Well this is the fifth time you offer no explanation. Can we say it a sixth time?

11/19/2012 6:19:37 PM

Resolving your own ignorance is a duty to yourself. Don't blame others for not explaining it to you.

Besides, you just admitted that you won't read it. I'll bet there's a YouTube video about it for children and semi-literate adults.

11/19/2012 6:26:01 PM

Too bad you can't offer an explanation.

11/19/2012 6:27:33 PM

Keep repeating that. It won't make you any less wrong or any less of a dunce.

11/19/2012 6:33:10 PM

Actually, it makes you look like you have no clue what you're talking about seeing how you are spending more time avoiding the 'simple' explanation.

11/19/2012 6:37:36 PM

this thread has such potential and you dickheads are screwin' it up


I swear, someone make me a moderator and this place would be just a little more swell

11/19/2012 6:54:52 PM

That was Mr. Joshua's intentions from the get-go.

11/19/2012 6:56:12 PM

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"this thread has such potential and you dickheads are screwin' it up"

11/19/2012 7:10:38 PM

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"That was Mr. Joshua's intentions from the get-go."

Actually I was trying to share knowledge with you. Isn't that the intention of this thread?

11/19/2012 7:56:37 PM

Someone tell me something awesome about... the ocean.

go!

11/19/2012 8:11:19 PM

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"Actually I was trying to share knowledge with you."

I have 6 posts that claim you didn't want to share anything.

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"Someone tell me something awesome about... the ocean. go!"

Something awesome about the ocean. Hmm ok.

When you put your ear next to Mr. Joshua's ear, you can hear the ocean.

11/19/2012 8:16:55 PM

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"I have 6 posts that claim you didn't want to share anything."

I explained your error to you and provided links to Wikipedia pages in case you wanted further knowledge.

Your little tantrum about needing an explanation from me was just you trying to change the subject.

Give it a rest, kid.

11/19/2012 8:21:29 PM

The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has an average width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10.911 km or 6.831 mi (36,069 ± 131 ft) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi).

[Edited on November 19, 2012 at 8:25 PM. Reason : a]

11/19/2012 8:24:25 PM

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"The Tonga Trench is located in the South Pacific Ocean and is 10,882 metres (35,702 ft) deep at its deepest point, known as the Horizon Deep. According to the August 2011 version of the GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, the location and depth of the Horizon Deep Deep are given as 23°15.5'S 174°43.6'W and 10,800 m (35,433 ft) ±10 m (33 ft).[1] ... The trench is the last resting place of the radioisotope thermoelectric generator from the aborted Apollo 13 mission."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga_Trench

11/19/2012 8:31:46 PM

^ your hole isn't as deep as mine

11/19/2012 8:33:09 PM

Nah, I just thought the Apollo 13 connection was cool.

11/19/2012 8:34:34 PM

oic

11/19/2012 8:35:49 PM

didn't know about the Tonga Trench.

Oh, got one!

If the Earth was a constant density, gravity would decrease as you dug a hole and got deeper.

But it doesn't. The reason is due to the fucked up distribution of material, where the Earth's core is so ridiculously dense compared to the crust that you weigh more as you go deeper. If you kept digging deeper, you would eventually start to weigh less and ultimately become weightless at the center of the Earth.

So, at the bottom of these trenches, you would weigh more than you do now.

[Edited on November 19, 2012 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

11/19/2012 9:03:53 PM

consider my mind blown

11/19/2012 9:04:51 PM

Buoyancy is inherently unstable.

As a submarine, your buoyancy force may balance exactly your weight, but if you go down, your hull compresses, giving your less buoyancy force and making it want to sink. Likewise, if you go up, your hull expands, making it want to float. This is balanced but unstable.

More gravity, however, would increase your buoyancy force. So it's possible that you could obtain a stable depth in the deep trenches of the world due to the changing of gravity itself, even though normally physics says you shouldn't be able to.

