SecretMethod70

The temperature at which copper melts is "Fahrenheit 1984." The Statue of Liberty is made of copper.

Makes ya think, eh?

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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

PulpMind

If you ever get stung by a jelly fish, the easiest way to counter the poison is to have someone pee on the sting. Acids and Bases, ya kno.

PulpMind

syzygy is the only word in the english language to have 3 y's. It also relates to the formation of 3 objects in a straight line (kind of like the word itself). Look it up, www.dictionary.com .. neat word.

it's also the name of a really good downtempo/idm dj here in seattle.

canuckguy

now that was a good one. that made me want to rethink the whole use of the internet for information if this is what i am learning!!!! top post btw.

Lasereth

You're right. My high-school math teacher showed us the mathematical proof. I think the number of random people in a room to have a 100% chance of duplicate birthdays is only 24.

-Lasereth

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NoSoup

Some Birthday Facts:

In England, when you reach 80, 90 or 100 years of age, you receive a telegram from the Queen.
In Japan, usually only the birthdays of 60, 70, 79, 88, and 99 rate gifts. Also, gifts consisting of less than ten items in a set should be given in odd numbers (tea cups are sold in sets of five). Avoid the numbers 4 and 9 in general. White gift wrap is associated with death (so is four of something).
Germans take birthdays seriously, sometimes receiving a half-day of vacation. Flowers and wine are common gifts among friends.
In China, small birthday gifts are given by family and friends. Age 30 is considered becoming an adult (there's quite a celebration). For men, age 60 is usually combined with retirement (for those doing physical labor). Don't give clocks as gifts (the Mandarin word for clock is similar to one for death). Avoid wrapping the gift using white, black or blue colors.
The French and Italian celebrate Name Days more so than birthdays.
In India, black and white gift wrapping is considered unlucky.
In the Islamic world, green is a good color to use for wrapping.
In Korea, the two most important birthdays are the 100th day and the 60th year.

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Just in case you were wondering...

Echodork

Echodork

Well, I can tell you that this isn't true. To have a 100% chance of duplicate birthdays, you'd need 366 people (not counting leap year birthdays). The math is a bit tricky and I don't feel like working it out right now, but I'm willing to accept that 30 people have a 90% chance for duplication

I think the forumula for finding the probability of a duplicate birthday is:

1 / (1/365 + 1/364 + 1/363...1/n-1) where n is the number of people in the room. I'm not sure, and that tends to disprove the theory that 30 people have a 90% chance, since using 30 for n results in a chance of about 9%, not 90%. But I got my degree in psych, any math students out there want to comment?

Memalvada

the worse ass-whooping in a soccer world cup was in Spain 1982, when El Salvador lost 1-10 agains Hungary.

Makes me feel proud to be salvadorean.

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"The weak are food for the strong, so die and let me feast!" - Makoto Shishio (RK)

zxello

You cannot lick your own elbow.

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Old signature just wasn't doing it for me anymore, so now I have this new one. It's equally as stupid but at least it looks really long. I'm probably just going to keep typing until I run out of things to babble about and see how many people actually read this. I once ran down a hill, fell down and hurt my elbow; my mom said I would be ok, she kissed it and made it all better. I've run out of things to say now, so if you have read this whole thing, congratulations you get a gold star!

Madd

I bet the guy from metalica could

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Pragma

It's a well known math problem known as the "Birthday Problem" - the number of people you need is a logarithmic function.

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birth...planation.html for more information, or Google.

Echodork

This is why I got my degree in psych and not math

treericetissue

actually, she's not. hermaphrodite would suggest that she has both male and female sexual organs, which is untrue. i read about this in my genetics text book. she was born with XY chromosomes, but does not have the correct hormones to produce male genitalia. it’s actually quite common. most girls that have this don’t find out until the time they should be having menstruation, at which time doctors have been known to tell them they have cancer on their ovaries, when in fact they are going in to remove testes which have not descended form inside the body. some medical professionals feel that it creates a problem with gender identity, so they don’t inform the person of the actual situation.

pinkie

A gallon of milk weighs 10 lbs...

Kalnaur

Usless information related to this: The Count on Sesame Street is named thus as a double meaning. He is the count (as a title) who loves to count (because he's a vampire who compulsivly counts things).

John Rhys-Davies, the actor who played Gimli contributed his voice to the character Jarek in the video game Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Along side him was famous actor Tony Jay, who contributed his voice to the evil Beholder Lord Zantam.

