Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Little Known Fact About Meteors
#1 ~
You can throw an Meteoroid off course (keeping it from hitting the Earth, for instance) by exploding a nuclear device near it. The radiation pulse from the explosion pushes the Meteoroid off course. The process is called an 'x-ray slap'.

#2 ~
Meteoroids are moving fast! Some enter the Earth's atmosphere at as much as 130,000 miles per hour.

#3 ~
Meteorites contain the oldest known rocks in our solar system. They also contain 'pre-solar grains', which are minerals that formed around other stars probably billions of years before our solar system was born.

#4 ~
A 1985 study conducted by the science journal 'Nature' calculated the rate of meteorites hitting humans as .0055 per year, or once time every 180 years. Those are worse odds than Lotto.

#5 ~
Up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth every day. But most of them are too tiny to do any noticeable harm.

#6 ~
After it impacts the Earth, a meteoroid is suddenly referred to as a meteorite.

#7 ~
Radio signals bounce off the ionized trails left by meteors entering Earth's atmosphere. The National Weather Service and NATO use the process to communicate over long distances.

#8 ~
In 2004, a 30-foot-wide meteoroid hit the atmosphere over Antarctica, leaving 2 million pounds of dust in its wake. That was enough to seed rain clouds and affect climate all the way on the other side of the planet.

#9 ~
More than 24,000 meteorites are known to have landed on Earth, but only 34 are believed to have originated on Mars. The Martian meteorites can sell for as much as $500 a gram. (Non-Martian ones are only worth about $2 a gram.)

#10 ~
The International Space Station is expected to be hit with an estimated 100,000 meteoroids during its expected 20-year life span. To protect it, International Space Station is covered with a foot-thick layer of Kevlar. Kevlar is the same material that's used to make bulletproof vests.

#12 ~
If you happen to find a meteorite, the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society demands that you donate 20 percent of it (or 20 grams of it, whichever is less), to a laboratory for future research. The rest is yours to do with as you wish, UNLESS you found it in South Africa. There, all meteorites are protected under the National Heritage Law and you'd have to surrender it to nearest authority.

#13 ~
Meteorite landings have been blamed for hundreds of injuries throughout the years, but only one was actually verified by scientists. In 1954, a woman named Annie Hodges was struck by an eight-pound meteorite that crashed though her roof, bounced off a radio, and into her hip while she was napping in Sylacauga, Alabama.

#14 ~
You can buy meteorites on eBay.

 

[fire_breeze]

The torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The relay, captured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, was part of the Nazi propaganda machine’s attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler’s regime. Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

 

[fire_breeze]

Slugs have four noses.

 

[fire_breeze]

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The relay, captured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, was part of the Nazi propaganda machine’s attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler’s regime. Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

During the ancient Games in Olympia, Greece, a flame ignited by the sun burned continually on the altar of the goddess Hera. The modern Olympic flame was first seen in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, where it burned constantly throughout the Games.

The modern Olympic Torch Relay tradition began in 1936 in Berlin. The torch is lit by the sun in Olympia, Greece, as it was in ancient times, and then passed from runner to runner in a relay to the host city.

 

[fire_breeze]

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

 

[fire_breeze]

During the ancient Games in Olympia, Greece, a flame ignited by the sun burned continually on the altar of the goddess Hera. The modern Olympic flame was first seen in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, where it burned constantly throughout the Games.

The modern Olympic Torch Relay tradition began in 1936 in Berlin. The torch is lit by the sun in Olympia, Greece, as it was in ancient times, and then passed from runner to runner in a relay to the host city.

Unlike today, back then, the torch had to be tended. Very very carefully.

 

[fire_breeze]

Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

Phobia Quote
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

 

[fire_breeze]

Phobia Quote
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

Such truth.


Plato (428/427 BCE - 348/347 BCE), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.

 

[fire_breeze]

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Phobia Quote
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Leo Rosten

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Phobia Quote
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

 

[Kingofmycastle]

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

Im doing my part to keep that number down

 

[smotherman]

Our Lifetime in Numbers

Life expectancy – 78.5 years or 2,475,576,000 seconds
Words Spoken in Lifetime - 123,205,750
Friendships – 1,700
Baths – 7,163
Dreams – 104,390
Beef and Veal consumed – 4.5 cows per person
Chickens consumed – 1,201 per person
Potatoes consumed – 5130 pounds
Chocolate – 10,354 bars
Baked Beans – 845 cans
Farts – 35,815 liters of wind
Soap – 656 bars
Toothpaste – 276 tubes
Deodorant – 272 cans
Shampoo – 198 bottles
Beer – 10,351 pints
Wine – 1,694 bottles
Vomit produced – 149 liters
Sex – 4,239 times
Holidays - 59 trips

 

[smotherman]

Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.

 

[smotherman]

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.

 

[smotherman]

The average duration of sexual intercourse is 2 minutes. Totally shocked

 

[smotherman]

The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.

 

[fire_breeze]

The average duration of sexual intercourse is 2 minutes. Totally shocked

 

[daus42]

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. The Marlboro man in the advertisements died from emphysema.

 

[fire_breeze]

Blatantly ripped from Wiki.

The history of smoking can be dated to as early as 5000 BCE, and has been recorded in many different cultures across the world. Early smoking evolved in association with religious ceremonies; as offerings to deities, in cleansing rituals or to allow shamans and priests to alter their minds for purposes of divination or spiritual enlightenment. After the European exploration and conquest of the Americas, the practice of smoking tobacco quickly spread to the rest of the world. In regions like India and Subsaharan Africa, it merged with existing practices of smoking (mostly of cannabis). In Europe, it introduced a new type of social activity and a form of drug intake which previously had been unknown.

 

[fire_breeze]

Pipe smoking, until recently one of the most common forms of smoking, is today often associated with solemn contemplation, old age and is often considered quaint and archaic. Cigarette smoking, which did not begin to become widespread until the late 19th century, has more associations of modernity and the faster pace of the industrialized world. Cigars have been, and still are, associated with masculinity, power and is an iconic image associated with the stereotypical capitalist. Smoking in public has for a long time been something reserved for men and when done by women has been associated with promiscuity. In Japan during the Edo period, prostitutes and their clients would often approach one another under the guise of offering a smoke and the same was true for 19th century Europe.

 

[mwmnpa]

This past Friday, 2/12/10, was the first time ever that 49 out of the 50 states recorded snow.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

This past Friday, 2/12/10, was the first time ever that 49 out of the 50 states recorded snow.

Now you got me wanting to know which were the 2 that didn't?

Bet Alaska wasn't one of them