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"English only became the official language of the USA since March 1st.2025 (President Donald Trump Executive order!) "The UK has NO official national language! The only language with any official status in any part of the UK is Welsh, in Wales. | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978)." Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? | |||
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"Bolton Wanderers are the top team for scoring goals after full time in the first league table. " Its also believed they may have scored the first ever goal in league football because they decided to have a 2pm kick off instead of 3.30pm that had been agreed. But Bolton ended on the losing side that day 6 - 3 v Derby. | |||
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"The Beatles played their final ever UK touring date in 1965 in Cardiff." That must have been a terrible gig to stop them from ever doing another one in the UK !!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth." My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible." But what if the telescope is pointing the wrong way? | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973?" The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. But what if the telescope is pointing the wrong way? " Then it’s a microscope. | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. " Apologies, Jethro Tull was first-ever live rock concert to be broadcast via satellite from the USA to the UK. | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. " A Beatles website states it was a live satellite tv production rather than a concert?? | |||
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"Scunthorpe is the only place in the UK with the word cunt in it xx " How very dare you. On reflection I'm not the only cunt Scunthorpe. I actually live in a beautiful village outside Scunthorpe. I'm not the only gay in the village either. Burton upon Stather. Have a Google | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth." Mind blowing that space stuff. It’s like when you look at the Orion Nebula ( same region as Orion’s Belt) your actually looking at a time when Alfred the Great was king of England. | |||
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"Dogs can’t look up so I’ve been told don’t know how true that is." Running joke in Sean of the Dead. But they can. | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. " Broadcast at the height of the Vietnam war, Our World was the first live multinational satellite TV production. 14 countries participated, with The Beatles representing the UK. | |||
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"Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. Broadcast at the height of the Vietnam war, Our World was the first live multinational satellite TV production. 14 countries participated, with The Beatles representing the UK." Bolton "Jethro Tull, the rock band, became the the first ever live transmission of a concert via satellite (New York, 1978). Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii via satellite 1973? The Beatles All You Need Is Love was a live satellite transmission in 1967. " Apologies, Jethro Tull was first-ever live rock concert to be broadcast via satellite from the USA to the UK. | |||
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"Dogs can’t look up so I’ve been told don’t know how true that is. Running joke in Sean of the Dead. But they can. " - Not sure that’s true. I’ve never seen my dog look up anything, she always waits for me to give her the answer. | |||
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"The first person in the UK to use an ATM was actor Reg Varney ( On the buses)" And the first to make a public mobile phone call was Ernie Wise. | |||
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"Dogs can’t look up so I’ve been told don’t know how true that is." You have watched Shaun of the dead too much mate🤣🤣🤣 | |||
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"Identifying the sex of new born chickens is a very well paid job they are known as sexers xx " It sounds like a factory job, I doubt it's well paid. | |||
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"Dogs can’t look up so I’ve been told don’t know how true that is. Running joke in Sean of the Dead. But they can. - Not sure that’s true. I’ve never seen my dog look up anything, she always waits for me to give her the answer. " Have you tried putting her in front of a laptop or do you just give her an encyclopaedia? | |||
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"Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth and it is estimated they have killed almost half of all 108 billions of people who have ever lived." Additionally, mosquito is a generic word meaning 'small fly' with many different sub-species. | |||
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"Identifying the sex of new born chickens is a very well paid job they are known as sexers xx It sounds like a factory job, I doubt it's well paid." The male chicks are thrown live into a macerator …. | |||
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"Scunthorpe is the only place in the UK with the word cunt in it xx " Typhoo put the “T” in Britain but who put the cunt in Scunthorpe | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx " African or European? | |||
