Weird things you didn't know

[Star Worms]

Why have you been looking at my passport?Oh, no reason...

*presses off button on printer*

[Nugget]

Did you know that you can make over 250.000 different faces?

[Muzer]

you can't say elliot, eliiot, elliot, elliot loads of times quite fast without it sounding like "elly a telly a telly a telly a t"

[BuffaloKid]

You can if you have an odd accent like me so it sounds more like 'oh telly oh telly etc.'

[Lawd]

Jeffrey Combs played eight (:eek:) different Star Trek characters, three of which were recurring, two of which were in the same series!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Combs
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Jeffrey_Combs

Memory Alpha (the second one) is a Star Trek wiki.

EDIT: He was the first actor to ever play two unrelated roles in one episode (Weyoun and Brunt from the DS9 episode "The Dogs of War."

I also seem to remember he appeared in season 1 of Babylon 5 as a meber of the Psy Corp, assigned to help Colonel Someoneorother in his interrogation of the staff.

[AndrewTaylor]

Memory Alpha (the second one) is a Star Trek wiki.
They're both Star Trek wikis.

[Paul.Power]

Did you know that you can make over 250.000 different faces?I always assumed that facial expression would be a continuous distribution, thus making the number of potential faces infinite.

[Nugget]

Did you know that Dan Castellaneta, (actor from The Simpsons), has the voice of Homer Simpson, Abraham Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Joe Q'uimby, Fred Q'uimby (Joe's nephew), Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, Itchy, Kodos and Arnie Pie.

(EDIT): I didn't know that "Q'uimby" ( without the ' ) was a swear word ...
But I looked it up in Wikipedia. I didn't know it was a British slang for that.
And now that I think of it - The 'Knee Trembler' weapon in Worms 4, that's also a British euphemism for something sexually related.

[Lawd]

They're both Star Trek wikis.
Wikipedia is a wiki encyclopedia; it deals with anything anyone cares to enter. Memory Alpha is a Star Trek wiki; it deals only with Star Trek stuff.

EDIT:

Did you know that Dan Castellaneta, (actor from The Simpsons), has the voice of...
And a guy called Nordom from Planesape: Torment too. Linky will come soon.

EDIT 2: http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/pc/planescape/characters.shtml

[Pigbuster]

A common pangram (sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet) is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." However, this panram is often misquoted as "jumped over the lazy dog", and then it lacks an s and isn't a pangram anymore.

My favorite pangram is "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

Sentences that use each letter of the alphabet only once are rare. The only one I know of that I think actually makes sense is "Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ."

Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable are the longest words in which no letter appears more than once.

Subbookkeeper is the only word with four pairs of double letters in a row.

e is the most common letter in the english language.

j and k are the only letters that don't appear in any cardinal number.

Zero is the only real number that contains a z.

"Typewriter" isn't the only 10-letter word that can be typed with the top row of a typewriter. The same goes for "perpetuity", "proprietor", "repertoire", and others.

On a computer keyboard, the longest possible word to type on the top row is "teeter-totter".

The longest word that can be typed on only the middle row is "shakalshas".

No words can be typed only using the bottom row, as it has no vowels.

[bonz]

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Thats why it is used in Windows' fonts folder.
No words can be typed only using the bottom row, as it has no vowels.
On German keyboards the "Y" is on the lowerst row, which lets me type such words as "my" or "by".

[Paul.Power]

A Venusian day is longer than a Venusian year. Venus takes 243 Earth days to spin on its axis once, but 224.7 Earth days to orbit the Sun once. Venus also spins in the opposite direction to most Solar System bodies, clockwise around its North Pole as opposed to anticlockwise.

Pluto's moon Charon is the largest satellite relative to the size of the planet it orbits, its diameter being approximately a quarter of Pluto's. Second is our own Moon, whose diameter is about a sixth of the Earth's. All other moons are either tiny (e.g. Mars' Phobos and Deimos), or large but orbiting an even larger planet (e.g. Ganymede around Jupiter or Titan around Saturn)

Jupiter and Neptune both appear to have fission reactions occurring in their cores. This, incidentally, is why Neptune has a similar temperature to Uranus despite being twice as far from the Sun.

The combined gravitational effect of all the other planets on the Earth is less that that of the Moon's (A fact which rather defeats planetary alignment doomsday theorists)

[bonz]

"Xena" and it's moon "Gabrielle":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313
a 10th planet or only 8 planets from now on?

