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Cats have a non lethal terminal velocity, meaning that no matter how high they fall from they wont die.
Well I Never!
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Baldy Bouncer
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The average age of a combat soldier in WW2 was 25, in Vietnam, it was 19, n,n,n,n,n,n,n,n,nineteen!!!!!:ears:
SocketRocket
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Every day in the UK a person gets knocked down on a pedestrian crossing. And he is getting flaming well fed up with it!
One Planer
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How big the universe is.
When you consider light travels (in a vacuum) at 186,282 miles per second or 5,878,499,817 miles in a year, the distances between us and the farthest known point yet (14.something billion light years) the figure is almost too big to comprehend.
Even the nearest Galaxy to our Milky Way (Andromeda) is 2,538,000 light years away.
If one light year is just shy of 6 trillion miles, you do the math
When you consider light travels (in a vacuum) at 186,282 miles per second or 5,878,499,817 miles in a year, the distances between us and the farthest known point yet (14.something billion light years) the figure is almost too big to comprehend.
Even the nearest Galaxy to our Milky Way (Andromeda) is 2,538,000 light years away.
If one light year is just shy of 6 trillion miles, you do the math
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How big the universe is.
When you consider light travels (in a vacuum) at 186,282 miles per second or 5,878,499,817 miles in a year, the distances between us and the farthest known point yet (14.something billion light years) the figure is almost too big to comprehend.
Even the nearest Galaxy to our Milky Way (Andromeda) is 2,538,000 light years away.
If one light year is just shy of 6 trillion miles, you do the math
Some of these numbers remind me of average forum driving distances
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c1973
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Most manhole covers are round because 'a round manhole cover can’t fall through its circular opening, because no matter how you position it, the cover is wider than the hole. But a square, rectangular, or oval manhole cover could fall in if it was inserted diagonally into the hole.' Mind there is a lip to hold it in place.
The jam in jam doughnuts can't be spread on toast like normal jam as it is made differently from normal (in a jar) jam. It would go lumpy and not spread evenly.
A lump of coal put in the washing machine (with detergent) would come out yellowish as the detergent reacts with the coal causing it to lose its black hue.
Cats don't get frazzled in the microwave if you put it on defrost.
The jam in jam doughnuts can't be spread on toast like normal jam as it is made differently from normal (in a jar) jam. It would go lumpy and not spread evenly.
A lump of coal put in the washing machine (with detergent) would come out yellowish as the detergent reacts with the coal causing it to lose its black hue.
Cats don't get frazzled in the microwave if you put it on defrost.
ColchesterFC
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Have you tested this? And is it just cats or does it also work with other animals? Small dogs or hamsters for example?
SocketRocket
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If anyones got a big enough microwave they can test it on my Mother in Law!
SocketRocket
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The total weight of all the Ants on the earth is greater than the total weight of all the Humans.
(We must be catching them though as there are not many obese Ants)
(We must be catching them though as there are not many obese Ants)
Region3
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But if you could travel at a tiny tiny fraction less than light speed the journey there would seem to you to be about 50 years due to relativistic effects.
Duckster
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If the history of the Earth was just 24 hours:
12.00-04.00 The Big Bang! No life and a planet with poisonous gasses in the air, no soil and a hot sea
04.00-20.00 Single celled organisms have appeared and started to make the beloved Oxygen that we all like so much.
Just before 20.30 First marine plants appear
20.50 Jellyfish time!
Just after 21.00 Trilobytes and other weird stuff join the party
22.00 Plant life and first land creatures.
23.00-23.45 Dinosaurs rock up and rule the world which would later give inspiration to all small children to go "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg" when playing dinosaurs. Even with the grass eating ones. All dinosaurs went "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg". It's the law.
1 minute and 17 seconds to midnight. Humans show up. Golf is invented. Followed by the forum.
12.00-04.00 The Big Bang! No life and a planet with poisonous gasses in the air, no soil and a hot sea
04.00-20.00 Single celled organisms have appeared and started to make the beloved Oxygen that we all like so much.
Just before 20.30 First marine plants appear
20.50 Jellyfish time!
Just after 21.00 Trilobytes and other weird stuff join the party
22.00 Plant life and first land creatures.
23.00-23.45 Dinosaurs rock up and rule the world which would later give inspiration to all small children to go "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg" when playing dinosaurs. Even with the grass eating ones. All dinosaurs went "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg". It's the law.
1 minute and 17 seconds to midnight. Humans show up. Golf is invented. Followed by the forum.
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
It's worse than that.
That is just the speed that we're travelling around the sun at.
The sun (with us and the rest of the solar system in tow) is travelling around the Milky Way at approx 470,000 mph!
SocketRocket
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2 Nano Seconds to Midnight, first Form member drives a ball 300 yards.
1 Nano Second to Midnight, all Forum members drive a ball 340 yards.
Leftie
Tour Winner
Leftie is right handed - and so is that other one, you know, the one who is a golfer.
chrisd
Major Champion
If all the cars in the world were lined up one behind the other some idiot would pull out and try to overtake
JustOne
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Indeed, save me Googling it... what's the movement of our galaxy in regards to the universe?
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
You can't quote a definitive figure as the universe can't be thought of as a static box in which things happen. You can only ever quote a speed relative to another body ie. Absolute motion by itself cannot be shown.
Region3
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As far as I know, the only thing you can ever quote the speed of, without stating what that speed is relative to is light - or more specifically massless particles.
No matter how slow or fast you are moving relative to the source of the light, space and time screw with your clocks and rulers so that you always measure the same speed for light.
No matter how slow or fast you are moving relative to the source of the light, space and time screw with your clocks and rulers so that you always measure the same speed for light.
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This the another thing that simply amazes me...how long Earth has been in existence, how the Big Bang created pretty much all of the elements that we would need to sustain life on the planet, but then sheer coincidences and happenings meant that life could be maintained on the planet. Simply mind blowing.
