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[Cthulhu]

How does Toady pick the version number?  Does it correspond to changes?  Do the numbers closer to the decimal point represent larger changes?  How many figures are significant?  What's the average yearly rainfall in the Smooth Points of Pride?  How many more questions will I ask?

[Jifodus]

Someone figured this out before.

[0 because it's still alpha].[Core Components Completed].[Required Components Completed].[Bloat Components Completed][a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/etc. bug fix version]

Or approximately that (order might be different).

[Cthulhu]

Interesting...

[Boksi]

The average rainfall of the smooth points is 2400 mm.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Puzzlemaker]

quote:Originally posted by penguinofhonor:
<STRONG>If you cut a starfish's leg off, the starfish will grow a new leg and the leg will grow a new starfish.</STRONG>

Really?

Edit:  Might as well join in.  There is a fern that has over one thousand chromosomes compared to a humans 46.

Also, the magnetic north pole is moving, and scientists are able to use rocks sensitive to magnetism to pinpoint the time when the rock was created, by looking at the alignment of crystals inside of that rock and corresponding it to the time when the north pole was in that direction.  In fact, the magnetic "North Pole" has switched completely a few times to the south pole, then back north again.

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Puzzlemaker ]

[Cthulhu]

I'm pretty sure a starfish leg will not grow into a new starfish, you're thinking of planaria.  While we're on small marine life, if a hydra is turned inside out, it will not only survive, but turn itself right-side-out.

[Solara]

quote:Originally posted by Muffles:
<STRONG>I'm pretty sure a starfish leg will not grow into a new starfish</STRONG>

Wikipedia says they can, but you know, it's Wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt...

[Armok]

It depends of the species of starfish, some have better regeneration than others.

Flatworms beat the crap out'a all of them.

[Tyrving]

Ooh, mind if I join?

Water bears are fully capable of surviving temperatures ranging from almost absolute zero to upwards of 151°C (303°F), can go without water for nearly a decade, and can even survive in the vacuum of space.

[Bricktop]

quote:Also, the magnetic north pole is moving, and scientists are able to use rocks sensitive to magnetism to pinpoint the time when the rock was created, by looking at the alignment of crystals inside of that rock and corresponding it to the time when the north pole was in that direction. In fact, the magnetic "North Pole" has switched completely a few times to the south pole, then back north again.

The crystals also get set to the Magnetic North whenever the rock is heated. The same happens when pottery is fired. Also, hitting a long of metal hard will make some of the crystals allign to the magnetic north.

(Something tells me this topic needs to be renamed to "A collection of Mildly interesting facts: Did you know?"

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Bricktop ]

[Cthulhu]

Bismuth was discovered to be radioactive in 2003, and has a half-life of approximately 19 quintillion years.

[Fenrir]

"Gandalf" (as in the LoTR wizard) is Old Norse for "staff elf", and is listed in the Poetic Edda as the name of a dwarf! (It's more evidence that they are truly black elves!   :p )

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Fenrir ]

[Cthulhu]

A blue whale's aorta can hold a medium-sized dog.

A cockroach can live for a week without its head.

"Piltdown Man", a transitional human form recreated from a tooth, was later discovered to be a modern pig.

HP Lovecraft's father went violently insane while on a business trip.  It is believed he suffered from syphilis.

The Challenger Deep, in the Marianas Trench, is the lowest point on Earth.

Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain in the world.  That honor goes to the mountains of Kadath, near the Leng Plateau in Antarctica.

[Torak]

Pitfall was the first game to simulate true survival in an Amazon forest.