If your average insect was as large as a human being, in the 100 metre Olympic final the human would need to run at a speed of 1300 miles an hour to catch the insect...Gold medal to the competitor from the insect nation then. That's assuming it knows which way to go and hears the starting pistol.
Well they've just lost this one. Sunderland are the only English club to have won a major domestic honour under every sitting monarch since professional football was invented.
Nah, same place this time next year for the current Prince of Wales. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas,died on the 29th July 1974 in a bedroom in flat 12,9 Curzon Place in Mayfair,London,a property owned by Harry Nilsson. Four years later,Keith Moon of the Who also died in the same bedroom. They were both aged 32 when they died.
Comfortably numb. Pink Floyd pistol shrimp creates one of the loudest sounds in the ocean using its ‘snapper’ claw, which has a socket and a plunger-shaped growth. The bubble created by snapping this claw is powerful enough to stun and kill fish many times the size of the 5mm-wide crustacean. When it slams the plunger into the cavity, this displaces water, which jets out at 105 feet a second. It creates a high-pressure cavitation bubble which collapses to make the blast picked up by submarines and divers, who hear a sound rather like someone clicking their fingers. the Pink Floyd shrimp, unlike other pistol shrimps, is not believed to use its blast for this purpose, so it can feed on other fish. Instead it uses it for self-defence, to scare away prey, or to communicate. Dr De Grave said: ‘The bullet is invisible to the human eye, and has only been picked up using high-speed cameras, but it is powerful enough to hit a temperature of 4,400C for a split-second, which is almost as hot as the surface of the sun.’
One hundred percent of people, no more than 30 seconds after reading the above fact, will try to hum whilst holding their nose.
Some Lincoln/Kennedy assassination triv to mull over. President Lincoln was elected in 1860 President Kennedy was elected in 1960 President Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy President Kennedy had a secretary called Lincoln Both were shot with their wives close-by Both were shot from behind and in the head Both presidents who followed them were called Johnson, and both were from southern states Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran to a warehouse Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran into a theatre Both assassins were killed before a trial.. Plus other similarities like the number of letters in the assassins names and so on.
