Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
Dr Jekyll said:
We do we refer to batteries being 'flat' as opposed to say, 'empty'? What words do other languages use?
Because they're still full of stuff. If the acid leaked out of a car battery it would be empty, if the electricity leaks out it's flat.Like champagne, it can be flat without the bottle being empty.
Speed addicted said:
Dr Jekyll said:
We do we refer to batteries being 'flat' as opposed to say, 'empty'? What words do other languages use?
Because they're still full of stuff. If the acid leaked out of a car battery it would be empty, if the electricity leaks out it's flat.Like champagne, it can be flat without the bottle being empty.
Also a battery isn't literally flat, so what does it matter if it's literally empty. I'm asking why the word 'flat' is used, 'empty' was just an example of a possible alternative.
Is there a maximum number of email addresses you can block in yahoo.
I keep blocking emails in my spam box, most offering sex from my neighbours
, but seriously it seems to make little differene, have I reached my maximum.
I have tried and given up trying to figure this one out, cheers guys.
I keep blocking emails in my spam box, most offering sex from my neighbours
, but seriously it seems to make little differene, have I reached my maximum.I have tried and given up trying to figure this one out, cheers guys.
Vipers said:
Is there a maximum number of email addresses you can block in yahoo.
I keep blocking emails in my spam box, most offering sex from my neighbours, but seriously it seems to make little differene, have I reached my maximum.
I have tried and given up trying to figure this one out, cheers guys.
I'd switch email provider to Google.I keep blocking emails in my spam box, most offering sex from my neighbours
, but seriously it seems to make little differene, have I reached my maximum.I have tried and given up trying to figure this one out, cheers guys.
Their spam filter is excellent.
FlyingMeeces said:
Jonboy_t said:
JustinF said:
Where does the ocean's salinity come from?
An average male Blue Whale releases around 16 litres of semen in each ejaculation. There are a lot of Blue Whales in the ocean. You figure it out.
There are only about 10-25K blue whales, of which somewhere between 4.5 and 11ishK are male and post-puberty. They haven't been observed to 'spontaneously ejaculate' (i.e. shoot one off when not bonking or, I dunno, using a kayak as a fleshlight or something), so it may mostly just be when mating, although we know so little about what they get up to or even where they are that they could frankly be having massive cetacean homosexual orgies in the Mariana trench and we'd be none the wiser.
Assuming a generous 1 wet (ahaha) dream per mature blue whale bull per day, which is actually pretty unlikely because making that much spooge has a high energy cost when cows only come into oestrus once every two or three years… I digress. Ten thousand bull whales times 365 days times 16 litres is juuuust over 1 x 10^8 litres a year. Which is a f
k of a lot of whale jizz. Except. First, there is 1.6 x 10^21 litres of water in the world's oceans - for every litre of whale juice, there's 16 000 000 000 000 litres of water. Think homeopathy - even if all of it was just sloshing around rather than being immediately snaffled by various microfauna, who in evolutionary terms are far too clever to pass up on a high-calorie, high-protein snack when it floats past their mostly not literal noses - there'd be so little of it around as to basically just not count. Bear in mind I may have overestimated by many orders of magnitude here, too, not least that that 16 litres quote is pretty dodgy given that blue whale testes are only about 12 kg each. /cetacean biology nerd
Apparently the whale thing is correct
Smeeeeeg said:
daveco said:
How is it that chemotherapy uses a radioactive process to kill cancer when that same process or using those same substances (polonium??) can often create cancer in the first place?
Worth pointing out that if you have any significant exposure to something as intensely radioactive as polonium (and in the case of polonium by significant I mean a few 10s of nanograms) then you're going to be dying very shortly of acute radiation poisoning, not cancer at some point down the line.Radiation therapy itself does carry a small but definite risk of causing secondary cancers which usually show up many years after treatment (up to 10-15 years or more in the case of solid tumours). This is due to mutations in previously healthy cells which have received a dose high enough to damage their DNA, but not enough to kill them.
It might be overstating it to say any exposure to Polonium will be fatal. If you ingest it at all, sure, you're almost certainly going to die in a pretty unpleasant way, but since Polonium-210 decays by emitting Alpha particles (Helium nuclei which can be stopped by a sheet of paper or skin) it's not as dangerous as stated. That being said, I'd not be handling it without proper PPE.
Speed 3 said:
FlyingMeeces said:
Jonboy_t said:
JustinF said:
Where does the ocean's salinity come from?
An average male Blue Whale releases around 16 litres of semen in each ejaculation. There are a lot of Blue Whales in the ocean. You figure it out.There are only about 10-25K blue whales, of which somewhere between 4.5 and 11ishK are male and post-puberty. They haven't been observed to 'spontaneously ejaculate' (i.e. shoot one off when not bonking or, I dunno, using a kayak as a fleshlight or something), so it may mostly just be when mating, although we know so little about what they get up to or even where they are that they could frankly be having massive cetacean homosexual orgies in the Mariana trench and we'd be none the wiser.
Assuming a generous 1 wet (ahaha) dream per mature blue whale bull per day, which is actually pretty unlikely because making that much spooge has a high energy cost when cows only come into oestrus once every two or three years… I digress. Ten thousand bull whales times 365 days times 16 litres is juuuust over 1 x 10^8 litres a year. Which is a f
k of a lot of whale jizz. Except. First, there is 1.6 x 10^21 litres of water in the world's oceans - for every litre of whale juice, there's 16 000 000 000 000 litres of water. Think homeopathy - even if all of it was just sloshing around rather than being immediately snaffled by various microfauna, who in evolutionary terms are far too clever to pass up on a high-calorie, high-protein snack when it floats past their mostly not literal noses - there'd be so little of it around as to basically just not count. Bear in mind I may have overestimated by many orders of magnitude here, too, not least that that 16 litres quote is pretty dodgy given that blue whale testes are only about 12 kg each. /cetacean biology nerd
Apparently the whale thing is correct
If you're travelling from the South east to the North West, (London to Manchester up the M40) why does sat nav and all the road signs take you east on the M42 so you go round Birmingham anti clockwise, when it's always far quicker to go west on the M42, up the M5 and so clockwise around Birmingham?
TwigtheWonderkid said:
If you're travelling from the South east to the North West, (London to Manchester up the M40) why does sat nav and all the road signs take you east on the M42 so you go round Birmingham anti clockwise, when it's always far quicker to go west on the M42, up the M5 and so clockwise around Birmingham?
I am with the sat nav on this one.TwigtheWonderkid said:
If you're travelling from the South east to the North West, (London to Manchester up the M40) why does sat nav and all the road signs take you east on the M42 so you go round Birmingham anti clockwise, when it's always far quicker to go west on the M42, up the M5 and so clockwise around Birmingham?
I haven't done that trip for years but I always thought there wasn't much in it.SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
If you're travelling from the South east to the North West, (London to Manchester up the M40) why does sat nav and all the road signs take you east on the M42 so you go round Birmingham anti clockwise, when it's always far quicker to go west on the M42, up the M5 and so clockwise around Birmingham?
I am with the sat nav on this one.TwigtheWonderkid said:
If you're travelling from the South east to the North West, (London to Manchester up the M40) why does sat nav and all the road signs take you east on the M42 so you go round Birmingham anti clockwise, when it's always far quicker to go west on the M42, up the M5 and so clockwise around Birmingham?
Because the M42 and M6 is the shorter route by 3.3 miles. M42W is usually OK but M5 is often gridlock from Dudley. I don't think there's anything in it time wise - deciding factor will be if either section has had a smash.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff