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I like to think I have a fairly broad range of knowledge in this noggin, at least for someone 31. Ask me questions about whatever and I'll try to answer without googling. Because of the age disparity between myself and the average DUer here I have a feeling I'm going to do terribly at this but let's see. My strong suits are science and technology if you wish to ask something I'm more likely to get.
Let's see me get embarrassed.
EDIT: Come on guys ask some science questions, I'm dying here
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)...AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1 + x = 1/x
krispos42
(49,445 posts)But I can't solve it mathmatically.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)You can use newtons method, among others, to get a very accurate approximation quickly though.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...some 18 years ago and have completely forgotten.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)At least within 0.001. I don't believe it has rational number answer.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Years ago I uses a very basic calculator to derive an answer. Junior high school in the late sixties.
Turns out to be the value of phi.
Golden mean, golden section.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Math is indeed fun
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I just knew of the principal geometrically and knew there had to be a constant value for the ratio.
And I had a four function calculator.
Trial and error until I reached the end of the place values in the display: 0.6180339
if
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)You might apply yourself to the Lounge Friday-Saturday Art Challenge. Even if you are not well-versed in art (hell, I posted it and I'm not well-versed in art!), you can apply your skills to researching to track down the works...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018468877
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)His observations of the so called 'red-shift' in 1929.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)It was on the Christian Science Monitor quiz posted earlier this week.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Wonders of the Universe with Brian Cox.
Great series btw. Most of it over my head but
fascinating.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts).
And with that I shall retire to Bedlam.
.
.on edit: It occurred to me that you should be able to tell us
what character in literature said that?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I feel I should know as well.
redwitch
(14,933 posts)Ebaneezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol".
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)I didn't give the answer because I knew you were out there.
Nice going.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I can't remember the answer though. Something like the sun in the sky or something?
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Now it's off with us to the Green Dragon for a pint and a smoke.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)?????????
Who invented the 3 beam video projector ??
answers on page 568
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Smithline Audio? an 8 track player?
I know of those 3 beam projectors, they were really expensive back in the day of high quality analogue equipment and among the best projectors you could get if I remember. They used a different beam / lamp for each colour red green blue. Don't know who invented it. I know that some of the big names in that business are German companies so I'll give it a stab and say it was someone German?
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)we're talking disneyland and not disneyworld.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)And my knowledge of US geography is more than a bit fuzzy, although there was a time when I had all 50 states and their capitals memorized. I'll have to give it a wild guess. St. Louis?
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)or so the legend goes. i've never been there, but i don't see much of it in the photos. my husband went there when he was a kid and it creeped him out, so he hates going down there. i avoid it because of the college kids, it's where all the bars are.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)fort collins
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)the OP thought up.
Eta I almost never come to the lounge, but I'll be looking in more frequently now.
DiverDave
(4,877 posts)would you be under 2 atmospheres?
I sorta remember,It's been awhile
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I don't know this one. Water is very heavy though so I suspect that it's not very deep at all. Sea level pressure is 15 pounds per square foot if I remember correctly. I'll give it a stab and say 15 feet?
DiverDave
(4,877 posts)differently dissolved salts and minerals make you more buoyant in the ocean.
So to acheve neutral bouancy in fresh water you would need less weight then in the ocean.
The Dead sea and the Salton sea you would need A LOT of extra weight.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I don't know how?
B Calm
(28,762 posts)The only trouble is, where in hell can a person find a bale of Barley Straw? I been everywhere looking!
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Why am I taking a bale of your hay? Oh.. Um... I have pond scum. lol
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)that composite objects do not exist?
There are at least two names for this position, or whatever, and I'll take either one.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Atomists?
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Some Buddhists adhere to a position called atomism that similar.
It is called mereological nihilism or compositional nihilism.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Can you leap over tall buildings with a single bound?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Since there's no technical minimum height for the definition of a building and I want to say that I can. Yes I can. 2 foot tall buildings, but yes none the less I can
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)It takes a man 4 hours to paint a house. It takes a second man 6 hours to paint the same house. How long would it take for both men to paint the house together?
BTW the color is light blue with white trim and they're painting both the inside and out.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)A whole house painted in less than half a day? Shoot you could charge admission for that.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)In one hour the first guy paints 1/4 of the house while the other guy paints 1/6. AT this pace they are painting 5/12 of the house per hour. Which means they will paint the house 12/5 hours, or 2.4 hours. I could be wrong.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)You use the product over sum method. (6x4)/(6+4) = 2.4 hours
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)But in IPv4 you are working with a 32 bit number usually broken down into 4 groups. So that gives 4294967296 unique addresses not counting reserved ones. If I remember you have Level A,B,C and D address 256*256*256*256 at each increasing level. Companies usually lease an IP range and are allowed to dole out all the IPs bellow that themselves.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)the previous Governer General was an African American woman known for her Journalism but for the life of me I can't remember her name.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)she was of Haitian decent. I can't remember the new guy. Boring name, that's all I remember, LOL. Bob or Dave or something.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)A question I was actually asked in my oral Ph.D exams.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)lol What was your Ph.D in?
Funny thing is, I do not remember the answer to my own question!
