User:Jawed

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Let me introduce myself. My name is Humpty, pronounced with an umpty.

What the hell am I doing?
What the hell am I doing?

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[edit] Photography

I have contributed many images to Wikipedia. Some of them are panoramic images that I stitched together from several individual pictures.

David Scott's Apollo 15 space suit

James Irwin's Apollo 15 space suit

Skyline Boulevard

Stanford Quad

Jefferson Memorial

Campus from above

Stanford University pictures (Wikimedia Commons)

[edit] Buddies

Matt Wright

[edit] Favorite quotes

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhh" -- Young Jeezy

"CHEAH!" -- Young Jeezy

[edit] Amazing facts

  • Coconut water can be used as an intravenous fluid. Coconut
  • Sovereignty in the Euro Tunnel connecting Great Britain and France: In an unusual move, the British and French governments agreed to provide immigration staff at opposite ends of the tunnel; thus the French immigration control posts are located in the United Kingdom, while the British ones are in France. This leads occasionally to unusual incidents, for example when a French police officer wandered into the non-international part of Waterloo station while carrying a firearm.[15] In the 1990s, the French authorities tried to arrest a French national working in the British terminal at Folkestone who had been evading French military service.
  • Gray langur monkeys live in medium to large groups, usually with one dominant male. Males do not hold the dominant position for long in a group, with the average being about 18 months. Adolescent males who are expelled from the group sometimes form 'bachelor' packs. These packs, after a time, start to harass the group that expelled them, and challenge the alpha for leadership of the pack. If an attack by a bachelor pack is successful and they are able to kill the alpha, they will engage in a power struggle, where first all of the infants fathered by the previous alpha are killed, and then the bachelors fight among themselves, killing each other until only one remains, who then becomes the leader of the pack.
  • At the end of 2001, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 145,000 tonnes [18], which would form a cube with 19.58 meter edges. Gold as an investment
  • The Voyagers call home via NASA's Deep Space Network, a system of antennas around the world. The spacecraft are so distant that commands from Earth, traveling at light speed, take 14 hours one-way to reach Voyager 1 and 12 hours to reach Voyager 2. Each Voyager logs approximately 1 million miles per day.
  • SR-71 Blackbird: One notable variant of the basic A-12 design was the M-21. This was an A-12 platform modified by replacing the single seat aircraft's Q bay (which carried its main camera) with a second cockpit for a launch control officer. The M-21 was used to carry and launch the D-21 drone, an unmanned, faster and higher flying reconnaissance device. This variant was known as the M/D-21 when mated to the drone for operations. The Lockheed D-21/M-21 drone was completely autonomous; having been launched it would overfly the target, travel to a rendezvous point and eject its data package. The package would be recovered in midair by a C-130 Hercules and the drone would self-destruct. The program to develop this system was canceled in 1966 after a drone collided with the mother ship at launch, destroying the M-21 and killing the Launch Control Officer. Three successful test flights had been conducted under a different flight regime; the fourth test was in level flight, considered an operational likelihood. The shock wave of the M-21 retarded the flight of the drone, which crashed into the tailplane. The crew survived the mid-air collision but the LCO drowned when he landed in the ocean and his flight suit filled with water.
  • The Sentinelese are one of the Andamanese indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal. They exclusively inhabit North Sentinel Island which lies westwards off the southern tip of the Great Andaman archipelago. They are noted for vigorously maintaining their independence and sovereignty over the island, and resisting attempts of contact by outsiders. By their long-standing separation from any other human society they are among the most isolated and unassimilated peoples on Earth, their social practices being almost entirely free of any recorded external influence.
  • A zorse is the result of crossbreeding a horse and a zebra. A zonkey is the result of crossbreeding a donkey with a zebra. The Zony is the result of crossbreeding a pony to a zebra. All these three are called zebroids - defined as a cross between a zebra and any other equid. Zebroids are preferred over zebra for practical uses such as riding because of its body shape. However it is more inclined to be temperamental and can prove to be difficult to handle.
  • A Cama is a hybrid between a camel and a llama. They are born via artificial insemination due to the huge difference in sizes of the animals which disallow natural breeding. A Cama usually has the short ears and long tails of a camel but the cloven hooves of a llama. Also most noticeably is the absence of the hump.
  • Mike The Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947) was a rooster that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Mike the Headless Chicken
  • "Modern humans are actually hybrids created by millennia of interbreeding between early hominids and chimpanzees," according to geneticist James Mallet and other MIT and Harvard scientists, as quoted in the newsmagazine This Week, June 9, 2006. The interbreeding began about 6.3 million years ago. Then, for a million years, the ancestors of the human race "continued to acquire chromosomes from chimps until a second and final break about 5.3 million years ago." Human_evolution#Before_Homo
