Anyone know of interesting factoids that just simply are mind boggling, or blow your mind away?
Blow Your Mind Away Factoids
Anyone know of interesting factoids that just simply are mind boggling, or blow your mind away?
The observable Universe is not the visible 13.7 billion light year(radii) universe you've been led to believe. It is actually a sphere 93 billion lys across as eloquently explained here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
This is just for the Observable Universe! If you read down the page you'll find:
According to the theory of cosmic inflation and its founder, Alan Guth, the entire Universe could be at least 10 to the 23 times to 10 to the 26 times as large as the observable universe.
Using the lower figure, the Universe we can't detect now may be 9 billion 200 million quadrillion light years across.
That's alot to explore! We better get started!
P.S.: Using the higher figure the Universe is 9 trillion 200 billion quadrillion lys(9.2 X 10 to the 27th power) across
I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
Some researchers at Penn State have come up with a blue print for a device that may be able to store a 100,000 terabits(12,500 terabytes) /square centimeter or 300 times the volume of the library of Congress or 300,000 years of MP3s or 10,000 years of DVDs. It could theoretically store all knowledge known to humankind on a couple square inches of it's surface.That would be 156 petabytes of storage!
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte
I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
During the Carboniferous Era when most of the coal deposits were laid down the climate of Earth was much like it is today. 300 million years ago the Earth was in an iceage, as it is today. The amount of CO2 in the air was comparable to todays 380 ppm. Prior to and after the Carboniferous Era, CO2 was much higher than today. In the Cambrian Era there was 5,000-7,000 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and in the Jurassic Era it climbed to 2,500 ppm without going to runaway greenhouse.
Here is a website to calm your global warming nerves:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Ca...s_climate.html
Global Temperature and Atmospheric CO2 over Geologic Time
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I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
the climate isn't determined solely by the composition of the atmosphere, ocean currents and wind patterns are just as important. ocean currents and wind patterns are determined by the dispersal and nature of the earths land masses.
the dispersal of land masses in all the geological eras you mention was vastly different to the dispersal of land masses today. you can't determine what the climate will do now based on what it did then just because the atmospheric CO2 levels are similar, you need to account for the ocean current and jet stream dynamics being totally different.
Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them, so what good are they? - Ammon Hennacy.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful - Leo Tolstoy.
What the website points out is the Earth is carbon dioxide starved right now. Any lower and we could be in a snowball Earth condition. Glaciers from pole to pole. With all the exposed rock due to mountain building, the supply of carbon dioxide is being used as fast as we release it.
I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
I really should have read the link rather than just hit the reply button, it's a very interesting read.
i watched a weird program about infinity on TV last night, it warped my mind a bit. according to the piece, the largest usable number is called a googol, it consists of 1 followed by 100 zero's. 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0. this is larger number than all the atoms in the viewable universe. then the is a googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zero's. apparently, it would be impossible to write this number down as it would require more space than the universe provides....of course then you have a googolplex to the power of a googolplex and so on eternally and you're still only considering an infinitesimally small portion of infinity.
i feel like my mind is unraveling a bit when i try to picture it.
Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them, so what good are they? - Ammon Hennacy.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful - Leo Tolstoy.
Infinity,huh?
View this vid on the ten dimensions of String theory:
I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
We have been traveling through space every hour since you were born at the speed of 1,512,000 mph or 700 kps. How's that for speed?
Not just you, not just me, but the whole galaxy and galaxy cluster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
I has writ by my hand this day, Bode Bliss.
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
That was an excellent video on explaining the ten dimensions bode!
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