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| Scratch-n-sniff |
The "How does it work?" threadGot a pondering of how something works? Want to know who won world war I and how? Descriptions of how paper clips work, its all here! |
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| Gibbo |
How do they stop superglue sticking to the inside of the tube? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
It's a solvent so it's not 'sticky' until it reacts with the air, thats why you always have to put the cap back on. | ||||||
| StinkyP |
Who started AIDS? | ||||||
| Liam, Major Major drummer |
monkeys
its something they have and dont care about but then when people ate the monkey meat they got it from them. |
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| Gibbo |
Interestingly enough, cats can get AIDS too | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
keep that trivia in the facts thread, this is about DIY, engineering and other ponderings | ||||||
| Gibbo |
In that case riddle me this: why do we eat turkey at Christmas when it's not a native bird, and chicken tastes miles better? | ||||||
| Louis |
its tradition 
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
So it's because they're bigger and you can fit em in your fridge |
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| Dave |
How do they make toothpaste come out the tube in stripes? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
wow, now thats a question! I'll look in2 it. | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
done
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1047836 |
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| Louis |
amazing | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
learn something everyday | ||||||
| Conor Major Major |
Why do orange smarties taste nicer than all the other ones? | ||||||
| Gibbo |
Orange Smarties are the only ones to contain an actual different flavour as far as I know, as they're made from orange-flavoured chocolate. The rest are all just normal milk chocolate | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
that is true.
fact: originally the brown smarties contained dark chocolate |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
as a long time watcher of time team i have always wondered what geo-fizz stands for? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
geophysics? | ||||||
| Conor Major Major |
How does a tap work. I know it blocks off the water but isn't there a massive build up of pressure? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
yes, you can alter it at the stop cock located out side your house or through the hot water system. | ||||||
| JakeTheMasterOfDance |
Possibly the best question I've ever heard asked. Even though I know the answer, I'm going to randomly ask my physics teacher tomorrow. THAT SHOULD STUN THE BASTARD. x |
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| Dave |
Why did you end that rant with a kiss?
My actual question is how do they make jam doughnuts? |
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| JakeTheMasterOfDance |
I have a habit of ending things with a kiss.
It's what texting does to me. What nobs. The jam doughnut one is good, although it's quite a sad answer when you know it. The small hole in the side is there because they pump the jam into the hollow exterior. Not as interesting as voodoo or something along those lines. |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
im assuming the inject the jam but how do they make the hole for it? ill research | ||||||
| Dave |
That's boring, I was hoping they had a levitating ball of jam which they covered in dough
How do they make Scotch eggs then? You can't inject an egg |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
nah have you seend one of those pies where the yolk goes all the way through!!? thats amazing! | ||||||
| Gibbo |
According to Wiki:
"A Scotch egg consists of a cold, hard-boiled egg removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried." So you wouldn't need to inject it, surely you could pick the shell off once the egg was hard boiled and then do the rest. |
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| EmmersoN |
Yeah I saw that on Room 101 I think! I was amazed! |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
who came up with that?
"do you know what this massive meat anti-cake needs. a hard boiled egg suspended in the middle" it was probably damien hurst. he's always suspending stuff. |
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| Dave |
I just don't get how they make a sort of air pocket between the egg and the sausage meat, it's a modern-day miracle That episode of Room 101 was hilarious, Harry Hill wasn't it? I also remember a clip of a dog pulling a trumpet-playing panda around in a cart at some Russian circus which was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
Ye it was the episode, that anti-cake really was a miracle! it went all the way through! | ||||||
| StinkyP |
Get back on topic, you cunts. Why haven't I got a speech impediment. but Jonathan Ross has? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
he hasnt got an impediment, she just cant say his "r"s
Speech is due to the brain so im guessing so problem that lies in there |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
how do sucession rights work? | ||||||
| Gibbo |
Depends where you are, but usually it falls as either hereditary rights (France, England etc) or elections (Poland, Holy Roman Empire). When you tr.y and establish hereditary rights when your first king was elected less than fifty years before, and your kings are either children, women or lepers, that's where you get contested successions.
