Table top Info.

[Alana_]

Little place for snippets of information, fun or other wise.

Keep it on topic if joining in.

''A portion of the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series, were delivered to space in 1992 by the space shuttle Columbia on its STS-52 mission. The lipstick-sized capsule containing his ashes orbited the Earth before eventually disintegrating in the atmosphere. ''

 

[Alana_]

Frederick Valentich was an experienced pilot, with over 150 hours of air time. He was flying a Cessna 182L light aircraft on a perfectly clear day with no wind, perfect visibility and no technical problems, when suddenly he disappeared without a trace.

The case sounds like an urban legend about the Bermuda Triangle; however this is a well documented disappearance that left authorities puzzled. A search and rescue mission was sent out only minutes after the plane disappeared from radar, however there was no trace of the plane. All Cessena aircrafts are meant to stay afloat for up to an hour after crashing in water, but in this case the plane was simply nowhere to be found. Valentich did have a life vest inside the cockpit, so why he didn’t attempt the highly complex technique known as “getting out of the plane” is unknown. Further, why the radio beacon that he had on board didn’t activate is another mystery.

Perhaps the strangest detail of the disappearance is that only minutes before he crashed, Valentich reported that he was staring down an UFO. His last, vaguely unsettling message was: “It’s not an aircraft.” This strange detail has lead to two conclusions. Some figure Valentich suffered some sort of non-hilarious stroke and started seeing things, in which case we still don’t know why his plane couldn’t be found. Other’s lean towards the possibility that Valentich was indeed kidnapped by little green men.

 

[Alana_]

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

 

[Alana_]

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

 

[yeishia]

I swiped this bit of trivia from my Sexual Thesaurus Thread which is languishing in an archive somewhere.

The scientific world is electrified today by one of the most significant discoveries of our times: the great majority of female short-nosed fruit bats love to give head. Possibly even more significantly, the nimble lust-crazed chiropterines are able to perform fellatio on a male bat who is taking them from behind at the time.The revelations were reported breathlessly in Science magazine at the weekend.

It appears that until now, the only species known to indulge in oral sex were bonobo monkeys and some humans: but this picture has been turned on its head by boffins in China. These scientists had set up pairs of Cynopterus sphinx shortnosed fruitbats in romanta-love-tryst situations and then positioned infrared cameras to record the saucy antics which ensued.

Then came the shocker: After the male mounted the female from behind, she bent over and began licking his penis... The males never withdrew while being licked, and the authors found that the longer a female licked, the longer copulation lasted (for each second of licking, the female bats gained 6 seconds of copulation)...

In all, the fellating females mated for an average of 4 minutes, twice as long as the other females.

Who could have known?

 

[Ahren]

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

Both of these are false.

 

[Alana_]

Both of these are false.

Thanks Ahren..You're a joy as always..If it's false,and you know it, why not expand on the correction and give the correct info. Don't torment us.

Thank you.

 

[Ahren]

Or people could just check their info before posting "facts".

The larval stage of large dragonflies may last as long as five years. In smaller species, this stage may last between two months and three years. When the larva is ready to metamorphose into an adult, it climbs up a reed or other emergent plant. The adult stage of larger species of dragonfly can last as long as five or six months.

Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors and sounds.

 

[Ausus_girl13]

Both of these are false.

Snicker

You crack me up.

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.

 

[Alana_]

Or people could just check their info before posting "facts".

The larval stage of large dragonflies may last as long as five years. In smaller species, this stage may last between two months and three years. When the larva is ready to metamorphose into an adult, it climbs up a reed or other emergent plant. The adult stage of larger species of dragonfly can last as long as five or six months.

Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors and sounds.

No, I prefer to make it up as I go along and wait for you to correct it. It's fun. It's the one fact I live for, and KNOW is correct for me.

1. Ahren showing up, to suck the life out of a thread.

 

[Alana_]

McDonald’s signs once had only one golden arch.

 

[Alana_]

Laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships mean it is possible for a person born on a British ship, anchored in a United States port, with a Chinese father and Turkish mother, to have quadruple nationality.

 

[Alana_]

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

 

[Ahren]

So sorry that trying to keep people properly informed is "sucking the life" out of your thread.

Misinformation is rampant because of things like this. It's why so many people still believe the "humans only use 10% of their brain" thing.

 

[Alana_]

Each minute the Amazon River discharges 3.4 million gallons of water into the Atlantic, 14 times the discharge of the Mississippi.

 

[Alana_]

Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

 

[Alana_]

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

 

[Alana_]

The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

 

[Light Ice]

Alana writes absolutely hot blowjob scenes.

Fact.

 

[Britwitch]

The names of the 'Three Wise Monkeys' are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Kikazaru – Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Iwazaru – Speak no evil).

There is also a fourth wise monkey is called Shizaru (Do no evil).

 

[Britwitch]

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

 

[Britwitch]

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Great test for dodgy keyboards )

 

[Light Ice]

The average man has 11 erections during the course of his waking day and 9 during the course of his sleep.

 

[Light Ice]

During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are, in fact, a bad excuse not to have sex.

 

[Niriate]

A person's sneeze exits his/her mouth and nose at speeds of about 100 mph, the same speed as a hurricane.