What Famous Physicist Built an Inaccurate Model of the Hydrogen Atom?

[Evo]

12 is Jan Van Eyck from BELGIUM...

It was not Da Vinci...


marlon

Correct again! (you've got to watch those guys from Belgium)

 

[marlon]

2 is a butterfly

marlon, the animal that tastes with his feet

 

[Evo]

3)I'm going to guess a dromedary

no

9. they have no words that rhyme with them

Correct!

10. longpig

No

9. close as I rememberit, it was the wife of a certain Anglican bishop.

Correct! wife of the bishop of Worcester In 1860 the famous duel between T.H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, and the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reported to have said this in reaction to hearing Darwin’s theory of evolution.

 

[Evo]

2 is a butterfly

marlon, the animal that tastes with his feet

correct and not sure marlon will be invited over for dinner.

 

[marlon]

correct and not sure marlon will be invited over for dinner.

i cannot seduce you with one of my oil-paintings ? The other one, i sold to my brother...

marlon

 

[jcsd]

The only thing I know abot the Lewis-Clarke exepidtion is that cannibalism that took place (I believe that the creators of South Park did a musical based on the story entiteld Cannibal!); longpig is a pseudonym for human flesh.

 

[Evo]

The only thing I know abot the Lewis-Clarke exepidtion is that cannibalism that took place (I believe that the creators of South Park did a musical based on the story entiteld Cannibal!); longpig is a pseudonym for human flesh.

I haven't heard of cannibalism on the Lewis & Clarke expedition, The Donner party is infamous for it though.

This was something else.

 

[marlon]

Besides i have another question : why is it a camel can "store" water that good? How is it done ? And what's up with the bump on their back...Believe me, it is not for water storage. It contains tissue that can be used as energy-source when food is hard to find...

marlon

 

[Evo]

i cannot seduce you with one of my oil-paintings ? The other one, i sold to my brother...

marlon

Aha! Trying to divert my attention with your painting while you stick your feet in the food!

 

[marlon]

Aha! Trying to divert my attention with your painting while you stick your feet in the food!

Well at least i don't come from apes...oopps sorry, is this common knowledge yet

marlon

ps : your avatar tastes real good...mmmmmmmmmm

 

[brewnog]

8 - Llanfairpwyllgwyngillgogerychwrndrobwillantisiligogogoch?

 

[Evo]

Besides i have another question : why is it a camel can "store" water that good? How is it done ? And what's up with the bump on their back...Believe me, it is not for water storage. It contains tissue that can be used as energy-source when food is hard to find...

marlon

True, the camel stores fat, not water in it's humps. The camel gets water from it's nose.

The Truth About Camels

Despite all of the stories, a camel doesn’t store water for its legendary pan-desert treks—not in its humps, which contain fat, nor in its stomach, which holds a mundane amount of liquid. Rather, according to Duke University physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, one of the camel’s most impressive water-conserving organs is its oversized nose.

"A camel that has been deprived of water under hot desert conditions is actually able to withdraw water from its own exhaled air," he explains. As with other mammals, the inside surface of a camel’s nostrils consist of whorled tissue called turbinates. But the similarity ends there. Rolled up like a papyrus scroll, the camel’s turbinates have a huge surface area that is also unusually dry and cool. Consequently, the camel’s nose effectively recaptures most of the moisture contained in the warm, water-saturated air moving out of its lungs.

In addition, camels have the unusual ability to allow their body temperature to creep several degrees above normal without breaking a sweat or suffering heat stroke. Instead, the camel simply permits the excess heat to dissipate when air temperatures drop during the nighttime hours.

I will post the URL for this after another question is answered.

 

[marlon]

Indeed i have read that the water can be extracted and stored in the blood-circulation. They have quite an extraordinay metabolism


marlon

 

[Evo]

8 - Llanfairpwyllgwyngillgogerychwrndrobwillantisiligogogoch?

Not according to recent sources. I thought that was it but it turns out another longer name is being used somewhere else.

 

[Evo]

ps : your avatar tastes real good...mmmmmmmmmm

Get your feet off my face!

