the Tesco Distribution centre in Donabate.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Joe Moneybags wrote: »
    From the first confirmed powered manned flight on 17 December 1903, flight speed was less than 7 mph

    it took almost 44 years to Oct 14 1947 to officially break the sound barrier: Mach 1.

    It took only another 12 years to get to Mach 2: Dec 15 1959
    On the 4 October 1957 Sputnik 1 was going Mach 25.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    Kilkenny should have stayed as the capital, just saying ;)
    The RTC should have gone there instead of Carlow.


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    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    The first time Star Wars movie was shown it was only called Star Wars. A New Hope came later.


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    sharpey85
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭sharpey85


    Johnny Cash was the first American to know that Stalin had died. Due to his role in the military being to intercept Russian Morse code.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    On the 4 October 1957 Sputnik 1 was going Mach 25.

    Sputnik 1 was a satellite, not an aircraft.


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    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    The closest point to space on Earth is not Mount Everest. Rather it is Mount Chimborazo, a 20,000 plus foot mountain in the Andes. Even though Mount Everest is taller from sea level, Mount Chimborazo sits higher on Earth's bulge.


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    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Cartouche wrote: »
    The closest point to space on Earth is not Mount Everest. Rather it is Mount Chimborazo, a 20,000 plus foot mountain in the Andes. Even though Mount Everest is taller from sea level, Mount Chimborazo sits higher on Earth's bulge.

    Furthest point from the centre of the planet yes, I'm not sure if the atmosphere is smaller there though to make it "closer to space" :p


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Furthest point from the centre of the planet yes, I'm not sure if the atmosphere is smaller there though to make it "closer to space" :p

    He's talking about the closest point fron Earth's centre of gravity.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Cartouche wrote: »
    The closest point to space on Earth is not Mount Everest. Rather it is Mount Chimborazo, a 20,000 plus foot mountain in the Andes. Even though Mount Everest is taller from sea level, Mount Chimborazo sits higher on Earth's bulge.
    At 10,200 meters Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller than either. It's base is under water.


    Mount Chimborazo isn't closer to space. It's close to the equator where the atmosphere is thicker than at the poles.


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    Ferrari3600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    I used to work for a potato company and I can reveal that baby potatoes are literally made from babies.


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