Random, impulsive from-the-hip...facts

[hm insulators]

Instruction painted on US rocket launcher: "Aim toward the enemy."

[kphoger]

Do not point nozzle toward face or eyes...

[thenetwork]

Brookpark Road in Cleveland, OH forms the northern border of it's namesake town...

...except the namesake town is broken down as two separate words -- Brook Park!!!

[Laura]

Another rule of thumb about body measurements:  your height at age 2 is half your eventual adult height, while your height at age 3 is either 60% or 55% of your adult height (depending on whether you are a boy or girl).

Not true. I was 36 inches (3 feet) tall at age 2. I am 65.5 inches tall today (5 feet 5.5 inches).

I also blow another fun anatomy fact out of the water: A person cannot lick their own elbows". Because I can hyperextend my shoulders, I can lick my elbows.

[english si]

I also blow another fun anatomy fact out of the water: A person cannot lick their own elbows". Because I can hyperextend my shoulders, I can lick my elbows.

Someone once mentioned the myth in a group of about 6 (including me). 2 people proved it false straight off, with different anatomical reasons.

[agentsteel53]

2 people proved it false straight off, with different anatomical reasons.

one had hyperextended shoulders; the other was Gene Simmons?

[Alps]

Another rule of thumb about body measurements:  your height at age 2 is half your eventual adult height, while your height at age 3 is either 60% or 55% of your adult height (depending on whether you are a boy or girl).

Not true. I was 36 inches (3 feet) tall at age 2. I am 65.5 inches tall today (5 feet 5.5 inches).

I also blow another fun anatomy fact out of the water: A person cannot lick their own elbows". Because I can hyperextend my shoulders, I can lick my elbows.

Okay, next time I see you, I want proof. See you at the meet.

[Laura]

Another rule of thumb about body measurements:  your height at age 2 is half your eventual adult height, while your height at age 3 is either 60% or 55% of your adult height (depending on whether you are a boy or girl).

Not true. I was 36 inches (3 feet) tall at age 2. I am 65.5 inches tall today (5 feet 5.5 inches).

I also blow another fun anatomy fact out of the water: A person cannot lick their own elbows". Because I can hyperextend my shoulders, I can lick my elbows.

Okay, next time I see you, I want proof. See you at the meet.

Haha! Elbows will be licked and proof will be given!

[Thing 342]

Due to the Aleutian Islands passing 180^o W, Alaska is both the westernmost and easternmost state in the US.

On I-10, The New Mexico-Texas border is closer to Santa Monica, CA than the Texas-Louisiana border. Likewise, the Texas-Louisiana border is closer to Jacksonville, FL than the Texas-New Mexico border.

Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than CA, FL, and HI combined.

[kkt]

Due to the Aleutian Islands passing 180^o W, Alaska is both the westernmost and easternmost state in the US.

That's a misinterpretation of east and west.  East and west are directions, not poles.  When measuring the easternmost point of something, you start at the middle of the thing and work your way eastwards, the 180th meridian notwithstanding.

[NE2]

^^this. Now don't start on the great circle definitions.

[agentsteel53]

all powers of 26, except for the first, end in 76.

[Alps]

all powers of 26, except for the first, end in 76.

and the third digit rolls through: 1, 5, 9, 3, 7...

[NE2]

in before 142857

[Alps]

in before 142857

076923

[kkt]

all integral powers of 26 that are >= 2 end in 76.

FTFY

[OracleUsr]

It is said that a Darwin Award winner who caused his own violent car crash death had a bumper sticker on his vehicle that said "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-"...well, i think you know that last part

Puts the CAR in Karma, and yes, I do realize it would be misspelled.

[NE2]

POOO?

[agentsteel53]

I both called and did not call 1-800-EAT-ALAN. 

[kurumi]

If the universe is infinite (or our universe is part of a larger infinity), and matter is distributed throughout, and there are a finite (though very large) number of possible states for these clumps of matter...

(speaking as a pure layman, who graduated in something other than physics)

... then everything you see around you (including yourself in the mirror) has copies somewhere else in the universe. (Same principle as 4 people, 3 cars -- at least 2 people are using the same car.) Not only that, there are infinite copies of you. And not only normal you, but you with 2 heads, you as president, you in every daydream you ever had, come to life. There's even an I-70 through the Sierras, a Harvard doctoral program in viatology, a world where everyone is sick and tired of the Cubs winning the World Series all the time, and even an Alanland.

Fortunately, all these things would be far enough away that we don't have to think about them.

[Alps]

If the universe is infinite (or our universe is part of a larger infinity), and matter is distributed throughout, and there are a finite (though very large) number of possible states for these clumps of matter...

Problem #1: If there were an infinite amount of matter, the Big Bang would have been impossible. I'm looking at a universe-centric model, because space-time is bent around its edges. (In other words, our dimensionality isn't just constrained by our perception - it's constrained by the limits of physics.) What is it expanding "into?" When you fold a piece of paper (2D, for argument's sake), it bends into the 3rd dimension. When you fold space-time (4D), it bends into... the fifth dimension. Whatever that is.
Is it possible for an infinite space to have a finite amount of matter? Absolutely. It's also possible that it has an infinite amount of matter. I would argue we do not have infinite space to deal with, but if we did, it would take proof that there is matter throughout and not only in our area. (The proof would probably suffice that if there are at least two universes and no upper limit, there is infinite matter, because it has already been demonstrated that we are not the only source thereof.)
After all those presuppositions, if there is truly infinite matter and infinite space, you would be theoretically correct, that all possible states of finite amount of matter must exist, and for that matter, simultaneously. Then again, that's also discounting the idea that there is only one "now," time is an illusion, and therefore there is only one actual state of matter. Good luck with that line of logic. (:

[NE2]

We're actually manifestations of the cosmic egg, waiting for the universe to begin.

[thenetwork]

If you scrambled the letters of "Tricky Dick" Nixon's first vice-president, Spiro Agnew, you would have "Grow A Penis".

[NE2]

GWB's vice president needs no scrambling.

[hm insulators]

The best way to spot wild animals is studying the tracks they leave. The worst is by studying their bite marks.