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Posted by wil5on on Sun Feb 19th at 4:14am 2006


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Do toilets really swirl the opposite direction in the lower latitudes?

The direction of flow of water is mainly dependent on the shape of the bowl, and other toilet-specific factors. The Coriolis force acts differently depending on your latitude, but its so small as to not make a noticable effect.

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Can animals like dogs and cats "see" what's on a television when they look at it? Or is their brain and sense of sight so different that they can't make sense of it?

Depends on the animal, and the television. CRT TVs have an effective refresh rate of about 30Hz (60Hz interlaced), which to us appears as a moving picture since humans see motion instead of still pictures above around 20Hz. Some animals will need a higher refresh rate to see motion, depending on the animal, they might see a series of still pictures, or more likely a strobing effect. An LCD display will not have the strobing effect. Many animals will see colour differently, as the colour receptors in their eyes are tuned to different frequencies.




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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Feb 19th at 4:19am 2006


now see?.. that kind of little tidbit was worth the sign-on, and one of the reasons i keep coming back here... ***dials hypnotist for help

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Posted by Belgarion on Sun Feb 19th at 6:36am 2006


the US does not harbor terrorists, or plan on using them against hotels or office buildings.... or trade centers for that matter.





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Posted by Kain on Sun Feb 19th at 9:07am 2006


The US have one WMD: it's called Dick Cheney.



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Posted by Naklajat on Sun Feb 19th at 9:15am 2006


I try to keep away from political discussions here on the pit <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by Loco on Sun Feb 19th at 11:35am 2006


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or trade centers for that matter.

True.

Having said that, there were no Iraqi's involved in the 9/11 attacks, but that's beside the point. Apparently, something like 40% of Americans believe that Iraq was somehow involved in the attacks, so you're not alone on this one.

Anyway, word of the day for me: pedant <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">






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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 19th at 1:12pm 2006


? quoting Kain
The US have one WMD: it's called Dick Cheney.

If anyone asked me, I'd have to say the female genitalia.

its got to be the most powerful weapon ever used throughout history.

*shrugs*

Sad, no one asked me.





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Posted by Kain on Sun Feb 19th at 3:09pm 2006


Mmmm, didn't really mean to start a political debate, especially not about Iraq; it was actually a joke, since this guy accidentally SHOT a dude while he was hunting. I thought you'd have heard about that...



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Posted by Spartan on Sun Feb 19th at 3:12pm 2006


I've fgot a question for you guys. Why do we capitilize the first letter of the first word in the beginning of a sentence. We use a peridod to end a sentence so why do we need to capitilize?

It has to do with english so I doubt anyone will figure it out.




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Posted by Gwil on Sun Feb 19th at 3:47pm 2006


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the US does not harbor terrorists, or plan on using them against hotels or office buildings.... or trade centers for that matter.


Nor does/did Iraq.

What's your point?




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Posted by Stadric on Sun Feb 19th at 4:03pm 2006


Where did the letter 'H' come from?
In Greek, the Daddy of Latin, which is the Daddy of English(Germanic languages are Mommy), "h" looked like an apostrophe('), it wasn't a real letter, it was more of a puncuation.
There are phi: and theta: , "ph" and "th", respectively, but there's no real "h", only that semi-useless apostrophe.

In Latin, there's "ph" and "th", but "h" itself isn't used too much, so it must've been a new letter, and an unimportant one at that.

So how did this letter gain it's esteemed position in the English language?



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 19th at 4:41pm 2006


Thread seems to be progressing nicely. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Next question: What would you do, with a million tax free dollars? (or your countries equivalent?)





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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Feb 19th at 6:29pm 2006


? quoting Belgarion
the US does not harbor terrorists, or plan on using them against hotels or office buildings.... or trade centers for that matter.

Unfortunately, we DO harbor terrorists. We just do not know who they are until they strike.

AH! a linguistics question!

The letter H is the anglicisation of the KH sound in the Indo-european language family. the KH sound is that guttural throat sound that is found in German as a CH (like the word buch), in Hebrew as a X(transliterated to a kh, ch or h), in Russian as a X (transliterated to "Kh"). In greek it's called Chi and it too looks like X.

Many people pronounce the German CH as an english SH, but although it may sound that way it's actually a "hawking a loogie" sound made in the back of the throat.

