Trivia Thread!

[Deimos]

Don't you know anything about lying? Nobody knew it wasn't yours. (I sound like the serpent in the Garden of Eden! Yuck!)

O come now. 🙄 Surely no one assumed it was mine from the get-go.
But I think it right to give attribution to an author/artist when possible, but in this case, no name was given:
"... and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it." 😬

 

[Vorondil]

O come now. 🙄 Surely no one assumed it was mine from the get-go.

No, their's no way that a lump of rock could create something like that.

 

[Eljorahir]

Here's a pretty awesome clip of the brothers passing in the night.

 

[Deimos]

Phobos is slightly larger than Deimos and also closer to Mars, so it travels faster than Deimos.
Also because it is so close to Mars (6000km) gravity is pulling it ever closer, causing it to spiral in.
Eventually it will crash into the planet.

 

[Eljorahir]

Phobos is slightly larger than Deimos and also closer to Mars, so it travels faster than Deimos.
Also because it is so close to Mars (6000km) gravity is pulling it ever closer, causing it to spiral in.
Eventually it will crash into the planet.

I didn't know that.

I just read a few minutes ago that Deimos is going outward and will eventually escape Mars' gravity.

Where then? I don't know, but maybe a planetary collision is inevitable.

 

[Deimos]

No, their's no way that an lump of rock could create something like that.

You are bad; very bad.... Much worse than the worst vaudeville comic 🙄.

 

[Deimos]

I didn't know that.

I just read a few minutes ago that Deimos is going outward and will eventually escape Mars' gravity.

Where then? I don't know, but maybe a planetary collision is inevitable.

Phobos is spiraling in (sorry, I didn't make that clear).
Deimos could be headed outward; its mass is low enough and the gravitational pull from Mars is much weaker.
But the two moons won't ever collide.

 

[Eljorahir]

Phobos it is spiralling in (sorry, I didn't make that clear).
Deimos could be headed outward; its mass is low enough and the gravitational pull from Mars is much weaker.
But the two moons won't ever collide.

No mistake, I worded my post poorly.

I didn't know Phobos was doomed to crash into Mars until your post, but I'd just read Deimos was heading in the other direction.

 

[Deimos]

FWIW ... our own Moon is slowly spiraling away from Earth...might "escape" in 5 billion years or so.

Reminds me of the story...man and wife are watching a "Science" program on the TV.
The Carl Sagan du jour is talking about the sun going nova and then finally dying in 7-8 billion years.

The husband jumps up and starts pacing exclaiming, "OMG... the sun exploding in 7 Million years! OMG."
And his wife says, "No, no, no... he said 7 billion years."
And the man looks at her for a couple of seconds, calms down and says, "Oh.. whew! OK, that's better." And sits down again.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

From a personal injury lawsuit:
Attorney: "How high can you raise your arm now?"
Plaintiff: "I can only raise it this high, and it's very painful".
"And how high could you raise it before the accident?"
"Oh, before the accident, I could raise it this high!".

 

[Vorondil]

If you ever thought that ancient rings of powerful kings, couldn't actually be found by commoners in the most unlikely places.

King Æthelwulf's ring was found in a cart rut in Laverstock in Wiltshire in about August 1780 by one William Petty, who sold it to a silversmith in Salisbury. The silversmith sold it to the Earl of Radnor, and the earl's son, William, donated it to the British Museum in 1829.

(I wonder if it made him disappear)

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

The oldest animation in the world dates back to the bronze age and was founded in the ruins of the burnt city.

 

[Vorondil]

ruins of the burnt city.

The what?

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

The what?

It's an old civilization which was lost(most possibly due to it being burned down) around 3500 BC.
It's located in south-east of Iran,near the city of Zabol.

 

[Vorondil]

King Æthelwulf's ring was found in a cart rut in Laverstock in Wiltshire in about August 1780 by one William Petty, who sold it to a silversmith in Salisbury. The silversmith sold it to the Earl of Radnor, and the earl's son, William, donated it to the British Museum in 1829.

I failed to say that the ring is over one thousand years old. (and yes, it is in fact where I got my username from.)

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

 

[Starbrow]

I believe they are speaking of S-eS.

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

I believe they are speaking of S-eS.

You bettah believe that they are! 😄 😂

 

[Ent]

"True ambidexterity is rare. Approximately 1 percent of the population is ambidextrous. Ambidexterity is also more common in males than females, the 2021 study mentioned earlier suggests."

At last, proof positive more men than women are bad with directions, not knowing whether to go left or right.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

I once took a left turn instead of right and kept going for a while until I realized I was lost. My dad and me were looking for each other for nearly 20 minutes until I realized why I'm lost exactly and came back the way I had left. I was not allowed to leave the house alone since then(this happened in our own town.)