Nysba Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) This thread is not random. Edited July 2, 2013 by Nysba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ita Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 The only national anthem in the world that actually mentions Sweden is the national anthem of Poland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 In the MMORPG EVE Online, some player groups own larger sovreign nations than the universe' empires. Guilds such as IT Alliance, Goon(spits on floor) and other huge superguilds, sometimes employ hundred of players in single battles, resulting in PVP of a scale unmatched by any other mainstream MMO, with the possible exception of MAG. The fastest car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron SuperSport. However, the shear weight and centrifugal force created by it's sixteen cylender twin turbocharged Audi engine means that this $ 2,000,000 supercar is actualy less effective as a race car than vehicles a hundreds it's price. The Bugatti Veryon is powered to it's record breaking 431 km/h top speed by a 1100 horsepower quad-turbocharged V-16. However it's acceleration is considered poor, and it's handling can be compared easily to that of a barge. Vehicles half it's price exceed it on the track. The undeniably beautiful $ 1,100,000 Koenigsegg Agera, which, with it's howling 900 horsepower V-8, advanced suspesnion, and ultralight body, can out accelerate and out-turn the veyron and still set a respectable top speed of 403 Km/h. The veryon's absolute nemesis however is the Ariel Atom, selling for a mere $ 40,000, and powered by the same 4 cylender engine as a Honda Civic, the Atom has more power to weight than the veyron, but also shares the basic body plan with an Indy car, making this little monster, though cheaper than most family cars, the bane of many a million dollar supercar. Because supercars are awesome, some pictures: Veyron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bugatti_Veyron_Hermes_right_front.jpg Agera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenigsegg_agera.jpg Atom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArielAtomGoodwood.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderCrazy Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) The Bugatti Veryon is powered to it's record breaking 431 km/h top speed by a 1100 horsepower quad-turbocharged V-16 Correction, its a W-16. Now, my random fact for it:The Veyron has 10 radiators. - 3 heat exchangers for the air-to-liquid intercoolers.- 3 engine radiators.- 1 for the air conditioning system.- 1 transmission oil radiator.- 1 differential oil radiator.- 1 engine oil radiator. Edited January 31, 2011 by CommanderCrazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 The Turbocharger, a household name now, is a small fan in a tube that compresses air as it flow's into an engine's combustion cylenders. By compressing the air, it makes combustion radicaly more powerful, meaning you dont need a massive engine to have a lot of power. With turbocharging, and the second step, an intercooler that chills the compressed air, compressing it further and increasing the amount of explosive oxygen, you can make even a tiny, fuel efficient engine mind blowingly powerful. The turbocharger was invented in 1900, and first used in racing in aproximately 1905. It would be more than seventy years before it before it became widely accepted however, as though they are a very good way to add a stupendous amount of power without causing excess fuel use, they for some reason took until the 1980s to really catch on for the common person's car. This is what a turbo looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twinturbo.JPG(it's the massive silver pipe) and this is how it works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turbo-turbine.jpg Air goes in, is compressed to about double pressure, then usualy snap frozen, this vastly improves engine power by hugely increasing force of combustion. More turbos mean more power, a car may have as many as four turbos, Turbos can also be found in most trucks and almost all european family cars. The most powerful commonly used mainstream racing vehicle in the whole world is the so called Top Fuel Dragster (pictured) A top Fueler can bust 4000 easily horsepower, and travel from a dead stop to more than 300 MPH/500 KPH in less than 3 seconds, however, it's mileage to fuel use is a aproximately 30 litres per mile on a very very good day. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DonPrudhommeFullDragster1996.jpg Parked. In action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TopFueller506kph_Kwinana2005_SeanMcClean.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GETbacon Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 The Model-T by ford a was affectionately call the "Tin Lizzy" . Also the Oldsmobile curve dash was the first car to use modern production line methods, not the commonly associated Model-T. Henry Ford was obsessed with soybeans and was working on trying to make Model-T panels out of it. He also founded Ford-land which was not trying steal thunder from Disney-land but instead to produce rubber. It' failed by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkNinja13 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The words "orange", "silver" and "purple" are the only words in the english language that don't rhyme with any other words. The English invented football (soccer in America) when kicking around the heads of slaughtered Danish invaders. The Statue of Liberty was originally planned to be put in Egypt to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal. The original Oxford English Dictionary defined terrorism as, "government by intimidation." The can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the invention of the sealed can. The machine used in shoe stores to measure shoe size is called a Brannock device. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia is the fear of long words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3rman123 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The words "orange", "silver" and "purple" are the only words in the english language that don't rhyme with any other words. Nostril? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paganwannbe Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The words "orange", "silver" and "purple" are the only words in the english language that don't rhyme with any other words. Nostril?Virgil,tendril,April,Cyril,fibril,Cheryl all I can think of right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delikatessen Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 100,000,000,000 tons of dynamite would have to be detonated every second to match the energy produced by the sun. I think that's a lot of dynamite... Here's one for you: "The word "unfriend" was added to the dictionary." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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