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

[slammin.e28]

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I love you George Graves.

[e30_325es]

The drug Heroin was actually created and sold in stores by Bayer and marketed as a cough suppressant.

[DTM190]

Quoted from Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_Union_Iced_Coffee

"In 2003, Australians consumed in excess of 22,000,000 litres of Farmers Union Iced coffee, making it Australia's best selling flavoured milk drink/milk shake at that time.[1] The drink's popularity has more recently been reflected by some McDonald's, KFC and Hungry Jack's restaurants selling it as a part of their menus across the country. Farmers Union Iced Coffee outsells Coca-Cola in South Australia,[2] making it the only place in the world where a milk drink outsells a cola product,[citation needed] and one of the few places where Coca-Cola is not the most popular locally consumed bottled beverage, a success shared only by Inca Kola in Peru and Irn-Bru in Scotland."

It is more commonly refered to as an by the way FU.

you south aussies and your FU lol. Coopers sparkling > FU

[george graves]

It has something to do with keeping the most used letters in the same area to make it easier to type. QWERTY just happened to end up that way, and since it makes a pronounceable "word" that's what it's called, the QWERTY keyboard.

Blame the typewriter. The first machines in the 19th century did go from A to Z. But this stymied good typists because the most frequently used keys were contiguous. When typists struck, say, the "a" and "b" keys in rapid succession, the spokes carrying those letters often jammed. The solution: separate these and other often-used keys. It was meant to slow people down, but hey we got used to it

[TurboJake]

The photon doesn't "Know" it's being watched.
The very fact that it's being recorded or viewed alters the universe, and the photon's outcome. It changes it from being a wave and a particle at the same time and in many places, back to a particle in a single plane of the universal existence..

Very, very interesting stuff. I usually go to bed watching stuff like that. The very fact that it's being viewed changes it's properties.
Put's a WHOLE new meaning to "If a tree falls in the woods"..

[TwoJ's]

This isn't really a quick fact, but check out the double slit experiment. I learned about it in a high level physics class, and then was reminded of it recently when I saw it on Through The Wormhole.

The most interesting part of it is the fact that when they shoot a single photon, it behaves as it if it is going through two slits at once (which would mean that it is at two places at the same time), but when they use a detector to "watch" and see if it goes through both slits, then it behaves differently. So the photon knows when it is being watched and behaves differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

[nbio]

A plane on a treadmill will take off.

:rofl: great threads

[A_Whelan]

Aahah I remember watching that episode after I saw the full scale yellow plane and the setup. Before I saw it I said the same thing, it wouldn't work, and for the same reason this time I left out the fact that the wheels are not a part of the equation, it's not like they pull the plane back or anything. My bad

[TurboJake]

I don't understand why this has EVER been an argument!

A plane doesn't rely on it's wheels for propulsion.

End
Of
Argument

[mrsleeve]

^

Yes it will its simple common sense and logic.


YES Myth busters did it too.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode97

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Q83yxdDaI

[A_Whelan]

A plane on a treadmill will take off.

This has been long debated and I'm not too sure about it. Anyone know if Myth Busters did it?

I think it's wrong because a plane needs air flow under the wings to create lift. If it's on a treadmill the wheels will be going fast (due to the turbine/props pushing it forward) but there will be no airflow because it won't be going anywhere.

Can anyone confirm?

[joshh]

A plane on a treadmill will take off.

[jaywood]

The only mosquito's that bite are females.

[ALYKZANDYR]

Failure? or Fugly?

[TurboJake]

The E code for BMW cars stands for Entwicklung, the German word for development.

So then, what does the new F stand for....