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- Why did kamikaze pilots wear crash helmets?

- Why is it that when two aircraft come close to each other it is called a 'near miss' and not a 'near hit' ?

- At the para-olympics, why don't the have parking spaces for 'able' people near the front?

- If you glued some buttered bread to the back of a cat and through it out of a window, which would land the right way up?

- Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?

- Why do they use steralised needles for 'lethal injections' ?

- What was the best thing before sliced bread?

- What is the speed of 'dark' ?

- Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

- Why does 'sour cream' have an expiry date?

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dont know about the speed of dark, but consider this: (stolen from elsewhere on this site, i like it, i think ban posted it originally)

It is a little known fact that light bulbs should really be called dark-suckers, as they don't in fact emit light, they just suck in the dark.

There are many types and sizes of dark suckers. The largest manufacturers of dark suckers are General Electric and Sylvania. Some modern dark suckers utilize solid power to operate properly. Solid power units can be purchased from Eveready, Exide, and Duracell.

The dark sucker theory proves the existence of dark suckers as well as proving that dark is heaver than light. Some examples are as follows:

Electric bulbs: There is less dark near the electric bulb than at a distance of 100 feet when it is operating; therefore, it is sucking dark and can be classified as a dark sucker. The larger the dark sucker, the greater the distance it can suck dark. The larger the dark sucker the greater its capacity of dark. The dark sucking capabilities are evident when the dark sucker has reached its capacity and will no longer suck dark. At that point you may notice the dark area on the inside portion of the dark sucker. The larger the dark sucker, the larger the area of dark found within. This type of dark sucker can be made directional by placing a shield around a portion of the unit or behind it. This will prevent dark from entering the dark sucker from that side thereby extending the range of the dark sucker on the unprotected/unshielded side.

Candles - primitive dark suckers: There is more dark 30 feet from a lit candle then there is at a distance of 3 feet. Proof of it's dark sucking capabilities is relatively simple. Examine a new unused candle, notice that the center core is not dark. Ignite the center core. Allow the center core to burn for about 5 minutes. Notice the lack of dark around the candle. Extinguish the candle flame. Notice that the center core of the candle is now dark. The center core is a dark sucker protected by a soft insulator to extend it's life expectancy and maintain rigidity to verify that this primitive dark sucker is operating properly. Ignite the center core and allow it to burn for a minimum of 2 minutes. Pass a clean pencil over the top of the flame, left to right, approximately 3 inches above the center core. Notice that there is no dark on the pencil. Pass the pencil over the center core now about 1/2 inch. Notice that the pencil now has a dark area. The pencil blocked the path of the dark being sucked to the core of the dark sucker. This type dark sucker is very primitive and does not suck dark any great distance nor does it have a large capacity.

Dark sucker solid power units may be purchased locally at a variety of outlets. Size does not determine the life expectancy of the dark sucker solid power unit. These solid power units work with many modern dark suckers, and absorb dark from the dark sucker. The absorbed dark is converted to solid power within the unit.

An example of the conversion of dark into solid power in the automobile of today. Notice an auto in use during dark hours. Two (possibly four) large dark suckers are located on the front. On the rear there are two (or 3) smaller dark suckers with red filters. You may also notice several dark suckers with yellow filters. These filters are required to remove a percentage of red and yellow from total dark so as to energize the solid power unit. The solid power unit permits the auto to be utilized during hours of no dark by the dark it has absorbed. The number of dark suckers varies with the age of the automobile. Newer automobile solid power units require a greater percentage of red filtered dark. Older units generally require more non-filtered dark. The solid power unit of the automobile has a dark interior. This can be proved by cutting the solid power unit in half.

Dark is heavier than light. Dark always settles to the bottom of a lake and/or river. Submerge just below the surface of a lake and you will notice an absence of dark. Lower yourself to 15 feet below the surface and you will notice a degree of darkness even on a sunny, bright day. Lower yourself to 50 feet (or more) below the surface and you are in total dark. Ergo, the dark has settled to the bottom; therefore, dark is heavier than light. Modern technology has allowed us to utilize the dark that has settled to the bottom of large rivers through the creation of turbines which push the dark downriver to the ocean, which has a larger holding capacity for dark and is a common safe storage location. As the dark is passed through the turbine, a percentage of solid power is removed and transmitted to various short term storage plants for many usages. Prior to turbines, it was much more difficult to move the dark from rivers to storage areas such as deep lakes or the ocean. The Indians would paddle their canoes very little and not very deeply if they were going in the direction of flow of dark so as not to slow it down. However, if they were traveling opposite the natural flow of dark, they would dig their paddles very deep and rapidly to assist the flow of dark to its ocean storage place.

