INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

How do you know photon's have no mass if you can't weigh them?

Originally Posted by stevie

How do you know photon's have no mass if you can't weigh them?

Because photon's in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, therefore the "m" part of the equation must be zero.

NB, the mass of photon's is actually pretty heavily disputed.

[Viney]

Today is the 70th birthday of Xerography (The process of photocopying)

The first xerographic copy was made on October, 1938, in a makeshift laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, a borough in New York City. The copy, preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, reads “10-22-38 ASTORIA.” The inventor, Chester Carlson, was a scientist and patent attorney who was determined to find a simple way to make copies of documents.

[Mr Speirs]

Floppy Discs, CD's and DVD's were all invented at the same time by the same man.

[Grant66]

Although Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain, due to EU madness, the EU identifier on Northern Irish number plates is "NI" not "GB". The reason for this is that they didn't want to discriminate against the Irish.

Northern Ireland isn't in Great Britain, its in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.

Source: Front of my passport

Lemmings don't commit mass suicide. Source QI

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

Floppy Discs, CD's and DVD's were all invented at the same time by the same man.

Um, no. The underlying principal, perhaps, but not the media or the method to read/write to said media.

I remember when they were designing the first dual layer DVDs, and my interesting fact, is that they're called "dual layer" because initially, they litterally stuck 2 DVD's together. They also had trouble with the glue seperating at high RPMs at first.

[Paul the 6th]

The Guinness Book of Records entry for the longest Monopoly game is 1,680 hours. Sad *******s. No amount of pride is worth that much time, although I once played for 7 hours and won

Originally Posted by gajjii

Northern Ireland isn't in Great Britain, its in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.

Source: Front of my passport

It is part of the UK!!!

The United Kingdom is a unitary state consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

It is governed by a parliamentary system with its seat of government in London, the capital, but with three devolved national administrations in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland respectively.

The UK is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies and not part of the UK, but form a federacy with it.

The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnants of the British Empire, which at its height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface, the largest empire in history. British influence can continue to be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and head of state of each of the Commonwealth realms.

Bees stings are acidic and wasps are alkali.

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

Bees stings are acidic and wasps are alkali.

And Bees die after stinging whereas wasps can sting repeatedly.