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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 00:35 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 00:37
1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?

2. A black hole sucks in matter, and a white hole spits in back out. So what happens if a black hole sucks in a white hole, or even if two black holes meet?

3. If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?

4. If you had two people going around the earth (in space) going at high speed, but less then light, and they where going in opposite directions, what would happen if they cross paths parallel to each other, but still close (i.e like the equal sign = )

5. Whats the speed of dark?

6. What do you call a male ladybug?

7. Why are people immune to their own body odor?

8. What would the speed of lightning be if it was straight and not zig-zag

9. If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? (I am not religious I am just curious)

9. If you build an idiot-proof system, will the world create a better-quality idiot?

10. When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss rather than a near hit?

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 00:42 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 00:43
Quote: "6. What do you call a male ladybug? "


Ladybird / bug refers to a family of species and not a singular insect. Most of the species in that family have names that reflect the amount of spots on their body

The rest aren't worth answering. "Speed of dark" makes me cringe every time

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 00:47
Quote: "If you build an idiot-proof system, will the world create a better-quality idiot?"


No, it's just that the more potent idiots are highlighted as the less potent idiots are eradicated.

Quote: "Whats the speed of dark?"


The speed of light, as dark is an absence of light.

Quote: "Why are people immune to their own body odor?"


They're not, but would run around announcing you had BO?

Quote: "If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? (I am not religious I am just curious)"


Well, the apes would have got left behind as humans evolved... just because a superior mutation is present doesn't mean the inferior die instantly.

Quote: "What would the speed of lightning be if it was straight and not zig-zag"


Lightning zig-zags because it takes the path of least resistance. If it couldn't zig-zag down this path, I'd say it'd go slower. Though would it? Not sure on the physics on this one.

Quote: "A black hole sucks in matter, and a white hole spits in back out. So what happens if a black hole sucks in a white hole, or even if two black holes meet?"


Another big bang maybe?

Quote: "If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?"


They would collide at terminal velocity * 2.

Quote: "Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?"


Theoretically, it wouldn't go anywhere relative to the box. But absolute, it would still be going at the speed of light.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 00:55
1. Is the box opaque?

2. Two black holes have met before. This is how we get "Supermassive Black Holes" and Muse songs thereof.

3. They would probably both die, given the impact would be the equivalent of hitting the ground at twice the terminal velocity assuming they have similar mass.

4. They would keep going? I suppose there would be some minimal orbit change due to their individual gravity.

5/6/7. Seriously?

8. "Speed of lightning" is not a constant - it depends on air density, humidity, temperature...

9. Evolution does not occur on a worldwide scale. Natural selection says that the random mutation most suitable for a specific area will be more likely to survive. In some areas, it was apparently better to be an ape than a human.

9. The world does not create idiots. Idiots choose not to become smarter than they can be.

10. Because "near hit" sounds as if a hit was the desired outcome, which it usually is not.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 00:59 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 01:03
Quote: "1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?"


So this box made of somehow indestructible mass manages to accelerate beyond the speed of light? Well if you and this box could break the barrier, I suppose the light of the flashlight would be able to as well.

Quote: "3. If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?"


If a person traveling at terminal velocity in air attempted to grab the arm of a person traveling the same speed but in the opposite direction, the difference in speed would be 112 m/sec, so their arms would be torn off or their grip would come loose.

Quote: "5. Whats the speed of dark?"


What the hell? I guess if you really want an answer, one could say that it's the same as the speed at which light departs.

Quote: "9. If you build an idiot-proof system, will the world create a better-quality idiot? "


Is this a joke?

