The "Useless Information" Thread

[scifan5749]

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

[The OB]

Not sure if that is true. Forgive me, but I think you have it wrong. No, I know you are wrong. Definitely not correct.

The old problem had something to do with not being able to fold a piece of paper so many times rather than how thick it becomes after each fold. As the thickness grows it becomes harder to fold and eventually, it becomes impossible to fold the paper again. Regardless of how big the paper is.

You could take measurements and do the math and determine if it is true or not. For example, determine how small the paper is after each fold. Then cut up a piece of paper and stack the pieces and see if they reach the sun. You wil loose some surface area due to the ever increasing thickness of those folds, so take that into account.

The formula is N=4.546 (P) x 4 +ra * Distance to the sun (represented by 4 x 10 x 100 xP ie R squared) x r +n 12th sq X 3.445/a+B+N sub Variable x brand of paper + thickness +4 x color

A 12 x 12 paper folded gets you a 6 x 12 page. Try it now, grap a sheet. Fold that and you end up with a 3 x 6, so on and on. There must be a math wiz who can report how small the surface area is after 51 folds. Then add up each piece of paper and see if the pile is 92,960,000 miles high.

I feel confident saying you are mistaken.

The old problem had something to do with not being able to fold....
I'm sure that's right and I did say "if you could fold...."
A 12 x 12 paper folded....grab a sheet...
Never said it had to be that small. But of course, if it was as big as from say here to the moon, you would be right about the practical (not theoretical) problem of "not being able to fold"
So I guess it would boil down to the mathematicians doing their thing. (And your formula is most impressive, not that I understand any of it)
In light of your confidence, I am prepared to concede I may be "Definitely not correct" but I hesitate to say that I am wrong
Regards, Andrew

 

[The OB]

Doesn't terminal velocity apply to free falling throughout the atmosphere? Down there, it is solid rocks and lava and that giant spinning ball of iron or perhaps it is melted iron.

I take my clues to those gals that wrestle in jello. They can wrestle faster in the air, but the jello slows their actions. So, they would not only be crushed on their way through the planet, but their movement would be slow. if you were on a giant ball of rock with a Jello core and two wrestlers were wrestling throughout their journey through earth, they would be slowed down as they pass throughout the various time zones. So they might never arrive in the first place. Or they would be really late.

I say you cant drill a hole through the earth because the earth is spinning and when you drill and the bit breaks through the other side, the rotation of the earth might mean that the drill stabs you in the behind. Do the math, I must be correct.

I rather enjoyed this post, Bob. I used to like jello in my younger days!

 

[The OB]

LOL . . . one of the last usnet groups I played with ended in a great battle over Cellulose Nitrate and Cellulose Acetate and a few pen makers. Can you believe it? I really cheesed their pizza, so I feel good about that.

Given enough time and every discussion ends with anger and someone will be called Hitler. I never take your tone as anything other than pleasant. OK, you are usually wrong o) p) o) but you make that look good. Santa will not put coal in your stocking, trust me.

I've rather enjoyed this thread. If anything, it has brought out two opposing schools of thought; the theorists and the practicalists

 

[leelai]

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.****
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If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.****
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To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.****
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Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.****
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Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!****
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People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport .****
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Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.****
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Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.****
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Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.**
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!****
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Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.****
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The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.****
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Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros .****
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It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!****
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Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years .****
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Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end .****
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If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.****
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Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.****
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Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.****
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Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
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The song, Auld Lang Sine, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.****
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Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent****
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Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450 F.****
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.**
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Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.****
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The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.****
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Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.****
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The University of Alaska spans four time zones.****
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The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself..****
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In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.****
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Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.****
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.****
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.****
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The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.****
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Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.****
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The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.****
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If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.****
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When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.****
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In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.****
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Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.****
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Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.****
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The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.****
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.****
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Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than
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Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy. ****
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Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.****
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Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.****
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For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.****
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The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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In 2012, December has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!

 

[The OB]

That's just fantastic leelai. I like how you can see the stars from the bottom of a well, and also how the ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies were into being green minded, recycling stuff


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[leelai]

That's just fantastic leelai. I like how you can see the stars from the bottom of a well, and also how the ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies were into being green minded, recycling stuffdde03

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Glad you liked it......I learnt quite a few things myself......very surprising!

Not so useless after all.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Glad you liked it......I learnt quite a few things myself......very surprising!

Not so useless after all.

I particularly enjoyed your "weight to fuel to thrust" equation for lifting cargo to space,


AA

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[leelai]

I particularly enjoyed your "weight to fuel to thrust" equation for lifting cargo to space,


AA

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I thought you might Admiral.....I thought of you then!

Actually I have a YouTube vid I'm going to post that I think you may like also. Hope you haven't seen it, that is.

 

[scifan5749]

Camel hunting is illegal in the state of Arizona.

 

[scifan5749]

The body consumes more calories in eating a piece of celery than the celery contains.

 

[scifan5749]

It's against the law to play hopscotch on Sunday in Missouri.

 

[Roy Rob]

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

 

[scifan5749]

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

 

[The OB]

Camel hunting is illegal in the state of Arizona.

You've got to love those legislators! I suppose it won't be long before they prohibit moose and elk hunting in South Australia