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"There's no name for the back of your knees. " Not true! In anatomy the back of the knee is known as the 'popliteal fossa'. Although much easier just to call it 'the back of the knee'! 😄 | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible." If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . " 1300 with 15 zeros on the front is just an ordinary 1300 number. A number 1300 with fifteen zeros AFTER it is several quadrillion. | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . 1300 with 15 zeros on the front is just an ordinary 1300 number. A number 1300 with fifteen zeros AFTER it is several quadrillion." In any case, that speed is incorrect. To travel 67 million light years in one day you would only (!) need to achieve a speed of: 775 light years per second, which equates to: 7.34 quadrillion kilometres per second, or: 7,340,000,000,000,000 km/s Unfortunately current thinking does not allow an object to exceed the speed of light, so we'd be stuck with a journey time of at least 67 million years. | |||
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"Sahara is Arabic for desert, so if you Sahara desert you are saying desert desert xx " And the old English word for river is Avon (similar to the Welsh Afon) so when you say the River Avon you are saying river river | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . 1300 with 15 zeros on the front is just an ordinary 1300 number. A number 1300 with fifteen zeros AFTER it is several quadrillion." To make you happy ONE QUINTILLION THREE HUNDRED QUADRILLION | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . 1300 with 15 zeros on the front is just an ordinary 1300 number. A number 1300 with fifteen zeros AFTER it is several quadrillion. In any case, that speed is incorrect. To travel 67 million light years in one day you would only (!) need to achieve a speed of: 775 light years per second, which equates to: 7.34 quadrillion kilometres per second, or: 7,340,000,000,000,000 km/s Unfortunately current thinking does not allow an object to exceed the speed of light, so we'd be stuck with a journey time of at least 67 million years." Didn’t calculate it genius 🤣🤣🤣 | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?" depends where it is at the time x | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x" It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months | |||
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"Greenland sharks don’t typically reach sexual maturity until they are around 150 years old. " And live up to 500 years of age | |||
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"English only became the official language of the USA since March 1st.2025 (President Donald Trump Executive order!) "That’s American misspelt English of course! | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months " also the African swiwt doesn't migrate xx | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months also the African swiwt doesn't migrate xx " Tbh I think the word “common” explained everything 😉 Either way it’s mad to think they can stay airborne for 10 months | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months also the African swiwt doesn't migrate xx Tbh I think the word “common” explained everything 😉 Either way it’s mad to think they can stay airborne for 10 months " yes indeed incredible hunts eats and even sleeps while airborne only lands to breed xx | |||
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"Soldiers used to (maybe still do)carry a condom as part of their survival kit non lubricated can hold a litre of water and can be used for keeping firearms dry in wet conditions xx " Yep that is very true 👍 | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months " Whoosh | |||
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"The common swift is able to stay airborne for ten months xx African or European?depends where it is at the time x It’s a common swift so could be anywhere in Europe or Africa either way it can stay airborne for 10 months also the African swiwt doesn't migrate xx Tbh I think the word “common” explained everything 😉 Either way it’s mad to think they can stay airborne for 10 months yes indeed incredible hunts eats and even sleeps while airborne only lands to breed xx " Amazing to think it does all that in flight 👌 Clever little birds 😁 | |||
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"The first person in the UK to use an ATM was actor Reg Varney ( On the buses)" And it was from Barclays Bank in Enfield. | |||
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"The best selling car of all time is the Toyota Corolla "..ummm I thought that was the vw beetle ?¿ | |||
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"Bamboo can grow 36inches in 24hours xx " I can vouch for that! Eventually got rid of it with petrol on the root system. No, you don't light it.... | |||
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"Sea Otters hold hands when sleeping " nice one didn't know that x | |||
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"Sea Otters hold hands when sleeping " I love that. | |||
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"Sea Otters hold hands when sleeping I love that." Me too it’s so they don’t drift apart 😊 | |||
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"Sea Otters hold hands when sleeping I love that. Me too it’s so they don’t drift apart 😊" The wife wanted a water bed.. I bought one but we started drifting apatrt  | |||
