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Djmiles

Barndoor Holroyd
Dec 1, 2005
12,060
Kitchener, Canada
48% of the entire world's consumption of paper towels comes from ONE country. The US.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patreon
Oct 8, 2003
49,337
Faversham
A friend of mine was sacked a while ago from his job at Moss Bros. Coincidentally his girlfriend dumped him a week later for being rubbish in the Trouser Department.
 




Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason
Sep 29, 2007
8,187
The first-ever children's picture book was in Latin and had instructions for beer brewing and wine making

Even if teleportation were possible, there is so much data in a human being that teleporting just one person would take 350,000 times longer than the age of the universe
 




FatSuperman

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Feb 25, 2016
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Even if teleportation were possible, there is so much data in a human being that teleporting just one person would take 350,000 times longer than the age of the universe

What about if you had one of them new MacBook Proses and fibre broadband?
 




Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
49,989
Goldstone
Even if teleportation were possible, there is so much data in a human being that teleporting just one person would take 350,000 times longer than the age of the universe
Er, that might have been the case when we were on dial-up.

Most computational neuroscientists tend to estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 terabytes and 100 terabytes.

So that's between 10,000 and 100,000 gigabytes. At our common internet speeds it only take about 2 minutes per gigabyte, so between 14 and 140 days.

Not quite 4.8 quadrillion years then.
 
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FatSuperman

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Feb 25, 2016
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They ain't too bright.

Agreed. Those are the amateurs that said Octopodes have two legs and six arms - based on the ‘fact’ that they walk across the ocean floor by pushing along with the rearmost two limbs. When in FACT they have ZERO legs, just a load of arms.
 




marlowe

Well-known member
Dec 13, 2015
3,898
Brighton set their second Premier League record of the season in their 3-1 win against Palace.
It was the first time two substitutes had scored in the first half of a game.

Earlier this season Murray and Bruno set a new Premier League record when they became the oldest pair to combine for a goal in the 1-0 win against Wolves. With Murray 35 years and 32 days and Bruno 38 years and 25 days, their combined age was 73 years and 57 days. They beat the combined record of 72 years and 168 days when Paul Scholes (35y 273d) set up Ryan Giggs (36y 260d) to score for Manchester United against Newcastle in August, 2010.
 








marlowe

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Dec 13, 2015
3,898
When Rodney Alcala was the winning contestant on The Dating Game, America's version of Blind Date, nobody realised at the time that he was a serial killer having already murdered at least four women and then continuing his murder spree after winning the show. The young lady on the show who chose him decided in the end not to go on the date with him after meeting him backstage and finding him a little creepy....

https://youtu.be/12PXvKfWdZs
 


portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
16,979
When Rodney Alcala was the winning contestant on The Dating Game, America's version of Blind Date, nobody realised at the time that he was a serial killer having already murdered at least four women and then continuing his murder spree after winning the show. The young lady on the show who chose him decided in the end not to go on the date with him after meeting him backstage and finding him a little creepy....

https://youtu.be/12PXvKfWdZs

i knew this! What was the netflix series this was on?
 


SUIYHP

The King's Gull
Apr 16, 2009
1,899
Inside Southwick Tunnel
US President John Tyler, who was born in the 18th century, has grandchildren that are still alive today, 227 years covered by only three generations!
 


portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
16,979
US President John Tyler, who was born in the 18th century, has grandchildren that are still alive today, 227 years covered by only three generations!

Knew that too - was an article on BBC about, amazing isn't it?
 




Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
49,989
Goldstone
Agreed. Those are the amateurs that said Octopodes have two legs and six arms - based on the ‘fact’ that they walk across the ocean floor by pushing along with the rearmost two limbs. When in FACT they have ZERO legs, just a load of arms.
They also said that WW2 ended in 1990 or something stupid, and after asking when dinosaurs became extinct they said they haven't as existing birds (with their bipedal gait) have descended from dinosaurs :facepalm: Stupid program (although sometimes entertaining I grant you), created by an absolute tit of a man.
 





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