Black holes

It is believed that all objects with mass can become black holes as long as their radius is reduced to a certain size, even individual particles can become black holes. In a book written by professor Brian Cox it pointed out that if the Earth were compressed into the size of a pepple, a few centimetres across, it would be a black hole. 

The same book pointed out that gravity is the weakest force, a small magnet can pull a metal object away from the Earth, but it has no limits, it keeps increasing with mass and can be focused into a small space and cause a sphere around itself with an escape velocity that is higher than the speed of light. In other words, even light can't escape the gravity of a black hole if it gets too close. They call the space where light can't escape the event horizon. 

Movie Facts

In the book that the movie 'The thing 1982' is based on titled  'who goes there' by John Campbell. There are some key attributes of the alien creature that was not revealed in the movie. 

Firstly, the organism doesn't need to eat or breathe because it can harness cold fusion in its cells, they split water molecules and merge the two hydrogen atoms together to make helium and lots of energy.  

Secondly, Dr Blair believed it has a default form and was likely artificially created to spread an alien civilization around the universe. When they found the creature it had three red eyes and tendrils in its head and Dr Blair came to the conclusion that when it had finish assimilating all the life forms it would return to its default form, unless it needed adaptations to survive. 

Thirdly, the creature is telepathic and as it thawed out in the book, it would mess with the minds of the crew and it knew what they were all going to do. They couldn't hide anything from it. 

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James Webb's New Friend

When they Launched the James Webb Space telescope it had a priority problem. It can only look at a very tiny fraction of the sky at a time and it is difficult to choose what places are more important than others. 

For this reason they sent up the Pandora Space Telescope, it will mostly look at stars when one of their planets transitions between the star and us. The probe will try to separate  the light from the planets atmosphere and the star and detect if there is something interesting there like clouds or oxygen. If the probe finds something interesting then the James Webb space telescope will take over and have a closer look.

The pandora probe is very small, about the size of a washing machine and the rocket bay that took it up had extra space so they added two other small cube satellites, sparks and balckcat, they're about the size of a serial box and would fit in a shopping bag. 

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What Trees Are Made of

Almost all of a tree's mass comes from the air. The tree will take carbon dioxide from the air and water; it will use solar energy to split the water molecules and combine them to the carbon atoms freed from the carbon dioxide and release the oxygen as a waste product. 

The root of a tree doesn't use anything in the soil except some nitrate compounds but they are almost nothing. Using air water and sunlight, a tree self assembles into a giant wooden structure that towers over all the animals. 

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AI Cribbage

If you ask chat GPT to play Cribbage with you, it will cooperate and set up a virtual game of Cribbage. 

It will start dealing text based playing cards and hide its own hand and ask you what cards you want to remove. It will even do all the pegging for you virtually. 

The same is true of snakes and ladders. It will create a text based version of the game with a virtual dice and place ladders and snakes at different  points on the board. 

Moon Fact

In diagrams, the moon looks like it is quite close to the Earth, it looks like it is within the diameter of the earth. The truth is the moon is approximately 380,400 kilometres away.

The distance between the earth and the moon is so vast that every planet would fit in the space between them. 

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Dehumidifier Credit

If you buy a good Dehumidifier that can remove more than 12 liters of Water per day, it will pay for itself in less than a year. During winter months it will reduce your heating bill because dry air is better at storing heat than damp air and feels warmer so you feel compelled to turn down your thermostat. 

It could also reduce the amount of time your sick from off work because dry air carries less microbes and viruses. 

It can also stop damage to walls and furniture cased by condensation. 

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Chromosome 2

In humans, Chromosome 2 is actually two chromosomes fuzed together. Most chromosomes are X shaped but they're only like that when the cell is about to split into two. Normally they are just a single thread of DNA. For some reason we have one Chromosome that is two fused together. 

There are telomere sequences in the middle of the Chromosome, they usually appear at the ends of the Chromosome.  

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Bombadier Beetle

The Bombadier Beetle has a biological weapon, their backside doubles as a gun. They can shoot burning hot acid out of their backsides to give predictors burns and put them off hunting them. 

The Bombadier Beetle does this by mixing Hydrogen Peroxide and Hydroquinone together in a chamber inside their abdomen. The two chemicals are present in separate glands in their abdomen but when they're mixed together they become a hot explosive acid. 

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Train Vs Taxi

If you were going from farringdon in London to Brighton, what is better? Uber or Train. 

If four adults were travelling together, the prices would be about the same. 

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A taxi going from London to Brighton costs roughly £100 (£25 each). 

A train ticket for 4 passengers going from London to Farringdon would cost about £100 (£25 for each passenger) 

If you had fewer passengers, the taxi would still cost £100. It would only be the same price and slightly more convenient if you were going as a small group. 

