Amazing Science Facts

[Anarcho-Communist]

Check out theses amazing science facts!


Turtles can live for more than 100 years.

An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.

If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.

A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.

The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.

A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.

A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.

A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.

We blink 25 times a minute.

To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.

The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )

Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!

The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car

A lot of you will know some of these as I did, but they are interesting :lol:

[Xvall]

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

That's untrue. I haven't slept in about frou days.

[Anarcho-Communist]

It dosen't state how long not to sleep for, and I'm sure your not starved. Look at the kids in the African countries, they are starved!

[Ian]

These are pretty shit, I can see a few worded stupidly and a few I think are wrong.

[Anarcho-Communist]

Why don't you correct them Ian?? Does anybody want to post some other interesting facts?? :lol:

[Ian]

Only one type of Cicada lives for 17 years and I'm pretty sure it's in North America and Cicada's are nothing like flies.

[Anarcho-Communist]

That's a long time for a cicada to live I suppose... :P

[h&s]

The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car
This is wrong. Puff the Magic Dragon is bigger.

[Paradox]

The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )

So what the hell are fish? Aliens? :lol: Fish are animals too!



The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car

Komodo Dragon is definitely the heaviest lizard around now, but it isn't the longest. The Crocodile Monitor can grow up to 15 feet I think, but most of that length is tail.


Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

What the hell? :huh:

[monkeydust]

(Disclaimer: cynicism)


The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )

No shit! :blink:


The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!


I have an organ longer than that.


Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.


Shit, I better go apologize to the males.



Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.


So can humans. Have you seen Jacko recently?

[which doctor]

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

I wish I could do that.

WTF

What did I just say?

[Pawn Power]

Those are not Amazing

[Organic Revolution]

interesting but not amazing.

[Anarcho-Communist]

Originally posted by h&[email protected] 29 2005, 01:38 AM

The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car
This is wrong. Puff the Magic Dragon is bigger.
Puff the magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called holony or something like that. I have it on tape :lol:

[Dark Exodus]

The length of a pigs orgasm can reach up to 3 minutes.

[Anarcho-Communist]

If I'm correct, they last up to 30 minutes!

[FatFreeMilk]

We blink 25 times a minute.
Wow that's amazing.

[pedro san pedro]

Dark Exodus Posted on Jul 29 2005, 05:17 PM
The length of a pigs orgasm can reach up to 3 minutes.


i read that first time as 'the length of a pigs orgasm can reach up to 3 metres' :lol: :lol:

[Xvall]

Why don't you correct them Ian?? Does anybody want to post some other interesting facts??

Yeah, here's an interesting fact. About a week ago, I drank half a bottle of Robitussin.

[Xian]

Those are good here's some more:

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.

18/ Webhosting.info have estimated that the United States has over 22,000 web hosting companies and over 25 million domain names!

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.


http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/factfile/factfile1_20.asp

[cubalibra]

From my Snapple bottlecap - Hawaii is the only state in the US that grows coffee.

[h&s]

Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 29 2005, 12:41 AM


Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

I wish I could do that.

WTF

What did I just say?
I do aswell. Don't fight it!

Another interesting fact I know is that there is a type of Greek drink that gets you wasted when you drink it, and when you drink water the morning after it hydrolyses some indigestible chemical in the drink, and gets you pissed a second time round.
That sounds like some good stuff to me, shame my sister drank it all before I could get my hands on it. <_<