OT: Random facts that really surprised me

[ShopTalk]

Speak for yourself, girlyman, I got lost in the zoo and they shot me with a tranq dart and
put me in the apes exhibit.

Where you at and what are the visiting hours?

 

[ShopTalk]

one i don't understand is there is a halfway point from A to B. So if there is always a halfway point are we ever really at our destination?

Not if you're wishy washy.

 

[ShopTalk]

Of the 706 survivors of the Titanic, one became a principal at Ames High.

Probably pretty easy to get any job you want with that on your resume.

links....

 

[ShopTalk]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_the_United_States_by_height

Do NOT let LakeBison see this link.

 

[ShopTalk]

Similarly (I didn't realize this one until today):

And one again, proof that Texas is the center of the Universe States of America

 

[ShopTalk]

Crazy to me that someone who was 11/12 when the titanic croaked is still alive. I would have so many questions for that person (assuming they were able to answer).

Bill Synder?

 

[Boxerdaddy]

FACT: 60% of the time, it works every time.

 

[00clone]

No, just stay on DST. That hour of sun later in the day would be nice in the winter.

Sure, if you don't mind it being dark until dang near 9 AM in the northern states.

 

[KnappShack]

FACT: 60% of the time, it works every time.

That fact smells like pure gasoline

 

[ShopTalk]

Here's a mindblower: From the discovery of Pluto in 1930 until its "downgrade" to dwarf status in 2006, it had made only about one-third of a single orbit around the sun.

Man, when will this year end!

 

[ShopTalk]

My question is how did he get 43,000? Someone reverse engineer that bad math.

That's easy. He inserted a butt load. To slow down the light refraction. Poop does that. Especially 126 gallons worth.

 

[tim_redd]

As an engineer, my safety-factor is always at least 1.5 buttloads.

 

[00clone]

Something else to consider....since a buttload is related to barrel sizes, one would evaculate one's butt load thru one's bung hole.

 

[ShopTalk]

00clone, That sounds - awesome!

....And strangely comforting. I'm not sure if that's a buttload of vino talking out of my bunghole or not.

 

[ShopTalk]

As an engineer, my safety-factor is always at least 1.5 buttloads.

Yeah, but I bet your bung hole is only rated for one buttload. Now that's an engineering failure no one - well, all of us actually - would watch. On TV. Over and over.

"On the 6 o'clock evening news, we've got a bunghole failure captured live!"

 

[DiehardClone]

...and assuming the size of the universe is finite....what in the hell is on the other side?

That's a good one. Another one: Assuming the universe hasn't always existed, what was here before the universe?

 

[ShopTalk]

The Void.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

That's a good one. Another one: Assuming the universe hasn't always existed, what was here before the universe?

Your mom.

 

[Cycsk]

if falling in a bottomless pit.... what would kill you first?

Wouldn't you rip apart from the ever-increasing speed caused by gravity long before you would dehydrate?

 

[cyrocksmypants]

if falling in a bottomless pit.... what would kill you first?

Exhaustion from masturbation.