Totally useless facts ...

[Corno Dolce]

WOW Ms. Margaret - that was a fascinating read about your parents working at Bletchley Park and knowing Mr. Turing.

 

[marval]

Yes, but for many years they never spoke about it, it was still considered a secret.

Now of course everyone knows what went on there.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

marval is a night owl
---CT64

 

[marval]

Hi CT

Here is my portrait, what a hoot.

I must be a night owl, although here it is only 10.35pm.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

yeah, I've just been on the phone to a dear friend of mine who lives in London to wish him a happy birthday, it was about 10pm there when I phone. Funny really, 8am Sydney = 11pm England, does my head in. And, from what I gather, it's humid and around 22 celcius in your part of the world?

 

[marval]

Yes it is, we had a bit of a breeze today here which kept the temp down a bit. I think it was a tad hotter in London.


Margaret

 

[methodistgirl]

Here in Kentucky the time is 5:05 PM where I am. What a time difference.
judy tooley

 

[intet_at_tabe]

-Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
-Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%

 

[Contratrombone64]

The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter - bigger than a basketball.

The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminium.

The only rock that floats in water is pumice (unless it's covered with all the dead skin off of my heel at the time!!, erk)

 

[marval]

The first Eskimo Bible was printed in Copenhagen in 1744.

 

[Contratrombone64]

The Danes have always been good at piety, eh, especially when they're shoving it down the necks of non Scandinavians.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

There are debates on where and when popcorn was “invented”. Some reports have it being as far back as the 1500’s. Most reports talk about 1948, when ears and kernels of an early corn variety capable of being popped were found in an archaeological dig in a New Mexico rock shelter known as “Bat Cave”.

Chocolate is another food group. The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztecs of Mexico, and is derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl.

 

[Corno Dolce]

A Gecko uses the Quantum Dynamics phenomenon called the *van der Waals* force in its fantastic ability to scale walls and clamber about upside down - such a lowly creature endowed with such abilities.

van der Waals forces include attractions between atoms, molecules, and surfaces. They differ from covalent and ionic bonding in that they are caused by correlations in the fluctuating polarizations of nearby particles, which is a consequence of Quantum Dynamics. However, it should be noted that Teflon is a material which has shown that it prevents Geckos from getting *traction*.

 

[marval]

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour

 

[Corno Dolce]

And you'll need to be traveling at more than 11.2 kilometers per second = 40,320 kilometers per hour to break free of earth's gravity.

 

[Corno Dolce]

The exhaust blast velocity from the Space Shuttle Main Engines at full throttle is 12600 km/hr - YIKES!!!!!!! Tornados are only a fraction of that velocity.

 

[methodistgirl]

Every planet in this solar system and the sun has it's own singing voice.
judy tooley:angel:

 

[marval]

Wow Judy, I didn't know that.


An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.

 

[Corno Dolce]

The first ice hotel was built in Lapland, Sweden.

 

[methodistgirl]

Somewhere in Colorado there is a snow igloo in the winter. The owner
uses it as some kind of resturant or something.
judy tooley