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mosquitoes do not "feed" on blood. they are not true parasites. mosquitoes feed on nectar, but they need a protein contained in blood to complete the sequence that makes their eggs viable.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-N2x3Gl6o&feature=related[/youtube]

Yay! Fudo's back in town!
(fireworks, dancing bears etc)

A passenger jet is pressurised by pumping in outside air that over compensates the inherent' leakiness' of the design.

In other words the plane leaks like a sieve, but air is forced/rammed in from the forward movement through the atmosphere and this is controlled by valves.

Outside air is about @ 4 psi @ 30k feet; inside cabin is held @ 8 psi of controlled pressurisation.( Normal atmosphere is a little under 15 @ sea level.)

This is enough to sustain life without creating undue stress on the cabin structure, as if it was held at a sea level/ground pressure @ ( 14.7 psi).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRj9WXbiVA

The part around 26:40 is hilarious. Stephen has a fake glass that he smashes on his head, and Arthur Smith, thinking his was fake too, threw his at Alan, and Stephen screamed "No! Yours is real!" and the look on Arthur's face is priceless.

remember that one for the painful scream lol.. thanks dunbots & thanks Cornflake for fireworks & dancing bears

Whoa, Dara O Briain is fluent in Irish Gaelic, that makes me like him even more. :O Have you seen Three Men in a Boat? It sounds interesting, I might try to find it somewhere to watch.

well he is Irish. lol he was on children's tv apparently too.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxMjY93VC8[/youtube]

some of Dara's stand-up..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0123R6vjIoE[/youtube]

lack of internet makes fudo crazier than usual.. it's not pretty on the plus side he found some old master copies of his music..

QI Fact of the Day

A swarm of gnats is called a "ghost".

QI Quote of the Day

"Human knowledge will be erased from the world's archives before we possess the last word that a gnat has to say to us."
JEAN HENRI FABRE (1823-1915) French entomolog

somebody draweded a picture of Fudo recently.. put it on facebook. i would comment there if i could, but anyways. fudo thinks it was very nice, though looks like he's holding a gun in his left hand
also was mentioned that his current avatar was somewhat unclear, i think..
so here it be for closer inspection.

^^ Ooh - that's gooood!

tis quite beautiful.. that wasn't the drawing btw. but the drawing was very cool. i'd upload it but haven't spoken to the artist & they might not want it shared.

& powerade is yummy

"a grain of sand was blown along a few inches in a mild breeze."

there you go. what is interesting about that? it is that the rest of universal history will be affected by the circumstance of the grain of sand being blown a small distance in a mild breeze.

Reminded me of William Blake (Auguries of Innocence):

Everything.

stonehenge... kinda

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The Stonehenge isn't even a henge... that's freakin' ridiculous! The word "henge" comes from Stonehenge... Why would the take that word from it, then change the meaning so the original isn't included?