  • It has been shown that a pig's mood can be determined by its tail, if the tail is tightly coiled, the pig is happy. If the tail is hanging limp however, the pig is unhappy. Pig
  • Es gibt den sehr bekannten Witz über einen Autofahrer, der im Radio die Warnung vor einem Geisterfahrer hört und zu sich sagt: „Ein Geisterfahrer? Hunderte!“. Dieser Witz kann auch als Gleichnis verstanden werden, das einen Mangel an Selbstkritik anprangert, selbst wenn ein Meinungsträger mit seiner Ansicht völlig isoliert ist. Am 17. März 2006 wurde, wie Spiegel Online meldete, der Witz wahr, als eine verwirrte Autofahrerin auf der A8 (Salzburg-München) der Österreichischen Polizei per Handy meldete, ihr kämen "jede Menge Falschfahrer entgegen". http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falschfahrer
  • General Electric's tax return is the largest return filed in the United States, spanning approximately 24,000 pages when printed out. General_Electric#Today
  • The B2 bomber is so expensive to make that it costs nearly double its own weight in gold.
  • Are human naturally vitamin C deficient? The overwhelming majority of species of animals and plants synthesise their own vitamin C. It is therefore not a vitamin for them. Synthesis is achieved through a sequence of 4 enzyme driven steps, which convert glucose to ascorbic acid. It cannot be made by humans because the gene for this enzyme is defective. An adult goat will manufacture more than 13,000 mg of vitamin C per day in normal health and as much as 100,000 mg daily when faced with life-threatening disease, trauma or stress. Trauma or injury has been demonstrated to use up large quantities of vitamin C in animals, including humans. Dr. Hickey, of Manchester Metropolitan University, believes that man carries a mutated and ineffective form of the genetic machinery for manufacturing the fourth of the four enzymes used by all mammals to make ascorbic acid. Cosmic rays or a retro virus could have caused this mutation, millions of years ago. In humans the three surviving enzymes continue to produce the precursors to ascorbic acid but the process is incomplete and the body then disassembles them. Vitamin C
  • The Singapore to Newark flight currently holds the record as the longest commercial flight in the history of aviation, with a flying time of approximately 18 hours between Singapore and Newark and 20 hours on the way back. Singapore_Airlines#Modern_History The longest non-stop flights currently running are not the longest city pairs theoretically possible. Flights on the Kangaroo route, if flown non-stop, would exceed 17,000 km. The longest routes possible are between antipodes, or points on the earth's surface opposite each other with the earth's center directly between, a distance of 20,038 km at the equator. A theoretical nonstop flight between Buenos Aires and Shanghai (two world cities that are fairly close to antipodal) would cover a great circle distance of 19,595 km. A Madrid, Spain to Wellington, New Zealand flight would be longer still, exceeding 19,800 km. The Boeing 777-200LR airliner can cover the distance between antipodes when devoid of payload, but its range decreases significantly with the added weight of cargo and passengers. As of 2007, no airline has plans to introduce a non-stop service longer than the Singapore-Newark run, though both Airbus and Boeing have hinted at interest in developing variants to their long-haul airliners to make a London-Sydney nonstop flight economically feasible. Non-stop_flight
  • The YF-16 was the world's first aircraft to be slightly aerodynamically unstable by design. This feature is officially called "relaxed static stability". Subsonic, the aeroplane is constantly on the verge of going out of control. This tendency is constantly caught and corrected by the DFLCC (Digital Flight Control Computer), allowing for stable flight. When supersonic, the airplane exhibits positive static stability due to aerodynamic forces acting on the strake section of the wing. F16#Negative_static_stability
  • On November 10, 2005 a 777-200LR set a record for the longest non-stop flight by passenger airliner by flying 11,664 nautical miles (13,422 statute miles, or 21,602 km) eastwards (the westerly Great circle route is only 5,994 miles) from Hong Kong to London, UK. The journey took about 22 hours and 42 minutes. Boeing_777#777-200LR_Worldliner
  • Cardiac muscle is myogenic, meaning that it stimulates its own contraction without a requisite electrical impulse. A single cardiac muscle cell, if left without input, will contract rhythmically at a steady rate; if two cardiac muscle cells are in contact, whichever one contracts first will stimulate the other to contract, and so on.
  • The liver is unique as the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of remaining liver can regenerate into a whole liver again.
  • Since there is a known case in which an Indian elephant and an African elephant have produced a live (though sickly) offspring, it has been theorised that if mammoths were still alive today, they would be able to interbreed with Indian elephants. This has led to the idea that perhaps a mammoth-like beast could be recreated by taking genetic material from a frozen mammoth and combining it with that from a modern Indian elephant. Scientists hope to retrieve the preserved reproductive organs of a frozen mammoth and revive its sperm cells. However, not enough genetic material has been found in frozen mammoths for this to be attempted. Mammoth#Preserved_remains
  • Ostrich eggs can weigh 1.3 kg and are the largest of all eggs (and the largest single cells), though they are actually the smallest eggs relative to the size of the bird. Ostrich#Reproduction
  • In Centralia, Pennsylvania, an exposed vein of coal ignited in 1962 due to a trash fire in the borough landfill, located in an abandoned anthracite strip mine pit. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it continues to burn underground to this day. Coal