LWolf
(46,179 posts)get rid of invasive perrenial pepper weed which propagates with seed and runners, no poison in my soil allowed?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)nt.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)If I water another plant species, the pepperweed will take off, spreading underground everywhere there is water.
What competes with that?
llmart
(15,501 posts)How do you spell the word that describes a plant that comes back year after year?
Pepperweed propagates by seed and runners. What is above ground dies off when it freezes, or when it doesn't get watered. New sprouts appear in spring, and so do new shoots off of every piece of root already there.
Not only am I a spelling nazi but I am an Advanced Master Gardener in the Midwest.
There are lots of perennial plants that spread through underground runners. Just about everything that spreads that way is what I would call invasive. I just moved into a place where the neighbor behind me had Bishop's weed and I've been pulling it for two seasons now and most of it is gone. Sometimes that's the only way to get rid of something invasive. I once lived in a house that had about an eighth of an acre of wild violets and little by little I pulled them out. Took me several years.
Think of it as exercise
LWolf
(46,179 posts)My "lawn" was bermuda grass. It was so invasive I took extreme measures to try to keep it out of the garden.
When trying to clear it from a flower bed that ran along the front of the house, we found it embedded in the foundation of the house itself.
I was relieved to move to a place with no bermuda, lol.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Sounds roman or greek.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Quixote1818
(28,904 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)It's the effect caused by a planet's rotation that causes cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies / motion to form in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Who was the greatest post Aristotle thinker to have influenced Grosseteste?
He could be called the father of the Scientific Method and is credited for adding induction and positivism to its general use?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I really should read up on the history of science as it's a fascinating topic. I'll take a wild stab and say Galileo.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)More background here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122469
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Much of science and what we know from the Roman period was preserved and added to through the dark ages. Thanks.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)As far as we can tell its cells have no limit on the number of times it can divide and the amount it can regenerate so some specimens could be many many hundreds of years old. However I think you may be referring to a Galapagos island tortoise, old George?, that died some time back, the last of it's kind. I think it was about 150 years old.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Refraction is of course part of it but why are diamonds
so much more brilliant?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)And the quantum mechanical properties of light propagating through diamond. But I don't know exactly. There's also the specific cut that jewellers give to diamonds, the geometry of the diamond shape, which would magnify such effects.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Diamond is so hard and dense that it actually slows the light passing through it. (Cuts the speed of light in half.) All of that light in the diamond, (so much of it and for so long) results in the brilliance diamonds are known for.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)At 31 as a Canadian you are lucky I even know who Goldwater is. His veep pick in 64? Umm... who?
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Also... weirdly.... the father of a small child who would grow up to be Stephanie Miller... widely known liberal/left radio talk show host.
(Don't feel bad. Not many people even knew who he was during the 64 campaign.)
Back to the test-tubes for you.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Because I'm an old coot who,actually voted in that election.
It's Stephanie Miller's father, William O. Miller (R -NY)
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)But my beard's white; not gray. ( So I'm close to clean shaven most of the time.)
You are correct. Miller is the answer.
I take it you went all the way with LBJ?
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)The voting age back then was 21. So although my first vote was for LBJ in '64 I told myself I was really voting for Kennedy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I was bored and gave it to myself as a challenge to see what I could do. Got to the point where I could name 95-98% of all the countries on every continent and tell you each and every capital.
BTW this is the long way of telling you I don't know hah lol. I forgot most of the knowledge some years back.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I had this course in high school called "Geopolitical Economics" with one of the best teachers ever.
In addition to a daily class argument over current events, we had were given a blank world map and had to memorize the capitol city, major languages, major religions, currency, political system, major exports and imports, and significant foreign relationships/international difficulties. I've forgotten some of it, but it has come in so handy so many times over the years that I live in eternal gratitude to that teacher.
Recently my wife told me that her father had been transferred to a mining operation in Central Asia.
I said, "Oh, he's probably in Kyrgyzstan. Their major export is gold and he's a gold miner. Plus he recently converted to Islam and they're a Muslim nation. He might have some difficulty with the language, though, because although the country is in Asia, they mostly speak a Turkik language, although their are plenty of Chechen refugees and cross-Chinese-border residents."
Did I come across as some kind of geographical Rain Man? Probably. Do I think that's a bad thing? Not n the least.
I also have this weird thing I do where I memorize maps, often for places I've never been to. I figure it's the next best thing to traveling.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)It's great fun to learn too. I remember having a great time learning it and feeling kind of proud that I knew all of that. I should get back to it and memorize it permanently this time.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Tannu Tuva ceased to exist with the demise of the Soviet Union and became the Republic of Tuva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Pacific ocean currents bring particularly warm water up this way.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)"
The North Pacific surface current flows with prevailing westerly winds and encounters North America near southern British Columbia. The land mass causes the current to split into the Alaska current, which flows northward along the BC coast, and the California current, which travels south. The North Pacific current is relatively warm, and brings mild, moist weather to the coast of BC.
"
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I know that tin cans first started being used for food some time around the early 1900s 1905 or something like that. They were used in one of the early doomed polar expeditions and it's thought that the lead solder that they were sealed with poisoned the crew to some extent. But as for being used for beer I'm not sure, I would guess but I think I'd probably be way off. What year was it?