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a lot of these are George Carlin, hehe so good
"why do you park in a driveway but drive in a parkway"
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Number 10, Yes you can, it is an expression meaning that you don't have anywhere to escape to... So yes if there are 5 guys in front of you and you cant move then yes.
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i can anwer the OK one
back in WW2, when an enemy attack was unsucessful and there was none alied killed, allies write in a big board 0 KILLED, so that planes (i think) could be happy o the their team winning
and abrevation of that is 0.k and o.k and ok and k
.D hope I helped
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woo i learned something 
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04.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (very good thinking).
Because the material is too damn heavy.
15.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?
Of course.
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15 depends on the type of amnesia, and what you define "cure" to mean. I'm a grad student in cognitive psych so this is kinda my thing 
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Speed of darkness = speed of light.
darkness is anywhere without light, so if light is moving away, darkness is following at exactly the same speed.
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18. Yes you would hear the radio because the radio is in the vehicle you are in and therefore is moving at the same speed you are. Since the sound from the radio is contained inside the vehicle the speed that the vehicle is moving is irrelevant. If the sound was coming from outside the vehicle then this could be different.
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19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
I am pretty sure speed of light is the limit of speed in this universe if I recall correctly from last year's physics. Can someone verify?
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1. Debt is purchased by private investors. The most prominent examples of these are bond funds and pension plans. All governments borrow from private markets.
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On June 24 2010 13:57 Airsick wrote:
Speed of darkness = speed of light.
darkness is anywhere without light, so if light is moving away, darkness is following at exactly the same speed.
Darkness doesn't move though, its always there. The only thing moving are light particles.
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On June 24 2010 14:02 textbook wrote:
19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
I am pretty sure speed of light is the limit of speed in this universe if I recall correctly from last year's physics. Can someone verify?
Speed of light is the indeed the limit of speed
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On June 24 2010 13:39 mOnion wrote:
a lot of these are George Carlin, hehe so good
"why do you park in a driveway but drive in a parkway"
I never actually thought this was a contradiction, might sound corny but I laughed. :D
Guess we just go with whatever works.
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19. Your headlights would have disintegrated travelling at the speed of light
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are these all rhetorical joke questions? Cause I'll attempt to answer them.
01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
Select groups or people are hoarding it, controlling it for power ofc.
02.When dog food is new with improved tasting, who tests it? (to be given a thought).
just bullshit advertisement, there is probably some minor testing where they see what food makes the dog happier or something asinine.
03.What is the speed of darkness? (absurd).
It's the same speed as light, since all darkness is is the absence of light, it gets dark just as fast as it take the photons to pass by.
04.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (very good thinking).
On June 24 2010 13:51 fabiano wrote:
Because the material is too damn heavy.
this, airplanes are made from mostly aluminum
05.Who copyrighted the copyright symbol? (who knows).
Probably the creators? It only makes sense.
06.Can you cry under water? (let me try).
The definition of crying needs to be specified here. If you just mean water coming out of the eye ducts then yes. There is some people who can blow bubbles out of their eyes under water, so they could surely blow water out or something.
07.Why do people say, "you've been working like a dog" when dogs just sit around all day? (I think they meant something else).
Probably because dogs were originally used for business instead of pleasure? (Think dog sled racing, hunting/police dogs) They are hard working loyal animals who don't give up.
08.Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed? (God knows.)
Poor design. Shit happens. Actually think of rotary phones when calculators were first invented. They probably line up better.
09.Do fish ever get thirsty? (let me ask and tell).
Dunno this one, I would guess not. But perhaps when they get thirsty they are instantly unthirsty considering their habitat.
10.Can you get cornered in a round room? (by ones eyes).
On June 24 2010 13:39 GreEny K wrote:
Number 10, Yes you can, it is an expression meaning that you don't have anywhere to escape to... So yes if there are 5 guys in front of you and you cant move then yes.
this
11.What does OK actually mean?.
Yea this word is a bitch, it has lots of meanings.
12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (tonight I will stay and watch).
