Random Knowledge / Facts

2blue4u · 31 Dec 2008 at 21:21

Greenlizard0 said:
There are six states of matter : solid, liquid, gas, bose einstein condensates and filament and plasma.

even Stephen Fry can come up with 20 odd states of matter. Some scientists are talking of 30+

Even I can remember

Gas
Solid
Liquid
Plasma
Superfluid
Supersolid
Strange Matter
Bose Einstein Condensate
Fermionic Condensate

/edit

Degenerate Matter

Von Smallhausen · 1 Jan 2009 at 05:53

Von Smallhausen said:
Former Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr was a club singer in Spain before he hit the big time and called himself Juan.

Was he ?

What was this Juan Kerr like before he made the big time ?

Davy644 · 1 Jan 2009 at 08:23

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. :eek:

Every vehicle produced by General Motors in the United States includes about $1,500 in health-care costs - typically more than the value of steel contained in the vehicle.

singist · 1 Jan 2009 at 10:45

The plane on the conveyor belt/treadmill WILL take off.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Jan 2009 at 11:05

2blue4u said:
even Stephen Fry can come up with 20 odd states of matter.

Yea pfft from a list he can read out!!

(I presume you're talking about QI?).

singist said:
The plane on the conveyor belt/treadmill WILL take off.

Sssh...

alexakasloth · 1 Jan 2009 at 11:13

UKDTweak said:
Remember,

When you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's * all down here on Earth!

Monty python XD

Jeff Lynne · 1 Jan 2009 at 11:14

Westward Ho! is the only UK placename to use an exclamation mark

alexakasloth · 1 Jan 2009 at 11:15

Fothsn said:
See where I got my sig from!

It says that the population was roughly 2 billion people... so in the last 90 years the population of earth has tripled! Imagine 18 billion people on earth in 90 years *shudders*

pull2808 · 1 Jan 2009 at 11:24

To achieve a perfect strike in ten pin bowling you have to hit the front pin at exactly 4degrees.

Pointless knowledge.

mangobreeder · 1 Jan 2009 at 12:00

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

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

FAIL Fermats last therom was solved in 1993 by wiles

icey_haj · 1 Jan 2009 at 12:07

Lopéz, Berserker, dmpoole are 2008's men of honour

BlackDragon · 1 Jan 2009 at 12:10

Clocks based on quartz are about a second out every 11.6 days.

A second is defined as 9 192 631 770 spins of a Caesium 133 atom.

mangobreeder · 1 Jan 2009 at 12:13

BlackDragon said:
Clocks based on quartz are about a second out every 11.6 days.

A second is defined as 9 192 631 770 spins of a Caesium 133 atom.

at 0 Kelvin

pleccazoid · 1 Jan 2009 at 13:23

tisonlyme said:
The original drummer from The Clash once bought me a bottle of champagne. Fact.

Oliver Reed bought my old man a drink once in a pub many moons ago....

platinum87 · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:06

Inquisitor said:
The distance between two objects can't increase at a rate of 2.6c from any frame.

The maximum rate at which the distance between any two objects can increase is 2c, and even this can only be achieved if the two objects happen to be photons moving away from each other in opposite directions.

Still, this doesn't change the fact that nothing can travel faster than light

nope your wrong

i will tell eventually

nothing can travel faster than light, however the objects are moving away from each other at over twice the speed of light!

neil3k · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:12

One sandwich cut into two is still one sandwich

Hxc · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:12

No, because nothing is traveling faster than the speed of light. The distance between 2 objects might be growing at a rate faster than the speed of light, but that's because they are both traveling away from each other.

What exactly are you trying to imply here?

platinum87 · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:23

Hxc said:
No, because nothing is traveling faster than the speed of light. The distance between 2 objects might be growing at a rate faster than the speed of light, but that's because they are both traveling away from each other.

What exactly are you trying to imply here?

they are moving away at 2.6 times the speed of light...

therefore one object is moving faster than the speed of light perhaps..... comeon its easy

mangobreeder said:
at 0 Kelvin

where did you read that

Inquisitor · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:23

platinum87 said:
nope your wrong

i will tell eventually

nothing can travel faster than light, however the objects are moving away from each other at over twice the speed of light!

I don't see your point. You've conceded that nothing can travel faster than light, yet you're arguing that they are?

If an observer sees two objects moving in opposite directions at some fraction of c, say 0.6c, this does not mean that the speed of one relative to the other is 1.2c. You need to use the Lorentz transformation; doing so yields the result that each object is moving at about 0.88c relative to the other.

Go and read up on special relativity.

georges · 1 Jan 2009 at 14:27

Aardvarks are the only animal, other than humans, that can catch leprosy.