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Eve
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 12782 Location: USA Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Tu_triky wrote: |
i saw that ish too...isn't it at the smithsonian? |
Sure is! And beautiful.... _________________
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Eve
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 12782 Location: USA Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Sailorprinzess wrote: |
Random Fact so it's not off topic: The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 miles an hour in 1963. |
According to the Guiness book of records:
"The fastest service ever measured was one of 163.6 mph by William Tatem Tilden (1893-1953) (US) in 1931. _________________
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qilver
Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 25363
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Saito_Hajime wrote: | BT can slow down your internet browsing . |
happens to me all the time, infact, right now, my internet is barely moving and i have one torrent d/l'ing....i think i try to limit them, or else my internet would be stuck.
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Saito_Hajime
Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 3762 Location: Shinsengumi Headquarters Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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qilver wrote: |
happens to me all the time, infact, right now, my internet is barely moving and i have one torrent d/l'ing....i think i try to limit them, or else my internet would be stuck. |
Good thing that you know how to limit your download in your torrent. As for me, I can't limit my download rate (or maybe I just haven't figure out how to limit it ) in my bt client. I'm using BitTornado and I can just limit the upload rate, which I don't do because I want to seed too . _________________
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loris
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 553
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Sailorprinzess wrote: | The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old. |
The oldest tortoise was Tui Malila, 188 or 192 years old, according to Wikipedia.
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Eve
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 12782 Location: USA Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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loris wrote: |
The oldest tortoise was Tui Malila, 188 or 192 years old, according to Wikipedia. |
The oldest still living tortoise is in Australia and is a mere 175 years old. Her name is Harriet. _________________
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tabana
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 9573 Location: �o�J�i�_ Country: |
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Eve
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 12782 Location: USA Country: |
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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tabana wrote: | I wonder if she play bingo all the time and complain about the 100+ year old kids. |
Of course. Everyone complains about their kids. Though Harriet doesnt have any. Apparently they called her Harry for the first 100 years. _________________
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krim
Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 12316 Location: burunto o suimasu ka? Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:13 am Post subject: |
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The worlds fisherys are being cleaned out. Recent studies on prices of popular seafood shows that as species become more and more rare, the prices go up and are replaced by similar species. By studying menus ranging from the 1880's to present day, adjusting for inflation, researchers have shown as prices increase the wild population decrease.
For example, as abalone become popular in the 1920's, an abalone steak cost $7, today a similar steak costs over $70.
In the 1880's, 300lb Halibut were common in commercial fisheries. Now, commerical fisherman have begun to fish for juvenile halibut rarely breaking the 100lb barrier.
Basically, we are fishing through the entire food chain.
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krim
Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 12316 Location: burunto o suimasu ka? Country: |
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Tu_triky
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country: |
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: |
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krim wrote: | Why does fatty food taste better, and non-fat food taste so bland?
because researchers have discovered that rat tongues have taste buds dedicated soley for fat (rat tongues are very similar to humans). If this is true in humans as well, then "fat" would added to the current list of tastes (salty, sweet, savory, etc) |
i saw a news piece that claimed that very thing in humans....according to some researcher.
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KeepMeCaffein8td
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ahochaude
Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 10291 Location: Matsuhama-cho, Ashiya-shi, Hyogo-ken, Japan Country: |
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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KeepMeCaffein8td wrote: | You can't keep turkeys outside in the rain because tukeys will stand stilland gawk at the sky with their beaks open, trying to find out where the rain is coming from and will eventually drown themselves if left like that. |
That is weird.
Turkeys are dumb. _________________
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loris
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