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Never say you're bored. Never say you're satisfied with the world. Never stop doubting or questioning things. Always wonder. Always think. But always take time to drop your guard, you don't have to be smart all the time.

There is a disorder called Cataplexy, in which emotions can cause paralysis.

  • 06.28.2012 9:40 AM PDT

97% of people die

  • 06.28.2012 1:36 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!

Aliens are out there.

  • 06.28.2012 1:38 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most Random Facts!

Gather around the campfire, once it goes out, it's out for good.

Shemaghs are typically 42"x42" or 47"x47".

  • 06.28.2012 1:38 PM PDT

When your spirit is floatin' down the tunnel, toward the light, you know wot's behind the light? It's not god. It's me. And I'm gonna kick your --- soul all the way back down the tunnel, 'til you choke on your own ---'d up ribs. Now. Wake. The ----. Up!


Posted by: lilledw
97% of people die

I am the 3%

  • 06.29.2012 12:31 AM PDT

Been here since December 5th, 2007.
There is no signature in here. Go away.
New GT:a big kitten

Stosh hates toast

  • 06.29.2012 12:42 AM PDT

my legs hurt

  • 06.29.2012 3:04 PM PDT
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It's impossible to play Battlefield 3 and have skill.

  • 06.29.2012 3:13 PM PDT

tacos tacos tacos

this thread is too big

  • 06.29.2012 3:34 PM PDT

Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees,[1] or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in tree roots or in other plants such as shrubs.[citation needed] In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up for themselves. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber.

The earth contains about one trillion tonnes of wood, which grows at a rate of 10 billion tonnes per year. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. In 1991, approximately 3.5 billion cubic meters of wood were harvested. Dominant uses were for furniture and building construction.[2]

A 2011 discovery in the Canadian province of New Brunswick uncovered the earliest known plants to have grown wood, approximately 395 to 400 million years ago.[3]
People have used wood for millennia for many purposes, primarily as a fuel or as a construction material for making houses, tools, weapons, furniture, packaging, artworks, and paper.
Wood can be dated by carbon dating and in some species by dendrochronology to make inferences about when a wooden object was created.

The year-to-year variation in tree-ring widths and isotopic abundances gives clues to the prevailing climate at that time.[4]

Wood, in the strict sense, is yielded by trees, which increase in diameter by the formation, between the existing wood and the inner bark, of new woody layers which envelop the entire stem, living branches, and roots. This process is known as secondary growth; it is the result of cell division in the vascular cambium, a lateral meristem, and subsequent expansion of the new cells. Where there are clear seasons, growth can occur in a discrete annual or seasonal pattern, leading to growth rings; these can usually be most clearly seen on the end of a log, but are also visible on the other surfaces. If these seasons are annual these growth rings are referred to as annual rings. Where there is no seasonal difference growth rings are likely to be indistinct or absent.

If there are differences within a growth ring, then the part of a growth ring nearest the center of the tree, and formed early in the growing season when growth is rapid, is usually composed of wider elements. It is usually lighter in color than that near the outer portion of the ring, and is known as earlywood or springwood. The outer portion formed later in the season is then known as the latewood or summerwood.[5] However, there are major differences, depending on the kind of wood (see below).

A knot is a particular type of imperfection in a piece of wood; it will affect the technical properties of the wood, usually for the worse, but may be exploited for visual effect. In a longitudinally sawn plank, a knot will appear as a roughly circular "solid" (usually darker) piece of wood around which the grain of the rest of the wood "flows" (parts and rejoins). Within a knot, the direction of the wood (grain direction) is up to 90 degrees different from the grain direction of the regular wood.

In the tree a knot is either the base of a side branch or a dormant bud. A knot (when the base of a side branch) is conical in shape (hence the roughly circular cross-section) with the inner tip at the point in stem diameter at which the plant's vascular cambium was located when the branch formed as a bud.
During the development of a tree, the lower limbs often die, but may remain attached for a time, sometimes years. Subsequent layers of growth of the attaching stem are no longer intimately joined with the dead limb, but are grown around it. Hence, dead branches produce knots which are not attached, and likely to drop out after the tree has been sawn into boards.

In grading lumber and structural timber, knots are classified according to their form, size, soundness, and the firmness with which they are held in place. This firmness is affected by, among other factors, the length of time for which the branch was dead while the attaching stem continued to grow.

Knots materially affect cracking and warping, ease in working, and cleavability of timber. They are defects which weaken timber and lower its value for structural purposes where strength is an important consideration. The weakening effect is much more serious when timber is subjected to forces perpendicular to the grain and/or tension than where under load along the grain and/or compression. The extent to which knots affect the strength of a beam depends upon their position, size, number, and condition. A knot on the upper side is compressed, while one on the lower side is subjected to tension. If there is a season check in the knot, as is often the case, it will offer little resistance to this tensile stress.

Small knots, however, may be located along the neutral plane of a beam and increase the strength by preventing longitudinal shearing. Knots in a board or plank are least injurious when they extend through it at right angles to its broadest surface. Knots which occur near the ends of a beam do not weaken it. Sound knots which occur in the central portion one-fourth the height of the beam from either edge are not serious defects.[6]

Knots do not necessarily influence the stiffness of structural timber, this will depend on the size and location. Stiffness and elastic strength are more dependent upon the sound wood than upon localized defects. The breaking strength is very susceptible to defects. Sound knots do not weaken wood when subject to compression parallel to the grain.
In some decorative applications, wood with knots may be desirable to add visual interest.

In applications where wood is painted, such as skirting boards, fascia boards, door frames and furniture, resins present in the timber may continue to 'bleed' through to the surface of a knot for months or even years after manufacture and show as a yellow or brownish stain. A knot primer paint or solution, correctly applied during preparation, may do much to reduce this problem but it is difficult to control completely, especially when using mass-produced kiln-dried timber stocks

  • 06.29.2012 5:55 PM PDT

Never say you're bored. Never say you're satisfied with the world. Never stop doubting or questioning things. Always wonder. Always think. But always take time to drop your guard, you don't have to be smart all the time.

Here's ten facts:

1. You can't snore and dream at the same time.

2. If you pee in a dream you pee in real life.

3. There's a Chinese massage that involves using meat clevers.

4. Japan has vending machiines that give you girls' phone numbers.

5. Enemies in Angry Birds were inspired by Swine Flu.

6. Obama's favorite cartoon is Spongebob.

7. Olivia Wilde's real name is "Olivia Jane Cockburn."

8. Zebras are actually black with white stripes.

9. A cryovolcano shoots out ice rather than lava.

10. Coffee was first introduced to Europe as "Arabian Wine."

  • 06.29.2012 6:58 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!

Yetis are real!

Any girl you want to ask out already has a boyfriend.

  • 06.30.2012 9:53 AM PDT

I win, you lose, get over it!

Idea has three syllables, the most for a four letter word.

  • 06.30.2012 8:18 PM PDT

Hitler had chronic flatulance and his father was jewish

A hippo can swallow a four-foot tall boy

Slitting a man's thorat is a sloppy and loud way to kill somebody from behind. The best place to stab is in the lower spine causing instant paralysis and little blood loss.

  • 06.30.2012 9:50 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most Random Facts!

Zing

The Quetzacoatlus was the largest winged animal ever recorded, it lived during the dinosaurs and and had the longest wingspan of all flying creatures.

  • 07.01.2012 5:23 AM PDT

Zing

No it is not

  • 07.01.2012 6:12 AM PDT

Halo died with Bungie
Bungie died with Halo

BANANAS ARE YELLOW

  • 07.01.2012 6:37 AM PDT

Witcher 2 assassins of kings is a great game

  • 07.01.2012 7:17 AM PDT
Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!


Posted by: DomoYeti
Any girl you want to ask out already has a boyfriend.


Lies

  • 07.01.2012 3:41 PM PDT

Are You On The Move?

http://www.youtube.com/user/OSCARMIKEmachinima

A group of vultures is called a wake.

  • 07.02.2012 5:22 PM PDT

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NHL 13 looks sick :)

  • 07.02.2012 5:34 PM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~

Lollipop chainsaw will be my next purchase.

  • 07.02.2012 5:35 PM PDT

If we disagree, it's nothing personal, opinions are opinions.
Antagonizing me to build a false sense of worth is so damn cute.

Brighten your day with science.


Posted by: LOST CAUZ3
NHL 13 looks sick :)


Looks the same as NHL 12....


"Oh hurr durr pay us 60$ for goalie improvements..."

  • 07.02.2012 5:37 PM PDT

Super Mario 64 is a great nostalgic game

  • 07.02.2012 5:41 PM PDT