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Kingswood 03-22-2007 06:14 PM

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.

DanaC 03-22-2007 06:52 PM

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

BigV 03-22-2007 07:24 PM

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.

Kingswood 03-22-2007 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 325425)
Yo, King baby. How can a fact be popular or unpopular?

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?
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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 325425)
I have some trouble with your "facts" too.

In what way do you have trouble with them?

Beestie 03-22-2007 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kingswood (Post 325416)
Faster than light travel is impossible.

[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.

rkzenrage 03-22-2007 11:33 PM

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.

freshnesschronic 03-23-2007 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Kingswood (Post 325416)
Faster than light travel is impossible.

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

Kagen4o4 03-23-2007 03:30 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce 03-23-2007 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 325419)
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?

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

Kagen4o4 03-23-2007 04:57 AM

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.

Pie 03-23-2007 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by freshnesschronic (Post 325481)
Doesn't the speed of light differ all the time? Not saying anything is faster, but it is still a variable speed.

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

Sheldonrs 03-23-2007 09:11 AM

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

Beestie 03-23-2007 10:16 AM

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the speed of light is constant

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

limey 03-23-2007 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Kingswood (Post 325416)
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Most of the wealth in the world is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people.

....

Make that a small number of MEN.

glatt 03-23-2007 11:33 AM

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


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