They evolved to sleep standing and startle easily? Lots of animals stand their whole lives and rarely lay or kneel.
13.What came first, the fruit or the color orange? (seed).
This question is philisophical one. Like "the tree fell in the forest could you hear it" thing.
The color was obviously here before the plant evolved on earth. OR it's like the idea/word of the orange versus it's color. That I'm not sure about.
14.What should one call a male ladybird? (No comments).
Same thing, it's a stupid name.
15.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot? (can somebody help).
This is situational. Totally depends on the extent of the damage in the brain. Think of it like this, you wipe a magnet across your HDD, and then you have tools to search for the missing data and try and piece it back together. Sometiimes you might be able to recollect all the data, but probably more often you're going to have holes and corrupt data (incomplete memories).
16.Can you blow a balloon up under water? (yes you can).
ofc, but if it's too deep the pressure might effect this and make it impossible for a human (or even a machine) to do so.
17.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built? (strange isn't it).
Not sure about this one, probably because back in the day it took like 30 years to make large structures?
Also, it's more or less a sort of slang word.
18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
Well ofc, radiowaves travel faster than sound. But the sound that comes out of it might be distorted or muffled due to sonic boom or whatever. Jet fighters don't have their cockpits open but they can hear inside ofc.
19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
This is unknown ofc, I've read theories about it and people just assume that you'd be able to see the light spreading around in the directions not going forward along with you.
20.Why is it called a TV set when theres only one? (very nice).
Same for a pair of pants/shorts/scissors/ etc. It's just the way it came into speech. Maybe it has something to do with the rabbit ears antenna on top?
21.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (this is nice?).
No, pretty sure there is specifics on this in US Laws etc. (You only own down to X feet deep or something)
22.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road? (stupid, break the law).
Because laws only dictate how we can drive and they are subject to change. It would be retarded to have it stop at 65mph or whatever. Plus you can take your car to a racetrack or the autobond or whatever.
This question is pretty stupid.
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On June 24 2010 14:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
are these all rhetorical joke questions? Cause I'll attempt to answer them.
01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
Select groups or people are hoarding it, controlling it for power ofc.
they're meant as jokes but i want to see them answered 
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On June 24 2010 14:19 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2010 14:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
are these all rhetorical joke questions? Cause I'll attempt to answer them.
01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
Select groups or people are hoarding it, controlling it for power ofc. they're meant as jokes but i want to see them answered
k answered them all/
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18. Depends on the relative speed of the radio and you.
If you were traveling at over the speed of sound from the radio, then no, you would not hear it. Of course this question is useless since you would need a plane to do this which would make you go far away from the radio quick and would make a lot of noise so you couldn't tell.
I actually asked my first physics teacher in university if 2 planes were going really fast, one at match 1 and the other and match 3, would the 3 hear the noise the 1 makes? :p
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I love it when people copy/paste stupid chain emails...
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darkness has no speed, because it is the absence of light.
Maybe a good analogy is temperature? It is cold because there is no heat...the absence of heat accounts for the cold temperature we get...
12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (tonight I will stay and watch).
I saw this on Nat Geo or Discovery Channel (not sure which), but there's a certain position where a certain muscle of the bird that when the bird puts all its weight on a branch or something, it's "knees" and claws lock up..
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On June 24 2010 14:39 CharlieMurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2010 14:19 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:On June 24 2010 14:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
are these all rhetorical joke questions? Cause I'll attempt to answer them.
01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
Select groups or people are hoarding it, controlling it for power ofc. they're meant as jokes but i want to see them answered k answered them all/
:o interesting
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On June 24 2010 13:30 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:
05.Who copyrighted the copyright symbol? (who knows). Obviously it's not copyrighted: everyone uses it.
07.Why do people say, "you've been working like a dog" when dogs just sit around all day? (I think they meant something else). Dogs aren't always just pets, you know. Think of sheep dogs, sled dogs, seeing eye dogs, etc.
14.What should one call a male ladybird? A lordbird, naturally.
