Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The ten largest contries by land area (square miles) are..

.........Country..... Capital....... Land Area...........Population
1............Russia.............Moscow....17,075,200.........144,978,573
2...........Canada...........Ottawa........9,976,140............31,902,268
3...........United States..Wash. DC....9,629,091..........280,562,489
4...........China...............Beijing.........9,596,960........1,284,303,705
5...........Brazil...............Brasilia.........8,511,965...........176,029,560
6...........Australia.........Canberra......7,686,850.............19,546,792
7...........India...............New Delhi.....3,287,590........1,045,845,226
8..........Argentina......Buenos Aires...2,766,890............37,812,817
9..........Kazakhstan.....Astana..........2,717,300............16,741,519
10........Sudan..............Khartoum.....2,505,810.............37,090,298

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The smallest ten countries by land area (square miles) are...

.....Country.............Capital............Area.... Population
226....Pitcairn Islands Adamstown 47 47
227....Norfolk Island...Kingston............35....1,866
228....Tuvalu................Fongafale.........26.....11,146
229....China Macau SAR Macau............25....461,833
230....Nauru.....no official capital...........21......12,329
231....Cocos Islands....West Island......14..........632
232....Tokelau..............none.................10......1,431
233....Gibraltar.............Gibraltar..............7.....27,714
234....Monaco..............Monaco.................2....31,987
235....Holy See.............Vatican City..........0.......900

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Total World land area 510,072,000 square miles
Total World Population 6,233,821,945


"The World Factbook 2002", CIA.

 

[smotherman]

A human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

 

[smotherman]

More excuse to eat chocolate!

You should open up a chocolate factory! nah, you'd eat up all the profits LOL

cool... if I could sleep for 20 years like rip van winkle I'd make it to my ideal weight.

Don't give up hope man, You'll reach your idea weight! keep saying I think I can, I think I can.

 

[smotherman]

About 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.

 

[rocktober2]

A human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

Who ever came up with those statistics, never talked to me because I would have lowered them dramatically. LOL

 

[smotherman]

One in every 9000 people is an albino.

 

[fire_breeze]

You should open up a chocolate factory! nah, you'd eat up all the profits LOL

And the products, and the factory and ....

 

[fire_breeze]

Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.



I want his library!

 

[fire_breeze]

70 percent of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.

 

[smotherman]

Who ever came up with those statistics, never talked to me because I would have lowered them dramatically. LOL

No good men in Indiana , huh? lmao

 

[rocktober2]

No good men in Indiana , huh? lmao

Sure if ya want a jobless, carless and toothless man. Perhaps I am being too picky! lol

 

[smotherman]

Sure if ya want a jobless, carless and toothless man. Perhaps I am being too picky! lol

So why not move? I moved from NJ to vegas, surely you can move!

 

[rocktober2]

So why not move? I moved from NJ to vegas, surely you can move!

Should never say never I guess.

 

[smotherman]

One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

 

[fire_breeze]

One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

I don't know why, but this one made me laugh!

 

[smotherman]

Should never say never I guess.

Exactly!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

# A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes.

# A megabyte (MB) is 1,024 kilobytes.

# A gigabyte (GB) is 1,024 megabytes.

# A terabyte (TB) is 1,024 gigabytes.

# A petabyte (PB) is 1,024 terabytes.

# A exabyte (EB) is 1,024 petabytes.

# A zettabyte (ZB) is 1,024 exabytes.

 

[TallMan60]

I knew the Holy See was the smallest, but it's bigger than zero. I have been there.

The smallest ten countries by land area (square miles) are...

.....Country.............Capital............Area.... Population
226....Pitcairn Islands Adamstown 47 47
227....Norfolk Island...Kingston............35....1,866
228....Tuvalu................Fongafale.........26.....11,146
229....China Macau SAR Macau............25....461,833
230....Nauru.....no official capital...........21......12,329
231....Cocos Islands....West Island......14..........632
232....Tokelau..............none.................10......1,431
233....Gibraltar.............Gibraltar..............7.....27,714
234....Monaco..............Monaco.................2....31,987
235....Holy See.............Vatican City..........0.......900

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I knew the Holy See was the smallest, but it's bigger than zero. I have been there.

I assume the CIA meant it was less than 0.5 square miles?

 

[TallMan60]

I assume the CIA meant it was less than 0.5 square miles?

Yeah, probably so, it is quite small.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

* The transistor - the origin of the semi-conductor or microelectronics industry - was invented in 1947 by Bell Laboratory scientists William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.

* The silicon integrated circuit which is more commonly known as the chip - a device containing many interconnected transistors - was invented simultaneously in 1959 at Fairchild Semiconductor by Robert Noyce and at Texas Instruments by Jack Kilby.

* The microprocessor - a special kind of chip that includes the functions of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer - was first made by Intel in 1971 from a design by Marcian Hoff.

* The first microprocessor in 1971 had 2,300 transistors.

* The 1978 Intel 8086 microprocessor had 29,000 transistors and ran at 5MHz.

* The 2003 Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor has 55 million transistors and runs at 3GHz (which is more than 600 times faster than the 8086).

* The physical limit to the addition of transistors on a chip is expected to be reached in about 2010.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Jul 19, 2008

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has given the name Makemake to the newest member of the family of dwarf planets — the object formerly known as 2005 FY9 — after the Polynesian creator of humanity and the god of fertility.

It is classified as the fourth dwarf planet in our Solar System and the third plutoid.

Makemake (pronounced MAH-keh MAH-keh) is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System and is just slightly smaller and dimmer than Pluto, its fellow plutoid. The dwarf planet is reddish in colour and astronomers believe the surface is covered by a layer of frozen methane.

 

[fire_breeze]

45% of every dollar bill you have ever owned has been in a stripper's G-string.