 

[mattmns]

Since when has N looked the same upside-down?

- Warren

It also does not look the same backwards. But according to Evo it is correct.

I looked up the word OHO which was one of my earliest guesses, and this is what dictionary.com says.

"Used to express surprise, comprehension, or mock astonishment."

However, it is an interjection, so it may not be a word. Kind of like "Ugh" is not really a word, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[marlon]

Get your feet off my face!

sorry, you have already been digested...I am feeling a bit heavy now ? I wonder why that is ?

marlon

 

[Evo]

It also does not look the same backwards. But according to Evo it is correct.

Write NOON on a piece of paper and turn it upside down. Or turn your monitor upside down. It's a palindrome, they didn't word the question correctly, it should state that it reads the same backwards, not looks the same. But it does look the same upside down.

I got that question from http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/palindromes.htm

Here is a numbers palindrome from the site. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[mattmns]

Write NOON on a piece of paper and turn it upside down. Or turn your monitor upside down. It's a palindrome, they didn't word the question correctly, it should state that it reads the same backwards, not looks the same. But it does look the same upside down.

I got that question from http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/palindromes.htm

Here is a numbers palindrome from the site. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Yeah when I was considering NOON upside down I was just rotating it 180 degrees, not really upside down, but I thought it was what you meant

 

[plover]

Re #9, the wisdom of Theodor Geisel concerning the FLUNNEL:

A softish nice fellow who hides in a tunnel.
He only comes out of his hole, I'm afraid,
When the right kind of softish nice music is played
On a kind of a hunting horn called the o'Grunth.
And to learn how to play it takes month after month
Of practising, practising.
Isn't much fun-th.
And, besides, it's quite heavy.
Weighs almost a tun-th.
That's why few people bother to play the o'Grunth
So the Flunnel's been out of his tunnel just one-th.

 

[Hypercase]

3. the kangaroo rat ?

 

[Evo]

3. the kangaroo rat ?

Good guess since rats are another animal that can go longer than a camel without drinking, but kangaroo rats are from N America, I'm looking for a well known animal from Africa.

 

[plover]

3) Giraffe? (hey, if I had to contort my neck that much to take a drink I wouldn't do it very often either...)

10) Cheez Whizz

 

[Evo]

3) Giraffe? (hey, if I had to contort my neck that much to take a drink I wouldn't do it very often either...)

Correct! Giraffes get most of the water they need from the leaves of the Acacia tree. Bending over to drink makes the Giraffe vulnerable to predators, so they usually only drink in packs while several are on the "lookout".

 

[Gokul43201]

I missed it all.

Haven't read any responses yet, but by Evo's remarks, #7 is still open.

#7 is a Maori-name town in New Zealand. Don't know the name...but if you'd asked me about 6 years ago, I'd have probably got most of it.

There's a town in India by the name of Shriventakanarasimharajuvaripeta...but I don't think that even makes the top ten.

 

[Moonbear]

8 - Llanfairpwyllgwyngillgogerychwrndrobwillantisiligogogoch?

That's the one I was thinking of in Wales that Evo said wasn't it. See, I told you it had lots of Lls and not enough vowels! It actually is a description of the location of the town, something like down the winding lane, around the trees, over the stile, past the stream...(I'm just making it up as I go along now).

 

[Evo]

I missed it all.

Haven't read any responses yet, but by Evo's remarks, #7 is still open.

#7 is a Maori-name town in New Zealand. Don't know the name...but if you'd asked me about 6 years ago, I'd have probably got most of it.

Where the heck have you been?

That's correct! Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateturipukakapikimaungahoro-Nukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu translates as the 'place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one'. This is the place name recognised by the Guinness Book of Records.

#5 & #10 are the only ones left unanswered. Don't let me down!

5. What writer accurately described the two moons of Mars (including size and rotation) more than 100 years before they were discovered?

10. William Clark, of the famous Lewis & Clark expedition, was the only one in the expedition to refuse to eat this food. What was it?

 

[arildno]

5. Jules Verne

 

[Evo]

5. Jules Verne

No, but good guess.

 

[BobG]

10. Honey?