(I have done more reading now!) |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
ok, I'll arse raping session tonight knowing that, thanx! | ||||||
| EmmersoN |
Interesting |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
you wernt in conor+kay's last night | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
that damn admin! | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
How does the american presidency work? | ||||||
| StinkyP |
Rock, paper, scissors? | ||||||
| Dave |
By succession apparently
How come on single decker buses by the fold-down chairs, there is always a cushioned plank thing standing vertically, what the hell is that thing? |
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| Gibbo |
Isn't it for wheelchair users to rest their heads against? | ||||||
| Dave |
Haha I don't think so, otherwise there would be one on the other side of the bus, maybe it's like a rudimentary stretcher | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
its for blind people to let them know there is a plank there so they dont bump their heads
seriouisly american presidency, i need some things straightening out... |
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| Louis |
check on good old wikipedia, im sure itll explain on there | ||||||
| Liam, Major Major drummer |
its a system where each state votes and then the winner of said state gats a certain amount of points. the points are based on population and things like that. so it is posible for something like 60% of the country to vote for one person and the other person win. interestingly, you need 2 forms of id to register to vote. the acceptible forms are paspors (which only a very small number of people have) drivers lisence and credit card (which are not given out to poor people i.e most blacks in the south). so basically if you are poor you canot vote. |
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| EmmersoN |
That is right i think! |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
Yeah I knew that, the question is more, what is the point of a third party? who votes for the leader of the party and what is the difference between congress and the senate? |
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| Dave |
Doesn't this have something to do with slavery. So a rich Southern guy with slaves would have been able to say "Well sure I'm the only white person for fifty miles but I have twenty slaves so I need a higher percentage of votes." I know this is an incredibly biased and simplified view but I'm sure it's something along those lines |
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| Gibbo |
The Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate compare with: Parliament is made up of the House of Commons and the House of Lords The differences between HoR and Senate are how many people represent each state (in one, maybe the Senate, you get two people per state and in the other the number of people depends on the size of your state - so Rhode Island is fucked) and how long your terms are (one is 6 years the other is 2 years) When you vote in a Presidential election your vote does not go to the Presidental candidates, it goes to electors. Basically each state has a series of men called electors who are supposed to then count up your votes and then declare the candidate with most votes in their state the winner of the state election. HOWEVER they are not actually obliged by law to do this. So say the Republicans get the most votes in Kansas, the electors can go "2753 this" and give the state to the Democrats. Each state is worth a different amount of points, like Liam said, and then the points are added up at the end and the one with the most points wins. That's about all I can remember from A-Level politics |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
wow a-level politics
i got most of what i said from the daily show with john stewart |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
Hahaha. Ok things are straightened up now.
Which countries still have communism? |
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| Dave |
I'm sure it can't be, it's about five foot long, if it was just a head-rest it wouldn't be a plank, this is really doing my head in The communist states are China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea according to Wikipedium |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
where the hell's laos?
And im sure that plank is for disabled people |
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| EmmersoN |
Its for their head and the back of their wheelchair |
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| Dave |
But it's ridiculously long, you'd have to be about eight foot tall, maybe it's for people who can't sit down to lean against
How does a brick work? |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
you smash it into someones head untill thy die | ||||||
| StinkyP |
Fucking hell, the wall outside my house must be responisble for many, many deaths. | ||||||
| Gibbo |
Laos is in Southeast Asia, think it joins to Vietnam and Cambodia. Dunno for sure though. | ||||||
| Dave |
There's chaos in Laos
Has Stone Henge always looked like that or is it true that it used to be smashed up and the Victorians sorted it all out? |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
There's some real messed up countires in that region, Burma being one of the main ones. | ||||||
| Dave |
You sound like George Bush SATIRE |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
lol. They're all messed up but they are in such termoil that they wouldnt be able to defend an army from switzerland if they invaded. | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
Can cows really only go upstairs but not down? | ||||||
| Dave |
Yeah but what kind of situation that applies to I don't even want to know
How do weapons of mass destruction actually work? |
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| Liam, Major Major drummer |
yes
there knees bend the wrong way aparently |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
gas, chemical or nuclear? |
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| Dave |
I don't really understand any of them, I take it they don't just stuff the bombs full of gunpowder and light the fuse? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
well c4 is a basic explosive caused by combustion, i.e a fuse would set it off
Syanide (most common) is a toxic chemical that when released into the air can cause nerve damage, vomitting then death, this is done by the use of a bomb (i.e c4) You can also make chemical weapons using fertiliser and sodium chloride (salt) by burning them together then setting them alight once cooled (this is more of a napalm) Nuclear weapons have two types: Hydrogen bomb : when two hydrogen atoms fuse together in a isolated vacuum causing a massive release of energy Uranium bomb : Uranium is stripped to its most unstable state (U^235) then when set off using eplosives causes a massive amount of damage I'm sorry if this forum now gets banned by the FBI as a result or if I get hauled in on terrorism laws. |
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| Dave |
Mwahahaha you fell into my trap!
