Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Most Dangerous Sharks





 

The three most dangerous sharks are the great wite shark, the tiger shark,and the bull shark. The infamous great white shark attacked the most people becase it thought they where seals.
The tiger shark is the second in the most dangerous sharks. The reason it is called a tiger shark is cause of its stripes.
The bull shark is third in the most dangerous sharks. Also it is a fresh water shark.

Learn more from Discovery channel


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50 Interesting Facts




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1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.



3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!




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Interesting Facts II





1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.


3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

21. Pearls melt in vinegar.

22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)

26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)

38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

39. A snail can sleep for three years.

40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

44. All polar bears are left handed.

45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


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INTERESTING FACTS



1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it)

2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it)

3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

(In my next life I want to be a pig)

(How'd they figure this out, and why?)

4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Still can't get over that pig thing)

(Don't try this at home...maybe at work?)

5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

(And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn't seem fair)

6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmmmmm........)



7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

(If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)



8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of...?)

(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)

9. Polar bears are left handed.

(Who knew....? Who cares? How'd they find out, did they ask them?)



10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)

11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?)

12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

(Creepy)

13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

(Honey, I'm home. What the....)

(Well, at least pigs get a break there...)

14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity)

15. Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Oh, Geez) (That's almost as bad as catfish)



16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

(I know some people like that.)

17. Starfish don't have brains.

(I know some people like that too.)


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Google Asks: Isn't It Time You Talked To Your Kids About Google Buzz?



Of all the weird businesses Google (GOOG) has gotten itself into, producing Internet safety videos for kids on YouTube might be the weirdest.







Google says these videos are for teens -- technically, children under 13 aren't allowed to use Google products, but the target audience for the videos on its Safety Center YouTube channel appears to be considerably younger.

Whomever the videos are aimed at, they're bizarre. The blog entry announcing the latest, about Google Buzz, explains the project thus: "We made this video to help you and your teens have a conversation about Buzz." An important talk in every young person's life.

Google describes this series of videos as "ongoing." Which is to say, the company intends to continue paying people to produce this stuff. Anyone know which lobbyist or government spook ordered these up?

This video, which tells you to contact an adult "if something happens online that makes you uncomfortable," is especially weird:

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Facts about Bees




There are about 20,000 different species of bees in the world. Bees live in colonies and there are three types of bees in each colony. There is the queen bee, the worker bee and the drone. The worker bee and the queen bee are both female, but only the queen bee can reproduce. All drones are male. Worker bees clean the hive, collecting pollen and nectar to feed the colony and they take care of the offspring. The drone’s only job is to mate with the queen. The queen’s only job is to lay eggs.



Bees store their venom in a sac attached to their stinger and only female bees sting. That is because the stinger, called an ovipositor, is part of the female bee’s reproductive design. A queen bee uses her ovipositor to lay eggs as well as sting. Sterile females, also called worker bees, don’t lay eggs. They just use their ovipositors to sting.

Bees see all colors except the color red. That and their sense of smell help them find the flowers they need to collect pollen. Not only is pollen a food source for bees, but some of the pollen is dropped in flight, resulting in cross pollination. The relationship between the plant and the insect is called symbiosis.

Certain species of bees die after stinging because their stingers, which are attached to their abdomen, have little barbs or hooks on them. When this type of bee tries to fly away after stinging something, part of the abdomen is ripped away.
Some interesting facts about bees

Honey bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute.
Bees' flight speed averages only 15 miles per hour.
Bees possess five eyes.
Honeybees can perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a second. Humans can only sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second. Were a bee to enter a cinema, it would be able to differentiate each individual movie frame being projected.
Bees cannot recognize the color red.
Honeybees' stingers have a barb which anchors the stinger in the victim's body. The bee leaves its stinger and venom pouch behind and soon dies from abdominal rupture.
Africanized Honey Bees (killer bees) will pursue an enemy 1/4 mile or more.
Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing" so as to give the direction and distance of flowers.
A single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees.

