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If you tell a man that there are billions of stars in the sky, he'll believe you.
If you tell a man that a bench has wet paint, he has to test it.
 
If you were in space (with a suit of course) you would grow a bit taller, and then go back to normal height when you go back to Earth.
 
Matthias said:
Water does not fall under the influence of magnetism. The whole thing about water swirling different directions on either hemisphere is nonsense anyhow.
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It's not nonsense, it's true. I've seen it myself.
 
Tredoslop: Same thing when you get up after sleeping horizontal all night... apparently people are about a centimeter shorter by the end of the day, because the cartilage in their spines decompresses at night, and slowly squishes down during the day...
 
Brian Damage said:
Tredoslop: Same thing when you get up after sleeping horizontal all night... apparently people are about a centimeter shorter by the end of the day, because the cartilage in their spines decompresses at night, and slowly squishes down during the day...
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Interesting to know, thanks :D
 
I was just licking my elbow and my arm made a loud popping noise :(
You guys suck.
 
CrazyHarij said:
Shark and fish do sleep. They just keep it a very light sleep, they sleep with "one eye open" and sharks for instance don't sleep for very long since they die if they don't keep moving, they don't have these air balloon thingies (that fish and uboats have, hehe) so they have to keep moving to keep the oxygen circulation at max. Some sharks even swim while sleeping, yet pretty slow.

*declares himself animal know-it-all of HL2.net*
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Swimbladder..... :) woohoo I'm the new know-it-all :p


And to the elbow lickers- it depends how long and flexible your arms are, can't quite manage my elbow but there's definitely another part of my body I'm rather proud I can lick :naughty:
 
Tredoslop said:
Brian Damage, if you get more sleep as a child, you get more taller?
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I dunno. Maybe. Maybe the less spinal compression you get as a child, the longer your backbone grows. Though it might be slightly weaker, structurally.
 
The_Monkey said:
It's not nonsense, it's true. I've seen it myself.
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That could be coincence, the direction water swirls in generally dependant on the design of the sink. I've never condicted an experiment in the southern hemisphere, but I've seen water go both ways in the northern hemisphere.

Current scientific thinking agrees with me that the water swirling thing is nonsense. Read:
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

What's amazing is that it's even printed in respected textbooks and yet can be proven wrong so easily.
 
Well, my old primary school teacher said he'd even seen it going straight down the plughole over the equator...

Of course, he was also the guy that nearly blew himself up with petrol vapour and a campfire... and accidentally dyed his tongue and teeth blue... he was a cool teacher...
 
-You can NOT see the chinease wall from the moon. I wonder why that myth has lingered on. You can't even see the Amazon River.
 
The_Monkey said:
-You can NOT see the chinease wall from the moon. I wonder why that myth has lingered on. You can't even see the Amazon River.
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You can clearly see it from Space, not from the Moon.
 
Well, you can see anything from space if you have good enough binocs :p

How close are we talking, becase the wall is only metres wide and so to be able to see it, surely you would have to be relatively close. Unless you see where it is, rather than the wall itself.
 
If you walk half the way from a place to another, then walk half of the remaining lenght add infinity, you will never get there.
 
MaxiKana said:
If you walk half the way from a place to another, then walk half of the remaining lenght add infinity, you will never get there.
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No, but you'll get really, really, really, really, really close.
 
Matthias said:
Water does not fall under the influence of magnetism. The whole thing about water swirling different directions on either hemisphere is nonsense anyhow.
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Water is affected by magentism. Turn the water from the sink on and hold a powerful magnet next to it. Although I doubt it's the water itself, but more the minerals/metals in it.

Another fact:

Water does NOT conduct electricity, in contrast to what many people believe, it's the salts in it that conducts the electricity. Pure H2O doesn't conduct.
 
PvtRyan said:
Water does NOT conduct electricity, in contrast to what many people believe, it's the salts in it that conducts the electricity. Pure H2O doesn't conduct.
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Yes, it does. 100% pure water contains some ions, which means that it leads electricty, although very bad.
 
Thank you PvtPyan :)

It seems alot of people here are to young to have done ..basic.. science.

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/bar_magnet.gif This is the magnetic pull around a magnet, its the same for earth. Water is effected by this.

