I always wanted to know...

[frenulem - No.5417]

But never found out...

Tell me things you have always wanted to know about anything but never found out, I'm bored and i wanna find some stuff that i never knew before, can be electronics or just random

[FOOKz™]

how did everything come to be?

lol idk and nobody will ever know

[frenulem - No.5417]

how did everything come to be?

lol idk and nobody will ever know

-_- something i can google and seem smart :P lol

[Sammy]

How did they make the first mobo?

[froggy]

Why do they say mexicans are illegal, if were all the same,
they probably were here before other race's,
also like Texas(where im from)
they make such a big deal 0f them coming over the border
well originally Half of Texas use to belong to Mexico.

[Hazer]

Does the statement, "We've always done it that
way" ring any bells... ?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between
the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an
exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England,
and English expatriates built the US Railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?

Because the first rail lines were built by the
same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and
that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used
the same jigs and tools that they used for building
wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular
odd wheel spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing,
the wagon wheels would break on some of the old,
long distance roads in England, because that's
the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

Imperial Rome built the first long distance
roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The
roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts,
which everyone else had to match for fear of
destroying their wagon wheels.
Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they
were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The United States standard railroad gauge of 4
feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original
specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
And bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you
are handed a specification and wonder what horse's
ass came up with it, you may be exactly right,
because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made
just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two
war horses. Now the twist to the story...

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its
launch pad, there are two big booster rockets
attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These
are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are
made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The
engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred
to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to
be shipped by train from the factory to the launch
site. The railroad line from the factory happens to
run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had
to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly
wider than the railroad track, and the railroad
track, as you now know, is about as wide as two
horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what
is arguably the world's most advanced transportation
system was determined over two thousand years ago by
the width of a horse's ass. ... and you thought
being a HORSE'S ASS wasn't important!

[FOOKz™]

lol. this guy.

[TwisTtheTwiTcH]

What would the world where Robin uses a PC be like?

-TwisT

[jrfhoutx]

Why do they say mexicans are illegal, if were all the same,
they probably were here before other race's,
also like Texas(where im from)
they make such a big deal 0f them coming over the border
well originally Half of Texas use to belong to Mexico.

they say mexicans are illegal because there are a very high number of mexicans living in and working in the united states illegally (without visas or green cards or a legal right to be in the country). it's not an opinion, it's a fact. personally I think it's a joke that so many people want to deport illegals. they are such a huge part of our economy and workforce, granting them amnesty does nothing more than make them tax paying citizens (which we need all of that we can get considering the current state of the government and economy), and makes all the businesses that employ them required to pay more employment taxes as well (again the country needs all the revenue it can get) and makes paying them under the table even more illegal than it already is.

they weren't here before other races, they are a mix of (mainly) spanish settlers and native central americans, so other races were here before them (mayans, aztecs, etc.). just like the native americans (of all tribes) were here before the british, french, dutch, and germans...

Actually all of texas was part of mexico at one point (and then some of oklahoma, nebraska, colorado were also part of texas at that time; all of california, new mexico, arizona, pretty much the entire southwest and most of the west coast was part of mexico at some point). There's a reason that Six Flags in S.A. is called Six Flags, it's not just a cool sounding name... it's because the flags of six nations have flown over Texas. Spain (1519-1685; 1690-1821); France (1685-1690); Mexico (1821-1836); Republic of Texas (1836-1845); Confederate States of America (1861-1865); United States of America (1845-1861; 1865-Present)...

And no, regardless of what most texans will tell you, Texas is not able to secede from the union any more than any other state is (all states have the right to secede should they choose but it requires the express permission to do so from all the other states in the union). Texans like to forget that when the civil war ended they chose to rejoin the union and the aforementioned condition of secession was part of the agreement of re-entering the union (they were annexed in 1845 and seceded to join the CSoA in 1861, but were readmitted into the union in 1870)... People like to gloss over and not mention the parts of history that don't care to remember or don't suit their agenda...

I live in texas, too. I went to school here when I was a kid and they actually taught you something, but that was before W. and 'slick rick' perry turned the states education programs to garbage. don't get me wrong, I like living in texas (to an extent) but this state is not exactly in a good position. Anyone who thinks the 'conservatives' and republicans have the people's best interests in mind (not that the democrats do, but then again very few politicians do really) should take a look at texas and what G.W.B. and Rick Perry have done to this state. read the 'Texas On The Brink' assessment of where texas stands in comparison to the rest of the country... or a quick highlight of some of the main points... Don't believe them when they tell you texas is turning around, Ive been here since before G.W.B. (minus a 6 year stint in Ohio) and it's only gotten worse in the 14 years since I came back...  Oh, and don't believe anyone who tells you that texas is primarily a 'red state'. GWB was only the second republican governor of texas since reconstruction; yes, reconstruction, that period immediately following the civil war... meaning that Texas has only had three republican governors since the freaking civil war. that's 3 republicans elected to that office in over 100 years. still sound like a 'red state'? (again that's another one of those little bits of history that some people would like to gloss over and have you forget about...) But then again republicans used to be a far different party than they are since the mid 60s

