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Do you have any interesting science facts to share?

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  • Asked by RY4N
  • on 2011-03-01 17:58:03
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Jon-Richfield says:

What science facts are uninteresting??

How about the snail gait?

How about the fact that worm lions (flies such as Vermileo) and ant lions (members of the effectively unrelated Myrmeleontidae use the same methods for catching prey? How about the fact that some limpets tend their own kitchen gardens, sometimes on the backs of bigger limpets? What about the fact that a crystal of tourmaline kept on a white surface in a cupboard with little air movement slowly develops a halo of dark dust around itself as a result of temperature changes driving its own thermoelectricity? What about the gravitational lensing of massive stars and even galaxies? What about apparent superluminal motion of objects at cosmological distances? What about the fact that a strip of rubber held against one’s lip and stretched heats up perceptibly, and cools down as you release it? What happens if it is polyethylene instead of rubber?

What about most of the facts that drive our technological gadgets? Or cause the sun and a droplet of mercury to have the same shape? Or that appear in our questions and answers?

 

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posted on 2011-03-01 19:10:36 | Report abuse

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RY4N says:

'What about the fact that a strip of rubber held against one’s lip and stretched heats up perceptibly'

what is the significance of the lip?

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posted on 2011-03-03 18:29:54 | Report abuse

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RY4N says:

I heard an interesting fact on the tv program QI. they said that lets say you have a bullet in one hand and a gun in the other and dropped the bullet at the same time as you shot the gun. that they was at the same hight parallel to the ground, not taking into concideration the earths curvature, what one would fall to the ground first. any quesses?

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posted on 2011-03-03 21:27:10 | Report abuse

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RY4N says:

'What about most of the facts that drive our technological gadgets'

have you got any?

i have always wondered how you can speak to someone on a mobile phone. how is it possible to transmit something faster than the speed of sound, when it s sound that is traveling?! and how on earth was the idea implemented from paper to reality.

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posted on 2011-03-03 21:32:48 | Report abuse


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BigJon says:

here's my favorite fact: half the people you know are below average!

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posted on 2011-03-07 09:34:13 | Report abuse

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Paul6240 says:

No, no.  A much smaller percentage is below _______Fill in the blank.  Try college graduates.  Averagesare deceiving, like statistics.

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posted on 2012-07-10 00:49:32 | Report abuse


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Bjorn says:

1. You are on the toilet for 6 years of you're life on average.

2. You inherit 12.5% of your great grandparents genes.

3. Methane is 25 times worse than carbon dioxide.

4. China accounts for a fifth of the planets population.

5. Male and female platypuses are 10cm different in length on average.

6. There is more nitrogen than oxygen in air.

7. There are levitating trains called Maglevs in China and Japan.

8. Years are 365.25 days long (non leap years)

9. There are 10 times more dead people than living.

10. Psychology is the newest science.

11. There is a machine that can crush atoms.

12. There are approximately 6.8 billion people alive.

13. It is expected that there will be around 9 billion people alive by 2050.

14. Cows passing gas accounts for a fith of all methane in the atmosphere.

15. Termites pass gas every 15 minutes and carry on 18 hours after they die.

I mean 12.5 for one great grandparent alltogether 100.

Whoops .

I mean not living and when there was 6 billion people living.

 

 

 

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posted on 2011-04-11 19:25:10 | Report abuse

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petethebloke says:

 

2. You inherit 12.5% of your great grandparents genes.

  Where do the rest of my genes come from then?

3. Methane is 25 times worse than carbon dioxide.

  Worse at what? The high jump?

8. Years are 365.25 days long (non leap years)

  And leap years are how long, exactly?

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posted on 2011-04-11 20:01:59 | Report abuse

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l3irus says:

2. You inherit 12.5% of your great grandparents genes.

You inherit 100% of your great grandparents genes and still 100% from your great, great, great, great ancestors. The only thing is you inherit 12.5% from a SINGLE great grandparent.

 

8. Years are 365.25 days long (non leap years)

If a year is taken as 365.25 days, there wouldn't be any leap years.

 

9. There are 10 times more dead people than living.

Okay, first of all, define "dead people". Is it a corpse(skin+bones)? Is it a skeleton? Is it a pile of ash? Or is it the tiny little dust particles that we are breathing in everyday?

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posted on 2011-05-10 13:06:06 | Report abuse

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davros1959 says:

Hang on, 6 years on the toilet?? Say you live to 72, that means 2 hours per day? Need some fibre I think.

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posted on 2012-01-11 08:58:10 | Report abuse


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pipster says:

many people use the trick of adding vinegar to tha water when poaching an egg to stop the egg breaking up but not many know how it works.     it works because acid coagulates protien (in this case the egg white)..I tried it with lemon juice and it works just as well.. Alkalines, on the other hand, break down protiens , so if you put a bit of sodium bicarbonate in the water the egg just breaks up into bits>

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posted on 2011-04-21 16:06:48 | Report abuse


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adrian0476 says:

1. If you were to triple the pentagualist mass of a loaminad's brockula the end result would be 7 times the volume of the originating pift.

2. The microscopic hairs on the eyeballs of the Madagascan custard rat are vestiges of ocular tentacles used by an ancestor species to climb the back of a stegosaurus.

3. The average human can walk between 5 to 6 kilometres an hour, however if they were to do so while wearing a Stetson hat made of lung tissue there would be no perceivable difference in speed.

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