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PASSING THOUGHTS
February 24, 2015, 02:50:02 AM
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT..........

1.WHAT DO I PACK STYROFOAM IN IF I WANT TO SHIP IT?
2.WHAT DOES GOD SAY WHEN HE SNEEZES?
3.DOES NEW ZEALAND HAVE A FOURTH OF JULY?
4.WHEN MY KIDS TEXT ME PLZ---I TEXT BACK NO.
5.IF CHOCOLATE BEANS GROW ON A TREE--DOES THAT MAKE THEM A VEGETABLE?
6.PEOPLE ASK WHY I FALL DOWN A LOT--I TELL THEM THAT I AM JUST CHECKING GRAVITY.
7.COULD YOU TRAIN A KANGAROO TO KEEP BEER IN HER POUCH WITH A LITTLE ICE?
8.REMEMBER WHEN YOU USED MORE ALUMINUM FOIL ON YOUR TV THAN ON FOOD?

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 24, 2015, 07:14:38 PM
1. That depends on the reason for shipping it. If the styrofoam is carved or formed into a specifically required shape, then it will need packing to prevent the shape being damaged in transit. If it is "just styrofoam beads" then no additional packaging is required.

2. I'm not aware of any of the major religions advocating the existence of a deity that sneezes. While the ancient Greeks believed a fortuitously timed sneeze was a message from the gods, the gods themselves did not sneeze. Sneezing has, historically, been seen as A Bad Thing, especially in mediaeval times when sneezing was seen as giving up one's breath; they believed it was possible to literally sneeze yourself to death.

3. Yes, of course it does - it's right there on the calendar, in between the 3rd of July and the 5th of July. However, New Zealand, like most of the rest of the world, does not attach any specific significance to that date. This year (2015), the 4th of July is just another Saturday in New Zealand. Neither does New Zealand celebrate an "Independence day", since they've never really found it necessary to declare their "independence" from anybody. New Zealand does, however, have a national holiday that is analogous to what the 4th of July means in America: Waitangi Day (6th February) commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 between the Maori natives and the British naval authorities, considered the "founding document" of modern New Zealand.

4. I don't get it. ???

5. "Vegetable" is roughly defined as "any edible plant or part of a plant that isn't a fruit, grain or nut". Cacao seeds (from which chocolate is made) would be vegetables if we ate them whole, but we don't, because the seeds themselves are poisonous. It would, I suppose, be technically correct to classify chocolate as "vegetable-derived".

6. The gravitational constant, "G", is one of the poorest-defined of the universal constants - it seems to have a different value, depending on when and where it is measured. I highly suspect it is not a constant at all, in some way that the current laws of physics cannot explain. So repeatedly testing gravity seems wise, in that context.

7. I'm pretty sure the answer is "no". Kangaroos, like most herbivores, are difficult to train to do anything, even "natural" things such as skipping on cue. The pouch of a female marsupial is specifically designed to keep things (specifically, baby marsupials) warm, not cold; it's therefore full of blood vessels designed to do just that. Putting something cold in there, be it ice or a cold beer, would not only warm up fairly rapidly, but you'd give the poor roo hypothermia.

8. No. Why? Did people in olden days need to wrap their televisions in alfoil? Weird.

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 26, 2015, 08:01:33 PM
Is it warmer down south than it is in the summer?

Is it water wetter when it rains?

If youre going the speed of light in a vehicle,what happens when you turn on the headlights?

And yes I remember using Tinfoil on my TV antenna to get better reception

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 27, 2015, 01:28:39 AM
I PUT THESE BRAIN TEASERS ON TO LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD FOR THE DAY OF HARD THINKING---BUT SAP --YOU SEEM TO HAVE OVERTHOUGHT THE FOOLISHMENT I MEANT---------NEVER TAKE ME SERIOUSLY WHEN I POST ON THIS TOPIC AREA------------YOUR SERVANT-TEMPLAR

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 27, 2015, 01:51:25 AM
I know. ;)

Some of us find it amusing to ask silly, unanswerable questions. Others of us find it equally amusing to try to answer those questions anyway. ;D

And so, in that spirit...

Is it warmer down south than it is in the summer?

That depends entirely on your geographic location. For me, living on the east coast of Australia, for example, "down south" means "Antarctica". And it's always colder there than it is here. ;)

Is it water wetter when it rains?

The wetness of water depends entirely on its surface tension. Surface tension varies considerably with temperature; water gets wetter as it gets hotter. So warm rain is wetter than cold rain, and a hot shower is wetter than any kind of rain.

If youre going the speed of light in a vehicle,what happens when you turn on the headlights?

