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Cael K.:
How about some science?

A vast majority of computer security algorithms, at their heart, rely on different variations of the same problem, for which (to date) there exists no efficient solution. However, if an efficient solution were to be given for this problem, then... well, get off the internet.

When the internet was first introduced, IP addresses were given to various groups to use. Some people got two octets (i.e. everything under 100.50.xxx.xxx), some people maybe got everything under three (i.e. everything under 200.100.40.xxx). MIT, I believe, got everything under one octet, 18.xxx.xxx.xxx. Do they use those 16 million+ IP addresses? Probably not by themselves.

We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Chuck Norris.

satty:

--- Quote from: baruhara on January 03, 2012, 08:08:49 pm ---
F.12 was my favourite, since it seems so paradoxical for the best to not also be the most decorated.

Edited For: A typo.

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Would have thought F.11 would have been your favorite. Oh well.


--- Quote from: Cael K. on January 04, 2012, 04:36:06 am ---How about some science?

We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Chuck Norris.


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Glad to see someone else contribute, and I laughed at this.

Some more military facts:

F.14:
The Australians have their own version of the British SAS, the SASR. They are regarded as a elite unit, and their record in Vietnam is an example. With the help of New Zealand SAS, the SASR possibly achieved 598 kills while losing 5 men during the entire war, with 3 of the fatalities due to friendly fire. In fact, the majority of deaths in the SASR were from training exercises rather than actual combat.

F.15:
The IJN Yamato and its sister ship, the Musashi were the heaviest and most powerful battleships ever constructed. There was going to be a third one, however. Named the Shinano, it would have been the third battleship in the Yamato line. However, the loss of the aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu during the Battle of Midway transformed the Shinano into an aircraft carrier, making it the largest aircraft carrier in World War II.
-a. It also holds the record of being the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine; the USS Archer-Fish sunk it on November 29, 1944, ten days after being commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

baruhara:
As inspired by your facts about battleships...

〖Fact 31〗
Battleship Nagato was the only surviving Japanese battleship of WWII. She was at all the major naval fronts like Leyte Gulf and Pearl Harbour, as well as only being destroyed at the American BAKER bomb tests in 1946 as opposed to an actual naval battle. She was also the lead battleship of her class, although the Nagato class only had two battleships in it; Nagato and Mutsu, and she was the first battleship in the world to mount 16 inch guns.
I think the Battleship Yamato is more famous, though.

〖Fact 32〗
The theory that "humans always walk in circles when lost" is actually true. Research has shown that humans have no instinctive sense of direction, and without a visual point of reference, they really can just walk around in a huge circle.

〖Fact 33〗
Human beings have at least nine senses. The basic five are as follows;
1. Touch
2. Sight
3. Smell
4. Hearing
5. Taste
Then the other four are as follows;
6. Thermoception
     > the sense of heat on our skin
7. Equilibrioception
     > the sense of balance
8. Nociception
     > the sense of pain
9. Proprioception
     > the sense of where your body parts are in relation to the rest of you

〖Fact 34〗
Following on from the last fact and 「nociception」, the brain has absolutely no pain receptors in it, meaning you can't feel anything at all if your brain is damaged. Headaches and the such don't originate in the brain itself; rather, from collections of nerves and receptors that may be being pressed by a swelling in the brain tissue.

〖Fact 35〗
The hardest known substance isn't diamond anymore. A new material called 「hyperdiamond」 was made in 2005, and with it being able to scratch diamond, it has a hardness above MH10, which means that it's literally off the scale.


--- Quote from: satty on January 04, 2012, 05:31:53 am ---Would have thought F.11 would have been your favorite. Oh well.

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Oh, I was speaking just about facts that I didn't already know. F.11 is one of my favourite facts, definitely, if just because of how Strike Witches handled it.


--- Quote from: Cael K. on January 04, 2012, 04:36:06 am ---A vast majority of computer security algorithms, [...] Probably not by themselves.
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I know next to nothing about computers and how they work, and I can barely run Paint without getting confused, so these were both very interesting.

Edited For: Formatting.

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