Dark is faster than light. If you would open a drawer very slowly, you will notice that the light goes into the drawer. (You can see this happen.) You cannot see the dark leave the drawer. Continue to open the drawer and light will continue to enter the drawer; however, you will not see any dark leave the drawer. Therefore, dark is faster than light. Go into a closet, close the door, and turn off the dark sucker. Have a friend open the door about 1 inch. Your friend will not see any dark leave the closet, nor will you. Have your friend open the door until half the closet is dark and half is light. Since 2 objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, and you do not feel any change in pressure, by compressing the dark, it is logical to assume that dark is faster than light.

One last proof.

What is a by-product of movement of dark? Heat. What is a by- product of dark suckers? Heat, again.

Therefore a dark sucker generates heat during its operation, sucking dark from the surrounding area.
 
I thought the theory of dark suckers and dark having mass was HIGHLY controversial.
 
You must unlearn what you have learned. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. :mrgreen:
 
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- Why doesn't the word 'onomatopoeia' sound like what it means?

- Where can I buy a decaffeinated coffee table?

- Why doesn't the Teflon coating just slide off the saucepan?

- Why isn't palindrome spelled the same way backwards?

- Can a magician become disillusioned?

- Four out of five people hate being surveyed.

- Why isn't there another word for Thesaurus?

- Why do 90% of car drivers believe that they're better than the average?
 
Softus said:
- Why doesn't the Teflon coating just slide off the saucepan?
They bond a sticky molecule to the teflon molecule for the first coat and after another coat , ceramic is added for strength.
Don't you know anything? thought you knew it all :)
 
Nige F said:
They are all rhetorical questions ;)
yes but softus picks up on everything one says so a bit of his own medicine won't go amiss ;)
 
One thing that I have wondered about - Human beings, though they have some variation in height and colour, are all roughly the same and fall within the same window.

Dogs can be anything from really tiny chihuahuas up to great big things that all look different (don't really know my dogs, sorry), but whenever they see another dog, they still recognise it as a dog and proceed to sniff each others bums or start yapping. So how do they know that these other things that look completely different are still dogs - they don't try sniffing my bum, for example. And how do they know that foxes aren't 'one of them'. And, for that matter, why aren't foxes dogs anyway ?
 
That's easy - the difference between a dog and a fox is about 5 pints.
 
johnny_t said:
Dogs can be anything from really tiny chihuahuas up to great big things that all look different (don't really know my dogs, sorry), but whenever they see another dog, they still recognise it as a dog and proceed to sniff each others bums or start yapping. So how do they know that these other things that look completely different are still dogs - they don't try sniffing my bum, for example. And how do they know that foxes aren't 'one of them'. And, for that matter, why aren't foxes dogs anyway ?

Well, can't speak for all dogs but one of mine runs behind my legs and hides when he sees another dog, though he'll stand off a cat any day :rolleyes:

The other one wags his tail when he sees another dog but unless it appears to be a spaniel, a lab or a westie he will walk straight past said dog! Dopey animals :rolleyes:
 
notb665 said:
That's easy - the difference between a dog and a fox is about 5 pints.

I don't drink much these days, so more like two.....
 
kendor said:
They bond a sticky molecule to the teflon molecule for the first coat and after another coat , ceramic is added for strength.
I know. It seems you haven't understood the purpose of this topic.

kendor said:
Don't you know anything?
Even if I didn't know how a Teflon coating is made, I don't understand how you can conclude from this that I know nothing.

kendor said:
thought you knew it all :)
I've never claimed that, so I have no idea why you would think it, unless your knowledge set is so tiny that it appears to you that I know everything.
 
which came first? the chicken or the egg? oops, it's been done....how did it turn out?
 
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