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

I thought it was the Aliens that built the pyramids? Everybody knows that, surely

Yes. They built stonehenge too. They flew millions of light years across the universe in crafts full of supercomputers and when they got here they chucked a few rocks in a pile.

I think you'll find that was the Scottish Parliament building Guru, and that's why it cost so much. Interplanetary building materials see?

Note the 'supposedly' in my posting about the pyramids. I mentioned it because the great pyramid and the other 2 near it, as well as one to the north and one to the south, do correlate rather perfectly with orion's belt and 2 of the other 4 stars in the constellation, and the nile is in relation to this arrangement of pyramids as the milky way is in relation to orion.

This constellation may have nothing to do with how these pyramids were built or why, but I was pointing out the strange coincidence which I saw on a programme on some discovery channel or other that I wasn't paying close attention to anyway. I just thought it was rather interesting.

Apparently, if you draw a line through the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Inca Pyramids and the Easter Island statues, you get a line.

I'm not mocking, but if you analyse something for long enough, you will find a pattern.

Useless fact: If you write www in Hebrew then translate it into English it reads 666, the number of the beast.

Somebody used a computer translation program for "Out of sight, out of mind", English to Chinese and back. It came out "blind lunatic".

Here's a useless fact courtesy of the commentary track for Futurama Season 1.

Written in Hebrew, Slurm looks a lot like Shalom.

How's that for useless?

I've just got a new bookmark. It says "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." Pretty much my philosophy on life, really.

I read that quote on somone's My Space and always assumed that they just made it up themselves.

I've seen it on bumper stickers for sell at a Celtic music festival... I bought the one that said "God was my copilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him".

How was he?

Useless fact:

South America and Africa are moving apart at a rate of 4.28 cm/yr.

the rate of speed in the prior post amounts to a little over one and two thirds inches per year.

Surely that means that the West coast of S America and the East coast of Africa are moving closer at 4.28 cm a year

Not necessarily... They could be "bunching up" and creating taller mountain ranges.

I don't know that they are, but they could be.

The Himalaya mountains are a result of the sub-continent of India slamming into Asia.......Um..........A long time ago. And they're still growing too.

One day, so i'm informed, K2 will be taller than Everest.

One day, if you live long enough, you'll be taller than Everest

The Stadium of Light was built on the site of Monkwearmouth Colliery.

Been there. Took the guided tour 2 years ago. There were about 20 of us in the group.......which i understand is a good gate on a Saturday now.

Ahem. I will ignore that pitiful slight and focus on Margate being top of the Ryman Premier Division. One takes comfort where one can.