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Right then, someone has to get this back to a serious thread.
As you approach it, Diss appears! Fact.
(P.S. If you eat a Garlic Chilli chicken with garlic rice and a garlic naan washed down with Guinness the results are very interesting! Sorry)
GastonJ
02-11-07, 10:22 PM
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man...... and they blame the human race for making a few extinct?
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.... I can almost see the rush now to buy black lights to find out if it's true :-)
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.... ever noticed them in a queue at the family planning clinics?
During WW II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs
anyway that's a few days worth...
The highest jump ever was by Joseph Kittinger at over 31,000 meters.
His fastest speed was 714mph... maybe he was keeping it down due to the road safety camera van closeby.
I thought the terminal velocity of someone falling was around 125 mph :confused:
therealvw
11-11-07, 07:30 PM
I thought the terminal velocity of someone falling was around 125 mph :confused:
Could be with Wind(air) resistance, but he was SOOOOO far up there was little or none.
gettin2dizzy
12-11-07, 07:41 AM
Could be with Wind(air) resistance, but he was SOOOOO far up there was little or none.
:thumbsup:
Alpinestarhero
12-11-07, 04:27 PM
The hard coating on your otherwise polycarbonate visor is based on a silica (SiO2) polymer network.
Matt
northwind
12-11-07, 06:20 PM
Worst interesting fact of the day EVARS.
Alpinestarhero
12-11-07, 06:24 PM
Worst interesting fact of the day EVARS.
But i found it out all by myself :D
Matt
If you have food poisoning you should not use Immodium (other brands are available)
Pedro68
13-11-07, 07:58 AM
KP Nuts ... may contain nuts, and may have been prepared in an area that is not necessarily nut-free!
Alpinestarhero
13-11-07, 08:34 AM
If you have food poisoning you should not use Immodium (other brands are available)
Why?
Matt
From today, its only 6 Weeks until christmas day!!
From today, its only 6 Weeks until christmas day!!
happy christmas
quite a few houses have "trimed up" already
BernardBikerchick
13-11-07, 10:10 AM
happy christmas
quite a few houses have "trimed up" already
hee they are theres a house near vineys mum's and it really goes the whole hog buts its lovely, cheesy, but lovely
fact your eyes are always the same size from birth but ya ears never stop growing !!!
If you have food poisoning you should not use Immodium (other brands are available)
Why?
Matt
Because it stops all the bad stuff from leaving your body.
ASDA's good for you pork pies, technically are not good for you at all
Pedrosa
14-11-07, 04:48 PM
Marilyn Munroe had 6 toes on each foot.(uuuuurrrrrgggggh!)
dizzyblonde
14-11-07, 10:14 PM
I've got purple hair
glsuk1970
15-11-07, 11:25 AM
The word "gullible" is not in the English dictionary.
ljharmitt
20-11-07, 03:34 PM
It is one day till my 17th birthday :D
tinpants
20-11-07, 05:08 PM
It is one day till my 17th birthday :D
Today is the 7,579th day AFTER my 17th birthday!!
I now feel quite old.
Alpinestarhero
20-11-07, 05:25 PM
It is one day till my 17th birthday :D
I remember when I was 17. I did a CBT and got hold of the keys to my dads pugeot speefight 100. Speeeeeedy!
Matt
therealvw
20-11-07, 07:27 PM
ahh 17! Have a great day ljharmitt.
No beer for you then, another year to go!!!!! EHEHEH
drefraser
21-11-07, 04:55 PM
Elephantiasis is massive swelling of a limb caused by damage to the lymph drainage system.
Elephantitis on the other hand is inflammation of your elephant.
JessicaRabbit
06-12-07, 02:35 PM
spontaneous elephantitis... would that be the enflammation of your elephant?
colinsv25
06-12-07, 09:30 PM
my interesting fact of the day is that if u wanted to hire a dog in japan it would cost £6.30 per hour:smt103
JessicaRabbit
08-12-07, 11:45 AM
:eek: Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year. :smt103
northwind
08-12-07, 01:51 PM
Mmm... Cooking oil...
drefraser
08-12-07, 03:27 PM
Does that mean that if I do both I've got a balanced diet?
some people have too much money...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/19/sandisk-offers-up-4gb-ducati--usb-flash-drive/
northwind
14-12-07, 06:51 PM
Is that usable with the datalogger do you think?
gettin2dizzy
19-12-07, 11:14 AM
Films are shot at 24 frames per second (FPS) and TVs work at 25FPS making movies 4% shorter when displayed on the TV than at the cinema
Alpinestarhero
19-12-07, 11:41 AM
Films are shot at 24 frames per second (FPS) and TVs work at 25FPS making movies 4% shorter when displayed on the TV than at the cinema
Nice fact
Do we get better quality on the TV then?
