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GoneShootin

What I want here are question that you have presonally wondered about, either for a long time or just now. No googling to make up questions allowed.

A resource of answers to weird and wonderful question is the aim.


Gone asks

Why does Snot taste so nice but Ear Wax tastes vile ?

scojones

because snot has more oxygen in it. you breath thru your nose, not your ears, hense ear wax is rotten. I have a question:

Why do your pubes keep falling out?

Carbiens

probably too much exercise sorry, its not just your pubes, you lose about 100,000 strands of hair a day from all over you body.

what is fire? not how, or why is it, but WHAT is it, what exactely is its composition or whatever?

Tusky

its hot ! emmmm what came first the pope or micheal jackson ?

GoneShootin

Tusky, PROPER questions only please. If you have a real answer, give it.

otherwise...stfu



Carbine


Gone asks

How is Ear Wax formed ?

Sposs

why do we fart?

daveirl

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Gordon

Why do we have ear wax?

What is fire?

My question - why do I never seem to have any money?

oops, sorry I googled for the answers, sorry.

Typedef

More to the point you got girlfriend Vietnam?

Me so horny.... me love you long time

GoneShootin

Gordon

No googling to make up questions allowed.

I didnt say anything about googling for answers

CuLT

My question is...

When did ninja smiley appear? :ninja:

seamus

Today. DeV added it. :ninja:

Why does it always rain, just as I take my bike out of the garage?

GoneShootin

answer to ninja icon

SoundWave

why do birds.. suddely appear.... every time... you are near??

Pompey Magnus

if light only travels in a straight line why aren't shadows pitch black?

Hyzepher

They would be if there was only one light source or no light reflected.

Q - Whay do we still use money?

Hyzepher

Gordon

Because it is lovely when you roll in it

Hobart

Originally posted by spandauballet
if light only travels in a straight line why aren't shadows pitch black?

I beg to differ. Light does not 'always' travel in a straight line. It can, and is, sometimes bent by gravity!!!

And the reason shadws are not pitch black is because light is bounced/reflected off many sources and a shadow is lightened by this light! (I think)

My question is why can't we just forget about commercalisim and feed everybody? (I am serious BTW)

Victor

Originally posted by Hobart
I beg to differ. Light does not 'always' travel in a straight line. It can, and is, sometimes bent by gravity!!! And the reason shadws are not pitch black is because light is bounced/reflected off many sources and a shadow is lightened by this light! (I think)

You forget refraction, where light (or any other wave) bends around a corner (for example hold a pencil up to the light).

Originally posted by Hobart
My question is why can't we just forget about commercalisim and feed everybody? (I am serious BTW)

Because people are greedy.

Sangre

Do you mean Diffraction Vic?

:ninja:

:eek:

Freeshack

which came first, chicken or the egg?

daveirl

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seamus

Originally posted by daveirl
The egg.

OK whatever came just before the chicken wasn't exactly a chicken yet but nearly had the genetic characteristics of a modern day chicken.

When two of these animals mated a new animal was created and here is where the genetic mutation occured.

So now the two parents had inside their egg, the offspring which didn't have the same genetics as their parents.

Anyone folllowing?

Ah but dave, here's the killer - that 'real' chicken would have to mate with one its gentically inferior brethren, as the chances of a similar mutation occuring within that chicken's lifetime and within a reasonable radius of chicken would be infinitesimal.

So it's fair to say that the chicken came and went and now what we have are inferior versions of a real chicken created millions of years ago.

Kappar

I'm not very mathamatically inclined so forgive but
My question is if pi is the number of times the diameter of a circle goes into the circumfrence (Spelling's not my forté either ) if i got a peice of Proverbial string the length of the diameter and wraped it around the circle it would go around ~ 3.14 times but never get to the other side.

Am i Right* or am i Right*

When your good your good when your better you're KAppar


*Nothwithstanding any other meaning "Right" shall mean wrong.

seamus

Ummm...no. It would go 1/3.14 th of the way or 0.318181818181818......etc times around.

Why do your eyes start to get all stingy and sore after sitting at a computer too long?

Giblet

Because your eyes dry up.