Queen bees
The queen is the only sexually developed female in the hive.
The queen mates in flight with approximately 18 drones. She only mates once in her lifetime.
A queen can lay 3,000 eggs in a day.
Queens can live for up to 2 years.
A queen can lay her weight in eggs in one day and 200,000 eggs in a year.
Fertilized eggs will become female offspring, while unfertilized eggs will become males.

Drones
The only function of drones is to mate with the queen.

Workers
The workers are sexually undeveloped females.
Life expectancy is approximately 28 to 35 days.

Honey
Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years.
The honeycomb is composed of hexagonal cells with walls that are only 2/1000 inch thick, but support 25 times their own weight.
Honey is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated.
In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers.
Theoretically, the energy in one ounce of honey would provide one bee with enough energy to fly around the world.
The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones.

 



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Friday, April 2, 2010

Binary Neutron Stars














When a large star gets old, it explodes, instantly releasing as much energy as the Sun outputs in ten billion years. This is called a supernova, which is Latin for "Wow, no really, wow."

After the explosion, what's left at the center is a neutron star, which is an extremely dense object with just slightly more mass than our own Sun, crammed into a space the size of New Orleans. A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoonful of one would weigh as much as ten million Oprahs.

Occasionally, a pair of neutron stars will wind up orbiting each other. In 2003, a pair was discovered orbiting about half a million miles apart. This is twice the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Because neutron stars are so massive, however, each orbit takes only two and a half hours.

The astronomers who discovered this binary neutron star system gave it the name PSR J0737-3039. I wonder what these guys name their pets.

Every day, the two neutron stars in PSR J0737-3039 get a quarter of an inch closer together, because of energy loss due to gravitational waves. 85 million years from now, they'll merge together. One minute before this happens, the neutron stars will be only a few hundred miles apart, and orbit around each other 30 times per second. In the final few moments, they'll get much closer together, and extremely angry, and the orbital frequency will increase to 1000 times per second.

This is totally insane. Two city-sized objects, each with the mass of the Sun, whirling around each other 1000 times per second. If you don't think this is impressive, you might as well go back to bed now.

When the neutron stars in PSR J0737-3039 merge, they will probably form a black hole, which is an exotic astronomical object whose gravity is so strong that even humor cannot escape it.


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Three Horizons




 
If you're standing on the edge of the beach, the ocean looks enormous, as if it stretches off forever. However, because of the Earth's curvature, the horizon is only three miles away (a little farther, if you're wearing platform shoes, or stilts and a clown costume). You can really only see a very small amount of the ocean. The Pacific Ocean, for example, is roughly nine thousand miles across.

When you look up at the night sky, it's fun to try to imagine how huge our galaxy is. It contains at least two hundred billion stars. However, because most of the stars are very dim and far away, you can usually only see several hundred of them without a telescope. The farthest star you can see is about a thousand light years away, and our galaxy is a hundred times larger than that. In short, you can't see squat. And if you live in a big city with lots of light pollution, you might as well have a paper bag over your head with a rotting fish in it. That's how much of our galaxy you can see.

The term "observable universe" refers to the portion of the universe that we could theoretically see, based on limitations of the speed of light, the age of the universe, its rate of expansion, and whether or not there's a tall person with a hat sitting in front of you. Current evidence suggests that this is a sphere about 95 billion light years across. That's getting pretty high up there in the overwhelmingly large department. However, the actual universe might be much, much larger than this. So far, there's no way to really know how large it is, and scientists can only guess. One theory suggests that the ratio between the size of the whole entire universe we can't see, and the smaller, merely observable universe might be the same as the ratio between the size of the Earth and a proton. The scientists who proposed this theory had to invent specialized equipment to achieve the exponentially large amounts of smugness that were required to discuss the theory in public with other scientists.

What I am really saying here is that as far as I'm concerned, you're fully justified in staying at home on the sofa, playing video games, eating ice cream, and getting super fat. If you were to bother to go outside, then even under the most ideal conditions, you wouldn't get to see very much of anything anyway.



