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The Fact of the Day Thread!! Post a fact that you find useful here :)

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. must be a conspiracy.

;)
 
EDIT - nvm, apparently its a widespread myth. Or semantics. Or something. :D

Is glass liquid or solid? (source)

It is sometimes said that glass in very old churches is thicker at the bottom than at the top because glass is a liquid, and so over several centuries it has flowed towards the bottom. This is not true. In Mediaeval times panes of glass were often made by the Crown glass process. A lump of molten glass was rolled, blown, expanded, flattened and finally spun into a disc before being cut into panes. The sheets were thicker towards the edge of the disc and were usually installed with the heavier side at the bottom. Other techniques of forming glass panes have been used but it is only the relatively recent float glass processes which have produced good quality flat sheets of glass.

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Conclusion

There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic. In terms of its material properties we can do little better. There is no clear definition of the distinction between solids and highly viscous liquids. All such phases or states of matter are idealisations of real material properties. Nevertheless, from a more common sense point of view, glass should be considered a solid since it is rigid according to everyday experience. The use of the term "supercooled liquid" to describe glass still persists, but is considered by many to be an unfortunate misnomer that should be avoided. In any case, claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that these claims cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.
 
Swerlz said:
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
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Fuck, I know that one from personal experience... I grew up always having at the least 5 cats in my house at one time. All they ever do is sit on their lazy asses all day occasionally waking up to go hunt leaves in the yard or stretch their claws aka shred the furniture.

They make me jealous :p
 
ektamine said:
Fuck, I know that one from personal experience... I grew up always having at the least 5 cats in my house at one time. All they ever do is sit on their lazy asses all day occasionally waking up to go hunt leaves in the yard or stretch their claws aka shred the furniture.

They make me jealous :p
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Yeah I know what you mean, my cat sits on her ass on ALLLLL day.. She'll move to other spots maybe eat something, but immediately after go back to sleep somewhere else. Mine stopped clawing the furniture, she has a tree in the back yard she likes to use. She's the most spoiled animal ever lol

I wanna come back as a kitty when my next life
 
Ok ok, fact of the day here. For realz (I saw it on tevelision!)

Scientists put a shaft, as long as 16 empire state buildings, consisting of 48,000 optical sensors each the size of a basketball, into the ice near the south pole... in an effort to find out more about anti-matter, and what holds our universe together.

Does that make any sense to you? Me either. But thats a lot of fuckin shit!
 
ektamine said:
Ok ok, fact of the day here. For realz (I saw it on tevelision!)

Scientists put a shaft, as long as 16 empire state buildings, consisting of 48,000 optical sensors each the size of a basketball, into the ice near the south pole... in an effort to find out more about anti-matter, and what holds our universe together.

Does that make any sense to you? Me either. But thats a lot of fuckin shit!
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They put it there cause down there because, 1. there's very little clouds, 2. low atmospheric interference, and 3. no light/radio/any pollution..

Did you know the worlds largest neutrino detector is in Antarctica?
IceCube is the largest neutrino detector in the world, and is well on the way to its goal of detecting extraterrestrial neutrinos with energies of more than 100 GeV
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Yeah, because its solid ice pretty much all the way down, and once you get deep enough down there the ice is the purest ice on the planet, virtually transparent. So basically you have just clear, frozen h2o for miles in every direction.
 
In the UK, it is illegal not to have working windscreen wipers & washers.

However it is not illegal not to have a windscreen. ;)
 
Disgusting (but safe for work) Fact of the Day:

NSFW:

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The stuff pictured above isn't strawberry soft serve, as you might have guessed.
It's the shit – officially, 'mechanically separated meat' – that chicken nuggets are made out of.
8o
 
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