Quirky Science Facts!

[ronthepon]

What?

[Michaelangelica]

What?

 

Not born, conceived.

Sound too strange to be true does't it?

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Persons with no lives (myself included) spend more time at sites like this one than those that have lives!

[ronthepon]

Male humans can concentrate better when they are a little hungry.

 

Sorry, girls, we have our own internal concentration enhancement mechanisms... (directed to the extremely egoistic ones in my school)

[Michaelangelica]

There are c two meters of DNA in almost every human cell.

Each length of DNA comprises some 3.2 billion letters of coding

enought to provide 10 to the power of 3,480,000,000 possible combinations

(It would take more than 5,000 average sized books just to print that figure)

Source:

Bill Bryson "A Short History of Nearly Evertything"

[ronthepon]

There is an electric feild of about 100Vm-1 at the surface of the earth.

 

Believe me, it's HUGE.

[Michaelangelica]

I am enjoying reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" very much.

It is full of 'quirky science facts' Such as:

 

"We have 46 chromosomes, but some ferns have more than 600"

 

"The Lung fish, one of the least evolved of all complex animals, has 40 times as much DNA as we have"

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I wonder WHY?

[Turtle]

Rats sweat, but only through their tails.:doh:

[ronthepon]

Hit the back of the head of a person with a big stick hard enough and 99% chances are there of severe memory loss.

 

Now how do I get out of this room?

[Turtle]

Hit the back of the head of a person with a big stick hard enough and 99% chances are there of severe memory loss.

 

Now how do I get out of this room?

 

Quirky science fact (and answer to your question Ron):

If a person walks backward out of a room while facing a person in the room with a big stick, they have a 98.304% chance of not getting hit in the back of their head with a big stick wielded by that person in the same room.:hihi:

[Michaelangelica]

Quirky science fact (and answer to your question Ron):

If a person walks backward out of a room while facing a person in the room with a big stick, they have a 98.304% chance of not getting hit in the back of their head with a big stick wielded by that person in the same room.;)

Is the big stick a boomerang?

 

I hate people who walk backwards.

Especially though a doorway you are trying to go through

See thread "What bugs youz"

[Michaelangelica]

FROM:

Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

"Some scientists now think that there could be as much as 100 trillion tonnes of bacteria living beneth our feet. . .if you took all the bacteria and dumped them on the surface, they would cover the planet to a depth of 15 metres. . .there could be more life under the earth than on top of it."

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[Jules Grimm]

Plants can't synthesise cholesterol, so no fruit or veggie contains it...

[ronthepon]

they have a 98.304% chance of not getting hit in the back of their head with a big stick wielded by that person in the same room

May I see scientific basis behind this?

 

Coz it seems like 98.298% chance according to my... guess

[Jules Grimm]

Adult cats with no health problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They are in light sleep 50 percent of the time.

[Jules Grimm]

The mollusk Tritonia diomedea gets directional information from the magnetic field of the Earth.

[ronthepon]

Adult cats with no health problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They are in light sleep 50 percent of the time.

I hear that cats sleep 16 hours in a day on average...