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Disregard ! uhmm well disregard this... I got my answer

TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? A. Vinod Khosla Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? A. Vinod Dahm Q. Who is the third richest man on the world? A. According to the latest...

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Some fun tidbits. A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their...

This guy I work with is under the impression that it must be difficult to keep satellites from running into each other. That they are constantly brushing by each other. My argument was to say pretend the number of satellites was the total number of cars in the world. how often would you expect...

Is it safe to drink tap water?

I was just messing around and ran across this site that hate math facts on it and I chose a random one about a football field. Here's a http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10010.2.shtml# the fact. Now, I understand what they're trying to get it, but what I don't get is how they came up...

I was just woundering, what are some of the weirdest facts you heard or read about physics in general? Weirdest thing i read about was about liquid Helium and how it flows out of its container when lifted but flows back in when set back down. And the other thing is that one teaspoon of...

Need to get some facts straight. A block on an incline with an angle of X... the normal force is mg the force parallel to the incline is mgSinX the force perpendicular to the incline is mgCosX and the force done against friction is mgCosX?

the man on the moon will not be visible by the year 2006 due to the moons rotation. Joseph Smith (of mormon fame) had a brother who was the first president of Coca-cola There are more people each year, that living inside the arcitic circle, spontaneously combust, than there are people...

1) Churnobyl was NOT even close to what a typical nuclear reactor is like. 2)Reactors never go Nuclear Bomb, it is impossible 3)all reactors in service today would never melt down to the point of getting to the ground water, or even the ground because the reaction stops almost imediatly and...

Hi all, Before I ask a Q about blood cancers, can I just check - is it right that cell division of blood cells takes place only in the bone marrow (and not in the bloodstream or anywhere else)? Thanx Charles

HAARP: What are the facts? This is a link to a fairly run-of-the-mill fear mongering type article about the dangers of HAARP. Pretty much the kind of stuff you ear on Coast to Coast. Is anyone up on the real capabilities and limitations of this installation? HAARP...

What is the mass of a black hole at the size of a tennisball? Can the mass of a black hole vary?

Bear with me, the info is from cnn.com, but i found what it had to say interesting...perhaps living nearly 100 years ago wasn't so bad? http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/02/pf/taxes/irs_birthday/index.htm?cnn=yes at this rate, in another 100 years the United States government will have the tax...

Here are some important facts that while well-established, I often see missing from the debates about Iraq, Saddam, and war. I don't intend this to be pro- or anti-war, and I'll ask that people don't debate the morality of war in this thread. God knows we have enough threads for that. :)...