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Amazing/Astronomical/Arcane Actualities
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 02:44 PM
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The US National Debt is about $14.3 Trillion. The thickness of a $1 bill is just shy of .11mm. If you stacked 14.3 trillion 1 dollar bills on top of one another, they'd circle the earth nearly 39 times.
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 02:59 PM
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:01 PM
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The brain itself has no pain sensors (meaning that you won't feel any pain if your brain gets physically harmed). Also, if you remove the part of the brain that controls pain, the pain recepters of the body go into a state of 'confusion', and end up firing off randomly (meaning that the james bond character 'renard' would've felt random amounts of pain at random intervals, rather than no pain at all. He would've also felt no pain from the bullet travelling slowly through his brain).
1 flaw I see there:
Is not the part of the brain that controls pain receptors also the part that decodes the pain signals for the brain to process as pain. Meaning despite the receptors firing off at random you wouldn't feel pain as you can't decode the signals?
Disclaimer: I could be talking out my ass on this one, but I recall tht being true from science classes n helping ppl revise waaaay bk so may as well question it.
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:17 PM
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Big thanks to Stevepole for the signature!^
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:37 PM
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:43 PM
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"He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 06:14 PM
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The sound you make when you snap your fingers is from your finger hitting the palm of your hand/base of your thumb.
The combined weight of all the ants in the world is greater than the combined weight of all humans.
On average, ants compose 15-20% of the terrestrial animal biomass in the world, and as much as 25% in the tropics.
Also, Argentine ant, at first glance it seems like the regular pest ant all of us are familiar with. The interesting thing is that every one of the pest ants we have seen are part of a single massive worldwide mega-colony. The Catalonian Super-Colony stretching for 5760 km, or the California Large, occupying 900 km of the Californian coast? Mere sub-divisions of the greater Argentine Ant Empire. Put two Argentinian ants from whatever part of the world next to eachother and they not only recognize eachother but work together as well.
The Space Shuttle, with 3 engines, puts out about 37,000,000 horsepower during liftoff. That's equal to over 30,800 Bugatti Veyrons.
There is an experiment called "the pitch drop" which measures the viscosity of some material by measuring how long the drops take to form and fall. Its been running for something like 80 years, I think it took around 10 years for the first drop fall. It's funnier because he did it to show students some apparent solids are liquids.
And you can watch it live
mms://drop.physics.uq.edu.au/PitchDropLive
Anatomically modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. Of those 200,000 years:
190,000 passed before any of us anywhere in the world started farming.
195,000 passed before any of us learnt to write.
199,500 passed before the first book was press-printed.
199,980 passed before the start of the Internet as we know it.
(1) Heroin is a brand name, called thus because it made people feel good, i.e., "heroic."
(2) Heroin was invented in the 19th century by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that makes aspirin (another brand name that became generic after WWI).
(3) Heroin was an over-the-counter drug(!)
Perhaps the funniest thing of all:
(4) It was originally invented/marketed as a less addictive alternative to morphine, not realizing that it was, in fact, much more so.

3. The highest ever, regularly recorded bird is a type of bar-headed goose, which is sometimes seen flying higher than the peak of mount everest in the Himalayas, altitude ~29,000 ft. There are reports of a http://en.wikipedia....ppell's_Vulture being sucked into a jet engine off the Ivory Coast of Africa at 37,900
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 07:13 PM
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 11:14 PM
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The number 1010100 is known as a googolplex.
If you tried to write a googolplex out by hand, you could not fit the paper inside the entire space of the known universe.
Yet, this number is still very very far away from infinity. In fact, it is no closer to infinity than the number 1 is.
Kudos to anyone who knows where I got this from (without searching...).
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 11:28 PM
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 11:48 PM
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But what if I wrote it out really, really tiny?If you tried to write a googolplex out by hand, you could not fit the paper inside the entire space of the known universe.

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Posted 12 April 2011 - 11:52 PM
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Fix'd, and no.But what if I wrote it out really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really tiny?
If you tried to write a googolplex out by hand, you could not fit the paper inside the entire space of the known universe.

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And I won't be till my head falls off ♪♪
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 11:55 PM
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1) A really huge number
2) The wrestling move that bill gates used to defeat andre the giant.
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 06:04 AM
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99 dungeoneering achieved, thanks to everyone that celebrated with me!
♪♪ Don't interrupt me as I struggle to complete this thought
Have some respect for someone more forgetful than yourself ♪♪
♪♪ And I'm not done
And I won't be till my head falls off ♪♪
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 10:29 AM
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But what if I wrote it out really, really tiny?
If you tried to write a googolplex out by hand, you could not fit the paper inside the entire space of the known universe.
If you wrote it out in 1-point font, you would need 4 x 1069 universes.
EDIT: I forgot that this number refers to the length of the universe, not the volume. If you can fit 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 zeros into a space of 60 cubic inches, then youd be able to fit it into the universe. If you replaced all of the planets and stars and stuff with paper with really tiny zeros on it.
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 10:48 AM
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Man I love the Mariana Trench. I'd love to go down there.
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 10:55 AM
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 11:21 AM
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I'd like to go down her trench tooMariana Trench
Man I love the Mariana Trench. I'd love to go down there.

Seriously though, thats freaking deep.
And the googolplex thing, wow o.o
I like reading things like these. Verrrrrrry interresting.
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 11:47 AM
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The "Hunter Gatherer" idea of being a man is a bit of a misnomer, its meant to be hunter & Gatherer.
As evidence shows that cavemen hunted while cave women gathered/foraged; plus quite interesting despite the idea of hunter gather men r providers to weak women. The cave womens foraging supplied 9/10 of the food supply AND most of the nutrients we would die without
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 04:02 PM
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How many 0's are there in that number? I find it hard to believe it doesn't fit into the Universe, especially when we don't even know the full extent of the Universe. What is this statement based on?The number 10100 is known as a googol
The number 1010100 is known as a googolplex.
If you tried to write a googolplex out by hand, you could not fit the paper inside the entire space of the known universe.
Yet, this number is still very very far away from infinity. In fact, it is no closer to infinity than the number 1 is.
Kudos to anyone who knows where I got this from (without searching...).

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