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Well technically then we can only stop the universe or the multiverse, everything inside of that is moving... so basically no1 stops at a red light, and you don't stop and think, you are really just floating round the universe and thinking at a few thousand miles a second
 
The first thing to consider is the earth’s rotation. The earth is 24,900 miles in circumference at the equator, or 40,000 kilometers. The earth takes 24 hours to make one rotation. So:

24,900 / 24 = 1,037 MPH or 1,666 KPH

As you move toward the poles that number decreases. At the north pole the speed is zero and you are simply rotating in place at one rotation every 24 hours. So let’s assume you are sitting somewhere in South Florida moving at about 1,000 miles per hour or 1,610 KPH.

The Earth is also making one orbit around the sun every year. That sounds like a long time, but the orbit is huge. The Earth is roughly 93 million miles (150 million km) away from the sun, giving its orbit a circumference of 584 million miles (942 million km). That works out to 66,666 MPH or 107,000 KPH.

If you are on the side of the planet where the planet’s rotation is moving in the same direction as the orbital direction, these two speeds add together. If you are on the opposite side, they subtract. We are trying to calculate a maximum speed, so we will be adding.

Our solar system itself is also moving in an orbit around the galactic core. The solar system is something like 25,000 light years away from the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy makes one rotation every 250 million years or so. That gives the solar system a speed of something like 420,000 MPH or 675,000 KPH.

So there is speculation that the galaxy is moving through the universe at a speed of 1,000 km/s, which means 3,600,000 KPH or 2,237,000 MPH.

Adding it all up, you get:

1000 + 66,666 + 420,000 + 2,237,000 = 2,724,666 MPH

Or

1,610 + 107,000 + 675,000 + 3,600,000 = 4,383,610 KPH

In other words, you are hurling through space at 2.7 million MPH (4.4 million KPH) even though it feels like you are sitting still.
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Obviously a bit less than that due to direction of travel..
 
Did you know that if you laid a series of pencils, end to end, from land's end to John O'Groats, nobody would give a flying fuck.
 
^ I think that would be worth a fuck, people would be queuing up fucking, for every 5 pencils that get laid down... 2 people get laid

You probably would be getting laid though... you would just be laid out
 
Narh we're probably almost exactlly the same.

I think the 2 years watching adverts stat will decline with the recent improvemets in TV technology, everyone will just FFWD through that mind numbing shouty moronic irritating bollocks.

If men spend a year looking at women, why doesnt it say how long women spend looking at men:?

The swearing 90 times a day thing is surprising, i guess a lot of people insert swear words in their speech if they are momentarily lost for words, ive heard people use the word "fucking" about 10 times per sentence in such a way, but swearing is much more effective when used sparingly and approriately.
 
The mantis shrimp can snap its enlarged claw fast enough to create a cavitation and brief sonoluminescent pulse, and hard enough to fracture glass or break bones.
 
^ I knew that one!

On the topic of adverts, what's with the ridiculous female voices that tv and radio ads are now using? Nobody talks like that in real life, it sounds so silly.
 
Poison dart frogs (holds true for Dendrobatid types, not sure about the one that produces epibatidine) are not naturally toxic, they sequester the batrachotoxins, pumiliotoxins, and relatives through insects they prey upon, a captive-born dart frog is perfectly safe to handle, although a frog captured in the wild and kept captive can retain their toxicity for at least 5 years.

And that they are potent enough so that a dog will die from merely touching a tissue upon which one of the frogs has walked. The only animal that can eat one and survive the experience is a species of snake which has evolved some resistance, although it will still make the snake sick as fuck.
 
the sun comprises 99.8% of all mass in our solar system


the earth weighs around six million billion billion kilograms


on average, thirteen americans are killed by vending machines each year


the average cough travels at 60mph


the brain processes around twenty billion bits of data each second


if all the spores from a puffball mushroom for two generations were to grow, the resulting mass of puffballs would be eight hundred times the volume of the earth



etc
 
Is that one of 'yer little common-or-garden olive-sized puffballs, or one of the up to a meter-in-diameter giant puffballs? I've heard that one before and wondered that.