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"Sea Otters hold hands when sleeping I love that. Me too it’s so they don’t drift apart 😊 The wife wanted a water bed.. I bought one but we started drifting apatrt "😂love it 👏 | |||
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"A blue whales penis is approximately 2.4 metres long its balls can weigh 50+kg each and it can shoot about 20 litres of cum xx " I knew that eycopidea I brought you for Christmas would come in handy. | |||
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"A blue whales penis is approximately 2.4 metres long its balls can weigh 50+kg each and it can shoot about 20 litres of cum xx I knew that eycopidea I brought you for Christmas would come in handy." lol hello peeps xx | |||
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"In the UK...October is the longest month "that's a nice trick question to put in a pub quiz night | |||
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"In the UK...October is the longest month that's a nice trick question to put in a pub quiz night "why is it the longest? | |||
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"In the UK...October is the longest month that's a nice trick question to put in a pub quiz night why is it the longest?"I’m guessing it’s to do with the clocks going back | |||
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"In the UK...October is the longest month that's a nice trick question to put in a pub quiz night why is it the longest?"I think its because the clock's go back one hour . | |||
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"In the UK...October is the longest month that's a nice trick question to put in a pub quiz night "actually its September it's the only month with nine letters and also the only month that corresponds with its position in the calendar xx | |||
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"Your nose is constantly in your vision but your brain automatically blocks it out" Mine isn't, is your name Isaiah? | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. Mind blowing that space stuff. It’s like when you look at the Orion Nebula ( same region as Orion’s Belt) your actually looking at a time when Alfred the Great was king of England. " Same as when you look up and see Betleguese - the top lefthand star in Orions Belt - it might not be there anymore. The star has dimmed over recent years meaning its entering the final stages of its life and heading towards supernova. As its 642 light years away, that nova could have already happened but the light feom it hasnt reached us yet. | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. Mind blowing that space stuff. It’s like when you look at the Orion Nebula ( same region as Orion’s Belt) your actually looking at a time when Alfred the Great was king of England. Same as when you look up and see Betleguese - the top lefthand star in Orions Belt - it might not be there anymore. The star has dimmed over recent years meaning its entering the final stages of its life and heading towards supernova. As its 642 light years away, that nova could have already happened but the light feom it hasnt reached us yet. " Betelgeuse is the top left red supergiant star in Orion but it's not in Orion's belt. The three stars in Orion's belt are: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka, which are all blue supergiants at least twice as far away as Betelgeuse. | |||
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"Your nose is constantly in your vision but your brain automatically blocks it out Mine isn't, is your name Isaiah?" You must be noseless then | |||
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"The Mantis Shrimp has the fastest punch in the World " Indeed. It's so fast that it causes cavitation effects underwater. Something I don't fully understand but it's interesting. | |||
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"Your nose is constantly in your vision but your brain automatically blocks it out" That reminds me of that experiment where they put special glasses on volunteers that inverted the image they saw (the eyes normally send it to the brain upside down but the brain flips it). After a few days, their brains flipped it again so it was the right way round again. When the glasses were removed, they were back to seeing upside down for a few days until it reverted. Brains are cool. | |||
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"Every odd number contains the letter e "... but not every number containing the letter "e" is odd. | |||
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"Dolphins only use half their brain when sleeping to stay alert to predators and keep breathing " Most of the posters on these forums don’t even use that much whilst posting. | |||