Matt
gettin2dizzy
19-12-07, 12:11 PM
Nope, worse quality. The resolution is far less and it's too quick!
Computer games run at 60fps!
wyrdness
19-12-07, 12:23 PM
Films are shot at 24 frames per second (FPS) and TVs work at 25FPS making movies 4% shorter when displayed on the TV than at the cinema
I've seen people complaining that the DVD versions of films are a few minutes shorter than the cinema version. They think that something's been cut out, when it's just that the DVD version runs fractionally quicker for this reason.
It's different in the US, where TV is 30fps. They have to repeat frames to convert from 24fps to 30fps, which can produce jerky pictures.
High-definition blu-ray disks can play 24fps on HDTVs that support it.
I'd better stop here, before I start to use phrases like 'inverse telecine'.
gettin2dizzy
19-12-07, 01:18 PM
In recent years insurance companies have paid out £2billion as a result of hair straightener fires.
Lake Windermere, the largest lake in England, has a blanket speed limit of 10mph!!!!!!!!!! How dumb is that?!
:)
gettin2dizzy
19-12-07, 02:27 PM
How fast can a quilt travel?
Bluepete
19-12-07, 03:31 PM
Duvet enforce it?
gettin2dizzy
19-12-07, 03:46 PM
In Oz they call bed linen 'manchester', and a duvet a doona.
Duvet enforce it?
So in an awful geaordie accent:
"I doo-na"
NAPA121
04-01-08, 03:38 PM
"I am not young enough to know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde (writer)
MeridiaNx
04-01-08, 11:50 PM
One for the techheads or anyone who ever buys anything online with a credit card. It refers to PGP, a particular encryption program, but which is derived from RSA, the encryption standard used for many transactions...
If all the PCs in the world, approx. 260 million, tried to break one single PGP encrypted message, it would take on average an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe to crack it!
If all the PCs in the world, approx. 260 million, tried to break one single PGP encrypted message, it would take on average an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe to crack it!
You really believe that?:lol:
Anyway, before this post, there were no posts in this section of the site for 23 days. The same length of time that Britney Spears was sentenced to prison due to violating probation.
MeridiaNx
28-01-08, 04:17 PM
You really believe that?:lol:
I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know. Read it in this, which seemed a very thorough, concise account of code-making and breaking. I follow Bill Bailey's view of being a 'relaxed empiricist': someone who'll only believe something when someone a little bit cleverer than them tells them that's what happened.
Anyway, I'm open to hear your explanation as to why it's not the case...
Bluepete
28-01-08, 04:32 PM
Peeling Jerusalem Artichokes makes your hands brown and sticky.
That is all.
wyrdness
28-01-08, 04:34 PM
Does anyone here wear Calvin Klein boxers?
Did you know that Calvin means 'little bald one (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Calvin)'? Or that Klein means 'small or little (http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/k/klein.php)'?
So when I see someone displaying 'Calvin Klein' on the waistband of their boxers (usually with their jeans low on their hips), I presume that they're hiding something tiny and bald in there.
Personally, if I was hung like a baby, I wouldn't wish to advertise the fact.
I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know. Read it in this, which seemed a very thorough, concise account of code-making and breaking. I follow Bill Bailey's view of being a 'relaxed empiricist': someone who'll only believe something when someone a little bit cleverer than them tells them that's what happened.
Anyway, I'm open to hear your explanation as to why it's not the case...
I remember hearing stories relating to MD5 along similar lines (longer than a lifetime to crack the hashes). I know the guy who wrote an algorthim that can crack 10 MD5 hashes in 35mins. I (and a few others in my circle of friends at the time) helped design it in theory.
PGP uses a pretty well known mathematical process to generate it's keys. There are two methods to approach the problem. Brute force, or mathematically, like the MD5 cracking.
