Historical/scientific "facts" that you've discovered aren't true..

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: venkman
Jesus wasn't....

No, I probably shouldn't finish that sentence since this thread could end up being interesting.

I'm going to go with:

-The story of Columbus in 1492 essentially being a complete crock.

-That there wasn't really a spider.

That's actually truer than if you had finished it.

Jesus was a real person, regardless of religion.

Even that can be disputed.

 

[FoBoT]

i always thought pickles were made of bulk beef ,before ATOT disillusioned me 🙁

 

[Cold Steel]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: BrownTown
-the earth isn't any farther from the sun during winter

Depends on which hemisphere you're in.

The hemishperes have nothing to do with how far away the sun is.

At perihelion the sun is 147.3 million kilometers from earth. At aphelion, the sun is 152.1 million kilometers from earth, a difference of 4.8 million kilometers. Last time I checked, the earth was slightly less than 4.8 million kilometers in diameter.

The reason it's warmer in the northern hemisphere in June and warmer in the southern hemisphere in January is because of the tilt of the earth's axis.

 

[Number1]

French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: Cold Steel

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: BrownTown
-the earth isn't any farther from the sun during winter

Depends on which hemisphere you're in.

The hemispheres have nothing to do with how far away the sun is.

At perihelion the sun is 147.3 million kilometers from earth. At aphelion, the sun is 152.1 million kilometers from earth, a difference of 4.8 million kilometers. Last time I checked, the earth was slightly less than 4.8 million kilometers in diameter.

The reason it's warmer in the northern hemisphere in June and warmer in the southern hemisphere in January is because of the tilt of the earth's axis.

But the hemispheres have everything to do with whether perihelion occurs during summer or winter.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

lol, same with metric, short, and long tonnes, all different.

EDIT: and FWIW i wasn't trying to imply that the Western front wasn't very helpfull in ending the war just that the USSR would probably have won *eventually* without it, especially if you assume that the USA is still supplying them and still bombing German cities from the UK. Obviously making it two fronts greatly decreased the span of the war and saved many Soviet lives.

 

[dionx]

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure to be seen from the moon.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: daniel1113

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: venkman
Jesus wasn't....

No, I probably shouldn't finish that sentence since this thread could end up being interesting.

I'm going to go with:

-The story of Columbus in 1492 essentially being a complete crock.

-That there wasn't really a spider.

That's actually truer than if you had finished it.

Jesus was a real person, regardless of religion.

Even that can be disputed.

It could, but it would be a weak argument:

The argument for the existence of Jesus is strengthened because the person of Jesus Christ is mentioned by independent Christian, Jewish, and Roman sources. Obviously the person of Jesus is mentioned quite thoroughly in the New Testament and other early Christian writings but Jesus is also mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus. The fact that Josephus, a practicing Jew and a man who was not actively involved Christian circles and not part of the early church mentions the existence of Jesus of Nazareth in his writings definitely gives credence to the argument for the existence of Jesus Christ. In turn, another of the most credible arguments for the existence of Jesus Christ are the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus. Tacitus was a Roman historian who also mentioned the existence of the crucifixion of Jesus in his writings. In turn, the writings of Tacitus are viewed by historians as crucial to not only understanding early Middle Eastern history but also what we know of early Germanic tribes in Europe. In essence, while the divinity of Jesus is not something that can be proven historically, the historical community is quite sure that a person named Jesus did live in the Middle East two thousand years ago and can look to independent historical sources to strengthen their argument.

Jesus did exist, but I think he was more of a "political activist" than anything else (I'm Catholic too).

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

Phew. I feel better now knowing that I measured my wang with a french ruler. 😛

 

[Throckmorton]

Josephus wrote about a LOT of people named Jesus. Tacitus wrote about Christians in 116AD.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

lol, same with metric, short, and long tonnes, all different.

EDIT: and FWIW i wasn't trying to imply that the Western front wasn't very helpfull in ending the war just that the USSR would probably have won *eventually* without it, especially if you assume that the USA is still supplying them and still bombing German cities from the UK. Obviously making it two fronts greatly decreased the span of the war and saved many Soviet lives.

lol, the ussr wouldn't have won if there was only an eastern front.

 

[ussfletcher]

I agree that Germany would have won in the instance of having only an Eastern front. After all, a good portion of Germany's losses were due to the Russian winter.... Eventually The Germans would discover jackets.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

lol, same with metric, short, and long tonnes, all different.

EDIT: and FWIW i wasn't trying to imply that the Western front wasn't very helpfull in ending the war just that the USSR would probably have won *eventually* without it, especially if you assume that the USA is still supplying them and still bombing German cities from the UK. Obviously making it two fronts greatly decreased the span of the war and saved many Soviet lives.

lol, the ussr wouldn't have won if there was only an eastern front.

