Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate

How do dogs sense earthquakes?A quick Google search says that we don't know. Any ideas?Edited by Percy, : No reason given.

The Dwise1 explanation left me confused, so maybe I'll just be explaining the same thing in a different way.The controlled explosion of fuel in the combustion chamber causes gas to push outward in all directions. In the forward direction it encounters the wall of the combustion chamber, and it pushes against this wall, which being part of the rocket ship imparts a forward force to the whole vehicle. The forces of all the gas that pushes against the sides of the combustion chamber cancels out. There is no force from the gas that exits to the rear because the rear of the combustion chamber is open. The net of all this is a forward force.Jets work on the same principle. The difference between rockets and jets is that jets get their oxygen from the atmosphere while rockets have to supply their own.--Percy

Yes it is. And so is your explanation.--Percy

In my model you are strapped to one of the propeller blades. --Percy

People's experiences vary, but I've always liked The Evolution Fairytale .My own interpretation of the heavy handed way many Christian sites are moderated is that many of them view themselves as a ministry, and so what gets posted on the discussion board is considered part of the message.--Percy

April 1st has apparently arrived early this year - that's my opinion.--Percy

Me, too. That's what makes me suspect an April Fools style joke. Static electricity at a level that wouldn't spontaneously discharge through the air to any nearby object is probably at least a couple of orders of magnitude too weak to cause a broom lying on the floor to stand on end. The typical demonstration of static electricity involves a comb and little bits of paper, not a cylinder of wood.George Lolos is apparently a real professor of physics, but either he's in on the joke or one should avoid his courses. Anyone who's played with a Van de Graaff generator has observed that even charges of thousands of volts causing sparks longer than a foot do not generate easily noticeable forces.--Percy

The problem with IQ tests is their inability to test innate intelligence. IQ tests can only measure how intelligently someone thinks using the knowledge they have.Based upon his knowledge of grammar and how to construct contractions in the English language ("Ok, lets do this systematic"), we'll subtract 20 points to give him an IQ of 145.Based upon his knowledge of evolution ("It was because of fossils that the first evolutionist came into being..."), we'll subtract another 20 points to give him an IQ of 125.Based upon his misuse of words ("For there own gain"), we'll subtract another 20 points to give him an IQ of 105.Based upon his invocation of Genesis, the Bible, God and Satan in a science thread, we'll subtract another 20 points to give him an IQ of 85.Based upon his misunderstanding of geology ("Because if fossils happened the way that they have devised then there would be a huge layer depth change in the spot where the fossil was to represent the local flood"), we'll subtract another 20 points to give him an IQ of 65.And based upon his inappropriate and extremely odd formatting with all the dashes and indentations, we'll subtract another 20 points to give him an IQ of 45.His link works, so we'll give him 15 points for a final IQ of 60.--Percy

In the US "#" indicates a unit of weight, the pound. Wikipedia describes the origin of the symbol here. I don't think it sees much use in this way anymore, though if you were to fill in your weight on a form as "140#" most here in the US would know what you mean.--Percy

It's probably this HTML setting that this website uses and that your email probably doesn't. It controls how characters are displayed: I can change this setting if someone would like to suggest a better one, but I should mention that in my own experience I've found that some settings are better for some characters and not others, and vice-versa, and no setting solves all problems.--Percy