General knowledge thread

Great barrier reef

RuggieBear wrote:

Great barrier reef

Yep, over to you

How far is the sun from earth?

RuggieBear wrote:

How far is the sun from earth?

93 million miles is what they roughly say it is

yep

How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

If its too obscure we can go with whats the longest river in Britain ?

Carcharodon wrote:

How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

If its too obscure we can go with whats the longest river in Britain ?

severn

Kojak

Carcharodon wrote:

How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

I thought I'd have a go at this despite RuggieBear answering the other Q.

Is it 1 million Kilometers??

Kojak wrote:

I thought I'd have a go at this despite RuggieBear answering the other Q.

Is it 1 million Kilometers??

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 m or 10 septillion metres

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km or 10 sextillion kilometres

Kojak

Mick86 wrote:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 m or 10 septillion metres

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km or 10 sextillion kilometres

I see I was a bit off.

Severn is correct

and

1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it

Carcharodon wrote:

Severn is correct

and

1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it

It'sa long way off anyway.

Fey!

Sysiphus wrote:

aside, I alway heard that f.u.c.k. was forced unlawfull.... ie. (wher'd that come from??) rape, and was an old legal term.

Fornication Under Consent of the King - the king had the right to sleep with a new bride before the husband.

Carcharodon wrote:

1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it

More like 1.056993 billion light years - not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it

/waits for RuggieBear

whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?

RuggieBear wrote:

whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?

A location with none of the above ?

RuggieBear wrote:

whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?

Waterford

The Hill Billy

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

More like 1.056993 billion light years

I beg to differ. I make it 1,057,724,807.198604 8 light years or 1.057 026 584 hubble.

Not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it the 731,807.198600054 light years difference.

At an average walking speed of say 6km per hour - how long would it take to cover the difference?

Hill Billy wrote:

I beg to differ. I make it 1,057,724,807.198604 8 light years or 1.057 026 584 hubble.

Not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it the 731,807.198600054 light years difference.

At an average walking speed of say 6km per hour - how long would it take to cover the difference?

131 Trillion Years

Give or take an eon or three....

Yes...No...

The Hill Billy

quazzy wrote:

131 Trillion Years

Give or take an eon or three....

Yes...No...

Not bad. 131,634,167,310,242.01 years.

Is there a question anywhere in our future?:D

Goodluck2me

Mick86 wrote:

Is there a question anywhere in our future?:D

who was the first person to notice gravity? how did he do it?

goodluck2me wrote:

who was the first person to notice gravity? how did he do it?

Newton + Apples = Gravity ????

lots of homo species figured out the earth sucked in prehistoric times

aristotle recognised gravity existed but got it wrong

galelieo was the first to show that the acceleration was constant and independent of the mass of the object

newton was the first to work out the inverse square law

or course no one has explained it fully , we are still waiting for the grand theory.

cavendish was the first to measure it, he was a man with BIG balls ! (and little pithy ones too

) and he used to watch them through a peep hole

Blisterman

To 3 figures, what is the Golden Ratio?

guess 1.73

CBA working out the sequece by hand

Pal

Answer : 1.62

Question : name of the statue on top of Dublin's Custom House ?

Pal wrote:

Answer : 1.62

Question : name of the statue on top of Dublin's Custom House ?

Statue: Commerce

Staying with Dublin Trivia:

Which famous author was once the Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?

Kojak

Total Guess: James Joyce ??????