User:Jawed

Let me introduce myself. My name is Humpty, pronounced with an umpty.

Buddies

Matt Wright

Favorite quotes

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhh" -- Young Jeezy

"CHEAH!" -- Young Jeezy

Amazing facts

• Dead Hand is purportedly a Cold War era nuclear control system used by the USSR and in use in Russia. It is an example of fail-deadly deterrence, whereby an overwhelming response is semi-automatically triggered if the USSR's leadership had been killed.

• The Moscow-Washington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia. It was originally designed by Harris Corporation for communication between the United States and the Soviet Union. Also known as the "red telephone", it linked the White House via the National Military Command Center with the Kremlin during the Cold War.

• In 1967, the two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.

• United Airlines has the distinction of being the only commercial airline to have operated Executive One, the designation given to a civilian flight on which the U.S. President is aboard. On December 26, 1973, then-President Richard Nixon flew as a passenger aboard a Washington Dulles to Los Angeles International flight. It was explained by his staff that this was done in order to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft; however, the 707 followed behind in case of emergency. Air Force One#Other presidential aircraft

• The only three countries in the world that have not yet adopted the metric system are Burma, Liberia, and the United States.

• The SR-71 Blackbird set a record flying time of 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds for a flight between Los Angeles and Washington DC on 6 March 1990.

• Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei Khrushchev emigrated to the United States and is now an American citizen and a Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

• Jimmy Carter once left nuclear launch codes in his suit when it was sent in for dry cleaning. Nuclear football [1]

• A Bar-tailed Godwit bird flew non-stop from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska to the Piako River, near Thames New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of 11,570 kilometres (7,189 mi). The flight took approximately nine days, during which time the bird flew continuously, neither sleeping nor resting.

• Coconut water can be used as an intravenous fluid. Coconut

• Sovereignty in the Euro Tunnel connecting Great Britain and France: In an unusual move, the British and French governments agreed to provide immigration staff at opposite ends of the tunnel; thus the French immigration control posts are located in the United Kingdom, while the British ones are in France. This leads occasionally to unusual incidents, for example when a French police officer wandered into the non-international part of Waterloo station while carrying a firearm.[15] In the 1990s, the French authorities tried to arrest a French national working in the British terminal at Folkestone who had been evading French military service.

• Gray langur monkeys live in medium to large groups, usually with one dominant male. Males do not hold the dominant position for long in a group, with the average being about 18 months. Adolescent males who are expelled from the group sometimes form 'bachelor' packs. These packs, after a time, start to harass the group that expelled them, and challenge the alpha for leadership of the pack. If an attack by a bachelor pack is successful and they are able to kill the alpha, they will engage in a power struggle, where first all of the infants fathered by the previous alpha are killed, and then the bachelors fight among themselves, killing each other until only one remains, who then becomes the leader of the pack.

• At the end of 2001, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 145,000 tonnes, which would form a cube with 19.58 meter edges. Gold as an investment

• Many residents of the Pitcairn Islands are descendants of the Bounty mutineers.

• The Voyagers call home via NASA's Deep Space Network, a system of antennas around the world. The spacecraft are so distant that commands from Earth, traveling at light speed, take 14 hours one-way to reach Voyager 1 and 12 hours to reach Voyager 2. Each Voyager logs approximately 1 million miles per day.

• A zorse is the result of crossbreeding a horse and a zebra. A zonkey is the result of crossbreeding a donkey with a zebra. The Zony is the result of crossbreeding a pony to a zebra. All these three are called zebroids - defined as a cross between a zebra and any other equid. Zebroids are preferred over zebra for practical uses such as riding because of its body shape. However it is more inclined to be temperamental and can prove to be difficult to handle.

• A Cama is a hybrid between a camel and a llama. They are born via artificial insemination due to the huge difference in sizes of the animals which disallow natural breeding. A Cama usually has the short ears and long tails of a camel but the cloven hooves of a llama. Also most noticeably is the absence of the hump.

