Unpopular facts
 

Faster than light travel is impossible.

95% of the population of the world are not Americans.

Everybody must dance with the reaper.

Carbon dioxide is largely opaque at infrared wavelengths.

Oil reserves are finite.

The brains of men and women work differently.

Most of the wealth in the world is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people.

We all make mistakes.

Umm. You do realise that fact is only likely to be unpopular in America right? Which means it's not unpopular with 95% of the world's population....therefore it can't really count as an unpopular fact?

Yo, King baby. How can a fact be popular or unpopular? Understood or misunderstood, ok. Widely known and accepted? Is that what you mean?

I have some trouble with your "facts" too.

It depends on whether the fact is inconvenient or disturbing to a group of people.

Ever hear of the "Carbon dioxide ... we call it life" campaign?
In what way do you have trouble with them?

[Steven Wright]
If I'm driving along at 186,000 miles per second and turn my lights on does anything happen?[/Wright]

Actually, it is possible. Here's how.

Ok, that's cheating.

There might be another way that takes advantage of space-time distortions caused by gravity waves which technically wouldn't allow one to travel faster than light but to take a shortcut and get to the endpoint faster than a lightbeam that didn't take the shortcut.

The US is safer and has less crime (particularly violent) now than ever and it continues to decrease, this is especially true of our schools.

Doesn't the speed of light differ all the time? Not saying anything is faster, but it is still a variable speed.

the speed of light is constant. it just depends on which dimension its expending its energy

Quite the contrary, it's only unpopular here, with people that shouldn't be here.;)

i like kinga's facts. hq? 308? i dont actually know anything about cars but my friends are kingswood freaks. one of them just sold a kingswood drag car.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. Light can be slowed down dramatically within a medium.

Anyone who thinks that traveling at the speed of light is impossible has never drunk a Jolt Cola when not near a bathroom.

That is no longer a certainty. The implications of this are not trivial.

Make that a small number of MEN.

George W. Bush is still President of the United States of America and will be for years.

Evolution is just as valid as gravity.

hey!
men are people too. damn sexists

unpopular fact: beer makes me fart

How is that unpopular?

Religion is just mythology that one chooses to believe in, no different than any other myth. Might as well believe in Zeus or Kali.

That's bullshit.
Most men are married which takes more than half right off the top.
Add all the widows of men that worked themselves to death making fortunes.
Even if they didn't, they still die sooner, see widows.

It's not our fault women spend every red cent they can get ....on the grandchildren. :p

Yeah, men whose nads are in a mason jar of pickle juice in their wife's closet.

Do I need to name names or are we done here?

Just because you don't think it is unpopular doesn't mean that 51% of the population doesn't either.

jews control the media. (im stating it as a fact so dont bring up all that anti semitrailer crap on me)

define 'the media'.

adam sandler and ben stiller movies

22 months to go until he leaves the White House.

Unpopular Fact: Bush didn't do it. Cheney and Rumsfield most likely did.

With each other ?????

AHHHHHH My Minds EYE !!!!!!!
I must erase that visual from my mind !!!!!

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have just eaten bananas.

This may be very unpopular to those who love bananas.

LoL

Two ignorant Aussies enter, one ignorant Aussie leaves.

The sky is not really blue.

Then what color is it?

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.


On Earth, the sun appears yellow. If you were out in space, or on the moon, the sun would look white. In space, there is no atmosphere to scatter the sun's light. On Earth, some of the shorter wavelength light (the blues and violets) are removed from the direct rays of the sun by scattering. The remaining colors together appear yellow.

Also, out in space, the sky looks dark and black, instead of blue. This is because there is no atmosphere. There is no scattered light to reach your eyes.

As the sun begins to set, the light must travel farther through the atmosphere before it gets to you. More of the light is reflected and scattered. As less reaches you directly, the sun appears less bright. The color of the sun itself appears to change, first to orange and then to red. This is because even more of the short wavelength blues and greens are now scattered. Only the longer wavelengths are left in the direct beam that reaches your eyes.

The sky around the setting sun may take on many colors. The most spectacular shows occur when the air contains many small particles of dust or water. These particles reflect light in all directions. Then, as some of the light heads towards you, different amounts of the shorter wavelength colors are scattered out. You see the longer wavelengths, and the sky appears red, pink or orange.

Will different gas make different colors in the day?

no, unless you count smog.

I guess I meant to say on another planet with an atmosphere completely different then ours will the sky still look blue in the middle of the day? :3_eyes:

No, not unless it approximates the earths atmosphere of the gases nitrogen (78%), and oxygen (21%).

We have a winner. (possibly a few losers as well)

What is this supposed to mean?

i was wondering the same thing

We may never know. ;) Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

all colors are the result of reflection of light. saying the sky is not really blue is the same as saying that grass is not really green. we only call it blue because of the property that causes blue light to be perceived. therefore...it IS really blue.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.:eyebrow:

How is that unpopular?

Maybe there are many Donald Duck fans in Finland that are angry about the ban. There could be a secret underground Donald community that meet up every month plotting revolution to restore Donald on the comic stands.

Mosquitoes also appear to like carbon dioxide and smelly feet. So to stop being bitten, don't eat bananas, cut off your feet and stop breathing.

And don't forget the aeroguard!

also the colour blue

...And Hillary Clinton, aka the AntiChrist. (Not that any other politicians are any better or any less corrupt.)

is it because he's an argentine lake duck?

You never know but he hid it well in the cartoons.. :eyebrow: