Is the Australian Outback really that desolate?
Yeah, it is. Lol.Or at least parts of it are but its a continent.A very big country.Those parts are larger than European countries but foreigners seem to like…
Can you blow my mind with a space fact?
Here’s one that blew my mind not that long ago when I read about it. I wrote about this before. As an amateur astronomer who has been looking…
Was the Battleship Yamato really that big compared to other WW2 battleships?
It was absolutely huge. The USS Texas that served in Both world wars was 532 feet long and 27,000 tons. The USS South Dakota and North Carolina classes…
What is the most remote monument on the planet?
Elephant island, in the Antarctic Ocean, has this one To the Chilean naval officer who rescued the survivors of a British 1914 Antarctic expedition. It is about 500km,…
What are the most extravagant and least known animals on the planet?
This is the Aye-Aye. It only lives in Madagascar. The dumbo octopus. The gerenuk, an antelope from East Africa Cantor’s giant soft-shell turtle The Panda ant. Its bite…
Was it really necessary to rename the Gulf of Mexico?
Let me start with the elephant in the room. I am neither American nor Mexican so I have no stake in the naming/renaming game. My opinion about the…
Is Steven Seagal really a martial arts expert?
Let’s start out by saying that Steven Seagal is extremely cocky, extremely overweight and has been proven to tell lies. I won’t go into all of them, but…
When people fire guns into the air to celebrate New Year’s eve, is there a risk or danger from the bullets coming back down? Or not so much anymore because of the speed and gravity as well as velocity compared to when first fired?
Yea pretty stupid idea. People who do this don’t understand physics—Let me tell you why it’ll kill you—just as dead as a direct shot. A bullet fired straight…
Can a Boeing 747 do a barrel roll?
Never knew a pilot training on the 747–400 to not roll the airplane while in the simulator. None of us were completely sure of the simulation’s fidelity but the control…
If horsemen could be countered with pikes and spears (among similar use weapons) why is it said that mounted knights were so undefeatable in medieval Europe? Could you not train for an equal amount of time some pikemen to fight in thick formation?
From the 14th Century on, Swiss pikemen were famous as great soldiers and much in demand as mercenaries. But wait, why would King Bob hire expensive Swiss mercenaries…