I decided to put random stuff here to satisfy my boredom... for your entertainment as well as mine...
Did you know that...
a shrimps heart is in its head?
a female weasel must have sex after its matured or else it'll die?
Hitler didn't smoke, drink, or cheat on his wife, but Churchill and Rosevelt did?
a lion's roar can be heard from 7 miles away?
leapords have no roar?
52 million people accually voted for Bush?
anyhow (I'm going to get killed by Republicans for posting this), if anything is inaccurate, just tell me, I got these from my friends and books...
Originally posted by abejnoodMore useless facts.
also post more random facts so I can impress my friends...
Most Americans eat about 1,500 peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches before graduating from high school (that's if they graduate!).
Traffic lights were invented before cars.
A shark can grow and lose up to 30,000 teeth in its lifetime.
Mountain lions can whistle.
South Africa's giant bullfrog sometimes attacks lions.
Speaking of Hitler (not that I agree with his sickness) was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
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Originally posted by abejnoodI'll accept everything except the statement "a female weasel must have sex after its matured or else it'll die?"... See, it's the male inadequacy that wishes that on the female. 🙂
I decided to put random stuff here to satisfy my boredom... for your entertainment as well as mine...
Did you know that...
a shrimps heart is in its head?
a female weasel must have sex after its matured or else it'll die?
Hitler didn't smoke, drink, or cheat on his wife, but Churchill and Rosevelt did?
a lion's roar can be heard from 7 mil ...[text shortened]... posting this), if anything is inaccurate, just tell me, I got these from my friends and books...
Originally posted by StarrmanYou own a duck? How else would you demonstrate this then with a duck, a cave and a tape recorder?
We've had this one in the past and several people piped up (including me) to demonstrate that this is a myth.
Anyway for the literal among us: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm
Originally posted by XanthosNZActually this is just what i did 🙂
You own a duck? How else would you demonstrate this then with a duck, a cave and a tape recorder?
Anyway for the literal among us: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm
Being a sound engineer, I recorded a duck's quack and then discovered the main frequencies within the noise. Next I set up a reflective environment in my studio's hallway (nice and metallic) at exactly the right distance to reflect this particular frequency region and played the noise through my studio speakers whilst recording the room through a series of mics placed at different positions. When I opened the waves from the recording, the original quack was clearly visible as the first noise, then a series of smaller reflections appeared indicating an echo.
Originally posted by StarrmanBut how could you be sure that the magical non-echoing property of a duck's quack was not related not to the sound of the quack but the shape of the duck?
Actually this is just what i did 🙂
Being a sound engineer, I recorded a duck's quack and then discovered the main frequencies within the noise. Next I set up a reflective environment in my studio's hallway (nice and metallic) at exactly the right distance to reflect this particular frequency region and played the noise through my studio speakers wh ...[text shortened]... ly visible as the first noise, then a series of smaller reflections appeared indicating an echo.