humphs
Feb 25 2008, 8:18 pm
If you were to put one of the old fashioned "pear" shaped light bulbs in your mouth , its impossible to take it out again without breaking it .
HellesAngel
Feb 25 2008, 8:20 pm
I would post one, but I can't remember any.
sharpe
Feb 25 2008, 8:32 pm
You can not measure an object's both position and the velocity at the same time with 100% accuracy.
eurovol
Feb 25 2008, 8:34 pm
The first post is not a fact.
CanadianGal
Feb 25 2008, 8:37 pm
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
CanadianGal
Feb 25 2008, 8:38 pm
Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.
Genie
Feb 25 2008, 8:47 pm
When measured from the center of the earth, the highest mountain on the planet isn't Everest, it's Chimborazo.
eurovol
Feb 25 2008, 8:57 pm
Don't you mean from the base? From the center of the Earth, Everest is still higher than anything.
Genie
Feb 25 2008, 8:59 pm
Nope, from the center of the earth.
eurovol
Feb 25 2008, 9:06 pm
I call bullshit.
South London?
Oh wait! That's the centre of the known universe.
Genie
Feb 25 2008, 9:08 pm
QUOTE (eurovol @ Feb 25 2008, 9:06 pm)

I call bullshit.
The question is, of course, what do I stand to gain when I prove you wrong?
GreenTea
Feb 25 2008, 9:15 pm
Re Chimborazo: I would assume that's cos the earth is flattened at the poles and bulges out at the equator.
From
Wiki Chimborazo article:
QUOTE
The summit of Mount Everest reaches a higher elevation above sea level, but the summit of Chimborazo is widely reported to be the farthest point from Earth's center (Senne 2000, [5]), despite a possible challenge from Huascarán.[3] Chimborazo is one degree south of the equator and the earth's diameter at the equator is greater than at the latitude of Everest, nearly 28° north, with sea level also elevated. Despite being 2,581 m (8,568 ft) lower in elevation above sea level, it is 6,384.4 km (3,968 mi) from the Earth's center, 2.1 km farther than the summit of Everest.[4]
Genie
Feb 25 2008, 9:19 pm
Damn, I was thinking of winning a crate of beer out of this.
GreenTea
Feb 25 2008, 9:25 pm
@Genie: Oops, sorry, didn't notice your previous post ... guess I owe you one then
Dostoyevsky
Feb 25 2008, 9:33 pm
The vast majority of the world's bullshit is not actually produced by bulls.
eurovol
Feb 25 2008, 9:35 pm
BeeGeeJesus
Feb 25 2008, 9:35 pm
QUOTE (Dostoyevsky @ Feb 25 2008, 9:33 pm)

The vast majority of the world's bullshit is not actually produced by bulls.
Nope, it's produced on this forum.
meckle
Feb 25 2008, 9:52 pm
Wasn't there some debate a few years back as to whether K2 might actually be taller than Everest ??
Sinderbox
Feb 25 2008, 9:54 pm
There are infinite places on earth where you can go 100km southwards then 100km eastwards and finally 100km northwards, still returning to the departing point.
Ruthie
Feb 25 2008, 10:36 pm
I don´t believe a rat can live longer without water than camels. No way. Two or three days and they are toast. Or at least dried rat.
humphs
Feb 25 2008, 10:49 pm
QUOTE (eurovol @ Feb 25 2008, 8:34 pm)

The first post is not a fact.
Try it my friend
SpiderPig
Feb 25 2008, 11:02 pm
Cats can not fart loudly
Dostoyevsky
Feb 25 2008, 11:09 pm
QUOTE (Sinderbox @ Feb 25 2008, 9:54 pm)

There are infinite places on earth where you can go 100km southwards then 100km eastwards and finally 100km northwards, still returning to the departing point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_TriangleQUOTE
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared in what are said to be circumstances that fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature.
Sinderbox
Feb 25 2008, 11:10 pm
QUOTE (Ruthie @ Feb 25 2008, 10:36 pm)

I don´t believe a rat can live longer without water than camels. No way. Two or three days and they are toast. Or at least dried rat.
Unless those camels are carrying a 117,000 volumes library.
Punchbear
Feb 25 2008, 11:32 pm
Dogs can't look up.
krostitzer
Feb 25 2008, 11:57 pm
The surface of Venus has been mapped in far greater detail than the ocean floor on Earth.
triumph bob
Feb 25 2008, 11:58 pm
You can't sneeze with your eyes open
Flapdoll
Feb 26 2008, 12:05 am
Now where did I see this before ...
You cannot lick your elbow
bohemka
Feb 26 2008, 12:20 am
Hassloch is the largest village in Germany.
Von
Feb 26 2008, 12:23 am
Rationale and rhyme and reason pale beside a single kiss.
RickMunich
Feb 26 2008, 1:44 am
QUOTE (SpiderPig @ Feb 25 2008, 11:02 pm)