Wish more of those did grow though, one of my favourites, and yes, they really do grow to giant sizes, big enough to feed a family with several kids for a week, if they were to eat nothing BUT puffball. Even the very smallest I've ever seen was a couple of feet in diameter, a watermelon-sized one would be pretty tiny.

I remember as a kid an incident with one of those. Fucking lfa school, i'd been really lucky and found one, and brought it in for my turn that week at 'show and tell' for the class to see, and the bastard staff took it off me afterwards when they found out I was going to take it home and eat it. I don't even know enough profanity in the 6-7 languages I can curse in to have used to my satisfaction that day with the fuckhead responsible, I'd brought in a priceless culinary treat that I only get to see years at a time apart, IF I get very, very lucky and am at the right place, at the right time, before anybody else halfway clued up spots it and makes off with it, only to have it taken away and disposed of :(

Was absolutely beyond furious, actually, I'm quite surprised, at that age, that I didn't deck the teacher responsible.
She was a sour old cunt in general, but that was going too far.
 
It's illegal to die in the houses of parliament.

(Apparently because if you do, you're entitled to a state funeral?)

In America.. It's illegal to wear a bullet proof vest.. to rob a bank :\
 
rickolasnice said:
^ Isn't that cheating a bit? Ie.. They actually used lots of different pulses of light and compiled them into one shot?

Or am I thinking of something else (might be the apple one)
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Think you're thinking of those famous shots taken in the 60s and 70s. Things have moved on massively since then. They really do have trillionth of a second shots now - you can literally see light waves bouncing off of surfaces. Check that vid I linkied for example - is only 10 mins but a damn good 10 mins.

Hangover said:
Shambles... did you know scientists can stop light now
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I know they can slow it enough that it almost stops. Not sure they've actually stopped it completely yet (wouldn't surprise me if they have though given it's been a couple years since I last saw owt about it) but I've seen it 'captured' in some type of lab set-up where they can make it take several minutes to traverse about a couple feet or so (light travels one foot (30cm) per nanosecond (in a vacuum) for reference).

SproutOnSmack said:
Is it still legal to shoot a Scotsman at dawn if he's is near the border and you use a longbow?
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Only if you're a Welshman caught after midnight in an English town carrying a bale of hay in your boot and driving a herd of sheep over London Bridge.
 
Bee ejaculation is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound. (Also if you've ever wanted to see a photo of a bee penis, there's one at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_%28bee%29 )

Limpet_Chicken said:
I remember as a kid an incident with one of those. Fucking lfa school, i'd been really lucky and found one, and brought it in for my turn that week at 'show and tell' for the class to see, and the bastard staff took it off me afterwards when they found out I was going to take it home and eat it. I don't even know enough profanity in the 6-7 languages I can curse in to have used to my satisfaction that day with the fuckhead responsible, I'd brought in a priceless culinary treat that I only get to see years at a time apart, IF I get very, very lucky and am at the right place, at the right time, before anybody else halfway clued up spots it and makes off with it, only to have it taken away and disposed of :(
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You poor thing. I would have been upset about that too. Haven't yet found a giant puffball but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed..
 
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swampdragon said:
Bee ejaculation is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound.
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200px-Drone_honey_bee_reproductive_organ-_penis_bulb.JPG

The extended bulbus of the penis, containing sperm, is in focus.
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The combination of which presumably makes bee penii both fast and bulbus. Hmm... :sus:
 
Think you're thinking of those famous shots taken in the 60s and 70s. Things have moved on massively since then. They really do have trillionth of a second shots now - you can literally see light waves bouncing off of surfaces. Check that vid I linkied for example - is only 10 mins but a damn good 10 mins.
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Naw I'm pretty sure it was fairly recent.. was probably the apple one i was talking about as i remember it being a lot older than the one you posted..


There are so many restaurants in New York City than you could eat in a different one for 12 years and not visit the same one.

The word orange originated with the fruit.. long before the colour.

A typical pencil can draw a line 35 mile long.

If the population of china walked by you, single file, the line would never end due to reproduction rates (actually quite scary)
 
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