Why is there no such thing as B# or E#

Gordon

Either due to the bright light and the fact you are keeping them open with less blinking or the fact that someone is behind you blowing sawdust in your line of sight.

And Giblets - there is - its C or F, one can even have B## which would be C#. The reason why is because of musical genetic mutation. There used to be less notes in Medieval Britain afaik and there are more notes in some Eastern cultures. Actually I don't have a clue.

Who knows where one can buy a load of pigs blood with no questions asked?

Hobart

Originally posted by Victor
You forget refraction, where light (or any other wave) bends around a corner (for example hold a pencil up to the light).

Eh... No I don't Light waves still travel in straight lines through refraction. In fact Air refracts light so what you are seeing is not exactly what is there from a light perspective. That does not mean that once the light hits a more dense matieral that it suddendly decides change the way it travels. The waves still go straight.

However AFAIK gravity is the only force that can trully bend light. I think the theory of a black hole might prove this (from memory)

Another question:

Why are shoe sizes graded different here from the USA?

Gordon

Everything is different in the USA! reason being - they want to create the world around them in their image and not take on other ideologies

If it takes 7 or so years to become a doctor - why on earth do they not know about "phages"? A phage being a virus that eats a specific microbe. Many phages are being grown in Georgia (the ex Russia place), and have been for 50 years, and curing the sick instead of antibiotics but are not known in Western science.

Amz

Very true Gordon these Macrophages are produced within each of us in several locations particularly the liver the lymph nodes and the brain...They are vital components of the innate immune system....


How is DOMS cured (Delayed onset muscle soreness which happens following exercise) and it's not caused by lactic acid

Hobart

Originally posted by Amz

How is DOMS cured (Delayed onset muscle soreness which happens following exercise) and it's not caused by lactic acid

Depends who you ask. Some people say rest, some people say water, some people say magnectics. I say rest. Oh! and I don't think it can be actually cured. Just allievation of the symptions.

Amz

Yeah i realised after id posted that cured was the wrong choice of word but as always laziness and the giant bar of galaxy chocolate which has been keeping me occupied for the past while took priority!

Mmmmmmmm....... Chocolate.......

Sangre

Originally posted by Gordon
Everything is different in the USA! reason being - they want to create the world around them in their image and not take on other ideologies

If it takes 7 or so years to become a doctor - why on earth do they not know about "phages"? A phage being a virus that eats a specific microbe. Many phages are being grown in Georgia (the ex Russia place), and have been for 50 years, and curing the sick instead of antibiotics but are not known in Western science.

I think thats a bit of an exagerration Gordon, considering you study them in LC Biology

CuLT

He studies nothing of the sort, I have flicked thru the biology book and there is nothing about phages.

There are bacteriophages mention somewhere, but I may remember that from Startrek or something as I can't find it in the book .

You may be thinking of phagocyte which is another name for a granulocyte which kills bacteria.

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Why does this blatantly lie?

Pompey Magnus

The poll on eye colour got me wondering, what is the part of the eye with the colour used for and why do we have such a variety of colours?

Amz

The colour is determined by pigmenation

That's why generally people who have paler skin have blue eyes

People who have albinism are know to have pink eyes this is due to a lack of any pigment although it is a myth that all people with albinism have pink eyes.

The iris itself is controlled by two groups of muscles these contract and expand the iris to control the amount of light which enters the eye through the pupil (which is in fact a small hole in the sclera or white part of the eye.

The colour of the iris isn't particularly relavent to the function of the eye it is mainly just due to pigmentation.


PS sykerial we're currently studying immunology as a part of our course and there is a lot known about macrophages although you're right they aren't studied for leaving cert biology although perhaps they are in the new syllabus. Macrophages are being produce by many biopharmaceutical companies these days as an alternative to antibiotics etc....

DISCLAIMER: the author wishes to apologise for any inaccuracies within this post

mooman_00

Originally posted by Gordon

Who knows where one can buy a load of pigs blood with no questions asked?

www.pigsblooddelivered.com

it takes about two days to deliver, their service is very good....the blood is always fresh, no clots or pathogens......not that ive ever delt with them or anything.......


if everyone ignored you and you began to doubt your own existence would you cease to be?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i can't believe I actually clicked that link

Pompey Magnus

Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, 'My name is Bob, and I am an alcoholic'? and
if I own a piece of land do I own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

Hyzepher

Why dont we use sea water for flushing the loo?

