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mikeyboy

10-28-2003, 05:44 PM

Umm......so what's your point?

It's in feedback, and Mike the Teacher knows where to post things, so maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the show.

Ron and Fez are doing a bit called "Did ya know that?" where people call up with little known facts.

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10-28-2003, 05:45 PM

mdr55

10-28-2003, 05:46 PM

Thanks.....I didn't know that.

But is it really safe to look at the sun for 8 minutes?

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Mike Teacher

10-28-2003, 06:34 PM

Oops. Sorry. Forgot.

A guy called in last week and said something and then he said 'Didya Know That?!' and Ron loved it and isolated it. Tonight they used it for people to call in and give trivia fact-oids, trying to impress Ron and Fez.

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sr71blackbird

10-29-2003, 03:32 AM

I knew that. So, if the sun "went out" at noon. We wouldnt know it till 12:08! Cool! Also, when we look at distant stars we are looking at them as they looked sometimes thousands and even million or billions of years ago! If we had super powerful telescopes and could view the planets revolving around those stars and we zoomed in further to look at the life on those planets, it would be a snapshot of life that may no longer exist or has evolved into something else. Similarly, if we looked and saw a telescope trained on us from that planet, its observer would be looking at dinosaurs that roamed here millions of years ago! Your looking back in time when you look at stars! Coool!

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Tall_James

10-29-2003, 04:23 AM

Didya know that..

...the average person expels 1/2 liter of fart gas per day, spread out through an average of 14 farts per day?

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ozzie

10-29-2003, 02:19 PM

Did you know that bees and dogs can smell fear?

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sr71blackbird

10-29-2003, 04:42 PM

didja know dat the average air molecule moves at roughly the speed of a rifle bullet? Didja?

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high fly

10-29-2003, 04:55 PM

Oil paint used in fine art can take 90 years or so to completely set up and somehow gains weight while doing so.

DID YOUY KNOW THAT?

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high fly

10-29-2003, 04:56 PM

Oil paint used in fine art can take 90 years or so to completely set up and somehow gains weight while doing so.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

" and they ask me why I drink"

Snoogans

10-29-2003, 05:03 PM

i scratch my balls an average pf 5-10 times per day

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sr71blackbird

10-29-2003, 05:29 PM

Didja know that there are micro sized insects that live on your eyelashes and they are there right now and you can see their movement by floating an eyelash in a calm glass of water and seeing the hair wiggle as they move over it? Didja know dat?

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sr71blackbird

10-29-2003, 05:35 PM

eyelash bugs (http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/eyelash/creatures.html)

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10-29-2003, 06:49 PM

Tat site creeped me out! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

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10-29-2003, 06:58 PM

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10-30-2003, 03:03 AM

Didja know that Liquid Paper correction fluid was invented by the Monkee's very own Mike Nesmiths mom.

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Reephdweller

10-30-2003, 05:02 AM

Did you know your brain can decifyer the direction of a sound from one ear drum to the next within 1 trillionth of a second. Your ears are four inches apart, and somehow sounds traveling at 700 feet per second bridges that gap and your brain can interpret which direction that sound is coming from.

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Mike Teacher

10-30-2003, 05:26 AM

If you place your left foot against the bottom of a door jamb, and then stand with your left shoulder against the jamb also, standing up, real simple...

It is IMPOSSIBLE to left your right foot off the ground. Cant even move it. Paralyzed.

For the DC-ers, I IM-ed this to R+F way back; not a single person could do it, and they all tried live on-air.

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Mike Teacher

10-30-2003, 05:28 AM

It is IMPOSSIBLE to left your right foot off the ground. Cant even move it. Paralyzed.

Didya know that I cant edit and I made a stupid mistake and 'left' should be LIFT?

Didya know that?

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mdr55

10-30-2003, 05:29 AM

MIKE......you never told us how many triangles were in that diagram you showed us. So how many?

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Furtherman

10-30-2003, 07:33 AM

The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television.

"Chachi" is Korean for "penis".

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ozzie

10-30-2003, 08:55 AM

Ron: "I hate everything about a Rabbit"

Didja know that Rabbits crap twice? They semi-digest their meal the first time, crap it out, eat it up and digest it again, before leaving the hard brown pellets that we see.

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Furtherman

10-30-2003, 10:12 AM

The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

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sr71blackbird

10-30-2003, 04:50 PM

If a leopard is killed by a lion which one is dead?

If you had to read that twice to know the answer your not alone. If you ask someone that verbally, they are not very likely to know the answer unless either you or they repeat it. Didja know that?

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ff7wasbest

10-30-2003, 04:58 PM

stop making up facts, everyone knows the sun is just a jewish conspiracy

Snoogans

10-30-2003, 05:22 PM

no one would care if the poster above me waws impaled on a staten island ferry pier

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Furtherman

10-31-2003, 08:39 AM

In the memoirs of Catherine II of Russia, it is recorded that any Russian aristocrat who displeased the queen was forced to squat in the
great antechamber of the palace and to remain in that posistion for several days, mewing like a cat, clucking like a hen, and pecking his food from the floor.

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KC2OSO

10-31-2003, 08:58 AM

85% of the population can curl their tongue into a 'U' shape.

DIDJA KNOW THAT?

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Furtherman

10-31-2003, 11:22 AM

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

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sr71blackbird

10-31-2003, 05:34 PM

Didja know that shortly after the Earths formation, approx. 4.6 billion years ago, a Mars sized object crashed into the newly formed Earth while it was still molten, and splashed a massive amount of material out into space. This molten ejecta coalesced and began circling the early Earth and became the Moon! Didja know that??

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Mike Teacher

10-31-2003, 05:39 PM

Didya Know That:

There was so much concrete poured while making the Hoover Dam that the concrete inside is STILL curing and will not be completely set for many years.

DIDYA KNOW DAT

ps: there were 35 triangles in the figure, for whoever asked; 7 different triangles x 5 [pentagon = 5-fold rotational symmetry] = 35 total triangles

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sr71blackbird

10-31-2003, 05:41 PM

how do they expect it to dry with all that water behind it? :p

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Furtherman

11-03-2003, 09:50 AM

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

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Bill From Yorktown

11-03-2003, 09:57 AM

Did you know your brain can decifyer the direction of a sound from one ear drum to the next within 1 trillionth of a second. Your ears are four inches apart, and somehow sounds traveling at 700 feet per second bridges that gap and your brain can interpret which direction that sound is coming from.

hmm I always thought it was more a volume thing not a speed thing (one ear hears the sound as louder)... Wow I learned something :-)

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JustJon

11-03-2003, 10:58 AM

When they swtiched Dicks on Bewtiched, the Japanese people were so outraged, they rioted.

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Snoogans

11-03-2003, 11:03 AM

im currently tryin to stay awake at work and its hard and i wanna quit and go home

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KC2OSO

11-03-2003, 12:11 PM

When they swtiched Dicks on Bewtiched, the Japanese people were so outraged..

Huh, I wasn't aware the Japanese switched dicks at all let alone on Bewitched.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

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Def Dave in SC

11-03-2003, 12:25 PM

As the Roman Empire expanded, its soliers that were stationed in it's remote corners had a problem--they couldn't speak the language of the local prostitutes. To combat this problem, the Romans minted coins for the soldiers. These coins had various universal sexual acts depicted on them. This way, a Roman soildier cound collect his pay, roll on down to the brothel and lay down a few coins. Problem solved.

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bigbaldirish

11-03-2003, 01:19 PM

speaking of romans, the term scissor comes from the offensive tactics of Julius Ceaser, he would march in a figure 8 pattern and Cut through his enemy.

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Snoogans

11-03-2003, 01:22 PM

the largest tidal swing in any place in the world is in the bay of fundy in canada, where the tide can change as much as 53 feet per day just from the tides coming in and out

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JohnnyCash

11-03-2003, 02:06 PM

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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11-03-2003, 02:08 PM

Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.

