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Re: Fun Facts!
« Reply #30 on: July 02, 2012, 03:14:12 PM »
That I noticed. I'm impressed that his brain has its own Wikipedia article.

Which brings me to my two cents on the matter of fun facts:

People never research their material! This is not directed at Raz or anyone in this thread in any way, but at people in general that seem to naïvely buy anything they're told without a speck of suspicion or critical thinking.

I propose that from now on, you will prove your facts with documentation of some sort!


- There is no evidence that Vikings wore horns on their helmets.
- Marie Antoinette did not actually use the phrase "let them eat cake".
- Albert Einstein did not fail mathematics in school.
- Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture.
- Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.
- Waking sleepwalkers does not harm them.
- Humans have more than five senses.
- Shaving does not cause terminal hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker.
- Napoleon was not short.
- "Kangaroo" does not mean "I don't know".
Just to burst a few bubbles...

These may also be wrong, but at least these are facts that I've heard many times before, and most of them on the show QI that actually focuses on myths, general ignorance and misconceptions. I'm sure these people do their research before adding facts to their show.
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Re: Fun Facts!
« Reply #31 on: July 02, 2012, 04:06:58 PM »

I heard Albert Einstein was Aspie, and it sounds quite likely to me.

anyways, here's how FTL space travel may be possible.


Using the ADM formalism of general relativity, the spacetime is described by a foliation of space-like hypersurfaces of constant coordinate time t. The general form of the metric described within the context of this formalism is:[/size][/font][/size][/color][/size]where[/color][/size] is the lapse function that gives the interval of proper time between nearby hypersurfaces, is the shift vector that relates the spatial coordinate systems on different hypersurfaces is a positive definite metric on each of the hypersurfaces.[/color]
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Re: Fun Facts!
« Reply #32 on: July 02, 2012, 04:45:20 PM »
The A-10 fighter jet was actually designed to make the GAU-8 Avenger (A 10mm Anti-Tank 7barrell Gatling gun) fly. The whole plane is basically a flying gun with add-on missiles!



That's the GAU-8, that MASSIVE thing stuck to the planes belly :P


And that's the plane, what a beast =^^= Halo fans might also be interested that the plains main nickname is "The Warthog"
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Re: Fun Facts!
« Reply #33 on: July 03, 2012, 03:30:03 PM »
There was a college professor who was challenged to hack a UAV Drone.
And he actually did it with less then $1000 worth of equipment!
Kinda scary that each drone is capable of wielding a warhead!!! :S
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Re: Fun Facts!
« Reply #34 on: July 03, 2012, 03:46:06 PM »
And that is precisely why I am pro-pilot, UAVs just don't do it nearly as well.
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