Odd factoids

[classic33]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Depends on how hard you throw the banana. Mine flew straight and true.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You can theoretically travel back in time. But you have to setup the wormhole first.

 

[Dirk]

If time travel was possible, we would already know about it.

 

[classic33]

If time travel was possible, we would already know about it.

Well I'll tell you what you're going to find tomorrow!

 

[classic33]

Is that the same murderer?

Have you thought of asking them?

 

[swee'pea99]

You've not been to Norfolk have you?

"We will shortly be landing at Wellington Airport - please put your watches back 30 years."

 

[classic33]

Though goldfish have been used almost as a synonym for forgetfulness for decades, scientists have found that they can actually remember things for up to five months – and can even be trained to associate certain sounds with feeding time.

 

[classic33]

The so-called ‘immortal jellyfish’ can turn itself back into a baby repeatedly in times of crisis. If the fish faces physical damage, starvation, or another crisis, it is able to “transform all of its existing cells into a younger state,” according to Pia Miglietta, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University.

The jellyfish, which is only about the size of a small fingernail at its adult size, transforms into a cyst that looks blob-like. It then turns into a polyp colony, and begins its life cycle anew. This colony spawns genetic copies of the adult –hundreds of them, in fact.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The so-called ‘immortal jellyfish’ can turn itself back into a baby repeatedly in times of crisis. If the fish faces physical damage, starvation, or another crisis, it is able to “transform all of its existing cells into a younger state,” according to Pia Miglietta, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University.

The jellyfish, which is only about the size of a small fingernail at its adult size, transforms into a cyst that looks blob-like. It then turns into a polyp colony, and begins its life cycle anew. This colony spawns genetic copies of the adult –hundreds of them, in fact.

It's a fact that humans are equally capable of reverting to very early childhood in times of stress. From my personal experience, when fearful and under stress, humans can poo themselves, cry and reform blob like into the fetal position.

 

[Drago]

If time travel was possible, we would already know about it.

Time travel is possible. We are travelling through time at a rate of 1 second per second at sea level.

Travel to orbit and time will pass fractionally slower. Relative to time at sea level you are still travelling forward through time, but at a fractionally slower rate - tiny, but measurable - due your greater speed along the spacetime continuum.

So time travel is very possible. However, artificially travelling back or forward through time beyond these limits may not be so.

 

[Blue Hills]

I've never understood why grapefruit are called grapefruit. Surely the only real grapefruit is a grape, which is, after all, a fruit. Why name one fruit after another, which it could hardly resemble less?

I fear you are overthinking this
Sweet
Pea

 

[Dirk]

I've never understood why grapefruit are called grapefruit. Surely the only real grapefruit is a grape, which is, after all, a fruit. Why name one fruit after another, which it could hardly resemble less?

Pineapples grow on fir trees.

 

[Markymark]

It is theoretically possible to travel forwards in time, but not backwards

Northbound M1?

 

[classic33]

Pineapples grow on fir trees.

Not fur!!

 

[Drago]

Despite the song lyrics, bananas do not grow on trees.