Topic: Amazing facts

[Barney_Rubble]

I heard that in imperial.

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If you add a yard, the rope's "about a foot" off the ground...

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[12345]

Hmmm...

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16cm?

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Yep it may not seem intuitive but if you just look at the simple maths it works out. In fact its always 16cm if it is 1metre you are adding to the circumference. If you did the same with a tennis ball you'd get the same result.

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[12345]

This cannot be true.

The equatorial circumference is 40,075,020,00m so if you added 1m to this it would be 40,075,020,01m. 

If as said you picked the rope up but only at one point the distance from the earth would be no more than 50cm.  This is down to the 100 cm being divided by 2 thus equalling 50cm. 

The 16cm claim stinks and shocks.  I reckon all we need to do is divide 1 by 40,075,020,00 and the resulting number would be the gap between the earth and the rope.

2.495320027 -10 cm  this my friends is miniscule.

Sorry maybe didnt explain it well, its if you pick it up at every point on the circle not just one point. SO you pull it out so its at an equal distance above earth at every point.

Ill prove it gimme a sec to write it.

[12345]

The diameter of the earth = roughly 12,756,000m
Therefore using circumference = pi * diameter
                                             c = 3.1415926 * 12,756,000
                                             c = 40,074,155.89m               
Pretty much what you said.
Now we make c = 40,074,156.89m
                       diameter = c/pi
                       d=12,756,000.32

That 0.32 on the end means the diameter of the new rope is 0.32 metres greater and so if you half it its 16cm above the earth.

Make sense?

[Ciara (with a capital "C")]

Someone once told me that Stewart Copeland (drummer with The Police) wrote The Bill theme tune. I have never been able to find any proof to back it up but if it is true then it's the greatest fact ever!

[kumbriankopite]

If you expanded one atom to the size of a cathedral, the nucleus of the atom would be the size of a fly, but would weigh three times the weight of the cathedral.

[12345]

I understand what you are saying but I do not know why you are saying it other than to try and prove your point. 

Thats exactly why I tried to explain it, because you didnt believe it.

Also why do you even worry about the diameter.  The only thing of interest is the circumference. 

Yes but if you know the diameter of the rope with that extra metre added the difference between that diameter and the earths diameter gives 2 times the separation of the rope from the earth. Divide this by two and youll get the height of the rope from the earth.

I am no mathematician so I could be making myself look foolish (not the first time most definitely not the last time) but I still think you are wrong. 

Looping a piece of rope around the globe that is 1 metre longer than the globe's circumference and then lifting it off the floor so the gap between the earth and the rope is at an equal distance all the way round the earth would not lead to a gap of 16 cm.  Think about the numbers it really is impossible.

No, just saying it is impossible is intuition. I said exactly the same when i heard it. If you actually look at and simply analyse the numbers it works.

 If the world was 32 cm wider that would make a large difference to the circumference more than could be accounted for by an extra metre of rope.

Try it then. Using c=pi*d  If you use a value for the diameter and then a value for the diameter plus 0.32m then the circumference will be pretty much a metre larger. (I say pretty much as it isnt exactly 16cm)         e.g. if it was 5m across you'd get c=15.7 and c=16.7. If it was 27km across you get c=84823m and c=84824m. It works just try it. The circumference is 1m bigger when you increase d by 0.32 and likewise increase d by 0.32 and c increases by 1m.

Lastly how could knowing the diameter prove that the rope around the circumference would have a gap of 16cm.  That just does not make sense. 

At the moment I am convinced my simple workings provide the real answer.

Anyone else actually believe it?

[Phil M]

The diameter of the earth = roughly 12,756,000m
Therefore using circumference = pi * diameter
                                             c = 3.1415926 * 12,756,000
                                             c = 40,074,155.89m               
Pretty much what you said.
Now we make c = 40,074,156.89m
                       diameter = c/pi
                       d=12,756,000.32

That 0.32 on the end means the diameter of the new rope is 0.32 metres greater and so if you half it its 16cm above the earth.

