Amazing fing I lernt today

[the village idiot]

Evening all. Thought I would start a thread which can be a repository of wonder.

If someone tells you, or you read something mind blowing post it up here for us all to try and wrap our brains around:)

 

I've had my head in the heavens this evening and learnt a bit about neutron stars. These form when a star collapses in on itself and are incredibly dense. A thimble full of neutron star matter would weigh in the region of 100 million tons!!!!!!!

[Mull]

Not a chance I'll get my head round that!!

[DanClimbsTrees]

Woah...

[Mark Bolam]

Evening all. Thought I would start a thread which can be a repository of wonder.

If someone tells you, or you read something mind blowing post it up here for us all to try and wrap our brains around:)

 

I've had my head in the heavens this evening and learnt a bit about neutron stars. These form when a star collapses in on itself and are incredibly dense. A thimble full of neutron star matter would weigh in the region of 100 million tons!!!!!!!

 

That's not really a big deal mate.

A few log sellers round my way sell loads of the stuff.

 

 

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[the village idiot]

That's not really a big deal mate.

A few log sellers round my way sell loads of the stuff.

 

 

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:lol:

[the village idiot]

Woah...

 

You just back from a posh dinner Dan?

[DanClimbsTrees]

You just back from a posh dinner Dan?

 

Yeah but I'm going back for seconds now

[the village idiot]

There is one creature on the planet that has managed to survive all four mass extinctions on Earth. As you can imagine it is a real hard bast**d. It's called the Water Bear, and here is a short clip of it in all it's imposing majesty!

 

Prepare to be awe-struck!

 

http://i.imgur.com/VNNQMWb.gif

Edited February 22, 2015 by the village idiot
dodgy spelling

[the village idiot]

Yeah but I'm going back for seconds now

 

That's my boy!

[the village idiot]

Thought for the day from Bill Bryson.

 

"If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.*

 

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long."