Speaking of voice acting and video games, the person who contributed their voice to Sephiroth in the US Version of Kingdom Hearts was none other than Lance Bass (from N*Sync). And on the subject of Kingdom hearts, the secret boss named Kurt Ziza was named thus because of a contest that, when entered, would give the winner of the contest a monster named after them. As you can tell, the winner was Kurt Ziza.

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PC: And the other 2 percent?
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pan6467

The Beatles only refused to tour with one group, that group was the KINKS.

In 1964 the Beatles and KINKS were touring together and the KINKS classic "You Really Got Me" came out. Back in England in those days they would have a lineup of many groups and the 2 headliners would each end a 1/2. The KINKS were to end the first 1/2 then the Beatles would end the last half as they were the biggest act.

The groups played 2 concerts and at both venues the calls for the KINKS (and the booing) while the Beatles played became so troublesome that by the 3rd show the Beatles had refused to go on after the KINKS. By the fifth show, the audiences boos and calls for the KINKS had gotten so bad, John Lennon flatly refused to go out at all. The KINKS were promptly dropped for the Rolling Stones.

The warring pair of "KINKY BOOTS" in the animated Beatles classic was a jab at Ray and Dave Davies, John Lennon was once quoted as saying the only band that could ever be bigger than the Beatles would be the KINKS, but, that would never happen because they were to busy trying to off one another.

John Lennon's favorite "non Beatles" song in the mid 60's was "Wonderboy" by the KINKS.

Sorry have to get this KINKS Trivia out.......

"Captain Jack" by Billy Joel is believed to be about masturbation when in reality it is about Jon Smalls heroin addiction.

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Gortexfogg

Humans and guinea pigs are the only organisms who need to get vitamin C in their diets.

pocon1

Actually, a kid did lick his own elbow. Here is the story from the Washington Post:

"Jack Burtis disproved a Snapple fact by licking his elbow."

Every morning, George Clancy, principal of St. James Middle School in Johnson City, N.Y., starts the school day by making announcements on the public address system, then reading an inspirational quote and a Snapple Real Fact. One day last spring, the Snapple fact read:

"It is impossible for humans to lick their own elbows."

Within seconds, virtually every one of the school's 175 students -- and several teachers -- were attempting to lick their elbows. None of them could do it -- except Jack Burtis.

Jack -- then a 10-year-old fourth-grader with supple arms and a long tongue -- effortlessly licked his elbow. He showed his teacher, who immediately sent him down to the principal's office. He showed Clancy, who heralded the lad's achievement by calling the local newspaper and writing to Snapple.

The newspaper, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, put a picture of Jack on the front page. The folks at Snapple called Clancy and asked if they could send the "Snapple Lady" to the school.

"I said, 'She's not like a Hooters lady, is she? This is a Catholic school,' " Clancy recalls.

Actually, the Snapple lady is Wendy Kaufman, a peppy, portly, middle-aged Everywoman who appeared in Snapple ads. When she came to St. James, two local TV stations sent news crews to record the historic event.

"Are you ready?" Kaufman asked Jack.

He was ready.

"Go, Jack!" she commanded.

He stuck out his left arm, twisted it so the elbow faced up, leaned forward and licked his elbow. The crowd went wild.

"Oh, my God!" the Snapple Lady screamed. "Oh, my God! He did it!"

She gave him a Snapple backpack and three cases of Snapple.

"Jack's gaining celebrity status because of his unique talent," reporter Justin Pizzi informed the WBNG-TV Action News audience.

Contacted later by The Washington Post, Jack reflected philosophically on his multimedia celebrity.

"It's cool," he said, coolly.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

athletics

A gallon weighs just over 8#

jimbob

There are more Ethiopian doctors in Washington DC than in Ethiopia.


Because because is a counjunction it might only be able to start sentences that tell us so.


Pictures Of Lily, by The Who, is about masturbation.

telekinetic

A gallon of water is. Milk is denser than water, therefore a gallon of milk will be heavier.

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Kalnaur

The word disaster comes from the latin words dis and aster. dis means 2, and aster means star. The latin word disaster meant two stars hitting each other and the ensuing chaos caused by this would definitly be a "disaster" as we term it.

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HK-47: I'm 98% percent sure this miniature organic meatbag wants you to help find his fellow miniature organic meatbags.
PC: And the other 2 percent?
HK-47: The other 2 percent is that he is just looking for trouble and needs to be blasted, but that might be wishful thinking on my part.

Tophat665

A Gallon of Honey weighs just about 12 lbs.

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Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

jadedt

PICKADD variable in AutoCAD allows you to toggle the selection of multiple objects within most commands.

VIEWRES variable set lower allows for faster screen regeneration but facets the rendition of circular objects such as arcs, circles and splines.

