The fairly interesting facts thread

gator - 4/9/2014 12:00

SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 11:53

If you cut of a cockroaches head it can continue to live for up to two weeks afterwards. This is due to the fact they can breath through pores on their body they will eventually starve to death.
Aren't they the only creatures that could survive a nuclear war.

No, I think the US Government is pretty equipped also.
 
That is amazing, cutting the heads off and they survive long time after wow would not think that was possible, well the bloke did say he fancied a ''Bite to eat''?
 
SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 12:01

Andy McNabb's real name is Steven Mitchell.
Apparently solely to blame for Bravo Two Zero by not accepting the chance to use vehicles.
 
gator - 4/9/2014 12:04

SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 12:01

Andy McNabb's real name is Steven Mitchell.
Apparently solely to blame for Bravo Two Zero by not accepting the chance to use vehicles.

Michael Archer wrote a book entitled The Real Bravo Two Zero.
 
Mercury has the greatest temperature swing of all the planets in the solar system, ranging from minus 184 degrees to 427 degrees Celsius.
 
SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 12:05

gator - 4/9/2014 12:04

SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 12:01

Andy McNabb's real name is Steven Mitchell.
Apparently solely to blame for Bravo Two Zero by not accepting the chance to use vehicles.

Michael Archer wrote a book entitled The Real Bravo Two Zero.
Will have to read it.
 
gator - 4/9/2014 12:00

SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 11:53

If you cut of a cockroaches head it can continue to live for up to two weeks afterwards. This is due to the fact they can breath through pores on their body they will eventually starve to death.
Aren't they the only creatures that could survive a nuclear war.

I think that rumour started because of the above. They are considered the bin men of the insect world and are paramount to the planets ecosystem surviving. They clear all the rubbish from the rain forest floors which enables trees to grow trees produce oxygen.
 
SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 11:51

ClivetheVillan - 4/9/2014 11:17

The Dassler brothers that founded Puma and ADIDAS were both Nazis.

Hugo Boss designed and tailored the SS uniform.

And they am massive now and glamorised, shocking ay it :21:
 
Genghis Khan conquered China by overcoming the Great Wall, how did he manage it? He simply marched around it!
 
thefacehead - 4/9/2014 12:07

Mercury has the greatest temperature swing of all the planets in the solar system, ranging from minus 184 degrees to 427 degrees Celsius.

Luv things to do with space etc cheers for that one :35: It is just unimaginable for me to think about that swing in temperature, fook me when it drops a few degree's i run for me jumpers, i don't think we willbe going to Mercury in the future somehow :10:
 
thefacehead - 4/9/2014 12:07

Mercury has the greatest temperature swing of all the planets in the solar system, ranging from minus 184 degrees to 427 degrees Celsius.
So the midlands would be the best bet on Mercury.
 
It is widely believed by scientists that Earth once had a twin planet named Theia, the planets crashed together about 4.5 billion years ago, most of Theia was absorbed into Earth, but a large chunk survived as the satellite we know today as - the Moon.
 
ClivetheVillan - 4/9/2014 12:10

thefacehead - 4/9/2014 12:07

Mercury has the greatest temperature swing of all the planets in the solar system, ranging from minus 184 degrees to 427 degrees Celsius.

Luv things to do with space etc cheers for that one :35: It is just unimaginable for me to think about that swing in temperature, fook me when it drops a few degree's i run for me jumpers, i don't think we willbe going to Mercury in the future somehow :10:

I love spacey facts. Looking at the stars is a time machine, the light you see is from the past, not the present. The light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach us from it's source, everything you see happens in the past, your brain is behind in computing information all the time.

This is from an interesting article I read a while back, explaining how you won't experience your own death if it happens suddenly, and you will quite literally not know what hit you -

"To get an appreciation of the slowness of human perception, Eagleman says it's helpful to compare it to the speed of mechanical devices. Take the anatomy of a car accident for example. It takes as long as 150 to 300 milliseconds (ms) to be aware of a collision after it happens. Other neuroscientists think it can take as much as 500 ms."

Now this might not sound like a lot of time, but think of what happens during a car accident. At the 1 ms mark, the car's pressure sensor detects a collision, and at 8.5 ms the airbag system fires. At the 15 ms mark, the car starts to absorb the impact to a significant degree. It's not until the 17 ms mark that the occupant starts to make contact with the airbag, with the maximum force of the collision reaching its apex at the 30 ms point. At the 50 ms mark, the safety cell begins to rebound, and after 70 ms the passenger moves back towards the middle of car — the point at which crash-test engineers declare the event as "complete.

And then, around the 150 to 300 ms mark, the occupant finally becomes aware of the collision.

That's assuming of course that an airbag was deployed or that the occupant was wearing a seatbelt. Otherwise, the person wouldn't have known that they were even in a car accident.

Which, if the accident was fatal, is not necessarily a bad thing."

Full article - http://io9.com/5916677/why-you-probably-wont-experience-your-own-traumatic-death
 
Arctic literally means "with bears" hence polar bears live there and Antartica literally means " without bears" penguins live there. That's why polar bears don't eat penguins
 
SKEGGY - 4/9/2014 12:27

Arctic literally means "with bears" hence polar bears live there and Antartica literally means " without bears" penguins live there. That's why polar bears don't eat penguins
Well they are missing a trick with them Emperor Penguins easy meat in the breeding season.
 
That is truly amazing face dude, how we perceive time etc, it does feel like time stands still when you am in a car accident, but all the impact etc is going on and we don't realise it until after that time, shows how slow we process info and in the future artificial intelligence will surpass us and do things before we realise it lol crazy stuff.