PGP reportedly, with a key length of 516 bits, and a computer that can process a million instructions a second, takes 30,000 years to crack. That's true. However, you can buy a home computer that can accomplish 18,938 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second). So 30,000 divided by 18,938 is 1.415 years. That's on a standard home computer.
Now think about a supercomputer. The most powerful computer on the planet (as at Nov 2007) is capable of 596378 GFLOPS. 1 GFLOP is one billion (US term) floating point operations per second. Note though, that for a floating point operation, you have to do approx 10 instructions. Now do the math.
Then there's the mathematical side of things. Back to MD5, you don't have to get the password correct, so long as it generates the right hash. The same applies with PGP. Get the hash right, and you have the data, and it's always much faster than brute force.
12 people have walked on the moon!
MeridiaNx
04-02-08, 11:50 AM
PGP reportedly, with a key length of 516 bits, and a computer that can process a million instructions a second, takes 30,000 years to crack. That's true. However, you can buy a home computer that can accomplish 18,938 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second). So 30,000 divided by 18,938 is 1.415 years. That's on a standard home computer.
From what I read though, it suggested that as soon as computers could break the key within a reasonable timeframe, the simple solution was to increase the length of the key. What's to stop them doing 1024 or 2048 and so on?
Then there's the mathematical side of things. Back to MD5, you don't have to get the password correct, so long as it generates the right hash. The same applies with PGP. Get the hash right, and you have the data, and it's always much faster than brute force.
Ah right, I see what you did there. I was only referring to/thinking of brute-forcing rather than finding another cunning way to do it.
leemole
04-02-08, 10:13 PM
A single birch tree will give off 70 gallons of water per day in evaporation
wyrdness
05-02-08, 10:33 AM
辻斬り 【つじぎり】 is a Japanese word meaning to kill a passerby in order to test a new sword.
辻斬り 【つじぎり】 is a Japanese word meaning to kill a passerby in order to test a new sword.
and you pronounce this word how?:smt064
Petrol has gone down a penny per litre at my local station :)
sv-robo
07-02-08, 08:03 PM
my grandma has hemmeroids.........that is all.
Nice Robo, nice.
Polar Bears have been known to turn green when kept in hot countries because their hollow hair shafts (to trap air and usually keep them warm) has had algae growing in them!
(Raf told me that one at the Soho meet so I had to google it to see the green bears)
Devil Biccy
11-02-08, 07:23 PM
my grandma has hemmeroids.........that is all.
:-(
Devil Biccy
11-02-08, 07:27 PM
12 people have walked on the moon!
They Have?/have they?or they have I dunnno depends on who you belive?:---)
They Have?/have they?or they have I dunnno depends on who you belive?:---)
He he. I had no idea til it came up on telly so I googled it, double and triple checked. I was amazed! Apparently they're going to announce they will send up some more soon.
grh1904
12-02-08, 09:56 PM
I can run faster than a man on a pedal cycle, OFFICIAL.
There I was happily walking along minding my own business when over the radio I hear a colleague state a male who is wanted on a warrant has just made off from him, and it's just around the corner from where I am.
I turn into the street (foot patrol wearing boots, stab vest, helmet and utility belt) and there is the blighter pedalling away like that clothing shop only spelt differently.
15 seconds later I have hold of him, handcuffs on, job sorted.
So now todays interesting fact is that I can OFFICIALLY outrun a man on a pedal cycle.;)
I turn into the street (foot patrol wearing boots, stab vest, helmet and utility belt) and there is the blighter pedalling away like that clothing shop only spelt differently.
That bit's lost on me :confused:
MeridiaNx
13-02-08, 01:35 PM
That bit's lost on me :confused:
Pedalling away like 'f**k'
Today is Monday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2008. There are 317 days left in the year.
Apparently a Duck's quack does not echo.
I heard the same thing Mark. Was it on Radio 2 per chance? I don't believe it though. I'll try and disprove it some day.
ukrobuk
18-02-08, 07:05 PM
Testis Or Testify
The word "testis" cames from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.
