Great Questions Of Our Time

JoeSchmoe · 08-02-2005 01:35AM

Ah Jaysus, maybe you can bring a mate with you next time, to operate the headlight switch, like, then we can put this issue to bed once and for all

Repli · 08-02-2005 01:41AM

Was actually gonna post up the right answers to all those questions - but saw its been done - Anyway i think people should relax and just see the funny side of it heh

pickarooney · 08-02-2005 04:51PM

steviem wrote:

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

It's to illustrate the mix-up which causes the letter S to be lost between the lips.
First chronicled dingbat.

BEcause square boxes are easier to assemble

On what grounds? And why is a square pizza not easier to make than a round one?

Blub2k4 · 08-02-2005 05:02PM

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

People may laugh but this is actually one of the arguments at the moment for the creationists to have "intelligent design" taken up in the school science syllabi in the US.
Scary.

E@gle. · 08-02-2005 06:04PM

These question were best left unanswered

WhiteWashMan · 08-02-2005 06:21PM

square boxes and round boxes are just as easy to manufacture as each other.
square boxes are easier to actually fold and put together.

light still goes at the speed of light on a space ship going at the speed of light according to theory. the torchlight is relative to the space ship, not the surrounding space, whioch is moving by at the speed of light.

of course, anything with a mass will not be able to achieve lightspeed according to the formula e=mc(c) so its all pretty much a moot point

dark matter has never been proven to exist, it is a theory, so im at a loss as to how someone can state that light doesnt effect it.
you cant prove a negative!

i think the most important question of our time is possibly, 'whats for dinner?'

toiletduck · 08-02-2005 06:59PM

i would love to know why people sometimes say there "head over heels" My head is usually above my heels....

steveland? · 08-02-2005 07:38PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

dark matter has never been proven to exist, it is a theory, so im at a loss as to how someone can state that light doesnt effect it.
you cant prove a negative!

Well the theory to why it's "Dark" matter is that it's matter light can't effect but yeh Dark Matter in general is just a theory.

but surely, if you were in a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, you wouldn't be in a spaceship travelling at the speed of light coz you and the spaceship would just be light, only light can travel at the speed of light, no?

As WWman said it's not actually possible and it's just a theory.

IN THEORY if you were on a ship going exactly the speed of light, regardless of the actual possibility of achieving it, and turned on the light the light would still go out in front of you at the speed of light relative to the position/speed of the source so in theory it'd be travelling the speed of light squared

Adam · 08-02-2005 07:49PM

pickarooney wrote:

On what grounds? And why is a square pizza not easier to make than a round one?

I'd like to see you try and spin a square pizza! That being how pizzas were first made, i guess its tradition, i know machines could make them square now but where's the fun in that?? It just wouldnt be a pizza.... And you couldnt cut them into those handy to eat slices! well you could, but with a certain level of difficulty!

WhiteWashMan · 08-02-2005 07:57PM

steveland? wrote:

IN THEORY if you were on a ship going exactly the speed of light, regardless of the actual possibility of achieving it, and turned on the light the light would still go out in front of you at the speed of light relative to the position/speed of the source so in theory it'd be travelling the speed of light squared

no.
it wouldnt, becasuse relative to to the person who is holding the torch, the light will be moving at the speed of light.

and according to any person who is observing, the light is still only going at the speed of light, because the torch is still onlt being observed within the environments reltive to the holder of the torch.

you can either watch what happens within the reltive sphere of the environment, or you can watch what happens outside, but the two cannot interact.
come on now, thats basic physics!

NotMe · 08-02-2005 08:01PM

toiletduck wrote:

i would love to know why people sometimes say there "head over heels" My head is usually above my heels....

So there have been times when you have been head over heels?

StupidLikeAFox · 08-02-2005 08:14PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

no.
it wouldnt, becasuse relative to to the person who is holding the torch, the light will be moving at the speed of light.

and according to any person who is observing, the light is still only going at the speed of light, because the torch is still onlt being observed within the environments reltive to the holder of the torch.

you can either watch what happens within the reltive sphere of the environment, or you can watch what happens outside, but the two cannot interact.
come on now, thats basic physics!

So to the guy is holding the torch and the light is out in front of him. They will both be travelling at the speed of light. but the light from the torch will be out in front of the guy right? If theres some guy standing on the side of the road or what ever, it will be like the whole system (guy in supercar, torch, light from torch) is travelling as one unit as such, as they whizz by. Am i right with that?

CuLT · 08-02-2005 09:00PM

There are real Irish physicists all over the country now CHOKING on the waffle you armchair scientists are concocting.

Why do they use sterilised needles for death by lethal injection?

To respect the diginity of the prisoner (twisted, no?)

Actually, it's technically possible that the execution could be cancelled at the last minute, effectively while the needle is in the prisoners arm. Can you imagine how terrifically embarrassing it would be to the country to end up INFECTING someone with a disease if they were proved innocent?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

TV writers often don't follow the logic of their creations to its full conclusions.

Or perhaps it's because a large metal object chucked at your face is reasonably distracting, where as a small, more or less invisible (at the speed) piece of metal is hardly as noticeable.
Incidentally, superman was a comic book creation, not created by tv writers.

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Habit.

The pilots would hardly be much use if they banged their heads during a turn and knocked themselves unconscious would they? It was there to ensure the completion of their mission.

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

That's how the word happened to evolve in English. It wasn't anyone's idea.

I'd argue that it's most likely due to assonance.

Gileadi · 08-02-2005 09:12PM

simu wrote:

What is the speed of darkness?

There are no darkness particles.

light is a wave not a particle btw

welcome to 1700

CuLT · 08-02-2005 09:13PM

Gileadi wrote:

light is a wave not a particle btw

welcome to 1700

Photons are particles.
Light is photons moving in wave motion.

Welcome to the 21st centruy 0_o

steviem · 09-02-2005 02:42AM

jeeezus, would some people ever get alife.....

popinfresh · 09-02-2005 02:53AM

Quote:
BEcause square boxes are easier to assemble

On what grounds? And why is a square pizza not easier to make than a round one?

I work in pizza hut, pizza's are more logical to make in a round shape (becuase of the way the dough proofs), mind you there were square pizzas (the sicilian if i remember correctly), but they taken off the menu cause they sucked. The reason boxes are square is because it's easier to make a square box than a round box.

Doper Than U · 09-02-2005 03:05AM

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

They didn't - humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor

True.

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Because the apes that evolved into humans were exposed to a different type
of natural enviorment. We needed to evolve, the apes didn't.

Not true.

parasite · 09-02-2005 03:26AM

i guess pizzas would be more difficult to lift out of a round box if the pizza was flush with the sides of the box, but with a square box, you're guaranteed to be able to lift the pizza easily ...probably

*cough*

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