Yeah. Considering that places like Leningrad were under siege for years, its clear that Russia didn't have the capability to really push the Germans back.

 

[Cristatus]

The zero was not invented by the Babylonians, but actually the Indians (the Asian kind). Babylonians used it around the 2nd millennium BC, and the Indians used it during the 5th millennium BC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

lol, same with metric, short, and long tonnes, all different.

EDIT: and FWIW i wasn't trying to imply that the Western front wasn't very helpfull in ending the war just that the USSR would probably have won *eventually* without it, especially if you assume that the USA is still supplying them and still bombing German cities from the UK. Obviously making it two fronts greatly decreased the span of the war and saved many Soviet lives.

lol, the ussr wouldn't have won if there was only an eastern front.

Yeah. Considering that places like Leningrad were under siege for years, its clear that Russia didn't have the capability to really push the Germans back.

Don't forget all the equipment that the Allies gave to the Russians during the war.

 

[Mojoed]

The fact that elephants aren't really afraid of mice.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: BrownTown
There are a couple of ones that are obvious now but blew me away when I was a little kid. For example:

-rockets thrust doesn't need ground to push off of
-the earth isn't any farther from the sun during winter

There is also that realization at some point in a person's life where you figure out that "history" (at least what you learn in elementry or high school) is as much propoganda as fact. The winner always writes the hisotry books and far too often people seem to take their accounts at face value. Even in recent hitsory, I rember when I first heard that the USSR killed way more Nazis than the USA did I though it was total BS, but looking at WWII the eastern from is FAR more important than the western front and yet all you hear growing up in America are D-Day and on (which occured after the war was more or less already decided).

Technically the Earth was further away from the sun during the summer (the opposite of what most people expect) than in the winter last year. The difference is negligible and does not influence the seasons at all, but it is a fun fact 😛

Why did you qualify that with "last year"? The earth is closer during the winter *every* year for the Northern Hemisphere. (At which time, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing their summer.)

 

[punchkin]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: Number1
French inches are biger then english inches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG

So 6 french inches equal 6*2.71cm = 16.26cm as compared to 6 imperial inches 6*2.54cm only worth 15.24cm.

I must have been using french inches eroneoulsly.

There is a god.

lol, same with metric, short, and long tonnes, all different.

EDIT: and FWIW i wasn't trying to imply that the Western front wasn't very helpfull in ending the war just that the USSR would probably have won *eventually* without it, especially if you assume that the USA is still supplying them and still bombing German cities from the UK. Obviously making it two fronts greatly decreased the span of the war and saved many Soviet lives.

lol, the ussr wouldn't have won if there was only an eastern front.

Yeah. Considering that places like Leningrad were under siege for years, its clear that Russia didn't have the capability to really push the Germans back.

Yes, of course... it's interesting how AT posters can rewrite history, isn't it? The Nazis caused over three million deaths in Russia and pushed to within miles of Moscow, which if it had been taken would have broken the Russian resistance. And yet the Nazi war machine didn't have enough resources to take Russia, hmm?

EDIT: My sarcasm meter may be busted, and if so I apologize.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
There are a couple of ones that are obvious now but blew me away when I was a little kid. For example:

-rockets thrust doesn't need ground to push off of
-the earth isn't any farther from the sun during winter

There is also that realization at some point in a person's life where you figure out that "history" (at least what you learn in elementry or high school) is as much propoganda as fact. The winner always writes the hisotry books and far too often people seem to take their accounts at face value. Even in recent hitsory, I rember when I first heard that the USSR killed way more Nazis than the USA did I though it was total BS, but looking at WWII the eastern from is FAR more important than the western front and yet all you hear growing up in America are D-Day and on (which occured after the war was more or less already decided).

Germany invaded Russia in June of 1941.

The US didn't face German troops until November 1942.

And then you have to figure in the fact that it wasn't until we invaded Italy and Germany that we faced them everyday none stop. Meanwhile the Russians faced them everyday for 4+ years.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Blueychan
there was WMD in Iraq

Don't tell that to jpeyton.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: venkman
-The story of Columbus in 1492 essentially being a complete crock.

What?

 

[ProfJohn]

The book 1776 taught me that Washington was not a great general, at least at the start of the war. And the whole crossing the Delaware thing was luck more than anything else.

Read about the battle of New York and see how the Brits just ran circles around Washington. Of course during that time frame New York was nearly impossible to defend without a large navy to block the rivers.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
This historical reenactment changed my life.

LOL ahahahahahaha.

 

[invidia]

Black/White supremacist groups gathered together and even formed alliances against a common, more hated enemy: The Jew.


Never knew that black supremacist groups had alliances with white Aryan groups, such as the KKK to stand against the Jews.

 

[daveymark]

Gypsies origintated in India