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Planets




Usually when you see a picture of our solar system's planets, they look something like this:
Now obviously, the relative sizes of the planets are all wrong, and they should be much, much farther apart. And, if you're using an Apple computer, each planet should be themed with a shiny, candy-like coating. But one other important aspect of the picture is not scientifically accurate. The planets shouldn't all have the same brightness.
As you get farther away from the Sun, its light becomes progressively dimmer. I corrected the brightness of the planets in the picture, taking the distance to the Sun into account, and here's what I got:
Even though Venus is farther away from the Sun than Mercury, it actually appears brighter, because the clouds of its thick atmosphere reflect six times as much light as Mercury's dark Moon-like surface.

But aside from that, the Sun's brightness falls off really fast as you move away from it. This is because the intensity of the Sun's light is proportional to the inverse of the square of its distance. So, if you're four times farther away from the Sun than Earth is, the Sun will appear sixteen times darker than it would on Earth. Also, the planets are spaced farther and farther apart as you move out in the solar system.
The upshot of all this is, if you were living on a moon of Saturn, you'd have a pretty big heating bill, because that far from the Sun, the temperature would be roughly two hundred degrees below zero in the daytime. Because there are no plants, the atmosphere wouldn't have any oxygen in it. Plus, the commute would suck and the schools wouldn't be very good. On the other hand, you wouldn't have to worry about mowing the lawn, you wouldn't need sunscreen, and you wouldn't have to listen to your neighbor's barking dog all night, because if they let it run around outside, it wouldn't have anything to breathe as it was freezing to death.
Now, it's true that if you really were out there orbiting Saturn, you'd still be able to see easily, because your eyes would adjust to the fact that the Sun would only appear one percent as bright as it would near Earth. This is more than enough light to see by. It'd probably be a lot brighter than the light bulbs inside your house at night. But it wouldn't have quite the same punch as a nice sunny day on Earth.
It's important to note that your eyes are capable of perceiving a huge range of brightnesses. The full Moon is half a million times dimmer than the Sun, and it still provides just enough illumination to see by if you're stumbling around in the wilderness at night, being chased by government agents because you've just escaped from the secret laboratory where you were grown in a vat. (I am not speaking from personal experience.) So, you wouldn't have that much trouble getting around near Saturn, even if the sunlight was rather dim.
How is it that NASA's pictures don't come out all black? Space probes orbiting the more distant planets simply leave the camera's shutter open longer to collect more light, brightening up the picture. This is just what a handheld camera does automatically when you use it inside your house.
Below, on the left, is a picture of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, taken by the Huygens probe in 2005. Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere. On the right, I've corrected the image to account for the intensity of the Sun at that distance, relative to the sunlight on Earth. I'm not kidding here. This is really how much darker it would be. Eventually your eyes would adapt, and you'd see something, but it would be a lot dimmer than Earth during the daytime.

The farther you get from the Sun, the smaller it appears in the sky. The picture on the left, below, is a sunset on Earth, and the picture on the right is a sunset on Mars, taken by the Spirit rover. I've scaled the images so that the Sun from Mars is two thirds the size of the Sun from Earth, which is how it really would appear. The sunset on Mars is usually blue because of dust in the atmosphere.
I like looking at the Martian sunset picture and imagining how cold it is there. The fact that the Sun would be a little smaller and dimmer and more blue would make Mars seem extra chilly and desolate and not worth visiting.
We're pretty lucky that we live on one of the better planets that's huddling closely around the warmth of our star. Consequently, most of the surface of our planet is often nice and toasty and warm and dry, except of course for the England part of our planet. If you live there, it might seem rather unpleasant, but fortunately, science has demonstrated that it could be much, much worse. You could be living on Titan, freezing in the dark, in a puddle of liquid methane, next to somebody's dead poodle.


