Thread: Strange and Unusual Facts

Originally Posted by Backspin

They landed several. Between 1970, which was the first, and 1985 which was the last.

And your point?

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

And your point?

Capitalist west - bad. Totalitarian east - good.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Surface temp almost 500 degrees Celsius (high enough to melt lead), Atmospheric pressure 75-100 times that of Earth, thick atmosphere full of sulfuric acid.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Like with the other space thread - I can't get interested in the topic, never have. Not even as a child. I can understand others' fascination, though

In the 1950s, you could buy a coffee maker as an add-on for Volkswagen cars.

German hyperinflation made a loaf of bread cost 200 billion Marks in 1923.

The Clania Crameri bagworm cuts wood to reinforce its cocoon forming its own little log cabin in the process.

Beer can camera captures longest-exposure photograph ever - by coincidence!



The longest-exposure photograph ever was recently clicked. And beat this - by coincidence! Now beat this one - through a beer can!


Around eight years ago, a Masters student from the University of Hertfordshire put photographic paper into a beer can to create a minimal pinhole camera.


She then placed the beer can on a telescope at official observatory of the university - Bayfordbury Observatory. Then the best coincidence happened - she forgot about it.

The resulting image has been discovered now, and it may be the longest-exposure photo to be ever taken.


According to the official statement on the university’s website, the former student - Regina Valkenborgh shared her experience.

"I had tried this technique a couple of times at the Observatory before, but the photographs were often ruined by moisture and the photographic paper curled up," she said. "I hadn't intended to capture an exposure for this length of time and to my surprise, it had survived”, she added.

The photograph captures the sun’s journey in the sky from 2012 - each time it rose and set. Almost 2,953 arcs of light were captured in this photo, which also captured a part of the telescope’s dome, visible in the extreme left of the photograph. The structure in the right corner of the picture was actually built halfway through the image.


The photographer had forgotten about the beer can camera, which was discovered by Bayfordbury Observatory’s principal technical officer - David Campbell. "It was a stroke of luck that the picture was left untouched, to be saved by David after all these years," Valkenborgh said in the statement.

Beer can camera captures longest-exposure photograph ever - by coincidence!, Science News | wionews.com

Kind of a shity photo though...

Jupiter is around 318 times larger than Earth. Here are the two next to each other for scale.

A group of foxes is called a skulk.

The Shoebill is native to East Africa. They're known for their statue-like behavior, making them perfect for birdwatchers...and devil worshippers...

Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca in every Star Wars film until The Last Jedi. He was still listed in the credits of that film as "Chewbacca Consultant".

Originally Posted by tomcat

During filming 'Batman Begins' a drunk driver crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an alien spacecraft. Christian Bale said, "This poor drunken guy who didn’t have a license. [He] said he got so panicked when he saw the car that he thought aliens were landing."

Trumpanzee for sure.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Trumpanzee for sure.

...555...

Hemp bottles will degrade after around 80 days. Cannabis plastics are also non-toxic.

Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys on earth.

Japan-based artist Jumpei Mitsuire recreated Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ with 50,000 LEGO Blocks.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Cannabis plastics are also non-toxic.

When burnt and smoked?

Originally Posted by tomcat

Japan-based artist Jumpei Mitsuire recreated Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ with 50,000 LEGO Blocks.

Lego made a life size Bugatti Chiron (with only the tyres not made from Lego) that actually drives.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Japan-based artist Jumpei Mitsuire recreated Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ with 50,000 LEGO Blocks.

The word bed is shaped like a tiny bed.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys on earth.

How do we know that's not Sultan Kösen or André Roussimoff holding a common marmoset?

Transparent solar panels will one day turn every window into a green energy collector.

The Elasmotherium, or Siberian unicorn, went extinct 39,000 years ago.

The skeletons of conjoined twins at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.