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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2008, 07:59:25 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on April 14, 2008, 07:57:03 AM
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Anyway, what I really need to know now, is what is the exact weight that a living creature will survive from a 50ft fall onto a hard surface? rubschin:
Why? What does Mrs Growler weigh?

Always too much apparently. ::)

This is a serious question. Why is it you can drop a cat from that height, and it may well survive, but an equal weight dog wouldn't.
Why is it that you can drop a leaf and it will float to the earth, but an exactly the same weight stone sculptured to the same shape would plumit?
a) Cats are clever enough to land on their feet
b) Wind resistance
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2008, 08:02:58 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on April 14, 2008, 07:57:03 AM
Quote from: Darwins Selection on April 14, 2008, 07:51:42 AM
Quote from: GROWLER on April 14, 2008, 07:45:13 AM
Anyway, what I really need to know now, is what is the exact weight that a living creature will survive from a 50ft fall onto a hard surface? rubschin:
Why? What does Mrs Growler weigh?

Always too much apparently. ::)

This is a serious question. Why is it you can drop a cat from that height, and it may well survive, but an equal weight dog wouldn't.
Why is it that you can drop a leaf and it will float to the earth, but an exactly the same weight stone sculptured to the same shape would plummet?

It's a matter of aerodynamics. The greater the ability of the object to obtain "lift" the more likely the object is to "float" to earth. For example a cat tends to spread itself (think those "flying squirrels")  ~ a leaf is aerodynamically more suited to be able to obtain "lift" than a stone .... even if they weigh the same (which is unlikely)
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2008, 08:09:52 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on April 13, 2008, 08:13:31 PM
Meanwhile, whilst out 'up me 'ill' this avvy, I've been doing some very serious thinking..... rubschin:

There are many more unanswered scientific questions that need resolving.
Stand by you egg 'eds............. tunble:

Anyway, it's just under an 8000 mile hole we've got to dig, so we better get crackin'.
If I start in our garden, we should break through into the Pacific Ocean just north of New Zealand in errrrr...approx 3500 years time I reckon, or 35,000 including ale breaks.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Dont-Penguins-Feet-Freeze/dp/1861978766/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208160539&sr=1-1
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2008, 12:57:37 PM »
Quote from: GROWLER on April 14, 2008, 07:57:03 AM
This is a serious question. Why is it you can drop a cat from that height, and it may well survive, but an equal weight dog wouldn't.

Thats an evolutionary factor, cats are more agile and have a more highly developed sense of balance which means that they are more likely to land feet first allowing them to absorb the impact.


Anyway back to the original question the answer is that you couldnt drop the ball in the first place as the pressure of the magma would stop any object from being able to be dropped even if you are able to continue drilling the hole in the first place.  noooo:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #49 on: April 14, 2008, 01:02:27 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 14, 2008, 12:57:37 PM
Quote from: GROWLER on April 14, 2008, 07:57:03 AM
This is a serious question. Why is it you can drop a cat from that height, and it may well survive, but an equal weight dog wouldn't.

Thats an evolutionary factor, cats are more agile and have a more highly developed sense of balance which means that they are more likely to land feet first allowing them to absorb the impact.
I said that!  cussing:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #50 on: April 14, 2008, 01:03:55 PM »
I now but coming from me it will wind the hound up more...  whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #51 on: April 14, 2008, 01:05:50 PM »
A real question for the eggheads would be “Why is my karma -104 when everybody loves me so?”  rubschin:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #52 on: April 14, 2008, 01:07:19 PM »
But it isnt -104 BM you must be reading it wrongly......









....its actually -106  point:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #53 on: April 14, 2008, 01:07:58 PM »
doh:

See... the system must be broken...  rubschin:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #54 on: April 14, 2008, 03:12:29 PM »
Maybe you should go and accos the baldy that put the system in BM  whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #55 on: April 14, 2008, 03:17:26 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 14, 2008, 03:12:29 PM
Maybe you should go and accos the baldy that put the system in BM  whistle:
I'm not bloody bald I tell you!  cussing:




No really, I'm not...  noooo:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #56 on: April 14, 2008, 03:18:51 PM »
Ah so you coded the karma piece then  point:

figured it was something you'd nabbed from somewhere else.  whistle:


Maybe your Karma score equates to how many hairs people think you have on your head...
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #57 on: April 14, 2008, 03:23:36 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 14, 2008, 03:18:51 PM
Ah so you coded the karma piece then  point:

figured it was something you'd nabbed from somewhere else.  whistle:


Maybe your Karma score equates to how many hairs people think you have on your head...
Just wait 'till we bore you all silly with the wedding pictures!  whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #58 on: April 14, 2008, 03:25:25 PM »
We already know that you have heavily invested in toupees and hair transplants BM.  whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #59 on: April 14, 2008, 03:37:51 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 14, 2008, 03:25:25 PM
We already know that you have heavily invested in toupees and hair transplants BM.  whistle:
Nah... watches and helicopters for me...  whistle:
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