No Stupid Questions

[Jim Nazium]

yup.
Because the ship has a fleet, and the fleet has air cover, and the air cover has a base that has to be attacked or defended...and both sides were committed to a policy of never surrender. That means that whoever thinks he's losing might go nuclear. Oh, it wasnt inevitable...obviously. But it was a real possibility.

I was in 8th grade. The day the Sov ships were due to hit the blockade line, our principal told us to all stay home from school...in the basement. We believed him because we'd lived with the real threat since birth. Nukes were USED a few years before I was born, and we all accepted that wars do blow up whole countries. Much of the world was still digging out of the rubble when we were kids.

That's the best explanation I've heard yet.

 

[klejst]

What's a question? And a stupid one at that?

 

[Tom Bomb]

What is Titicaca?

 

[bass-icly me]

What is Titicaca?

A lake, me thinks.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Correct.

 

[SgtHulka]

What is Titicaca?

 

[garp]

Who decided that the quickest way to put out a fire is with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen?!?

 

[ThudThudThud]

The spirit of this thread is to answer any question someone brings here as seriously as possible. I know there's going to be jokesters, but no question here is too dumb and we aim to find the truth behind every question no matter how stupid you may think it is. This Thread was inspired by the following question:

If kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, how many times would I need to slap a chicken to cook it?

Where are the physicists in the house??

If you have your own stupid question, please ask.

One thing you have to consider is the cooling of the chicken between slaps. The aggregate time heating from the slaps is unequal to period between the slaps, so unless you're in a controlled environment with neutral heat loss, and your slaps occur in a frequency commensurate to the retention of heat, it is difficult to say.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Does a snare drum without the bottom head sound like a tom-tom?

 

[Downunderwonder]

Who decided that the quickest way to put out a fire is with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen?!?

Not a mixture. It's oxidized hydrogen. DiHydrogenOxide.

 

[Winslow]

Does a snare drum without the bottom head sound like a tom-tom?

Depending on the dimensions and material it's made of, the sound might be a bit closer to a timbale. Still, without the resonator head for the snares to react against, they'll just sit there and hum faintly, to minimal effect.

 

[laristotle]

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

 

[shadowtippy]

Not a mixture. It's oxidized hydrogen. DiHydrogenOxide.

Does that mean it has rusted?

 

[Downunderwonder]

Does that mean it has rusted?

I believe rust is oxidized iron. Same same different.

 

[Downunderwonder]

Fun fact. Mixing iron with other stuff makes steel. Some of it even becomes rust proof. They do that by burning off the 'rust' on the iron ore with coal swapping the oxygen onto the carbon of the coal leaving a mixture of iron and spare carbon. I am sure they didn't get it right first time.

 

[hbarcat]

Do photons have mass? I think the current belief is no. Could be wrong.

If I'm correct, why does a black hole capture light?

Photons have no mass.

General relativity tells us that gravity causes space to curve. This is why planets orbit the sun in elliptical (curved) orbits. Black holes have so much gravity concentrated in such a small space that the escape velocity in the area around them is greater than the speed of light. Any photon that passes inside that radius becomes trapped.

 

[Downunderwonder]

Photons have no mass.

General relativity tells us that gravity causes space to curve. This is why planets orbit the sun in elliptical (curved) orbits. Black holes have so much gravity concentrated in such a small space that the escape velocity in the area around them is greater than the speed of light. Any photon that passes inside that radius becomes trapped.

You left out the bit about the photon travelling in a straight line in curved space. It must be very bright in there.

 

[TOOL460002]

OP reminds me of doing the math on adding salt to water to change the boiling point. Turned out you needed a crazy amount to make a difference.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

If the Chinese invented gunpowder and fireworks, why are Roman Candles called Roman Candles?

 

[SgtHulka]

If the Chinese invented gunpowder and fireworks, why are Roman Candles called Roman Candles?

The name became popular after the Romans used a similar device to light Christians on fire for their amusement.