Interesting Facts

[jvnshr]

@newbroom, I was reading about another guy who won several pipe smoking competitions. He says that people always ask if he is burning some wood and smoking it and the answer is no he states, because in those competitions the cadence is very slow as well as the temperature inside bowl so it is impossible to burn the wood. Interesting huh?

 

[perdurabo]

Einstein did time travel experiments? Will he ever come back.

 

[perdurabo]

All the icebergs in the world could melt instantly and the oceans wouldn't rise one centimeter.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Depends on how you define Iceberg! Those floating in the ocean wouldn't raise the sea when melted, but the ice/snow on land sure would.

 

[perdurabo]

I said Icebergs. Ice and snow on the land would. I also said instantly. So if Jpmcwjr, knows of any supernova in the neighborhood, now would be the time to tell us. This also means the Arctic is off the table.

 

[davet]

I'm doing my part to prevent this exact thing from happening, Iceberg Vodka from Newfoundland Labrador :mrgreen:

 

[perdurabo]

:clap:

 

[seacaptain]

I park in my driveway, but yet, I drive on a parkway.

 

[jvnshr]

15 billion cigarettes are smoked everyday.

 

[janosh]

600 mph? I started being giddy.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I said Icebergs. Ice and snow on the land would. I also said instantly. So if Jpmcwjr, knows of any supernova in the neighborhood, now would be the time to tell us. This also means the Arctic is off the table.

Yes, you did. I conflated icebergs with glaciers. I've not sighted any nova, super or plain, recently. Besides, I'd rather not know the end of the world is hours or days away; surprise me!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. I'm not sure about dog saliva, but I am certain that it warms my heart more. Well... depending on who the human is that I am comparing it to.

 

[sjfine]

The Large Hadron Collider accelerates particles to 99.9999% of the speed of light. The Earth is moving around the sun at 69,360.73 mph (0.0001032742 of the speed of light). Without even adding the speed that the Earth is moving through the galaxy, or the speed the galaxy is moving through the universe, haven't these particles traveled faster that the speed of light?
I thought that this would be prevented by General Relativity. If a train moves at just under the speed of light, and a passenger moves fast enough within the train so that s/he would therefore necessarily be moving faster than the speed of light, Einstein's theory falls apart, right?

 

[jpmcwjr]

We can't even get past 200 mph on US trains, so it's a long way off.
(yeah, I know that's not the point!)
Seriously, now, I doubt the hypothetical kiboshes the theory, but I can't defend my guess.

 

[okiescout]

And all this time I thought it was wind that made my pipe smoke drift.