Posted: 9/21/2009 7:29:09 AM EDT
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Why is north at the top of the map?
The ancient Greeks and Romans put the east at the top of their maps because that is the direction from which the sun rose. The early Christian and muslem nations did too because it was believed that the Garden of Eden had been located in the east. North gradually moved to the top of the map near the beginning of the 14th century. This was because more and more armies, emissaries and traders were traveling north to Europe where there was a larger population mass. |
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It takes 3000 cows to supply a single season's worth of footballs to the NFL. But, but, but its called pigskin  then it would be called BACONBALL I could vote for that 
The human ear can hear frequencies out to approximately 20k Hz, although the useful portion for speech is between around 500 Hz and 4k Hz. |
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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw AN, and OZ, hence "Oz." I thought it was OZ for OUNCE, as in GOLD! Source [The magic world of OZ was named after the alphabetical letters O - Z on the bottom drawer of Baum's file cabinet.] |
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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw AN, and OZ, hence "Oz." I thought it was OZ for OUNCE, as in GOLD! Source [The magic world of OZ was named after the alphabetical letters O - Z on the bottom drawer of Baum's file cabinet.] Thanks fellow MD'er. Explains a lot. Guess I was taught that drivel by a freakin' populist! ALL of it! |
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A deductive argument has two tests - validity and soundness.
An inductive argument only has strength. If you want to drive a logician crazy, tell him his deductive argument is strong. All people who eat a pound of cyanide will die within 24 hours. Your uncle ate a pound of cyanide. Therefore your uncle will die within 24 hours. It's a deductive argument. It's valid because if both premises are true the conclusion must follow. An argument can be valid even if the premises are false. An argument is sound if and only if the argument is valid AND if it's premises are all true. But don't tell me it's a strong argument. 
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When exposed to the frequency of the water molecule in the human body with enough volume you go blind and puke , piss, and shit all over your self. Being a sick bastard I have done this. Girls usually are effected first, pregnant one at the top of the list.  i believe that is the "brown" note |
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When exposed to the frequency of the water molecule in the human body with enough volume you go blind and puke , piss, and shit all over your self. Being a sick bastard I have done this. Girls usually are effected first, pregnant one at the top of the list. i believe that is the "brown" note Mythbusters tested that one and couldn't get a result. "Weightlessness" in space isn't because of "zero gravity" as is often stated. If you stand on a scale inside the space shuttle, your weight isn't zero, although it will be slightly less than on the earth's surface due to the distance from the earth's core. The effect is due to the fact that you and the shuttle are falling through space at the same velocity. This is why the effect can be duplicated inside the earth's atmosphere where gravity is "normal." |
| phosgene is NOT mustard gas. I have heard countless people say "...phosgene, its mustard gas... anyway..." and continue story. No they are 2 very different chemicals. Phosgene is actually used is some plastics manufacturing while mustard gas has no industrial use, its just a weapon. |
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Quoted:"Weightlessness" in space isn't because of "zero gravity" as is often stated. If you stand on a scale inside the space shuttle, your weight isn't zero, although it will be slightly less than on the earth's surface due to the distance from the earth's core.
The effect is due to the fact that you and the shuttle are falling through space at the same velocity. This is why the effect can be duplicated inside the earth's atmosphere where gravity is "normal." 
Good luck standing on anything in freefall. If you were to stand on a scale located on a podium as tall as the Space Shuttle's orbital height, your weight would be somewhat less than on the surface. But on the Space Shuttle, which is in orbit, you have no weight. Your mass creates a gravitational attraction to Earth, which causes you to fall toward it at such a rate that your forward velocity combined with your downward velocity makes you orbit the planet. |
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Quoted:"Weightlessness" in space isn't because of "zero gravity" as is often stated. If you stand on a scale inside the space shuttle, your weight isn't zero, although it will be slightly less than on the earth's surface due to the distance from the earth's core.
The effect is due to the fact that you and the shuttle are falling through space at the same velocity. This is why the effect can be duplicated inside the earth's atmosphere where gravity is "normal."
Good luck standing on anything in freefall. If you were to stand on a scale located on a podium as tall as the Space Shuttle's orbital height, your weight would be somewhat less than on the surface. But on the Space Shuttle, which is in orbit, you have no weight. Your mass creates a gravitational attraction to Earth, which causes you to fall toward it at such a rate that your forward velocity combined with your downward velocity makes you orbit the planet. That was how it was explained to me. Thanks for complicating the issue. Nerd. 
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Quoted: The weakness here is assuming it was all eaten in a short enough period of time that it matters. One could eat a pound over a long enough span of time (I have no idea how long that is, and it's not relevant enough to google) to not actually accumulate to lethal levels.A deductive argument has two tests - validity and soundness. An inductive argument only has strength. If you want to drive a logician crazy, tell him his deductive argument is strong. All people who eat a pound of cyanide will die within 24 hours. Your uncle ate a pound of cyanide. Therefore your uncle will die within 24 hours. It's a deductive argument. It's valid because if both premises are true the conclusion must follow. An argument can be valid even if the premises are false. An argument is sound if and only if the argument is valid AND if it's premises are all true. But don't tell me it's a strong argument. Thats why you don't bargain with Satan (or is it 'Santa'? I forget) - you leave out a detail, and you end up a whelk, or Helen Thomas' sex poodle for eternity. Quoted: I read about that whole map thing in a 'Global eco-politics' course I took years ago when I still had a future. The 'top' was pointing to the direction of the (Insert name of favorite religion here) Center of Enlightenment etc. Thats why China became known as 'The Orient' - it was in the direction you oriented the map towards when western map usage first got popular. Later on North became more convenient because north didn't change, but the orientation towards Jerusalem/Mecca did if you were sailing in the Med, or the Pacific.Quoted: Why is north at the top of the map? . Because magnets can't see the sun rise. TRG Your answer will probably be different based on what book you read it in, or what teacher taught you. I'm not saying my instructor was right, just that that's the one who taught me this version. YMMV. |