About the thing if you hold a magnet next to water, I doubt that works unless you have a very powerfull megnet.. if at all. But I dunno I have never tried it :)
 
PvtRyan said:
Water is affected by magentism. Turn the water from the sink on and hold a powerful magnet next to it. Although I doubt it's the water itself, but more the minerals/metals in it.
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[tap] Water is only affected to magnetism to a miniscule degree. Very strong magnetic fields (around 1 tesla) are required to have an observable effect. The concentration of ferric metals in water is (fortunately) extremely low.

Water is strongly affected by electro-static fields which can easily bend a stream of water coming from a tap.

Sprafa said:
You can clearly see it [the great wall of china] from Space, not from the Moon.
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I'm afraid not. According to Jay Apt (who's actually been to space, on the shuttle Endevour) you can't see the great wall, but you can see airports, freeway intersections and other man made structures.
 
The_Monkey said:
Yes, it does. 100% pure water contains some ions, which means that it leads electricty, although very bad.
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Than it has to be VERY badly. Since distilled water is used in watercooling computers, and when it drops on a component, it does not short it.
 
Yes, everything (including a vacuum) conducts electricity to some degree. Mostly so poorly as to be though of as insulators.
 
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products.

orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the sharks' stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode

a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continously from the bottom of the glass to the top

because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during WWII were made of wood

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
 
The_Monkey said:
Yes, it does. 100% pure water contains some ions, which means that it leads electricty, although very bad.
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Yes, but that's like saying that nothing conducts electricity well because there is always a loss. Even rubber will conduct if you put enough on it.
 
RoyaleWithCheese said:
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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Do you have a source for this one? All of the literature attributes the invention to Harold P. Brown, one of Edison's employees (not Edison himself as is more often reported).

RoyaleWithCheese said:
because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during WWII were made of wood
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Actually they were made of plaster, more of a symbol of wartime "make do and mend" spirit than due to metal shortage. A wooden oscar was awared, however, to Edgar Bergen in 1903 for the creation of a famous puppet known as Charlie McCarthy.
 
Alig said:
It is impossible to lick your own elbow. Not even double jointed people can do.
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my girlfriend can. and she can also bite the skin of her elbow. im not shitting you.
 
RoyaleWithCheese said:
Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products.
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uh oh!, i'm left handed! :O
 
PvtRyan said:
Yes, but that's like saying that nothing conducts electricity well because there is always a loss. Even rubber will conduct if you put enough on it.
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Rubber do not contain ions. Water do. Without ions nothing can lead electricity. No matter how many volts you put to it.
 
smsKONG said:
And to the elbow lickers- it depends how long and flexible your arms are, can't quite manage my elbow but there's definitely another part of my body I'm rather proud I can lick :naughty:
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Mouahaha :LOL:
 
-llinois Avenue: the most landed on square in Monopoly.
-A human eye ball weighs about one ounce.
-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
-You were born with 300 bones. At adulthood, you're left with 206.
-Insects shiver when they're cold.
-The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks.
-A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.
-Weight for weight, bone is five times stronger than steel.
 
Foxtrot said:
So if I don't...let my semen out it will let itself out?
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Nocturnal discharge is a normal part of aging, hell, you've probably done it once or twice without even knowing. It dosen't take two weeks to have a nocturnal discharge, its dependent on how much semen is produced.
 
Wraith said:
my girlfriend can. and she can also bite the skin of her elbow. im not shitting you.
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The one with the dismemberment fetish?
 
89.6% of statistics are made up on the spot.


And I used to be able to lick my elbow. I swear.
 
disruptioN_ said:
89.6% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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That percentage is quoted in 79% of threads with statistics in and is only accurate 31% of the time. :D
 
- In 7 years, every cell of your body has renewed itself at least once (excluding the central nervous system/nerves).

- The estimated number of stars in the visible universe is at 70 sextillion, or 70.000.000.000.000.000.000.000
 
- There are currently 18,833 members on HL2.net
- You cannot time-travel to the future, beacuse time doesn't exist
- Ritz, give me your cookie.
- Your skelleton is renewed every 10-12 years
- A spiders web is stronger than any atrificiall "thread".. (fishing-line ect)
- you cannot say the word sandwich 500times in a row.. (true)
 
PvtRyan said:
- In 7 years, every cell of your body has renewed itself at least once (excluding the central nervous system/nerves).
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cells dont renew themselves. they split to create 2 new cells, and when they wear out the lysosomes (little organelles in the cell) bust open and there is disgestvie juices in the lysosome which destroys the old cell.

so i dont understand what you mean.
 
You can say sandwich 500 times in a row!
*In a slow, monotonous manner*
Sandwich...sandwish...x500.
 
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