Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
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Ive seen this happen many a time when watching a boxing match on tv,especially at big fights.
Boxer will be making his way from the dressing room to the ring with his entourage behind him,the bloke directly behind him will have his arms outstretched forward with his hands on the boxers shoulders,wtf is all that about?
Boxer will be making his way from the dressing room to the ring with his entourage behind him,the bloke directly behind him will have his arms outstretched forward with his hands on the boxers shoulders,wtf is all that about?
Rostfritt said:
MissChief said:
fomb said:
Why do American trucks have the driver sat behind the engine, but Euro trucks have the driver on top?
Trucks on britains roads also have a maximum length. It makes sense commercially to have that length with a higher percentage of trailer and cargo so the 'cab over' trucks have become far more common.
Over here, but they didn't last as they simply couldn't manoeuvre them in the tight spaces we have.
wildone63 said:
Ive seen this happen many a time when watching a boxing match on tv,especially at big fights.
Boxer will be making his way from the dressing room to the ring with his entourage behind him,the bloke directly behind him will have his arms outstretched forward with his hands on the boxers shoulders,wtf is all that about?
Guide boxers for the blind.Boxer will be making his way from the dressing room to the ring with his entourage behind him,the bloke directly behind him will have his arms outstretched forward with his hands on the boxers shoulders,wtf is all that about?
227bhp said:
Rostfritt said:
MissChief said:
fomb said:
Why do American trucks have the driver sat behind the engine, but Euro trucks have the driver on top?
Trucks on britains roads also have a maximum length. It makes sense commercially to have that length with a higher percentage of trailer and cargo so the 'cab over' trucks have become far more common.Over here, but they didn't last as they simply couldn't manoeuvre them in the tight spaces we have.
Why aren't mountains higher? What limits the height?
I was driving in the west country recently and saw exposed rock formations where the strata were at angles approaching forty five degrees. All right, maybe not quite that steep. But, with forces like that in play, what prevent rocks sticking out of the Earth's surface higher than they do?
I was driving in the west country recently and saw exposed rock formations where the strata were at angles approaching forty five degrees. All right, maybe not quite that steep. But, with forces like that in play, what prevent rocks sticking out of the Earth's surface higher than they do?
DickyC said:
Why aren't mountains higher? What limits the height?
I was driving in the west country recently and saw exposed rock formations where the strata were at angles approaching forty five degrees. All right, maybe not quite that steep. But, with forces like that in play, what prevent rocks sticking out of the Earth's surface higher than they do?
They were, but have been eroded! 250-300million years of erosion in the Alps for instance.I was driving in the west country recently and saw exposed rock formations where the strata were at angles approaching forty five degrees. All right, maybe not quite that steep. But, with forces like that in play, what prevent rocks sticking out of the Earth's surface higher than they do?
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Yes, but we're just a tiny speck of rock orbiting a smallish star.
Ah, yes, but, that tiny speck of rock is the stepping stone in the history of everything. It is to everything as Plymouth is to America. This is because our role is to populate the Universe. If ever you wonder, "What does it all mean?" this is it.
Our role is to populate the Universe.
I bet you want some of what I'm having.
DickyC said:
Ah, yes, but, that tiny speck of rock is the stepping stone in the history of everything. It is to everything as Plymouth is to America. This is because our role is to populate the Universe.
If ever you wonder, "What does it all mean?" this is it.
Our role is to populate the Universe.
I bet you want some of what I'm having.
We don't have a role. We aren't here for a greater purpose. There is no plan. We are just here, for the blink of an eye that is our lives, and indeed the whole history of humanity, which I suspect will be extremely short, compared to say the horseshoe crab, that has been around for 200m years and shows no sign of screwing up its world.If ever you wonder, "What does it all mean?" this is it.
Our role is to populate the Universe.
I bet you want some of what I'm having.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
We don't have a role. We aren't here for a greater purpose. There is no plan. We are just here, for the blink of an eye that is our lives, and indeed the whole history of humanity, which I suspect will be extremely short, compared to say the horseshoe crab, that has been around for 200m years and shows no sign of screwing up its world.
Yeah, but their telly is rubbish.No, I didn't mean it was preordained, I just think humans will colonise the whole show. When they've perfected the means of getting to different planets that can be persuaded to support human life, then they'll perfect the means of not exhausting that host too quickly before they have to push on. And then they'll be doing two planets at a time, four at a time, eight at a time. Then there will be interplanetary wars and... oh, I see what you mean.
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