Make sense?

I tried the same but I keep getting Djibril Cisse !!
Hmmm? 

[kopbird]

Anyone else actually believe it?

I couldn't care less really but if it makes you feel better, I'll believe you.

[12345]

Thank you for going to the trouble of explaining it all to me. 

I am actually beginning to believe but still do not believe.  I really am having difficulty with this.  I know what a diameter is but that is only at one point not all the way around.  I also do realise that the diameter is the same all the way round if you draw a straight line from one side to the other passing directly through the centre of the circle.

I am going to get a mathematician friend to confirm this for me.  I will get back to you.  At this moment in time I still believe the gap will be no more than miniscule as oppossed to the gigantic 16cm you propose.

Who knew useless information could be so fasanating or spark so much discussion between two people.

Ok fine then we'll see what they come back with.

I couldn't care less really but if it makes you feel better, I'll believe you.

[scouser4eva]

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

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The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long



Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile


A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.


A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)


There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.


One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny


The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192


Slugs have four noses


Sharks can live up to 100 years


Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.


Kangaroos can't walk backwards


About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday


The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887


The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.


Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency


Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints


There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human


It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.


The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002


Octopus have three hearts


If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange


The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.


1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old


The body has 2-3 million sweat glands


Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs


Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.


Most cats are left pawed


250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa


A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant


You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!


Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours


An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce


Bone is five times stronger than steel.

[Something Else]

factz is actually spelt facts

[scouser4eva]

factz is actually spelt facts

That a fact?

[Something Else]

posted this earlier in another thread, but is geaky enough to go in here

if you tune the tele so it is not on any station and you see the "white snow" 1% on the inteferance is due to the big bang

[Zizou]

I saw the James May programme too

[medley]

» In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

» It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

» $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

» You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.

» On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McNasty's BigMac bun.

» There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

» Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

» Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

» Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

» Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

» Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

» Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

» Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

» If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.

» Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.

» The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.

» 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.

» There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

» About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.

» The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

» The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

» The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

» Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.

» 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.

» Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

» Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

» The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.

» Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.

» Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.

» Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.

» If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

» 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.

» The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.

» There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

» It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.

» The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

[Jonathan Hall ☆☆☆☆☆☆]

I love celery.

How much celery do i need to eat to lose 3 stone?

[Jon G]

Millsee hasn't been seen on RAWK since 06/05/06

[♠Dirty Harry♠]

I'm gonna have a stab and say he's been banned

[Party Phil]

» It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

» The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.

» The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

» Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.

» If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

» There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

» It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.

Although I expect most of the 'facts' given by medley are actually a load of bollocks, the selected ones above are definite bullshit and don't make any sense.

[Rob K]

You are taller when you wake up in the morning than when you go to sleep at night.

[Art Vandelay]

Although I expect most of the 'facts' given by medley are actually a load of bollocks, the selected ones above are definite bullshit and don't make any sense.

The Apollo 11 one is true, though technically it was the Eagle that had only 20-30 seconds of fuel left.

[Party Phil]

The Apollo 11 one is true, though technically it was the Eagle that had only 20-30 seconds of fuel left.

Well there you go then. For a start Apollo XI was the name of the mission - the launch vehicle was Saturn V, the command module was Columbia and the lunar module was Eagle. Secondly, if Eagle had 20 seconds of fuel left upon landing on the moon, how did they get off the moon? If they are talking about landing back on earth, Columbia did not return as a whole and the re-entry capsule was not powered so there's no relevance in quoting fuel levels on landing.

Like I said, they're a load of bull.

[Art Vandelay]

Secondly, if Eagle had 20 seconds of fuel left upon landing on the moon, how did they get off the moon?

