TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, February 27, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

My professor had to cancel class a couple of weeks ago because she was sick, so last week we discussed when we could meet for a make-up class. I don't know what was more sad - the fact that when she asked us if we could meet on Friday night, everybody was free, or how overly excited we were when she offered to buy us pizza for showing up.

Apparently, the thought of free pizza was more than enough incentive for us to sit for a three-hour class on Friday night. Thankfully, I really enjoy this class and like all of my fellow classmates, so I actually didn't mind it! Plus, you can't beat free pizza!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

HINT: (1709-1784), English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In ancient times, without interference from streetlights or urban pollution, comets could be seen by everyone. Their sudden appearance was interpreted as an omen of nature and was used by astrologers to predict flood, famine, pestilence, or the death of a king.

Comets are composed mostly of ice and dust that grows tails when they approach the sun. All comets have a nucleus made of hard rock/ice. As the comet approaches the sun, solar energy begins to heat the ice and vaporize it.

The longest comet nucleus ever recorded had a measurement of 42 miles. The shortest comet nucleus measured 0.3 miles.

The first usable photographs of a comet's nucleus were taken by the European Space Agency's Giotto spacecraft as it flew close to Halley's Comet in 1986.

Compared to the solar system, comets are tiny. Like asteroids, they are bits of debris left over from when the Universe first started.

A comet can have more than one tail. The DeCheseaux comet fanned out like a peacock and had seven.


VIDEO CLIP
Looney Tunes - Particle Man
Watch Looney Toons great video of They Might Be Giants 'Particle Man'. Plucky plays a pro-wrestler who has to battle Triangle Man, Universe Man, and then he becomes Person Man.

Watch It Now: Looney Tunes - Particle Man



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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

ANSWER: Samuel Johnson.

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