Alpinestarhero
19-02-08, 09:15 AM
A story my physical chemistry lecturer told me:
There was a park that had alot of deer in it, and the keepers had been planting new trees. Well, deer like new trees (I guess they smell and taste sweet?) so all these new trees where being eaten. Not to be beaten, the park thought of ways to deter the deer from eating the new trees. One of the ways was to spread the droppings of a predator around the base of the tree, which the deer would smell and get frightened of and keep away. The keepers chose lion droppings, from a near-by zoo. It worked, the tree's grew healthily. Anyway this was quite interesting, so the lion droppings where analysed for their chemical content. It was found that many of the compounds found are present in chocolate and other stuff we like to eat.
Makes you think twice about eating a lion bar, dosnt it?
Matt
Filipe M.
20-02-08, 05:10 PM
Apparently a Duck's quack does not echo.
Probably because ducks aren't usually found in spaces with reflective surfaces distant enough for sound waves to bounce back and be perceived as echoes.
Duck's quacks are no different in nature from other sound waves, so given the right conditions (distance, material, etc) they will bounce back and be perceived as echoes just like any other sound.
yorkie_chris
20-02-08, 06:10 PM
Try get some to quack under a bridge
Filipe M.
20-02-08, 06:22 PM
Try get some to quack under a bridge
Better to get one to quack at a wall some 20 meters away.
kd sweety
28-02-08, 06:09 PM
(foot patrol wearing boots, stab vest, helmet and utility belt)
is it like batman's utility belt? becasue then you could use your bat boomerang of death on him :D
grh1904
28-02-08, 10:54 PM
is it like batman's utility belt? becasue then you could use your bat boomerang of death on him :D
No, but I like your style.:winner:
Note to self - First thing in work tomorrow, see admin for requisition forms for "Boomerang of Death"
cb5_keith
03-03-08, 03:15 PM
If your ears ring after hearing continuous loud noises you will never hear the frequencies of that ring ever again
Alpinestarhero
03-03-08, 04:02 PM
If your ears ring after hearing continuous loud noises you will never hear the frequencies of that ring ever again
How long, and at what volume, does the average person have to be exposed to said frequency before he/she cannot hear it?
Matt
cb5_keith
03-03-08, 04:33 PM
How long, and at what volume, does the average person have to be exposed to said frequency before he/she cannot hear it?
Matt
Generally, over 90-100dB for longer than 30 minutes to an hour will cause lasting damage. 125dB+ will cause pain. 180dB will destruct hearing tissue.
When you begin to look at frequencies it can get very complicated as day to day sounds consist of many frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz (the hearing range).
Hearing, or percieved loudness, can be simulated in a logarithmic scale using an A-weighting curve...
http://sound.westhost.com/p17_fig2.gif
This means our ears will be more sensitive to frequencies between 2kHz and maybe 8kHz, than to say 20 to 800Hz.
Therefore, damage will most likely occur at the frequencies where the curve is peaking, because lower and much higher frequencies are perceived to be quieter...
Generally, over 90-100dB for longer than 30 minutes to an hour will cause lasting damage. 125dB+ will cause pain. 180dB will destruct hearing tissue.
Which dB scale are you using there? I have seen that the graph is in dB(V).
Another interesting factoid is that my bike horns are approx 142dB(A). They do cause a little pain if you hold your finger on the button, but you get used to it, and they do seem to be quieter than they were. :lol: I put that down to me getting used to them though.
cb5_keith
03-03-08, 05:40 PM
Those figures would be dB SPL...
When referring to decibels on an a-weighting scale the denotation is dB(A). The A refers to the a-weighting. For a b-weighting scale it would be dB(B). However, if you refer to an acoustic sound/measurement then dB SPL should be used. 0 dB SPL is referenced to 20 micropascals. But dB SPL can't be converted to dB(A), or the other way around!
cb5_keith
03-03-08, 05:53 PM
If you want a more sophisticated method to determine the pressure of sounds in terms of frequencies then the fletcher-munson curves suffice. Each curve presents the pressure level (dB SPL) over hearing range in terms of frequencies (20Hz to 20KHz) for an equal-loudness signal (phon). 1 phon is equal to 1 dB SPL at 1KHz.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Lindos1.svg/400px-Lindos1.svg.png
However, these curves are created from pure sine waves at each frequency so can't really be related to real world sounds....although your horn Baph may be rather close to a pure tone...
Is it obvious I have nothing better to do with my time???:smt024
Rhiwbina_Squirrel
12-03-08, 10:24 PM
6% of Americans believe Elvis Presley is still alive.