I understand that you're trying to provoke discussion, but a majority of these questions are retarded, and the rest have one answer, leaving little to discuss.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:06
Considering these as an armchair "scientist", an I use "scientist" very very very loosely:
1) Everything within the box would be going faster than the speed of light, including the photons from the flashlight, so I would assume that said photons would still behave as normally (the arguments about physics prohibiting this would be broken as we are traveling faster than light anyway)
2) Read up on black/"white" holes. But considering the question anyway...I'd think the black hole would "suck up" matter & energy the "white hole" is spewing out. A more intriguing question would be: What if the black hole and white hole are two ends of the same entity? Assuming that's the way black/white holes work....
3) Don't wanna think of the outcome - OUCH!
4) Ummm...nothing?
5) LOL
8) The same as it is zig-zag
9) Ecological niche? They missed the evolution bus? Who knows
10) ROFL, take a ride in a cockpit someday when a near-miss happens. Oh yeah, bring an extra pair of underwear and pants too. It's because the aircraft were "near" each other but "missed" colliding.

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Quote: "If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? "

Wonderful question.
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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:14
Quote: "A more intriguing question would be: What if the black hole and white hole are two ends of the same entity? Assuming that's the way black/white holes work...."

The idea being that something would get sucked into the black hole and then get spewn out of the white hole, like a (probably quite painful) tunnel?

Regarding evolution, I think the accepted wisdom is that we and apes are descended from a common ancestor which was like an ape and like a human but different. So apes have been evolving too - just in a different direction. The common ancestor isn't around anymore, of course, because it evolved into apes and humans.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:16
Quote: "The idea being that something would get sucked into the black hole and then get spewn out of the white hole, like a (probably quite painful) tunnel?"

Indeed

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:22
Well let me re-do question 1 what if you were going the speed of light and the box was transparent with headlights on the outside where the speed of light is, so then what happens if you turn on the head lights because the box is going faster then of the speed of light and the light is also doing the same. What happens to an object if it reaches a speed faster then what it's supposed to be?

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Well, since the headlights are still mounted to the box (I assume), the result is the same.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:25
That is when the light-police turn on their supersonic siren and pull you over for speeding.

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lol

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Quote: "1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?"


What color is the box?

Quote: "2. A black hole sucks in matter, and a white hole spits in back out. So what happens if a black hole sucks in a white hole, or even if two black holes meet?"


I think I paid to see that in a night club downtown once.

Quote: "3. If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?"


I give up.

Quote: "4. If you had two people going around the earth (in space) going at high speed, but less then light, and they where going in opposite directions, what would happen if they cross paths parallel to each other, but still close (i.e like the equal sign = )"


I don't think you can cross paths parallel to each other.

Quote: "5. Whats the speed of dark?"


Don't know. No one has ever seen it.

Quote: "6. What do you call a male ladybug? "


Mr. Ladybug

Quote: "7. Why are people immune to their own body odor? "


What body odor?

Quote: "8. What would the speed of lightning be if it was straight and not zig-zag"


The same.

Quote: "9. If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? (I am not religious I am just curious)"


We didn't all evolve?

Quote: "9. If you build an idiot-proof system, will the world create a better-quality idiot? "


Yes, even if you don't.

Quote: "10. When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss rather than a near hit?"


Because it was more of a miss than a hit.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 01:57
2: A black hole does not "suck in" matter, in the sense that it is gravity and not suction. I read into the white hole theory a bit, and I can't say i really understand it as well as I understand black holes, but I can say this: the holes definitely do not act as a tunnel, with the black hole sucking in matter and the white hole spitting it out. A black hole is not really a hole, it is a singularity. A singularity is essentially a large amount of mass compressed into a single point of space by its own gravity. The gravity of a black hole is so great that not even light can achieve escape velocity. Any matter that passes too close to the black hole is pulled into the singularity by its incredible gravitational pull. The matter stays there, forever crushed into a single point. So yeah, black hole + white hole != tunnel.

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Quote: "2: A black hole does not "suck in" matter, in the sense that it is gravity and not suction. I read into the white hole theory a bit, and I can't say i really understand it as well as I understand black holes, but I can say this: the holes definitely do not act as a tunnel, with the black hole sucking in matter and the white hole spitting it out. A black hole is not really a hole, it is a singularity. A singularity is essentially a large amount of mass compressed into a single point of space by its own gravity. The gravity of a black hole is so great that not even light can achieve escape velocity. Any matter that passes too close to the black hole is pulled into the singularity by its incredible gravitational pull. The matter stays there, forever crushed into a single point. So yeah, black hole + white hole != tunnel."


