Random Facts Not About You

It takes about 8 minutes 17 seconds for the light from the Sun to reach the Earth

 

freedom is when you don't need a license to create and explore. NOT a 'right' to choose to be wrong.

morality doesn't come from higherarchy. morality comes from self dicipline. anti-morality comes from higherarchy.

we could all live in a world each could enjoy in our own way.

every technology required to create sustainable infrastructure already exists.

 

River otters mate from Dec to April.. they have 2/3 pups..

 

SWIM

 

Back stroke

 

Dragonflies have 360 degree vision.

 

wow, about the dragonflies...they are so cool, diaphonous and beautiful...there are beautiful bodies blue ones here in the summer with black wings and stuff....

 

Female red back spiders need 4-6 hrs of forplay before submissing to sex. Forplay for this spider is the male vibrating their body on the web before approaching. If the male fails to meet the timeframe and is too quick to jump in the female will eat the male after mating.

 

awwwwwhhhhh...look at this cute little dragonfly smiling away at you.....

 

Dragonflies are also capable of flying with any combination of their wings....including flying with only one wing. They can perform aerial maneuvers that humans don't have the technology to replicate. Millions of years ago they were much larger (think football diameter) but couldn't evolve to be any larger most likely because they have an exoskeleton that couldn't support more weight without breaking.

 

There's some pretty big dragonflies in australian bush land I remember. And those cicadas were deafening.

 

I can't say this is a fact for sure but I've heard that the sugar cane farmers in Australia have to burn off the harvested fields to kill millions of rats every year.

 

Still living..

Noel Neill 94
Phyllis Coates 88

Both played the roles of Lois Lane /Superman 1950s..

 

I'm liking the dragonflies

A truly sad statistic: World wildlife populations have halved in the last 40 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29418983

 

The average heart rate of a hummingbird is 1,260 beats per minute. .

 

In computing, half a byte is known as a nibble

 

Snails eat slugs!

 

flanged wheel on steel rail takes less energy to move a given amount of mass, then rubber tires on pavement.

 

none of us are ever completely right about anything. but it does seem like a lot of people don't seem like they want to think about anything at all.

and then they wonder why everything just happens to them. is the connection really that non-obvious?

do they really think, just because they don't control everything, that they have no affect on it?

 

sapience is wasted on those who hate and fear everything with which they are not familiar.
(actually, its a bit of a stretch, as far as i'm concerned, to call them sapient at all.)

there is just as much heartlessness, within the tyranny of emotion, as there is without it.
recognizing this, is not a support for aggressiveness, which, i do not.

every ideology, with no exception, is an excuse, for not basing policy,
on conditions experienced, as a result.