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GatorHex
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Posted: 15th Sep 2007 20:33 Edited at: 15th Sep 2007 20:38
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Aparently green is still the natural colour of Cola it's made brown with caramel?, but then i remmmber cola Tab which was clear, but then again it didn't taste much like cola either

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Deathead
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Posted: 15th Sep 2007 20:45
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And if it wasn't for cola saint nick would not of been wearing red. His original colour was green.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 15th Sep 2007 20:51
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Quote: "That reminds me of another amazingly pointless fact. When your mum told you not to sit so close to the TV because it would hurt your eyes, she wan't making it up Cathode Ray tubes fire electrons at the phosporus ont he screen and it produces small amounts of radiation (also make you short sighted if you sit too close)"


I have sat near to a tv screen for most of my life, and I still have perfect vision at age 44.

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Jeku
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Posted: 15th Sep 2007 21:40
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Quote: "I have sat near to a tv screen for most of my life, and I still have perfect vision at age 44."


But you are also able to shoot lasers out of your eyes with all the radiation, right?

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 00:21
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Just look at his eye in his sig and avatar! That is one radieted eye.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 02:39
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When you go for a job in the UK using a VDU they make you take an eye test.

They say it's for your comfort, but I suspect it's to get evidence so you can't claim later your job made you short sighted

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game lover
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 02:43 Edited at: 16th Sep 2007 02:44
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Well the whole TV and eye hurting is an old myth. It doesn't really kill your eyesight but it does make them water and such if you watch it to long.

Now here's my pointless info.

Did you know if you get shot in the head you could die! I never knew that, lol.

WA wa wawawawawa.

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Code Dragon
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 02:48 Edited at: 16th Sep 2007 02:51
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More pointless info:

Origin of Species is not the full title of Darwin's book. The full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 13:29
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lol this thread is going off

science hey...well....light is a good topic.

Light cant travel and faster than light speed. Normally when u are going (say 80km/h) and u throw a ball at 30km/h the ball will go 110km/h, but if you are going 1/2 speed of light and shine a light it will still only go the speed of light

u probably already know that, but hey, its pointless


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dark coder
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Posted: 16th Sep 2007 14:52
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Quote: "but if you are going 1/2 speed of light and shine a light it will still only go the speed of light"


Yes the light will still travel at the speed of light, i.e. 1/2 the speed of light relative to you as photons do not have interia.

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