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[Donna]

One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

We've had 1/3rd of our winter snowfall already dropped on us and winter hasn't even begun the joys of living in northern Canada.

[Matt L]

Fact: Chickenpox is a mild form of Herpes.
Fact: Tea tree oil is used in spot cream and some chewing gum.

[l3lueMage]

Fact: If you swallow gum, it takes approx. 7 years to digest.

[Donna]

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Panophobia is the fear of everything.

99% of people cannot lick their elbow.

Avocados are poisonous to birds.

The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.

edit: TheS0LDIER. could be banned at anytime

[Rory]

Fact: Properties bigger than 60 acres are stupid. Especially ones with stables, chicken runs, paddocks, 3 lakes, 2 barn houses, and a 5 bedroom house/converted barn in Dorsett.

1. Only male fireflies can fly (ner ner females).
2. Linen is stronger when wet.
3. By the age of 60 most people have lost 60% of their taste buds.
4. Dragonflys have a lifespan of 24 hours.
5. The word gymnasium comes from a greek word meaning to exercise naked.
6. 99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
7. Placing a small amount of alcohol ona scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself.
8. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name, sold for $7.5 million.
9. All interesting facts marked 1-8 are from google cus this topic is getting spammy. Thought I might make it interesting.

[l3lueMage]

Fact: The word "Donna" Means an Italian Woman of High status.

So I suppose Donna's ranking on p2l and her name match, but is she part Italian at all?

[Matthew.]

Fact: Donna is actually from an egg
edit: ahhh, aren't we all woops.

Edited by Matthew., 04 November 2006 - 05:15 PM.

[Donna]

Fact: The word "Donna" Means an Italian Woman of High status.

So I suppose Donna's ranking on p2l and her name match, but is she part Italian at all?

My middle name is Italian actually.

[Matthew.]

Adam you shouldn't be posting here, this topic has had a reply within the past 3 weeks...it doesn't need to be bumped.

Fact: There's a street in Ipswich named after my dad

[beaverpoutine]

Fact: NG just found out a new nickname for me: EDDiESNATOR loll

Edited by EAXT, 04 November 2006 - 05:58 PM.

[l3lueMage]

Fact: An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
Fact: China is the world's oldest known continuous civilization.

[seraph!m]

Well I learned in class today that a human cannot even generate 1 horse power of energy on their own
If you run up the stairs for 10 meters in height and get to the top of the stairs in 30 seconds...you only generate like 230W of energy.....

and 1 horsepower equals approx 750W

Top athlete can only generates 550W...and only can do that for a few seconds
XD Learned that in physics today

I, too, am taking physics, and I must say I do believe that statement is false. I think my math is right, otherwise forget that I said anything.

In a lab we did a week ago, I generated 1.065 horsepower by running up a flight of stairs.

There were 14 stairs that altogether measured 2.1 meters. I ran up these stairs in 1.59 seconds, clocked three different times for accuracy. My weight, in pounds, is 135, and in kilograms, is about 61.36. The formula for the wattage output, called power, is Force in Newtons times the distance traveled, all of this divided by the time it took to travel that distance.

Since my weight is 61.36 kilograms, the force I am lifting up the stairs is that weight multiplied by 9.8m/s squared. This comes out to be just around 601.36 Newtons of force. Multiply that by the distance, 2.1 meters, and then divide by the time, 1.59 seconds, and you get 794.254 Watts of power. Since there are around 746 watts in one horsepower, divide that wattage by 746, and you get your final answer in horsepower. This comes out to be about 1.065 horsepower, for me running up a flight of stairs.

I'm bored and tired, if any of that math is wrong, please call me out on it.

[Matheus]

FACT: we all will start to communicate with each others using facts

FACT: so do I

FACT: I edited this post to get "FACT" words bold :0

Edited by Matheus, 04 November 2006 - 06:40 PM.

[l3lueMage]

If you say your Weight...then don't multiply by 9.8m/s^2
...
Otherwise you are just doubling gravity!
You weigh 61.36kg...but you have to convert that to Mass or don't multiply by 9.8?

so didn't you only generate like 81hp...wait no now I am confused! You have confused me

No wait I think I am correct D:

Because our example was running up 10meters with like mass 70kg? x.x and taking like...30sec? o_O and we got like 200hp or something of that sort.

Edited by l3lueMage, 04 November 2006 - 06:46 PM.

[seraph!m]

If you say your Weight...then don't multiply by 9.8m/s^2
...
Otherwise you are just doubling gravity!
You weigh 61.36kg...but you have to convert that to Mass or don't multiply by 9.8?

so didn't you only generate like 81hp...wait no now I am confused! You have confused me

No wait I think I am correct D:

Because our example was running up 10meters with like mass 70kg? x.x and taking like...30sec? o_O and we got like 200hp or something of that sort.

By weight I meant mass, my mass is 61.36 kg, multiplying that by 9.8 got the "weight"

So those calculations are correct then, and didnt you mean watts instead of hp in your last post?

[l3lueMage]

Yea lol! Alright I stand corrected

Maybe I misunderstood him and he was saying how much work it takes to create 1hp? I don't know lol! *goes back to studying*

[seraph!m]

Well, at any rate it isn't easy to generate a horsepower.

[Rory]

lol. I was gonna say something about that post earlier cus I know when I did it I got 1.56 horsepower doing the running up the stairs. (school record might I point out ). But I couldn't remember the calculations. Oh well the world is a better place now.

[Dance]

Fact: The seeds of lotus flowers can float around in rivers and lakes up to 1000 years before rooting.