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Are any of these 'Tell me somethings' actually correct ?


The last 4 pages had so much incorrect stuff in them it's shocking (and people are actually reading the posts and probably believing them)

"In 2002, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Wales was just over £26 billion" - 2006 was £85 Billion.

Please tell me where the "Wales is the 2'nd poorest country in western Europe" came from ? Or how this fact came about ...... Are they saying Western Europe is the UK, France and Portugal - or are they saying 'poorest' in terms of Cactus availability. Because I could have sworn that Malta, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein were miles poorer as well as many others.
 
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PASONIX said:
Are any of these 'Tell me somethings' actually correct ?


The last 4 pages had so much incorrect stuff in them it's shocking (and people are actually reading the posts and probably believing them)

"In 2002, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Wales was just over £26 billion"

Please tell me where the "Wales is the 2'nd poorest country in the western Europe" came from ? Or how this fact came about ...... Are they saying Western EU is the UK, France and Portugal - or are they saying 'poorest' in terms of Cactus availability. Because I could have sworn that Malta and Liechtenstein were miles poorer as well as many others.
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Here you go, I think this is what he means.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...les-now-the-poorest-area-in-uk-name_page.html
 
The article states "Most of Wales is the poorest in the UK" (still incorrect I hasten to add) - & not "The 2'nd poorest country in Western Europe"

And if I take just one glaring example 'Luxembourg'....with GDP of 38 Billion Euros (roughly half that of Wales) - it just shows how wrong some of these posts are, and if a lecturer or teacher stated some of these things - most people in here would be pretty annoyed. Even Northern Ireland is poorer, and that's just over the water.
 
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Are any of these 'Tell me somethings' actually correct ?


The last 4 pages had so much incorrect stuff in them it's shocking (and people are actually reading the posts and probably believing them)
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Mine about Neptune is true..also:

If you had a big enough pool, you could place Saturn within it and Saturn would float (actual scientific expression: Water is more dense than Saturn)


Also, one i'm not 100% sure of but could be interesting if true; That the energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun
 
Anim said:
Mine about Neptune is true..also:

If you had a big enough pool, you could place Saturn within it and Saturn would float (actual scientific expression: Water is more dense than Saturn)


Also, one i'm not 100% sure of but could be interesting if true; That the energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun
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That bit about the sun is correct. It's called the random walk.

Here's another one.

The suns corona is much hotter than the surface.

Also, the next time you see any gold, spend a second to appreciate that it was formed in a super nova.
 
Deadbeat said:
A bullet fired from a gun will hit the ground at the same time as a bullet dropped from the same height.
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No it most certainly would NOT!

I think you should re-evalute that and add a specific height to the statement... If you fired a bullet from 2 m above the ground and dropped one I think you would find this statement definately false!
 
If a bullet was fired perpendicular to the ground at the same time that a bullet was dropped from the same height as the gun then they would both hit the ground at the same time. The one fired from the gun would be a long way away of course...

mavity has the same effect on the objects.

Of course if you fired the gun at an angle, either towards the ground or away from the ground then the statement would be false.
 
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If a bullet was fired perpendicular to the ground at the same time that a bullet was dropped from the same height as the gun then they would both hit the ground at the same time. The one fired from the gun would be a long way away of course...

mavity has the same effect on the objects.

Of course if you fired the gun at an angle, either towards the ground or away from the ground then the statement would be false.
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That's better.... I knew that was true - but the above statement doesn't say that ! ;)
 
Manure... An interesting fact

In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word.

Neither did I.
 
Greebo said:
Manure... An interesting fact

In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word.

Neither did I.
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Nice story but not true.
 
NeoNemesis said:
If a bullet was fired perpendicular to the ground at the same time that a bullet was dropped from the same height as the gun then they would both hit the ground at the same time. The one fired from the gun would be a long way away of course...

mavity has the same effect on the objects.

Of course if you fired the gun at an angle, either towards the ground or away from the ground then the statement would be false.
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So a .50 machine gun bullet fired at a 1 meter height would hit the ground at the same time?

damn
 
I'd like to point out that perpendicular is entirely the wrong term.

Parallel is what you want to make that statement even moderately viable.

So my contribution is mainly for the chap that doesn't know his vertical from his horizontal :D
 
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