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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:49 pm

Purple - Whirpool? If you say it like "Whirple". No?

Edit: Got it, Purple and turtle.
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Kat Stewart
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:25 pm

So that means we can postulate the Universe is: 117,313,920,000,000,000,000,000 miles in it's...circumference? Or would it be diameter?

That would be circumference. Diameter is how wide a circle is. Circumference is the distance that would be traveled in one complete circuit of it.

I hated geometry, always svcked at it. Either way, thats pretty small actually, I always figured the universe was much bigger then a number that size. Expected at least 10-15 more zeroes behind it. (186,000 x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 365 days x 200,000,000,000, right?, Or am I missing a calculation somewhere?)

That's not the size of the universe, just the size of the circle light would travel from the sun and back. Don't forget that gravity affects light. The trajectory of a beam of light traveling away from the sun will be altered every time it goes through a gravitational field, no matter how small. It's estimated that a beam of light would encounter enough gravitation fields to turn it in a complete circle in about 200 billion years. Sometimes it might take longer, sometimes shorter, sometimes the light might even get svcked into a black hole and never complete the journey. And sometimes it might hit fields that would pull it back and forth with varying strengths and keep it from turning around at all. The actual diameter of the observable universe (just what we can see of it) is estimated to be 93 billion light years.
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:58 am

Purple - Whirpool? If you say it like "Whirple". No?

Edit: Got it, Purple and turtle.


How does turtle rhyme with purple? I'd like to hear how you're saying these words.

Useless fact: I had peanut butter toast for breakfast.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:30 pm

Orange rymes

Door-Hendge

(you know that thing that keeps the door so it can stay on the wall and open and close)

if not already said heres a useless fact

Cleveland spelt backwards is "DNA level C"
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:17 pm

Orange rymes

Door-Hendge

(you know that thing that keeps the door so it can stay on the wall and open and close)

if not already said heres a useless fact

Cleveland spelt backwards is "DNA level C"


Door hinge isn't a single world.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:19 pm

Door hinge isn't a single world.


but it rymes

another useless fact

Cow is a japenese form of saving foam
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:56 am

but it rymes

another useless fact

Cow is a japenese form of saving foam


No single word rhymes with orange. That's the point.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:44 pm

No single word rhymes with orange. That's the point.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English:-%C9%92r%C9%AAnd%CA%92

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blorenge
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:44 pm

ok i diidnt read that post correctly then my fault :/

The most difficult tongue-twister is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"

The Letters of the KGB stand for "Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Beezopasnos" (I'd like to know what the means tho ...)

The French term "Bourrage de crane" for wartime propoganda means; "brain stuffing".

The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate

and The Bible has been translated into Klingon
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:12 pm

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English:-%C9%92r%C9%AAnd%CA%92

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blorenge


Christ.

You people really need to have everything explained, don't you?

It's pretty clear that's proper nouns do not count - both of the words you listed are names (a last name, a the name of a mountain).

Open a dictionary. Find a normal word - not a person's name, not the name of a location, etc, etc. A normal word that rhymes with Orange. It does not exist.
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:31 am

The IRS building has nuclear fallout shelters. In the event of global nuclear eradication, we'll still be filling out our 1040A's...

I couldn't think of anything more useless than that. Unless your the kind of person who likes paying taxes..,






..in which case this was for you :)
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:36 pm

I thought this topic was about useless info not debating what and what does not ryme with orange


There is no mention of cats or rats in the Bible

The humming bird is the only bird that is able to fly backwards

The humming bird's tiny brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionatley the largest in the bird kingdom
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:28 pm

The Letters of the KGB stand for "Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Beezopasnos" (I'd like to know what the means tho ...)

It is "bezopasnosti", not "besopasnos". It means "Committee for State Security".

Christ.

You people really need to have everything explained, don't you?

It's pretty clear that's proper nouns do not count - both of the words you listed are names (a last name, a the name of a mountain).

All right then, orange indeed is a non-rhymer. But as for the others:

month: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hundred-and-oneth

silver: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chilver

purple: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curple, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hirple
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:24 am

It is "bezopasnosti", not "besopasnos". It means "Committee for State Security".


All right then, orange indeed is a non-rhymer. But as for the others:

month: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hundred-and-oneth

silver: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chilver

purple: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curple, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hirple


o.0 chilve rand hirple are words o.0

ok more useless facts from me ^.^

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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:45 pm

The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate


But there's no infinity character on the keyboard.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:07 pm

How does turtle rhyme with purple? I'd like to hear how you're saying these words.



Sorry, how do turtle and purple not rhyme? Seriously...

They've got the same fraggin vowels!
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:12 am

Sorry, how do turtle and purple not rhyme? Seriously...

They've got the same fraggin vowels!

But since when is a T a P?
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:36 am

Sorry, how do turtle and purple not rhyme? Seriously...

They've got the same fraggin vowels!


It's not the vowel that matters in this word, it's the consonant.

Or maybe I should say it's the combination of them that matters.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:58 pm

last i checked r and L wern't vowels ?
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:20 pm

last i checked r and L wern't vowels ?

I have never seen a username so befitting...
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:36 pm

That would be circumference. Diameter is how wide a circle is. Circumference is the distance that would be traveled in one complete circuit of it.


That's not the size of the universe, just the size of the circle light would travel from the sun and back. Don't forget that gravity affects light. The trajectory of a beam of light traveling away from the sun will be altered every time it goes through a gravitational field, no matter how small. It's estimated that a beam of light would encounter enough gravitation fields to turn it in a complete circle in about 200 billion years. Sometimes it might take longer, sometimes shorter, sometimes the light might even get svcked into a black hole and never complete the journey. And sometimes it might hit fields that would pull it back and forth with varying strengths and keep it from turning around at all. The actual diameter of the observable universe (just what we can see of it) is estimated to be 93 billion light years.


Thank you for expanding my knowledge(yes, I'm serious). Always nice to learn something new, and I didn't know that gravitational fields would affect the passage of light. One question, 93 billion LIGHT years is different from 93 Billion years, correct? If so, whats the scale for 1 year compared to 1 light year? (I'd look it up, but I"m headed to bed for a late morning nap after getting up ultra early to take daughter to Doc appt for her Tonsils).
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:28 am

Thank you for expanding my knowledge(yes, I'm serious). Always nice to learn something new, and I didn't know that gravitational fields would affect the passage of light. One question, 93 billion LIGHT years is different from 93 Billion years, correct? If so, whats the scale for 1 year compared to 1 light year? (I'd look it up, but I"m headed to bed for a late morning nap after getting up ultra early to take daughter to Doc appt for her Tonsils).

A http://www.google.com/search?q=1+light+year is a unit of distance, not of time.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:33 pm

A http://www.google.com/search?q=1+light+year is a unit of distance, not of time.

Fact: I first learned this in Pokemon Blue after defeating the Jr Trainer in the Pewter City Gym where he says "Darn! Light years isn't time! It measures distance!"
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:11 am

A http://www.google.com/search?q=1+light+year is a unit of distance, not of time.


That's one for the "grinds my gears" thread... it's 9.5 trillion kilometers, not 365 space-days :stare:
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Rock and roll was partially inspired by jazz.

The world's largest bacteria is as big as this period.

Birds have more vivid vision than humans.

The River Thames was once used as a giant cesspool by the citizens of London.
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