There are some little known facts about the universe we live in.
I thought it might be interesting if we share some with each other. :)

To start this off........

Did you know........, according to the laws of aerodynamics, it's impossible for a Bumble Bee to fly? :D

God, yeh, that one is unreal!!

Uh, lessee if I got something, this is a cool thread.



Casual dating can be dangerous. A study of spiders shows female wolf spiders will eat strange-looking males that try to mate with them, but spare and even hook up with familiar-looking males. The findings provide not just an interesting insight into spider behavior, but may help explain actions by "higher" animals, said arachnologist Eileen Hebets of Cornell University in New York. "The female is using earlier experience that is going to affect her mate choice later," Hebets said in a telephone interview. "It is reasonable to expect that is a common thing in other animals." Hebets worked with Schizocosa uetzi spiders, commonly known as wolf spiders. The female, which is slightly larger, can choose a) to mate, b) to run away or c) to eat her suitor. Apparently, running away is not a very frequently used option.....


I think I dated one of those, once.....

:D:D:DDated? I married one! :D:D:D
That was before Mrs. Starship! :)


Did you know.......
that Reno Nevada, is further west than Los Angeles, Calif.? ;)

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

:D:D:DDated? I married one! :D:D:D
That was before Mrs. Starship! :)


Did you know.......
that Reno Nevada, is further west than Los Angeles, Calif.? ;)


Yup!..... and so is New York City if you start in LA and go far enough west...

If you trace the the lines of longitude and latitude, you'll see it's true. ;)
I think it's only by about 15 miles of so.

I know ...I was just playin' around. Not tryin' to be a smart butt. Sorry.

I know Bro, I was just giving the info so anyone could look it up for themselves. :)
I don't think you could be a smart butt without makin' me laugh! :D
(and you did ;))

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

:D:D:DDated? I married one! :D:D:D
That was before Mrs. Starship! :)
Whoaw, dude!!! I'm just glad she didn't eatcha!!! :D:D:D

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship
Did you know.......
that Reno Nevada, is further west than Los Angeles, Calif.? ;)
For REAL?? I can't even get my head around that, even though I know you are right here. I guess it's safe to say that California is crooked? :D:D

Here's a cool one, I think!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!


Almost as fast as our Corvette's! :D

ORIGINAL: TopSpeed

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

:D:D:DDated? I married one! :D:D:D
That was before Mrs. Starship! :)
Whoaw, dude!!! I'm just glad she didn't eatcha!!! :D:D:D

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship
Did you know.......
that Reno Nevada, is further west than Los Angeles, Calif.? ;)
For REAL?? I can't even get my head around that, even though I know you are right here. I guess it's safe to say that California is crooked? :D:D


......and Twisted ! :D

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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

Whoa!!! Amazing!!!




Did you know.........

Subject: Butter vs margarine--interesting




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Butter

Pass the butter ~ ~ ~ ~ This is interesting.

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so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings

DO YOU KNOW... The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have t he same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at [/align]
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Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of Butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in Trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

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This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of marg arine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

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I hate margarine. Can't stand the stuff. That was really interesting, Dave! I had no clue at all. I'll add something to this thread tomorrow, when I have a little more time here....

Did you know...........

that the earth rotates from West to East, and it is this rotation that NASA uses to help propel rockets into space?
Tie a ball onto a string, swing it around your head, then cut the string. Ziiiiing....watch it fly away.
The string beinggravity, and the scissors to cut the string arethe rocket engines.
The next time there is a televised launch, watch the rocket as it rises. You can see that it does not go straight up. NASA launches at an angle to propel therocket out over the Atlantic Ocean, East, thereby taking advantage of the propultion created by the earth's rotation, to "fling" the rocket into space.

Did you know......

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. [/align][/align]
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.[/align][/align]

Should we start calling you Cliff instead of Dave?:D:D:D

ORIGINAL: riley

Should we start calling you Cliff instead of Dave?:D:D:D


Cliff? :eek:Whose Cliff?

Cliff Clavin: err it's a little know fact Normy that If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

It's a joke son. I say laugh boy, laugh. :)

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

Did you know......

............If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.[/align][/align]


Yup and God forbid you had "Taco Bell" for dinner...........eeeeewwww.....what a mess! ....Hooooneyyyyyy.......can you bring me a papertowel?....damn...that burns!....