Hyzepher

Hobart

Originally posted by spandauballet
Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, 'My name is Bob, and I am an alcoholic'? and
if I own a piece of land do I own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

Because everybody is called Bob in there!!:p No because it probably holds no records of who attends and you can call yourself anything and nobody would question it.

Originally posted by spandauballet
Why dont we use sea water for flushing the loo?

We do. Where do you think it comes from? i.e. Sea evaporates/Cloud get heavy/Rain falls/Water to loo.

Question me this. Why is ther an S in Lisp? And why are Truncate and Abbreviation such long words?

BTW :ninja: Nice Smile GO Ninja

Pompey Magnus

Heres a couple more,how much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there, why dosn't superglue stick inside the bottle and who oh who was the first person to look at a cow and say "I think I'll go over there and tug at those dangly bits and drink what comes out?"

seamus

Originally posted by spandauballet
Heres a couple more,how much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there, why dosn't superglue stick inside the bottle and who oh who was the first person to look at a cow and say "I think I'll go over there and tug at those dangly bits and drink what comes out?"

Sponges don't compress water, so, to remove all of the sponges, you would actually be removing the dry weight of all of the sponges, and so probably lowering the sea level (fractionally).

Dunno about superglue. Prolly to do with it reacting with air to dry or something, so only the glue at the nib gets dry and you have to poke it in with a pin

Someone probably saw a calf sucking on the mother's teats and thought "I'll give that a go", and hey presto!


Why is there always sand in your sandwiches at the beach, even though you had them sealed in an airtight, watertight container?

mooman_00

Originally posted by seamus
Why is there always sand in your sandwiches at the beach, even though you had them sealed in an airtight, watertight container?

cuz you usally get covered in sand at the beach, ie a fine layer of not too obivious sand covering your body....you transfer this to the sandwiches when you go to touch them....hence the sand.....now if you and the sandwiches were n an airtight container, thats a different story..........

why are womens breasts bigger when it is men who get the most enjoyment out of them?

Amz

Come over here and I'll explain it to you...

maxheadroom

Originally posted by Cultellus
He studies nothing of the sort, I have flicked thru the biology book and there is nothing about phages.

There are bacteriophages mention somewhere, but I may remember that from Startrek or something as I can't find it in the book .

You may be thinking of phagocyte which is another name for a granulocyte which kills bacteria.

Ok, here we go:

Macrophages (or MØ) are cells in the immune system. They are granulocytes (because they contain granules of various immune response mediating compounds), and they can act by phagocytocis to "eat up" invading pathogens.

A bacteriophage is a type of virus which attacks bacteria. They are in the old LC biology book, dunno about the new one (its been nearly 2 years...).

And, to answer the question, they are used in western medicine, there is a lot of promising research into novel cancer treatments which alter gene expression by means of using a virus to modify the genetic code of tumor cells, to name one example. They tend to get used by gene therapy researchers a lot too.

Ivan

Why does fire always point upwards?

And

Why did humans evolve as breathing oxygen?
If nitrogen so common shouldnt we evolve as breathing that instead?

And

If a tree falls, does it make a sound?

bug

if I own a piece of land do I own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

I wouldn't say so consider the building of the Dublin Port Tunnel, which is going under people houses.
But if you did own it all the way down to the core it would just get smaller and smaller until you'd end up with something the size of the nib of a pen. (or a dublin city centre apartment).

maxheadroom

Originally posted by Ivan
Why did humans evolve as breathing oxygen?
If nitrogen so common shouldnt we evolve as breathing that instead?

1. Nitrogen is chemically inert in its standard form (N2), so it couldn't take part in any biochemical reactions
2. And, if the percentages were reversed, the ppO2 in your lungs would apprach toxic levels...

daveirl

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oneweb

Originally posted by Hyzepher
Why dont we use sea water for flushing the loo?

Hyzepher

Probably 'cos the cost of maintaining two water systems (filtered & unfiltered) would be far greater than the cost of flushing filtered water.


Were they taking the piss when they named the condition dyslexia?