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  • #52
    Flood
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Flood


    Its possible to maintain an erection after ejaculation.


  • #53
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    whupdedo wrote: »
    If you put an egg into a microwave, it won't come out hard boiled

    With a little preparation, it will.
    I've done it. It works quite well.


  • #54
    Schrodingers
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Schrodingers


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Churchill had a plan to go to war against the soviets to push them out of Europe using what was left of the German army


    The Germans created the a SS unit called the British Free Corps from British prisoners of war who swore allegiance to Hitler and who were to fight against the allies


  • #55
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    That the Bowhead Whale is the mammal with the longest lifespan. They live between 150 to 200 years.

    The longest human recorded lifespan of an organism is that of Adwaita an Aldabra Giant Tortoise who was documented to have lived between 1750 and 2006, 255 years old.


  • #56
    Mr.Plough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Mr.Plough


    random fact website wrote:
    Goosepimples are a remnant of our evolutionary predecessors. They occur when tiny muscles around the base of each hair tense, pulling the hair more erect. With a decent covering of fur, this would fluff up the coat, getting more air into it, making it a better insulator. But with a human's thin body hair, it just makes our skin look strange.

    Similarly we get the bristling feeling of our hair standing on end when we are scared or experience an emotive memory. Many mammals fluff up their fur when threatened, to look bigger and so more dangerous. Humans used to have a similar defensive fluffing up of their body hairs, but once again, the effect is now ruined. We still feel the sensation of hairs standing on end, but gain no visual bulk.

    .


  • #57
    RMUCKY
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭RMUCKY


    Osama Bin Laden was NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks.
    “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” - FBI.
    Also the CIA created, trained and funded “Al Qaeda/Taliban” during the Mujahideen.


  • #58
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    RomanKnows wrote: »
    The best way to try and catch a rabbit involves hiding behind a tree and attempting to make carrot noises.
    How do you catch a unique rabbit ?

    unique up on him


  • #59
    SummerSummit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭SummerSummit


    RMUCKY wrote: »
    Osama Bin Laden was NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks.
    “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” - FBI.
    Also the CIA created, trained and funded “Al Qaeda/Taliban” during the Mujahideen.

    Thats just not true


  • #60
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Beer was classified as a soft drink in Russia until 2011 and thus could be bought by anybody.

    Our galaxy (or at least the thick band of stars visible in clear skies) is called The Milky Way because of Greek mythology. According to them, one day Zeus brought Hercules to his wife Hera to be breastfed while she slept. She woke to find him feeding and quickly tore him away from her breast (as he wasn't her child), splashing her breast milk across the sky.

    Was milk called milk in ancient Greece? Thought it was an English word.


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  • #61
    pavb2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭pavb2


    "Apparently 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese and there are 5 people in my family so it must be one of them.

    It's either my mum or my dad or my older brother Colin or my younger brother HoChaChu. . .

    But I think it's Colin."


  • #62
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    pavb2 wrote: »
    "Apparently 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese and there are 5 people in my family so it must be one of them.

    It's either my mum or my dad or my older brother Colin or my younger brother HoChaChu. . .

    But I think it's Colin."

    I think you're Wong :pac:


  • #63
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    Tigger wrote: »
    why didnt he/

    edit: cos he'd been told they'd be bomber back to the stone age

    The expression bomb them back to the stone age was first used by an American general during the Vietnam War. Also the use of nuclear weapons was repeatedly considered during the Vietnam War.

    American soldiers in Vietnam were told that their M16s - at the time already prone to jamming - were self cleaning and were not taught how to clean them. They were not self-cleaning.


  • #64
    youngblood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭youngblood


    Apparently every son grows taller than his own mother.......


  • #65
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Haven't googled this but afaia you cannot breed dogs to be guide dogs because all guide dogs are neutered/spayed.


  • #66
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    The longest human recorded lifespan of an organism is that of Adwaita an Aldabra Giant Tortoise who was documented to have lived between 1750 and 2006, 255 years old.
    Nope, that might be true so far regarding vertebrates but that record currently belongs to a bivalve mollusc who was over 500 years old, sadly the researchers killed it, so there are likely much older ones out there passing the centuries. As for organisms in general? There are some bacteria type thingies called endoliths that live inside rocks that can live for 10,000 years. Some sponges can hit those kinda ages too. Yew trees can hit 4000 years and the oldest still living Bristlecone pine tree is over 5000 years old. The trick seems to be to grow and live very slowly and reproduce equally slowly.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • #67
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    A polar bears fur isn't white, it's transparent.


  • #68
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    It might come as a shock to many, but shepherd's pie actually has no shepherds in it all.

    It was in fact a myth peddled 4000 years ago but the first talking sheep


  • #69
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Was milk called milk in ancient Greece? Thought it was an English word.

    No, they used whatever the Ancient Greek for "milk" and "milky way," and the phrase was later translated into English and other languages.


  • #70
    Schrodingers
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Schrodingers


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    American soldiers in Vietnam were told that their M16s - at the time already prone to jamming - were self cleaning and were not taught how to clean them. They were not self-cleaning.

    Correct

    But many soldiers already knew how to clean a rifle from civilian life or from been previously issued with the M14

    The M16 was not issued with a cleaning kit till men were found dead with enemy rifles in their hands as their own rifles had failed to fire

    The M16 was then changed to have a chrome lined barrel (less fouling), forward assist (to force a round into the chamber) and a cleaning kit

    It seems (historians are out on this iirc) that the M16 was designed to use a 5.56 nato round using a particular powder but when it went into service the rounds used a different powder which created more carbon build up (on the throat of the chamber) and caused jamming unless the rifle was routinely cleaned


  • #71
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    RMUCKY wrote: »
    Osama Bin Laden was NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks.
    “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” - FBI.
    Also the CIA created, trained and funded “Al Qaeda/Taliban” during the Mujahideen.
    SummerSummit wrote: »
    Thats just not true


    Not sure about the highlighted bit, but its true the FBI were never after him for 9/11.

