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FLIGHT
TRIVIA
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Houdini was the first man to fly an airplane
solo in Australia. The top of the tower of the Empire State
Building was originally intended though never used as a mooring place for
dirigibles. The name of the first airplane flown at
Kittyhawk by the Wright Brothers was Bird of Prey. The maiden flight
of the Bird of Prey, however, was only long enough to sail 59 feet. An airplane uses more fuel flying at 25,000
feet than at 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and
the less atmospheric resistance it must buck |
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THE IMMUNE
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Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens
the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults
only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. Put more laughter in your life. Depending on
frequency, laughter may add 1.7 to 8 years to your life. By laughing more,
you reduce stress, anxiety, and tension, and make your immune system younger Flossing and brushing daily earn you 6.4 years
more on your life. Gum disease and periodontal disease can age the immune and
arterial systems. Get at least 7 hours of sleep a night. That will
add 3 years to your life. According to studies, mortality risk is reduced in
women who regularly sleep this amount of time. Sleep also boosts the immune
system and attention span.
Get some sun exposure. This adds 1.7 years to
your life. Vitamin D is activated in your system. Which in turn will slow
aging of the cardiovascular and immune systems, and improve your mood.
However, too much sun promotes aging - and can cause skin cancer. |
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ENERGY All energy facts taken from http://www.funtrivia.com/ v
The amount of energy
produced by the sun in a 2 week period equals the combined stored energy of
all the coal, iron and natural gas reserves known to man. [Source: the
people's almanac #2] v
How cold is it in outer
space? If you could measure the temperature in a deserted region of space,
with nothing for light years around, it would be about 2.7 degrees Kelvin
(-454 degrees Fahrenheit). Zero degrees Kelvin is 'absolute zero,' the point
at which molecules have no kinetic energy and therefore stand dead still. The
2.7 degrees figure arises from the microwave background radiation - energy
left over from the Big Bang that floods the universe in all directions. [Source: Emazing -
Michael Natkin] v
Horses expend more energy
lying down than they do when they are standing up! [Source: Bathroom
Readers Guide] v
One out of every 100
little specks on a fuzzy TV screen is caused by nuclear energy from the big
bang! [Source:
Friend] v
The Sun has enough energy
to burn yet another 5 billion years. [Source: Exploring Space] v
Olympus Mons, a volcano
found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in the galaxy. It is 370 miles across
and rises up 15 miles. Volcanoes on Lo, a moon of Jupiter, produce a
poisonous gas called sulphur, instead of lava. One fifth of Earth's flowing
lava occurs in Iceland. About 40 percent of Iceland's energy is geothermal.
Iceland also has geothermic phenomena called a geyser. The only other geysers
in the world are found at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Rotorua,
New Zealand. v
The United States has 5%
of the world's population, yet consumes 25% of it's energy supply. v
Natural gas, which is the
major constituent, is a clean fuel. For the same energy, it produces 40% or
more and less carbon dioxide when it burns. It is a major contributor to the
greenhouse effect than coal and 25% less than oil. Moreover, natural gas
contains almost no sulfur. Unlike coal and oil, it produces little sulfur
oxide when it burns, the main contributor to acid rain. Also, there are no
combustion residues, such as dust and ash, and no radioactive waste to
dispose of. Natural gas is immediate and local compared to oil and nuclear
energy. v
A person uses more
household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water
power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor. v
In some volcanic areas
such as Iceland, the temperature rises beneath the surface of the earth as
high as 680 degrees F (360 degrees C) that engineers can tap the geothermal
energy by piping hot water from underground to warm nearby homes, offices and
factories. An outdoor swimming pool in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik is
heated so effectively by this method that it remains open and in use all year
round. v
If their heat energy could
be converted to electric power, two SRMs firing for two minutes would produce
2.2 million kilowatt hours of power, enough to supply the entire power demand
of 87,000 homes for a full day. [NASA] v
The energy released by the
three Space Shuttle main engines is equivalent to the output of 23 Hoover
Dams. [NASA v
Like Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune has an internal heat source --
it radiates about twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun [The Nine
Planets] v
Jupiter radiates more
energy into space than it receives from the Sun. [The Nine Planets] v
The energy in an average
one-day hurricane could power the United States for three years. v
353,000 tons traveling at
650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat up the
reindeer in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere. The
lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per
second. Each. In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them, and creating a deafening sonic boom in
their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandth
of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces
17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems
ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015
pounds of force.
Humans share genes with bananas. Chimps share 98% of their genes with humans. Two-thirds of all humans die for reasons
connected with the genes they carry. If stretched out, the DNA from a single human
cell would measure approximately six feet in length. If the DNA contained within the cells of a
human being was stretched out, it would reach to the Moon and back eight
thousand times. The genetic code of a human consists of around
3,000,000,000 letters. |
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