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BringBackFootie. said:
Yes but this is in response to lies and myths being disproven by measurements :D It's full of win.. I mean lose <laugh>


Had I just said all those things and not posted the actual facts, ye all would have appealed to a higher power "they said" <laugh> and called me a conspiracy theorist. I prove what I say and ye have a crisis of belief

What I find disappointing is not that people get stuff wrong, I do all the time, it's when they think they are right when they don't even know the subject matter. <ok>

I love it when people talk about Koch and Exxon, it shows how stupid they are <laugh>
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I tend not to talk much if I dont know enough.
The subject of Climate change is still up in the air. There is certainly debates to be had on it amongst top minds.
There are theories everywhere but thats all they are....theories.
Your 9/11 stuff is just plain old bollocks though mate, sorry to say, no ifs or buts about that. <laugh>
Also you once referred Sandy Hook as a Psy Ops? That would be funny if it wasn't insulting to the families who lost children there. Also my cousin lives in the states and is married to a police officer who was a responder there when **** kicked off! <ok>
He ain't no actor either, and he exists.....I went to their wedding.
 
France was the first modern country to legalize same-sex sexual activity in 1791.
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In France, you can legally marry a deceased person.
 
The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The State of Florida is bigger than England.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
 
Womble Milk said:
Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb. He improved upon the design. A number of people made light bulbs before him.
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Lets keep it real, he invented the light bulb.
Other people contributed before him, inventing ways to create stable light sources using electricity, and inventing some of the copper wiring to conduct it properly.
But he invented the bulb.
Thats like attributing the invention of cars to cavemen because they invented the wheel.
 
Bodanki said:
Lets keep it real, he invented the light bulb.
Other people contributed before him, inventing ways to create stable light sources using electricity, and inventing some of the copper wiring to conduct it properly.
But he invented the bulb.
Thats like attributing the invention of cars to cavemen because they invented the wheel.
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No. He really didn't. Some German was the first person to make a self contained glass dome which when electric current was passed through it lit up.

Swan created the first modern lightbulb. Edison created a replica a year later... Got sued by Swan for stealing his design and they settled out of court by Edison paying off Swan and buying Swan's patent.

Edison didn't invent most of the things he is credited with. He bought other peoples patents and over the years people have been crediting him. Edison was a clever man but more so in business.

It's fair to say he "popularised" the light bulb but his initial design was almost identical to Swan's from a year earlier. It's like people credit Apple with inventing the MP3 player, smartphone, and smartwatch. They didn't invent any of those things. Were beaten to the market on all 4. They just popularised the..
 
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Womble Milk said:
No. He really didn't. Some German was the first person to make a self contained glass dome which when electric current was passed through it lit up.

Swan created the first modern lightbulb. Edison created a replica a year later... Got sued by Swan for stealing his design and they settled out of court by Edison paying off Swan and buying Swan's patent.

Edison didn't invent most of the things he is credited with. He bought other peoples patents and over the years people have been crediting him. Edison was a clever man but more so in business.
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Cheating yank **** <ok>
 
Womble Milk said:
No. He really didn't. Some German was the first person to make a self contained glass dome which when electric current was passed through it lit up.

Swan created the first modern lightbulb. Edison created a replica a year later... Got sued by Swan for stealing his design and they settled out of court by Edison paying off Swan and buying Swan's patent.

Edison didn't invent most of the things he is credited with. He bought other peoples patents and over the years people have been crediting him. Edison was a clever man but more so in business.
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"Some German" <laugh> ok.
Swans bulb was ****, lasted minutes due to a lack of Oxygen in the vacuum. So the bulb couldn't ignite properly, it was completely useless and not fit for purpose.
Again, Edison took a lot of the components and made them fit for purpose, which is why he is known as the guy who made the lightbulb, because his actually worked as intended.
 
Bodanki said:
"Some German" <laugh> ok.
Swans bulb was ****, lasted minutes due to a lack of Oxygen in the vacuum. So the bulb couldn't ignite properly, it was completely useless and not fit for purpose.
Again, Edison took a lot of the components and made them fit for purpose, which is why he is known as the guy who made the lightbulb, because his actually worked as intended.
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Edison's original bulb pattented didn't last any longer than Swan's. It was essentially Swan's pattent redone and resubmitted in the US. After Edison bought out Swan though and formed Ediswan longer lasting bulbs were developed... And who provided the technology for those...


Swan. Edison was the business promoter. Swan did all the technology advancement in the early Ediswan.
 
Womble Milk said:
Edison's original bulb pattented didn't last any longer than Swan's. It was essentially Swan's pattent redone and resubmitted in the US. After Edison bought out Swan though and formed Ediswan longer lasting bulbs were developed... And who provided the technology for those...


Swan. Edison was the business promoter. Swan did all the technology advancement in the early Ediswan.
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Interesting <ok>
I knew Edison bought out Swan then his company made the bulb work properly, wasn't aware he actually employed Swan himself to do the rework!
When you are right you are right! <ok>
 

The Salty Bread of Romance
In Armenia, single women eat a slice of a traditional salty bread in order to inspire a prophetic dream about the man they are going to marry: The guy that brings them water in their dream is the one they are supposed to marry.


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