100 Interesting Science Facts

1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
3/ October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.
4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
6/ Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
7/ When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
8/ The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
9/ Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
11/ In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13/ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14/ The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15/ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
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19/ If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
22/ The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
23/ One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.
24/ DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
25/ The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
26/ The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
27/ The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
28/ Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
29/ Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
30/ Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
31/ The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
32/ Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
33/ The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
34/ An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
35/ 'Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
36/ The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
37/ The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
38/ In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
39/ Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
40/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
41/ Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42/ Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
43/ There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
44/ An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
45/ Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
46/ On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47/ The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
49/ A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
50/ Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
51/ At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
52/ The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
54/ Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
55/ More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
56/ The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
57/ The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
58/ A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
61/ The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
62/ If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
63/ It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
64/ There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
65/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
66/ Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
67/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
68/...and now they are already past the Moon.
69/ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
70/ Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
71/ The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
72/ Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
73/ Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
74/ Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.
75/ Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
76/ One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
77/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
78/ Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
79/ Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda. 80/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
81/ At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
82/ A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
83/ The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
84/ The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
85/ The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
86/ The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
87/ The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
88/ The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
89/ The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
90/ The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
91/ The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
92/ In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
93/ A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
94/ A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
95/ 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
96/ To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
97/ If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
98/ Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
99/ Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
100/ Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
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Great Reasons To Be A Guy

Phone Conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
Dry cleaners and hair cutters don't rob you blind.
You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
You can leave the motel bed unmade.
You can kill your own food.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is £10 for a three-pack. I
f you are 34 and single, nobody notices.
Everything on your face stays its original colour.
You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger's seat.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You don't have to clean if the meter reader is coming.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
You can quietly watch a game with your buddy for hours without ever thinking: "He must be mad at me."
Gray hair and wrinkles only add character.
Wedding dress - £2,000. Tuxedo rental - 75 quid.
You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you just might become lifelong friends.
Your pals will never trap you with: "So, notice anything different?" You are not expected to know the names of more than five colours.
You know which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You don't have to shave below your neck.
Gas (at either end) is cool.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes, one colour, all seasons.

symtoms to say that you are Addicted To The Internet

1. A friend stops to see you since your phone has been busy-----for a year!!!!!"
2. You forgot how to work the TV remote control.
3. You see something funny and scream, "LOL, LOL."
4. You tell everyone, that after surgery, your mom went to ICQ ......instead of ICU!
5. You sign off and your screen says you were on for 3 days and 45 minutes.
6. You placed the refrigerator beside your computer.
7. You buy a laptop and a cell phone so you can have ICQ in your car.
8. Tech support calls YOU for help.
9. You beg your friends to get an account so you can "hang out."
10. You get a second phone line just to call out for pizza.
11. You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.
12. You say "he he he he" or "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.
13. You say "SCROLL UP" when someone asks what it was you said.
14. You find out divorce papers had been served on you 6 months ago.
15. You talk on the phone with the same person you are sending an instant message to.
16. You look at an annoying person off line and wish that you had your ignore button handy.
17. You start to experience "withdrawal" after not being online for awhile.
18. You say......."Where did the time go??"
19. You sit on ICQ for 6 hours for that certain special person to sign on.
20. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee. 21. .....You end your sentences with.....three or more periods.......
22. Your shoes are suddenly 2 sizes too small.
23. You think faster than the computer. <----Not difficult for me
24. You enter a room and get greeted by 25 people with {{{hugs}}} and ** kisses**.
25. Being called a newbie is a major insult to you.
26. You're on the phone and say BRB.
27. Your teacher or boss recommends a drug test for the blood shot eyes.
28. Your answering machine/voice mail sounds a little like this...."BRB. Leave your S/N and I'll TTYL ASAP".
29. You get up at 2:00 AM to go to the bathroom and turn the computer on instead.
30. You need to be pried from your computer by the Jaws-of-life.
31. what is next thing to blogging.. second wife...

if you don't think like this.... then you r not a programmer.

Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.
COFFEE.EXE Missing - Insert Cup and Press Any Key Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster.
2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN <-------- The information went data way --------> Best file compression around: "DEL *.*" = 100% compression

The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in. BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding
The name is Baud......, James Baud.
BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
Access denied--nah nah na nah nah!
C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner. Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay..
Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!" As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
Southern DOS: Y'all reckon? (Yep/Nope)
Backups? We don' *NEED* no steenking backups.
E Pluribus Modem ... File not found.
Should I fake it? (Y/N) Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available. An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting. CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/n)?
Does fuzzy logic tickle? A computer's attention span is as long as it's power cord.
11th commandment - Covet not thy neighbor's Pentium.
24 hours in a day...24 beers in a case...coincidence? Disinformation is not as good as datinformation. Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
SENILE.COM found . . . Out Of Memory . . .
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Ultimate office automation: networked coffee. RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
All computers wait at the same speed.
DEFINITION: Computer - A device designed to speed and automate errors. Press -- to continue ... Smash forehead on keyboard to continue..... Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
E-mail returned to sender -- insufficient voltage.
Help! I'm modeming... and I can't hang up!!! All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
Error: Keyboard not attached.
Press F1 to continue. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 DOS Tip #17: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS
Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...
Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven.
REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q) Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_~" Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)
Read my chips: No new upgrades! Hit any user to continue. 2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push!! I hit the CTRL key but I'm still not in control! Will the information superhighway have any rest stops? Disk Full - Press F1 to belch.
Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (T)hrowup
Backup not found:
(A)bort (R)etry (P)anic (A)bort, (R)etry,
(T)ake down entire network? (A)bort, (R)etry, (G)et a beer? If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects.

Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Weapon's of Math Instruction

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a protractor, a T-square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. The man is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said.
"They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. They use secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to dis-integrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line." President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."

A woman's dictionary

Argument (ar*gyou*ment) n. A discussion that occurs when you're right, but he just hasn't realized it yet.
Airhead (er*hed) n. What a woman intentionally becomes when pulled over by a policeman.
Bar-be-que (bar*bi*q) n. You bought the groceries, washed the lettuce, chopped the tomatoes, diced the onions, marinated the meat and cleaned everything up, but, he, "made the dinner." Blonde jokes (blond joks) n. Jokes that are short so men can understand them.
Cantaloupe (kant*e*lope) n. Gotta get married in a church.
Clothes dryer (kloze dri*yer) n. An appliance designed to eat socks.
Diet Soda (dy*it so*da) n. A drink you buy at a convenience store to go with a half pound bag of peanut M&Ms.
Eternity (e*ter*ni*tee) n. The last two minutes of a football game.
Exercise (ex*er*siz) v. To walk up and down a mall, occasionally resting to make a purchase.
Grocery List (grow*ser*ee list) n. What you spend half an hour writing, then forget to take with you to the store.
Hair Dresser (hare dres*er) n. Someone who is able to create a style you will never be able to duplicate again. See "Magician."
Hardware Store (hard*war stor) n. Similar to a black hole in space-if he goes in, he isn't coming out anytime soon.
Childbirth (child*brth) n. You get to go through 36 hours of contractions; he gets to hold your hand and say "focus,...breath...push..."
Lipstick (lip*stik) n. On your lips, coloring to enhance the beauty of your mouth. On his collar, coloring only a tramp would wear...!
Park (park) v./n. Before children, a verb meaning, "to go somewhere and neck." After children, a noun meaning a place with a swing set and slide.
Patience (pa*shens) n. The most important ingredient for dating, marriage and children. See also "tranquilizers."
Waterproof Mascara (wah*tr*pruf mas*kar*ah) n. Comes off if you cry, shower, or swim, but will not come off if you try to remove it.

Valentine's Day (val*en*tinez dae) n. A day when you have dreams of a candlelight dinner, diamonds, and romance, but consider yourself lucky to get a card