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Tim · Post by **Tim** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:38 pm

Perhaps you could do a breif introduction to string theory? (unless you already have...I've been horrible at keeping up with comics lately and I will catch up someday!)

Or, you could answer why an estimated 75% of my thread replies inexplicably seem to start the second page?

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:46 am

Ooh, I've always wondered about the details of decapitation. For example, the head would surely survive for a short while before lack of oxygen or loss of blood or something kills you - in the meantime, how much works? Can you see? Can you blink and stuff?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:21 am

Cortland: Yeah, sure. I'll explain gravity in three short weeks. BAH.
Dark Magician: ... I have a drawer full of individual socks. Maybe it goes there.
Luprand: See Cortland response, above.
Kureji: Already did bouyancy, sort of, with a helium balloon question.

Jim North: Hey... that's a pretty cool suggestion.

cjburgundy: Sometimes there isn't a cleric around. Sometimes when there is, you fail your system/shock roll and can't be ressurrected.

Dutch!: Hey, that's a pretty cool suggestion.

Phalanx: ... I uhm... Hey, that's a pretty cool suggestion.

Phactorri: Hm... good question, but not a 3 week one.

McDuffies: D'oh. How Macaroni goes from hard to soft might be kind of fun to do.

xmung: Simple answer: it's velocity exceeds Earth's escape velocity - at no point could earth capture it, unless it hitting us counts as capture.

Dutch!: You know, actually that's not a bad question, in that kids ask it a lot.

Jim North: RC-like comic? Whohoo! I'm being used as a template!

DarkMagician: Your head burns because the lady behind you has infrared laser vision and is drilling through your skull with it.

Tim: I've wanted to do a pure string-theory question, but that'd take wayyyyy longer than 3 weeks.

sippan: Actually, I researched decapitation once. The problem is, the head can't talk, and nobody's wired a human's head up before decapitating them.

Keep 'em coming.

I'll pick the winner Friday.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:50 am

sippan wrote:Ooh, I've always wondered about the details of decapitation. For example, the head would surely survive for a short while before lack of oxygen or loss of blood or something kills you - in the meantime, how much works? Can you see? Can you blink and stuff?

Apparently the head lives for approximately 8 seconds after...er...renovations...and shows signs of motions and comprehension...apparently the French I think worked this out during their 'chopping the heads of kings' period in the early revolution years...

Now that's one way to make the last few moments of your life take longer than you'd think, eh?

Oh, and to answer the ressurrection questions...ask McDuffies...he's come back from being killed how many times now? Maybe he could do a guest strip...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:53 am

Dutch! wrote:
sippan wrote:Ooh, I've always wondered about the details of decapitation. For example, the head would surely survive for a short while before lack of oxygen or loss of blood or something kills you - in the meantime, how much works? Can you see? Can you blink and stuff?
Apparently the head lives for approximately 8 seconds after...er...renovations...and shows signs of motions and comprehension...apparently the French I think worked this out during their 'chopping the heads of kings' period in the early revolution years...

Are sources reliable? It just seems like a stuff some overly transcedental scientint of those times would make up or imagine.

Now that's one way to make the last few moments of your life take longer than you'd think, eh?

Oh, and to answer the ressurrection questions...ask McDuffies...he's come back from being killed how many times now? Maybe he could do a guest strip...

I had to, they kept killing me!

Wp · Post by Wp » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:59 am

I've heard that they tilt the head toward the body so that the decapitated head could look at it before the person died. Man, those French...

Actually, a string theory comic might be nice. My planned comic is (very x 50) loosely based on string theory.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:46 am

wp wrote:I've heard that they tilt the head toward the body so that the decapitated head could look at it before the person died. Man, those French...

Actually, a string theory comic might be nice. My planned comic is (very x 50) loosely based on string theory.

I fully intend to do a string theory question. It's a big one though - string theory isn't a three-weeker. It's more of a two-monther. In the meantime, NOVA's "The Elegant Universe" covers a whole lot of the ground, and really does it in a truely easy to understand manner.

I can't do string theory justice in three weeks tho.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:32 am

http://superstringtheory.com/

Booyah.

And I watched "The Elegant Universe" a few months ago . . . damn good stuff.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:04 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
Dutch! wrote:Apparently the head lives for approximately 8 seconds after...er...renovations...and shows signs of motions and comprehension...apparently the French I think worked this out during their 'chopping the heads of kings' period in the early revolution years...
Are sources reliable? It just seems like a stuff some overly transcedental scientint of those times would make up or imagine.

Reliable? Of course they are! I read this in 'The World's Most Amazing Science Facts For Kids' which I picked up for $4 in Clint's Crazy Bargains in a little town called Moe...which for most Australians probably sums that argument up very well...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:05 pm

Oh? Well, if it's from Moe, then I have no reason for disbelief! I get all my informations on nuclear researches from Moe!

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:41 pm

mcDuffies wrote:Oh? Well, if it's from Moe, then I have no reason for disbelief! I get all my informations on nuclear researches from Moe!

That's even funnier for me cos I'm pretty sure you don't know just what kind of a place Moe is...or at least...the stigma around it...

Kureji · Post by **Kureji** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:59 pm

How does cloning work?

Why won't bombarding yourself with radioactive rays turn you into a super hero?

Why is it that no matter who you are there is a type of pie somewhere that you will like?

What is the effect of music on the brain?

How long is it predicted until the world will be destroyed?

Does the locheness monster exist?

How can a mouse lift an elephant? (I know this one

)

How do they fit so much information on a microchip?

What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

Okay... I think I'm done -.-;;;

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:28 am

If there is an infinite number of numbers, which I guess there is, how can there be irrational numbers like pi? I always thought infinity was a sort of probability killer, I mean, how can there not be any x/y equation that equals pi if there are infinitely many combinations?

(This is why I failed that last maths course in 2002 ^^ )

Kureji · Post by **Kureji** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:45 am

there is an x/y that = pi ... It's circumference/(2*radians) because there are 2pi radians in the circumference... ~6.28 radians...

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:44 am

Um... how closely related are you to everyone on the planet?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:22 am

Kureji wrote:How does cloning work?

When you remove the moral and ethical issues, an actual discussion on cloning will take 3-4 weeks, I suspect. If I'm wrong, well... I'll have to add more comics to my queue.

Thanks everyone. Second place was from Dutch! who asked, "Where does the dark go when the light is turned on?" I thought about this one - it's a question a LOT of kids ask, and so I expect a lot of adults have trouble stumbling around for an answer.

Kureji, I'll be using your question after this one; when I start it, I'll give you kudos and a link.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:04 pm

I just thought of one:
When it's raining and you have to umbrella, should you run or walk? Which way you get more wet?

Kureji · Post by **Kureji** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:06 pm

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:16 pm

[sook]Aw...you only won cos you'd watched Star Wars first![/sook]

Second is good though.

Hang on...that's...that's the first loser, isn't it?

Aw nuts.

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