Cats can not fart loudly
QUOTE (Punchbear @ Feb 25 2008, 11:32 pm)

Dogs can't look up.
QUOTE (Flapdoll @ Feb 26 2008, 12:05 am)

Now where did I see this before ...
You cannot lick your elbow
Tell that to my cats. Well, I guess you need to define loudly. If you mean that all cat farts are inaudible, it is not true.
My dog can look up, she loves to chase the ADAC helicopter, among other things...
I know more than a few people who can lick their elbow.
sharpe
Feb 26 2008, 8:05 am
The smallest measurement of length with any meaning is equal to ~ 1.6 x 10-35 m
sarabyrd
Feb 26 2008, 9:34 am
boredom is an anagram of bedroom
nick60599
Feb 26 2008, 9:38 am
QUOTE (Sinderbox @ Feb 25 2008, 9:54 pm)

There are infinite places on earth where you can go 100km southwards then 100km eastwards and finally 100km northwards, still returning to the departing point.
I don't get it. Wouldn't you have to go west too?
Jeeves
Feb 26 2008, 9:43 am
I'd have said there's just one place on Earth where you can do what Mr Box says.
Genie
Feb 26 2008, 9:50 am
Can you go eastward when you're standing on the south pole?
spillerkoln
Feb 26 2008, 9:52 am
no you can only go north...
RickMunich
Feb 26 2008, 9:54 am
QUOTE (Sinderbox @ Feb 25 2008, 9:54 pm)

There are infinite places on earth where you can go 100km southwards then 100km eastwards and finally 100km northwards, still returning to the departing point.
QUOTE (nick60599 @ Feb 26 2008, 9:38 am)

I don't get it. Wouldn't you have to go west too?
QUOTE (Jeeves @ Feb 26 2008, 9:43 am)

I'd have said there's just one place on Earth where you can do what Mr Box says.
Nope, no need to go west at all. Unless you go south then west instead of east, but then you wouldn't have to go east to get back to the starting point, just north again.
Yes, Jeeves is correct, only one point, but an infinite number of ways to start south.
Genie
Feb 26 2008, 9:56 am
QUOTE (spillerkoln @ Feb 26 2008, 9:52 am)

no you can only go north...
No shit Sherlock. If by that he means standing in place, I can see where the infinite places are, otherwise I'm baffled. Or, maybe infinite "places" means standing at the north pole looking at a different azimuth southwards.
EDIT: RM got it before me.
nick60599
Feb 26 2008, 10:17 am
Ah I geddit now.
Janx Spirit
Feb 26 2008, 10:50 am
QUOTE (Ruthie @ Feb 25 2008, 10:36 pm)

I don´t believe a rat can live longer without water than camels. No way. Two or three days and they are toast. Or at least dried rat.
Kangaroo rats never drink water.
Ruthie
Feb 26 2008, 11:20 am
But there is water in what they eat, no?
humphs
Feb 26 2008, 7:33 pm
QUOTE (eurovol @ Feb 25 2008, 9:35 pm)

Would the technicality be that you were proved to be wrong ?
trappedinmunich
Feb 26 2008, 10:15 pm
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
and there are many, many more
Sinderbox
Feb 26 2008, 11:05 pm
QUOTE (Sinderbox @ Feb 25 2008, 9:54 pm)

There are infinite places on earth where you can go 100km southwards then 100km eastwards and finally 100km northwards, still returning to the departing point.
QUOTE (nick60599 @ Feb 26 2008, 9:38 am)

I don't get it. Wouldn't you have to go west too?
QUOTE (nick60599 @ Feb 26 2008, 10:17 am)

Ah I geddit now.
Well, only if you can name 3 of those infinite places.
CanadianGal
Feb 28 2008, 2:51 pm
A snail can sleep for three years.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Genie
Feb 28 2008, 3:06 pm
In some lizards, gender is determined not by chromosomes, but by the hatchling's ambient temperature.
lilplatinum
Feb 28 2008, 3:08 pm
QUOTE (trappedinmunich @ Feb 26 2008, 10:15 pm)

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
I can see someone is itching to go gamble.
RickMunich
Feb 28 2008, 3:58 pm
I have 18 writing utensils in the penholder on my desk, including three highlighters.
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