The combined gravitational effect of all the other planets on the Earth is less that that of the Moon's (A fact which rather defeats planetary alignment doomsday theorists)
You obviously never watched "MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis". :)

[Paul.Power]

"Xena" and it's moon "Gabrielle":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313
a 10th planet or only 8 planets from now on?Personally I prefer the 8 planets reasoning. It's more logical to reclassify Pluto as a Kuiper Belt object than to start tossing in random extra planets that people have to try and fit into the astronomical model.

You obviously never watched "MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis".As a matter of fact, I haven't. Why?

[bonz]

Personally I prefer the 8 planets reasoning. It's more logical to reclassify Pluto as a Kuiper Belt object than to start tossing in random extra planets that people have to try and fit into the astronomical model.
That's my point of view too.
It will get harder & harder to find a proper memory rhyme if more & more planets where added. :D
As a matter of fact, I haven't. Why?
Because a planetary alignment occurs in that movie.

[Paul.Power]

Because a planetary alignment occurs in that movie.It's also worth noting that planetary alignments occur every few years and NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.

Much as I respect MacGyver's technical wizardry, he's a victim of Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planets.html)

[Nugget]

To belive or not to believe:
The 'Gandhi' movie won 33 awards. :p

[bonz]

To belive or not to believe:
The 'Gandhi' movie won 33 awards. :p
True.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/awards

[pilot62]

Jupiter and Neptune both appear to have fission reactions occurring in their cores. This, incidentally, is why Neptune has a similar temperature to Uranus despite being twice as far from the Sun.
That makes sence, as gas planets are just balls of gas not large enough to become stars.

On another astrological note, we only know black holes are there because we can't see them.

[AndrewTaylor]

astrological
Astronomical. Not the same thing.

[Paul.Power]

That and it's not even right. There's very strong evidence that quasars are supermassive black holes, and they're some of the brightest things out there. The light comes from the hot gas being sucked in emitting radiation.

[AndrewTaylor]

Personally I prefer the 8 planets reasoning. It's more logical to reclassify Pluto as a Kuiper Belt object than to start tossing in random extra planets that people have to try and fit into the astronomical model.
It's tempting to think of anything with a moon as being a proper planet, though, isn't it?

[bonz]

It's tempting to think of anything with a moon as being a proper planet, though, isn't it?
Bye bye, Mercury & Venus!
Hello Miss Ida!

[Paul.Power]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Ceres have a moon as well?

And our moon's bigger than Pluto. Ganymede's bigger than Mercury. Should we stop being orbitist and call those planets?

[Gardy Looo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Ceres have a moon as well?

And our moon's bigger than Pluto. Ganymede's bigger than Mercury. Should we stop being orbitist and call those planets?
Actually, they might be bigger than other planets but the main difference is the planet-sized moons go around the planet itself.

[bonz]

Actually, they might be bigger than other planets but the main difference is the planet-sized moons go around the planet itself.
They also go around the sun. :rolleyes:
And you might say that actually Jupiter travels around Ganymede.

Your point of view seems relatively absolute to me. ;)
Ever heard of Einstein?

[Phat Lewt]

Today I learned that mass-microwaving live hamsters can't be covered up easily.

...

[AndrewTaylor]

And you might say that actually Jupiter travels around Ganymede.
You could indeed say that. It would be more accurate, though, not to say that.

Strictly, though, all the moons of jupiter, jupiter itself, the sun, my hand, your face, Goeff Hoon, and the 1707 to York all exert a gravitational force on each other. If you had only two objects, say jupiter and ganymede, then it they'd be coupled and would both orbit a central point somewhere within jupiter. But with jupiter having so many moons its position doesn't really change much as far as ganymede is concerned.

[pilot62]

That and it's not even right. There's very strong evidence that quasars are supermassive black holes, and they're some of the brightest things out there. The light comes from the hot gas being sucked in emitting radiation.
I was always told that black holes were so massive than not even light could escape their gravity. This would explain when scientists observe black areas in space, because they wouldn't be able to see anything behing it.

But I know very little about quasars, just that there very distant and very bright.

And anyway, most of that was learnt in physics in school, so I'm quite prepared to believe its wrong. ;)

[bonz]

It would be more accurate, though, not to say that.
Not really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Lack_of_an_absolute_reference_f rame

[AndrewTaylor]

Not really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Lack_of_an_absolute_reference_f rame
Well done. You have successfully misinterpreted relativity.

You're well on your way to becoming a bestselling authour in America with a fake doctorate.

