Magnetic Hill in Chartierville, Quebec is an optical illusion.

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There have been five well-documented mass extinctions during the past 540 million years.

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Six including this one.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

A fast runner, assuming he could get enough traction in the low gravity, should be able to run into orbit around Phobos, according to Heinlein (The Rolling Stones).

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

In the UK during WWII, civilian criminals were hung with a new rope, but war criminals were all hung with the same rope, which was carried in a briefcase by the executioner.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

I'd prefer to be hung with an old rope--I might just walk away from that one!

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Hence the saying : money for old rope.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

Some people wound up at the end of their rope, others at the end of someone elses'.

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Global warming puts more moisture into the atmosphere.

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There is a story in which a single colorful furry fuzzball that purrs, small enough to hold in the hand, is brought aboard a ship, but little did they know, it reproduces asexually very fast and eats just about anything and everything it can get to. Nope--not Star Trek's "Trouble with Tribbles" but about 15 or so years earlier than that: Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones".

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

More:

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According to a recent worldwide poll, the three most popular political leaders on the planet are Gordon Brown (UK), Hu Jintao (China) and Vladimir Putin (Russia). The only thing those three have in common is that none of them were elected to their current positions.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Larry Niven wrote at least one episode of "Land of the Lost"--in his episode, the inhabitants discover the "lost" space is a 3-d torus--climb the highest mountain and you can see your own back. Follow the river, and it goes in a circle (yet somehow still flows...). A later episode by another writer shows that "lost" space is a torus along the time dimension as well--at the same time the Marshall family escapes, the Marshall family (younger version) goes over the falls and enters the land. However, the entire series is not quite consistent enough to claim this would always be "truth" in every episode. ETA: and no explanation of how Chaca gets "young again" in this loop

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Nestling between snow capped peaks, at 9350ft (2850m) Quito is the second highest capital in the world. (Ecuador)

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

During the winter of 1968/69 Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, USA received 47.2 feet of snow.

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On July 9th, 1958 a massive landslide dropped 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cu m) of rock into Lituya Bay creating a wave 1720 ft (524 m) high.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

I remember that episode! Will was a hottie.

An unintended fact: There is (or was) a rock band named Scared of Chaca...in honor of Chaca.

The intended fact to share: Ted Knight (most famously known as "Ted Baxter" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show) was a WWII hero. He was decorated 5 times for bravery.

A Land of the Lost movie is currently in production. For some reason.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

A 1st edition copy of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium just sold at auction for $2,210,500.

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Name the little kid that ruined the Star Wars prequels: George Lucas.

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He knocks one out of the park here, tho, gushing Representatives and all, focusing on broadband availabilities in the U.S.

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