This observation doesn't account for rail cards and discount codes. 

Trains move a lot faster than cars and they sometimes give you cheaper return tickets, however some Uber cars can take more than 4 passengers, some can take 6 or 7.  

Fizzy Fact

Most Fizzy drinks have carbon dioxide dissolved in them. The reason they chose that gas is because it has the most  positive attributes for the lowest cost. Carbon dioxide dissolves the most without making the water poisous. Ammonia dissolves in water more than carbon dioxide but it makes the water slightly toxic. 

There are other gasses that can be added to flavoured water to make it fizzy and not toxic, you can add oxygen or nitrogen but they have their own issues, oxygen fizzy water tastes flat and makes the water taste oxidized. 

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Nitrogen gas costs more than carbon dioxide and it is more difficult to dissolve in water so it makes the water less fizzy and the bubbles are smaller so the foam caused by pouring the liquid lasts a long time. Some beer companies have been known to use Nitrogen instead of Carbon dioxide because they don't want a tangy taste and they want the pouring  foam to last a long time. 

Most carbon dioxide gas in fizzy drinks is a by-product of other industrial process so it is very cheap. They almost treat it like a waste product, yet for a fizzy drink it is the best gas to use, you get more fizz, a tangy taste from the drink and you get a longer shelf life because carbon dioxide is acidic when dissolved in water and that kills microbes. 

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Pier Trains

There are three piers in Britain that are known to have working railed trains running on them. The most famous one is Southend on sea. The pier itself is extremely long 2.15 km (1.34 miles) and the train will take you most of the way across the pier. They claim to be the longest pleasure pier in the world. From my experience, the starting platform at the beginning of the pier has the look and feel of an old subsurface metropolitan subway station. 

The Ryde Pier on the Isle of wight has a more practical pier train. It is used to bring people to the catamaran ferry that goes back to the mainland and the bring people from the ferry back to the coast. 

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Hyther pier in Hampshire is the oldest working pier train line in the world. 

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Skin

It is commonly believed that humans shed about 0.5 grams of dead skin every day. There are 365 days in a year so that means we shed 182.5 grams every year. Nearly 2 kilograms. It is possible for someone to shed their own weight in dead skin over a period of 35 years depending on how heavy they are. 

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182.5 ÷ 12 is about 15.2 grams every month.  Detatched dead skin usually exists as grey dust.

Dust isn't nice but don't let it get get under your skin. 

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Strange Metal

Bismouth is one of the most strange metals in the world. It is the metal with the most heat resistance and behaves a lot like lead. They are both side by side on the periodic table. 

When Bismouth is exposed to a magnetic field, it makes a copy of the field with the same  polarity causing it to push against it like two two north poles. The formal term for this effect is diamagnetism; it causes magnets to be repelled away. Bismouth is the most diamagnetic chemical element that we know of. It is possible to make Bismouth levitate above a magnetic field. 

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Bimouth has countless other strange properties like it expands when it solidifies making it less dense. Solid Bismouth would float in liquid bismouth just like ice floats in water. 

Most alloys of Bismouth have a very low melting point. 

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Human body Components

According to the current markets, the two most valuable elements in your body by mass and price would be valued at about £10. The problem is it would cost more than £10 to extract them. Their combined weight is less than 1kg. There is 700g of Phosphorus and 140g of Potassium. 

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There is also gold in the human body but only trace amounts. 

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Coins to Space

A stack of 65.8 million pennies would reach space if there was a mysterious force holding them in place and stopping them from crushing themselves. The coins would have a value £658,000 and they would weigh 234 tonnes. 

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Apocalypse Prepping

According to my my research, the best foods to keep in storage if you're stocking up on emergency supplies is honey and dry grains. 

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Honey has no known expiry date; a jar of honey was found in an ancient Egyptian archeological site and it was still edible despite being over 3000 years old. 

Similarly, dried grains can last for years and are highly nutritious. You can store a variety of different grains together as long as they're kept dry.  

A Way Out

In Great Britain, all bar staff and premises that have a licence to serve alcohol are trained to respond to the phrase "Can I speak to Angela?" or "Is Angela there?". It is a code word for people that are being stalked or feel unsafe because of another person. If you say the phrase, they will take you to the staff room and lock you in there and ask if you want them to call the police or if you just want to wait there for a while until the person goes away or if you need a taxi. 

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In Britain there is also has a free telephone number you can call if you're going through a mental health crisis. It is the number 116 123; the number will go through to a Samaritans operator that will try help you escape suicidal thoughts or extreme stress without affecting your privacy. If you're  overcome by grief or dread, you can call them up and they will talk to you. The number is free and there are no strings attached. 

