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Chris
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Feb 17, 2017 02:02PM
While researching your writing, what are some of the most interesting facts you've learned? On any subject.
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The rate at which energy is produced inside stars is so slow that a human body generates more heat than an equal volume of stellar material. That's why stars have to be really big.
Okay. The Hayabusa was (and maybe still is) the fastest road motorcycle....
Jane wrote: "Okay. The Hayabusa was (and maybe still is) the fastest road motorcycle...."Definitely the scariest, and I sought out the scary.
I found out compound 1080 (I used it as a wolf killer in my novel), is real! Odorless, colorless, just a teaspoon in water kills hundreds, and despite legislative attempts that see its terrorist potential, is still used by U.S. government to kill predators ranchers out west want removed. ("Deadly Trespass" out this month.)
Alex wrote: "Despite what Hollywood shows, the energy of a bullet fired from an average gun, ie non-high-powered rifle or big calibre weapon, is expended by the time it has penetrated 5 feet of water, so if you..."Good to know! Thx
R. wrote: "The rate at which energy is produced inside stars is so slow that a human body generates more heat than an equal volume of stellar material. That's why stars have to be really big."Wow, that is interesting.
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Dwayne wrote: "Salvador Dali was covered in goat shit when he met his wife."I think I can see why he wasn't best known for dating advice.
Professor Antony Hewish, Nobel Prizewinner for radio astronomyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_...
took out a patent on using the signals from the pulsars that he and his team had discovered for spacecraft navigation. I e-mailed him and asked for permission to use this in one of my novels, and he allowed me to do it. That is why my 80-footer spaceships carry a receiver called the "Hewish Box" as an ultimate backstop navigation system.
Clint wrote: "Jane wrote: "Okay. The Hayabusa was (and maybe still is) the fastest road motorcycle...."Definitely the scariest, and I sought out the scary."
Yeah. It WILL try to kill you
