Quirky Science Facts!

[Mercedes Benzene]

ok thats a very big number, that you can possibly conceptualise - a one with one hundred zeros after it. Just try conceptualise this one:

1 googolplex = 10^googol

seriously you cant comprehend that number.. I tried and this is what I got:

if you write out the number, and each zero takes up just half a centimeter, you would have to write for 5.3x10^81 light years.. which dwarfs the size of the observable universe in comparrison..

HOLY $#!^. What is the point of even having something to describe a number that big.
A mol is enough!

[Mercedes Benzene]

The oak tree can take as long as 30 years to produce its first crop of acorns.

[Mercedes Benzene]

Russian submarine designers are building military submarines out of concrete. Because concrete becomes stronger under high pressure, 'C-Subs' could settle down to the bottom in very deep water and wait for enemy ships to pass overhead. Concrete would not show up on sonar displays (it looks just like sand or rocks), so the passing ships would not see the sub lurking below.

[Jay-qu]

2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5

[Mercedes Benzene]

Until the 1950's pregnancy was diagnosed by injecting urine into mice. If the urine contained a pregnancy hormone, the animal would ovulate.

[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

Until the 1950's pregnancy was diagnosed by injecting urine into mice. If the urine contained a pregnancy hormone, the animal would ovulate.

how odd..

A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.

Which, incidentally, is the amount of days it took David Beckham to make £1,000,000...

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/oct/08beck.htm

[Jay-qu]

A solar panel 100 miles by 100 miles in the Mojave Desert (USA) could replace all the coal now burned to generate electricity in the entire U.S.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

The oak tree can take as long as 30 years to produce its first crop of acorns.

This reminded me of a Quirky Story I read in "The Sacred Balance" David Suzuki, where he quotes a story told to him by architect William McDonough, Dean of Architecture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.( whichwas told to him by economic philosopher Gregory Bateson!)
phew

START here:
"At new college in Oxford, England, the huge oak beams of the
university's main hall are some twelve metres long and 0.5 metre thick.
In 1985, dry rot had finally weakened them so much that they
needed to be replaced.
If oak trees of such size could have been found in England, they would have COST ABOUT u.s.$250,000 per log for a total replacement cost of around U.S.$50 million!


Then the University Forester informed the administrators that when
the main hall had been built 350 years earlier, the architects had
instructed that a grove of oak trees be planted and maintained so that
when dry rot set in, about three and a half centuries later, the beams could be replaced.

"

Lets just hope that they planted a few more acorns.

How many Unis. do you know with "University Foresters"?

[Jay-qu]

You shed and regrow your skin every 28 days, that's about 1000 times in a lifetime.

eww.. think of the dead skin of the billions of people