I want to know...

[Rising Phoenix]

Tell me one fascinating fact about this country, world, solar system, universe, dimension we are living in. Thank you.

[rcrush]

1. 32 planets discovered outside solar system

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/19/space.new.planets/index.html

"HARPS is a unique, extremely high precision instrument that ideal for discovering alien worlds," Stephane Udry of Geneva University, who made the announcement on behalf of the international consortium that built the instrument, said in the observatory statement. "We have now completed our initial five-year program, which has succeeded well beyond our expectations."


"We are on the road," Udry told CNN in a phone call from Portugal. "The end of the road is finding life and other planets like our own, but we have to go step by step."
HARPS has also boosted the discovery of so-called super-Earths -- planets with a mass a few times that of Earth. Of the 28 super-Earths known, HARPS facilitated the discovery of 24, the European Southern Observatory statement said. Most reside in multiplanet systems, with up to five planets per system.

[Rising Phoenix]

8. I think it is amazing

how far we can learn and see.....imagine all the amazing shit we can't even comprehend

[Rising Phoenix]

9. I think it is amazing

how far we can learn and see.....imagine all the amazing shit we can't even comprehend

[Louisiana1976]

2. Some homes aren't centrally heated.

[Rising Phoenix]

6. the horror

I wish I was still blissfully ignorant

[rcrush]

3. In the 17th century the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavers

In dietary law

In the 17th century, based on a question raised by the Bishop of Quebec, the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish (beaver flesh was a part of the indigenous peoples' diet, prior to the Europeans' arrival) for purposes of dietary law. Therefore, the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays during Lent does not apply to beaver meat.<26><27><28> The legal basis for the decision probably rests with the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, which bases animal classification as much on habit as anatomy.<29> This is similar to the Church's classification of the capybara, another semi-aquatic rodent.<30>

[Rising Phoenix]

5. crazy

[rcrush]

4. .

.

[crim son]

7. Henry VIII only actually beheaded two of his wives.

:D

[Rising Phoenix]

10. really?

But but the song......the song

[crim son]

11. I don't know the song!

But I've always found him to be very interesting so I know it's true: he had Anne Boleyn (wife two) beheaded for being a witch, and wife five (Catherine Howard) beheaded for infidelity. The rest were either cast aside, died in childbirth or outlived him.

[Rising Phoenix]

13. wow.

I liked the movie The Other Boleyn Girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUb3NWp942s

Ok, been a long time since I've heard that song, doesn't mention what happened to the wives and exs and all that..... pretty catchy tough, isn't it? :shrug:


on edit the link is the song, not a scene from the movie I mentioned that really didn't belong in the paragraph. An entire misplaced modifier senctence!

[Arugula Latte]

12. A monster eats the sun every evening and then regurgitates it in the morning.

Now you know.

:D

[Rising Phoenix]

14. That is pretty cool

A scary monster or a sesame street or monster inc type monster? Just want to know what I'm dealing with.
:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

15. Here is a picture of said monster holding the extinguished sun in his hand

about to devour it ...

[Rising Phoenix]

18. ok, sesame type monster

Now i know all I need to know to gain control of this monster so I will control the sun and moon, the days and nights......bwahahahahahha

guess you shouldn't have told me about this.......:evilgrin:

[crim son]

16. Eh, sorry. Dupe!

[crim son]

17. Link? :P n/t

[rcrush]

19. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR

[Haole Girl]

20. The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees f

The surface of the Sun is only 10,000 degrees fahrenheit

[Forkboy]

21. The ancient Greeks called our galaxy the Milky Way because...

...they thought it was made from drops of milk from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera.

[AllenVanAllen]

22. Here's two.

Not one atom that made up your body mass at the age of five exists in your body now.
We are made of 99.999999999999% of empty space.