WeX Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Cyclone is always right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 It is a fact that I never tell the truth. (google the Cretan paradox) If that is a fact then it must be true that you never tell the truth. That holds good whether you utter the above statement or not so the Cretan paradox is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rand Hobart Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Every piece of iron on earth, including the bits floating around in your blood, was originated in the birth of a star. This is the only place that iron is created. Tippy Hedren from the Hitchcock movie The Birds is the mother of Melanie Griffith. ( who due to various plastic surgeries is slowly morphing into Klaus Kinski.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddybare Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Every piece of iron on earth, including the bits floating around in your blood, was originated in the birth of a star. This is the only place that iron is created. Tippy Hedren from the Hitchcock movie The Birds is the mother of Melanie Griffith. ( who due to various plastic surgeries is slowly morphing into Klaus Kinski.) Is the same not true for every element in the universe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 ♫ I am stardust. I am golden. And I've got to get myself back to the garden.♫ (The queue for the loo is half an hour long and my bladder cant take it any more .) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 A slight deviation: Phrases and sayings: "Freeze the Balls off a Brass Monkey" When Collingwood was Admiral of the Red Fleet, he decided to 'tart up' the ships in his fleet. Powder was stored below the waterline (for obvious reasons) and brought to the guns by 'Powder Monkeys' (boys.) Cannonballs weren't likely to explode, they were heavy, so they were stored near the guns on circular racks called 'Ball Monkeys'. Collingwood thought it would be 'attractive' if the balls could be stowed on brass racks (polishing the brass would give something for the off-duty watch to do.) The coefficient of linear expansion of brass is rather greater than that of iron, so as ships sailed into Northern latitudes in winter and the temperature dropped, the brass ring shrank more rapidly than did the iron cannonballs, and eventually it was cold enough to freeze the balls off the brass monkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Is the same not true for every element in the universe? No, the first atoms very formed in the very first seconds of the universe, way before the formation of the first stars. jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 1 person has registered 73% of the user names on Sheffield Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiftyshades Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 There is exactly the same amount of water on the planet now as there was a million years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 There is exactly the same amount of water on the planet now as there was a million years ago. ... but only for certain values of exactly. jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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