    He was on their 10 most wanted list for the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and for a bomb attack on a US warship in 2000.


    This is the link to his official FBI wanted posting from November 2001....

    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden


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  • #72
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    youngblood wrote: »
    Apparently every son grows taller than his own mother.......

    Not every son - but I think it's something like 95%.


  • #73
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    James Bond Junior wrote: »
    A polar bears fur isn't white, it's transparent.

    And hollow...


  • #74
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Was milk called milk in ancient Greece? Thought it was an English word.

    Boobos Juicos


  • #75
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Gazelles can jump higher than your standard bungalow. This is mainly due to the fact that bungalows can't jump.


  • #76
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Existentialist wrote: »
    A hedgehog can climb a 6 foot wall

    Funnily enough they can't climb walls that are 3,4 or 5 five foot in height.


  • #77
    redbel05
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭redbel05


    Never trim your eyebrows with scissors (pluck only!). Aparrently it makes them over thick, bristly and grow in the wrong direction ( like those prickly caterpillars). Also, they never recover from this.

    These words of wisdom from the local beautician who nearly had a lady in tears with this problem the other day. "I keep them trimmed but they just get worse + worse".


  • #78
    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    redbel05 wrote: »
    Never trim your eyebrows with scissors (pluck only!). Aparrently it makes them over thick, bristly and grow in the wrong direction ( like those prickly caterpillars). Also, they never recover from this.

    These words of wisdom from the local beautician who nearly had a lady in tears with this problem the other day. "I keep them trimmed but they just get worse + worse".

    Same goes for pubes.


  • #79
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    There are as many atoms in a glass of water as there are glasses of water in the world's oceans.




    * obviously not an approximation but a nice metaphor to describe how tiny atoms are.


  • #80
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    If the Earth Were a Grape, How Far Would the Stars Be?



    The scale of the universe is so immense that it is difficult to imagine the relative distances between celestial objects. The Sun, the Moon, the planets, the stars, and the galaxies - they all seem like distant objects in the sky. It is easy to just think of them all as being very far away, without giving much thought to the great differences in their distances from Earth. In order to grasp the diversity in true distances in the universe it helps to mentally scale things down - to compare with objects and distances we can understand. How far away would these objects be if the Earth, which is actually about 8,000 miles in diameter, were the size of a grape, or about one half inch in diameter.

    In true terms, the Moon is about 250,000 miles away from Earth. In our scaled down model in which the Earth is a grape, the Moon would be as large as a green pea and only about 16 inches away, that doesn't seem very far. It would be like the height of about 32 grapes, or Earths, stacked on top of each other. It takes human spacecraft only a few days to get to the moon.

    The Sun is actually about 93 million miles away, or roughly 400 times further than the Moon. In astronomical terms it is quite close to us. Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us. In our scaled down universe the Sun would be the size of a giant beach ball, about 4 feet wide. It would be about 490 feet away (163 yards), or about as far as one of Mickey Mantles longest home runs.

    The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, is actually about 400 million miles from Earth when the two planets are closest, and it is about eleven times as wide as Earth. About 100 Earths would fit in it. Its light takes a bit more than a half hour to reach Earth. If the Earth were a grape, Jupiter would be about the size of a grapefruit, and would be about five blocks away - a little less than a half mile.

    When we leave our own solar system, the distances to other objects start getting really large.

    The nearest star, other than our own Sun, is about four light years away. That means it takes four years for its light to reach us. Since light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, each light year is a great distance. In our scaled down universe the nearest star would be about 24,000 miles away. A much further star, Deneb, which is part of the well-known "Summer Triangle", and is actually 1,800 light years away, would be about one billion miles away if the Earth were a grape.

    The galaxy we are part of, the Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light years wide, would be 55 billion miles wide if the Earth were a grape. The Great Andromeda Galaxy, know as the sister galaxy to the Milky Way, and part of our "local group" of galaxies, is actually two million light years away. The light we see now from it left there about the time humans first appeared on Earth. In our scaled down universe the Great Andromeda Galaxy would be about one trillion miles away.

    So if the Earth were a grape, the Moon would be 16 inches away, the Sun - 163 yards away, Jupiter - a little under half a mile away, the nearest star - 24,000 miles away, the star Deneb - one billion miles away, and the Great Andromeda Galaxy - one trillion miles away.

    Our world is a mere grape in an immense universe.

    By Pete Harris


  • #81
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Dolphins are known to experiment in Drug abuse


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  • #82
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Sound of Silence wrote: »
    Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

    And, it didnt have to.


  • #83
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    James Bond Junior wrote: »
    A polar bears fur isn't white, it's transparent.
    It's because polar bears are black.


  • #84
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    valoren wrote: »
    Jupiter, is actually about 400 million miles from Earth when the two planets are closest, and it is about eleven times as wide as Earth. About 100 Earths would fit in it.

    When one sphere is 11 times the diameter of the other, it will be 11 x 11 x 11 times the volume. Jupiter is in fact around 1300 times earth`s volume.


  • #85
    RMUCKY
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭RMUCKY


    The US government used HAARP to bounce a high intensity wave off the moon to cause Hurricane Katrina.


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