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Bill From Yorktown

11-03-2003, 02:12 PM

speaking of Romans (again)
the term Barbarian led to the word Barber - Barbarians in their eyes generally had long hair and beards - the Romans cut theirs as it was something an enemy could grab onto
the term salary came from sal the word for salt as in ancient times a lot of soldiers were paid in salt, as it was a commodity, a valuable spice, and something people used and needed

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Furtherman

11-03-2003, 02:13 PM

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.

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bigbaldirish

11-03-2003, 02:37 PM

Although bourbon is Kentucky's leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced. They are all, to this day, still dry

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and now for something for the Jerseyites
It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey.

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Snoogans

11-03-2003, 02:53 PM

i sat here for 2 minutes tryin to think of an interesting fact. i couldnt really, so you get a half assed one: ive never ordered something at dunkin donuts without having to repeat my order for the english impaired employee

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Furtherman

11-03-2003, 02:56 PM

ive never ordered something at dunkin donuts without having to repeat my order for the english impaired employee

HAhaha.. I did know that, because I have to do that all the time myself. They stink.

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Bill From Yorktown

11-03-2003, 02:57 PM

i sat here for 2 minutes tryin to think of an interesting fact. i couldnt really, so you get a half assed one: ive never ordered something at dunkin donuts without having to repeat my order for the english impaired employee

DIDYA KNOW DAT

for a double headder, eat at McDonalds next...

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shamus mcfitzy

11-03-2003, 03:04 PM

the term scissor comes from the offensive tactics of Julius Ceaser, he would march in a figure 8 pattern and Cut through his enemy

what does the figure 8 have anything to do with scissors? Many ancient languages have "cisus" or similar words as their word for "cut". scissor means what it does because of it's Latin/Greek base.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

11-03-2003, 03:11 PM

A stack of $1 dollar bills one-mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.

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mdr55

11-03-2003, 03:32 PM

ps: there were 35 triangles in the figure, for whoever asked; 7 different triangles x 5 [pentagon = 5-fold rotational symmetry] = 35 total triangles

Thanks!!! I got the answer right.

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Late2party

11-03-2003, 11:26 PM

I have a question for Mike the Teacher. At what point does relatively slow electrical current (in amperes-per-second) take flight and gain the speed of light, and why is it that we can basically make bridges do that? (the Blau-Knox towers famous to radio engineers, there are two at least in DC, were built by famous bridge builders of their time who are now instead famously known for their suspended-in-the-middle-of-the-air bridges like WLW)

Lest ANYONE think that I am mocking Mike you need to know that that is the business I make my money from. I've never had a satisfactory answer and it feels to me like I'm a plumber who doesn't understand gravity.

Johnny to Venus: You were a high school teacher?... tell me how magnets work.

That's the bridge of DUH I'm asking Mike to cross. Obviously there's something I'm missing.

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Mike Teacher

11-04-2003, 03:57 AM

Mocking?

MOCK! [si!...]
KING! [si!...]
BIRD! [si!...]

I have a question for Mike the Teacher. At what point does relatively slow electrical current (in amperes-per-second) take flight and gain the speed of light, and why is it that we can basically make bridges do that?

OK, i think you're asking two things, please correct me if the following is incorrect:

Q1: At what point does something become Superconducting?

Q2: You mentioned bridges and 'hanging' so I'm gonna assume this is about suspension bridges.

eaither way; two fantastic Qs

A1: Superconducting 101

When electicity flows through a wire [or anything] there is resistance. The electron flow [thats all electricity is, the flow of electrons] is slowed down, electrical energy gets transferred to heat [think computers, the Chips get Fantastically hot due to the resistance. ] and it's all Very Wasteful.

Scientists found out that if you cool the wire enough, something amazing happens; not only does the resistance subside, it vanishes utterly.

The applications for being able to move electricity through wire [or a computer chip] with NO resistance? Too long to list, it would revolutionize so many things.

Problem: You had to cool the wire close to Absolute Zero, minus 273.15 degrees C.

BUT! Science is working on 'high-temperature' superconductors; thing that will go into that 'no resistance' state at much higher temperatures. So at what temp? It's changing all the time as the research continues.

PS: One of the Nobel Prizes awarded this year was for the pioneering research of exactly this.