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"Beings living in the galaxy NGC 2775 (which is about 67 million light years away) would - if they had a powerful enough telescope - be able to see dinosaurs roaming the Earth right now. Beings living in the galaxy NGC 3972 (about 65 million light years away) would today (plus or minus a few thousand years) be able to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs actually hitting the Earth. My head hurts with things like this! Incredible. If you have a speed of almost 1300 Quadrillion km per second you will reach there in one day . Quadrillion is a number with 15 zero on front . 1300 with 15 zeros on the front is just an ordinary 1300 number. A number 1300 with fifteen zeros AFTER it is several quadrillion. In any case, that speed is incorrect. To travel 67 million light years in one day you would only (!) need to achieve a speed of: 775 light years per second, which equates to: 7.34 quadrillion kilometres per second, or: 7,340,000,000,000,000 km/s Unfortunately current thinking does not allow an object to exceed the speed of light, so we'd be stuck with a journey time of at least 67 million years." If you could accelerate up to 99.99999999999% of the speed of light you could reach NGC 2775 in just under 30 years. If you were a light beam, then you could be there in no time at all. | |||
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"Rabbit droppings contain a high level of Vitamin C, as much as an orange." But they don’t taste as nice as an orange! | |||
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"Rabbit droppings contain a high level of Vitamin C, as much as an orange. But they don’t taste as nice as an orange!" How do you know? 🤣 | |||
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"JJ Thomson received the Nobel prize for demonstrating that the electron is a particle His son received the prize for demonstrating that it's a wave" Did that mean that Thompson Snr had to wave goodbye to his award? | |||
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"JJ Thomson received the Nobel prize for demonstrating that the electron is a particle His son received the prize for demonstrating that it's a wave Did that mean that Thompson Snr had to wave goodbye to his award?" No, they were both right. | |||
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"Dolphins only use half their brain when sleeping to stay alert to predators and keep breathing Most of the posters on these forums don’t even use that much whilst posting." True | |||
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"Dolphins only use half their brain when sleeping to stay alert to predators and keep breathing Most of the posters on these forums don’t even use that much whilst posting." True | |||
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"If all the ice on Earth melted, including the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, global sea level would rise by about 70 metres (230 feet). That would reshape the planet. Coastal land worldwide would vanish underwater, shrinking Earth’s land surface and pushing the ocean’s share well above today’s 71%." Oh dear. No it wouldnt. Ice melting in your drink doesnt make the drink overflow the glass | |||
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"If all the ice on Earth melted, including the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, global sea level would rise by about 70 metres (230 feet). That would reshape the planet. Coastal land worldwide would vanish underwater, shrinking Earth’s land surface and pushing the ocean’s share well above today’s 71%. Oh dear. No it wouldnt. Ice melting in your drink doesnt make the drink overflow the glass" Ice sheets on Antartica, Greenland, Canada etc. aren't floating, so will raise levels. Though, I think it is thermal expansion of water as sea temperatures rise that will be the cause of coastal flooding. | |||
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"If all the ice on Earth melted, including the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, global sea level would rise by about 70 metres (230 feet). That would reshape the planet. Coastal land worldwide would vanish underwater, shrinking Earth’s land surface and pushing the ocean’s share well above today’s 71%. Oh dear. No it wouldnt. Ice melting in your drink doesnt make the drink overflow the glass" You’re right that ice already floating in your drink — or sea ice — doesn’t raise the water level when it melts. Archimedes figured that one out. But the 70m rise figure comes from ice on land, like Greenland and Antarctica. That’s not actu ally loating. When it melts and runs into the ocean, it’s like adding new ice cubes to a glass that’s already full. That water wasn’t in the ocean before, so sea level goes up. NASA and USGS both use the ∼70m number for total land-ice melt. | |||
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"Only humans and dolphins have sex for pleasure " Bonobos maybe? And out rabbit used to rub one out on our guinea pig | |||
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"Most scientists agree that the universe is finite but expanding so fast you could never reach the edge. If theoretically you did reach the edge you couldnt pass through to the 'outside' as there is nothing there. Not nothing like a vacuum which is just empty - nothing as in no time, no space, no nothing. " That hurts my head! | |||
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"Only humans and dolphins have sex for pleasure " I’ve never had sex with a dolphin but I find sex to be pleasurable. Am I missing something here? | |||
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"Most scientists agree that the universe is finite but expanding so fast you could never reach the edge. If theoretically you did reach the edge you couldnt pass through to the 'outside' as there is nothing there. Not nothing like a vacuum which is just empty - nothing as in no time, no space, no nothing. " .. Odd socks? | |||
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