Thread: Did you know?

Originally Posted by tommo

Knew this thread was gonna be filled with bullshit pulled from people's arses/random internet pages.


I dunno about this one. I'm knowledgeable enough, but I read the other day in a skeptics magazine that this isn't true at all. (The underlined/italicised bit).


Also, with some people who have this reaction, if you touch their face in a certain spot (where the trigeminal nerve is) you can make them sneeze.

Ok now the blatant bs.

Source? I know I've always dreamed a lot and I don't think I'm incredibly intelligent.


Ok.... wtf? Have you ever even looked at a baby's eyes?
Eyes have less pigment in babies. But that doesn't automatically mean blue.


Yeah, which studies? I've read that most men are probably bi too.


.....no.

Study?



Again. No. My dog cries when I don't give it attention. As in tears and everything. I'm sure there are a lot more animals that do this too.
I haven't witnessed it. But chimpanzees most likely would.

Mine is true - Light has mass., therefore weight.

Originally Posted by TraceFleeman

Mine is true - Light has mass., therefore weight.

yes and no

each and every photon is so unique that they create a different universe around them

this is why photons can pass through each other, because they don`t exist for each other, every photon has it`s own version of reality

a photon has a mass only in his own bubble of reality

and these bubbles are so small, that they can`t contain time, so entropy doesn`t apply to them, making photons immortal

once a photon is born it will vibrate at the same frequency like forever

headache???

try M-theory

Redheads are becoming more and more rare as the years go by. Which is an absolute shame since redheads are absolutely amazing.

The legal age of consent in Canada was raised from 14 to 16 in 2008. There are "close in age" exceptions though. A 14 or 15 year old can consent to sexual activity with a partner as long as the partner is less than five years older and there is no relationship of trust, authority or dependency or any other exploitation of the young person. A 12 or 13 year old can consent to sexual activity with another young person who is less than two years older and with whom there is no relationship of trust, authority or dependency or other exploitation of the young person.

Bone Thugs N Harmony is the most creative force to ever hit the world of Hip Hop. They literally broadened the rap world's horizons and sparked a cultural phenomenon overnight, and they reinvented the overall sound of the entire genre with each album release from 1994 to 2000. They stood out so far apart from every other artist that many hip hop fans didn't even want to acknowledge them as rappers because their music was so unconventional... And now, for the most part, their music is almost entirely devoid of any originality (aside from a few elements of their signature sound ) and they sound somewhat bland and generic; mere shadows of their former glory. Pity.

Legal age in Denmark is 15. America sucks.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

Red heads are become more and more rare as the years go by. Which is absolute shame since redheads are absolutely amazing.

Is this true? I know it's a recessive gene, but I don't think the carriers are diminishing.
If it is, that sucks. Redheads are beautiful. Even if their face isn't amazingly attractive, their red hear just makes
them stunning.

Most flowers have the amount of pedals of a fibonacci number

(1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, etc)

Originally Posted by Solarflare

Most flowers have the amount of pedals of a fibonacci number

(1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, etc)

I was going to post that. Except it's the smaller "flowers" inside the flower. Like on a sunflower. Which is another interesting fact in itself, those little tufts in the middle of a flower are actually classified as flowers themselves hehe

why the hell did plants come up with flowers in the first place?

it takes a lot of resources to create them, most plants die after they have flowered, because of this

anybody? I`m curious

Because certain insects are attracted to them because they look like them.

I think every flower has an insect that looks similar to it.
So the insect tries to mate with the flower and therefore they just end up
spreading the pollen.

Which leads to the next amazing fact. The Angraecum Sesquipedale (Darwin's Orchid) has an incredibly long spur. When Darwin was shown these, he hypothesised that there must be a moth with an equally large probosics, people thought he was insane, but turns out they found that moth. Xanthopan Morgani (Morgan's Sphinx).

A similar thing has been discovered with Dendrophylax lindenii (American Ghost Orchid), which is very rare, and the moth which pollinates it is also rare - the Giant Sphinx Moth

Useless fact: Once upon a time, botanists argued whether or not a strawberry is a fruit!

Originally Posted by tommo

Is this true? I know it's a recessive gene, but I don't think the carriers are diminishing.
If it is, that sucks. Redheads are beautiful. Even if their face isn't amazingly attractive, their red hear just makes
them stunning.

I'm pretty sure. I know that they aren't going "extinct" as some people say but I've read that they will be more rare a few decades from now. Hopefully not, right? I'd hate for my grandkids to miss out. Unless... I marry one. :O

Red hair isn't even exactly a simple recessive gene. It's a bit more complicated than that.

Since flowers have become a topic... you can often tell what type of animal pollinates a flower by the flower's color and shape. For example, bees are attracted to blue, purple and yellow flowers; birds like red flowers; moths like white flowers. (That's very general, I remembered some from Biology and have only done quick Google searches to verify the examples). Also, remember that the pollinator needs to get its mouth to the flower's nectar. If you see a flower with a wide opening, it might be pollinated by a bat or something else that requires that much space. If you see an elongated flower with a narrow opening, a hummingbird might pollinate it, or something else that could fit like the moth tommo posted above.





Unrelated, I'll bring up this creepy fish, the Anglerfish (Bio stuff keeps coming back to me!):

There are two interesting things about it. First, it lures its prey by hanging a "fishing rod" with a glowing end near its mouth. Second, the males of the species are small in comparison, and when they reach maturity they attach themselves to a female and are basically attached to her for the rest of their lives to provide her with an immediate source of sperm.

dianeva that last pic makes the fish look like its in space

Those small lights are all from other fish of the same species.

Deep sea creatures are brilliant!

Originally Posted by tommo

Deep sea creatures are brilliant!

YESY EYSYEYSEYSYEYESYEYSYEY I agree

Originally Posted by hpnfreak

why the hell did plants come up with flowers in the first place?

it takes a lot of resources to create them, most plants die after they have flowered, because of this

anybody? I`m curious

Yes, in prehistoric times there were no flowers. Plants were either related to ferns, conifers, or other evergreens. As the age of the dinosaurs progressed, these huge creatures would eat vast amounts of plant material. The plants couldn't keep up and grow fast enough. They needed an edge, and that is when deciduous trees and flowering plants happened. They could grow and reproduce much faster. If it wasn't for dinosaurs we might not have roses.

The chicken is a direct descendant from the T. Rex.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

The chicken is a direct descendant from the T. Rex.

that explains all

I love how all these things lead me to other things I have read before.

The oldest known tree, which was nicknamed Prometheus, was a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine. I think they've found older ones now though.
But this at the time was the oldest. Alas, some graduate students cut it down because they were studying the age of trees in the area, and upon doing so,
realised it was 4862 years old.

Also, the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia Nobilis) species is one of the oldest known species of plant still living.
The oldest fossils are 200 million years old. It was thought to be extinct until 1994 when David Noble, a park ranger, was bush walking and found a group of them.
There are probably less than a hundred trees still living in the wild, and their location is kept secret.
Further, the specimens analysed are genetically indistinguishable, and so it is possible that their numbers at one point were down to maybe only one or two trees!

this is a good Did You Know:

this forum is about 500 000 posts away from being in the top 32 most posts on a forum ever

woah, really? you, rasp and eri should be able to get us past that in no time

yeah i know

its what we do, luckily i dont post in other forums as much

Is Dreamviews really that high up there? We should get a wikipedia article. We are like the kings and queens of the internet or something.

I've been here for a few months and have about 1000. So combined we need 500 times the amount of posts I've ever made, which seems like a lot. What's the average number of posts per day? Does anyone have that info?