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Old 15th Mar 2011, 00:16   #21
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The 'crack' of a whip is due to the end of the whip breaking the sound barrier.

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The 'crack' of a whip is due to the end of the whip breaking the sound barrier.

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Yeah. I say real facts, because otherwise this'll just become a Chuck Norris thread...

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Yeah. I say real facts, because otherwise this'll just become a Chuck Norris thread...

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Agreed. Please to be stop threadcrapping Chuck Norris unfunny joke makers.

New fact: The nuclear power plant which is very much in the news in Japan right now is about 40 years old and was only designed to survive an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale. It's doing pretty good, all things considered.
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Really?

Until now water has been at its densest at 4 C.
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Really?

Until now water has been at its densest at 4 C.

Its what i was told!


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3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt battery works on their tongue
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Can I have source on that 9 volt thing? I heard 12-15.

edit: Jipa, weak hearts. I remember hearing several years back that more people die from testing 9V batteries against their lips than do from Ecstasy every year, but I've not got a source on either.
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Water is heavyset at 4c as thats when its at its most dense! That why the whole of the pond doesn't freeze!
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Like the title says...

1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds...

3G is between 128 and 144 kbps...
Yea but all those sperm are the same, so with data compression that 1587GB could be not much larger than the original.

Impregnating her with a zip file might not work so well though.
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Yea but all those sperm are the same, so with data compression that 1587GB could be not much larger than the original.

Impregnating her with a zip file might not work so well though.
It also fails to take packet loss into account, 1587GB maybe sent but on average less than 37.5MB is received.
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