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Elephant Teeth




Most mammals have a set of baby teeth that eventually fall out and are replaced by adult teeth, which they keep for their entire lives. Elephants are different, however. They go through six sets of large, brick-like teeth that grow in at the back of their mouths and slowly move to the front as they are worn down. The teeth then fall out and are replaced by fresh ones.
Consequently, elephants have no use for dentists, and have been known to laugh openly when they encounter dental hygienists on safari. There is evidence of elephants in the wild eating five hundred pounds of coconut macaroons in one day, without flossing.
Each set of elephant teeth that grows in is larger than the last. The final teeth are over eight inches long (21 cm) from front to back and weigh more than eight pounds (4 kg).
When an elephant's final set of teeth falls out, the elephant slowly dies of malnutrition or starvation. This is a pretty poorly designed animal, if you ask me.
Old elephants will seek out wet, marshy areas where the plants are softer, so they can more easily eat them. However, in the end, this doesn't really help and they die anyway, much to the amusement of vacationing dental hygienists.


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Trees




What are trees made out of? If you had asked me yesterday, I would have guessed that trees absorb raw materials from the ground through their roots, and use them to build new branches and roots as the tree grows. Or, perhaps trees are constructed by hardworking but underpaid gnomes and fairies during the night.
As it happens, that's not the case. Although roots take up a small amount of important nutrients, the majority of the mass of a tree is created from carbon dioxide absorbed from the air by the tree's leaves. That's right. It sounds crazy, but trees are mostly made out of air, and fairies aren't even involved.
When you burn wood, you're just dumping all that carbon dioxide back into the air where it originally came from. Don't do that. It annoys the fairies.

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Homeobox Genes




OK this is totally crazy. All animals have a set of genes (sequences of atoms in their DNA) that regulate how they develop from a miniscule single cell to their final enormous multicellular form. But, the super amazing thing is, those genes are all the same. For every animal. Of every species. They're the same exact genes in whales and people and tax accountants and leeches. These genes are called homeobox genes. ("Homeo" from the Greek word for "same", and "box" from the Greek word for "cardboard box".)
Some of these genes encode for high level structures, like "make an eye here". The actual details of how to make the specific kind of eye are encoded elsewhere in the DNA. However, you can take the high level "make an eye" gene out of a mouse, and splice it into the middle of a fly's genes that control how its legs grow, and the fly will wind up with a semifunctional fly's eye on its knees. Scientists have actually performed this experiment. The flies were not amused.
All of this implies that flies and mice share a common ancestor. Scientists have recently determined that this ancestor is named Steve and lives in rural New Hampshire with his parents and it's about time he moved out and got a job.
Curiously, plants and animals do not share the same set of homeobox genes. This suggests that the homeobox genes evolved separately in plants and animals. I say we patent the concept of homeobox genes and then sue the plants for all they've got.

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Moon Facts



The tidal forces of the Moon (and the Sun) don't only act on the oceans, they act on the land as well. If you stand on the equator, the land beneath you will go up and down by as much as 21 inches (55 centimeters) over the course of a day. You won't notice this though, because you will be drinking too much tequila.
Since the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth, each lunar day lasts a whole Earth month. Consequently, anybody could outrun the setting Sun on a bicyle. Well, maybe you could. I am old and fat.
When the Moon was created, it was a lot closer to the Earth, and appeared ten times larger in the sky. Each year, the Moon moves 4 centimeters away from the Earth. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe we smell bad and it doesn't want to be


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Facebook Song



Rhett And Link
Facebook Song lyrics

You can watch this video on Youtube







I wouldn't call myself a social butterfly
And there's not much that separates me from the other guy
But when I login I begin to live

There's an online world where I am king
Of a little website dedicated to me
With pictures of me and a list of my friends
And an unofficial record of the groups that I'm in.

Before the internet friendship was so tough
You actually had to be in peoples presence and stuff
Who wouldve thought that with a point and a click
I could know that Hope Floats is your favorite flick (harry connick jr.?)

Facebook (Facebook)
I'm Hooked on Facebook
I used to meet girls hangin out at the mall, now I just wait for them to write on my wall.
(Its more than a want, it's more than a need; I'd schrivel up and die without my minifeed)
Take a look. (Youre Hooked) on facebook.

Oh Link's status changed. it says he's playing the recorder...

How do you know this person?
Did you hook up with this person?
Do you need to request confirmation?
Or did you just think they looked cute... from their picture on facebook?