17.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built? (strange isn't it). Why is it called a "swelling" when its already swollen? Why is it called a "gathering" when its already gathered? What about a "meeting"? A "greeting"? This is a normal use of the suffix -ing.
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On June 24 2010 13:30 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:
01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
They are in debt to private companies I'd guess.
15.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot? (can somebody help).
[b]Yes they would, since amnesia is not a disease but a state of forgetting. So amnesia would only be cured if they remember things again. There are occasions of amnesia when the physical memories are damaged, but usually the damage occurs to the process by which people retrieve memories. Also, most amnesia caused by physical damage like car accidents to get better after a while.
18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
Yes you should, since the "warping" of things only happen relative to the speed of light. For the person travelling at the speed of light, the speed of sound should travel at normal speed relative to him. Correct me if I'm wrong.
19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
Same thing as above I'd guess.
21.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (this is nice?).
Not sure if its true anymore, but people used to own everything like oil or gold they found on their land which would imply they owned whatever was under their land as well. I'm sure that, should the government need something at the core of the earth under you, they wouldn't need to ask though.
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-The speed of light is the same in all reference frames. That and headlights wouldn't exist if you were going the speed of light.
-You would of course hear the radio, as if relative to the source medium you aren't moving.
-Dogs test dog food. Give the dog a choice of two foods and see which one he picks.
-Can't go that fast on any road? Heard of the autobahn?
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02.When dog food is new with improved tasting, who tests it? (to be given a thought).
interesting lol. my guess is that they do experiements and do numbers and statistics of things like having different options for a number of dogs, and seeing which one they went for. (but this wouldn't necessarily indicate taste, as ppl and animals eat for different reasons that the experiementers don't always know about.
they can always add more glutamate, aspartate or excitotoxins (most common one known by the name MSG). It's already a proven phenomenon that adding excitotoxins enhances taste, provided you have those receptors in your mouth, which dogs and humans do. so u could theoretically just add more MSG and say it has improved taste with 100% straight up truth to it from every angle analyzed.
12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (tonight I will stay and watch).
i remember learning that birds' default form for their feet is being contracted and they consciously open up their claws through muscles. (they are probably kept in the closed position by ligaments i'm guessing.
kind of like how your toes naturally end up in the straight position after relaxing them from the clenched curled position. our ligaments and tendons and the lengths thereof make it so that the equilibrium position for the toes are straight. the default equilibrium position where tension are even for birds is the clenched.
14.What should one call a male ladybird? (No comments).
ladies'manbird
15.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?
yes they would.
say the forgotten part of the amnesia of the events is from time x to time y.
and say the point when their amnesia was cured is time z
the amnesia is for between time x and y. even before they get cured (btw time y and z).
NOTE: amnesia can be different in that you don't know that u forgot x-y, OR it could be that u do know u forgot x-y. 2 kinds of amnesia. So the "remembering" part applies to x-y (the forgotten event) itself, not y-z ( the time period that you never forgot and still haven't forgotten after u get ur amnesia cured)
anyways, you didn't forget the time period between y and z. if u get amnesia cured, u remember the time between x and y. so when u get that information back to you, you'd be able to compare that info with a moment before u got cured (y-z) and piece together that you did forget it during that time.
in otherwords, it would be exactly like u forgetting the name of a song, and then rememebering it.
u didn't have amnesia for the time period u were all like "oh i dont' remmeber it", but rather for the name of the song itself.
17.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built? (strange isn't it).
"please bring your DRIED painting over here."
"your singing WAS great"
this is actually very common in english.
the "-ing" suffix is used in the present, in-progress action, but it's also a gerund marker, and that makes the gerund be treated completely as if it were a noun. not strange at all, it's a very normal construction and rule of grammar.
18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
yeah, you'd hear a sonic boom.
if u add up the wave patterns, graphically, you'd see that you're hearing all the radio's sounds it has been emitting while traveling at sound speed.
the sonic boom caused by jet is also because the wave fronts all coincide constructively.
