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StarWarsGirl - ex-Student  |
Just put down any wierd facts u know. 40,000 people r injured by toilets each year!  Don't ask  _______________ Be strong & brave.Don't ever be afraid. Joshua 1:9 Fear is the path to the darkside. -Jedi Master Yoda |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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I've heard the ballpoint pen statistic before but never been able to confirm it. Anyone? It does sound believable, though. What I like about it is this: I sincerely doubt that anywhere near that many people die from swords, so the pen really is mightier! _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Lord Jaws - Student 
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.  No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". ...lol If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Riiiiiight _______________ One night, I was lying in my bed, looking up at the stars and I said to myself: "Where the h*** is my ceiling?! |
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JavaGuy - Student
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"The latest Census data (P60-221, for you skeptics) shows that in 2002 the average white household had an income of just under $47,000, while the average Asian American household had an income of just over $52,600. Does that prove discrimination against whites?" (From one of Thomas Sowell's "random thoughts" essays) _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Axion - Student 
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LOL nice _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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Muad'dib - Student 
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An apple a day DOES INDEED keep the doctor away, but only if you have a good throwing arm.  _______________ "It's because I love you. No. It's because I love you" Oh, Anakin, you're eloquence is second to none. I AM THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES! |
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Axion - Student
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lol? O_o _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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pirate girl - Ex-Student |
an apple a day does not keep the doctor away!....wow i'm weird! _______________ I know the truth know, I know who you are, and I don't love you anymore, never was and never will be, you don't know how you've betrayed me, and somehow you've got everybody fooled, never was and never will be, you're not real and you can't save me, and somehow now you're everybody's fool! -Everybody's Fool, Evanescence |
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Halendor - Ex-Student 
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Oops, my bad  |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Lol Halendor if you read down a little bit you'll see that was already posted, and I already tried to lick my elbow. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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good, I'm one of them 47 %  _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
Want to know Vladarion? Read the Article about his life here. |
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Halendor - Ex-Student 
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It is anatomically impossible to lick your elbow. [..] 47% try to lick their elbow after being told it's impossible. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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There has only been one King John in the entire recorded history of Western civilization. He was so universally despised that royalty eschewed the name ever after. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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We're here because of evolution, not creation. No, I'm just joking I'm not even going to go there. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider This comment was edited by Gradius on Apr 09 2004 04:22pm. |
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Marcel Mandarijn - Student 
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the dutch dont use diffrent words either Aap! :p |
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Borlath Mon - Ex-Student 
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The French have no word for Ape. They use the same word as they do for monkey, which is "singe". |
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StarWarsGirl - Ex-Student 
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Cool people! _______________ Be strong & brave.Don't ever be afraid. Joshua 1:9 Fear is the path to the darkside. -Jedi Master Yoda |
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Muad'dib - Student
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Fact: 26.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot. _______________ "It's because I love you. No. It's because I love you" Oh, Anakin, you're eloquence is second to none. I AM THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES! |
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ozzcoz - Cosplay Nerd 
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At 4am in the morning JavaGuy seems to be one hundred percent correct. Take it from me, i'm doing a BSc in Physics and the math checks out. And teachers, well they always need to feel superior so they will come up with any random fact to make them look good. I don't know how many times i've had to correct my sisters because they say "but my teacher said!" sorry, random _______________ A wizard did it. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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I know you weren't raggin on me man I never said you were. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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JavaGuy - Student
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Gradius, I wasn't trying to give you a hard time at all. Just showing some ways a claim like that can be evaluated with a minimum of research, just some basic math. I still discover things all the time that I thought were true and are actually verifiably false, and I don't think I'm dumb by any stretch of the imagination. Skepticism pays. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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Yeah about the sound thing. I thought that anti-resonant stuff sounded wrong too... *shrug* feh at all this crap they feed us on the internet. _______________ make install -not war |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Whoa JavaGuy, don't blame me for any stupid comments my teachers made to me that I believed. If everything you just said is right, then I'm sorry about the previous comment and anybody who is in any kind of school right now (cept the Academy of course) should drop out because teachers are f**king dumb as hell these days. And if your wrong JavaGuy, then I'm sorry you wasted all that energy typing, but I beleive you.....Neo....I believe! _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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JavaGuy - Student
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That pretty much defies the laws of physics. No, sound echoes. There's really no way around it. Quote: But when a person gets excited or angry, the heart produces enough strenght and energy to power a city for 15 minutes Here's another one that defies common sense. I hate to tear this one down, but this is a great example of how a little critical thinking can clear away the cobwebs. So here goes... A typical city (if there is such a thing) might use around 1,000 megawatts of power. Kansas City has hit 3,610 megawatts (!), though this is atypical. A watt is a measurement of power, specifically it's one joule of energy per second, so a megawatt is one million joules of energy per second, and 1,000 megawatts is one billion joules of energy per second. So what's a joule? It's the amount of energy required to do one newton-meter of work, so enough to push something for one meter with enough force to accelerate a one-kilogram mass one meter per second squared. If that's confusing, just think 9.8 joules are enough energy to lift a kilogram one meter up off the ground (gravity accelerates it 9.8 m/s/s, and you have to overcome gravity to lift it). 9.8 watts, then would be the amount of power (energy per unit of time) required to lift it that high in exactly one second. You can also think of it in terms of equivalent heat energy. A calorie is the amount of energy it take to heat a cubic centimeter of (liquid) water one degree Celsius. A calorie is approximately equal to 4.18 joules. (Don't confuse this with food Calories, which are capitalized--one Calorie is actually equal to 1,000 calories). Soooo...a city whose power consumption is 1 billion joules per second (remember Kansas City once hit three times that) uses enough power to lift a 102,040,816 kilogram object a meter into the air in just one second. Do you really think the heart cranks out enough power to lift a hundred million kilos one meter off the ground? Another way to think of it is how much water could that kind of power heat from room temperature to boiling in, say, one minute. Room temperature is about 23 degrees Celsius, and boiling is 100, so you'd have to heat it 77 degrees. Heating a cubic centimeter of water one degree requires one calorie or 4.18 joules of energy, so heating it 77 degrees would require 77 x 4.18 = ~322 joules of energy. If our city produces 1,000 megawats, or a billion joules per second, then the number of cubic centimeters it could boil in a minute is sixty billion divided by 322, or 183,335,404 cubic centimeters of water, which is about 183,335 litres, or a cube of water 5.68 meters (18.6 feet) long at each edge, which is a humongous cube of water to bring to a boil from room temperature in exactly one minute. Or there's the Burger Calculus: You get 330 Calories (that's capitalized Calories) from a McDonald's cheeseburger. Mmmmmmmm...Cheeseburger. That means 330,000 calories, which is 1,379,400 joules, a whole lot of energy. Our hypothetical city then uses 725 cheeseburgers worth of energy per second. So if your heart really produced enough energy to power a city for fifteen minutes, you would first have to eat 652,500 cheeseburgers, because that's how much you'd burn off in calories. Simpler still: Is any muscle in the body up to the task of pushing even a single subway train? In cities that have them, trains are only a fraction of the city's power consumption. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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Yeah SS. It is. Now go sit in the corner. About the duck thing. I read somewhere that a duck's regular quack does indeed echo, but, that a special sound ducks are able to produce is actually anti-resonant, i.e. it does not have an echo. The regular quack certainly does echo. _______________ make install -not war |
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SS/ph00d - Student 
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Um... Hong Kong is in Japan I think. _______________ -ShadowSith: CTF/gunner specialist. |
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