Author Topic: The Random Fact thread (Read 46881 times)

Edward Vulpes · « **Reply #25 on:** March 24, 2009, 07:57:40 am »

Quote from: FurFoxart on March 23, 2009, 04:00:44 pm

one DNA strand in a single cell of you body is about 2m long if unwound from it's more reconisable chromasome shape but it would be so thin that not even an electron micoscope could detect it because DNA is about 20 atoms thick!

Misinformation!

Electron microscopy is definitely not the ideal method for imaging DNA helices or nucleotide chains. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instruments are able to detect single-stranded DNA affixed to an immobile surface, although a much more practical application is to use fluorescence spectroscopy to perform single-molecule studies. In fact, AFM is often used in the sub-field of DNA nanodevices to check that the structure of the assembled constructs conforms to what is expected.

Scrimno · « **Reply #26 on:** March 24, 2009, 03:51:39 pm »

River otters can travel 10 miles to reach a body of water.

Bloodtooth · « **Reply #27 on:** March 25, 2009, 12:45:22 am »

The Soloviev D-30 engine, used in the MiG-31, only has use otherwise in transport aircraft and airliners - as it is too big and overly powerful for most airframes - only the toughest can hold it. The only other use in a jet fighter was the prototype Su-47 Berkut.

Ultimate Interceptor needed the ultimate engines.

Zhono Veranhaut · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2009, 09:05:56 am »

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!

Relaxing Dragon · « **Reply #29 on:** March 26, 2009, 11:46:08 am »

Branwell Brontë died standing up and leaning on a mantelpiece, just to prove it could be done.

Zhono Veranhaut · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2009, 08:11:48 pm »

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Aurora · « **Reply #31 on:** March 28, 2009, 10:12:41 am »

chocolate is leathel! in the right doses

Quote from: Edward Vulpes on March 24, 2009, 07:57:40 am

Quote from: FurFoxart on March 23, 2009, 04:00:44 pm
one DNA strand in a single cell of you body is about 2m long if unwound from it's more reconisable chromasome shape but it would be so thin that not even an electron micoscope could detect it because DNA is about 20 atoms thick!

Misinformation!

Electron microscopy is definitely not the ideal method for imaging DNA helices or nucleotide chains. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instruments are able to detect single-stranded DNA affixed to an immobile surface, although a much more practical application is to use fluorescence spectroscopy to perform single-molecule studies. In fact, AFM is often used in the sub-field of DNA nanodevices to check that the structure of the assembled constructs conforms to what is expected.

i has been out-smarted, that truley is facinating

Kinshi · « **Reply #32 on:** March 28, 2009, 10:15:57 am »

Quote from: FurFoxart on March 28, 2009, 10:12:41 am

chocolate is leathel! in the right doses

I am never eating chocolate again...

When the five elements combine, i am CAPTAIN PLANET!

now for the real fact: the only non-hackable psp is a psp slim with a Ta 88 v3 motherboard, all of the others are badly protected.

Aurora · « **Reply #33 on:** March 28, 2009, 10:19:02 am »

Quote from: Kinshi on March 28, 2009, 10:15:57 am

Quote from: FurFoxart on March 28, 2009, 10:12:41 am
chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
I am never eating chocolate again...

i think the dose is something like 200 kg or something like that (your stomache would burst before the chocolate poiesned you)

Kinshi · « **Reply #34 on:** March 28, 2009, 10:21:43 am »

Quote from: FurFoxart on March 28, 2009, 10:19:02 am

Quote from: Kinshi on March 28, 2009, 10:15:57 am
Quote from: FurFoxart on March 28, 2009, 10:12:41 am
chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
I am never eating chocolate again...

i think the dose is something like 200 kg or something like that (your stomache would burst before the chocolate poiesned you)

so that means it's still safe to eat 2 kilograms of chocolate in one day? YAY!

random fact: my real name starts with a K...just like my fursona!

Aurora · « **Reply #35 on:** March 28, 2009, 10:23:36 am »

apparently if an average person consumes two large bars of pure coco chocolate in the space of about an hour they may start to halucinate or be sick

Kinshi · « **Reply #36 on:** March 28, 2009, 02:06:49 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hdkljzm6eo (---the thruth

Aurora · « **Reply #37 on:** March 28, 2009, 04:03:34 pm »

more people are killed by falling coconuts every year than sharks

Kinshi · « **Reply #38 on:** March 28, 2009, 04:48:35 pm »

I find it creepy that the last 7 posts are by me and FurFoxart alone

Bloodtooth · « **Reply #39 on:** March 29, 2009, 02:46:35 am »

I find excessive humour in stupid little things that just crack me up.

Kinshi · « **Reply #40 on:** March 29, 2009, 10:24:30 am »

I like swimming.

Edward Vulpes · « **Reply #41 on:** March 30, 2009, 11:56:56 am »

Almost one hundred per-cent of all vanillin (the essential flavour compound of vanilla beans) is artificially synthesized, rather than extracted from vanilla bean pods.

Aurora · « **Reply #42 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:27:56 am »

the most likely shape of a the universe is thought to be a four dimentional douhnut which then makes it theoretically possible to look into the past of the earth because light travels round the douhnut and so we could theoreticaly see the earth in the depts of space as it was millenia ago (you probably would'nt even see the very early sun because of how long it would take the light to reach us but you get the general idea)

Zhono Veranhaut · « **Reply #43 on:** April 03, 2009, 08:52:46 am »

As of July 2005, the smallest country in terms of population was Pitcairn Islands with 45 inhabitants!

Greeblig Venn Aridarr · « **Reply #44 on:** April 03, 2009, 12:21:30 pm »

Certain species of snake are known to repel predators by farting audibly.

Kinshi · « **Reply #45 on:** April 03, 2009, 02:00:58 pm »

It is better to make songs without headphones, because headphones disturb (or rather, they DON'T disturb) some of the sound, which is normally disturbed when playing songs.

Bloodtooth · « **Reply #46 on:** April 03, 2009, 08:59:02 pm »

The Il-2 Sturmovik, probably the most important Aircraft of WW2, could have been made with a Radial engine as well due to engine shortages, this was proposed. But all the radial engines needed were used in the La-5 Fighter, so the Il-2 never flew with a radial engine.

Aurora · « **Reply #47 on:** April 04, 2009, 03:34:23 pm »

the isle of wight is the smallest county in the U.K for only half of the year; it's the smallest at high-tide and the second smallest at low-tide

Kinshi · « **Reply #48 on:** April 04, 2009, 03:47:50 pm »

you can run furtopia using the nintendo DSi's opera based browser, and it's fast!

Bloodtooth · « **Reply #49 on:** April 04, 2009, 10:21:42 pm »

They see me rollin'. They hatin'. Patrollin'. Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty.