Funny Captcha Challenges

[Celadon's Penultimate]

At least somebody's rooting for me...much obliged for your words.

I mean, I don't wish Dryad anything bad, it's just I'd like to hold SOME kind of record here...

Biggest planet: Phi

Most powers made: Wish (maybe going to be Dryad soon)

Most technical knowledge: Ves and/or Phi

Most webcomic knowledge/expertise: Zale

Eldest: spydyr

Biggest fanboy: Bug

Most chaotic: Jester

Most strategical: Myself and/or Neo

And the list goes on...

[Philote]

I'm in the running for most technical knowledge?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Website design contest...

And plus, Justin made the site so we know you don't know the ABSOLUTE most about technology of all of us here...

[neogenetica]

Welcome!Yeah, I think me and Myself DO always try to outstrategize each other.

[Philote]

Touché

[Celadon's Penultimate]

  I think it's pretty accurate, but feel free to critique it. It's not exactly meant as a comprehensive list...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly if any of the others are technically literate, but so far you're the only one I know of who does that kind of thing.

[Vespert]

@Shadowulf1: Oh, really? You're being too modest
You're the one who contributes the most to the RP, you posted the most comments on the forums, you're probably the earliest user of the List who's still active (you're profile number 70!), you know a lot about mythology, religion,...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Aw, shucks...

Well, I do appreciate the recognition. But still...would be nice to be the biggest contributor of abilities.

[neogenetica]

I'm pretty sure you have quantity AND quality down. Plus don't you already have tons more powers you created in stories years ago?

[Myself]

What about largest ball of useless (or seemingly useless) knowledge? I grab that title; for instance, did you know that:
1) Chocolate was originally made by the Aztecs, but it wasn't until the Spanish came that it was thought of to add sugar to make the delicious treat we all love?
2) Americans began to drink coffee (as opposed to tea) to defy the British during the War of Independence?
3) Weight may be at least partially regulated by the hormones produced by the bones?
4) David Tennet, a savant, recited pi to 3,500 digits in 3.5 hours?
5) Our atmosphere (78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% other gases) on an atmosphere of mainly Carbon Dioxide (e.g. Venus's atmosphere) would have 60% of the lifting power Helium does on Earth?
6) Helium was named after the Greek god Helios because it was discovered in the corona (equivalent of atmosphere) of the sun during a solar eclipse, before being discovered on Earth about 14 years later?
7) Aerogel (or "frozen smoke") is such a good insulator you can hold it up to a blowtorch and your otherwise exposed hand will not even get warm?
8) The first few digits of pi (off the top of my head, without rounding up) are 3.1415926537?

Things I have done:
1) I have been to a university lecture on Einsteinium Physics during primary school and enjoyed it? Sure, the lecturer was a family friend and he was a good teacher, but it is still worth a mention.
2) I have been to a Jane Goodall speech and talked to her in person?

I think you will agree with my statement after this post.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I knew six of those facts, not including your own personal accomplishments at the bottom.

1,2,3,5,6,8

And yes, I agree, you, like my teacher Mrs. Wells, are a big compendium of "very obscure, yet totally useful in a trivia game or game show" knowledge.

I'm probably in the second running:

1) Africa's name etymology is postulated to come from the Greek, but they're not sure exactly the translation. It could come from "a" (without) and "phrike" (horror); OR it could come from "aphrikos" (foamy)
2) Praying mantises are nearly the only species that kill one of their mates in the process of reproduction
3) According to phonetics, fish may also be spelled "ghoti", and if this word is put into an electronic word reader, it will pronounce it as such
4) The four-dimensional equivalent of a square is a hypercube or tesseract; the four-dimensional equivalent of a circle is a hypersphere, which resembles a ring
5) The Pokemon Pikachu gets its name from a combination of "chu" the Japanese word for a mouses squeak and "pika" a small rodent (which looks nothing like the actual Pikachu)
6) The picture of the yin-yang symbol is actually called the "taijitu"
7) Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku, two of the most intellectual minds in the fields of space exploration and physics today, believe in the possibility of aliens
8) Ancient Muslims used only geometric figures to decorate their mosques; they considered the depiction of people and creatures in their holy place as idolatry
9) A "hapax legomenon" is a word that only occurs once within a language; in addition to "floccinaucinihilipilification", "hapax legomenon" itself is a hapax legomenon
10) The longest word actually USED in the English language is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", with "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" and "floccinaucinihilipilification" coming in second and third respectively
11) Some of the darkest people in the world are not even African; they are aboriginal Australian! (thought I should add that last one, even though I'm sure Myself knows it as well...)

