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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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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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Gradius - Ex-Student
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That's not a bad point JavaGuy, but in all fairness the heart's strength isn't constant. When a person is calm and the heart beats normally, it doesn't use nearly as much power and strenght as it can handle. But when a person gets excited or angry, the heart produces enough strenght and energy to power a city for 15 minutes (now that's from my very few days in school). _______________ - 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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A duck's quack most certainly does echo. That's one that appears in an e-mail of "amazing facts" that someone sends me at least once a month. I started checking the "facts" in it the first time I got it, but I gave up after the first dozen or so when all of them turned out to be false. The duck's quack one was analyzed to death by the Straight Dope people some years ago. Before posting an amazing "fact" I recommend Googling for the "fact" together with "urban legend." By "strongest" muscle, what do we mean? Able to extert the most force in proportion to its mass? Or able to do the most total work without tiring? I've always heard that the jaw was the strongest in terms of exerting raw force, but you can't beat (no pun intended) the heart for ability to keep going and going. The problem with debating the "strongest" is that there are different kinds of strength. Think physics: There's force, work and power. Machine A might be able to exert far more force than machine B but only for a brief period of time. Machine B might be able to do more total work before pooping out, but it may take longer to do it. Machine C may be able to do more work in less time (power) than the other machines, but it may poop out long before machine B and thus not be able to do nearly as much work in a day. So which is "strongest?" It depends what kind of strength you need. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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Thank you Cpt. Obvious. Plo Koon...nanny nanny boo boo j/k. _______________ - 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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Plo Koon - Student 
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heh well if the tongue isnt the strongest i guess the heart woud definatly _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Quote: uh no your wrong the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body-it doesnt end at the back of your mouth it goes all the way down your body Incorrect, your tounge is 'rooted' into the bottom of your mouth - and ends therein. The heart is the strongest muscle in the body. Its construction is unique, making it able to pump continouously for an entire lifetime without stopping. _______________ Website |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Oh, and if someone pulled your tongue out it would only be about a foot long or less, not the length of you upper torso. _______________ - 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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Gradius - Ex-Student
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Dude I kid you not, the heart is without a doubt the strongest muscle in the human body. I've heard it all my life from my Grandpappy (who works in a funeral home). He must have told me 1,000 times about the heart taking so long to creamate because it is the strongest muscle. If you can find something that proves us wrong then I'm all ears, but until then I stand by my previous statement. _______________ - 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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CuZzA - Student 
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that 1 rocks, heard it before though lol _______________ - Even if Carlsberg made "w*nkers", Christiano Ronaldo would still be the biggest "w*nker" in the world |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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LOL! I was watching that show too! Here's another weird fact: A duck's quack doesn't echo. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Plo Koon - Student
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oh hehe and i bet alot of these are myths not facts _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Plo Koon - Student 
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gold fishes dont have a memory span of three seconds either because i watched this show that busted that "Myth" not fact they remembered where the food came from throughout days. _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Plo Koon - Student
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uh no your wrong the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body-it doesnt end at the back of your mouth it goes all the way down your body _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Quote: Oh here's another great one, on average about 15% of all Americans (males more specifically) who die each year kill themselves by trying different masturbation techniques. I'm highly skeptical of this one. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Axion - Student 
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The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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Oh here's another great one, on average about 15% of all Americans (males more specifically) who die each year kill themselves by trying different masturbation techniques. About 60% of those unfortunate few died trying self-filatio(spelling?). Come on now people, thats why god invented peanut butter. _______________ - 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 Mar 27 2004 08:21pm. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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50% of all newlyweds in Kentucky are teenagers because the legal age to get married there is 16. I know this because my most of my family lives there and I go to visit all the time and one time I met this girl (I was like 15) and I kept saying I wanted to marry her and my aunt told me that I only needed to be 16. _______________ - 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 Mar 27 2004 08:15pm. |
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Axion - Student 
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Quote: The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.(well James ur post is doomed  ) What about Azerbaijan? ok only those 2! Those are the only 2 though _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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CuZzA - Student
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I'VE SAID AZBERJAIN ONCE IN THAT THREAD NOW EVERY1 IS USING IT!  _______________ - Even if Carlsberg made "w*nkers", Christiano Ronaldo would still be the biggest "w*nker" in the world |
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JamesF1 - Student
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Quote: The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.(well James ur post is doomed ) What about Azerbaijan? Those are the only 2 though _______________ Website |
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Axion - Student
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In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. (that explains alot.) In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.(CLIMB OYSTER CLIMB! OR ILL EAT YA!!) Less than 10% are trilingual.(I AM!! hola bonjour and hi!) Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.(so thats why the hobos get busted) It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.(like they say, money makes the world go round.) The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.(well James ur post is doomed )The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.(wow what a daddy!) Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.(eww tap water sounds better now) All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.(use those eyes everybody.) About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.(i don't i do it standing up )The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."(i thought he was arabic!!) Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7(ewwww that i didn't need to know.) S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..(lazy bums..) Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.(well no jungle for sigmund!) _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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