Forty minutes...

[HRG.]

It had never really clicked with me until James May mentioned it on Friday. If you got on a bike and cycled briskly for about forty minutes you'd be at the edge of the atmosphere! As he put it, every single thing that's happened on this planet ever has been within a forty minute cycle ride and basically that's all that separates us from the vastness of space.

fk, that's kinda amazing when you put it like that...

Anyone got any more amazing facts?

[paoloh]

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

[TurboMills]

An elephant’s penis weighs half a hundredweight.

[LHD]

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

[philthy]

I thought this was a heads up for top gear....

[paoloh]

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

[Schmeeky]

HRG. said:

If you got on a bike and cycled briskly for about forty minutes you'd be at the edge of the atmosphere!

If I got on a bike and cycled briskly for about forty minutes, I'd end up in Penrith.. What's the right turning to take to get to Space?

[LHD]

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

We use lard up here anyway.

[cobra kid]

Does it only work if you are directly above or below this "event" when it happened?

[HRG.]

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

No offence, but it's not really that amazing when you compare it to my atmosphere fact... It's more "hmm'kay" than "fk"

[Mobile Chicane]

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

Margarine is made from liquid fats at room temperature which are then hydrogenated over a zinc catalyst so that they become solid fats at room temperature.

It is possible to test margarine for its zinc content - the ghastly chemical slime that it is.

[paoloh]

HRG. said:

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

No offence, but it's not really that amazing when you compare it to my atmosphere fact... It's more "hmm'kay" than "fk"

Ok then, jump on your bike and cycle into space. Oh you can't. Not really that great a fact then is it??

[snuffle]

Schmeeky said:

HRG. said:

If you got on a bike and cycled briskly for about forty minutes you'd be at the edge of the atmosphere!

If I got on a bike and cycled briskly for about forty minutes, I'd end up in Penrith.. What's the right turning to take to get to Space?

If I got on a bike and cycled briskly for 40 minutes I'd end up in kettering, equally as devoid of life as space is.

[paoloh]

LHD said:

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

We use lard up here anyway.

To cook your Mars bars....

[HRG.]

paoloh said:

HRG. said:

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

No offence, but it's not really that amazing when you compare it to my atmosphere fact... It's more "hmm'kay" than "fk"

Ok then, jump on your bike and cycle into space. Oh you can't. Not really that great a fact then is it??

It's an analogous fact rather than a literal one

[The Nur]

philthy said:

I thought this was a heads up for top gear....

+1

[Schmeeky]

The Nur said:

philthy said:

I thought this was a heads up for top gear....

+1

It is now! It's 8 O'clock!

[Cara Van Man]

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

It's true. I once read a report of facts about margerine. We've only used butter since.

Apparently;

1) It is a very small step away from being plastic.
2) It's natural colour is black, but it is bleached and coloured to look like butter.
3) It contains NO goodness or benefit (nutritionally) whatsoever, hence one of the reasons why it lasts infinitely longer than butter.
4) If you place an open tub of margerine out in the open, even flies don't go near it.


yuk.

Butter all the way for me.

[paoloh]

HRG. said:

paoloh said:

HRG. said:

paoloh said:

LHD said:

paoloh said:

Margarine is only 1% different from plastic so I'm told

How the hell did that come up in conversation?

I seem to remember telling someone the health benefits of margarine over butter and that fact got thrown back at me.

No offence, but it's not really that amazing when you compare it to my atmosphere fact... It's more "hmm'kay" than "fk"

Ok then, jump on your bike and cycle into space. Oh you can't. Not really that great a fact then is it??

It's an analogous fact rather than a literal one

I wouldn't agree with that either but TG is now starting

[driverrob]

Margerine was invented for Napoleon, who wanted a longer-lasting substitute for butter for his troops.

Gooseneck barnacles have a penis 40 times their body size.