StrongSpirit
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ORIGINAL: beargonewild 5.) If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969 make it illegal for U. S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? Extrarrestial is specifically defined as any object or person that has had contact with an extraterrestrial object. That is, any astronaut that lands on the moon counts as an extraterrestrial, and so do their vehicles. I won't deal with the duck quak, it has already be debunked above. quote:
11.) If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out. Again, Mythbusters proved the eye thing wrong, which makes me doubt the rib or blood vessel thing as well. quote:
15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Twenty years ago this was true. I bet Japans effort to sell cellphones throught Asia, filling India and China with cell towers means this statistic is no longer true. quote:
21.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. I bet this one requires a very liberal defintion of the word "recent". Contrary to popular belief, you need to have an american license, which takes time to get. NYC is not conductive to getting a license, as it is not easy to learn to drive here. More importantly there are FAR more jobs that are easier to get, require no license, require no fluency in English, require no skill in a fairly small distance around NYC. quote:
22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. Again, #22 sounds like a very out-dated stat. Probably true before the emergence of eharmony and match.com, but I doubt it's so anymore. quote:
23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Define jump. Then think about snakes. quote:
28.) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. Another myth busted - this time by snopes. quote:
38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall. # 38 is blatantly stupid. Life sized means you make her whatever size you want. You can either use an average height and get her bust/waist/hips measurement or you can set her height to be something stupid and get wierd bust/height/hips. quote:
40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Outright false. LIghter came in 1823, first match sold in 16th century. The matches that are strike anywhere were invented in 1805.
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