A2: Not sure if youre asking about suspension bridges. But I was amazed when I found out then when you cross one; you are driving on a road that is hanging off of wires. Ack! Those big giant supports you see on the Verrazano-Narrows? The bridge isnt attached in ANY way to those huge vertical supports. Their job is to support the Main Cables [the ones that curve way Up to the support and then down and then back Up to the other support, and then down again].

1. Build the vertical supports
2. String the main cable
3. String the support cables off of that

then you watch as boats arrive with sections of road, and they are hung off the dangling cables, one section at a time. They are designed to move and sway in the breeze.

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TooCute

11-04-2003, 06:00 AM

I am relatively certain that the question was neither about superconducting OR suspension bridges. He was talking about electrical bridges. I know nothing about this. The highest level of "physics" I ever taught was 5th grade and I ony took two semesters of it in college. Google doesn't seem to turn up much, either. Guess you're SOL, bro.

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Mike Teacher

11-04-2003, 07:20 AM

Guess you're SOL, bro.

Ditto. Color Me Clueless. Not as clueless as TooCute, who at least knows what's what being discussed.

And how DARE I call the most awesome TooCute Clueless, I only WISH I had the intelligence.

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TooCute

11-04-2003, 09:04 AM

Here is (I hope they let me link) a photo of the "suspended in the middle of the air WLW bridge" that was mentioned.

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And here are some Blau Knox towers:

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I STILL don't know how they work.

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Late2party

11-04-2003, 09:16 AM

You ALL have it wrong, what I was asking. Basically, I have learned that electricity, although seemingly instant, moves relatively slowly through a conductor like copper wire. It's kind of like a balloon - push in on one side, the other pushes out. The rate of push, on either end, is relatively slow.

Now, RADIO waves move at the speed of light - and we can measure that easily, even with our ears, since geosynchronous satellites are (+/-) 22000 miles above the Earth's surface it takes roughly a half second to bounce a signal off of them. More if you are digital and using bit-rate reduction/compression... thus the weird delays between question and answer in the Iraq stuff we've been seeing.

Thing is, HOW does the pokey push-push nature of electrical current (electrons) become the zippy nature of light (photons) in a radiator like an antenna that is tuned --that is, physically adjusted to have little to no inductive or capacitive reactance (J=0)?

The bridge thing referred to actual, physical, bridges. Take a look around at radio towers wherever you are. The old ones were built by bridge companies like Blau-Knox because they understood how to make a bunch of steel hang in the air without collapsing... I think that's impressive. The point to that is that in cutting an antenna to make it sort of like 50 ohms, +/- 0 reactance (inductive/capacitive reactance) you need something HUNDREDS of feet high on the AM band if you are making a quarter-wave radiator.

I STILL think that it's cool, of course, that the bridges hang from the cables and not the piers. Makes it worth the $6.

-Wendell ;)

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TooCute

11-04-2003, 09:55 AM

Now, RADIO waves move at the speed of light - and we can measure that easily, even with our ears, since geosynchronous satellites are (+/-) 22000 miles above the Earth's surface it takes roughly a half second to bounce a signal off of them. More if you are digital and using bit-rate reduction/compression... thus the weird delays between question and answer in the Iraq stuff we've been seeing.

Thing is, HOW does the pokey push-push nature of electrical current (electrons) become the zippy nature of light (photons) in a radiator like an antenna that is tuned --that is, physically adjusted to have little to no inductive or capacitive reactance (J=0)?

I still don't know. all I know is that electrical currents generate electromagnetic fields. I assume it has to do with the fact that electrons have mass whereas photons are for all intents and purposes massless?

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KCfromDC

11-04-2003, 10:50 AM

Not sure I understand the question either, but here's my take from my recent studies in radio engineering:

Air normally does not conduct electricity. However, if the voltage is high enough (for a given amount of air) the electrical energy causes the air atoms and molecules - composed of electrons, neutrons and protons - to let go of their electrons. This is called ionization. Because the electrons are negatively charged, they are immediately attracted to the positive electrode and this movement produces an electrical current. The electrons bump into other atoms along the way, causing further ionization and therefore greater current. The ions are constantly moving about, and this movement of charge produces changing electric and magnetic fields that create the radio wave energy. Most of the energy is produced as heat and light but a little goes to form the radio wave energy we need for transmitting.