I was always told that black holes were so massive than not even light could escape their gravity. This would explain when scientists observe black areas in space, because they wouldn't be able to see anything behing it.

But I know very little about quasars, just that there very distant and very bright.

And anyway, most of that was learnt in physics in school, so I'm quite prepared to believe its wrong. ;)
There are many ways to see black holes. They bend light around them, like a bubble in water would bend the image of the bottom of the pool. Quasars suck in gases and that emits light (from outside the black hole) -- that's what Paul says anyway. Obviously nobody really knows what a quasar is. It's not easy to go and check. Also, they emit Hawking Radiation, which is a confusing sort of radiation that you can create yourself simply by accellerating, although you'll create it a long, long way away, and it will only exist for you.

That is why relativity is confusing.

[Shockdude]

on ebay, a guy paid $20 for nothing
also, a guy paid over $100,000 for a sandwich

[Paul.Power]

Well done. You have successfully misinterpreted relativity.

You're well on your way to becoming a bestselling authour in America with a fake doctorate.


There are many ways to see black holes. They bend light around them, like a bubble in water would bend the image of the bottom of the pool. Quasars suck in gases and that emits light (from outside the black hole) -- that's what Paul says anyway. Obviously nobody really knows what a quasar is. It's not easy to go and check. Also, they emit Hawking Radiation, which is a confusing sort of radiation that you can create yourself simply by accellerating, although you'll create it a long, long way away, and it will only exist for you.

That is why relativity is confusing.Another instance where you can detect a black hole is when it's in a binary star system with another, fairly ordinary star. By observing how pronounced the ordinary star's wobble is, you can determine whether its companion is a white dwarf (reasonable wobble), a neutron star (bigger wobble) or a black hole (really big wobble)

[WormGod]

Euouae is the longest word with only vowels.

Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any vowels. (Although some would call 'y' a vowel.)

My favourite long word is antidisestablishmentarianism, founded by the 19th century church of England.

[Rarsonic]

Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any vowels. (Although some would call 'y' a vowel.)

Well, we could call "y" and "w" vowels. If you pay attention, the "w" sounds like a "u".

Impossible to explain with a language with a so-stupid pronunciation respect the writing

[pilot62]

Also, they emit Hawking Radiation, which is a confusing sort of radiation that you can create yourself simply by accellerating, although you'll create it a long, long way away, and it will only exist for you.

That is why relativity is confusing.
Is that red shift, or am I thinking of something else.

Yea, physics in general tends to be confusing.


Anyway, Edward I wasn't the first English king called Edward, but the normans decided to disregard all the saxon kings.

[Paul.Power]

Right, Hawking radiation.

First, let me mention quantum foam: the concept that empty space is full of particle-antiparticle pairs popping into existance and reannihilating. Essentially, the universe is borrowing and repaying energy all the time.

Now imagine what happens at the event horizon of a black hole. The two particles pop into existence. One falls down the black hole, the other escapes. Without its partner to annihilate with, it flies off into the cosmos. This is Hawking radiation.

[Alien King]

Is that red shift, or am I thinking of something else.

that's to do with objects moving at very high speeds. i think...

Right, Hawking radiation.

First, let me mention quantum foam: the concept that empty space is full of particle-antiparticle pairs popping into existance and reannihilating. Essentially, the universe is borrowing and repaying energy all the time.

Now imagine what happens at the event horizon of a black hole. The two particles pop into existence. One falls down the black hole, the other escapes. Without its partner to annihilate with, it flies off into the cosmos. This is Hawking radiation.

while i understood none of that really, i managed to come to some sort of conclusion

hawking radiation is made up of particles or anitparticles that have not been annihilated by their opposite

i did not understand how the "the universe is borrowing and repaying energy all the time" bit fits in with the quantum foam concept though

[pilot62]

that's to do with objects moving at very high speeds. i think...

Well, yea, I know what red and blue shift are, I just didn't know what Hawking radiation was. :o

[MrBunsy]

Well, yea, I know what red and blue shift are, I just didn't know what Hawking radiation was. :o
I still don't. I can cope with the doppler effect, but quantum physics just plain confuses me at the moment.

[SuperBlob]

My favourite long word is antidisestablishmentarianism, founded by the 19th century church of England.
Even after pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

[WormGod]

Even after pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

Up up up.. You forgot..

*inhales*

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*dies*

But even that's not the longest.

[Lawd]

Up up up.. You forgot..

