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Random Fact #555

The Subaru Master engine stands for:
Mature
Advanced
Sporty
Torque
Economical
Reliable
 
Blind_Io said:
Random fact 1/0:

One XB-70 crashed when a chase aircraft got too close and was pulled into it's wing vortex. The fighter flipped over across the back of the XB-70, sheering off both vertical stabilizers. To the best of my knowledge no film of the actual collision exists on the internet.
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Talk about coincidende: yesterday I was doing a research about this plane...
There's no video, but there's a picture:
North_American_XB-70A_Valkyrie_just_after_collision_061122-F-1234P-037.jpg
 
Woa, good find! *saved*
 
In fact, it was really easy, it's on the XB-70's page on Wikipedia. impressive nonetheless.
 
Redliner said:
Talk about coincidende: yesterday I was doing a research about this plane...
There's no video, but there's a picture:
North_American_XB-70A_Valkyrie_just_after_collision_061122-F-1234P-037.jpg
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Continuing the XB-70 facts:

The incident involving 20207 was a publicity stunt for General Electric, who built the engines powering the Valkyrie, and the 4 other aircraft.

The aircraft that impacted was a F-104. The pilot died on impact. Only one of the two pilots from the XB-70 ejected, and suffered a broken arm when the clam-shell doors slammed down on an imporperly placed arm (the XB-70 had clam-shell style ejection seats).

The operational B-70 would've had a crew of 4, with the entire cockpit ejecting as a whole in case of emergancy.

A third XB-70 was in the works when 20207 crashed. NASA planned to use the Valkyrie as a test bed for experimental propulsion systems. However, after the crash, it was scrapped.

While many think the crash of 20207 was to blame for the cancellation of the Valkyrie, its fate was sealed before hand. Improved SAMs, expensive operational costs, and a very large radar signature (created by the intake's air damn) are what did it.

North American is now owned by Boeing, and is effectively dead.
 
Random fact #
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Everything you know as 'solid' is actually mostly empty space. If you made a teacup out of atoms that had their electron clouds removed and compacted them nucleus touching nucleus(ignoring laws of physics), it would weight 50 trillion tons
 
Random fact # 10 PRINT "IF A PING PONG BALL WERE THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM, THEN THE NEAREST ELECTRONS WOULD BE 1/5 OF A MILE AWAY. ALSO, THERE ARE ABOUT AS MANY MOLECULES IN A TEASPOON OF WATER AS THERE ARE TEASPOONS OF WATER IN THE OCEAN. HELLO WORLD!"
20 GOTO 10
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Random Fact # SR-71
The Ford Motor Company was actually the second automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford. The first was created from the remains of the Henry Ford Company. You know it better as the now, ironically, GM owned Cadillac.

Random Fact # 2007
Many people credit Henry Ford as one of the inventors of the car, when he only made the car affordable to the average family. His real invention was the assembly line, which allowed so many Model Ts to be made at their prices.
 
American TG Man said:
Random Fact # SR-71
The Ford Motor Company was actually the second automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford. The first was created from the remains of the Henry Ford Company. You know it better as the now, ironically, GM owned Cadillac.
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Random Fact #SR-71 II
Actually the Henry Ford Company was effectively his second. It was created from the remains of the first, the Detroit Automobile Company.
 
Random Fact # M120

To test the aerodynamics of the CLK-GTR, Mercedes-AMG went for an unorthodox method of doing this: they secretly purchased a disused Mclaren F1 GTR from Larbre Competition, which allowed them to see the lap times of their competitors in comparision to their own car. To test the aerodynamics, they replaced the bodywork of the F1 with that of the CLK-GTR, allowing them to test the aerodynamics of the car before the actual car itself had been assembled.
 
gross random fact #11!1

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
 
random fact # $24.99

Apple Pips (seeds) contain minute amounts of amygdalin, a cyanide and sugar compound that, when metabolized, degrades into the murder-mystery favorite, Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN). So, why haven't you died from that first apple you had long ago? The dose of HCN is small enough for the body to detoxify, and the amount of pips you'd need to eat for the HCN to reach a lethal dosage is very large. So, you don't need to worry about poisoning yourself when you bite into that Granny Smith.
 
Random Fact # pg.92*

The addiction potential of nicotine is 100% compared to 81.8% for heroin



*Uncle Johns BR: Plunges into the Universe
 
Damn, is Bioshock out?
 
somewhat related random fact # 1967

Grand Prix Legends is still very much awesome.
 
Random fact # [insert clever number,sign,equation here]
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Everyones heard of a googol, right? (10^100) Even though there is an even bigger number, googolplex, which is 10^googol, there are few things for it to represent. Scientists predict that the value of googol is higher than the number of all of the elementary particles that exist in the universe, and assuming computers continue to double in processing power every two years, it will take approximately 500 years before a computer has the power to be able to print out the number that represents a googolplex.
 
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