You don't use the descent engines to take off, you use the ascent engines.  It gets split, leaving part of the LEM on the moon.  It was the descent fuel tanks that were a bit too close to empty, mainly because they realised they were heading straight for a big rocky crater so Armstrong took over control from the computer, to try to find a flattish bit to land on.

[Frog]

The one about car speed and fuel mileage is correct, but I'm not too sure about 15%. Most cars best fuel consumption to distance travelled ratios are in the 35 to 45 mph range. All gas of course, not the new hybrids.

[grifter]

By the year 2012 it is calculated that 83.7% of the worlds retards will have auditioned for American Idol, X Factor or Britain Has Talent.

By the year 2009 it is estimated that every mother who has a teenage daughter weighing over 16 stone and a face like a kicked in c*nt will be convinced she is the new Britney Spears.

By the year 2014 every man over 35 years of age who still lives with his mum and dresses like his dead dad will sing Rock DJ by Robbie Williams on a tv talent show and will be totaly unconcerned about his lack of rhythm and face like a crab wearing dentures.

[Roady]

a ducks quack doesnt echo.

[Roady]

there are more dead people than there are people alive...if that makes sense? but it is true

[Voni]

Sex Panther - 60% of the time - it works every time

[all_funkt_up]

a ducks quack doesnt echo.

Dogs cant look up

[JamieB]

Sex Panther - 60% of the time - it works every time

Beat me to it!
Ill be honest, that smells like pure gasoline!

[jaffod]

Elephants are bigger than dogs.

[jaffod]

Hippos kill more people than sharks each year.

[BIGdavalad]

a ducks quack doesnt echo.

Yes it does 

[adopted_scouser]

5% of Americans believe that the moon is made of cheese.

[Roady]

Yes it does 

honestly?

theres 8297 man made space objects being traced by nasa in space. and over 110000 pieces of "spacejunk" floating in space larger than a centimetre

[BIGdavalad]

honestly?

Yeah, some scientist researched it.

[fudge]

1 in 200 men can blow themselves

[Roady]

Yeah, some scientist researched it.

fair play mate i stand corrected.


a ducks quack echoes.

[grifter]

It is impossible not to have a wee just before a poo even if you had a wee a few minutes earlier.

It is impossible to carry on wanking after cumming.

If you put a spent match in a brand new box of unused matches then close your eyes then take out a match it will always be the spent match.

People who shop at Burtons will stink of Lynx and own an electric toothbrush.

People who wear novelty ties are 97% more likely to be a c*nt.

Every man at one time wished his bird had legs like Steffi Graf.

Nigela Lawson will re-marry within three months if her husband croaks before her.

In North Wales you are never more than 500 yards away from a betamax video or a man with 11 toes.

Any man who gives another man a birthday card will probably be homosexual.

No matter how old you are you will always put your ear to a bowl of rice crispies ( if no one is looking )

When shaking hands with another man you will always squeeze his hand it a bit tighter than he squeezes yours, this will leave him in no doubt that you are harder than him.

If you go on a double date and the other bloke talks about flat roofs it is acceptable to bottle him and the police can't do anything, honest.

The bigger they are the longer your jaw is wired up.

Once you sign the direct debit form to join a gym your dick will shrink 3mm and your arms will move 125mm out from your side.

It is impossible for Graham Norton to manage a sentence without mentioning he gobbles cock.

Any man who says " flippin eck "  has never seen a womans vagina.

Every classroom in Britain contains at least one pupil who can only drink goats milk.

Any man who gets changed under a towel is more than likely a bender.

Every man has eaten several fork loads of a semi/dry mushy Pot Noodle because he is too impatient.

Women are more terrified of wood lice than masked intruders with guns.

When purchasing pile cream it is impossible to be served by anyone other than a stunning twenty one year old assistant.

Men need not worry if your partner mentions that a man in work is a good listener as he is probably an arse bandit.

A dog is more likely to sniff your cock if you are in the company of the in laws for the first time.