Ya, not too many people know that one!
NowI know why, when someones sneezes, you're supposed to say, "God bless you!" :)

Traveling south out of Detroit Michigan, what country will you come to first?


Mexico?
Cuba?
nope
CANADA!

ORIGINAL: riley

Cliff Clavin: err it's a little know fact Normy that If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

It's a joke son. I say laugh boy, laugh. :)



:D:D:DOhhhhhh.....! Cliff, .....from Cheers!!! Got it! :D:D:D

Did you know....
Hawaii moves to the west at a rate of 3" per year.

If you go directly south of Philadelphia and keep going, the ocean you'll end up in is the Pacific.

Your foot is as long as your forearm.

......your eyes remain the same size, but your nose and ears continue to grow.

.......Donald Duck's middle name is.....Faughnt-leroy!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!


Man, some of this stuff is pretty darned wierd... :D

Did you know that chimpanzees are cannibals?

Allot of primates are omnivores, like us, .......The little buggers. And like you said, take itone step further to Canibalism.....usually eat their enimies from other troups and sometimes offspring from other parents within their own. Holy moly!! Hard core little critters huh?

:DThe world would be better off, if a few humans had eaten their young! :D

The west side of the San Anreas fault, in Calif, will not fall into the ocean, as some people predict. In a few hundred thousand years, it will end up off the coast of the state of Washington.

Our moon is leaving us, at the rate of 1 inch per year.

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

Our moon is leaving us, at the rate of 1 inch per year.
Was it something we said? Did wehurt it's feelings, somehow??... :D

:DI think it's all the ...uh....."Greenhouse Gasses"! :D

That has to be it....my wife moves away from me faster than that whenever I produce "greenhouse gasses".

I believe spicy buritto's should be aptly renamed as weapons of mass stinknation. :D:D:D You know you've brung things to a whole new level when entire planets are tryin' to escape... :D:D:D

In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light !

Spider silk is up to 5 times stronger than steel of the same diameter.

Cows have 7, yes, seven stomachs? Talk about GAS! :D
There goes the ozone. [&o]:D

....In the winter of 1932, it got so cold thatNiagara Falls froze, completely solid.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.



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ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

There are some little known facts about the universe we live in.
I thought it might be interesting if we share some with each other. :)

To start this off........

Did you know........, according to the laws of aerodynamics, it's impossible for a Bumble Bee to fly? :D


Yeah. Them bumblebees should be charged with unlawful flyin'...

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship


Quote:
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!



When gas passes, how fast do the cracks flap?

ORIGINAL: TopSpeed
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!




So did bill clinton!

Venus goes around the sun (a year) faster than it turns on it's own axis (a day).

student: "Why do I have to know algebra?"
teacher: "So you know how old your dog isin Venus years".

Not heard on Venus: "Honey, I'll do it tomorrow".

Sayingon Venus: Carpe annum (seize the year).

and on, and on...

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

Cows have 7, yes, seven stomachs? Talk about GAS! :D
There goes the ozone. [&o]:D


Talk about some belching pro's, huh?

One winter mornin' a couple of years ago, I drove past a field of cows. They were eatin', and you could see their steamy breath clouds in the early sunshine in the cold air.

I noticed one had a huge steam cloud justbreathed out. Except the cloud was at the wrong end!!!:):D;)[:'(][:-]

..........A goldfishhas a memory span of three seconds.

I believe it......They make great bass bait too.

ORIGINAL: C3 Starship

..........A goldfishhas a memory span of three seconds.


Sounds like the goldfish needs to add another stick of RAM.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.



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In the 1500 most floors were dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence
the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get
slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor
to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more
thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slippi ng
outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying
a thresh hold.

Another from ages gone by......

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

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Manure: In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common.



It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.


Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!



Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening


After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term 'Ship High In Transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.[/align]




Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Ship High In Transport) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
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LMAO!!!

......a tea spoon of honey, is the lifes work of 12 bees.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these
coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would
have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to
listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was
considered a dead ringer..

More stuff from long ago. 1500's

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would
cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew
the fat.

I like finding where thing originated from.

The first "Bigfoot" story comes from Canada and was made by explorer David Thomson, in 1847.