11/20/2012 8:00:39 AM

http://grist.org/news/if-youre-27-or-younger-youve-never-experienced-a-colder-than-average-month/

11/20/2012 9:21:19 AM

^^had never thought of that, but it makes sense. Same with the density thing. (i mean, i knew at the center of the earth you would feel weightless and all that, but i never factored in the density of the core thing)

11/20/2012 9:29:24 AM

In the future, the United States will use more air conditioning and less heating. The reason is obvious - our population is shifting south and west. This will decrease the price of energy commodities in the winter and increase them in the summer because commodities such as heating oil and natural gas are fungible nationally.

Climate change points in the same direction.

11/20/2012 9:35:04 AM

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"Tell us something we didn't know"

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"The reason is obvious"

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

11/20/2012 9:36:17 AM

you didn't know that

11/20/2012 9:45:55 AM

k.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

11/20/2012 9:52:52 AM

Mecklenberg County has 111 AIDS reports Jan-June 2012. Wake County comes in 2nd place with 43.

http://epi.publichealth.nc.gov/cd/stds/figures/vol12no2.pdf

11/20/2012 11:01:11 PM

ew you nasty

11/20/2012 11:06:10 PM

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"2 Watts = 93 decibels 4 Watts = 96 decibels 8 Watts = 99 decibels 16 Watts = 102 decibels 32 Watts = 105 decibels 64 Watts = 108 decibels 128 Watts = 111 decibels 256 Watts = 114 decibels 512 Watts= 117 decibels 1024 Watts = 120 decibels"

All that's saying is that decibels are a logarithmic scale. A change of 3 dB corresponds to halving/doubling power, of which Watts are a unit of measure. I thought both those things were common knowledge for anyone who passed high school physics.

As a side note, my 5.1 system totals 1850 watts of output across all the channels.

11/20/2012 11:15:29 PM

http://planetmath.org/?method=l2h&from=objects&name=QuarticFormula&op=getobj

11/20/2012 11:51:51 PM

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"As a side note, my 5.1 system totals 1850 watts of output across all the channels."

How far do you have to stand from it at full power in order to listen to it at 110 db?

11/21/2012 1:55:28 AM

mrfrog, I do believe that the increase in fluid density as a submarine descends has a far greater compensatory effect on its buoyancy than the increase in gravity

11/21/2012 2:31:27 AM

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"I don't feel like I'm wrong so I'm not going to bother reading about statistic ranges in a non-statistic problem."

Being wrong isn't a matter of "feeling", what are you, a republican?

Also, 1 standard deviation represents the range in which ~68% of a sampling will fall, so 68% of the time a sundial is at most 18 minutes off.

You can also infer that 32% of the time, it'll be more than that off, and there is an infinitesimal probability that it will be infinitely off...

11/21/2012 2:57:58 AM

The context of my post clearly expresses a deviation that is quite standard.
The "standard deviation" you're thinking of is statistical.
I'm really sorry you don't like my word choice, but even if I used the wrong technical word, you should be astute enough to know what I mean.

11/21/2012 4:12:10 AM

President James Garfield could write in Latin in one hand, and Greek in the other, simultaneously.

11/21/2012 5:26:17 AM

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"There is no right to vote in the U.S. Constitution."

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"What in the world? The Constitution addresses voting in Article II, the 15th Amendment, the 19th Amendment the 24th Amendment, and the 26th Amendment. The text of the 26th Amendment even states : The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. That's pretty clear. Additionally, Supreme Court jurisprudence acknowledges voting as a fundamental right, subject to strict scrutiny."

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"The issue of voting rights in the United States has been contentious throughout the country's history. Eligibility to vote in the U.S. is determined by both federal and state law. Currently, only citizens can vote in U.S. elections (although this has not always been the case). Who is (or who can become) a citizen is governed on a national basis by federal law. In the absence of a federal law or constitutional amendment, each state is given considerable discretion to establish qualifications for suffrage and candidacy within its own jurisdiction. When the country was founded, in most states, only white men with real property (land) or sufficient wealth for taxation were permitted to vote. Freed African Americans could vote in four states. Unpropertied white men, almost all women, and all other people of color were denied the franchise. At the time of the American Civil War, most white men were allowed to vote, whether or not they owned property. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and even religious tests were used in various places, and most white women, people of color, and Native Americans still could not vote."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States

11/21/2012 8:05:01 AM

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"mrfrog, I do believe that the increase in fluid density as a submarine descends has a far greater compensatory effect on its buoyancy than the increase in gravity"

Fine.

