General Trivia

[bigpapagman]

nerds.

way to be all smart & shit.

 

[Crimson Azure]

The brain has around 50 billion neurons with a million billion synapses (connections) & with an overall firing rate of about 10 million billion times per second.

We can see why it is considered the most complicated structure in the universe.

It is also said that the performance of even the most advanced of the neural-network computers has about one ten-thousandth the mental capacity of a housefly.

 

[BomberGal]

See? Cells are cool

 

[superfraser]

See? Cells are cool

See cells see cells by the sea shore.

 

[raikkonen]

Cockroaches can live for 6 weeks (or is it days) with their heads cut off. They die from starvation.

 

[martyTHOMAS]

Cockroaches can live for 6 weeks (or is it days) with their heads cut off. They die from starvation.

Wow.
6 days?
I can't live a day without eating

If an Amish man has a beard, he's married.
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)

 

[Crimson Azure]

Wow.
6 days?
I can't live a day without eating

If an Amish man has a beard, he's married.
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)

Thanks for that, if I ever see a Hawaiian woman with a sunflower in her ear I'm gonna run a mile. She must have some serious issues.

 

[Tim the Toolman]

James Manson would have a spew before every game and would take a tablet to stop the nausea.

 

[USAEagle]

A blue moon as in "once in a blue moon" is actually a month when there are two full moons.

Humphrey Bogart never says, "Play it again, Sam." in Casablanca.

 

[dbcrow]

78.563% of all statistics are made up

 

[Bender571]

Cockroaches can live for 6 weeks (or is it days) with their heads cut off. They die from starvation.

I think mike the headless chook has got that covered. He lived for 18 months without a head.

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[Bretski]

If you add 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... and so on... will the resulting number ever equal 1?

Now this is a matter of opinion, before you answer, think about it. If you draw a line from the edge of a peice of paper to the half way point, then to the half way point of that spot and the end of the paper, then again, then again, etc etc, you will be getting closer and closer to the end of the peice of paper. However, consider this, no metter how close you get to the edge (micro milli metres) the next step is only half way to the end from that point.

However. If there is constantly a line being drawn towards the end (never stopping) surly it has to reach it one day...right?

This paradox does my head in. I believe that it never reaches a finite number, due to its infinate series of numbers. However some have stated that an infinate series of numbers cna in fact resulte in a finite number...

 

[Hard Ball Get]

If you add 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... and so on... will the resulting number ever equal 1?

Now this is a matter of opinion, before you answer, think about it. If you draw a line from the edge of a peice of paper to the half way point, then to the half way point of that spot and the end of the paper, then again, then again, etc etc, you will be getting closer and closer to the end of the peice of paper. However, consider this, no metter how close you get to the edge (micro milli metres) the next step is only half way to the end from that point.

However. If there is constantly a line being drawn towards the end (never stopping) surly it has to reach it one day...right?

This paradox does my head in. I believe that it never reaches a finite number, due to its infinate series of numbers. However some have stated that an infinate series of numbers cna in fact resulte in a finite number...

The number will never equal one as you said due to the infinate series of numbers.

However you will reach the end of the page because no matter wht pen or pencil you will use the tip will eventually become greater than the number you are adding by and therefor you can't draw the half way line without hitting the end of the page.

 

[X_box_X]

If you add 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... and so on... will the resulting number ever equal 1?

Now this is a matter of opinion, before you answer, think about it. If you draw a line from the edge of a peice of paper to the half way point, then to the half way point of that spot and the end of the paper, then again, then again, etc etc, you will be getting closer and closer to the end of the peice of paper. However, consider this, no metter how close you get to the edge (micro milli metres) the next step is only half way to the end from that point.

However. If there is constantly a line being drawn towards the end (never stopping) surly it has to reach it one day...right?

This paradox does my head in. I believe that it never reaches a finite number, due to its infinate series of numbers. However some have stated that an infinate series of numbers cna in fact resulte in a finite number...

I just tried then on a calulator and after 1/512 it said error, so it's pretty hard to try it on a calculator. It won't ever reach 1, though - the 0.99 will eventually become 0.999 and eventually 0.9999, etc.

 

[Bretski]

The number will never equal one as you said due to the infinate series of numbers.

However you will reach the end of the page because no matter wht pen or pencil you will use the tip will eventually become greater than the number you are adding by and therefor you can't draw the half way line without hitting the end of the page.

Hypothetically i mean, assuming you have a super laser pen that is reducilously fine, and your only counting the centre of that pen, and you have a telescopic magnifying glass

 

[Crimson Azure]

Bump for more, was going through some old threads & found this.

 

[pezz]

3.27% of all old threads get bumped

 

[indieswan96]

The first prime minister of Australia Edmund Barton, attended Fort St High School, Sydney.

indieswan96 also attends Fort St High School.

 

[Ochre]

Pferd also attends Fort St High School.

 

[pezz]

Indieswan is in this picture

 

[indieswan96]

Pferd also attends Fort St High School.

Indieswan is in this picture

Bit before me, but I like the girl furtherst to the left.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

It took Steve Waugh 187 ODI matches to score a hundred.

 

[Sainters4theflag]

Crimson must be another colour without any rhyming word like Silver, Orange and Purple?

Pimp son
Pilfer
Your fringe
Gerbil

 

[lewigie]

Private schools are for ****.

Fact.

 

[c00lcat]

Private schools are for ****.

Fact.

people who attend public schools become like this

fact.