Yesterday I was watching a video in uni for hours and because my head was turned sharply to the left, when I turned it back my neck was killing and the right half of it felt cold Why did it feel cold? Was I having a stroke? |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
lol, cus the blood was probably flowing through your contracting muscles more so less blood was needed in your other side. It's warm blood that makes us mammals, even that duck billed platypuss, the crazt mother who lays eggs! | ||||||
| Dave |
How does this forum work? It's annoying when the topic above the one I have read is highlighted as if I haven't read it
I will give a biscuit to anyone who understands what I mean |
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| EmmersoN |
I will claim to understand... although given your recent affiliation with dog products I worry it will be a dog biscuit? | ||||||
| J4K1NATOR |
how do flamethrowers work? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
a spark or small flame on the end of a nozzle, then some sort of liquid gas mixed with nitrogen is shot through the flame which ignites the liquid propelling it thorugh the air. The air chambers would be air tight so oxygen could not get into the liquid causing a back burn.
Emmerson!!!! What is the maximum amount of nodes on a binary tree given by tree T, depth D and number of nodes N? edit: total number of nodes T |
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| EmmersoN |
What? The maximum number of nodes on a binary tree of depth D is 2^(D-1) (for D>=1). Those other numbers are confusing tho :S |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
total number T = 2^(d-1), thanx!!! | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
no thats not right I want the TOTAL number of nodes in the tree including the root node
Depth (D) Total nodes (T) D 0 T 1 D 1 T 3 D 2 T 7 D 3 T 15 D 4 T 31 |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
a variation of fibonnaci numbers??
the sequence is on here but gives me the same formula you did http://www.irishscientist.ie/2005....xml&contentxsl=is05pages.xsl |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
BINGO!!!
(2^d) - 1 = T |
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| Dave |
How does a helicopter fly? | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
the prepellor blades sucks the air above it like a vacuum causing it to rise in the air, i dont know how/why the prepellor blade at the back is so important (obviously i know its for steering) but in terms of why it's needed stabilise the chopper | ||||||
| EmmersoN |
Haha yeah... just some bracketing issues... I suppose I should of really tested it for more than just D=1 hmmm that was quite lazy of me |
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| Dave |
For 2753's sake Emmerson I will not stand for laziness when it comes to binary trees. Get it together man! | ||||||
| J4K1NATOR |
LOL
i hav almost no idea WTF binary is except PC's use it and that 011 is 3 i fink (i posted this on my new PSP w00t) |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001
Emmerson gets a million points if he can translate this (i think its right, took me ages) |
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| EmmersoN |
this is binary! | ||||||
| Scratch-n-sniff |
yes i know it is can you translate it?.....nah only joking thats what it says!
Emmerson - 1,000,000 That cock who doesn't like Monty Python :P - 8 |
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| Dave |
NERDS!
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
I've stared at that picture for five mins now and cant decide which one is me and which one is emmerson? | ||||||
| Liam, Major Major drummer |
i would asume the ginger one is emmers | ||||||
| J4K1NATOR |
I'm only 14, you've tainted my mind you you demon lickers! | ||||||
| Dave |
I bet you did At least it got people off the subject of binary |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
01100100 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100111 01100001 01111001
http://snarkles.net/scripts/binary/binary.php |
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| StinkyP |
I reckon it just got people off. |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
hahahahahaha, I can't beleive how much dave picture ilustraights this story, this guy is defo a computer scientist. On the story side of things, this method of programming is an even more basic version of "Basic". But if they teach computer scientists this method of programming then it would mean computer languages would come to a halt, which is very bad as the idea of programming is to make them better, not get lazy. On the better side of things that means more people would find it easier in the first exposure to programming
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6647011.stm |
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| Scratch-n-sniff |
is a tautology formula the same as a valid formula? | ||||||