I have recorded an example of this in the Russian word Хорошо. Spelt in English, it's Khorosho.
http://www.dimebowl.com/misc/khorosho.mp3
or http://media.putfile.com/Khorosho

My Questions:

  1. Where did the Cedars of Lebanon go?
  2. Can the airwaves get TOO FULL of all the information we send through them with our cell phones and WiFi and all of our radios and stuff? What happens when it does? does the sky start falling?
  3. Where did Gypsies come from in the first place? before they started wandering around in wagons way back in the day.
  4. Who, or what culture, invented the violin.
  5. what's the difference between CAT5 and CAT5e cable?
  6. Why are asians eyes like that? From an evoltionist point of view, i mean.



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Posted by Stadric on Sun Feb 19th at 7:22pm 2006


Good to know

2) Until we make a frequency that either is the equivilent of a straight line, or is the equivalent of several vertical lines, then we're fine on radio signals.
4) The first thing i thought of was Italy, and I was right
6) You mean squinty?(they are, admit it) Maybe it's to keep environmental exposure minimal(snow, bugs, etc.)

I'm good with even numbers :P



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Posted by Gwil on Sun Feb 19th at 7:23pm 2006


Gypsies are trading people from the Slavic end of Europe originally - Romania, Serbia, Belarus etc. They are most probably descended from a mix of Slavic settlers from Russia mixed with Varangian (vikings) traders.

This is just a guess however, but I'd definitely put them down as East Europeans. In turn, if you go further back than say 800/900 AD, it's also likely they find some roots from modern day Iran or central Asia, too.

From Wikipedias introduction:

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The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) are an ethnic group mostly living in Europe. They are believed to have originated from various nomadic peoples that travelled north of the deserts of northwestern India and the many mountainous valleys of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Today, Roma do not form a majority in any state.

Many Roma speak some form of Romany, a language closely related to the Indo-European languages of the Iranian plateau and more specifically to Sanskrit and its descendent Indo-Aryan languages found in the Indian Subcontinent [1]. However, most Roma speak the dominant language of the region they live in.





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Posted by Andrei on Sun Feb 19th at 7:29pm 2006


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]Gypsies are trading people from the Slavic end of Europe originally - Romania, Serbia, Belarus etc.
[Romania is latin, not slavic F- for geography]
They are most probably descended from a mix of Slavic settlers from Russia mixed with Varangian (vikings) traders.
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This is just a guess however, but I'd definitely put them down as East Europeans.



I'll have what he's having!

The wikipedia introduction is correct, however.






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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Feb 19th at 7:32pm 2006


Originally, people thought that Rrom were from Egypt, hence the name GYPsies. But I didn't know if that was true. I figured somewhere around the caucasus mountains.

But why do only ASIANS have the epicanthic fold in thier eyes and not people native to mexico and africa?




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Posted by Gwil on Sun Feb 19th at 7:33pm 2006


I was right though? All those people exist or existed, and did have those movements of population, trust me

On another note, it's probably worth saying that the notion of "gypsy" has extended far beyond it's links with the Roma tribes. Now it is used to describe any travelling peoples, and usually in a derogatory sense. I find it unlikely that a gypsy in the US is a real gypsy (likewise in the UK), but are more likely descended from the always hated Irish tinker families.

Andrei: That is the slavic end of Europe? People were moving in the times of Kievan Rus/Muscovy in and around Serbia, Ukraine, Romania - and were Slavs. Hence Gypsies are slavs, mixed with Iranian.






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Posted by Andrei on Sun Feb 19th at 7:43pm 2006


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Andrei: That is the slavic end of Europe? People were moving in the times of Kievan Rus/Muscovy in and around Serbia, Ukraine, Romania - and were Slavs. Hence Gypsies are slavs, mixed with Iranian.




AFAIK, gypsies came to this area centuries after the slavic migrations that followed the withdraw of the roman legions in 271 AD.

I have different theory, which I founded after carefully studying several books that were supposed to explain why things are the way they are.

Gypsies come from the lost kingdom of Atlantis, after having arrived there from Troy by floating across the sea on the Trojan horse. After stealing everything that wasn't bolted to the ground, they migrated to europe with the aid of secret nazi flying saucers, but were captured by the soviets and were dumped into the volcanoes around London, thus releasing their souls, who were unfortunately captured by alien starships (that look like Boeing 707s with rocket engines), which originated from the Zeta Reticuli starsystem.




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Posted by Gwil on Sun Feb 19th at 8:02pm 2006


Nice theory Andrei <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> You might wanna try submitting that to the Historical Journal, those stuffy old gits could do with a bit of a shake up :P







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