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09 Mar 2018, 6:32 pm

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^WTF

There is enough space between the Earth and the Moon to line up all of the 7 remaining planets between them.

Why is the moon that far?

Lol!

It just is.

238 thousand miles from earth. But the earth is only 8000 miles wide, and the moon, is only 2000 miles wide. If the earth were a foot wide, and the moon three inches wide, the space between them would be more than two thirds the length of a football field. Plenty of room for the eleven foot wide Jupiter, and all of the other planets.

Plenty of room might be pushing it. I did the math and concluded that the marigin is about one to two mercury-widths.

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09 Mar 2018, 6:33 pm

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France has the greatest number of time zones. I always thought Russia had the most.

Hmmm....

France proper?The country in Europe is all in one time zone. So that's impossible. But if France, AND what remains of its colonial empire (little over seas territories, like islands in the Pacific, and the Caribbean, etc,)are included then that could be true AFAIK..

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09 Mar 2018, 6:50 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Joe90 wrote:

RainbowUnion wrote:

Kiprobalhato wrote:

^WTF

There is enough space between the Earth and the Moon to line up all of the 7 remaining planets between them.

Why is the moon that far?

Plenty of room might be pushing it. I did the math and concluded that the marigin is about one to two mercury-widths.

The reason folks find that fact hard to believe is that all of the pics they see of the whole solar system, in books, and in school, show the planets drawn to one scale, and the distances between them drawn to a totally different scale. The pics show the planets as looking like a bunch of soccer balls swarming around a big beach ball within a space the size of an SUV. So it seems inconceivable that all of those beach balls could fit between the earth and the moon.

If the sun were a 20 inch beach ball, then the earth would be one fifth of an inch in diameter, and 20 feet from the Sun, Jupiter a two inch billiard ball 80 feet from the sun, and Pluto would little more than a millimeter wide and 800 feet from the sun. It would be very hard to paint a pretty picture for grade school kids of that scene.

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09 Mar 2018, 7:23 pm

that it would only take 6 neutron bombs to knock out America's grid.

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09 Mar 2018, 7:45 pm

Don't tell Kim Jong Un that! :lol:

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09 Mar 2018, 7:50 pm

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Don't tell Kim Jong Un that! :lol:

he already knows this. the fact that him and his ancestors have been able to rope-a-dope uncle sam the way they did, makes me think that something is fishy somewhere.

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09 Mar 2018, 8:25 pm

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As for language, it counts in my mind if its dissimilar enough that two dialects cant understand each other.

Reminds me of two 4 year old boys I saw playing together. One was from Boston and one was from Georgia. They could not understand anything the other said. It was hilarious.

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09 Mar 2018, 8:28 pm

^ how long ago was this?

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09 Mar 2018, 8:47 pm

auntblabby wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Don't tell Kim Jong Un that! :lol:

he already knows this. the fact that him and his ancestors have been able to rope-a-dope uncle sam the way they did, makes me think that something is fishy somewhere.

What do you mean?

There aint jack s**t that Uncle Sam can do about it.

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09 Mar 2018, 8:52 pm

Mudboy wrote:

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As for language, it counts in my mind if its dissimilar enough that two dialects cant understand each other.

Reminds me of two 4 year old boys I saw playing together. One was from Boston and one was from Georgia. They could not understand anything the other said. It was hilarious.

That does sound cute to watch. An almost 80 year old friend of my parents had car trouble when driving through northern England, and got help from a local farmer (also an old guy), and our American friend and the local guy could hardly communicate because of the dialect differences. The local English guy got so baffled with our freinds American dialect that he said "you're a rye one!".

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09 Mar 2018, 8:54 pm

There are more parasitic organisms than free living species.

There are more nocternal animals than diurnal animals.

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10 Mar 2018, 2:09 am

taxi drivers are more likely to be killed than cops.

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11 Mar 2018, 10:53 am

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taxi drivers are more likely to be killed than cops.

Not surprised by this actually. Its a job where you let anyone into your car, and you know nothing about them.

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11 Mar 2018, 10:56 am

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There are more parasitic organisms than free living species.

There are more nocternal animals than diurnal animals.

Parasites or just non parasitic ride along species are much simpler in terms of body construction and reproduce quickly, which allows for rapid diversification. Also night is generally a safer time than day.

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11 Mar 2018, 11:05 am

Women couldn't vote in Portugal until 1976.

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11 Mar 2018, 11:09 am

England had laws on the books against witchcraft as late as the 1950s.

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