Useless (but interesting) trivia

[ShadesOfBloo]

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. That's 243 Earth days to rotate once, and 225 Earth days to complete one orbit of the Sun.

Also,
There are very few photos of Venus showing what it really looks like in visible light.
The vast majority of photos are from some wavelength we can't see, or take some artistic license to make it more interesting.
In a true color photo, Venus is mostly a plain, white sphere.

This picture was labeled as being true color, and I still think it's suspiciously colorful.

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[1emglenn]

Also,
There are very few photos of Venus showing what it really looks like in visible light.
The vast majority of photos are from some wavelength we can't see, or take some artistic license to make it more interesting.
In a true color photo, Venus is mostly a plain, white sphere.

This picture was labeled as being true color, and I still think it's suspiciously colorful.

Yes but it makes a great bright evening and morning star. Which is interesting since it is in fact a planet.

 

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[HoosierDaddy]

Only a bad transaction if he wasn't able to parley that $800 into more than $35 billion.

 

[Vlad Soare]

I'm not sure about that. It would be worth $35 billion if it were 10% of Apple today. But the shares he held were worth 10% of a little, barely known start-up, not 10% of today's behemoth. That little start-up has grown massively over time, and I would expect those shares of his to have diluted considerably in the process.
Actually, come to think of it, by the time Apple started to mean something on the market, even Steve Jobs's shares had got so badly diluted that he could be fired from his own company, which now wasn't his anymore. Which means this guy's shares must have fared even worse.

 

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William Friedkin had a shotgun with blank shells that he’d shoot off on the sound stage during breaks, while filming The Exorcist. It scared the daylights out of everybody, and after a few times he was asked to stop. The actors didn’t find it funny. What they didn’t know was that their reactions were being filmed – and later inserted into the movie as their reaction when Regan made a sound upstairs.

 

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[compprep]

I'd argue some ARE children!!!!

 

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[HoosierDaddy]

I always wondered why Ted Turner never colorized the start of the movie.

 

[Vlad Soare]

So the film was in color, but the world was black and white?
I guess Calvin's dad was right.

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