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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1875 on: March 15, 2011, 04:10:24 PM »
OK, but  ...




The moon, Daphnis is caught in one of Saturn's rings, tidally affected constantly by its proximity to Saturn. Since its orbit does not exactly match that of the rest of the ring, due to its mass, velocity, it interferes greatly with the free, locked mass of the ring and creates amazingly beautiful,  mountainous regions within the ring where it is trapped. The "mountain ranges" come and go and change constantly in response to the elliptical orbit of Daphnis.


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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1876 on: March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM »
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1877 on: March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1878 on: March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM »
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1879 on: March 15, 2011, 05:12:23 PM »
Mt Washington in New Hampshire is the highest point in the North eastern US at 6,288 ft (1,917 m) also has the record for highest wind gusts 231 mph (372 km/h)
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1880 on: March 15, 2011, 05:29:42 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
They have a defined orbit and are, therefore, not inanimate. Furthermore spewing radiation in mass quantities is  :viking:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1881 on: March 15, 2011, 05:31:52 PM »
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 05:29:42 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
They have a defined orbit and are, therefore, not inanimate. Furthermore spewing radiation in mass quantities is  :viking:

Geek. :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1882 on: March 15, 2011, 05:56:28 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P

Bigot.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1883 on: March 15, 2011, 06:07:52 PM »
Quote from: hykeaswell on March 15, 2011, 05:56:28 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: PPK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P

Bigot.

MEAN!  :bigcry:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1884 on: March 15, 2011, 06:09:40 PM »
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1885 on: March 16, 2011, 04:14:23 AM »
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1886 on: March 16, 2011, 05:05:49 AM »
Quote from: TheoK on March 16, 2011, 04:14:23 AM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:

Mmmmm spaghetti...  :drool:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1887 on: March 16, 2011, 05:24:14 AM »
Ugggh, sick of our fucking fire alarm going off in the carpark.

"Evacuate the building now"....yep, I think I was the only knob who actually thinks the one day I don't evacuate will be the day there is a real fire.

Anyway...got to perve on some firies...and was not in my jim jams...so I guess I got a little perve time as payback.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1888 on: March 16, 2011, 06:28:49 AM »
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1889 on: March 16, 2011, 06:44:54 AM »
Quote from: RageBeoulve on March 16, 2011, 06:28:49 AM
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)

Well, you could have had the courtesy to take pics!  :eyebrows:

Yeah, I'm a stickler for that stuff. I'd rather be out of the building...but people think it's never going to happen to them, so I'm usually the only person out of the gazillion units that's out the front like a safety Nigel No Mates.  :hahaha:
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