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[estelleonline]

A while back i learned and memorized the speed of light. 300,000,000 m/s. I also learned that it is MATHEMATICALLY proven that if you can travel faster than this, time sort of stops. So in theory I guess you could say time travel is possible as long as you can travel this quickly. Except it would be different from what science fiction tells us it is. It would just be getting from point a to point b (like in traffic) at the same time you left, not like changing events or something.

I also learned the universe supposedly expands a few billion miles or something every hour

Drugs and prostitution is legal in amsterdam... wtf?

There are lizards that live in the desert that quirt blood up to 5ft out of their eyes as a defense mechanism

It actually IS possible to lick your elbow. You just have to be rediculously flexible. Try doing it every day and eventually you will be able to stretch far enough to do it. Its kinda like putting your legs behind your neck... I know this because i saw my friend lick his elbow.

You know that song called lithium by evanescence? Well she got that song off mozart! She just added words to it and used guitars instead of the classical instruments.

There are monkeys that can type on keyboards and talk to their trainers. They think like us. One of them got mad at the trainer and told him to go away because they were mad. They also "invented" a form of swearing among themselves. quite interesting.

A mad scientist cut the head off a dog and attached it to stuff. The head lived fully functioning (drooling at the smeel of food, breathing, etc) for 2 days

There are computers made to write poetry but it isnt very good

There are brain damaged people that cant read or understand what you are saying but they can write fluently. They just cant read it back when they finish. And they wouldnt be able to tell you what they wrote but it could be the most brilliant paper ever. They just wouldnt know.

[Ash-Bash]

Wow some very nice and interesting facts there, Talking about facts on my chocolate bar it has "Woweee Fact! A butterfly has 12,000 eyes" I didn't know that but do now
And on the other chocolate bar is has "Wowee Fact! Women blink nearly trice as often as men" Didn't know that either but do now !

[Saint_Michael]

I thought this topic was about the Universe and not just some random facts found on some website.

Here is one for you, although we are the only planet to have life in the known universe, that is somewhat false as microbes and bacteria are considered life and so they do exist else where in the universe.

Also for ever galaxy in the universe there is at least one massive black hole in its center.

The most distant object every recorded was a gamma ray bust that was some 12+ billion light years away, meaning that this gamma burst happen 12 billion years ago and we are just now seeing it for the fist time.

Since the beginning of planet searching, almost 400 planets or planet-like systems have been found in our known universe.

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our solar system at 4.5 light years and on top of that our sun is the only star in our known solar system.
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[estelleonline]

Well actually... I happen to have a very curious personality. I have read many books from the library all my life. I happened to have those memorized. I didnt go look them up on the internet or something. Those are just facts that I remember that were stored in my brain.

Speaking of chocolate I heard there are an averge of 6 insect legs in every chocolate bar. I dont know if thats true or not but... hey. XD

[antares19]

Utterly fascinating

[Ash-Bash]

Lol well yeah but I just saw them facts out the corner of my eye so I felt they could be posted .

[flashy]

Ash-Bash, on Feb 27 2009, 09:41 PM, said:

Wow some very nice and interesting facts there, Talking about facts on my chocolate bar it has "Woweee Fact! A butterfly has 12,000 eyes" I didn't know that but do now
And on the other chocolate bar is has "Wowee Fact! Women blink nearly trice as often as men" Didn't know that either but do now !

Arent they those "Cheweee" bars from Aldi

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Oooo, very interesting!

That dog and the head one, there was a man that did it with a chicken, but the other half - all he had to do was clean the neck area every hour or so, sew up the veins and arteries that joined up to the head and the chicken body lived for 18 months!

Heard it off the radio about 5 years ago - i still remember it - heres an article about it http://en.wikipedia....eadless_Chicken

[kleong]

I like the part on time travel. I did came across an article saying that if one could be in a, say capsule, that is tilted at the same angle as Earth and spin faster than the planet itself, time travel is possible.

[ZettaAIR]

Im never going to Amsterdam now....too scared. If this is legal, there probably are night shootings nightly. Who wants to get killed eating a burger at McDonalds?

I can lick my elbow. My elbow is double-jointed so I can twist it and lick it. My friends think it's disgusting but whatever.

[Iota]

There is a theory about the universe expanding. They say eventually, it will stop expanding, and inevitably begin to shrink again. Once it culminates in the center, a "big crunch", the opposite of the big bang shall occur. Then, ANOTHER big bang will happen, and the universe will start over again.

Monkey's are incredibly intelligent. Gorilla's can have IQs nearing 100!

Even at the speed of light, it would take years to reach the nearest star (aside from the sun)

It would take 8 minutes (roughly) at the speed of light to reach the sun from Earth.

Black Holes can't actually be seen. They are so dense, they trap everything with their inertia. Even light can't escape, so we can't actually see them.

Its true, your head can survive indepedantly for a short time. (Without special conditions though, its only a few seconds)

Chances are, if every religion on the planet is even slightly right, then if there are such things as "aliens", then they aren't as advanced as us, and are probably making scary films and having nightmares about US.