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Top 10 Most Commonly Thought Things That Are Wrong
Topic Started: Aug 22 2006, 04:24 AM (126 Views)
cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Top 10 Most Commonly Thought Things That Are Wrong

1.) Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world
2.) The Earth is Round
3.) Centrifugal forces
4.) Seagulls
5.) Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space
6.) Direction water takes down the plughole depends on the hemisphere you are in
7.) There are no countries called as Holland or England
8.) The South & North Poles
9.) Killer Whales
10.) You only use 10% of your Brain


Explanations at link...
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DraginRat
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I could find just five of the ten listed, and it would appear that there is some issues with those five. I think it all depends on how you define certain criteria. Again, it is a matter of one using the "facts" to validate one's views.

Ken Gasbarri
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TexasShadow
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it's the way the statements are worded.

the highest mountain on earth would be one of the hawaiian peaks because they rise from the ocean floor, something like 19000 feet before they appear above water.
the first man in space... was the first one to get up out of the earth's atmosphere..
Alan Shepherd?? or was it a russian?
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cmoehle
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"I could find just five of the ten listed...."

You're right. Hmmm, when I read the article yesterday, it included not just explanations for all 10, plus a reference section for supporting data. Looks like they deleted some.

You're absolutely right, the value of a view, or opinion, is determined by the facts that support it, the facts it addresses in explanation. Er, well, if you take a scientific sort of approach to things. There are other approaches, faith-based for example, just make it up for another, lol.
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cmoehle
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Here's another link to a different site with complete explanation: http://www.thekn0wledge.com/?p=24, or http://science.netscape.com/viewstory/2006...3D24&frame=true

I guess I was wrong about the reference section, don't see it anywhere.
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jrf
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Use of the word "infer."
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jrf
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I usually tell folks the Earth is shaped like a basketball with a fat person sitting on it.

I also use the term Dunce Cap when explaining conic map projections.

For Mercator I use the tried and true tennis ball in a clear can explanation.

"Highest" now they go center of the Earth. Anybody ever been there? I hear its hot. Point of reference is important. I can now lay claim to an extra few inches in length. Its not the end that counts, its where you start measuring from.

I call it England all the time. Might be incorrect, but that's what I call it.

North Pole. I once gave away a tract of land surrounding the North Pole. Describes as"

Beginning at [described the North Pole], thence 100 feet South, thence west to the point of beginning. It was a small tract. Nobody has tossed me in jail yet. There is a man holding a Quit Claim Deed from US Gov't to that tract of land. Wherever it is.
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