[Modded Matt]

this damn keyboard sucks, I apologize for the horrable grammer above. Its 2.4ghz wireless

[HiddenVenom]

Flowers only ususally grow 5 petals or leaves because having more would mean they aren't economizing on space. Also each petal/leaf is about 235 Degrees Rotated from the previous one.

Pineapples often have 13 'colums' and 8 'rows'.

The konigsberg bridge problem was finally solved after world war two when another bridge was added.

The fibonacci sequence had a direct link to nature. That's why four-leafed clovers are so rare, since four is not a fibonacci number.

If you jump of a bridge which is at least 75m above water and don't streamline yourself, hitting the water will have the same effect as hitting concrete.

[robin1989]

its impossible to lick your elbow.

and the world does not revolve around you

[Famas]

if you hold your pants as hard as you can and pull them to the side for thirty seconds and let go and relax your arms will start lifting on there own

[FOOKz™]

pi = 3.141592653

pi = sqrt(12) * [ 1 - (3*3^1)^(-1) + (5*3^1)^(-1) - (7*3^1)^(-1) + (11*3^1)^(-1) - (13*3^1)^(-1) + (17*3^1)^(-1) - (23*3^1)^(-1) + . . .

sqrt(12) * [ 1 - ( [prime_sequence] * 3 ^ [exponent_increase_by_1 ] ) ^ ( -1 ) + . . .


thanks to hidden venom i found that fibonacci numbers is related to pi through trigonometry functions of circles and basic shapes.

X axis is real and Y axis is imaginary " i ".

fibonacci's Closed-form expression is noted as " P " which equals [1 + sqrt(5) ] / 2

OK so a circle is measured in radians. there's 180rad in 360deg.

Put the center of any circle on the origin of a cartesian plane, draw a triangle starting on the origin and along the X axis. the outer most point of the triangle is at the radius of the circle. The distance of the X-axis of the triangle is equal to the cosine of P. The Y axis of the triangle is sine of P which is insignificant to cos(P).

distance of radius of circle = sqrt[cos(P)^2 + sin(P)^2]

your theta angle = P

this will prove that fibonacci's numbers are non-linear because if you draw points from a circle's angles, there is an infinite number of them so that proves that P is non-linear and has no definite pattern. think about it fibonacci's numbers are a result of pi, pi is never going to be an exact value since its infinitesimal.


the "famous five" numbers in math: 0, 1, e, pi, and i

e ^ ( i * pi ) + 1 = 0

[jrfhoutx]

Giotto di Bondone drew a perfect circle free hand in one movement...

[toadzilla]

what would twist be with out his twisted mind:P  what the hell the guy who invented milk was doing to the cow

[Luke]

What tigers dream of at night..?

[jacobia jacob]

who was phone?

[robin1989]

if you swallowed a piece of thread and tied one end to your tooth would the other end come out your other end so that you could do an entire body floss?

[TwisTtheTwiTcH]

what would twist be with out his twisted mind:P

I'd have a lot less kinky sex and be named something like John. Not Johnathan but John.

what the hell the guy who invented milk was doing to the cow

"Oooh druppy nipples... Just like mama's"

-TwisT

[HiddenVenom]

Lol fookz, not sure where you got the whole 180 radians thing from, there's 2pi rads in 360 degrees

Anyway more math facts!
e ~ 2.71
It is the base for natural logarithms because it has a significant link with various cycles and processes both in nature and in everyday life.

pi ~ 3.14159
Pi represents the ratio between the diameter and perimeter. Both pi and e are involved in some crazy functions which do stuff like work out the golden ratio.

i = sqrt(-1)
This number is not actually possible (thus imaginary), however it is used in all sorts of magic pure math equations

On any given printed material (assuming a large sample such as a newspaper front page, but something like height or telephone numbers wouldn't work because they have limits that are too tight or rules that restrict the order and structure of numbers.) it is most likely that at least 30% of the numbers on the page will begin with a 1. This decreases all the way down to 8 and 9 which are only a few percent. You can tell if someone is filling our tax forms fraudulently by counting the number of figures which start in 1-9 respectively. If any of them account for much more percentage expected (especially 8 and 9) then someone has been committing fraud.

Prime numbers have a strange link with social and economic systems.