Topic: Useless fact of the day

[Chew]

Meteor colors depend on their composition:
orange/yellow=sodium
yellow=iron
blue/green=copper
purple= potassium
red=silicate

[341gerbig]

Meteor colors depend on their composition:
orange/yellow=sodium
yellow=iron
blue/green=copper
purple= potassium
red=silicate

Is that as they burn through the atmosphere or after they have already landed?

[Anders]

The word dandelion comes from french dent de lion, meaning lion's tooth.

[Anders]

Cocaine is an excellent local anasthetic.

[Chew]

Meteor colors depend on their composition:
orange/yellow=sodium
yellow=iron
blue/green=copper
purple= potassium
red=silicate

Is that as they burn through the atmosphere or after they have already landed?

As they burn up. A meteor that reaches the ground is thereafter called a meteorite.

[Anders]

Cocaine is an excellent local anasthetic.

The police will probably not buy an explanation based on this fact when they find 50 pounds of it in your basement.

[Halleyscomet/Wakefield]

[AQB24712]

Awesome, HC/W.

[Morvis13]

Must remember to always bring a javalin when walking.

[Jeremy's Sea]

Cocaine is an excellent local anasthetic.

The police will probably not buy an explanation based on this fact when they find 50 pounds of it in your basement.

I really like the idea you're having a coked up internet conversation with yourself right now. 

[Plastique]

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That's supreme.

[Hanes]

I love wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#.22Too_slow.22

Also, I had no idea the practice was so recently developed.  What did they do before high-fives?

[Johnny Slick]

They slapped guys on the butt, at least in baseball.

[zandolit]

The word dandelion comes from french dent de lion, meaning lion's tooth.

French for dandelion is 'pissenlit' which basically means 'piss-a-bed' and is due to its diuretic properties.

[Chew]

William R. Charette, the man who selected the unidentified remains out of three unidentified remains from World War II to be entombed in the Tomb of the Unknowns, at the time the only active duty enlisted US Navy Medal of Honor recipient, died last month.