Astonishing Facts....

[djc206]

Ayahuasca said:

Some 'Americanisms' that drive PH to distraction e.g. sidewalk, trash, garbage, gotten, to wait on rather than to wait for, fall rather than autumn, are more 'original' English than their current English equivalents.

Aluminum was the name chosen by Humphry Davy for the element, he was British. Most Americans used Aluminium throughout the 19th century although -um gained popularity and in 1925 the American Chemical Society adopted -um in preference to our -ium.

Personally I hate the way aluminum sounds but it makes perfect sense (see platinum, molybdenum etc).

[julian64]

227bhp said:

Mexican hens eggs always have white shells.

all hens eggs are made white. The pigment is only applied to the surface just before they are ejected.
bit like cars on a conveyor belt only getting painted just before they leave the factory.

That's why if you get the egg just as its produced by the hen you can have a go at rubbing the pigment off.

[Halmyre]

...and it all came from outer space...

[Mammasaid]

Halmyre said:

...and it all came from outer space...

Specifically collapsing stars..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynt...

[anonymous-user]

It isn't really a fact, it is a theory.

[Halmyre]

Mammasaid said:

Halmyre said:

...and it all came from outer space...

Specifically collapsing stars..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynt...

That's not what I meant; all the gold that was present in the earth when it was first formed is now down in the core somewhere. All the gold we have now was deposited by meteorite impact.

[Moonhawk]

The Spruce goose said:

It isn't really a fact, it is a theory.

It’s observable fact. The fingerprints of elements can be directly detected in the spectra of stars and supernovae.

[anonymous-user]

Moonhawk said:

It’s observable fact. The fingerprints of elements can be directly detected in the spectra of stars and supernovae.

Still a theory that all the gold on earth came from a meteorite. They have shown that gold can be formed in conditions in the mantle.

[GEFAFWISP]

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.

[eldar]

964Cup said:

Surely not. LR Discovery 1724mm h (new blobby one); Disco 4 1924mm (square cut handsome one). FFRR 1869mm. Etc.

Car, not SUV. And certainly not those pygmies.

Lincoln Navigator, 1,989mm.
And stop calling me Shirley

[Moonhawk]

The Spruce goose said:

Moonhawk said:

It’s observable fact. The fingerprints of elements can be directly detected in the spectra of stars and supernovae.

Still a theory that all the gold on earth came from a meteorite. They have shown that gold can be formed in conditions in the mantle.

The claim wasnt that it came from a meteorite. The claim was that it came from space (which is true of all elements).

Also - nuclear fusion and nucleogenesis is not possible in the mantle. Gold may get concentrated in the mantle - but what there is was already there.

[Willy Nilly]

If you stand on the Malvern Hills and look east, there is no land higher than you as far as Moscow

[okgo]

The AA tower in Basingstoke is the highest building between there and New York.

[anonymous-user]

okgo said:

The AA tower in Basingstoke is the highest building between there and New York.

Had that one already and everyone said it's bks, even though if isn't. Depends how you draw the line.

[anonymous-user]

The game of dominoes is known as Spotty Dotty in some parts of the world.

[S6PNJ]

Willy Nilly said:

If you stand on the Malvern Hills and look east, there is no land higher than you as far as Moscow

I call fake on that one. The highest point in Malvern Hills is Worcestershire Beacon, one of the highest points in Moscow is Sparrow Hills and the profile between them is:

[Nimby]

Crossflow Kid said:

okgo said:

The AA tower in Basingstoke is the highest building between there and New York.

Had that one already and everyone said it's bks, even though if isn't. Depends how you draw the line.

According to Wikipedia, Skyline Plaza, a few hundred yards west in Basingstoke town centre, is taller than Fanum House so it can't be true whatever line you draw.

[Moonhawk]

Crossflow Kid said:

Had that one already and everyone said it's bks, even though if isn't. Depends how you draw the line.

Well yes of course - if you draw your line to go around the mountains and hills

[h0b0]

julian64 said:

227bhp said:

Mexican hens eggs always have white shells.

all hens eggs are made white. The pigment is only applied to the surface just before they are ejected.
bit like cars on a conveyor belt only getting painted just before they leave the factory.

That's why if you get the egg just as its produced by the hen you can have a go at rubbing the pigment off.

White chickens......white eggs
Brown chickens......brown eggs

Mexico has mostly white chickens. In fact, the US until recently had almost all white eggs and brown ones were mostly free range which the Americans did not buy into. Over the last 10 years US eggs have been shifting to brown.

Edited by h0b0 on Monday 15th January 20:37

[Halmyre]

Moonhawk said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Had that one already and everyone said it's bks, even though if isn't. Depends how you draw the line.

Well yes of course - if you draw your line to go around the mountains and hills

The Geoprofiler site draws 'great circle' routes, but lines of latitude, which run east-west, are not great circles, except at the equator. From Ben Nevis, you can get as far as Irkutsk (north of mongolia) eastward, and British Columbia westward before finding a highest point.