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Post by odin13 on Jun 5, 2014 19:20:02 GMT
That a cats jaws have no sideways movement, but only up & down, or that ice is one of the very few solids that floats in it's liquid form? Feel free to add any little tidbits or oddities of your own.
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 5, 2014 19:51:07 GMT
Computer keyboards can carry more than 200 times bacterial as many as a toilet seat.
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Post by odin13 on Jun 5, 2014 21:58:59 GMT
www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htmFirst Computer Bug The Bug In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer). On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F. The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. (See the picture above.) The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found." (See the link at the bottom of this page for a much larger version of this picture.) The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born. Although Grace Hopper was always careful to admit that she was not there when it actually happened, it was one of her favorite stories. The exhibit One of the most common stories about the moth, and a story I often repeated, was that the moth was on display at the Smithsonian. A correspondent for the Online Hacker Jargon File decided to check on it and guess what . . . it wasn't there. In 1990, the editor of the Online Hacker Jargon File did some investigating. Turns out that the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia. They had tried to donate it to the Smithsonian, but that the Smithsonian wouldn't accept it. The 1990 curator of the History of American Technology Museum (part of the Smithsonian) didn't know all of this, agreed to accept it, and took it in 1991. It took years to be actually exhibited due to space and money constraints. As the Online Hacker Jargon File notes Thus, the process of investigating the original-computer-bug bug fixed it in an entirely unexpected way, by making the myth true!
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 6, 2014 4:49:42 GMT
Grace Hopper was a rock chick! Anyone have any spare seconds on them?
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Post by rubgish on Jun 6, 2014 6:26:29 GMT
Did you know that if you cool pure water down fast enough, it can actually turn into a glass rather than ice, and that the majority of the water in the universe is most likely in this glass form rather than as solid ice.
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 6, 2014 6:29:52 GMT
Did you know that Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who?
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 6, 2014 10:55:25 GMT
No man has walked on the moon, in over 40 years.
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 6, 2014 11:20:25 GMT
No man has walked on the moon, in over 40 years. If anyone ever walked on the moon.  |
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Post by odin13 on Jun 6, 2014 15:58:18 GMT
Glass is an amorphous liquid, and flows over time, albeit extremely slowly. Pieces of glass in the Sistine chapel's stained glass windows have had to be releaded, since the bottoms of the pieces have become thicker, & the tops thinner.
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 7, 2014 13:51:27 GMT
No man has walked on the moon, in over 40 years. If anyone ever walked on the moon. Hey! Somebody did not watch the Mythbusters ep where they debunked that conspiracy theory. LOL |
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 7, 2014 13:53:19 GMT
Did you know, Coca-cola was originally green?
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Post by odin13 on Jun 7, 2014 14:04:34 GMT
Did you know, Coca-cola was originally green? Coca Cola DID contain cocaine @ one time but for a reason you would not expect. snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp |
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 7, 2014 14:09:11 GMT
Interesting, I wonder if that is why Coke ultimately won the soda war? It's such a cool ass name!
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jun 7, 2014 23:28:19 GMT
If anyone ever walked on the moon. Hey! Somebody did not watch the Mythbusters ep where they debunked that conspiracy theory. LOL Sure, coz the mythbusters are always so spot on with their pseudo-scientific experiments. :rolleyes: |
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Post by Qetesh on Jun 8, 2014 0:06:54 GMT
Hey! Somebody did not watch the Mythbusters ep where they debunked that conspiracy theory. LOL Sure, coz the mythbusters are always so spot on with their pseudo-scientific experiments. :rolleyes: I think they did a pretty good job debunking that one. Did you even see it? |
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Post by morsealworth on Aug 8, 2014 14:49:19 GMT
That Aphrodite being a daughter of Uranus was a result of political propaganda and censorship?
Homer mentions her as daughter of Zeus and "Dione" ("The goddess") of the sea.
Let's look who is the sea.
1. Titan Ocean - male.
2. Amphitrite, a sea goddess, wife of Poseidon, his consort, known for suffering large downing of her cult and demotion.
So, we see that Aphrodite was daughter of Zeus and Amphitrite.
And if we look into both mythos, Uranus's genitals seem way less of an actual myth than an affair of Zeus with the wife of his brother, especially considering that vast majority of Zeus-related mythos are about his affairs and at least three children of Hera and Zeus - Ares, Eris and Enyo - are triplets.
But someone tried to get rid of Amphitrite and Ocean was male, so...
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Aug 8, 2014 20:56:07 GMT
I like cake.
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Aug 8, 2014 21:16:49 GMT
I would never have guessed. |
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Post by 13thGeneral on Aug 9, 2014 19:24:21 GMT
The cultivated potato generally has 48 chromosomes in its genetic make-up.
A human being has only 46.
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Post by Qetesh on Aug 9, 2014 19:25:30 GMT
The cultivated potato generally has 48 chromosomes in its genetic make-up. A human being has only 46. Dammit! Now I want some french fries! LOL. |
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