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Post by Prrple on Apr 27, 2017 13:35:03 GMT -5
Did you know that none of the planets actually orbit the Sun? (Yes, your elementary and high school education provided you erroneous information) The sun and the planets orbit around the "barycenter" point of mass of the solar system. Even the sun itself orbits around its barycenter in a spiral motion that takes about 12 years to complete one orbit. For Jupiter due to its extreme size and mass, it actually orbits around a barycenter near the sun which is actually located at a distance off and above the surface of the sun. Bonus Fact: The Earth doesn’t even orbit where the solar system barycenter currently is. It orbits where the barycenter was roughly eight minutes ago. (The barycenter for the earth's orbit is approximately near the center of the sun) If the sun suddenly vanished, the earth would continue in orbit for another 8 minutes before slinging off on some random tangent because gravity isn’t instantaneous – it propagates at roughly the speed of light. FAKE NEWS!!! Everyone knows the earth is the center of the universe for cryin' out loud!!! That's downright Copernican |
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Post by gary on Apr 27, 2017 17:49:33 GMT -5
John F. Kennedy would have turned 100 this year. So would Thelonious Monk. |
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Post by Prrple on Apr 27, 2017 20:54:05 GMT -5
John F. Kennedy would have turned 100 this year. So would Thelonious Monk. My grandma would have turned 105 this year. |
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Post by bayou on Apr 28, 2017 8:41:48 GMT -5
Supai AZ is the only town in the US that still has its mail delivered by mule.
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Post by gary on Apr 28, 2017 9:23:03 GMT -5
Trump's General Michael Flynn problem was caused by the prior administration's failure to adequately vet Trump's former National Security Advisor. Thanks Obama.
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Post by Ace Midnight on Apr 28, 2017 12:37:49 GMT -5
Tsar Nicholas II, King George V, and Kaiser Wilhelm II were all first cousins (being grandsons of Queen Victoria) - the resemblance between Nicholas II and George V was so striking that during one celebration of Queen Victoria's long reign, folks who didn't know either personally found it very difficult to tell them apart.  |
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Post by goldenretrievermom on Apr 28, 2017 23:06:42 GMT -5
I think Nicholas II looks like bayou, even with the eyes.
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Post by Pixie on Apr 28, 2017 23:16:36 GMT -5
I think Nicholas II looks like bayou, even with the eyes. Good catch. I agree. |
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Post by bayou on Apr 29, 2017 6:27:37 GMT -5
Male wrens develop their lifetime song repertoire before their first winter.
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Post by peanutfancy on Apr 29, 2017 6:54:01 GMT -5
Haagen-Dazs was founded in the Bronx, NY.
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Post by roggenbier on Apr 29, 2017 19:10:39 GMT -5
And in a footnote the Chi Sox won the World Series....no word on Shoeless Joe Jackson betting.
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Post by bayou on Apr 30, 2017 7:54:35 GMT -5
The first commercially available handheld cellular phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which hit the market in 1983 and weighed in at 2 pounds. It was priced at $3,995 and offered a half-hour of talk per battery charge.
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Post by carrickfergus on Apr 30, 2017 9:12:44 GMT -5
The french word for paperclips is "trombones." I learned this while perusing the office supplies on my bench while enduring a particularly long-winded rep.
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Post by Pixie on Apr 30, 2017 11:22:06 GMT -5
That while male Bluebirds don't help incubate the eggs, they do feed the mother to be while she is sitting on the nest. He also helps feed the babies after they are hatched.
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Post by weisstho on Apr 30, 2017 11:22:34 GMT -5
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
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Post by peanutfancy on Apr 30, 2017 13:57:48 GMT -5
The french word for paperclips is "trombones." I learned this while perusing the office supplies on my bench while enduring a particularly long-winded rep. An excellent description that really communicates the level of boredom and despair you must have felt. I, too, have endured those meetings. |
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Post by Pixie on Apr 30, 2017 19:32:45 GMT -5
That the chances of surviving 30 missions in the European theater during WWII was 29%.
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Post by acttwo on Apr 30, 2017 23:16:28 GMT -5
That according to Dick DeBartolo, his Mad paperback, Mad Murders the Movies, was accidentally destroyed by the publisher early in its distribution? Took me years to get a copy. With illustrations by the awesome Don "Duck" Edwing!
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Post by bayou on May 1, 2017 7:10:41 GMT -5
That President George W Bush was head cheerleader in high school.
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Post by Pixie on May 1, 2017 7:26:19 GMT -5
That Jimmy Stewart, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Roosevelt, Steve Matin and Trent Lott were all cheerleaders in college.
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