Fun with facts

[pieces o nine]

Tea was served in Mongolia with lumps of sugar and butter.



When weight-watching friends come to tea, I offer them I Can't Believe It's Not Yak Butter.®

[The Meromorph]

 

[goat starer]

well that counts as odd.... I read the first entry on the thread and, without reading the last fact, i was already checking one I was told recently.....

In the wild Yak are only found above the 3500m line - almost 3 times the height of snowdon the highest mountain in England and Wales

and it slots right into a yak discussion   

[Pachyderm]

galactophorous:

   bearing or carrying milk

[Griffin NoName]

There's nothing random about a group of Toadfish types discussing Yaks.

galactophoryakous

  bearing or carrying yak's milk

If we started discussing goats, that would be odd.

[anthrobabe]

speaking of goats

GOAT FACTS
from : http://www.ubersite.com/m/8632
please read the disclaimer in it's self it is funny


Everything you wanted to find out about goats but your dad was too stupid to know!

Body temperature
Anything between -273Kelvin when in their stasis cycle to 10000 Kelvin when equilibriating their body temperature to that of the sun when on one of their solar journeys

Colour
Goats, like squid, have the ability to change their colour to that of their background when they feel the need to hide, which is hardly ever as they have no natural predatores bar Turkish people.

History
It is theorised that Goats are an interdimensional race of superbeings who left their dimension because theyd eaten all their universes soap resources and they came to our planet where they could get gullible humans to make soap for them. This may, of course, merely be a ruse and they in fact want to take over the world using their psychic abilities.Or not.
Hump
Anywhere between zero and none.
Speed
The average goat travels at a cruisng speed of 4MpH but have been witnessed travelling anywhere up to Warp 5 and m,any scientists belive the lesser spotted Barvarian no humped goat may be able to break the trans-warp barrier with selective breeding.Or it may be they were all drunk and lied.
Water
Goats only drink Irn Bru



Behaviour

Unpredictable at best. Goats have the reputation of being bad-tempered and obstinate creatures who spit and kick. In reality, they tend to be good-tempered, patient and intelligent. The moaning and bawling sound they make when they're loaded up and have to rise to their feet is like the grunting and heavy breathing of a weight-lifter in action, not a sign of displeasure at having to do some work.

Life Span
Probably immortal but this has never been proven to be truth or just that goats all look kinda similair and the goat you think is 100 years old is just a succesion of differnt goats.Then again it may just be all those drugs you take.

[goat starer]

every last word of that is gospel. 

[Pachyderm]

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

So, there is a loophole... 

[Pachyderm]

Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

[Aphos]

Did anyone else see NOVA last night?

Seems there was a little museum of oddities in Niagara Falls that had purchased some Egyptian mummies back in the mid 1800's.  One of them turned out to probably be the mummy of Ramses I, the founder of the 19th dynasty.

It is not 100% certain that it is Ramses I, but it was almost certainly an New Kingdom pharaoh.  The skull shows a family resemblance to Seti I, Ramses II and Tutmoses III...the son, grandson and great grandson of Ramses I (I may have the order off a bit.)

Also, it turns out the buyer of the mummy got it from a man that knew the people who had access to Ramses I's sarcophagus.

After a long, round about trip, the mummy has been returned to Egypt and is now in the museum in Cairo.

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Yes , I first saw it  about a year ago , I saw the mummy "in the flesh " in 1990 ( although no one knew it was Ramses ) .

[anthrobabe]

Fact:

everything has a web page now

HERE!!

Yeah! it has a web page-- The Thing has a web page.
If you have ever driven I-10 across AZ then you are familiar with The Thing

personally I have a strong opinion as to the origins of the thing but I'll leave it for another time. Hint before one stops to see The Thing one must see Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy!

[Pachyderm]

In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

There's a real interest in these...
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

There are a few issues - see http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=100101

Quite interesting.

I read the strip Griffin posted as well-- one of the concerns was strength.

The way these are made, an even stronger design than is used currently could easily be done, and you'd have the double-tracks on each side to provide additional strength.

Opening sans power is an obvious issue.

And obvious solution, for such a car, is a roof hatch, that has a manual opening option....

Or, as can be done in some cars, an easily removable back-glass.  There's a "rip strip" that you grab and pull, not unlike a zipper.   This releases the rubber, and the glass falls free.  Out you go!  Perfect for those in-the-lake escapes.

Or, like most things, this was on Mythbusters, electrical motors and batteries work just fine when submerged in water, for quite some time, too.   Plenty of time to open the door and make your escape...