Emoji Chart

Have you ever looked at an emoji and wandered what it means? Do you know what an emoji is? An emoji is a small image that fits in the space of a text character and is treated like text by media systems. It's usually a smiling face. 

😀 = Happy or pleased with an answer.

😄 = Happy and amused with an outcome.

😁 = Happy and excited and cheeky. 

😆 = Playful laughter.

😅 = Close shave, awkwardness or relief. 

😂 = Shedding tears from laughing. 

🤣 = Rolling over with tears from laughing. 

😭 = weeping, sadness, grief. 

😉 = Playful, mischievous, fun. 

😗😙😚😘 = kissing, to send a kiss. Romance.

🥰 = loved, feeling loved. 

😍 = Infatuation, love, adoration

🤩 = Overcome with excitement, starstruck. 

🥳 = Celebration 

🫠 = Too hot, shame, awkwardness 

🙃 = Sarcasm, being silly. Playful. 

🙂 = Happy 

🥲 = Being touched by joy or nostalgia. 

🥹 = Being emotional 

😊☺️😌 = Different degrees of joy and peace.

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🙂‍↕️ = Agreement, agreeing to a statement. 

🙂‍↔️ = Disagreement or Disagreeing.

😏 = Feeling smug or a sense of irony. 

🤤 = Drooling, a craving or lust. 

😋 = Craving food or drink. 

😛 = Joking or Just Joking 

😜 = Joking and teasing 

🤪 = Joking teasing and sarcasm. 

🥴 = Feeling dizzy or disoriented. 

😔 = Disappointment.

🥺 = Seeking or feeling sympathy. 

😬 = Feeling nervous or discomfort. 

😑 = Lack of interest or boredom. 

😐 = Not wanting involvement. 

😶 = Speechless or lost for words. 

😶‍🌫️ = Being confused or absent minded. 

🫥 = Being excluded or hidden. 

🤐 = Keeping a secret or silence.

🫡 = Agreement and promise formal. 

🤔 = Pondering or to ponder. 

🤫 = Keep it a secret, don't discuss. 

🫢 = Feeling shocked or Surprised. 

🤭 = Pleasantly shocked or Surprised. 

🥱 = Normally tiredness. 

🤗 = A hug or gratitude. 

🫣 = Surprised in a nervous way. 

😱 = Fear or shock, negative. 

🤨 = Scepticism or disbelief. 

🧐 = Pondering sceptically. 

😒 = Mostly for irritation or annoyed. 

🙄 = Disbelief or impatience. 

😮‍💨 = Feeling relieved or exhausted. 

😤 = Mostly Frustration. 

😠 = Angry and Annoyed. 

😡 = Very angry and annoyed. 

🤬 = Anger 

😞 = Disappointment 

😓 = Disappointed and frustrated 

😟 = Worried 

😥 = Worried and Stressed 

😢 = Worried and Sad 

☹️ = Sadness, Feeling sad.

🫤 = Confused and Annoyed.

😕 = Unsure or slightly annoyed. 

😰 = Stress 

😨 = Surprise and fear. 

😧😦😮😯😲 = Different levels of surprise.  

😳 = Shame or embarrassment. 

🤯 = Mind blown, amazed. 

😖 = Being overwhelmed by negative feelings. 

😣 = Feeling helpless. Out of control. 

😩 = Frustration 

😫 = Exhausted and Frustrated. 

😵 = Physically overwhelmed. 

😵‍💫 = Dizziness. 

🫨 = Being shocked by news.

🥶 = Feeling cold or cold personality. 

🥵 = Feeling Hot. 

🤢 = Feeling sick

🤮 = Being sick. 

😴 = Sleeping, going to sleep. 

😪 = Sleepy. 

🤧 = Fever or sneezing.

🤒 = Fever only 

🤕 = Injured 

😷 = At hospital or doctors 

🤥 = Telling a lie. 

😇 = Kind or innocent.

🤠 = Cowboy related. Dualing wripped off. 

🤑 = Excited about recieving money.

🤓 = Geeky or Intelligent 

🥸 = Hidden personality or humour.

🤡 = A fool or a literal clown. 

Mc Nugget Tetris

In China in 2023, McDonald's released a fully licensed Tetris computer games console with its chicken nuggets meal. 

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It is a black and white LCD brick game similar to the stick man LCD games released by tiger electronics. It was flogged as the mc Nugget Tetris Game and even played the Tetris theme tune. 

I was happy with the Uno playing cards myself; I thought they were quite cool. Around the same time here in the UK I recall McDonald's giving away Uno card deck with the children's happy meal. It was smaller than the original Uno playing deck but it worked fine. 

Sources

1) Google Gemini 

2) video https:https://youtu.be/y1rKPQxxpM8?si=7r2aHzjKvdQ1CEGd (you tube sometimes plays adverts before the video starts).