Am i close?

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11-04-2003, 12:02 PM

Your question is very ambigiuos, and I think you are trying to find a correlation between 2 things that may not be the same. I will try my best to asnwer the question though.

First thing to remember is that radio waves do not move at the speed of light since we do not live in a vacuum. That being said, some of the delay we see from Iraq has to do with the slow down of the signal as it travels through the upper atmosphere(ionisphere).

As for moving through coppper wire, the fastest you will be able to move is 2/3 the speed of light to due to resitance. And even this would be a feat.
If you want to get technical, coppper has one free mobile electron. Assuming you are using a cubic centimeter of copper, Q = 8.5 x 10^22 with Q being the number of mobile electrons per cc. Within a circuit with a 100 watt light bulb, electricity through coppper wires is moving at a SLOW 84 MILLIMETERS per hour. That is velocity of electrons. Obvoiusly the current is moving faster than that, which would be the fastest 2/3 the speed of light.

The how part of your question is due to the copper. Photons do not need to find the mobile elecctrons in the wire to move. They are only hindered by the slight resistance of the atmosphere as well as any changes incoured from the ionisphere. A tuned anteane's weakest point is when it captures the radio waves and has do something witht them. Getting the waves there is amost instantaneous. All a tuned anteane is doing is capturing a cleaner, stronger signal. The push pull is never a problem because the CURRENT from the captured signal is moving very fast. The electrons are just providing the medium for the current to flow over. Hope this helped.

JPMNICK

11-04-2003, 12:05 PM

A white puffy cloud - a cumulus cloud, that yoyu see on a bright sunny day weighs 550 tons

Assume an elephant weighs about six tons, the water inside a typical cumulous cloud would weigh about one hundred elephants.

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Late2party

11-04-2003, 02:02 PM

TooCute

11-04-2003, 03:38 PM

That's kind of the idea, but actually not. We bang whatever it is we do against a piece of steel and magically you hear it.

I need to know what happens in that piece of steel to turn electrons into photons. I mean, when you get an X-ray and they bombard the target with electrons it puts out roentgen rays.

What do we do that makes electricity into light? And why aren't we paid sufficeientally fot it?

Someone needs to help me here

Ok, now we're getting somewhere.

The electrons aren't turned into photons, per se.

As the elctricity passes through the metal, the electrons are excited and jump up to higher energy states. When they drop back down to their original states, the difference in the two energy states is releaed as photons. If you want to know WHY that happens, I dunno. Maybe you need to go take a philosophy class or something.

Also, photons, despite their name are NOT by definition light. They are a unit of electromagnetic radiation which in a certain range of wavelengths is visible as light.

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JPMNICK

11-04-2003, 05:06 PM

I think we are going no where. Banging a piece of something against steel and hearing it and talking about X-Ray diffraction are not even close to the same thing.

Your want to know answers to questions that you do not have a strong enough base to understand. Your questions are everywhere. You are just putting "buzzwords" into your questions.

Here is the answer on how to turn electricty into light:
Light is a form of energy that can be released by an atom. It is made up of many small particle-like packets that have energy and momentum but no mass. These particles, called light photons, are the most basic units of light.
Atoms release light photons when their electrons become excited.
The wavelength of the emitted light (which determines its color) depends on how much energy is released, which depends on the particular position of the electron. Consequently, different sorts of atoms will release different sorts of light photons. In other words, the color of the light is determined by what kind of atom is excited.

Late2party

11-04-2003, 08:53 PM

When they drop back down to their original states, the difference in the two energy states is released as photons. If you want to know WHY that happens, I dunno. Maybe you need to go take a philosophy class or something.

That is EXACTLY what I am asking. Why do fuckin magnets work? And by the way, your s/n suits ya.

Also, photons, despite their name are NOT by definition light. They are a unit of electromagnetic radiation which in a certain range of wavelengths is visible as light.

