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OldGoat · 06-03-2009 9:45am

Only if your grandfather is still in University or else we may have to strip you of your title.

181 kph?

Mr.Applepie · 06-03-2009 10:52am

205KPH

Capt'n Midnight · 06-03-2009 11:33am

Nope

trellheim · 07-03-2009 2:37am

whatever speed the antonov was doing

Capt'n Midnight · 07-03-2009 2:59am

trellheim wrote: »

whatever speed the antonov was doing

cruising speed around 800-850 Km/hr

This means Locomotive 201 Abhainn na Sionnainne is AFAIK the worlds fastest locomotive by a wide margin

your question

robtri · 09-03-2009 11:45am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

cruising speed around 800-850 Km/hr

your question

sorry cruising speed around 800- -850 KM/hr....

thats strange when the top speed is 164Km/hr
it still is the fastest in Ireland ..... but nowhere near your speeds at all..

Capt'n Midnight · 09-03-2009 1:18pm

rojerdandry · 11-03-2009 3:03pm

The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.
Earth is also moving around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.
Therefore my Tomy Train is a contender.
Perhaps the question could include 'under its own steam'?

OldGoat · 11-03-2009 3:29pm

rojerdandry wrote: »

The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.
Earth is also moving around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.
Therefore my Tomy Train is a contender.
Perhaps the question could include 'under its own steam'?

Putting the train track to the open window, winding up the Tomy Train and factoring in the rate of acceleration due to gravity of 9.8m/s^2...:)

Capt'n Midnight · 11-03-2009 4:37pm

rojerdandry wrote: »

The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.
Earth is also moving around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.
Therefore my Tomy Train is a contender.
Perhaps the question could include 'under its own steam'?

You are not at the equator so won't see 1000mph.

Learn about vector addition, you can't use linear addition for speeds in different directions.

You haven't taken the Galactic rotation or the Hubble expansion into account.

'under its own steam' :rolleyes:, The locomotive in question is diesel-electric.
The difference in velocity between it and your Tomy (how old are you ?) is still going to be at least 800Kmph

Perhaps the question could include I don't do google friendly questions.

robtri · 13-03-2009 9:41am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

'under its own steam' :rolleyes:, The locomotive in question is diesel-electric.
The difference in velocity between it and your Tomy (how old are you ?) is still going to be at least 800Kmph

ok, can you please please tell me where you are getting this magical figure of 800KMPH... thats the second time you mentioned it....
ehhh how old are you??? to believe that a train in ireland goes at 800kmph....

gerry87 · 13-03-2009 3:09pm

robtri wrote: »

ok, can you please please tell me where you are getting this magical figure of 800KMPH... thats the second time you mentioned it....
ehhh how old are you??? to believe that a train in ireland goes at 800kmph....

you put the train in the plane, and mix them both together, put the plane in the train... makes you feel better!

OldGoat · 13-03-2009 3:36pm

New question please.

OldGoat · 31-03-2009 1:29pm

Ho hummmm

What is the only word (AFAIK) in english ending with the letters 'm' and 't'?

NUTZZ · 31-03-2009 5:46pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Ho hummmm

What is the only word (AFAIK) in english ending with the letters 'm' and 't'?

Dreamt

What country has the largest coastline?

Richie15 · 31-03-2009 9:09pm

NUTZZ wrote: »

What country has the largest coastline?

Canada?

Capt'n Midnight · 01-04-2009 12:45am

dang, better say Russia then

rojerdandry · 01-04-2009 4:30am

It's Canada by a gajillion miles so ask your question...

rojerdandry · 20-04-2009 11:44pm

I used to play for Barcelona, as did my brother and we have both represented Spain at international level. My brother is one inch smaller than me. Who am I?

robtri · 21-04-2009 8:17am

rojerdandry wrote: »

I used to play for Barcelona, as did my brother and we have both represented Spain at international level. My brother is one inch smaller than me. Who am I?

ehh your rojerdandry.... or so your avatar says

feck football.... I have no idea..

thee glitz · 22-04-2009 9:40pm

rojerdandry wrote: »

I used to play for Barcelona, as did my brother and we have both represented Spain at international level. My brother is one inch smaller than me. Who am I?

Ronald de Boer
played for Barca

so did brother Frank

1 inch taller then him

both represented.. Holland

rojerdandry · 24-04-2009 10:41pm

:D;)

OldGoat · 25-04-2009 10:02pm

Arragh I assumed football too.

Would it be Severiano Ballesteros?

[Aside: I had €20 on Angel to win Augusta. Woohoooo!:D]

rojerdandry · 26-04-2009 3:12pm

Not Seve.

