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Sion · 07-19-2003, 06:04 AM

"holy fuck. i was NOT expecting that!!!"

- I knew that.

"What is Leeloo's full name from The Fifth Element?

Oh and... your response to what "d/dx" is wasn't very adequate. "d/dx" is the same thing as f', which both denote derivative."

-first question: dunno, been a LONG time since I saw that movie. good flick though.
second question: I thought so, but wasnt sure, which is why I gave the smartass answer. I havent done any kind of higher math in about 15 yrs.

"I hope your Einstein-Bose is a joke, it sounds like it, but I'm not sure

How about enlightening us about the origins of the computer-mouse?"

-first question: hmmm, yer not sure? I guess I'll have to work on my humor.
second question: computer mice were invented by some lazy nerd who was too lazy to remember all the commands necessary to work an OS from a command line.

"I like where this is going.

There is a medium sized pond near my house. It is fed by rainwater only. It teems with fish from minnows to bluegills to large mouth bass. How did they get there?

(No, it wasn't stocked)"

-Actually, yes it was stocked, just not by you. There is a little known branch of the Fish and Game commission whose job it is to see that all ponds throughout the country that are large enough to support piscine life are stocked surreptitiously in the middle of the night. I did some checking with them (my cousin's mother's brother's daughter's nieghbor's best friend from grade school works for them) and in your case, the pond was stocked via the newest method: high altitude low speed dehydrated injection. basically, this entails firing several dozen "pills" of compressed dried fish eggs from a near space orbit. upoon hitting the water, the "pills" dissolve and viola! soon you have a nicely stocked pond.

"also, how come the sky is blue?" - of all the colors in the visible spectrum, those at the blue end have the shortest wavelength (or is it frequency. no, im pretty sure it's wavelength.) as such, as the light from the sun passes through the atmosphere, the blue gets "stuck" in the stratosphere due to its short wavelength. hence, blue sky. besides, who'd want to see a green sky, yuck.

"And the sea for that matter?" - the sea really isnt blue, it just reflects the color of the sky.

"Can you tell me what happens when a plane passes the sound-barrier? I know it makes a bang, but why?" - sonic boom occurs because sound has a relatively low speed (approximately 750mph, depending on variable atmospheric conditions). now, when a plane exceeds that speed, the sounds it is generating create a kind of feedback loop that keeps building until an explosion is created. if a person was standing in exactly the right spot (ie the epicenter of the sonic explosion) he would be blown to bits by the force of the blast. note: this is also how Sonic the Hedgehog came to be. He was too close to a sonic boom and experienced a mutation as a result of absorbing the energy of one of these explosions.

"Or why an ambulance's siren changes pitch when it passes you?" - doppler effect

"How come when you put a little pingpong ball in a stream of air(like from a vacuum set to blow), it floats there in place, instead of floating off to the side and dropping down?" - because in most cases, the ball is small enough to "fit inside" the column of air. try the same thing with a volley ball and see what happens.

"Why does a tiny piece of paper in a glass of water always drift to the side of the glass?" - molecular motion gets it moving and surface tension pulls it against the glass wall once it drifts close enough

"What's with iron bending perfectly, but when you bend it back and forth, it breaks?" - actually, the premise here is flawed. unless heated, iron does not bend perfectly. however the cracks that are created arent usually large enough to see until you bend it enough times to create lots of them. in any case, the molecular structure of any solid is how it holds its shape. bending iron without first heating it causes the molecular bonds to be stretched or even broken, depending on how far the piece is bent. if you heat it first, though, the bonds will come loose to a degree that you can bend it without damage. then as it cools, those bonds reform.

"Why do we call it an encyclopedia?" - coz thesaurus was already taken.

"Which is hotter, molten sugar, or molten salt? And why?" - you mean at their respective melting points, right? and the answer is sugar, because it is a much more complex molecule than salt.

07-19-2003, 06:04 AM	#20 (permalink)
Sion Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.	"holy fuck. i was NOT expecting that!!!" - I knew that. "What is Leeloo's full name from The Fifth Element? Oh and... your response to what "d/dx" is wasn't very adequate. "d/dx" is the same thing as f', which both denote derivative." -first question: dunno, been a LONG time since I saw that movie. good flick though. second question: I thought so, but wasnt sure, which is why I gave the smartass answer. I havent done any kind of higher math in about 15 yrs. "I hope your Einstein-Bose is a joke, it sounds like it, but I'm not sure How about enlightening us about the origins of the computer-mouse?" -first question: hmmm, yer not sure? I guess I'll have to work on my humor. second question: computer mice were invented by some lazy nerd who was too lazy to remember all the commands necessary to work an OS from a command line. "I like where this is going. There is a medium sized pond near my house. It is fed by rainwater only. It teems with fish from minnows to bluegills to large mouth bass. How did they get there? (No, it wasn't stocked)" -Actually, yes it was stocked, just not by you. There is a little known branch of the Fish and Game commission whose job it is to see that all ponds throughout the country that are large enough to support piscine life are stocked surreptitiously in the middle of the night. I did some checking with them (my cousin's mother's brother's daughter's nieghbor's best friend from grade school works for them) and in your case, the pond was stocked via the newest method: high altitude low speed dehydrated injection. basically, this entails firing several dozen "pills" of compressed dried fish eggs from a near space orbit. upoon hitting the water, the "pills" dissolve and viola! soon you have a nicely stocked pond. "also, how come the sky is blue?" - of all the colors in the visible spectrum, those at the blue end have the shortest wavelength (or is it frequency. no, im pretty sure it's wavelength.) as such, as the light from the sun passes through the atmosphere, the blue gets "stuck" in the stratosphere due to its short wavelength. hence, blue sky. besides, who'd want to see a green sky, yuck. "And the sea for that matter?" - the sea really isnt blue, it just reflects the color of the sky. "Can you tell me what happens when a plane passes the sound-barrier? I know it makes a bang, but why?" - sonic boom occurs because sound has a relatively low speed (approximately 750mph, depending on variable atmospheric conditions). now, when a plane exceeds that speed, the sounds it is generating create a kind of feedback loop that keeps building until an explosion is created. if a person was standing in exactly the right spot (ie the epicenter of the sonic explosion) he would be blown to bits by the force of the blast. note: this is also how Sonic the Hedgehog came to be. He was too close to a sonic boom and experienced a mutation as a result of absorbing the energy of one of these explosions. "Or why an ambulance's siren changes pitch when it passes you?" - doppler effect "How come when you put a little pingpong ball in a stream of air(like from a vacuum set to blow), it floats there in place, instead of floating off to the side and dropping down?" - because in most cases, the ball is small enough to "fit inside" the column of air. try the same thing with a volley ball and see what happens. "Why does a tiny piece of paper in a glass of water always drift to the side of the glass?" - molecular motion gets it moving and surface tension pulls it against the glass wall once it drifts close enough "What's with iron bending perfectly, but when you bend it back and forth, it breaks?" - actually, the premise here is flawed. unless heated, iron does not bend perfectly. however the cracks that are created arent usually large enough to see until you bend it enough times to create lots of them. in any case, the molecular structure of any solid is how it holds its shape. bending iron without first heating it causes the molecular bonds to be stretched or even broken, depending on how far the piece is bent. if you heat it first, though, the bonds will come loose to a degree that you can bend it without damage. then as it cools, those bonds reform. "Why do we call it an encyclopedia?" - coz thesaurus was already taken. "Which is hotter, molten sugar, or molten salt? And why?" - you mean at their respective melting points, right? and the answer is sugar, because it is a much more complex molecule than salt. __________________ He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...