Which, by definition, is light. Why complicate things? We are all talking about energy, which is light, which is also mass thank you Einstein. Light is mass is energy. Big Bang. Hello? how do we USE it? Where is the GUT?

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Late2party

11-04-2003, 09:05 PM

Your want to know answers to questions that you do not have a strong enough base to understand. Your questions are everywhere. You are just putting "buzzwords" into your questions.

Well, fuck you too. I'll try to be simpler.

Here is the answer on how to turn electricity into light:
Light is a form of energy that can be released by an atom. It is made up of many small particle-like packets that have energy and momentum but no mass. These particles, called light photons, are the most basic units of light.
Atoms release light photons when their electrons become excited.
The wavelength of the emitted light (which determines its color) depends on how much energy is released, which depends on the particular position of the electron. Consequently, different sorts of atoms will release different sorts of light photons. In other words, the color of the light is determined by what kind of atom is excited.

Great, you've just explained neon lights to us. BTW they're orange, and xenon is white, and argon is Bud Light blue. But I'm asking about radio propagation. How is it that 880 has different talk hosts than 770, and why does FM have no static at all? (thanks SD) ;)

I ain't busting your balls, and thanks for chiming in, but I don't think ya got the question.

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Late2party

11-04-2003, 09:33 PM

I'm sorry for being ruder than I meant to be.

My overall question is: "we" put (say) about 8 kW into a box that then makes about 5 measurable kW going up the pipe to give "you", the receiver, something like a volt and a half per meter of wire you expose to it, at say a half mile. Literally, you can stick a diode (two dissimilar metals) up there and perceive that it's there, at least.

HOW does it get from us to you? Sometimes "we" measure it out there where "you" are, so "we" know that it works, but WHY? It isn't electrons, babe. And if it was, if we were throwing an arc like Tesla wanted to, we'd be frying everyone around.

Imagine yourself in the middle of a Budweiser sign.

It ain't electrons ionizing stuff... as a matter of fact gamma rays and other nuclear science things are the "ionizing" radiation, we're the good guys, the "non-ionizing radiation" kind. Even at channel 69. You know we know we're radiating.

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TooCute

11-04-2003, 09:42 PM

How is it that 880 has different talk hosts than 770, and why does FM have no static at all?

880 sounds different than 770 because because they are broadcasting at different frequencies (880 Khz vs 770 KHz). The modulation of the amplitudes of the radio waves generated at these frequencies is what is encoding the sound wave that your radio decodes.

FM has no static AFAIK because static is caused by jumps in frequency. I clearly don't really know anything about this (and clearly neither do you, and neither does anyone else that has answered this thread, so why don't you go ask on a physics or radio messageboard instead of a radio show fan board, huh?) but FM radio is also much more focused (and hence has less interference) because of the way it's received. <A href="http://home.comcast.net/~radiowarren/hetbasic.html">See this website.</a>

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Late2party

11-04-2003, 10:02 PM

I clearly don't really know anything about this (and clearly neither do you, and neither does anyone else that has answered this thread, so why don't you go ask on a physics or radio messageboard instead of a radio show fan board, huh?)

TooCute has me SO dead to rights there. I'll shut up after I apologize to her, Mike the Teacher, and everyone else. I feel bad for having wasted your time. Sorry, guys.

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The Chairman

11-04-2003, 10:29 PM

why does FM have no static at all? (thanks SD)

got it. (penultimately WSB)

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StupidGirlllll

11-05-2003, 06:23 AM

The only Mammal with 4 knees is also the only mammal that cannot jump...The Elephant...

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11-05-2003, 06:25 AM

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11-07-2003, 11:43 AM

It is anatomically impossible for humans to lick their own elbow.

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11-07-2003, 11:55 AM

Def Dave in SC

11-07-2003, 06:11 PM

most birds cant jump, they just fly. that fact has to be way off.

Birds are not mammals.

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11-07-2003, 06:50 PM

I spent the last ten minutes trying to lick my elbow.

