FACTOIDS

Hmm, I thought it was a liquid as well, but wondered what the freezing point would then be. Didn't do much research, but first site I came across says:
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If the earth weren't tilted on its axis, trees would be shorter, and wood would be unsuitable for use as load bearing structural beams, columns or masts.

Mark Baird
Alameda CA

 

85% of interviewed U.S. troops in Iraq said the main mission there is to retaliate for Saddam Hussein's participation in detroying the World Trade Center on 9/11/01

...Time, 3/13/06, p. 17, quoting a Zogby International survey

Wth????? What kind of training are these soldiers receiving?

 

If gun control worked, then we should be free of crime.

FACT: There are more guns in the U.S. than cars (228,000,000 guns according to the 1998 FBI statistics and 207,754,000 automobiles according to the 1998 Federal Highway Administration registrations). Yet, you are 31 times more likely to be accidentally killed by a car than a gun according to the National Safety Council…despite cars having been registered and licensed for more than 100 years.



FACT: 90% of all violent crime in the U.S. does not involve any gun of any type.

* 1998 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

FACT: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 per day.

* Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ.

FACT: After Canada's 1977 gun controls prohibited handgun possession for self defense, the "breaking and entering" crime rate rose 25%, surpassing the U.S. rate.

* Pat Mayhew, Residential Burglary: A Comparison of the United States,

Canada and England and Wales (Nat'l Inst. Of Just., Wash., D.C., 1987)

FACT: In Japan, the murder rate is about 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 each year by weapons other than firearms.

* United Nations data




Therefore, if all of the firearms in the U.S. could magically be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of Japan.

Sorry got carried away

 

Faullty furnaces and leaking car exhaust are the most common causes of CO2 poisoning. Researchers have found that beside the normal symptoms, possible brain damage or death, permanent heart damage also results.
In Minnesota 37% of CO2 poisoned paients were found to have heart damage and 38% died within 6-7 years. That is a heart disease rate 3 times higher than normal for Americans in same age/sex.
Journal of American Medical Association

So clean and tune up your furnaces and drive a Prius!

 

You must mean CO? Or are we supposed to try to breathe less too?

Edit: Okay, too much CO2 is bad for the environment. We should try to breathe less. But poisonous?

 

CO2 in high enough concentrations are posinous. high concentrations of CO2 is what nearly killed the astronauts of Apollo 13

 

CO2 in high enough concentrations is posionous. high concentrations of CO2 is what nearly killed the astronauts of Apollo 13

 

Although the book series Tom Swift was supposed to have been written by Victor Appleton and the Tom Swift Jr. series was supposed to have been written by Victor Appleton II; the former was mainly written by Howard Garis and the latter mainly by James Lawrence.

 

This is an oldie that dates back to the mid 80's but interesting still.

A computer disk drive (hard drive) would be destroyed if the read/write heads actually came in contact with the disk when spinning at speed. To work they are designed to fly a short distance above the spinning disk.

The read/write head is about 3X5 mm in size (mid 80's technology). If the head were enlarged to be the size of a 747 and the flying height above the disk were enlarged by the same percentage, it would have the 747 flying 1/4 inch above the surface.

These calculations were done in the mid 80's by people at Magnetic Peripherals Inc., a disk drive company that is now Seagate.

 

LOL I never thought I would hear the 80's refered to as back in the oldies..

 

to illustrate the flying head clearance of the read write head. a particle of cigarette smoke is approximately 5 times larger.

how is such fine precision engineered into the drive???\

well, actually, it isnt. the head has a "wing" on it. when the platter spins up, the "breeze" created by the spinning platter is what the read head floats on.

the head has designated "parking areas" where the head can safely rest on the disc without causing damage and that is where the head hovers when actually waiting for a read command. this is one reason why suddenly shutting the power off to your computer can be bad for it. if the read head is in the process of doing a read or seek, the loss of rotational speed could cause contact on an unprotected section of the disk. this is referred to as "head slap"

in many cases, head slap will chip a small piece of the magnetic coating on the disk most likely depositing the chunk onto the disk somewhere. then when the head is in that area, it hits the chunk and slaps the disk again which eventually will snowball into a catstrophic failure.

 

Enron and the President

These are interesting bits of information that you don't hear much about.

A.. Enron's chairman met with the president and the vice president in the
Oval Office.

B.. Enron gave $420,000 to the president's party over three years.

C.. It donated $100,000 to the president's inauguration festivities.

D.. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.

E.. The corporation had access to the administration at its highest level
and even enlisted the Commerce and State Departments to grease deals for it.

F. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized Enron for more than
$600 million in just one transaction. Scandalous!! ..

BUT........the president under whom all this happened WASN'T George W. Bush.

SURPRISE...It was Bill Clinton!!!

 

Hmmmmmm..... this should stir the pot a little.. LOL

A report just released by CNW Marketing Research is shaking up many a tree hugger today. CNW’s research concluded that a hybrid vehicle will have a higher energy cost per mile travelled through the life of the vehicle than many larger and less “green†vehicles; what CNW terms the “Dust to Dust†cost of a vehicle.

CNW’s findings show that the Chevrolet Suburban has an energy cost per mile of $3.134, while a Toyota Prius , the darling of the hybrid crowd, comes in at $3.249. Obviously the Prius can go much farther than the Suburban on a gallon of gasoline, but according to the CNW report, that is only part of the equation, as you must also factor in the energy required to build the vehicle, service it through its lifetime, and recycle its parts at the end.

read more here.

Source (http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/5191)

 

Fish do not stink under water!