• Mike The Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947) was a rooster that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Mike the Headless Chicken

• "Modern humans are actually hybrids created by millennia of interbreeding between early hominids and chimpanzees," according to geneticist James Mallet and other MIT and Harvard scientists, as quoted in the newsmagazine This Week, June 9, 2006. The interbreeding began about 6.3 million years ago. Then, for a million years, the ancestors of the human race "continued to acquire chromosomes from chimps until a second and final break about 5.3 million years ago." Human_evolution#Before_Homo

• It has been shown that a pig's mood can be determined by its tail, if the tail is tightly coiled, the pig is happy. If the tail is hanging limp however, the pig is unhappy. Pig

• Is the Badlands Guardian Earth's equivalent of the Face on Mars? [2]

• The B2 bomber is so expensive to make that it costs nearly double its own weight in gold.

• The Singapore to Newark flight currently holds the record as the longest commercial flight in the history of aviation, with a flying time of approximately 18 hours between Singapore and Newark and 20 hours on the way back. Singapore_Airlines#Modern_History The longest non-stop flights currently running are not the longest city pairs theoretically possible. Flights on the Kangaroo route, if flown non-stop, would exceed 17,000 km. The longest routes possible are between antipodes, or points on the earth's surface opposite each other with the earth's center directly between, a distance of 20,038 km at the equator. A theoretical nonstop flight between Buenos Aires and Shanghai (two world cities that are fairly close to antipodal) would cover a great circle distance of 19,595 km. A Madrid, Spain to Wellington, New Zealand flight would be longer still, exceeding 19,800 km. The Boeing 777-200LR airliner can cover the distance between antipodes when devoid of payload, but its range decreases significantly with the added weight of cargo and passengers. As of 2007, no airline has plans to introduce a non-stop service longer than the Singapore-Newark run, though both Airbus and Boeing have hinted at interest in developing variants to their long-haul airliners to make a London-Sydney nonstop flight economically feasible. Non-stop_flight

• The YF-16 was the world's first aircraft to be slightly aerodynamically unstable by design. This feature is officially called "relaxed static stability". Subsonic, the aeroplane is constantly on the verge of going out of control. This tendency is constantly caught and corrected by the DFLCC (Digital Flight Control Computer), allowing for stable flight. When supersonic, the airplane exhibits positive static stability due to aerodynamic forces acting on the strake section of the wing. F16#Negative_static_stability

• On November 10, 2005 a 777-200LR set a record for the longest non-stop flight by passenger airliner by flying 11,664 nautical miles (13,422 statute miles, or 21,602 km) eastwards (the westerly Great circle route is only 5,994 miles) from Hong Kong to London, UK. The journey took about 22 hours and 42 minutes. Boeing_777#777-200LR_Worldliner

• Cardiac muscle is myogenic, meaning that it stimulates its own contraction without a requisite electrical impulse. A single cardiac muscle cell, if left without input, will contract rhythmically at a steady rate; if two cardiac muscle cells are in contact, whichever one contracts first will stimulate the other to contract, and so on.

• The liver is unique as the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of remaining liver can regenerate into a whole liver again.

• Since there is a known case in which an Indian elephant and an African elephant have produced a live (though sickly) offspring, it has been theorised that if mammoths were still alive today, they would be able to interbreed with Indian elephants. This has led to the idea that perhaps a mammoth-like beast could be recreated by taking genetic material from a frozen mammoth and combining it with that from a modern Indian elephant. Scientists hope to retrieve the preserved reproductive organs of a frozen mammoth and revive its sperm cells. However, not enough genetic material has been found in frozen mammoths for this to be attempted. Mammoth#Preserved_remains

• Ostrich eggs can weigh 1.3 kg and are the largest of all eggs (and the largest single cells), though they are actually the smallest eggs relative to the size of the bird. Ostrich#Reproduction

• The smallest readable typeface: 3x3

Cool math stuff

• Game complexity

• Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.[1] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number, but a commonly cited approximation is 150.

• The Knight's Tour is a mathematical problem involving a knight on a chessboard. The knight is placed on the empty board and, moving according to the rules of chess, must visit each square exactly once.

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