Totally Random Science Facts

[SimplyNothing]

What if they ran?

You're cheeky.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

 

[Chesterton]

Well, the sky is seriously evil. So I would say fair play to the tree.

The sky couldn't be evil. Why would Hendrix have said "Excuse me while I kiss the sky"? Maybe he was saying "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Indeed, as witnessed here:

(Censored to protect the delicate minds on this forum)

Curse you and your memetic citations!

 

[MorkandMindy]

Turning off every star not heating an inhabited planet would save more energy than turning off a hundred light bulbs

 

[SimplyNothing]

Wait what?

 

[AV1611VET]

In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Nope.

 

[Rilke's Granddaughter]

Nope.

Have you counted the words personally? I just did. Funny. Shake at 46 from the beginning and spear at 46 from the end. Nifty, huh?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Have you counted the words personally? I just did. Funny. Shake at 46 from the beginning and spear at 46 from the end. Nifty, huh?

This only works with the KJV And only if you ignore the 'Selah' at the end. Then it works.

 

[AV1611VET]

Have you counted the words personally? I just did. Funny. Shake at 46 from the beginning and spear at 46 from the end. Nifty, huh?

Nope -- try again.

 

[AV1611VET]

This only works with the KJV And only if you ignore the 'Selah' at the end. Then it works.

There ya go --

 

[Rilke's Granddaughter]

Nope -- try again.

I did. You're apparently not familiar with the King James Version of the Bible. You might want to try reading it - the language is quite beautiful and though it has a pretty fair number of inaccuracies, it's certainly the most felicitous translation into English ever made. Though Robert Alter's work with the Torah translation is brilliant.

 

[tanzanos]

The Earth is in your gravitational field,

and The Earth is a much bigger mass in your much weaker field

so you pull on it just as much as it pulls on you

Gravity does not PULL! Gravity warps the fabric of space time. This proves that Newton was wrong; for if Gravity "pulls" then if the sun was to instantly disappear then the Earth would instantly fly out of its orbit. This will be in direct violation of the limit of C.
YouTube - Gravity - From Newton to Einstein - The Elegant Universe

 

[MorkandMindy]

...Single-celled life forms in total on Earth out-weigh all the multi-celled life forms

Looks like bacteria own the earth!

Ownership

Well I think ownership only exists between humans, and relates to having a right to exclusive use or to owning the production of,

the concept is economically defined so to what extent property is personal is an interesting one in that a person's own country can take it in tax, and another country can also such as when the US bombed everything in sections of South Vietnam or Laos or Cambodia there were no qualms about destroying personal property, so ownership seems to have two levels, personal ownership excludes other persons, whereas an altogether higher level is national ownership which excludes other nations provided the military force exists protect it


Bacteria

But I would definitely say the single-celled life forms run the place, or at least that's what my 1E14 bacteria keep telling my own 1E13 body cells


That's the random scientific fact: human cells are outnumbered by the (mostly lots smaller) bacteria cells in our very own bodies. Lets hope they don't discover democracy!



(1E14 is the way 1x10 to the 14 is expressed in Excel among other places and it my preferred way of expressing large numbers)

 

[MorkandMindy]

"Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9?" -- Dr. Egon Spengler

Is that Egon's way of saying 'Is the Pope a Catholic?'

 

[Supreme]

Did you know, that petrol companies change their blends of petrol four times a year? This is because the volatility of petrol changes in hot and cold climates.

 

[tanzanos]

Did you know, that petrol companies change their blends of petrol four times a year? This is because the volatility of petrol changes in hot and cold climates.

That I did not know! I remember in boarding school we had an old series one that belonged to our CCF and once warmed up we used to run it on paraffin!

 

[Supreme]

That I did not know! I remember in boarding school we had an old series one that belonged to our CCF and once warmed up we used to run it on paraffin!

You didn't notice that petrol companies change their petrol blends- but you'd certainly notice if they didn't!

 

[Naraoia]

That's the random scientific fact: human cells are outnumbered by the (mostly lots smaller) bacteria cells in our very own bodies. Lets hope they don't discover democracy!

I think they democratically decided that a constant environment, protection from all manner of bacterium-eating monsters and plenty of food is worth keeping an animal body alive

 

[Upisoft]

Humans consume about 10 times more energy per volume than the Sun produces.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Humans consume about 10 times more energy per volume than the Sun produces.

Source? If we consume more than the Sun produces, what are we consuming? All energy comes from the Sun, so we can't consume more than the Sun puts out.
And the Sun puts out a lot.