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The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

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If you take a regular deck of cards, and spend a decent amount of time vigorously shuffling it for a couple minutes. When you are done shuffling, the order that the deck of cards is in has VERY VERY likely never been done before ever in the history of the universe... ever.

Basically everytime you have shuffled a deck of cards in your life you have very likely created an order of cards that has never been before and never will be again.
 
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you beat me to it, lol.......
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I live in a desert, in canada who sees very little snow in the winter.

Also the earth is not actually flat
 

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I live in a desert, in canada who sees very little snow in the winter.

Also the earth is not actually flat

No one is going to buy that. But nice try. I actually live in Canada and it's been snowing here for about two weeks. That's what Canada does.
 

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No one is going to buy that. But nice try. I actually live in Canada and it's been snowing here for about two weeks. That's what Canada does.
mkay, buy it or dont, tis true though, Okanagan valley. I'm still wearing T-shirts with the windows down sucker. Plus Vancouver snows like 3 days/year (I'm 4 hours east)
 

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A physicist named Max Planck was fascinated with limits, and not just "how far can you go on a gallon of gas." He defined a series of constants:

Planck Length: the minimum distance anything can move. Move anything less than that, and it hasn't moved.

Planck Time: the minimum amount of time. Less than that, no time has passed; more than that, time has passed.

There are a bunch of others, but these two are the big ones.


Charles Darwin had an Uncle, Erasmus. he invented modified Ackerman steering, a system of steering in which the inside wheel and the outside wheel of a vehicle turn at different rates to accommodate the different line required by each. Most automakers use it to this day.

If you could unwind a DNA chromosome, it would be slightly over two meters long.

Defense against lasers: if possible, determine what color of laser the enemy is using. Have all your armor made the exact same color, but shiny. Laser effectiveness is all about absorption of the energy of the beam. If the armor is the same color as the beam, absorption is highly limited. If your armor happens to be the complimentary color of the beam, absorption of energy increases to nearly 100%, and you've got problems. Lasers can be reflected with mirrors, but only if they are visible light. If the enemy has x-ray or gamma ray lasers, well, here's hoping you can learn the language of of your conqueror, quickly!


Lasers, as we think of them, are actually a source of coherent light combined with a collimator. The collimator is what makes a laser "beam." The beam has nothing to do with any inherent quality of coherent light. A laser with no collimator will be omnidirectional as ... anything. All it takes to make light coherent, or "lase" is to pump a particular quantity of energy into a cloud of gas in a specific time. Several nebulae exhibit omnidirectional coherent light, among them, Eta Carinae. It just looks like a big cloud all lit up with a truckload of light from an exploding giant star. now, if you could build a collimator around it (which you can't, because ... lots of reasons ...) you would have weapon that would make the Death Star look like a pop-gun. Yu cold terrorize the entire galaxy, demanding tribute, or in 14,000,000 years you destroy the enemy's planet. Because you're still stuck with the limits of the speed of light.
 
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A physicist named Max Planck was fascinated with limits, and not just "how far can you go on a gallon of gas." He defined a series of constants:

Planck Length: the minimum distance anything can move. Move anything less than that, and it hasn't moved.

Planck Time: the minimum amount of time. Less than that, no time has passed; more than that, time has passed.

There are a bunch of others, but these two are the big ones.


Charles Darwin had an Uncle, Erasmus. he invented modified Ackerman steering, a system of steering in which the inside wheel and the outside wheel of a vehicle turn at different rates to accommodate the different line required by each. Most automakers use it to this day.

If you could unwind a DNA chromosome, it would be slightly over two meters long.

Defense against lasers: if possible, determine what color of laser the enemy is using. Have all your armor made the exact same color, but shiny. Laser effectiveness is all about absorption of the energy of the beam. If the armor is the same color as the beam, absorption is highly limited. If your armor happens to be the complimentary color of the beam, absorption of energy increases to nearly 100%, and you've got problems. Lasers can be reflected with mirrors, but only if they are visible light. If the enemy has x-ray or gamma ray lasers, well, here's hoping you can learn the language of of your conqueror, quickly!


Lasers, as we think of them, are actually a source of coherent light combined with a collimator. The collimator is what makes a leaser "beam." The beam has nothing to do with any inherent quality of coherent light. A laser with no collimator will be omnidirectional as ... anything. All it takes to make light coherent, or "lase" is to pump a particular quantity of energy into a cloud of gas in a specific time. Several nebulae exhibit omnidirectional coherent light, among them, Eta Carinae. It just looks like a big cloud all lit up with a truckload of light from an exploding giant star. now, if you could build a collimator around it (which you can't, because ... lots of reasons ...) you would have weapon that would make the Death Star look like a pop-gun. Yu cold terrorize the entire galaxy, demanding tribute, or in 14,000,000 years you destroy the enemy's planet. Because you're still stuck with the limits of the speed of light.
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If you take a regular deck of cards, and spend a decent amount of time vigorously shuffling it for a couple minutes. When you are done shuffling, the order that the deck of cards is in has VERY VERY likely never been done before ever in the history of the universe... ever.

Basically everytime you have shuffled a deck of cards in your life you have very likely created an order of cards that has never been before and never will be again.

Hell there's only 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 (8.0658e67) ways you can shuffle a deck of cards.
 

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