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

I just found this too funny not to share.

An Australian construction materials company (GMA Garnet) has a contract to sell sand to Saudi Arabia!

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(It's a hard sand that's better than the local stuff for sand blasting).

: - )


Is 25 years old today:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20829611/

Would sex for a Borg therefore involve a software download?

...or a hardware upgrade?

Would unwanted advances be met with a swift reboot?

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye

Jigsaw puzzles are hand cut so different pieces won't fit into different puzzles.

I'm fairly sure the common cardboard jigsaw puzzles are machine cut.

http://www.mgcpuzzles.com/mgcpuzzles/puzzle_history/


http://www.jigsaw-puzzle.org/jigsaw-puzzle-history.html


More like pressing a stamp. That method wasn't created until the 1930's.

Fidget Muffins.

I think I saw the modern process for them on How It's Made.

Hand-carved wooden thylacines are cheaper in the tourist-ridden Saturday market in Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania, than they are in actual shops.

That sounds like a useful fact... for anyone in the market for hand carved wooden extinct creatures.

Point taken, but then, most of the facts on here are useful in very narrow circumstances - needing a useless fact to post on an online thread about useless facts, for instance.

But of course.

Despite what it may say on the box, few jigsaws contain exactly 1000, 1500, 2000 &c. pieces

I read about a puzzle company that makes very expensive and collectible jigsaw puzzles made a very bad error in judgment one year. This is the kind of company that jigsaw fans wait anxiously for their next puzzle to be released. They released one on the first of April... intentionally missing one piece.

"Playing solitaire till dawn
With a deck of fifty one ..."

I will never get back the last 2 1/2 hours of my life.

Incidentally, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the first lines of dialogue aren't spoken until 25 minutes into the movie.

Does anybody know how they made that pen float around at the beginning?

The advert for the podcast of The Archer's is annoying.

I like that film, 2001, the way it starts with the apes and the monolith. Very dramatic. Not very prophetic though. Space exploration hasn't advanced as much as expected.

"Not very prophetic"? Granted we aren't exactly where it predicted, but there are very many things it got dead on, from computers to even an eye-like region on the back side of Europa (book not film). You should read the intro to 2010.