Not much interesting about my educational history, seeing as how I am freaking poor, but I am the best speller I know.

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[Celadon's Penultimate]

Not to toot your own horn...

[Vespert]

Shadowulf1 wrote

5) The Pokemon Pikachu gets its name from a combination of "chu" the Japanese word for a mouses squeak and "pika" a small rodent (which looks nothing like the actual Pikachu)

Doesn't "pika" mean electricity, glitter or light? In One Piece, Kizaru ate the pika pika no mi, allowing him to become light (I mean the element).

Shadowulf1 wrote

10) The longest word actually USED in the English language is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", with "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" and "floccinaucinihilipilification" coming in second and third respectively
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I am the best speller I know.

Don't tell me you actually typed those words

Here are my bits of useless trivia I know:
1) During international tennis tournaments, there's a strict height limit for the ball boys and girls. Because if they are too tall, they may hide the sponsors.
2) Have you ever noticed how the moon seems bigger the closer it is to the horizon? It's an optical illusion.
3) Link is left-handed... except in the Wii version of Twilight Princess and in the upcoming game. -_-
4) Suffocating because you have a plant in your room while you sleep is a myth.
5) Pong being the very first video game is a myth too.
6) And so is Santa Claus being red because of Coca-Cola.
7) Side-blotched lizards have a particular mating behavior, which rules are very similar to a game of rock-paper-scissors.
8) Planned obsolescence is what makes the price of the ink higher than the price of a printer, cellphones only work correctly for two years, clothes fray easily, lightbulbs die early, a lot of softwares not supported by newer versions of a system, women want to buy new clothes and men new cars,...
9) Calculators, cash registers and computer keyboards have a numeric keypad arranged in the same order. Telephones and ATMs use a different order.
10) You have to put eye protection to watch an eclipse, not because the sunlight is stronger during eclipses as many people think, it's actually weaker but you don't usually look directly at the sun for a long period of time when there's nothing to see there.
11) Silly putty displays a different state of matter depending on time. It is a solid during a short time period, and a liquid during a long time period.
12) The ring finger shares some muscles with the middle finger and the pinkie. It cannot be fully extended separately by most people.
13) The number 4 is considered an unlucky number in some Asian countries, because it sounds lke their word for "death".

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The word "pika", likely a coincidence, which makes the naming all the better.

And, no, I didn't type those words, I had to look it up, despite knowing what it was.

And of those facts, I knew 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13 (that's a record, considering my race and the part of Florida I live in ).

[Myself]

Some arsenic-related facts:
1) Arsenic is deadly because it is directly under phosphorus. This means organisms who ingest it think it is phosphorus due to it's chemical composition, which is stable and non water soluble, but arsenic does not share property and their DNA begins to break down due to the presence of water.
2) There is a lake which is filled with arsenic in the USA. It is up in some mountains, which allow water to run down into the lake, carrying arsenic from the ground into the lake. Since it has no rivers leading to the sea, the water evaporates, leaving the arsenic concentration to continually rise.
3) In said lake, there are bacteria which have replaced the phosphorus in their DNA, allowing them to thrive here despite the scarcity of phosphorus. Whether they developed separately (such as riding a meteor to Earth and landing on the mountains around or even directly in the lake) or they evolved away their phosphorus in favor of arsenic is unclear, but it is still a fantastic finding.

Some other facts:
1) Humans have enough Sulfur in our body to kill all the fleas on the average dog and enough iron to make six steel nails.
2) If our lungs  (from one person) were stretched out, including the alveoli (tiny air sacs within the lung), they would cover an area the size of a tennis court. The intestines would reach the same size.
3) Some people ingested tapeworms to lose weight, with some still doing so.
4) Some animals are biologically immortal; they can live indefinitely (but generally don't).

I can keep going.

[Zaleramancer]

Like certain kinds of jellyfish.

They do the equivalent of returning to being a child whenever they get too old.

[Myself]

Yes. I find it quite interesting.

There are also microscopic organisms in ponds which have the same potential of living forever.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Shockingly enough (sarcasm), humans are working to have the same potential. A black female cancer patient from the 1950's has a cancer tumor that basically outlived HER. Still alive today, and they currently study it in an undisclosed location to see why the heck it's still growing after all these years.