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Offline Dawvgrid

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« on: January 30, 2002, 08:47:22 AM »
1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

2. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

3. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

4. A shrimp's heart is in their head.

5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
you're heart stops for a mili-second.

6. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or
attempted to do so).

7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

8. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

9. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti
Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of
little pasta swastikas.

10. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at
Primary school.

11. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times  and
spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

12. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received
a telephone call.

13. Rats and horses can't vomit.

14. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.

15. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
     If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

16. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
a million descendants.

17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.

18. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title
14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on
July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

19. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

20. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

21. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.

22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

23. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting
on them and photocopying their buttocks.

24. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping,  eat
70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

25. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

27. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.


Now, how many of you tried to lick your elbow ???§

 
My elbow wasn`t long enough :D

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2002, 09:30:44 AM »
I love this kind of stuff.

I actually looked up the "extraterrestrial law". It was a federal statute affecting only astronauts and NASA employees. The purpose was to maintain a quarantine around the astronuats after their return to Earth. For those of you old enough to remember, the first few groups of astronauts were holed up in a trailer for IIRC 3 weeks after landing. Can't be too careful about those Moon bugs!

The statute was recinded in 1991 BTW.

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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2002, 09:56:21 AM »
No offence Dawgrid, but you are WEIRD :D

Acutally, my tounge couldn't reach my elbow :)
Rasmus "Wilbus" Mattsson

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Offline Dawvgrid

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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2002, 10:03:40 AM »
Thanks:) ,,,,,,,,leaving for home(at work)

Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2002, 12:46:32 PM »
Actually space law is VERY interesting and full of curiosities... such as "what to do if a crime is commited inside the International Space Station"... for example an European astronaut witnesses a crime commited by an american astronaut in the NASDA module while the station is over Russian territory...

Whose jurisdiction is it? :D

Plenty of curious hypothesis in space law, let me tell ya :)

I'll probably go to the Summer Session Program of the International Space University next year and I'd like to enroll in the Space Law section of the course, but I'll probably choose Space Bussiness and Management.

Interesting stuff in any case...

Daniel, aka Cyrano

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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2002, 12:50:55 PM »
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26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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wtf is black light?

Offline mrsid2

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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2002, 12:53:53 PM »
Ultraviolet light Hortlund.

Some of those claims were not true though.

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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2002, 12:56:41 PM »
which ones?

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2002, 12:57:32 PM »
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
Actually space law is VERY interesting and full of curiosities... such as "what to do if a crime is commited inside the International Space Station"... for example an European astronaut witnesses a crime commited by an american astronaut in the NASDA module while the station is over Russian territory...

Whose jurisdiction is it? :D

Plenty of curious hypothesis in space law, let me tell ya :)

I'll probably go to the Summer Session Program of the International Space University next year and I'd like to enroll in the Space Law section of the course, but I'll probably choose Space Bussiness and Management.

Interesting stuff in any case...

Daniel, aka Cyrano


Why would that problem not be handled in the same way as a crime on an aircraft or on a ship over/in international waters?

 = the law of the country where the ship is flagged (with some exeptions, some countries have claimed have jurisdiction over certain types of crimes even if they took place on another country's ship in international waters)

So the answer to your question would lie in the question -what country owns the NASDA module?

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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2002, 01:21:16 PM »
Ok, I admitt it.  I couldn't touch my elbow with my tongue.  :p

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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2002, 01:54:18 PM »
That sneeze one is not true.  People have been using that phrase for centuries.  Are you trying to tell me that people in the 6th century could determine a milisecond skip of a heartbeat?

"Sneezing may of course signal infection or illness, and it was at the height of the plague in 6th century Italy that Pope Gregory the Great initiated the custom of saying "God bless you!", or if the sneezer was alone, "God help me!", says Charles Panati in "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things." As these post-sneeze supplications spread throughout Europe along with the plague itself, another expression captured the seriousness: "Not to be sneezed at."

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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2002, 02:19:47 PM »
17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.

hmm ... that explains the potatoes growing out of my ears since I started AH :)
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2002, 02:25:36 PM »
# 22 doesn't seem possible either

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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2002, 02:49:35 PM »
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Originally posted by Hortlund

 = the law of the country where the ship is flagged (with some exeptions, some countries have claimed have jurisdiction over certain types of crimes even if they took place on another country's ship in international waters)

So the answer to your question would lie in the question -what country owns the NASDA module?


The NASDA is the Japanese Space Agency, but if memory serves me right, I think it was the jurisdiction of the country from which the current commander of the station was... but I could be wrong.

Daniel, aka Cyrano

EDIT: Just remembered that you are right indeed, the case I mention would be applicable if the crime was commited in one of the junctions or common areas.

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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2002, 03:52:04 PM »
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# 22 doesn't seem possible either



Its true i've worked outside for 6 years and haven't heard a ducks echo.