*inhales*

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*dies*

But even that's not the longest.
Is there any chance of that exploding?

[AndrewTaylor]

i did not understand how the "the universe is borrowing and repaying energy all the time" bit fits in with the quantum foam concept though
Well, that's a strange one too.

The uncertainty principle (as I understand it) says that you can get free energy, but the more you get the less time you can have it for. We're talking almost infinitessimal amounts here. It's like the way that electrons (well, anything, but usually it's electrons) can pass clean through walls. The thicker the wall and the harder to pass through it is, the less likely they are to get through but they always can. Although, at no point are they ever within the wall. I mean, that would be silly.

But the trick (according to a thing I read in New Scientist) with Hawking Radiation is that (according to general relativity) gravity and accelleration are one and the same thing. (This is why that jupiter/ganymede thing doesn't work -- if you put a frame of reference on Ganymede then it's an accellerating frame and that introduces extra "gravity" forces to compensate, much like the Coreolis effect.) So if you accellerate then you create gravity, and therefore an event horizon. And therefore Hawking Radiation appears.

But I didn't accellerate, so I can't see it. How messed up is that?

[bonz]

Well done. You have successfully misinterpreted relativity.
Seems like i haven't payed attention in my last biochemistry lecture.

[Paul.Power]

Seems like i haven't payed attention in my last biochemistry lecture.
Why on earth would they be teaching Relativity in biochem?

[Nugget]

Did you know that ...
All the spells and jinxes in Harry Potter are written in latin, and the name of the spell often describes the effect of it? F.ex - Accio! means "I summon".

[pilot62]

Did you know that ...
All the spells and jinxes in Harry Potter are written in latin, and the name of the spell often describes the effect of it? F.ex - Accio! means "I summon".
Yes.

Incendo, for instance, is a very obvious one.

[Scotworm]

Not exactly a fact, but it's weird and kind of funny.

Every day on the bus I take to school, the radio is set the BBC Radio 1, and the journey goes withour any problems. But, on 2 (possibly 3, I forget) seperate occasions, the radio has been tuned to BBC Radio 2, and the bus stalled on a hill - twice. Does the Steve Wright show have some sort of effect on the brain? Or is just our woman driver? :p

[Nugget]

Yes.

Incendo, for instance, is a very obvious one.

Petrificus Totalus ...

Etymology: Latin petra, "stone" and fieri (past participle factus), "to become"; totalus comes from Latin "totus", meaning "complete".

= totally petrified, for example.

[Star Worms]

Up up up.. You forgot..

*inhales*

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*dies*

But even that's not the longest.
Write out the chemical name for my DNA...

[AndrewTaylor]

Write out the chemical name for my DNA...
Uh... deoxyribonucleic acid?

[bonz]

Why on earth would they be teaching Relativity in biochem?
I asked myself the same question.
But it could have been a flashback from a few years back from an experimental physics lecture.

[pilot62]

Uh... deoxyribonucleic acid?
He probably meant the chemical name as in with all the elements.

[Paul.Power]

He probably meant the chemical name as in with all the elements.Bearing in mind that organic compound nomenclature doesn't work like that...

[Nugget]

Bet you didn't know that ...

The movie 'Saw II' is one of the few feature films that had a very low budget and shooting time, but reached big success all over the world. All the scenes had been shot in the same building, and finished over the short time of just 25 days. The budget was also on just small $ 4 mill dollars, and the movie grossed over $ 116 mill dollars worldwide.

[Akuryou13]

holy cow! are you serious? it was done in less than a month's time?! and under 4 million no less?! that's crazy!

[philby4000]

Thtat's nothing compaired to the blair whitch project.

[beaver2009]

Apparently, according to some movie buff I know, the biggest investment:return ratio was made by Deep Throat, which cost around 50,000 yet raked in hundreds of millions.

A cookie for naming the type of movie it was(I recommend looking at the...eh...name).

[WormGod]

Bet you didn't know that ...

The movie 'Saw II' is one of the few feature films that had a very low budget and shooting time, but reached big success all over the world. All the scenes had been shot in the same building, and finished over the short time of just 25 days. The budget was also on just small $ 4 mill dollars, and the movie grossed over $ 116 mill dollars worldwide.

The original was shot in 18 days.

Don't know the budget, though.

[SuperBlob]

Apparently, according to some movie buff I know, the biggest investment:return ratio was made by Deep Throat, which cost around 50,000 yet raked in hundreds of millions.