Rashers · 26-04-2009 3:42pm

Julio Iglesias

Capt'n Midnight · 26-04-2009 7:04pm

Don't firemen have international competitions ?
I duly nominate Jose and Hose-B

robtri · 27-04-2009 10:55am

not footballers....
interesteing....

what about the Gasol Brothers...

rojerdandry · 27-04-2009 2:54pm

Marc is an inch taller than Pau at seven foot one. By the way Pau gets paid $290,500.00 a week. I wish I was tall.:(

robtri · 28-04-2009 8:53am

rojerdandry wrote: »

Marc is an inch taller than Pau at seven foot one. By the way Pau gets paid $290,500.00 a week. I wish I was tall.:(

feck me I wish I was tall, that was a tough one, had to ask a mate in work on that one....

alright I will keep it going....

what country brought in the first law for criminalising porn and what year was it...

OldGoat · 28-04-2009 9:14am

Excellant question. The subject matter stops people looking up the answer from work, not that any of us google the questions anyway.

I figure it's got to be one of the more fundalmental church&states type countries (like that narrows down the list!). I'll take a stab at...Ireland.

robtri · 28-04-2009 2:48pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Excellant question. The subject matter stops people looking up the answer from work, not that any of us google the questions anyway.

I figure it's got to be one of the more fundalmental church&states type countries (like that narrows down the list!). I'll take a stab at...Ireland.

nope......

rojerdandry · 29-04-2009 5:26am

India?

robtri · 29-04-2009 8:24am

nope....

rojerdandry · 29-04-2009 5:41pm

After some exhaustive research I have come up with ... Japan?

Capt'n Midnight · 29-04-2009 5:44pm

I'll say the US of A
but I think that was more Hayes code

robtri · 30-04-2009 8:17am

rojerdandry wrote: »

After some exhaustive research I have come up with ... Japan?

japan... not accoprding to my sources....

robtri · 30-04-2009 8:17am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I'll say the US of A
but I think that was more Hayes code

nope well before hayes code...

Capt'n Midnight · 30-04-2009 1:54pm

You mean there was porn before cinema :eek:

Who'd have thunk it.

Victorian Britain ?

Or are you counting some Muslim banning of erotic books in the 7th century ?

robtri · 30-04-2009 1:58pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You mean there was porn before cinema :eek:

Who'd have thunk it.

Victorian Britain ?

Or are you counting some Muslim banning of erotic books in the 7th century ?

yep porn has been around for a long long time... pompeii had a lot of it...

and you are spot on with Victorian Britain...

"The depiction of sexual acts is as old as civilization (and can be found painted on various ancient buildings), but the concept of pornography as understood today did not exist until the Victorian era. Previous to that time, though some sex acts were regulated or stipulated in laws, looking at objects or images depicting them was not. In some cases, specific books, engravings or image collections were censored or outlawed, but the trend to compose laws that restricted viewing of sexually explicit things in general was a Victorian construct. When large scale excavations of Pompeii were undertaken in the 1860s, much of the erotic art of the Romans came to light, shocking the Victorians who saw themselves as the intellectual heirs of the Roman Empire. They did not know what to do with the frank depictions of sexuality, and endeavored to hide them away from everyone but upper class scholars. The moveable objects were locked away in the Secret Museum in Naples, Italy and what could not be removed was covered and cordoned off as to not corrupt the sensibilities of women, children and the working class. Soon after, the world's first law criminalizing pornography was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1857 in the Obscene Publications Act. The Victorian attitude that pornography was for a select few can be seen in the wording of the Hicklin test stemming from a court case in 1868 where it asks, "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." Despite the fact of their suppression, depictions of erotic imagery were common throughout history"

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography

Capt'n Midnight · 30-04-2009 2:15pm

I was going to ask
what wasn't made illegal because Queen Victoria didn't believed it happened ?
except it look like it was an urban myth according to QI.

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/mythbusters/353/victoria_and_the_lesbians.html

Oh well
Be back in a bit with the real question.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-04-2009 2:28pm

It's a picture round. Looking for the name of this buxom wench.

OldGoat · 30-04-2009 2:45pm

Thats the fertility goddess. Venus of Dusseldorf?...something Germanic sounding anyway.

Capt'n Midnight · 01-05-2009 3:27pm

Close enough you got the Dorf :pac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

over to you.

OldGoat · 01-05-2009 6:22pm

The power of the Dorf! Wonderful. :-)

Ok, Who was the youngest man to walk on the moon...and how old was he at the time.

rojerdandry · 04-05-2009 2:00am

I think he was 23.

Hogzy · 04-05-2009 2:04am

Charles Duke 36yrs

OldGoat · 05-05-2009 8:47am

Hogzy wrote: »

Charles Duke 36yrs

Spot on Sir. In 1972.

[Passes the batton to Hogzy]

Hogzy · 05-05-2009 10:34am

What is the Roman numeral for the number 600?

_blank_ · 05-05-2009 10:35am

OldGoat · 19-05-2009 1:12pm

Any chance of posting up a new question there Des?

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