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TooCute

11-07-2003, 07:31 PM

The only Mammal with 4 knees is also the only mammal that cannot jump...The Elephant...

i havent looked it up cause im lazy, but i cant buy that. shouldnt any 4 legged animal have 4 knees. like a dog or a horse. and it the traditional sense, ive never seen a whale jump, just swim up through to top of water. most birds cant jump, they just fly. that fact has to be way off.
and, im pretty sure i heard somewhere that one of these guys cant jump either

seriously though, i think that fact is wrong on both accounts

Well, I think they mean 4 "knees" in the sense that all four of the elephants legs appear to have "knees" (as in bend forward) because of the relative lengths of the femur - tibia/fibula - ankle/foot bones.

for example look at this picture:
<img src="http://www.worldwildlife.org/expeditions/images/elephant.jpg">

Look at the rear legs. You see how they bend so that they have knees? That the lower portions go backwards? That's fairly unusual. Compare it with for example, a horse:

<img src="http://ansc.une.edu.au/genpub/horse.gif">

The same join that is the elephant's "knee" is much higher up on a horse. What you would think of as the animals rear "knee" (or on a dog or cat or camel or most other four legged animals) is called a hock and is really the equivalent of your ankle.

The elephant isn't the only animal with 4 "knees"; ALL 4 mammals that have legs have knees (as in like whales don't), since a "knee" is simply the joing between the femur and tibia (the long bones of the rear leg).

Bears have legs that look similar to elephants in that the knee joint is lower down in the leg. Bears are a little different from elephants in that they don't walk on their toes; they walk on flat feet (like humans and racoons and porcupines).

Also, it is true that elephants can't jump. Because they're so massive, the bones of their legs are very thick and dense and arranged in a columnar fashion, such that they don't have the ability to spring and flex like most mammals' feet (think about how you bounce off your toes when you jump). I've heard it said that they're the only mammals that can't jump before, but I would imagine that probably rhinos and hippos also can't jump because they have similarly massive legs... on the other hand, both rhinos and hippos have legs with proportions that are more like the common arrangement, with a hock and all that, so who knows for sure....

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11-07-2003, 08:16 PM

Don't make me put you over my seven knees.

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sr71blackbird

11-08-2003, 03:15 AM

The rear bending "knee" you see on that horse, or any mammal, is equivelent to our "heel". When viewed that way, its not so unusual. Essentially, animals walk on the very tips on their toes.

Did you know that 99% of all the species that have ever existed are extinct? What you see in the world is just 1% or all life that has ever existed. That one percent has many, many counterparts (think of all the species of cat's for example, or the thousands of species of cockroaches) that are ever evolving and changing to the non-static environments. One goes extinct, another animal evolves to fill that void. Australia is the prefect example. Marsupials evolved after Australia seperated from Pangea and they diversified to fill every niche that mammals had filled elsewhere in the world. Marsupial cats, dogs, wolves, lions, rabbits, you name it. Dont worry if some species go extinct. Its their "duity" to go extinct if they cant adapt to their environment! Its a good thing too, because it promotes a more robust adaptability and will insure future generations survival by passing that ability along in their genes.

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TooCute

11-08-2003, 07:56 AM

Yeah!! Rape Alaska!! Let's cut down those old growth forests! Let's pollute our wetlands!! WOOO HOO!!!

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TheMojoPin

11-08-2003, 08:44 AM

Its their "duity" to go extinct if they cant adapt to their environment!

You don't think there's a clear difference natural extinction, which is what you were talking about, and forced extinction?

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The Chairman

11-08-2003, 10:29 AM

On that note, is there a virus that attacks only stupid people? I can make a better case for having the Devil's Hole Pupfish join the ranks of the Passenger Pigeon than one that supports letting natural selection just run its course for morons.

Take, for example, The Giant Panda. If it were to become extinct, it would have absolutely no effect on anything, except for maybe the tourists that go to see those cuties at The Smithsonian Zoo.

Lots of stupid people breed though. (Creating future generations of stupid posters.)

That's scary.

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sr71blackbird

11-08-2003, 07:30 PM

Of course, the typical "I disagree with your stance, therefore you must be humiliated" bit. Next will be the "breakdown" where all my words will be broken down and supposed "facts" discrediting it will be displayed. Witness why "discussion" is not allowed and why fewer people respond to or contribute to discussions. Nice job.

