Each test of the Star Wars Missile Defense system costs approximately 85 million dollars. To date there has been no successful tests of the system. The budget to produce this system is estimated in the billions of dollars since its’ inception.
The gravitational pull of Mars is estimated at 37.5% of what it is here on Earth.
Transubstantiation is the transformation of one substance into another.
The more structure an electron cloud has, the higher its’ energy level. The same also goes for the size of an electron cloud.
The fact of the day today is brought to you as a bit of a critical thinking test. If someone can explain this one to me let me know, I’d be seriously interested.
Chloroflourocarbons (CFC) have an atomic weight of approximately 66.5, Nitrogen [N (2)] the main component of air in contrast has an atomic weight […]
Radio Four in Britain conducted a poll in 2002 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the patent office. The poll was to decide what the ten best and ten worst inventions since its’ inception were.
Oddly enough the television and the internal combustion engine found themselves on both lists.
For any completists out there the bicycle […]
The Red Cross adopted the Heimlich maneuver as the first step in saving drowning victims in their 1995 guide “First Aid fast”, as a means to clear water from the lungs.
The Heimlich maneuver, not just for chicken bones anymore.
Despite contrary belief, legendary comedian W.C. Fields tombstone does not read “I’d rather be in Philadelphia”
According to IMDB there were 114 speaking roles in the Lord of the Rings
films.
The “photoelectric effect” is the process of photons being absorbed by matter.
