Quirky Science Facts!

[Jay-qu]

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

15%+50% = 65%, assuming approx equal distribution of sleep over the cats life, that equates to 15.6 hours a day. :hihi: Your both saying the same thing ;)

[ronthepon]

:hihi:

 

Have you people ever seen such a impatient fool like me?

[Jules Grimm]

great minds think alike... We just express differently :hihi:

[ronthepon]

The total mass in the universe is around 10^55 Kg

 

Not impressive?

 

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Kg.

 

Bah... big deal.

[Jay-qu]

+/- a few 100 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion kg... very large indeed

 

infact larger than the number of sub-atomic particles that make up all the water on all of earth (~10^48)

!but it is still less than the amount of atoms that make up the planet earth!

[Michaelangelica]

A frog's eye can register the light from one photon.

(It takes at least 5 photons to register on photographic emulsions).

 

We don't know what the frog thinks about this.

 

Source

"Quantum Evolution" Johnjoe Mc Fadden

[ronthepon]

Question is: does the frog know what a photon is?

 

Possibly, I've seen one on a quantum physics textbook.

[Michaelangelica]

The Chinese are using wooden spaceships.

The wood works well for re-entry friction/temperatures

 

Sort of reminds me of this:

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity.

To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down,

underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.

 

The Russians used a pencil.

[Turtle]

Neptune's moon Triton orbits clockwise while Neptune spins counter-clockwise. :eek_big:

[Queso]

Neptune's moon Triton orbits clockwise while Neptune spins counter-clockwise. :eek_big:

 

It's an automatic feeling,

 

one and two does not get dizzy.

[Michaelangelica]

"23% of all photocopier faults worldwide

are caused by people sitting on them to photocopy their buttocks"

Source:

Why Men Lie & Women Cry Alan and Barbara Pease

[Jay-qu]

More than 99% of the cells in a healthy human body belong to micro-organisms!

[Edella]

More than 99% of the cells in a healthy human body belong to micro-organisms!

What?Can you elaborate?Do you mean 99% host micro-organisms?Thanks Jay-qu.

[Michaelangelica]

This is quirky

maybe not science

But I didn't know where else to put it!

 

Snake gulps queen-size electric blanket

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/19/python.blanket.ap/index.html

Wednesday, July 19, 2006; Posted: 6:10 p.m. EDT (22:10 GMT)

 

Houdini, a Burmese python, swallowed a queen-size electric blanket.

 

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) -- It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket -- with the electrical cord and control box.

[Boerseun]

Regarding snakes, I've read that once they bite something they have to eat the whole darn thing because of the design of their teeth and jaws.

 

So, maybe the snake only took a sample bite of the electric blanket, and, upon finding that it tasted like crap, didn't have much of a choice in the matter - in for a penny, in for a pound!

[dagaz]

Regarding snakes, I've read that once they bite something they have to eat the whole darn thing because of the design of their teeth and jaws.

 

That's exactly right, for pythons anyway, but I'm not so sure about other types. I had a friend who used to keep two pythons (a carpet and a diamond) in the same terrarium. He used to feed them rats that he bought. Anyway one day he was in a hurry after work and just threw in a couple of rats and kept going. After a late night he woke the next morning to find that both pythons had gone for the same rat and as they can't regurgitate and have to swallow the meal whole, by the time he got there one snake had the rat plus half the other snake. He says that the two snakes were similar in size and that it took quite a while for the other snake to completely disappear. He made it sound so tragic because these two pythons had lived harmoniously in the same terrarium for quite a while so were probably close mates!

[Jay-qu]

cant really elaborate.. I read it as a quick fact in a science mag, but it was titled something like 'disturbing to know that most of you, isnt you' though I disagree, that is what makes us, us.