Thanks to Einstein, we can unequivocally say that the correct answer to this question is, "It depends". First off, however, it should be pointed out that, according to Einstein, you can't actually "go at the speed of light" in any kind of vehicle; accelerating to the speed of light would require infinite energy applied for an infinite amount of time. So we'll assume that you're really travelling at "almost the speed of light", which should be much the same for your thought experiment.

And so we come to the magic of relativity, and the whole "it depends" thing. From the point of view of someone sitting in the vehicle, their experience of switching on the headlights is exactly the same as if the vehicle were motionless relative to the surrounding universe - the beam of ordinary light would shine forwards, travelling at the speed of light relative to the vehicle.

But from the point of view of someone sitting on a nearly-stationary nearby planet watching the vehicle travel past, their experience is rather different. They would first, of course, have little warning of the vehicle's approach, as the light coming from it would arrive only just before the vehicle itself. Then, they would see the blast of light from the headlights - and it wouldn't be the same as the ordinary light that the vehicle passenger sees; the relative near-lightspeed of the light source means that the light wavelengths are compressed; the stationary observer would "see" a blast of high-energy x-rays or gamma rays.

The vehicle would flash by, so fast that not even a super-high-speed camera would see anything as it streaked from one side of the sky to the other nearly-instantaneously, but if it theoretically could be seen as it flew past, the appearance of the vehicle would be all twisted and squashed. Now, assuming that the tail lights have been switched on at the same time as the headlights, the stationary observer "sees" the light from the rapidly receding tail-lights in wavelengths that are stretched out; they have become ultra-low-frequency radio waves, with wavelengths thousands of kilometres long.

In summary, for the TL;DR crowd: an object travelling at near-lightspeed is effectively invisible to the naked eye, even if it's shining gigawatt searchlights right at you. You won't see it coming or going unless you've got the gear to detect it.

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 27, 2015, 08:07:24 PM
Damn,Sap...You DO know everything!..I thought it was just coins :D

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Re: PASSING THOUGHTS
February 28, 2015, 03:11:35 AM
I know. ;)

Some of us find it amusing to ask silly, unanswerable questions. Others of us find it equally amusing to try to answer those questions anyway. ;D

And so, in that spirit...

Is it warmer down south than it is in the summer?

That depends entirely on your geographic location. For me, living on the east coast of Australia, for example, "down south" means "Antarctica". And it's always colder there than it is here. ;)

Is it water wetter when it rains?

The wetness of water depends entirely on its surface tension. Surface tension varies considerably with temperature; water gets wetter as it gets hotter. So warm rain is wetter than cold rain, and a hot shower is wetter than any kind of rain.

If youre going the speed of light in a vehicle,what happens when you turn on the headlights?

Thanks to Einstein, we can unequivocally say that the correct answer to this question is, "It depends". First off, however, it should be pointed out that, according to Einstein, you can't actually "go at the speed of light" in any kind of vehicle; accelerating to the speed of light would require infinite energy applied for an infinite amount of time. So we'll assume that you're really travelling at "almost the speed of light", which should be much the same for your thought experiment.

And so we come to the magic of relativity, and the whole "it depends" thing. From the point of view of someone sitting in the vehicle, their experience of switching on the headlights is exactly the same as if the vehicle were motionless relative to the surrounding universe - the beam of ordinary light would shine forwards, travelling at the speed of light relative to the vehicle.

But from the point of view of someone sitting on a nearly-stationary nearby planet watching the vehicle travel past, their experience is rather different. They would first, of course, have little warning of the vehicle's approach, as the light coming from it would arrive only just before the vehicle itself. Then, they would see the blast of light from the headlights - and it wouldn't be the same as the ordinary light that the vehicle passenger sees; the relative near-lightspeed of the light source means that the light wavelengths are compressed; the stationary observer would "see" a blast of high-energy x-rays or gamma rays.

The vehicle would flash by, so fast that not even a super-high-speed camera would see anything as it streaked from one side of the sky to the other nearly-instantaneously, but if it theoretically could be seen as it flew past, the appearance of the vehicle would be all twisted and squashed. Now, assuming that the tail lights have been switched on at the same time as the headlights, the stationary observer "sees" the light from the rapidly receding tail-lights in wavelengths that are stretched out; they have become ultra-low-frequency radio waves, with wavelengths thousands of kilometres long.

In summary, for the TL;DR crowd: an object travelling at near-lightspeed is effectively invisible to the naked eye, even if it's shining gigawatt searchlights right at you. You won't see it coming or going unless you've got the gear to detect it.


After much deep thought and consideration to you answer as to what would happen if a car going the speed of light were to turn on the lights what would happen? I must say after pondering this for a very long time ( about the same time it would take the car to pass) I must refer to my young people in the youth I teach at Church when ask something they really don't understand. WHAT EVEAR ;D  ;D  ;D