19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
acc to theory of relativity,
relative to you, it would go a the speed of light. (to you it would seem exactly normal)
the postulate of the theory is that light's vaccuum speed is constant in all frames of reference, and it is space and time that warps and bends. (it's crazy to think about, yeah)
so if i remember my classes and reading correctly, an onlooker would see you and the ray of light going at the same speed, but you would see the same ray of light going at light speed relative to yourself.
(traveling at sound speed is different from traveling at light speed, acc to relativity. u can travel faster than the speed of sound, but not speed of light. also, the speed of light is the "restricting factor" and "unifying thread" when it comes to warping of space and time. speed of sound <<<<<< speed of light. no warping going on with the mach1 radio hearing example #18, so velocity addition holds. not so with traveling at near light speeds, or even one tenth of light speed.)
20.Why is it called a TV set when theres only one? (very nice).
TV + antenna + VCR, etc = set.
maybe? maybe not.
maybe "TV set" refers to the TV only itself. I dont know if this is the convention or not.
but then again, a remote + TV would also qualify for a set.
even a TV + stand would qualify for a set.
also, "set" might be refering to the idea that the TV has been "set down". rather than "a set of things". but maybe that's not the case either. idk. good question.
21.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (this is nice?).
=] teehee, i've thought about this too.
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12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (tonight I will stay and watch).
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01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
It hasn't been there in the fist place.
02.When dog food is new with improved tasting, who tests it? (to be given a thought).
Give old food and new food to 100 dogs. See which food is eaten by more dogs. If the new food is prefered by the dogs it has an "improved" tasting.
04.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (very good thinking).
+ Show Spoiler +On June 24 2010 13:51 fabiano wrote:
Because the material is too damn heavy.
And because it would be absolutely useless to have an indestructible plane. This fictitious plane would survive the crash but upon hitting the land the sudden stop would conduct the energy to all the passengers who then will be cut in half by their safety belts or/and just splashed on the walls of the plane. That's the reason why cars are made with "soft" materials and not as hard as possible.
13.What came first, the fruit or the color orange? (seed).
+ Show Spoiler +
When the question is: fruit or color
How can the answer be seed?
18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
Depends the positions of you and the radio. If you are both inside a vehicle (plane, car, whatever) you will be able to hear it. If you fly through the air like superman and hold the radio in your hand then:
- you will be able to hear if you hold it in front of you.
- you won't be able to hear it if you hold it next to you.
21.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (this is nice?).
They do own what is underneath their land, but the question becomes irrelevant at such depths since:
1. The earth surface is much bigger than the surface of the earth core (when regarded as a ball). So basically size of the part of the surface of the core you own would be only a tiny fraction of the size of the land you own on the earth's surface.
2. If anyone wanted to reach whatever the part of the core that is directly underneath your land they could just drill slightly tilted, since it wouldn't matter at such distances.
22.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road? (stupid, break the law).
Sells much better!
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01.If all the nations in the world are in debt(i am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (weird).
It hasn't been there in the fist place.
perfect answer.
22.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road? (stupid, break the law).
Sells much better!
i dont think it actaully has any effect on sales.
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22.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road? (stupid, break the law).
Some countries, like Germany, don't have speed limits on some of their roads.
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18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
Depends the positions of you and the radio. If you are both inside a vehicle (plane, car, whatever) you will be able to hear it. If you fly through the air like superman and hold the radio in your hand then:
- you will be able to hear if you hold it in front of you.
- you won't be able to hear it if you hold it next to you.
^^This is the most accurate imo. Whoever said that radio waves travels faster than sound, it's not radio waves that's coming out of the radio =P.
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18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
In a car? Nothing particularly happens you can hear just fine. It all depends on whether the air between you and the radio travels with you or not.
19.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn't had a chance to try).
Well this is easy. The light will extend from your car at the speed of light, duh.
The much more interesting question is how does this look to someone you are driving towards or someone you are passing?
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18.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically).
If it's in the jet or whatever with you then yes.
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