But Black hole into black hole or black hole into white hole would be?

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 02:05 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 02:06
Quote: "1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?"


Hmm...I suppose that's an interesting question, after all, light still exists in hyper space. Perhaps it'd be like driver a convertable and constantly throwing rubber balls in front of you - as a torch/flashlight is a source of light I imagine it is firing off photons...but in honesty, I don't actually know.


Quote: "2. A black hole sucks in matter, and a white hole spits in back out. So what happens if a black hole sucks in a white hole, or even if two black holes meet?"


Do white holes exist? I've only heard of them existing as a hypothesis.


Quote: "3. If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?"


They'd probably loose a limb.

Quote: "4. If you had two people going around the earth (in space) going at high speed, but less then light, and they where going in opposite directions, what would happen if they cross paths parallel to each other, but still close (i.e like the equal sign = )"


They'd go passed each other?

Quote: "5. Whats the speed of dark?
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Dark is the absence of light...therefore it has no speed...it be like saying, "how much does nothing weigh?"

Quote: "6. What do you call a male ladybug?"


Exactly that - ladybug is just their name, it suggests nothing about their gender.


Quote: "7. Why are people immune to their own body odor? "


Well, it'd do no good being repulsed by your own scent...and well, you get used to smells.

Quote: "8. What would the speed of lightning be if it was straight and not zig-zag"


The speed wouldn't change.


Quote: "9. If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? (I am not religious I am just curious)"


Debate to do with Evolution is banned. So I'll try to answer your question with out provoking any debate - so that you know what evolution scientists claim. They say that we descended from an ape species - but much like 2 parents spawn different kids, different species became of it and the likes of Chimps and Bonobos are cousins on the evolutionary tree. That is the claim. No discussion needs to be made for or against those claims and to start breaking the AUP. Save all that for religious debate forum, there's plenty of them around.

Quote: "9. If you build an idiot-proof system, will the world create a better-quality idiot? "


The telephone seems pretty idiot proof. You're taught from a young age to use one. I've never head of anybody having trouble phone up a number because they're too stupid. Mental or physical illnesses don't count because you can't class them as being 'idiotic'. Well, I suppose a person never taught how to use a telephone wouldn't understand, but their handicap isn't idiocy, just ignorance.

Quote: "10. When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss rather than a near hit?"


Maybe because sometimes phrases don't necessarily carry the correct meaning, such is the curious way of language that we don't always say what we really mean? That's what phrases often do and people rarely think twice (do people sometimes think more than once on a subject, and just not care? Why do we even use that phrase? It means nothing really)



Quote: "But Black hole into black hole or black hole into white hole would be?"


True love?

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 02:07 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 02:10
I think xplosys has already won.

Quote: "Maybe because sometimes phrases don't necessarily carry the correct meaning, such is the curious way of language that we don't always say what we really mean? That's what phrases often do and people rarely think twice (do people sometimes think more than once on a subject, and just not care? Why do we even use that phrase? It means nothing really)"


"I could care less" comes to mind...

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 02:15
Quote: "1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with. the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?
"


Well... to go faster than the speed of light, you would have to speed up to that speed. This would mean going beyond infinite mass, infinite energy, and the square root of a division by zero, and into the square root of a negative - imaginary numbers.

So... that's just waaaay outta the question. Also, another problem with the question is that everything is relative to the observer. If a person was in that box, they would observe themselves to be still, without an outside reference point.

There is also the issue of time dilation. If you were whizzing along a photon at almost the speed of light... since the speed of light has to be constant... you would observe the photon moving away from you at the speed of light. To accomodate this, every thing would sloooooowwwww doooowwwwwn, aaand an outside observer would observe the time passing in your ship to be reeeeaaaallllly sllllooooowwwww (still moving fast horizontally, but not as far in time).

I've read up enough to know that much about relativistic velocities, but there gets to be some craaaazy stuff out there.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 02:17
Quote: ""I could care less" comes to mind..."