I found it 0.040817 kg / (m^3 s^2) versus an effect of 0.00307 kg / (m^3 s^2) from gravity.

Did you know:

A submarine, if it could resist the pressures (which it can't), would be able to float in Jupiter's atmosphere. It would come to rest in the liquid Hydrogen region.

11/21/2012 9:39:02 AM

Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.

11/21/2012 9:44:31 AM

The power density of the core of the sun (the only part that fusions) is about 275 W / m^3, or 0.275 mW/cm^3

When you work out, you can burn up to around one kilowatt. This comes out to 14 mW/cm^3, or 50 times higher volumetric energy output than the sun's core.

11/21/2012 9:50:18 AM

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"How far do you have to stand from it at full power in order to listen to it at 110 db?"

I've never listened to it at full power.

If you're testing my knowledge of dB loss proportionate to the square of distance, then I would say that I don't know how many dB each speaker is capable of producing, so I can't compute what distance you'd have to sit at for a 110 dB sound level. Suffice to say, though, that it is extremely fucking loud if you crank it up.

[Edited on November 21, 2012 at 3:15 PM. Reason : ]

11/21/2012 3:14:46 PM

The name "United Mexican States," or "Estados Unidos Mexicanos," was adopted in 1824 after independence from Spain in imitation of Mexico's democratic northern neighbor, but it is rarely used except on official documents, money and other government material.

11/22/2012 11:08:41 PM

Yes, every news source ran that story today.

11/22/2012 11:47:01 PM

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"Also, 1 standard deviation represents the range in which ~68% of a sampling will fall, so 68% of the time a sundial is at most 18 minutes off. "

Assuming a normal distribution...

11/22/2012 11:54:05 PM

11/22/2012 11:56:20 PM

The landing of Christopher Columbus lead to a decrease in CO2 levels on Earth.

Native Americans routinely burned large swaths of land in order to turn them into prairie that was much better for hunting game, among other reasons. After disease from the old world killed 90% of their population, a largely unknown period of great reforestation happened that probably entailed an area greater than that of California.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335168/title/Columbus_arrival_linked_to_carbon_dioxide_drop

This could have been a major cause of the Little Ice Age. But not to worry, the carrying capacity of Europe was increased dramatically due to the new world exploration because of new crops with high calorie density brought over, notably potatoes.

11/26/2012 3:15:18 PM

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"Twinkies were invented in Schiller Park, Illinois in 1930 by James Alexander Dewar, a baker for the Continental Baking Company. [1] Realizing that several machines used to make cream-filled strawberry shortcake sat idle when strawberries were out of season, Dewar conceived a snack cake filled with banana cream, which he dubbed the Twinkie. [2] He said he came up with the name when he saw a billboard in St. Louis for "Twinkle Toe Shoes". [3] During World War II, bananas were rationed and the company was forced to switch to vanilla cream"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie

[Edited on November 27, 2012 at 11:11 AM. Reason : bbb]

11/27/2012 11:11:04 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29

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"This 100 km-thick mantle (23%–28% of Ceres by mass; 50% by volume) contains 200 million cubic kilometres of water, which is more than the amount of fresh water on the Earth."

For reference, Earth has about 1,200 million km^3 of water in total. So Ceres contains about 1/6th as much water as Earth.

11/29/2012 5:08:32 PM

the discovery of ice on Mercury is about 20 to 900 km^3 of water.

11/30/2012 12:37:22 PM

Binturongs are really cool animals

in fact, they are amongst the coolest.

[Edited on November 30, 2012 at 12:49 PM. Reason : w]

11/30/2012 12:48:46 PM

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the-u-s-paid-off-the-entire-national-debt-and-why-it-didnt-last

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"That was the one time in U.S. history when the country was debt free. It lasted exactly one year. By 1837, the country would be in panic and headed into a massive depression. We'll get to that, but first let's figure out how Andrew Jackson did the impossible."

12/1/2012 8:00:29 PM