Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[z31maniac]

Like the title states. Post interesting, weird, eccentric little-known facts about, well, anything.

Could be a tidbit, web site, etc.

Work is going to be slow again today...........

[Skafrog]

Did you know % chance of precipitation in a weather forecast only means what percentage of the viewing area will receive rain?

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=pop

[TurboJake]

After being reduced to a mere 7 known plants back when It was put on the list in 1985, It has since come back to 163,000+ as of today. The Maguire Daisy was removed from the endangered species list in January of this year. Making it the 21st species to be removed from the endangered list.

[Simon S]

There are as many molecules in a tea spoon of water-

as there are tea spoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

[Fusion]

See my sig quote.

[agile30]

You can catch crabs without ever going to the beach.

[Sagaris]

Electric and steam powered cars were available in the 1900's including the 1902 Woods Phaeton which had a range of 18 miles, top speed of 14 mph and was built in Chicago.


Steam powered cars such as the White Steam Car, took a long time to warm up and didn't do well in the cold.



Gasoline powered cars were loud, spewed pollution, and were dangerout/tedious to crank start. Electric cars were certainly the most user friendly but as the U.S. road network expanded the gasoline cars were favored over electrics. The invention of the electric starter by Cadillac in 1912 first implemented on the 30 HP "Model 30" put the nail in the coffin for the steam and electric cars.




Think of how advanced internal combustion engine technology has come in 100 years and imagine where battery technology would be if electric cars were the consumer's choice back then .

[frankenbeemer]

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

[ZM Blue Devil]

Buying a Mazda will never fill the void of owning a 24v e30.

[_username_]

Seemed like a good place to air out my pet peeve :-)
Although you have lots of motors (electric) in your car, you have only one engine (not electric) and that engine should not be referred to as a motor.

[z31maniac]

Did you know % chance of precipitation in a weather forecast only means what percentage of the viewing area will receive rain?
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=pop

Actually I did know that one!

After being reduced to a mere 7 known plants back when It was put on the list in 1985, It has since come back to 163,000+ as of today. The Maguire Daisy was removed from the endangered species list in January of this year. Making it the 21st species to be removed from the endangered list.

Interesting, thanks for the contribution.

There are as many molecules in a tea spoon of water-

as there are tea spoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

This is kind of stuff I really like, crazy to try to envision that.

See my sig quote.

We already new that, hence NEW in the title. ;)

You can catch crabs without ever going to the beach.

Meh.

Electric and steam powered cars were available in the 1900's including the 1902 Woods Phaeton which had a range of 18 miles, top speed of 14 mph and was built in Chicago.


Steam powered cars such as the White Steam Car, took a long time to warm up and didn't do well in the cold.



Gasoline powered cars were loud, spewed pollution, and were dangerout/tedious to crank start. Electric cars were certainly the most user friendly but as the U.S. road network expanded the gasoline cars were favored over electrics. The invention of the electric starter by Cadillac in 1912 first implemented on the 30 HP "Model 30" put the nail in the coffin for the steam and electric cars.




Think of how advanced internal combustion engine technology has come in 100 years and imagine where battery technology would be if electric cars were the consumer's choice back then .

Good info.

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

And all this time I thought it meant "America's Hat."

Buying a Mazda will never fill the void of owning a 24v e30.

Hehe, who owns a Mazda? Not this guy. ;)

Seemed like a good place to air out my pet peeve :-)
Although you have lots of motors (electric) in your car, you have only one engine (not electric) and that engine should not be referred to as a motor.

Not bad, but new, interesting trivia type stuff. Not overbearing clarifications of commonly used words.




Keep them coming fellas.

[shiboujin]

a group of owls is called a parliament. a group of crows is a murder.

[frankenbeemer]

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

[_username_]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

[Holland]

The ancient Dogon tribe in Africa knew of the existence of the star "Sirius B" long before we just recently found it with the Hubble. Sirius B is not visible to the naked eye in the night sky.