Everyone I've ever known has said: I couldn't care less. On the internet I've seen people say the former but they soon got corrected, so that's a bad example.

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Quote: "But Black hole into black hole or black hole into white hole would be?"


What would happen if you Googled "Google"? Maybe it would rip a hole in the space-time continuum and end our universe as we know it? Bring the internets to a screeching halt? Divide by zero error?

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1. It would light up normally since everything inside the box would have to be protected from faster than light travel to survive. We wouldn't notice anything different since we are also traveling at the speed of light... like right now just sitting at your computer you are traveling at 67,000 miles per hour. You don't notice anything weird since everything else on Earth is also traveling at 67,000 miles per hour.

1 Redo. Having lights on the outside would make the box faster than the light produced from the headlights so you would only see a streak of red if you look behind you due to redshift. Once the box slows down the light would slowly return to the front and change to it's normal white color when traveling at slower than light speed.

2. White holes don't exist. Black holes aren't holes in space that lead to other dimensions. They eject all the matter they "suck" in. Anything a black hole takes in is reduced to atoms and shot back out into space. The material a black hole ejects is often how they find black holes.

3. Both would loose their arms.

4. The same thing when you pass cars going the opposite direction.

5. The same as the speed of light... when it's off.

6. Ladybugs. Although they do get mad when you call them a lady.

7. They're not... if they were they wouldn't be able to smell their own pits and gag.

8. It depends on what the electricity is going through. In a vacuum it goes at the speed of light, through copper wire it's a bit slower than light and gets progressively slower as less efficient conductors are used.

9. I don't believe in evolution. We still have apes because we haven't killed them all.

9 again. If you make something idiot proof... only idiots will want to use it... and that never sells well.

10. Because nobody was injured in a "near miss". A jet that's within 1 mile away from another jet is too close for comfort... any closer and it's a "near miss".

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Quote: "Everyone I've ever known has said: I couldn't care less. On the internet I've seen people say the former but they soon got corrected, so that's a bad example."


You've never heard someone say "I could care less"? That phrase is used incredibly frequently where I live, and it's very irritating.

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I could answer that black hole question.

It really depends on how long it would take before the white hole became a new black hole. Either way you'd end up with a bigger black hole. Because of the way the things work, a white hole wouldn't exist very long because all that mass will just collapse in on itself. And since there's so much of it (thanks to the white hole spewing it out) it'll become a black hole really quickly.

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Quote: "You've never heard someone say "I could care less"?"


Well that's not what I said, everyone(English speakers) I've ever known, i.e. in real life(mainly from England) has always said "I couldn't care less". Maybe the incorrect form is more prevalent in America, which wouldn't surprise me as they call 'hand egg', 'football' for some bizarre reason.


Quote: "1. It would light up normally since everything inside the box would have to be protected from faster than light travel to survive. We wouldn't notice anything different since we are also traveling at the speed of light... like right now just sitting at your computer you are traveling at 67,000 miles per hour. You don't notice anything weird since everything else on Earth is also traveling at 67,000 miles per hour."


This would only be true if there weren't speed limits in the universe. Besides, the initial premise of moving faster than 'c' makes no sense. EM radiation will travel through a vacuum at the same speed regardless of the velocity of what it was emitted from, the only reason we see aren't affected is because we aren't moving fast enough.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 03:29
Quote: "1. Lets say you were in a box of indestructible mass that was hollow with a flashlight in your hand and you inside. Then you make the box reach the speed of light and constantly go that speed, you turn on the flash light (while still going the speed of light) and slowly accelerate just over the speed of light with the ray of light facing forward. What would happen to the light?"

Well, if the flashlight was from my house then nothing would happen because the batteries are probably dead.

Quote: "5. Whats the speed of dark?"

Depends on what you set the sync rate to.

Quote: "6. What do you call a male ladybug? "

Obviously, according to you: a male ladybug.

Quote: "9. If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? (I am not religious I am just curious)"

Well, if you believe in evolution then who is to say that you are the superior species? Maybe you will one day evolve into an ape.

Quote: "10. When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss rather than a near hit?"

