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RandomTom · 31 Dec 2008 at 18:08

The Michelin Man is called 'Bibendum'

Kelloggs once brought out a cereal-packet platform PC game called Mission Nutrition. You could play as Tony The Tiger, Coco The Monkey, or Snap Crackle & Pop.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk

When EVE First speaks to WALL-E she cycles through various languages. One of those languages is Huttese, spoken by Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

utajoker · 31 Dec 2008 at 18:10

there are over 600,000 manhole covers in new york city, each weighs upwards of 300 pounds and contains one of over 400 possible designs.

Red Porsche · 31 Dec 2008 at 18:14

Gog said:
AID'swas invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early as 5th century. They widely used it in calculations, astronomy and astrology. AID's was spread by Arabians to the Europe and there on it was spread all over. Before this, all Europeans used roman numerical which were difficult to calculate on as they were in the form of symbols, lengthy and had limits.

GeForce · 31 Dec 2008 at 18:29

^^ lol

K.C. Leblanc said:
Plato invented the Plate.

And now I, Holly, have invented the Holly Hop Drive :cool:

Amp34 · 31 Dec 2008 at 18:32

Tefal said:

It's still a colloquial (ish) term for the forces acting against centripetal force.

Greenlizard0 · 31 Dec 2008 at 19:10

Gog said:
Zero was invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early as 5th century. They widely used it in calculations, astronomy and astrology. Zero was spread by Arabians to the Europe and there on it was spread all over. Before this, all Europeans used roman numerical which were difficult to calculate on as they were in the form of symbols, lengthy and had limits.

Yeap, everybody remembers Fibonacci's sequence - but his proposition that Roman numerals be replaced by the Arabian set was much more important.

bennyboy2606 · 31 Dec 2008 at 19:21

barf0r said:
a^n + b^n = c^n

This has no whole number solutions where n is an integer > 2

I can prove this, but I don't have enough space

Oh yeah and my name is fermat btw.

SlyReaper · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:22

dangerstat said:
I raise you
If 1 < p < \infty, p^{-1}+q^{-1} = 1, f \in L^{P}(X,S,\mu) and g \in L^{q}(X,S,\mu), then fg \in L^{1}(X,S,\mu) and |\int fg d\mu| \leq \int | fg|d\mu \leq ||f||_{p}||g||_{q}.

Name that inequality

Is it Minkowski's? I've seen it before in measure theory, but haven't memorised the names of all the theorems.

NeedleGunner · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:27

-40 Fahrenheit when converted to degrees is still -40. This is the only temperature that is the same in both conversions.

CR-39, the name for plastic ophthalmic lenses, comes from Colombian Resin, 39th attempt.

David91 · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:42

Čerenkov radiation (blue glow in a nuclear reactor) is the result of electrons emitted by the reactor, traveling faster than the speed of light in water. however this is only in water, this does not occur in a vacuum.

FACT!

one effect of an object travelling faster than the speed of light, is that it would arrive at its destination before it had departed

SlyReaper · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:47

David91 said:
Čerenkov radiation (blue glow in a nuclear reactor) is the result of electrons emitted by the reactor, traveling faster than the speed of light in water. however this is only in water, this does not occur in a vacuum.

FACT!

one effect of an object travelling faster than the speed of light, is that it would arrive at its destination before it had departed

Wrong. If an object travels faster than the speed of light, the gamma function becomes imaginary, not negative. And imaginary time is nonsense.

David91 · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:48

oh god im not stating another fact!

only nerds and pillocks are left on the internet at this hour on New Years Eve!

thanks for reminding me

yermum · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:48

In the Czech and Slovak languages, their word for 'rollmop' is used for @

Greenlizard0 · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:53

SlyReaper said:
Wrong. If an object travels faster than the speed of light, the gamma function becomes imaginary, not negative. And imaginary time is nonsense.

I don't see why it is wrong - and e.g. Wiki agrees :

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

Light might be the fastest traveller in a vacuum, but that doesn't mean it is in other mediums.

wonko · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:54

dangerstat said:
Manchester Universities particle physicist Dr Brian Cox was the drummer in crappy band D-REAM

Jokester said:
*cough* keyboard player

*cough cough* Er, Professor, shurely

gillywibble · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:54

My hands are on top of my head.

David91 · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:55

gillywibble said:
My hands are on top of my head.

how did you type that then?

SlyReaper · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:56

Greenlizard0 said:
I don't see why it is wrong - and e.g. Wiki agrees :

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

Light might be the fastest traveller in a vacuum, but that doesn't mean it is in other mediums.

I was talking about his second "fact". The one about FTL = travel back in time.

Cybermyk · 31 Dec 2008 at 20:56

David91 said:
how did you type that then?

You had to go there didn't you

Inquisitor · 31 Dec 2008 at 21:06

Greenlizard0 said:
I don't see why it is wrong - and e.g. Wiki agrees :

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

Light might be the fastest traveller in a vacuum, but that doesn't mean it is in other mediums.

While the average speed of the light may decrease in media with refractive indices greater than 1 (e.g. water), the speed of the individual photons that make up the light is always exactly c.

What's actually happening is that the photons are absorbed temporarily by electrons in the medium they are travelling through and emitted a short time later, which has the effect of reducing their average speed.