Did you know.....

Emp_Fab

That for all the talk of pushing back the frontiers of space and all that rot, Voyager 1, our most distant probe, has only just left our solar system and, even if it were to change course and head outward for the nearest possible edge of our own galaxy, it would take another 444 MILLION years to get there before it could start the proper journey to the next nearest galaxy, Andromeda.  That's the closest galaxy to ours, out of the hundreds of millions of billions of galaxies out there.

That's like moving 0.001 of a millimetre towards the edge of the sofa and talking like you've just walked to Australia and back.

What's your amazing 'Did you know...' nugget ?  (no stupid ones please.... purdy please....  just interesting facts).

No... your ability to speed-eat doner kebabs does not constitute an interesting fact....

Nooooo...  it won't look clever.  Or funny.  Keep that mediocre joke away from the keyboard....  Interesting facts only please !

vasselmeyer

Emp_Fab said:

That's like moving 0.001 of a millimetre towards the edge of the sofa and talking like you've just walked to Australia and back.

How do you know how big my sofa is?

holnrew

Even in Star Trek they haven't explored much of just the Milky Way.

Speaking of, there's an American Naval vessel who has just got a new captain. His surname is Kirk.

viz

A quarter of Dalmation dogs are deaf in one ear.

viz

Ah here's something quite astonishing. If you let a male and female "cabbage white aphid" mate, and allowed all the children to grow to maturity, ensuring they didn't get eaten and didn't run out of food, and those children all found mates and had children themselves, who all grew to maturity (sounds like the Kursalls doesn't it), so you had 2 grandparents, lots of children and lots and lots of grandchildren, and you weighed this family, it would weigh .... 80 kilograms!!!! Not really, it would weigh 522 MILLION TONNES - more than the combined weight of humans alive today.

Jetfire

Lixarto;73466" said:

and bad tempered, of course. Then you have heart attacks.

Wow... Just wow..

Emp_Fab

Lixarto said:

Yes, it's bloody brilliant, isn't it?

Humanity (especially Chuck Berry) travels to the stars.

Unless you're Welsh and bad tempered, of course. Then you have heart attacks.

Now, either you were drunk writing this or I'm hungover reading it this morning, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense.  It's certainly not an interesting fact.  ....and what's this shit about me being bad tempered ?  WTF have I done to you?..... bitch.

Jetfire

Rule one clearly not being observed here by lixarto.

chillidoggy

He might have to ban himself.

chillidoggy

My interesting fact is that Emp's got more wisdoms than I have.

Emp_Fab

Yes... but I have more facepalms than everyone else put together.

In other news, The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. 

chillidoggy

Drew's got more than everyone else!

 

Actually, where is Drew? Haven't seen any posts from him lately.

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

Drew's got more than everyone else!

 

Actually, where is Drew? Haven't seen any posts from him lately

Emp abducted him, so he could steal all Drew's facepalms

Jetfire

Lovely deleting of posts from Lix on this thread too lol