Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

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Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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What would happen to a woman if she caught Man Flu?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Willy Nilly said:
What would happen to a woman if she caught Man Flu?
She wouldn't notice. She is amazing.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Dr Jekyll said:
Suppose there was once a smart species of Dinosaur. I don't mean in terms of advanced technology but in terms of flint tools, cave paintings and generally banging the rocks together. Would we ever be able to tell?
Do you mean by way of artifacts or biologically? They would certainly have had to have much larger skulls than any found up to now. They would have had to evolve considerably...developed larger forelimbs, lost their tails, stood upright... .

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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goldblum said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Suppose there was once a smart species of Dinosaur. I don't mean in terms of advanced technology but in terms of flint tools, cave paintings and generally banging the rocks together. Would we ever be able to tell?
Do you mean by way of artifacts or biologically? They would certainly have had to have much larger skulls than any found up to now. They would have had to evolve considerably...developed larger forelimbs, lost their tails, stood upright... .
Interesting point. I was thinking more in terms of artifacts as a more objective indication and wondering whether any evidence of them could have survived. Certainly skull size would be an indication, I'm not sure they would necessarily have to stand upright or have particularly big forelimbs though. Magpies have relative brain size in the same ball park as monkeys and are quite clever with tools and hooks.

I always felt this idea was a bit too humanoid.


grumbledoak

31,500 posts

232 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Dr Jekyll said:
Suppose there was once a smart species of Dinosaur. I don't mean in terms of advanced technology but in terms of flint tools, cave paintings and generally banging the rocks together. Would we ever be able to tell?
I would say not. Monkeys use stick tools, though they don't carry them away once used. And some birds, as you mention. We only know this because we have watched them do it - it leaves no evidence. Hell, we still don't acknowledge sentience in the Great Apes, even though you can converse with them, if taught a common sign language. I think we are wilfully blind in that regard.

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Why has the 747 at the Top Gear track go the engines mounted differently to normal 747's?

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Willy Nilly said:
Why has the 747 at the Top Gear track go the engines mounted differently to normal 747's?
It was disguised as a fictional aircraft for use in a Bond film.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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Dr Jekyll said:
Magpies have relative brain size in the same ball park as monkeys and are quite clever with tools and hooks.
Neither magpies nor monkeys are particularly accomplished at cave art AFAIK. Being 'clever with tools' - I take it you mean opening cashews with a rock etc - is not an exercise that would involve cognitive learning, quite an amount of self-concept and creativity...for that you would need a creature with a much larger brain. Incidentally I don't know about magpies but I imagine both them and monkeys learn basic acts by copying others of their ilk.

The creature in the pic does look rather interesting though and if evolution had gone right instead of left... .

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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Why do London Taxis have truck-style 3D wheels? Original versions of the old Fairway cabs had normal flat wheels, when and why did they change?

AstonZagato

12,652 posts

209 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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goldblum said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Suppose there was once a smart species of Dinosaur. I don't mean in terms of advanced technology but in terms of flint tools, cave paintings and generally banging the rocks together. Would we ever be able to tell?
Do you mean by way of artifacts or biologically? They would certainly have had to have much larger skulls than any found up to now. They would have had to evolve considerably...developed larger forelimbs, lost their tails, stood upright... .
Velociraptors could open doors and set up ambushes. I saw a film about it once.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Buying a suit.

Why do they have a thread running along the shoulder seam?


juan king

1,093 posts

188 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Why do all car transporters have these bull bar type things on the front?

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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ISTR this has been asked before,I think it is to allow the driver to climb up the front to secure the cars

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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juan king said:
Why do all car transporters have these bull bar type things on the front?
So the driver can climb up and tie the front car down?

Muntu

7,631 posts

198 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Willy Nilly said:
What would happen to a woman if she caught Man Flu?
Bird Flu

bowtie

lord trumpton

7,321 posts

125 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Muntu said:
Willy Nilly said:
What would happen to a woman if she caught Man Flu?
Bird Flu

bowtie
My compliments clap

lord trumpton

7,321 posts

125 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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It's an age old question but still I have no answer...Why can't women throw stones?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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lord trumpton said:
It's an age old question but still I have no answer...Why can't women throw stones?
I think the serious answer has to be something to do with ancient parts of the brain that (most) women don't have in the same way blokes do.

Just as a woman can walk into a room and straight away intuit if any of the people in there are upset with each other. I simply can't do that.

I don't think to try, which may be part of the problem.

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Wednesday 10th December 2014
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SpeckledJim said:
I think the serious answer has to be something to do with ancient parts of the brain that (most) women don't have in the same way blokes do.

Just as a woman can walk into a room and straight away intuit make wild suppositions if any of the people in there are upset with each other. I simply can't be arsed to do that.

I don't think to try give a damn, which may be part of the problem is the reason.
EFA

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Wednesday 10th December 2014
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lord trumpton said:
It's an age old question but still I have no answer...Why can't women throw stones?
They can, they just don't practice it growing up as their gender role development doesn't require it.
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