If the internet crashed all across the land
Or my facebook account was deleted by the man
I'd carry around a picture of my face
And a summary of me typed out on a page


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Top 20 Amazing Science Facts



Another trivia list! This list explores a variety of fascinating scientific
facts that you probably are unaware of. Science is still a very mysterious
subject so there are millions of trivial facts about it – this will be the first
of many scientific fact lists in the future.

Facts 1 – 5

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1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to
end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
2. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living
structure on Earth
3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one
occurrence every 9,300 years
4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh
over 100 million tons
5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton
bombs.

Facts 6 – 10

Pine Tree Med

6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide
7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred
Rompelberg
8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
9. 65% of those with autism are left handed
10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles.

Facts 11 – 15

Polar-Bear-Tongue

11. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of
nearly 500 feet
12. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion,
billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]
13. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air
14. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor
15. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their
transparent fur.

Facts 16 – 20

Mercury Tour

16. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
17. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground
18. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during
the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade
19. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five
gallons in twenty-four hours
20. Butterflies taste with their hind feet and their taste sensation works on
touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible


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The Sun




If you add up all of the mass in the solar system, including the planets, the moons, the asteroids, the comets, the dust, Oprah, and everything else, it turns out that 99.85% of everything is the Sun.
The picture you have in your head of the solar system as the sun surrounded by several chunky planets isn't accurate.
The solar system consists almost entirely of the Sun.
Sure, there's also a small bit of schmutz that happens to slowly orbit around the Sun, and it seems important to us, and this is where we do our shopping. You probably live on one of the smaller, damper, Starbucks-infested specks. But, this is all pretty insignificant compared to the overwhelming enormity of the Sun.
I bought a house recently, and I'm hoping that by disseminating this information, it'll help drive up property values by several orders of magnitude.


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Sleep






If you were to live deep inside a cave, with no exposure to the
outside world, eventually you would start sleeping roughly every 24
hours and 18 minutes, instead of exactly every 24 hours.



Under normal circumstances, our eyes sense light from the Sun, and
our brains adjust to the standard 24 hour day, but we'd really always
like to sleep that extra 18 minutes. Why is that? Scientists don't
really know, but maybe it explains why everyone is so crabby all the
time.



Some completely blind people, who sense no light at all, naturally
live on a 24 hour, 18 minute day, and slowly march their schedule around
the clock, out of phase with everybody else. I'm speaking from personal
experience when I say that it's pretty annoying when you have a blind
neighbor who mows his lawn in the middle of the night.


Our built-in tendency to live on a 24 hour, 18 minute day might seem
to make sense if that was how long days were in the distant past, and
the length of each day has been slowly speeding up. However, exactly the
opposite is occurring. The length of each day has been gradually
increasing, as the rotation of the Earth slows down because of the
Moon's tidal forces. Half a billion years ago, days were 22 hours long.
Four and a half billion years ago, they were six hours long. This didn't
allow for a lot of variety in the television programming schedule.



A need for a longer day might also make sense if we were all from
Mars. (We're not. Most of us are not. Let's just say that all the
important people you know are not. If you don't already know that you
are, you're not. It's best if you don't bring this up with your parents.
Forget I mentioned any of this.) On Mars, each day is 24 hours and 39
minutes long. Scientists working on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars
rover projects initially lived on a schedule based on Mars days, because
the solar-powered rovers could only operate during daytime on Mars. The
scientists wore special Mars watches so they'd know what time it was
there. After a few months of this, and always sleeping weird hours, they
were all pretty grumpy. Eventually they switched to a more practical,
Earth-based schedule.



Sleeping in one continuous block during the night is an extremely
recent development. Humans only started doing this when artificial
lighting become readily available, and it was easier for everybody to
stay up late. Before that, people tended to sleep in multiple chunks
throughout the night, separated by periods of activity. Presumably, they
would use this time to make trips to the ice box or watch crude
infomercials performed by nocturnal travelling minstrels, which were
quite popular during the Renaissance.




