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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 7:55 AM
Too heavy! No more weight limit left over for the passengers.






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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 8:34 AM
Another question is why planes don't use fuel that is less likely to burn on impact, and the answer, of course, is money, not lack of technology because the safer alternative exists. Here are 2 more things that would make flying safer:
Parachutes for planes, which are available now for smaller planes, but are not yet technically feasible for larger planes (scroll down once you click the link to see article)
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Arrester beds at the end of runways made of concrete that has dishwashing liquid mixed in:
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:00 AM
Some optical illusions to play with...........

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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:04 AM
Why nail down the lid of a coffin?
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:09 AM
It's so animals and vermin can't get in, not so the corpse can get out??? ?:|W

(Sent the link of the optical illusions to my parents and brother -- I know their brains could use some fun, LOL!)
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:18 AM
When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:41 AM
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:47 AM
Why does one park their car in a driveway, and drive their cars on a Parkway?
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 9:49 AM
When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?

Most modern sheeps' wool contains 35% polyester. In the old days shrinkage was a big problem, quite painful for the sheep.
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 10:03 AM
If you are in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light, what happens when you turn the headlights on?
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 10:10 AM
Why are there braille instructions at a drive-up ATM?
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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 10:16 AM
Or worse, on some gas pumps!



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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 10:44 AM
"If you are in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light, what happens when you turn the headlights on?"

Theoretically, they shine ahead, in the reference frame of the ship, but since it is infinitely short in the direction of motion, has infinite mass and time has stopped relative to the rest of the universe, it's not likely to happen a lot.

If you ship is moving at just below c, from the point of view of the spaceship the lights would look normal, to an outside observer they would be blue shifted to a degree depending on the actual c-? figure due to space being shrunk and due to time dilation, the light would be travelling at the speed of light on whatever framework you viewed it, with the variable tau factor (time dilation/compression) accounting for the apparent impossibility of the faster than light light.



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Re: OT-Life's Unanswerable Questions-OT

Nov 5, 2009 11:05 AM
My head hurts...:(W
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