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TheMojoPin

11-08-2003, 07:49 PM

I asked you a question.

You don't think there's a clear difference natural extinction, which is what you were talking about, and forced extinction?

What, you don't want a discussion or something? Or is that high horse just a little to comfortable?

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fatLouie

11-08-2003, 09:27 PM

in your lifetime you eat 5 pounds of dirt!
each year you eat approx. 5 spiders by them crawling into your mouth when your sleeping!

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monsterone

11-08-2003, 09:34 PM

each year you eat approx. 5 spiders by them crawling into your mouth when your sleeping!

how the fuck do you prove that? i've heard it before, bullshit.

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sr71blackbird

11-09-2003, 05:38 PM

I asked you a question.

Either one, life has been around far far longer than we have and has gone through many cycles of mass extinctions, whether "natural" or from outside infulence (astoroid/cometary impact, or through the introduction of another disrupter-like us), and has always always re-diversified itself. Have some faith in nature. Please dont think for a minute that Im jumping for joy when I hear about another life form going extinct, because Im not. What Im saying is, it is the very nature of the ability of life to adapt to changing environments that has lead to our own development and all the life around us, and us as well. Its easy to get blinded by our compassion for species that we are familair with when they go the way of the mammoth and dinosaur, because its our nature to be compassionate, but nature itself is not compassionate and species like the dinosaur and others are gone now because of an inability to adapt. The environment is not static, and those that cant adapt fast enough when something disrupts natures balance, quite naturally, goes extinct. Its the survival of the fittest (or most adaptable).

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TheMojoPin

11-09-2003, 07:04 PM

To a degree, yes, that makes sense. Mankind hunted species to extinction when we had nothing but rocks and spears. Extinction itself is never going away. But I still see a drastic difference. Man hunting something into extinction simply out of survival is one thing...that's natural extinction. But if a species is destroyed by the emissions or dumpings of a shoe factory, that's forced extinction. Natural extinction forces the species and environments involved to adapt naturally...almost like evolution. Forced extinction usually leaves a void that more often than not can lead to harmful changes or even more extinction...ye olde "domino theory," if you will.

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11-09-2003, 08:47 PM

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TheMojoPin

11-09-2003, 09:03 PM

No it's not.

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sr71blackbird

11-10-2003, 03:40 AM

If you placed the heel of your hand at the very bottom of your chin and extended your fingers upward, the tip of your middle finger will rest at the point on your forehead where your hairline is suppose to be (If I didnt lose my hair, that is).

If you splay your fingers out on a table palm side down, and have the large knuckle of your middle finger against the table while having the 4 remaining finger tips touching the table, you can lift all the finger tips up, except for the ring fingers tip.

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CrazyClare

11-10-2003, 04:36 AM

i tried the hairline thing and its not true. I also am pretty sure I dont have a receding hairline.

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11-10-2003, 04:54 AM

not buying the hairline thing either - my fingertips just pass my eyebrows - I doubt my forehead is supposed to be furry.

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Snoogans

11-10-2003, 02:14 PM

outside infulence (astoroid/cometary impact, or through the introduction of another disrupter-like us),

im no expert, but wouldnt an asteroid or comet or meteor be a natural thing. natural means produced by nature, which falling rocks are when they fall from space. an outside influence would be me cutting down their habitat because i wanted a house there. its a little different then gravity pulling down a rock or what not. and natural predators and such dont fall into it, since they are killing out of need. basically the only reason things go extinct that isnt natural is human influence or some toxin killing them that ultimately came from humans anyway

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11-10-2003, 08:17 PM

If you placed the heel of your hand at the very bottom of your chin and extended your fingers upward, the tip of your middle finger will rest at the point on your forehead where your hairline is suppose to be (If I didnt lose my hair, that is).

Tried it. Nope. I'm still about an inch from my hairline, and it's not receding.

If you splay your fingers out on a table palm side down, and have the large knuckle of your middle finger against the table while having the 4 remaining finger tips touching the table, you can lift all the finger tips up, except for the ring fingers tip.

Nope. I can lift all of 'em, but I have weird hands.

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