Random Science-y facts.

I got this idea from watching Brainiac this morning and Dr. Bunhead seperated salt & pepper by using a plastic spoon and static electricity. The pepper was attracted to the spoon but the salt wasn't.

Anyone else have some random facts?

Oh, I've got one
Dynamite contains peanuts :)

Celery apparently has negative 5 calories. Is that science-y enough? :XD

O.O i'm going to eat celery more often

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

Red, blue and yellow are the primary colours of art.
Red, green and blue are the primary colours of light.
Cyan, yellow and Magenta are the primary colours of ink.

All colours combined make black [Paints]
All colours combined make white [Light]

It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours.

Using recycled aluminum cans and making news cans out of them saves 75% energy compared to making it from new material.

Recycling in general spends more money and energy than it saves.

There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.

This is freaking cool: Due to gravitational effects, you actually weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Rain contains vitamin b12

oh.shesVicious:

This is freaking cool: Due to gravitational effects, you actually weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

that's because weight is subjective. When you step on a scale you're actually measuring your mass

Every cell in your body has about 2 metres of supercoiled DNA. Every tiny, little cell. 2 metres. o.o

Elegant Rubble:

oh.shesVicious:

This is freaking cool: Due to gravitational effects, you actually weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

that's because weight is subjective. When you step on a scale you're actually measuring your mass

When you say weight is subjective, you mean that it depends on conditions right?

Mass is the amount of matter that makes your or an object up. Measured in Kilograms [or whatever mass unit people use pounds etc]

Weight is the force of gravity acting upon an object measured in Newtons.

DisastrousMayhem:

O.O i'm going to eat celery more often

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

Actually,

You wouldn't get any healthier or loose any weight unless you ate a brownie with it to balance it out. :)

Black isn't really a color.
It's a shade.
But I supose a lot of people know that by now.

Black is all colours, or the absense of colours ;)

A hydrogen atom typically consists of one proton and one electron.
The opposite to a proton is an antiproton and the opposite to an electron is a positron.
They DO exist. They are just incredibly rare as the overiding abundance typically belongs to normal protons and electrons and such.

When an anti proton meets it's opposite constituent, (the proton), they 'Annihilate'
This is the general trend between all fundamental particles.

There IS such thing as an anti-hydrogen atom.
It is composed of a positron and an antiproton.

Upon meeting it's opposite constituent, (the Hydrogen atom), they will annihilate.

There are theories that entombing every galaxy is an invisible wall of dark matter which cancels out the electromagnetic effects of all fundamental particles.
Therefore it is very likely that somewhere out there is a galaxy which is entirely made up of antimatter.

What happens if our galaxy collides with that one?
Theoretically; an explosion which could rip the fabric of space-time so severely, the universe will collapse in on itself.

Try that for a slice of fried gold; I win the awesome facts game.

Teleportation would require cloning and killing the original teleportee.

^Why would that be the case?

It would be due to entanglement.

You can teleport a photon A if A is beside a photon B that is entangled with photon C somewhere else in the room. However, photon A is destroyed in the teleportation process and A.2 appears with photon C.

Therefore, you could teleport yourself: destroying your "true" self but emerging from the otherside, remembering everything, including walking into the teleport machine but it wouldn't be...you.

weird...