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Because camels are more fuel efficient,

why can't I sleep?
 
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You cannot sleep because you are not tired, try getting more exercise.

How does one go about finding the number of different ways a Rubix cube can be set?
 
the same way one finds the number of different color patterns of a rubix cube.

Why does everyone love a slinky?
 
JFo said:
the same way one finds the number of different color patterns of a rubix cube.

Why does everyone love a slinky?
Because it just sort of bouces in your hands.

What is the point of banana milkshakes?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
What is the point of banana milkshakes?

The Bob (2004 ©)

Apparently, the point of banana milkshakes is The Bob (2004 ©).

Will this thread ever catch up to "Thread Killer Champions"?
 
hypnagogue said:
Will this thread ever catch up to "Thread Killer Champions"?
It might do. What do you mean by catch up?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
It might do. What do you mean by catch up?

The Bob (2004 ©)

It means catching the threadkiller champion.

Might it be useful to think this thread just might be the antithread for the threadkiller thread, and when both equal post, it annhilates each other?
 
Let's hope not!

Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
 
whitetigerboy56 said:
Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
I am sure we have had this before and I can't say the english do that. :wink:

So what was the question before last?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
So what was the question before last?

The Bob (2004 ©)
Well The Bob, interesting question. Let us see. *Looks back* Oh yes, here it is:

Might it be useful to think this thread just might be the antithread for the threadkiller thread, and when both equal post, it annhilates each other?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
Well The Bob, interesting question. Let us see. *Looks back* Oh yes, here it is:

Might it be useful to think this thread just might be the antithread for the threadkiller thread, and when both equal post, it annhilates each other?

The Bob (2004 ©)
Nah, this thread deserves to live. The other one (I won't defile myself by saying the name) is not even worthy of being called a thread. Its existence is so fake and contrived, it makes me sick.

Down, other thread ! Long live 'Stupid Quetion' !

Who here, besides The Bob talk to themselves ?
 
Gokul43201 said:
Who here, besides The Bob talk to themselves ?
[For the thread's sake] That is a good question. Who else talks to themselves?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
[For the thread's sake] That is a good question. Who else talks to themselves?

The Bob (2004 ©)
I don't talk to myself. I am on speaking terms with my alternate ego. :mad:
 
hypermorphism said:
I don't talk to myself. I am on speaking terms with my alternate ego. :mad:
Wow. Have I affended you or is the :mad: for affect?

The Bob (2004 ©)

P.S. Take this as the question after the one that hypermorphism will ask after the answer to this one.
 
The Bob said:
Wow. Have I affended you or is the :mad: for affect?

The Bob (2004 ©)

P.S. Take this as the question after the one that hypermorphism will ask after the answer to this one.

It's hard to effect anything more than a smirking affectation with these shiny, colorful things. :mad: :wink: Why are these things called graemlins anyway ? they don't look anything like these guys.
 
hypermorphism said:
Why are these things called graemlins anyway ?
I didn't know they were called Graemlins. Maybe it is because they show just the face, the only part of a Graemlin that can really be seen.

Why would someone call a film 'Graemlin'?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
Why would someone call a film 'Graemlin'?

The Bob (2004 ©)

'Glad you're back and talking to yourself, the Bob, and - as for the quetion, it ranks up there with 'why would someone call themselves 'the Bob'?; therefore the answer is "eek, scary name, therefore scary movie!"

Actually, wouldn't that have been more effective had I said, :eek:, name, therefore, movie?
 
ok i don't want to post this under 'physics' sections.. cause if I am wrong ill probably be rediculed

so here it goes - under penalty of sliding into the 'ask the stupid question' part.

i looked at the clock today, and thought about dividing hours by degrees. so 12 hours = 2*pi, 24 hours = 4pi

so I thought, 1 hour = pi/6 = 60 minutes, 1 minute = pi/360, 1 second = pi/21600

so, naturally being ignorant of geometry, i decided to apply this principle of 1 second to Planck Time

~ 5.391 *10 ^-44 seconds * pi/21600 /second = ~116 * 10^-42 pi. so.. a stupid question: what is this?

multiplying things out.. it goes to 6.5123 * 10^-48 .. kinda less than Planck length though

i mean u know.. could be a spin distance by a photon..if you parametrize it.. who knows.. ah right i donno :devil:
 
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cronxeh said:
so.. a stupid question: what is this?
It would seem that you do not get the idea of this thread. However, you have raised an interesting question and so this will be disscused for a while.

