h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Flames do not burn well in zero gravity.

Because there is no gravity the heated gasses do not "rise" away from the flame. therefore the gases around the flame become scarce of oxygen and the flame remains a dim and weak sphere as long as there is no pre-existing air currents.

Go to Google.com;
enter 'failure';
hit the 'I'm feeling lucky' button...

HA!

I wonder who loaded links for google to pull that up.

ha ha ha ha
hillarious

As it's nearly the end of Talk Like A Pirate Day, and no-one answered my question of 4 blobs back*, I feel duty-bound to answer my own question...

Why are pirates called pirates?

I don't know, they just aaarrgghh!!!



RF

* And I honestly thought someone would head this easy cross into the goal!

What key should sea shanties be sung in?


ARRR flat!

what match? did the gunners lose. Please tell me they did

British gunners never lose.

RF

Another useless fact from Antipodean exploration. 16 hundred and something:

When the Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman reached New Zealand and anchored off the coast, they found the dawn chorus from the birds totally deafening ... couldm't sleep past 4am.

(apparently)

i can totally identify with that
electricity was cut in North Dublin last night at about 4am.. i was unable to sleep because of house alarms going off from then until i left my road with great relief to go to work..


so far tuesday is a bad idea...
cheer me up with more of your lovely trivia....

oh you're a kinky one, sweaty pat!
but you're a stinky one, sweaty pat!

ok now the dancing girls enter stage left, the gnus and herd of wildebeest can stampede on from the rear whilst we lower the bloke in the leather gimp suit down from the ceiling riding a giant model of an aerosol can, then *blam* fireworks and there's your finale.

We are talking oscars, fistful of here.

I'll have to double-check my facts when I get home, but I think 'brass monkeys' may be a myth. If I remember correctly the only monkeys found on the gun deck were powder monkeys (small boys who carried the powder charges from the magazine to the cannon).

Polite cough err see post 2155

Must have missed that.

...probably because I can only access a few sites at work and I only really use h2g2 at work. Was it a yay or nay on the brass monkeys?

in it's entire history Afghanistan has never been conquered even Alexander the great skirted around it<<

In it's entire history Scotland has never been fully conquered, only sold.

Paahh - Remember Longshanks

Yep, but we got it back thus it was never fully conquered.