Hi,

yet it is claimed that The Amazon River system contains 28% of the world's fresh water.

Two irreconcilable facts!!!

Regards,
Greg L-W.

36% percent of children who go to private schools do not go on to univerrsity

Originally Posted by Greg Lance-Watkins

yet it is claimed that The Amazon River system contains 28% of the world's fresh water.

Two irreconcilable facts!!!

It doesn't. It might contain 28% of all the river water in the world, but that's a very different thing.

50% of useless facts, may, in fact, be useful, and may, in fact, be false.

A banana is not a fruit, it's technically a herb.

and for another one,

The voice actors for Mickey and Minny mouse were married to each other.

Hi,

Total Road Length of highway in Britain is in KM : 545,000
Total Road Length of highway in the USA is in KM : 4,447,080
Total Road Length of highway in Australia is in KM : 855,700
Total Road Length of highway in NZ is in KM : 106,930
Total Road Length of highway in Canada is in KM : 961,690
Total Road Length of highway in Russia is in KM : 69,510
Total Road Length of highway in China is in KM : 145,800

But I guess you knew those

Regards,
Greg L-W.

Originally Posted by Midas

It doesn't. It might contain 28% of all the river water in the world, but that's a very different thing.

Hi,

that's not what they say in Brazil!!

There is so much red mud from the Rio Amazonas that it can be seen 100miles out to sea off the coast of Belem.

The silt in the Amazonas takes 5-7 miles to mix in with the silt free Rio Negro below Manaus.

Iguassu is the biggest flow of water over a waterfall in the world (& it is spectacular) so also are Angel Falls Venezuela but that is for height!

Regards,
Greg L-W.

Originally Posted by Greg Lance-Watkins

that's not what they say in Brazil!!

I guess they're a bit biased on that one

There is so much red mud from the Rio Amazonas that it can be seen 100miles out to sea off the coast of Belem.

The silt in the Amazonas takes 5-7 miles to mix in with the silt free Rio Negro below Manaus.

So I understand, and have seen from aerial photography.

Iguassu is the biggest flow of water over a waterfall in the world (& it is spectacular) so also are Angel Falls Venezuela but that is for height!

I've seen Iguassu and I would agree that it is spectacular; mind you, so are the Victoria Falls in full flood. I've not seen Angel Falls yet other than on TV, but you wouldn't catch me base jumping from the top of them like some do!

Originally Posted by Midas

I've seen Iguassu and I would agree that it is spectacular; mind you, so are the Victoria Falls in full flood. I've not seen Angel Falls yet other than on TV, but you wouldn't catch me base jumping from the top of them like some do!

Hi,

I was lucky I did one of the greats The Blue Train Cape Town to Victoria, I've swum in the utterly spectacular and scarey rock pool right on the edge - I was young enought to be that 'challenged'!

Done free fall but never base jumped, watched them at Angel & Trondheim! - abseiled off the Avon/Clifton bridge when I was about 14/15!! If you aren't mad then you stand no chance!

ENJOY THIS ON FULL SCREEN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POL7R...rom=PL&index=6

BAD HAIR DAY:
YouTube - Girl Has A Bad Base Jump

Regards,
Greg L-W.

Here's a semi-useless semi-fact of the day



Thats the UK's internet useage in image form. Some might not be readable, the one in front of Google is flickr, youtube and ebay above and to the left, top left is Amazon with blight of modern society Facebook on the far right. Taken from The Virtual Revolution on BBC.

Kind of useless eh? But interesting...the programme uses this to suggest the internet, supposedly the home of innovation and freedom, is actually more regimented than we like to think


EDIT: If you look really really closely there is a very small ball in the top right, thats politicspoliticalforum.com. No not really

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
I like to sleep for at least 26,400 of them.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Now we have even less time to sleep

from Yahoo News:

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Originally Posted by Don

Now we have even less time to sleep

from Yahoo News:

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Matthew 24:22 Jesus said that in the last days the days would be shortened.
I suppose 1.26 milliseconds counts. More earthquakes might add to it? What do I know?

Originally Posted by DougieG

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

who works out these things?

It takes about 40 muscles to smile, but only 4 to pull the trigger of a decent rifle.