A cookie for naming the type of movie it was(I recommend looking at the...eh...name).
PORNOGRAPHICAL?!? :p

[bonz]

the biggest investment:return ratio was made by Deep Throat, which cost around 50,000 yet raked in hundreds of millions.
Though it's not certain, because the Mafia was involved and tends to launder their money through porno production.

[Nugget]

The original was shot in 18 days.

Don't know the budget, though.

Hm, only 1.2 mill budget on the first one. That's looooow.

[Kelster23]

this really isnt going anywere. lets come up with somthing new! how about this...

sneaker was first used to describe rubber-soled tennis shoe in 1873

The latest record for cramming people in a volkswagen beetle is 25.

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in each gallon of seawater

In japan they have square watermelons grown in boxes to be stacked better

There are as many chickens in this planet as humans

Pieboy really is the man <--- no joke!

Mel Blanc, the man who did the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots!

slugs have four noses

thats all for now :)
Scary... all of those are in my planner, except for the Pieboy ones :rolleyes:
Anime (Japanese Limited Animation) only uses about 8 frames a second, while normal animation uses about 24.

[Iguana]

Anime (Japanese Limited Animation) only uses about 8 frames a second, while normal animation uses about 24.
Actually, that's just the really crappy ones, look at something like FLCL for instance. Better than most western animation I've seen.

[Alien King]

Anime (Japanese Limited Animation) only uses about 8 frames a second, while normal animation uses about 24.

As Iggy said, only the crap ones use 8fps.

I think 24fps is similar to what your achieves, hence why it's frequently used for animation.

[Paul.Power]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the "the Americans spent twelve million dollars trying to develop a pen that'd work in outer space... the Russians used a pencil!" anecdote.

But did you know that there's a reason why the Americans didn't use pencils?

Graphite (pencil "lead") is a conductor of electricity (the only common non-metal conductor). And when you're using a pencil, the end tends to snap every so often. Even if it didn't, bits will splinter or rub off in ordinary usage.

Now put these little bits of pencil in a zero-G environment.

Now picture them getting into a piece of vital circuitry and shorting it.

See where I'm getting at?

[Cisken1]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the "the Americans spent twelve million dollars trying to develop a pen that'd work in outer space... the Russians used a pencil!" anecdote.

But did you know that there's a reason why the Americans didn't use pencils?

Graphite (pencil "lead") is a conductor of electricity (the only common non-metal conductor). And when you're using a pencil, the end tends to snap every so often. Even if it didn't, bits will splinter or rub off in ordinary usage.

Now put these little bits of pencil in a zero-G environment.

Now picture them getting into a piece of vital circuitry and shorting it.

See where I'm getting at?

ROCKET GO BOOM! Nice theory!

[bonz]

Strange... Why didn't they use felt-tip pens?
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpen.htm
The first marker was probablythe felt tip marker, created in the 1940's. It was mainly used for labeling and artistic applications. In 1952, Sidney Rosenthal began marketing his "Magic Marker" which consisted of a glass bottle that held ink and a wool felt wick. By 1958, marker use was becoming common, and people used it for lettering, labelling, marking packages, and creating posters.

[pilot62]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the "the Americans spent twelve million dollars trying to develop a pen that'd work in outer space... the Russians used a pencil!" anecdote.

But did you know that there's a reason why the Americans didn't use pencils?

Graphite (pencil "lead") is a conductor of electricity (the only common non-metal conductor). And when you're using a pencil, the end tends to snap every so often. Even if it didn't, bits will splinter or rub off in ordinary usage.

Now put these little bits of pencil in a zero-G environment.

Now picture them getting into a piece of vital circuitry and shorting it.

See where I'm getting at?
Hmm, that was on QI wasn't it?

Or have I gone mad?

Either way, from wherever I heard that from, I think they said a byro would have done the job.

Or maybe I have gone mad. (I wouldn't discount this option if I were you)

[Plasma]

Hmm, that was on QI wasn't it?
Yes it was.
You memory last longer.

[Paul.Power]

Hmm, that was on QI wasn't it?

Or have I gone mad?

Either way, from wherever I heard that from, I think they said a byro would have done the job.

Or maybe I have gone mad. (I wouldn't discount this option if I were you)Possibly, but I remember it from when I was in America five years ago.

[Plutonic]

12 mill to think of pressurising a cartridge.... clearly know how to spend their money....

[pilot62]

Well how much have they spent running Iraq into the ground?

Actualy, they probably made a profit there.