Idiot Amnesty Pt.II

[Cuenca 'ammer]

He's no Steve Irwin (but he made it look so easy).....................................................




http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8665223

[Czech Hammer]

Some football related questions:

1) Why did the governing body decide to bring in the play off system?

2) In the 80's for a few seasons, bottom of division played top of division below. Why was this scrapped? Much more interesting...

3) What happened before the sendings off were allowed?

4) What was the point of the Premier League coming about? It was not a new division, just replced the old division 1? Surely it would have made more sense in the Premier league being the top new division, and having 4 divisions below that, just bringing in more non league to make up the rest of div 4?

5) Where is Nigel Quashie?

[Bend it like Repka]

I took a load of garden waste to the dump at the weekend. Some of the ants from the garden came along for the ride in the bags.

So what happens to those ants removed from their colony? Do they

1) Die a lonely death as they depend on their own colony
2) Find a new colony and exist there
3) Live a normal lifespan alone

[Hammers Dad]

Some football related questions:

1) Why did the governing body decide to bring in the play off system? Money

2) In the 80's for a few seasons, bottom of division played top of division below. Why was this scrapped? Much more interesting...Money

3) What happened before the sendings off were allowed? Stiff tellings off with no bubble bath after the game

4) What was the point of the Premier League coming about? It was not a new division, just replced the old division 1? Surely it would have made more sense in the Premier league being the top new division, and having 4 divisions below that, just bringing in more non league to make up the rest of div 4? Money

5) Where is Nigel Quashie? Looking for bubble bath and money

They still had sendings off etc before the cards, just nothing was shown.

[James P]

Can someone please briefly explain the intricacies of oval track racing like Nascar. I'm sure for quarter of a million people to turn up and watch there must be more to it than driving around in a circle for 200 laps but I'm damned if I can spot it.

[sendô]

Can someone please briefly explain the intricacies of oval track racing like Nascar. I'm sure for quarter of a million people to turn up and watch there must be more to it than driving around in a circle for 200 laps but I'm damned if I can spot it.

I'd imagine like most endurance races it's the sheer concentration of having to go around the same two slow left hand bends 200 times without falling asleep due to sheer boredom.

I wonder if they drug test people for red bull and strong black coffee just to keep it interesting?

[Irish Iron]

Can someone please briefly explain the intricacies of oval track racing like Nascar. I'm sure for quarter of a million people to turn up and watch there must be more to it than driving around in a circle for 200 laps but I'm damned if I can spot it.

Crashes. Lots and lots of crashes.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

Count 3 turn left count 1 turn left count 3 turn left count 1 turn left.

That's how intricate it gets.

[Philosophical Dan]

Can anyone explain Gauss's theorem to me? I never got my head around it whilst reading Electronics at university, and have still yet to get to grips with even the most basic concepts. Tried reading a few things off the interweb, but am still none the wiser.

NOTE: My failure to understand Gauss's theorem does not make me an "Idiot"

[sendô]

"The electric flux through any closed surface is proportional to the enclosed electric charge."

My technical electrical detailed knowledge such as the above isn't as it could be, but I understand it to be that the magnetic field around a conductor will increase or decrease in proportion to the electrical charge in a closed surface.

Not really a law I've ever had to use if I'm honest.

[Philosophical Dan]

"The electric flux through any closed surface is proportional to the enclosed electric charge."

My technical electrical detailed knowledge such as the above isn't as it could be, but I understand it to be that the magnetic field around a conductor will increase or decrease in proportion to the electrical charge in a closed surface.

Not really a law I've ever had to use if I'm honest.

So... the amount of flux lines bisecting a closed surface increases as the contained charge increases & decreases as the contained charge decreases? Is that right? ****ing hell, is it as simple as that?

[orbital]

How do condensing combi boilers work, how can it be possible to turn cold water into hot instantly?

[sendô]

So... the amount of flux lines bisecting a closed surface increases as the contained charge increases & decreases as the contained charge decreases? Is that right? ****ing hell, is it as simple as that?

That's how I understand it. Maybe there's more to it that I'm not seeing, but in my experience most laws of physics are actually quite simple once you get your head around them or what they're trying to state. Dunno, perhaps I've over simplified it but that's the way it seems.

[shammy]

As there is no bacteria in Space, does this mean if Neil Armstrong left a bacon sandwich on the Moon in 1969 it would still be good to eat today?

[Burningaham]

As there is no bacteria in Space, does this mean if Neil Armstrong left a bacon sandwich on the Moon in 1969 it would still be good to eat today?

it might be cold by now

[Czech Hammer]

As there is no bacteria in Space, does this mean if Neil Armstrong left a bacon sandwich on the Moon in 1969 it would still be good to eat today?

aaaaaaaaaaaaand I am going to puzzling over that all day.

[BJA1990]

As there is no bacteria in Space, does this mean if Neil Armstrong left a bacon sandwich on the Moon in 1969 it would still be good to eat today?

There'd be bacteria on the sandwich though. Whether it'd survive and be able to reproduce is another matter entirely.

[White Goodman]

There'd be bacteria on the sandwich though. Whether it'd survive and be able to reproduce is another matter entirely.

I'm no expert but surely bacteria need oxygen to survive.

[Tsinclair]

Why are there limits to FREEDOM of speech?

[Hammers Dad]

As there is no bacteria in Space, does this mean if Neil Armstrong left a bacon sandwich on the Moon in 1969 it would still be good to eat today?

It would seem that bacteria may be able to survive:

Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers.

The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere.

And when scientists inspected the microbes a year and a half later, they found many were still alive.

These survivors are now thriving in a laboratory at the Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11039206