An ostriches eye is bigger than it's brain.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Ummm... That seems to be all I can think of at the moment =/
However, with the National hunt [sort of] on this week. Here's a bit of information that might amuse you:
Letherby & Christopher, the racecourse caterers, will serve some:
20,000 bottles of champagne,
30,000 bottles of wine,
240,000 bottles of beer and lager,
220,000 pints of Guinness,
and 10,000 gallons of tea and coffee!!
Apparently a Duck's quack does not echo.
There's a fairly entertaing show on the Discovery channel here in the states. They try to prove or disprove myths and things just like this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_1)#Does_a_Duck.27s_Quack_Echo. 3F
It echos, but the quack itself and the echo have such similar acoustic properties that it is very difficult for a person hear where the quack stops and the echo starts! ;)
Tom Jones does or used to put mouthwash on his dinkle.
Alpinestarhero
28-03-08, 08:27 AM
There's a fairly entertaing show on the Discovery channel here in the states. They try to prove or disprove myths and things just like this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_1)#Does_a_Duck.27s_Quack_Echo. 3F
It echos, but the quack itself and the echo have such similar acoustic properties that it is very difficult for a person hear where the quack stops and the echo starts! ;)
We get mythbusters too ;) Am I'm glad they showed that thre is no such thing as brown noise (the brown note); I never beleived such a thing could exist
Matt
Tom Jones does or used to put mouthwash on his dinkle.
was you his distributer>?:p
gettin2dizzy
28-03-08, 12:50 PM
Tom Jones does or used to put mouthwash on his dinkle.it's not unusual
:riding:
it's not unusual
:riding:
Or, so you say! :eek:
it's not unusual
:riding:
:notworthy::smt044
Hovis has a banana bike now
yorkie_chris
03-05-08, 01:23 PM
I have another bike
I have another bike
go on
yorkie_chris
03-05-08, 01:40 PM
A little cagiva for missyc ... looks well trick for a 125!
A little cagiva for missyc ... looks well trick for a 125!
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa125/wyoming95/this_thread_is_useless_without_pics.gif
yorkie_chris
03-05-08, 01:44 PM
http://www.bikez.com/pictures/cagiva/2001/4166_0_1_2_planet%20125_Image%20by%20Cagiva.%20Pub lished%20with%20permission..jpg
like that
http://www.bikez.com/pictures/cagiva/2001/4166_0_1_2_planet%20125_Image%20by%20Cagiva.%20Pub lished%20with%20permission..jpg
like that
No I meant pics of missyc actually ;) nice looking bike though :D
missyburd
04-05-08, 12:11 AM
No I meant pics of missyc actually ;) nice looking bike though :D
haha, he won't dare :smt074 :p
I am sooooo excited about learning! Just wish I didn't have 5 exams and a theory test to do before I get to play :rolleyes:
I thought you only needed your theory pass before you could take the practical test, not before they let you out on your own ;)
Can't help you skip the other 5 exams though :p
missyburd
04-05-08, 02:59 PM
I thought you only needed your theory pass before you could take the practical test, not before they let you out on your own ;)
Can't help you skip the other 5 exams though :p
YC is convinced I should do the full thing before it all changes in October, even though I only plan to use the 125 in the forseeable future!
And as much as I'd LOVE not to have to do the other 5 exams, kinda not going to pass a large of my degree otherwise, and I don't fancy paying out another £3k for a resit of the year :shock: :p
markmoto
04-05-08, 03:04 PM
Looks cool missyc
missyburd
04-05-08, 03:09 PM
Looks cool missyc
can't wait to see it properly, blumin uni :rolleyes:
YC is convinced I should do the full thing before it all changes in October
Agreed - the new test is looking like a lot of hard work. What I meant by that was that you can do CBT before you need to do the theory. More time :riding:, less time :study: (at least for the bike)
missyburd
04-05-08, 04:57 PM
Agreed - the new test is looking like a lot of hard work. What I meant by that was that you can do CBT before you need to do the theory. More time :riding:, less time :study: (at least for the bike)
Well I'm just getting the theory (hopefully) out of the way really, then I can concentrate on getting the CBT and lots of practice, then move on to the other test. That is my plan anyway lol.
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