Useless Information & Trivia Thread

[cuppabillytea]

I think Digger might have a cast iron recollection of the entire life of Brian. Does that make him a biographer?

[Disco Muppet]

No, he's just a very naughty boy

[DiscoMick]

As Baldrick might ask, does he have a cunning plan?

[DiscoMick]

Mercury doesn't have sunrises or sunsets because the 475 degrees C temperature has burned off the atmosphere.
Also, spaceships can't land on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they are gas.

[Eevo]

Mercury doesn't have sunrises or sunsets because the 475 degrees C temperature has burned off the atmosphere.

it's only that hot on the sunny side.

[kogvos]

Also, spaceships can't land on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they are gas.

There goes my Christmas holiday plan.

[DiscoMick]

it's only that hot on the sunny side.

True, it's minus 170 on the other side.

[cuppabillytea]

There goes my Christmas holiday plan.

Leave the defender and take a boat. The gas will be liquid at some point.

[cripesamighty]

A Land Rover boat would be no good as it would leak, especially at the pressure that liquid would be present!

[DiscoMick]

If only we could cool and compress that gas and pipe it to Earth.