First, you say that 12 hours = 2pi. This I will agree with as 360° = 2pi. What gets me is why you have divided pi by 6. There are 60 minutes in an hour and an hour will take 360° to go around which means a minute is:

[tex]\frac{360}{60} \ or \ \frac{2 \pi}{60}[/tex]

These give 6° or [tex]\frac{ \pi}{30} ^c[/tex] for each minute (and then you can divide again for seconds). So 60 seconds (of time) is equal to traveling 1 minute (of time), 6° or [tex]\frac{ \pi}{30} ^c[/tex] around a clock face.

I do not see what Planck time has to do with what you are doing. So here is my question: Why it is being used and what are you hoping to find from using it? Can you explain to me what it is?

The Bob (2004 ©)

EDIT: I see where the [tex]\frac{2 \pi}{12} ^c[/tex] has come from. This will give you the positions of the 'hours'. However you could have the 'hours' in different places as you really are (almost) making up your own way of telling the time. The placings of the minutes, however, should be as above. Again, I am talking about the placings (or degrees) that the minutes and hours must be. The amount of 'time' that one of them will take is as you have stated above. I do apologise for misunderstanding what you meant.
 
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I think what I calculated is how many radians the thing would travel in a circular motion in Pascal Time. I think what I need to do next is parametrize the circular path curve and find the distance.. i think it will be Planck length so nothing exciting there, false alert
 
Penguinraider enjoys and always talks about himself in the third person.

Why does timego slower during boring lectures and speed up during,oh, say football? Does time enjoy playing tricks on us?
 
penguinraider said:
Why does timego slower during boring lectures and speed up during,oh, say football? Does time enjoy playing tricks on us?
Time is like a little monkey and when it is excited it does more and faster. This is why time seems to go faster, it is just excited. Also it can go slow when it is bored. Each person has its own time monkey.

Why do we map time with space?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
The Bob said:
Why do we map time with space?
I do not know but I am going to stop now before everyone thinks I am talking to myself. :rolleyes:

What is needed for a thread to be popular?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
arildno said:
Why haven't I posted here before? :confused:


Because you have "no" in your name.

What makes a haircut good?
 
are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCANT?
 
A mexican't.

Who else talks to themselves in the third person?
 
penguinraider said:
Who else talks to themselves in the third person?
No one. According to Who's Who In The Third Person, 1988 edition (last edition in print) Mrs. Leonard Robinson of Letona, Arkansas, USA was the only remaining practitioner of this art, and she retired from it in 1979 to pursue a carrear in creative paleontology. Her hoax of Arkansas Man, which proved the prehistoric roots of inbreeding, was created by carefully filing and sculpting the lower mandible of her great uncle's skeletal remains such that it fit perfectly into the sockets of his own scull!. She received a blue ribbon at the state fair for this. Currently she is doing volunteer work in Europe cleaning up exploded toads. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson!

Recently, when I was crawling on all fours in northern Germany inserting explosives into toads, the newscaster on the radio I was monitoring for unjellitivistic utterances announced that authorities had determined that on the 17th on this month, between the hours of 3:35 and 4:14 P.M. EST, no one in the world had thought about Simon B. Birmingham, author of Fun With Bodyhair, Houghton/Mifflin 1952. That being the case, I made a vow to think of him at least once every ten minutes for the rest of my life so that this situation would never arise again. Already, though, I have stumbled several times. Is there no one who will help take up the slack?
 
I have a question.

my mother always said that stupid people are those who do supid things.


is she correct?