Because the pilots are drunk?


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Quote: "You've never heard someone say "I could care less"? That phrase is used incredibly frequently where I live, and it's very irritating."


I could care less doesn't make sense in the context, though, unless you care about the thing you are referring to. I couldn't care less states that you can't care any less for said thing---


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Quote: "Well, if you believe in evolution then who is to say that you are the superior species? Maybe you will one day evolve into an ape."

Ohmagoodness I have NEVER thought of that!
Woot! New thing for me to say in arguments about evolution!
Yeah, what if apes are smarter, but humans arent smart enough to realise it...
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Quote: "I could care less doesn't make sense in the context, though, unless you care about the thing you are referring to. I couldn't care less states that you can't care any less for said thing---"


Which was exactly my point...

Quote: "sometimes phrases don't necessarily carry the correct meaning"


Quote: "the phrase "I could care less" comes to mind"


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Quote: "I could care less doesn't make sense in the context, though, unless you care about the thing you are referring to. I couldn't care less states that you can't care any less for said thing---"


Here's a handy graphic:


I hate double negatives too. When I ask people for ID and they say "I don't got no ID." I sometimes harass them and keep asking for it. After a bit of back and forth I inform them that if they say they "don't have" "no ID" that means they have ID. Some people just don't get it though.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 05:27 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 05:28
This is becoming a flame war...wow.... Can we get on topic please

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I have question.
What is the speed of caring? jokes

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We're not immune to it. Because we're around our own body odor 24/7 we become used to it.


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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 07:15
Quote: "Having lights on the outside would make the box faster than the light produced from the headlights so you would only see a streak of red if you look behind you due to redshift. Once the box slows down the light would slowly return to the front and change to it's normal white color when traveling at slower than light speed."


About question number one, take what i said to heart. The speed of light is constant, meaning from any observer, all light is going the same speed. This means that if you were in a box, with lights outside the box, and the whole system is going the same speed, you would observe no anomalies in that system, regardless of whether you're going 99.99999999% the speed of light (relative to a stationary point you started out at) or 1% the speed of light.

Of course wierd stuff would be happening in the surrounding area that you're whizzing by, but in the whole system that is going the same speed, it's the same.

Also... i wouldn't say another word about evolution... i've been studying genetic algorithms and neural networks, and i might just go on a rant if a debate starts... and that would lead nowhere

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 08:48 Edited at: 17th Nov 2009 08:50
Quote: "3. If you had a person falling at terminal velocity, which means his speed will constantly be that speed, and another person heading up at the same speed what would happen if they grabbed each other?"


terminal velocity for a person has been concluded to be around 122mph give or take. I've seen accidents where skydivers collide while both falling and the force of that alone cut a man's leg off from another man's arm. So opposing directions at such speeds, the two persons would like be obliterated and leave a bloody mess.


Quote: "10. When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss rather than a near hit?"

because they nearly missed saving their lives.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2009 23:55
Quote: "Two black holes have met before. This is how we get "Supermassive Black Holes""

And of course Michael Moore's mouth...

Quote: "A black hole sucks in matter, and a white hole spits in back out. So what happens if a black hole sucks in a white hole, or even if two black holes meet?"

I know they don't form a tunnel, but it would be so much fun if they did. Just chuck something in and watch it go by time and time again. Possibly useful for clay pigeon shooting as well - if you miss, it'll just come round again.

Assuming that you, the gun and the bullets were immune to gravity.

And that the whole tunnel thing wouldn't happen anyway.

And that you'd have to be clay pigeon shooting in space.

So even as a hypothetical sporting activity, there are still a few kinks to be worked out. Oh well, I bet even running was a little flawed when they first invented it...

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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 00:02
Quote: "And of course Michael Moore's mouth..."

Indeed, very true
Quote: "Oh well, I bet even running was a little flawed when they first invented it..."

I just got back from running a couple miles, I don't think the kinks have been worked out even after...uh...yeah...a long long time.
*me fires up the hookah to undo what good he did for his body running - "Installing Cancer....27%"*

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