ISAVEPERCENT variable adjusts the speed of file saving at the expense of file size.

MageB420666

I can. Or at least I could, I apparently have lost a little flexibilty since then, but I can reach my elbow with my tongue and lick it a little.
After a few tries I finally got it where I was barely licking the tip of my elbow, but it's hard to tell because of my crappy webcam.



So I'm probably nowhere near as good as that kid, but I still like to delude myself.
And if you think that pic doesn't count, then you try doing it, it's really hard.

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MaGlC_MaN

that's incredibly incredible.

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tspikes51

Because of this post, I will differ. See, you sure as hell can begin a sentence with "because" and still be well within the rules of correct grammar.

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xepherys

The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.

As for Phi... well, there's a problem with the randomness of the "divine ratio". Let's take, for instance, the number 2.

Most animals have 2 eyes, 2 ears and two nostrils. Bipedal creatures each have 2 arms and 2 legs. Most male mammals have two testes. Birds have two wings, many fish have two gills. Humans are born with two lungs.

If I take a pie, and slice it in half, there are 2 pieces. If I slice it in half the other way, each of the 2 original pieces now have 2 pieces.

Reproduction requires male and female counterparts... two creatures in all (in most cases, of course).

2 is the "number of opposites". Night and Day, Good and Evil, Tall and Short, Wise and Ignorant, Wide and Narrow, White and Black, Here and There.

Stereo requires exactly 2 sounds sources. And since stereo sounds better than mono, perhaps 2 is the "audiophile number" as well.


I'm sure I could go on for a great length. In fact, I will post this explanation in the Phi thread as well (mods can delete it from here if the dual post is a problem). Phi is just haphazard luck in most mathemeticians books.

Ralvek

Abraham Lincoln is the only US president with a patent.

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Redlemon

Geez, how much is Snapple paying to advertize over the PA system every morning?

maleficent

Betcha there's a Snapple vending machine in the school somewhere

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone. (Lucy and Ricky Ricardo managed to get pregnant while sleeping in twin beds)

60 minutes is the only tv show without a theme song.

If you were spelling out numbers, you would not reach the letter A until you got to one thousand.

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mo42

If the DNA molecule was a meter wide, it would be 500 miles long, and the replisome which replicates it would be the size of a FedEx truck, and travel down the length of the molecule replicating base pairs at 375 mph, making a mistake only every 106 miles, and that mistake will probably be repaired.

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reiii

Jumping on mo42's DNA shaz

On Immortality:

Immortality would be possible if perfect replication were possible. There are immortal cancer cells which have 'turned off' aging, and will live as long as they get nutrients (potentially forever). Unfortunately programmed cell death and aging is one of your main defenses against cancer.

On cancer/mutations:
An average rate of mutation in a human is between one in one million and one in 500 million depending on environmental variables. Unfortunately you undergo replication billions of times each day, so the rate of mutation is rather high. However as mo42 mentioned, most mistakes are repaired, but:

You suffer 14 non repaired mutations in your blood cells each day, many more in your skin/intestine lining

So are you going to get cancer?

Probably only if you have genetic disposition for it; there are only a handful of cancer causing genes, and the chance of randomly incurring a mutation in one is extremely improbable. However your chance of inheriting a mutation in a cancer causing gene is more likely.

edit: extra word

xepherys

Interesting stuff mo42 and reiii... I'm curious though, what are the purposes of anti-oxidants in this formula. Do they not help expediate repairs to problem areas? Also, unrepaired mutations in blood cells seem almost moot. Most people replenish their blood supplies every x days, and I don't believe blood cells replicate themselves, and therefore cannot propogate bad structure. Correct?

mo42

Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, yes, as opposed to replicating like muscle cells.

Antioxidants are thought to help prevent oxygen and hydroxyl radicals from forming in cells, although since the study of antioxidants is recent, we aren't sure yet. Most of the time, in a chemical reaction, electrons will act in pairs. However, if an oxygen atom or OH group with an unpaired electron is present, it will react with just about anything it's next to (including a DNA molecule, which is normally unreactive to O2 and OH) and thus have the potential to wreck your DNA structure, among other things.



Edited for mis-statement

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reiii

Also u.v. rays are really good at forming the free radicals mo42 is talking about. You form tasty things called pyrimidine dimers, which are incorrectly bonded ajacent DNA molecules.

mmiller0617

A goose shits every 12 minutes

K-Wise

The actual legal term for the raping of an elderly woman is called "granny bashing"

Asta!!

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wnker85

Muscle Cells do not replicate