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  • #932
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    no, the radius has. if it's hovering above the surface of the earth by one foot, the diameter has increased by two foot.

    Is it not the circumference we are looking for? The earth is a sphere so a line around the equator is a circumference of a circle essentially


  • #933
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    read the question again.

    it was a silly question. :D


  • #934
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Is it not the circumference we are looking for? The earth is a sphere so a line around the equator is a circumference of a circle essentially

    it is. So a line that is 1 foot above the ground is 1 foot further from the center of the earth i.e. the radius of the line has increased by 1 foot.


  • #935
    interlocked
    Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭interlocked


    golfball37 wrote: »
    It’s Roscommon then as the centre of Ireland is just outside Athlone, part of athlone is in Roscommon

    It's in Roscommon but not part of Athlone

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Ireland


  • #936
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Is it not the circumference we are looking for? The earth is a sphere so a line around the equator is a circumference of a circle essentially
    yes - and the circumference is 2 x pi x r

    r has increased by one foot, so the figure increases by 2 x pi in feet.


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  • #937
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    How much soil does a round hole contain that measures 5 feet in diameter, and is 16 feet deep ?

    The correct answer is none, as a hole is by definition, empty !! :)


  • #938
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    yes - and the circumference is 2 x pi x r

    r has increased by one foot, so the figure increases by 2 x pi in feet.

    Spot on- I learned circumference was pi x D in school hence my confusion- long time ago now. Of course 2r is D which I didn’t cop immediately!


  • #939
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Rope will stretch. So you don't need more.


  • #940
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What would happen to mercury on Mercury ?


  • #941
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    does which side of mercury we're talking about have a bearing?


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  • #942
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,583 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    If the Ring of Kerry is 180km cycling clockwise , how much longer would it
    be anti-clockwise?


  • #943
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i would assume it'd be shorter, because cycling it clockwise would use the outer 'circle' of the roads you'd be cycling it on. cycling it anti-clockwise mean you'd cycle maybe 5-10m inside that route?


  • #944
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,583 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i would assume it'd be shorter, because cycling it clockwise would use the outer 'circle' of the roads you'd be cycling it on. cycling it anti-clockwise mean you'd cycle maybe 5-10m inside that route?
    Well done Magic , poor attempt at a trick question.


  • #945
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    who are the longest serving TDs currently still serving as a TD? there are two tied for this honour.


  • #946
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    and for a bonus point, which female TD is the longest sitting female TD still holding a seat?


  • #947
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    does which side of mercury we're talking about have a bearing?
    Solid at night, a gas by day.


  • #948
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Something I read here, years ago.

    Name the spot on the city centre (in Dublin) where you will still find a union flag (union jack)?


  • #949
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    and for a bonus point, which female TD is the longest sitting female TD still holding a seat?

    Surely Roisin Shorthall?


  • #950
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    who are the longest serving TDs currently still serving as a TD? there are two tied for this honour.

    Lowry has to be one of them, it’s either Charlie Flanagan or Martin who is the other id say.


  • #951
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,988 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Lowry has to be one of them, it’s either Charlie Flanagan or Martin who is the other id say.

    Willie O'Dea I say has sat longer than those.


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  • #952
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Something I read here, years ago.

    Name the spot on the city centre (in Dublin) where you will still find a union flag (union jack)?
    Among the British military flags in St Patrick's Cathedral


  • #953
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Surely Roisin Shorthall?
    correct.


  • #954
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Lowry has to be one of them, it’s either Charlie Flanagan or Martin who is the other id say.
    none of the above. it's richard bruton and (as castletownman mentioned) willie o'dea. both elected feb 1982 and have held a seat since.


  • #955
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Carrigtoohil, Croagh Patrick, Sugarloaf, and the Giants Causeway :pac:

    Very few tables got all four Fk me - how many even got three?

    You didn't even get one! :D


  • #956
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    You didn't even get one! :D


    I thought I might've gotten 2 max :p Pretty sure Carrigtoohil is good - thought that was another name for Carrauntoohil - ah well, tis all endemic now... :pac:

    Earregardless, a question: When someone uses incorrect words or phrases while speaking, these are known as malapropisms. What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.


  • #957
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?


  • #958
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.
    i have a vague memory it was conan doyle?


  • #959
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Earregardless, a question: When someone uses incorrect words or phrases while speaking, these are known as malapropisms. What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.
    The Irish-born Richard Brinsley Sheridan.


  • #960
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

    You might be thinking of Holly Cairns and Christopher O'Sullivan, but....
    https://www.southernstar.ie/news/holly-and-christopher-call-time-on-relationship-4216532


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  • #961
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i have a vague memory it was conan doyle?


    :( Nope


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