Fuk da Crows' Nest.
My most recent article for the Crows' Nest was rejected because the teacher hates me because I'm friends with Michael, and she hates him too. I've been blacklisted, and the bitch is doing underhanded things to cut me out of credit.
Here's the article. Tell me if it's really not worth being published. I mean, fuck, they replaced where my article would be with a giant page ad about the fucking Crows' Nest...
*note that the pretty formatting with columns and other stuff is lost through posting here on LJ, ah well.
Time Facts - by [Sascha Folterung]
Time is eternal and unwavering. Everything takes time. Some things take little time in the now, but everything stacks up as time goes on. Here is a modest list of facts about: how often at a time, how much over time, and times long past.
• At 8:02pm on Wednesday, the 20th of February , 2002, for sixty seconds only, time was in perfect symmetry. 20:02 20/02 2002. The last chance for this was on 10:01am on January 10,1001: One thousand and one years, one month, nine days, twenty-two hours, and one minute before that.
• Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
• Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
• For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
• Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
• 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
• On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
• Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
• In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
• The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
• The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
• Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
• A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
• The average person’s heart beats around 1 billion times before it gives to natural causes.
• The average person can live 11 days without water.
• In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
• The cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11 is $6,400.
• The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
• Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
• One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
• If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
• The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
• It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
• The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by the Buggles.
I'm really pissed. She's also trying to make me lose my grade for the class. Also, this new pair of jeans I bought is the wrong damn size. Freaking women sizes... I wear a 14P apparently, not a 14M. :/
Meh,
Skunk
Here's the article. Tell me if it's really not worth being published. I mean, fuck, they replaced where my article would be with a giant page ad about the fucking Crows' Nest...
*note that the pretty formatting with columns and other stuff is lost through posting here on LJ, ah well.
Time Facts - by [Sascha Folterung]
Time is eternal and unwavering. Everything takes time. Some things take little time in the now, but everything stacks up as time goes on. Here is a modest list of facts about: how often at a time, how much over time, and times long past.
• At 8:02pm on Wednesday, the 20th of February , 2002, for sixty seconds only, time was in perfect symmetry. 20:02 20/02 2002. The last chance for this was on 10:01am on January 10,1001: One thousand and one years, one month, nine days, twenty-two hours, and one minute before that.
• Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
• Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
• For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
• Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
• 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
• On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
• Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
• In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
• The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
• The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
• Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
• A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
• The average person’s heart beats around 1 billion times before it gives to natural causes.
• The average person can live 11 days without water.
• In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
• The cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11 is $6,400.
• The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
• Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
• One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
• If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
• The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
• It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
• The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by the Buggles.
I'm really pissed. She's also trying to make me lose my grade for the class. Also, this new pair of jeans I bought is the wrong damn size. Freaking women sizes... I wear a 14P apparently, not a 14M. :/
Meh,
Skunk