Useless Facts

The first two entries in the first-person shooter series Bioshock are not steampunk, but dieselpunk.

 

Time to bring this thread back from the dead:

Volcanic activity beneath lakes formed in volcanic craters release large levels of CO2 into the water, and the CO2 is then released as the water turns over. Lake Nyos in Cameroon is an example of such a lake, with the exception being that it is unusually still. Because of its stillness, the lake built up higher and higher levels of CO2 until on average every gallon of water contained more than 5 gallons of dissolved CO2.

On August 21, 1986, the lake exploded 300 feet into the air and released 1.2 cubic kilometers of CO2 in roughly 20 seconds. Within minutes, the CO2 cloud killed almost all people within a 15 mile radius. 1,746 people were killed in total, including 794 people out of the 800 living in the nearby village of Nyos.

 

Useless fact: I just went all grammar Nazi in a txt message because auto correct changed the there in my previous message to their and it wasn't appropriate.

I guess I should be thankful it wasn't Penis or vagina, but still......


Note to self: Do not post to the forum from your phone. But becomes butt.... *sighs*

 

Oh, how sad!

I wonder, is the locality now haunted?

 

Yesterday I spent 2.5 hours ascertaining that the servant who opened the gate for guests at a medieval manor house was called the porter.

You are welcome.

 

Strawberries are not berries but bananas are.

 

Misophonia is a psychiatric disorder that causes the afflicted great anger at certain sounds such as chewing or slurping or whatever their trigger sounds may be.

 

Actually people are coming back there to settle. Being that it is prime land.. The government placed monitors there to give warning, but I am not sure how effective they will be down the road. It will not be the last time that lake will release gas and the area is VERY rural. And the government does not have a lot of money. Ergo... In my opinion the next disaster is waiting.

 

Apparently there exists a disorder where, if a person suffers brain injury to a specific place in their brain, their speech will be reduced to just a few words, or just one.

"Hodor. Hodor? Hodor, Hodor, Hodor! HODOR!!"

 

Here's a useless fact I realized the other other day....

This dude with hot-flash issues from Iron Man 3...


Is this kid from Lord of the Flies.



And once again, the Universe lets me know that the years march on, ever quicker than before.

 

You can fit every planet in our solar system between the earth and the moon with a few miles to spare.

 

Apparently according to



there exists a plan (optimistically, though) by NASA where at some point, we're literally going to capture an asteroid, drag that sucker to the Moon and place it in low orbit (well, enough that it'll be fixed and won't either crash into the Moon or fly off.)

...Yeah. I'm...just as lost as anyone here. Any space-folks wanna explain how that would get us closer to Mars? What, is the intent to use it like a slingshot to propel us to the Red Planet?

 

If Barbie were to be a real person her feet would be too small for her to walk, and most of her organs would be in her boobs and they would pulsate.

The thickest guitar string (not bass string) is a 74g and it won't fit in all guitar tuners, but will fit in some unless you bore it a little larger. Most think that 72g is the largest but it is actually not.

 

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. Not a mental picture that I wanted. pulsing boobies hahahah

 

<sings>
Thaaaaanks for the niiightmares.
Thaaaanks, oh thaaaaaanks for the niiightmaaaares.
I didn't need to sleeep too-niiiiiiiigghhtt

Oooh yyeeaahhh....

 

CO2 or CO? (Carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide)

CO2 is fairly harmless, in general, so this would be a lot of killin' for it. CO, on the other hand, is nasty stuff. Strange what a difference one oxygen molecule can make!

 

CO2. CO might have produced less deaths since it's less dense than air and wouldn't have stayed close to the ground for so long. This excerpt provides more details:

The heavy cloud sunk into a valley, which channeled it into settlements. People in the affected areas collapsed in their tracks -- at home, on roads or in the field -- losing consciousness or dying in a few breaths. In Nyos and Kam, the first villages hit by the cloud, everyone but four inhabitants on high ground died.

The valley split, and the cloud followed, killing people up to 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) away from the lake. Over the next two days, people from surrounding areas entered the valley to find the bodies of humans and cows lying on the ground.

By Aug. 23, the cloud had mostly blown away, and the silence had lifted. After being unconscious for up to 36 hours, some people revived to find, horrifically, that their family members, neighbors and livestock were dead.

[...]

Scientists soon learned that the cloud contained carbon dioxide (CO2). That finding explained the cloud's heaviness, since CO2 is denser than air. The cloud was actually CO2 mixed with air. The CO2 killed directly by shutting off people's consciousness and breathing. When the CO2 concentration was 15 percent or less, people lost consciousness and later revived. Individuals who inhaled more than 15 percent CO2 stopped breathing in minutes and died.​

 

That truly is a useless fact. I can find no use for the knowledge that you spent 2.5 hours ascertaining something.

 

In addition to @Ben414 's reply, Carbon Monoxide would soon be diluted into Carbon Dioxide by combining with atmospherice oxygen.

Of course it's prime land:

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the primary source of carbon in life on Earth...plants LOVE to photosynthesize it and produce oxygen as a waste product!

 

Heavy Metal is the angry child of the Blues.

 

Zimbabwe had the highest inflation on record when it decided to switch its currency to the US dollar. In November 2008, its inflation rate was estimated at 79,600,000,000%. At the time, the country was producing bills worth up to $100,000,000,000,000. I've attached a picture of a 50 trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill for your amusement:

 

A fly without wings is called a walk. Not really though it is still a fly, just a handicapped one.

MRE Peanut butter can be used as a makeshift Molotov Cocktail. It is in the Army Manuel/Handbook. Also Claymore mines have " this side toward enemy" printed on one side of them.

 

*winces in sympathetic pain

A group of crows is called a murder or a "congress" of crows.
A group of ravens is called a "conspiracy, an unkindness, or a constable of ravens"
A group of herons is called a "siege".

I have no idea if this last one is true. Check the source. http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/murder.html

 

Useless fact: Ants do not have lungs.