The Weirdest Fact

[Mike]

Fact: most people are getting their strange fact from: http://www.strangefacts.com/ :D

:toofunny

This is why you're not allowed to take leave of this board anymore.

We call em Timbits in Canada :D

I find it weird that anyone buys ANYTHING from Tim Horton's. The coffee is terrible, you have to PAY for refills if you're in their restaurant :o , and their donuts taste like they've been shipped on a slow boat from China!

Oh, and:

Dolphins are never fully asleep. They rest one side of their brain at a time.

 

[Pard]

The singing of whales can travel around the world. And because whales on one side of the world and sing and be heard by whales on the other-side the whale songs are nearly identical no matter where you are.

 

[jasoncran]

Time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, if you reach it, time stops.

That's amazing...how do they know?

in theory as that is untestable at present, the theory of relativity is neither been proven nor disproven

you know it as this e=mc2

whereas e = equals energy
m = mass
c2= equals the speed of light squared.

 

[handy]

It's a weird fact that most people, 83% in fact, when asked to provide trivia (such as weird facts) will make something up! :yes

 

[jasoncran]

lance the seperation of the atom doesnt really fully prove his theory, if i recall correctly relativity also states that if a photon strikes an object it will destroy that object.

 

[Lance_Iguana]

lance the seperation of the atom doesnt really fully prove his theory, if i recall correctly relativity also states that if a photon strikes an object it will destroy that object.

I'm being silly guys. I just think its really cool how math works and how it can be applied to physics.


Oh and Pard, the Big Boom I'm talking about was the Atom Bomb as Jason stated.

 

[Pard]

lance the seperation of the atom doesnt really fully prove his theory, if i recall correctly relativity also states that if a photon strikes an object it will destroy that object.

I'm being silly guys. I just think its really cool how math works and how it can be applied to physics.


Oh and Pard, the Big Boom I'm talking about was the Atom Bomb as Jason stated.

I know what the big BOOM was... Hiroshima, Nagasaki... Few in the middle of no where New Mexico... one or two off an island in Guam...

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You can only fish for clawed lobsters between Long Island, NY and Nova Scotia, Canada. They live no where else in the entire world, the rest of the lobsters do not have claws.

 

[Pard]

All the lobsters you will ever eat at the restaurant "Red Lobster" are shipped out of the building next door to where I am right now

 

[Theofilus]

Here's something interesting... I'm Icelandic, but I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma where my dad worked. All the fish I ate in the school cafeteria was Icelandic, as was all the fish we ate at Arthur Treacher's Fish'n Chips. It remained this way until Greenpeace got them to boycot us because of whaling in the late 80's.

 

[logical bob]

Fact: in England mince pies and Christmas pudding are illegal. Cromwell banned them because he believed celebrating Christmas was idolatry. Nobody ever bothered to repeal the law.

And don't blame Einstein for the nuclear bomb just because his work made it possible. Would you blame John Logie Baird for Friends?

 

[Theofilus]

And don't blame Einstein for the nuclear bomb just because his work made it possible. Would you blame John Logie Baird for Friends?

Why shouldn't he get the blame? He's the one that came up with the idea of using his theories to create a weapon.

 

[logical bob]

Grey areas. In 1939 Einstein learned that Germany was trying to develop an atomic bomb. He wrote to the President suggesting that America do likewise. But in 1945 he wrote a second letter urging that the bomb shouldn't be used. He was distraught when he heard about Hiroshima and later said that if he had known the Germans wouldn't succeed in their attempts to develop a bomb he wouldn't have said anything.

Einstein played no part in the Manhatten Project and all those who worked on it were forbidden to consul him. His leftwing views meant he was assessed as a security risk.

 

[jasoncran]

theo, most of france is powered by those nuclear reactors.

should we then blame the muscian for sin that may abound if he thinks of a new instrument to play?

science is a tool,it can kill or bless. sadly the former is the case.

 

[Pard]

Hot and cold are learned. We do not differentiate between hot and cold unless we are taught.

 

[Theofilus]

theo, most of france is powered by those nuclear reactors.

should we then blame the muscian for sin that may abound if he thinks of a new instrument to play?

science is a tool,it can kill or bless. sadly the former is the case.

If I write a letter to the president of the United States saying "I've just made a scientific discovery that could potentially be used to create the most powerful weapon ever imagined", am I completely blameless when he uses the information I gave him on to to manufacture such a weapon?

Think of it this way... A man and his wife are having an argument. I say "I know how to end this argument right now" and hand the man a loaded gun. Would I be completely blameless if he shot his wife?

Einstein was the one who suggested to the President the possibility of using nuclear weapons. Even if he took no part in the actual manufacture of the bomb and regretted it later, he still bears some blame for what happened.

 

[jasoncran]

so, then we should also blame the knife manufacters, the gun, the car manfacturers and also well everthing but the person that uses the invention.

alfred h .nobel. the man who invented dynamite, and is more known for the nobel peace prize. theo care to judge him as he invented dynamite first

btw japan wouldnt have surroundered if we didnt bomb them. sadly.

but that is another subject.

a doc can kill or save(abortion vs c section) so then the person who reasearch the fetal devolpement should be blamed for abortions then.

 

[logical bob]

If I write a letter to the president of the United States saying "I've just made a scientific discovery that could potentially be used to create the most powerful weapon ever imagined", am I completely blameless when he uses the information I gave him on to to manufacture such a weapon?

That's not what the letter said. Here's a copy of it.

http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html

Einstein hadn't "just" made the discovery - it was now 24 years since the publication of the theory of general relativity. Nor had Einstein done any work on creating a chain reaction and he wasn't up to date with other people's research. Until Leo Szilard approached him with the information that German scientists were working on uranium fission Einstein had doubted that setting off a chain reaction would be possible. He once compared it to "shooting birds in the dark in a country where there are few birds."

Einstein wrote to FDR not because the bomb was based directly on his work but because Szilard asked him to intervene because he was famous and people would listen to him.

You have to remember that Einstein was a Jew who had fled Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933. You can imagine what he would have thought of the prospect of the Nazis being the only people to have a weapon that would win the war. As a lifelong pacifist who had refused to join the German miltary research programme during World War I you can also imagine how painful his dilemma must have been. Don't rush to judge him.

 

[Mike]

Would you blame John Logie Baird for Friends?

Someone needs to be blamed for "Friends"!

 

[l'Chante]

Would you blame John Logie Baird for Friends?

Someone needs to be blamed for "Friends"!

:rolling :yes :biglol

 

[Mike]

Hot and cold are learned. We do not differentiate between hot and cold unless we are taught.

If a newborn puts his hand in hot water, doesn't he know it's hot? He obviously doesn't know the word, but he understands that it's painful from the heat. I'm not sure what you meant by this statement.