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it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - mrbigstuff - 03-11-2006
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Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - PeterB - 03-11-2006
Life on one of Saturn's moons?: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0310_060310_saturn.html
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - mrbigstuff - 03-11-2006
peter, check out the quadruped Turks on the same page. weird stuff. but, yes, i did read this. tell me something else.
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - PeterB - 03-11-2006
Easter Island got populated later?: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/11/ap/tech/mainD8G91VEG1.shtml
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - Carm - 03-11-2006
The history of the Palm Springs aerial Tram
Its snowing up there. Yippi
Carm
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - PeterB - 03-11-2006
Previously thought-to-be-extinct rodent found alive and kicking?: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002855664_rockrat10.html
(no, I couldn't make this stuff up!)
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - Mike Johnson - 03-11-2006
Varro wrote, "Precautions must also be taken in the neighborhood of swamps... because there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause some diseases" more than two thousand years ago.
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - MacMagus - 03-11-2006
Were it not for the moon, the earth's rotation would be much faster, resulting in more motion of the earth's molten core, which would in-turn generate a stronger magnetic field, deflecting more of the sun's particles and resulting in a lack of aurora borealis.
The moon's gravity produces a drag on the earth's rotation that will some day result in the earth's rotation being approximately that of the moon's orbital rate -- both will always show the same face to one another.
Some estimates place that result around 12 billion years from now... which is roughly 8 billion years beyond the time that it is estimated for our sun to turn into a red giant when its outer layers will engulf and destroy the earth, so it's really just a theoretical problem.
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - Panopticon - 03-11-2006
ALL RadioShack USB Scales have a surveillance device hidden inside.
Explains the $10 price tag ::o
Re: it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know - OWC Jamie - 03-11-2006
Now Pan, that's just plain mean.
I like.
I can't find my birthmark.