Useless Facts

We'll try to be quieter next time.

 

@Link the Writer I am sorry, I will turn the tunes down. Get a bit rowdy I do.

Here this should help lull you back to sleep.

 

Neglecting air resistance:

The center of mass of the Earth is (for the sake of argument) the geometrical center of the Earth. You'll be gaining speed so long as you're approaching the center. When you pass through the center, you're moving pretty fast. You're slowing down at that point because you're moving against gravity - it's as if you're a ball thrown into the air that's still moving up even though it's slowing down.

So you'll oscillate back and forth through the center. If there is any resistance (air or whatever), your amplitude of oscillation will decrease with time and eventually you will come to rest at the center of the Earth. But you'll "fall" back and forth through the center many times before that happens.

 

Provided you are not incarcerated by the molten iron around the solid core, of course.

 

Yeah, make sure it doesn't arrest you!

 

Meadowhall shopping centre, in Sheffield, UK, was built in such a way, that if it didn't succeed as a shopping centre, it could easily be converted into a prison.

 

Aren't all shopping centres built like prisons? Endless labyrinthine halls to keep you in....

 

Gerald Ford is the only man to have served as vice president and then President but was elected to neither.

 

The first, and to date only, national memorial to John Adams, second president of the United States, is the 2007 dollar coin bearing his likeness.

Every president gets one of those.

Years after leaving office, Adams wrote:

“Monuments will never be erected to me . . . romances will never be written, nor flattering orations spoken, to transmit me to posterity in brilliant colors,”

 

1. Grab a calculator (you won't be able to do this one in your head)
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area
code -- example: 555-976-5555 -- you'd use "976"
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number (e.g. 5349)
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2.

 

The new Muse song is growing on me.

 

It's gonna have to do a lot more growing in my opinion though...

 

Dig down and find faith, Danky.

 

Sorry, I can't find my shovel or my faith.

 

Its ok I haz 1 you could use.

 

It's always a nice feeling to be a member of such a supportive community.

 

See I was gonna say that looks like a useless shovel which is inkeeping with the thread.

Shall we have a massive fight over it?

 

I don't have a shovel. Hook me up, @Cave Troll?

 

I got your back:



The actual shovel bit of it:

 

Good work, Sergeant! (Or whatever rank you would like)

Alright, Homer. It's on.

After a short break because it's 2am and I need a mug of Horlicks and a nap.