Useless Facts

Well put, @Link the Writer

 

I believe that comment is what we call a joke.

 

There is a graphic going around the Internet that states Chuck Norris was born the day before WW2 ended. In fact, Mr. Norris was born March 10, 1940--2,003 days before Japan formally surrendered, ending the war. It should be noted, however, Japan first declared surrender on August 15, 1945, which was 1,985 days after the birth of Chuck Norris.

Oddly enough, I was born in 1985 and graduated high school in 2003.

 

Total sleep deprivation has antidepressant effects, but it also impairs driving as much as being drunk.

 

Maybe not entirely useless to the Fantasy crowd.

 

Where's the "Love" button?

This will have to express my feelings for your post

 

Or you could just raid the stock of the Red Cross. They've got lots of blood, and you wouldn't have to kill anybody.

Just sayin'.

 

I now have to research as to whether extracting iron from blood is even feasible because I kind of want to see if this would work.

 

According to this forum discussion, it should be possible to burn the blood
and using a magnate to pick up the iron from the ashes (since the iron in the
hemoglobin will not burn).
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17485

Or if you prefer a different method that modern medicine has for removing
excess iron in the blood stream, might work as well.
http://www.jhuapl.edu/ott/technologies/technology/articles/P01734.asp
But you might have to do a bit more research on how to better filter out the
metal as even modern medicine cannot truly filter out the iron either.

 

Doing research it looks like if you dried enough blood and then heated it in a regualar kiln, that it should smelt out like normal steel, but with a lot more material going in than usual. Blood is basically carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and Nitrogen, so if you burnt it down, you'd basically be left with a pretty even mix of carbon and iron oxide, with everything else, with maybe the exception of nitrogen having oxidized and gassed off. If you continued heating it to it's melting point, then it should go through a Carbothermic reaction that would strip the Oxygen from the Iron and you'd be basically left with steel that would have a potentially high nitrogen content and and other blood related trace minerals. Now if only I could find a couple of thousand liters of blood to see if it works.

 

OP says blood of your enemies. You must have one hell of an enemies list...

 

You can go to a butcher shop and see if they have some buckets of say pig or bovine blood.
There was a guy who got some pig blood to test and prove that blood is in fact non-magnetic.

 

It can be either magnetic or dimagnetic depending on whether it's oxygenated or not. There's so little iron in blood (only ~ 4 atoms per hemoglobin molecule) that it's magnetic abilities are defined more by it's paired/unpaired electrons than it's ferric properties.

 

This morning I was reminded why I stopped visiting a certain other 'writing' forum. An automated email invited me to pay a visit- It's been soooo long since we've seen you. So, silly me, I logged in. One of the current trending threads was for people who were legit convinced a movie they just watched, or a book they just read was stolen from their idea and they were due compensation, and how to go about getting it.

 

I wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I also invented sliced bread. Everybody owes me money.

 

Dee Snider said "We're Not Gonna Take It" was partially inspired by "Oh Come All Ye Faithful."

Both music videos for those songs by Twisted Sister involve the band inviting themselves into a house.

 

Sophie's Armadillo:

"The nine-banded armadillo also serves science through its unusual reproductive system, in which four genetically identical offspring are born, the result of one original egg. Because they are always genetically identical, the group of four young provides a good subject for scientific, behavioral, or medical tests that need consistent biological and genetic makeup in the test subjects."

 

There is a memorial on the moon to astronauts killed in the pursuit of the space race. It lists 14 names of the astronauts killed prior to 1971, when the memorial was placed.

 

Does it have the dogs and monkeys who valiently gave their (terrified) last moments to shoot into the stars? Because seriously, I know it must have sucked to be one of the guys who got incinerated on the launch pad, but to be a dog being shot into space and not even knowing what is happening? Yeah, they deserve a space on the wall.

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So if you just want to fly up there and change it, that would be cool.

 

https://www.space.com/17764-laika-first-animals-in-space.html

 

There's also a drawing of a penis by Andy Warhol on the moon.

 

I have been to the moon and I can confirm that this is true.