Things you don't need to know…

Originally Posted by Corwin
Don't forget the Cricket!! Some people wouldn't want to know that Australia beat India.

Or England losing to Pakistan!

The Darmstadt Windspiel, a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots.

Considering the size of many of the germans I saw last time I was there, I'm not sure what's so special about this.

And you don't know that "Darmstadt" literally translated means "Intestine town" or "Gut Town".

Like the German headquarter of Opel, a German daughter company of GM, is locvated in "Rüsselsheim", which means "Trunk-Home", with "Home" being a rendering of "Heim", which is an oldish name representing a small village.
Rüsselsheim is big, though.

Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
And you don't know that "Darmstadt" literally translated means "Intestine town" or "Gut Town".

Reminds me of the Undercity.

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Something I for sure wants to knowe. But perhaps not all of you?

Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters "IBM"?

pibbur who hasn't tried to write his own name thag way. Yet.

Olympic bronze medalist John Russell was a member of the United States' last military delegation to equestrian at the Summer Olympics as well as its first civilian one?

Hmmm. Hmmm. HMMMM! The above reminds me of a short text about the number 39 in the "Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting numbers", saying that 39 was the first uninteresting number, having no interesting mathematical properites. Which of course made in interesting, and by that having the property of at the same time being both interesting and uninteresting.

In later edition, they found something interesting to say about said number. And apparently the new uninteresting/intersting number is 51.

pibbur who is somewhat annoyed by the rather personal critizism in the today is thread (why did they have to revive it?), I quote: "Yeah, that's one of the stupidest threads I've seen here. Who does he think he are, the OP? "

After Lord Grosvenor's Rhadamanthus and John Bull won the Derby Stakes in 1790 and 1792, only three horses showed up in 1794 to run against and lose to his Daedalus in the smallest field in Derby history? I would assume that even fewer participated after one of the worst horses ever won in 1802 or when the Emilius family ruled the world in the thirties.

says pibbur who actuallyn doesn't know much about horses and their activities

Rhadamantus … That's an interesting name, sadly very distorted by one of Blizzard's games …

Rhadamantus is possibly the name of the very first king from Crete … distorted through ancient Greek eyes.

I read in a book about ancient Minoan culture that this name was occupied by ancient Greek mythology and distorted so that the Minoan people from Crete actually lost their … "ancestor".

More here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization
And here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Crete

Video unreleated to this thread

Originally Posted by JemyM
Video unreleated to this thread

Which of course makes it highly relevant! Liked it, obviously there are several things to try out.

pibbur who regrets that ice-covered water isn't that common around his residence.

From Wikipedia:

FK Fyllingsdalen (football club, pibbur's addition) originally was named FK Varden by the board, even though a majority of the club members voted for FK Fyllingsdalen?

pibbur who, even if he's from the same Norwegian City as said football club, couldn't care less.

Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana, Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions.

says pibbur who thinks what you REALLY don't need to know is the thoughts, words and actions of pibburs

Originally Posted by pibbur2012
Which of course makes it highly relevant! Liked it, obviously there are several things to try out.

pibbur who regrets that ice-covered water isn't that common around his residence.

Dr Pibbur, what is your professional advice regarding putting your head in ice-cold water, going for a swim in ice-cold water, putting a an ice-necklace around your neck and at the same time drinking vodka ?

Only the last is a worthwhile activity!!

i really don't anderstand.

What is it you don't understand?

Nordic countries

The gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus will become sterile if there are no others within 20 cm.

says pibbur who is reminded of Conway's game of life

Originally Posted by Pladio
Dr Pibbur, what is your professional advice regarding putting your head in ice-cold water, going for a swim in ice-cold water, putting a an ice-necklace around your neck and at the same time drinking vodka ?

Could be a once in a lifte time experience.

dr pibbur, 1/2 specialist in Radiology

So Dr Pibbur is not an expert in "ice-cold water coverage of the human body" ?