Well I Never!

[Region3]

Since my geeky side is coming out on another thread going on at the moment, I thought I'd start a thread for 'facts that you can't get your head around' and see where it leads.

I don't read a lot, but what I do read is mostly science based and completely irreconcilable with common sense.

Evidence based facts only please. If it has anything to do with Elvis appearing in a chip shop in Croydon, or white alligators living in the New York subway system, I'll be inclined to disbelieve them

 

[Region3]

I'll start it off.

If it were possible to pack elementary particles next to each other ie. Remove all the empty space from atoms, the entire human race would fit into the size of a sugar cube.

 

[JCW]

I know where you get facts on companies and football clubs , where you do not get it is the we off thread on here

 

[Foxholer]

I know where you get facts on companies and football clubs , where you do not get it is the we off thread on here

And you are not prepared to give a £20 donation to H4H to find our!

Speaking of dense....Buried in amongst the remnants of Supernovae are Neutron stars that are about 5 miles across and have about 2-3 times the mass of our Sun!

And if you thought Space was a void, just consider the fact that the Solar Wind is a stream of particles heading AWAY from the Sun at between 400 and 750km per second! Thank heaven there's a mag field that diverts them - and creates pretty effects!

 

[JustOne]

Blowing soft billowing cigarette smoke rings into a still night sky..... hard to believe we're bombing along at approx 65,000mph

 

[Foxholer]

Blowing soft billowing cigarette smoke rings into a still night sky..... hard to believe we're bombing along at approx 65,000mph

The simple approach!

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy+buffett/defying+gravity_20071964.html

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Did you know that if the entire population of China lined up and walked past you, the line would never end owing to the rate of population increase.

However nobody has considered that being lined up might limit procreation opportunities

 

[Smiffy]

Blowing soft billowing cigarette smoke rings into a still night sky.....

Are you still thinking about that blissful evening we spent together at Gainsborough last year???

 

[chrisd]

Are you still thinking about that blissful evening we spent together at Gainsborough last year???

So that enlarged tummy Smiffy?

You're not pregnant are you??

 

[Smiffy]

So that enlarged tummy Smiffy?

You're not pregnant are you??

Twins.

 

[chrisd]

Twins.

Well let's just hope that they don't look like Justone!

 

[Imurg]

Apparently there are 96 bags of Human excretory substances on the Moon but we still don't know what's on the Dark side of it - apart from the Alien mining ship of course......

 

[Smiffy]

If you had a £ for every provisional ball that LIG has ever played, you would be able to buy a new car.
Not a basic one either

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 44 times it would reach half way to the moon! The 45th fold would reach the moon!!!!
The 46th fold would get you back to Earth again!!!!


If you place a grain of sand on square one on a chess board and then double up the grains for every square, i.e. 2,4,8,16 etc etc, by the time you get the to the 64th square, there wouldn`t be enough grains of sand on Earth to complete the task!!!

 

[Slab]

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 63 times it would reach half way to the moon! The 64th fold would reach the moon!!!!


If you place a grain of sand on square one on a chess board and then double up the grains for every square, i.e. 2,4,8,16 etc etc, by the time you get the to the 64th square, there wouldn`t be enough grains of sand on Earth to complete the task!!!

I call cack on the second one

You bring the chess board with a big enough square and I'll bring the grains of sand


(warning: some of the sand is a bit wet at the moment)

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

In theory. It`s called Exponential growth.

Or it could be Rice not sand.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

You can fit the entire population of the Earth onto the Isle of Wight.

 

[SocketRocket]

You can fit the entire population of the Earth onto the Isle of Wight.

Thats overdoing mass immigration a bit!

 

[Slab]

In theory. It`s called Exponential growth.

Or it could be Rice not sand.

I'm just saying we need 9,223,372,036,854,780,000 grains of sand & I have that much in stock, if you want to swap to rice I need a couple of weeks notice to grow some more


Edit to add: before we get too far ahead of ourselves I need to know if you plan on filling the other 63 squares also, if so I need my mate Billy to work with me on this one so costs will go up (as will grains of sand obviously so I'll be bringing 18,446,744,073,709,600,000 just in case)

Can I pop these on your driveway Tuesday pm?

 

[Foxholer]

Apparently there are 96 bags of Human excretory substances on the Moon but we still don't know what's on the Dark side of it - apart from the Alien mining ship of course......

There is no Dark side of the Moon, really!
Matter of fact, it's all Dark!