Facts that will ruin your life

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby iMURDAu » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:39 am

The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan is $20.2 billion.

That's more than NASA's budget.

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Cpt._Funkotron » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:45 am

iMURDAu wrote:The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan is $20.2 billion.

That's more than NASA's budget.

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The United States Military, which is better funded than the next 11 largest militaries on earth COMBINED, is currently at the fingertips of Donald J. Trump.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby cmsellers » Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:23 am

iMURDAu wrote:Source

One of those statistics is the following:

"According to a study by NASA engineers, it was found that 60 out of 1000 drivers would go out of their way to hit animals on the road (don't worry, they were fake, and yes, NASA engineers actually performed this study)"

What percentage of those "animals" were actually demons in rodent's clothing? Because I definitely tried to hit squirrels when I drove in Massachusetts, though I never succeeded in sending even one back to Hell, where they belong.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Jack Road » Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:47 am

It is very unlikely that you will ever accomplish anything that will outlast the plastic bottle you threw away today.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Marcuse » Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:21 am

Jack Road wrote:It is very unlikely that you will ever accomplish anything that will outlast the plastic bottle you threw away today.


What if you make plastic bottles for a living?
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby NathanLoiselle » Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:33 pm

I don't throw away plastic bottles away, I recycle them. Which is a fancy and politically correct way of saying I throw them away.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby cmsellers » Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:43 pm

Now I want to get some of that plastic-eating bacteria and feed all my plastic refuse to it, so that none of my garbage will outlive me.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby BROWNRECLUSE » Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:23 pm

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Bromo » Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:05 pm

Furret is four inches taller than Charizard.

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby IamNotCreepy » Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:10 pm

Bromo wrote:Furret is four inches taller than Charizard.

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What???? Everything I know is wrong.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Krashlia » Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:49 pm

The JOE-2035 reports predict that the US will have lost its status as a super power as a result of the global challenges it may face by 2035.


EDIT: Oh and to complete this really bothersome fact-

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/concepts/joe/joe_2035_july16.pdf
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby ghijkmnop » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:34 am

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Bromo » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:05 am

The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long.

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby cmsellers » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:56 pm

Bromo wrote:The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long.

Speaking as a linguist: that's not a real word. If you can't use it in conversation and native speakers with a knowleges of morphology cannot parse it, it's not a word. If you need to pause for breath in saying it, it's not a word.

However even if we want to pretend that any "word" you could create according to English derivational rules, English has a finite and relatively small number of derivational morphemes and using some of them rules others out. You might be able to get a "word" that's a few hundred characters long, but then you'd run out of valid English morphemes.

Even in highly polysynthetic languages, you won't have words that require you to breathe in saying them, much less three-hour words.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby RaceProUK » Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:14 pm

Bromo wrote:The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long.

To be fair, it's not really a word as such, more a verbal formula. The longest true word (as in defined in a reference dictionary) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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