A circumhorizontal arc is an optical phenomenon an icehalo formed by plateshaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. Other currently accepted names for the phenomenon are circumhorizon arc or lower symmetric 46 plate arc. Because theyre college description than 'fire rainbows'. Or unicorn farts.
A Parsec is a measurement of distance, not time. When Han Solo says his ship could do the Kessel run in under 12 Parsecs, it's impressiveness comes from the fact that he can cut corners by navigating closer around stars/planets as his vessel is powerful enough to resist the gravitational pull of those bodies, thus resulting in a shorter total distance. Did that make sense?
when light hits an object its actually being slightly pushed by the light, just a little bit. every square inch of earth when sun light is hitting it weights one billionth of a kilogram more than it does at night. on a sunny day, the city of chicago weights 140kg more because the light thats pushing on it. Now THAT is an extremely useless fact right there.
that would make sense if the sun turned off like a lightbulb, but since the earth rotates, the sun is always hitting the earth at one point. and the wieght of the earth does not change However, the constant bombardment of meteors to the earth, and the burn up and dust, does constantly add weight to the planet
At night time the light energy mass is lost by electromagnetic energy radiation being emitted from the earth.
Motorists in South Africa can renew their motor vehicle licenses at Umbogitwini Post Office as from 01 August 2014. Just in case anyone found this trivial fact useful instead of useless, please accept my sincere apologies for derailing the thread and this link to a map of the location; https://maps.google.com.au/maps?saf...=X&ei=emzPU_6nNcHj8AWqw4CACQ&ved=0CIIBEPwSMAo
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. ($83,000 today)
Peanut allergies were discovered when parents began naming their children after Game of Thrones characters.
Stored digital information adds actual weight to devices, phones, ipods, hard drives etc weigh more everytine u install a program, take a photo or download a song. an eBook reader 'gains weight' when you add new books to your library, due to the energy 'gained' by electrons when they store information, and the weight of that energy. Theoretically if u could store the entire internet. EVERYTHING. Every video, anything ever typed, and all of google on to a USB drive. That usb drive would weigh 50grams more than it originally did.
Google's search engine is powerful, but not all-knowing. 16% to 20% (which is about 500million) of all queries that get asked every day have never been asked before.