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Did you know



Did you know??
  • Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
  • Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
  • The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
  • Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
  • The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
  • 100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
  • 90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.
  • 80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.
  • 70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.
  • 60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.
  • 50 years ago: Velcro was invented.
  • 40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.
  • 30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.
  • 20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.
  • 10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
  • 5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo
  • The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
  • The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
  • There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
  • The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
  • The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.
  • The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
  • A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).
  • The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
  • The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.
  • The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.
  • The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.
  • The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
  • Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.
  •  It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
  • Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
  • The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
  • An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
  • Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
  • 40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.
  • A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
  • The largest telescope in the world is currently being constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will utilize four - 26 ft. 8 in. (8.13 meters) mirrors which will gather as much light as a single 52 ft. 6 in. (16 meters) mirror.
  • The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
  • The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
  •  The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).
  • The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
  • Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
  • The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).
  • The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
  • The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
  • The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
  • The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
  • The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.
  • The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
  • The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.
  • The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.
  • The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
  • The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
  • The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
  • The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
  • The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
  • There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
  • Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
  • Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.
  • Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
  • In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km).
  • In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach 6600 miles (10,645 km).
  • A large sunspot can last for about a week.
  • If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
  • Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.
  • The female Tarantula Hawk wasp paralyzes a large spider with her sting. She then lays her eggs on the motionless body so that her developing young have a fresh supply of spider meat to feed on.
  • The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.
  • The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
  • Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.
  • Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  • October 10 is National Metric Day.
  • If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
  • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  • Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.
  • No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
  • A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
  • Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.
  • According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
  • The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
  • The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
  • When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
  • By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
  • Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
  • Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon.
  • Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.
  • Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? North Dakota.
  • When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.
  • Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
  • Cars were first made with ignition keys in 1949.
  • J.B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.
  • Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
  • It is energy-efficient to turn off a fluorescent light only if it will not be used again within an hour or more. This is because of the high voltage needed to turn it on, and the shortened life this high voltage causes.
  • The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).
  • Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.
  • Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  • The Earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107,220 km per hour.
  • There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun.
  • The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.
  • Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
  • There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
  • The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set with the lunar rover.
  • If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years
  • The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
  • Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
  • A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.
  • The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
  • Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.
  • It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
  • Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.
  • Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
  • The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.
  • The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.
  • Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, waters, and atmosphere (about 49.5%)
  • A stroke of lightning discharges from 10 to 100 million volts & 30,000 amperes of electricity.
  • A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C); six times hotter than the Sun.
  • Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
  • The average distance between the Earth & the Moon is 238,857 miles (384,392 km). 
  • The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
  • The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.
  • The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).
  • Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).
  • The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.
  • The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.
  • Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
  • The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.
  • The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.
  • House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.
  • Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
  • Starfish don't have brains.
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  • Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
  • Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. 
  • Porcupines float in water.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain. 
  • An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
  • The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  • The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
  • Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
  • Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  • A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
  • Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
  • Armadillos can walk underwater.
  • There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
  • Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. 
  • Only humans sleep on their backs.
  • The human brain is 80% water.
  • Everyone's tongue print is different.
  • As an adult, you have more than 20 square feet of skin on your body--about the same square footage as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.
  • In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.
  • 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
  • Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.
  • The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.
  • If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.
  • There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
  • Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.
  • Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.
  • The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
  • The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
  • Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
  • Moths have no stomach.
  • Hummingbirds can't walk.
  • Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.
  • A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
  • A zebra is white with black stripes.
  • The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
  • The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
  • A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
  • Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
  • Giraffes are unable to cough.
  • Sharks are immune to cancer.
  • Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
  • Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.
  • A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
  • The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
  • On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.
  • Lobsters have blue blood.
  • Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
  • A mosquito has 47 teeth.
  • Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
  • Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin
  • Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.
  • A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
  • The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime
  • Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
  • The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
  • Ants do not sleep.
  • Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
  • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.
  • An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.
  • The oldest known fossil is of a single-celled organism, blue-green algae, found in 3.2 billion year-old stones in South Africa.
  • The oldest multicellular fossils date from ~700 million years ago.
  • The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.
  • Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
  • 20/20 vision means the eye can see normally at 20 feet. 20/15 is better; the eye can see at 20 feet what another eye sees at 15 feet.
  • The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
  • There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.



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