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523ss 
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 Topic: Thought of the day!
Posted: 18-January-2006 at 20:42 |
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Why is it that people pay to go up tall buildings, then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?!
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pma1ums
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Posted: 19-January-2006 at 03:33 |
 523ss wrote:
Why is it that people pay to go up tall buildings, then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?! |
because there human?????
or they could just be trying to be in love .ie think .effiel tower and 14 th of feb 
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its a dogs world out there
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Rhys
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Posted: 19-January-2006 at 08:41 |
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A few more thoughts of the day..
How does a man (or women) who drives a snow plough get to work?
To all vegies out there.. If you aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?
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scarface
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Posted: 19-January-2006 at 17:50 |
Rhys wrote:
To all vegies out there.. If you aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? |
Where did you get that from? I've heard it before somewhere.
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Rhys
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Posted: 19-January-2006 at 18:04 |
scarface wrote:
Rhys wrote:
To all vegies out there.. If you aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? |
Where did you get that from? I've heard it before somewhere. |
..Simon Mayo I believe, several years ago on Radio 1 breakfast show (98-99 I think)
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523ss
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Posted: 19-January-2006 at 19:07 |
OK, iv'e started something here so here goes.....
IF Wyle.E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME rubbish, why didn't he just buy dinner?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dogs face, it will be annoyed, but when you put it in the car it sticks its head out of the window!!?
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steven.seed
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 07:05 |
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Can any one answer this one then, we all know the speed of light but what's the speed of dark? Any budding Albert's out there.
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Rhys
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 17:38 |
steven.seed wrote:
Can any one answer this one then, we all know the speed of light but what's the speed of dark? Any budding Albert's out there. |
The speed of dark is faster than the speed of light..
Since nothing is supposed to be faster than the speed of light - but the speed of light is variable with respect to gravity (black holes). Since all you can see from a black hole is darkness, then it stands to reason the dark is reaching the earth - and your eyes - faster than the light, qed.. now all you have to do is calculate the speed of light, then add a bit. 
(186,000 miles per sec I believe)
Edited by Rhys
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Horsetan
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:04 |
If a tree fell over in the forest, and there was no one there to see and hear it fall, would it still make a noise? 
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livvy
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:10 |
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Speed of light is only constant in a vacuum at 186,282.397 miles per second.
Where it travels through any medium it will be reduced by a ratio relative to the refractive index of that medium.
Edited by livvy
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My views expressed are just that.
Mine & mine alone.
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steven.seed
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:14 |
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@ Rhys, Yes but when it starts to change from light to dark is that because the light is moving away faster to expose the dark or is it the dark moving towards you faster to extinguish the light. The black hole is an area of huge gravitational force that sucks light in and then it goes dark so is there a reverse of that ie. a white hole or am I talking out of my a$$hole
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Nigel
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:16 |
livvy wrote:
Speed of light is only constant in a vacuum at 186,282.397 miles per second.
Where it travels through any medium it will be reduced by a ratio relative to the refractive index of that medium.
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that dancing stuff should get you out a bit and do you good !
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Best Wishes
Nigel
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Nigel
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:16 |
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If a man speaks and there is no woman to hear him...is he still wrong ?
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Best Wishes
Nigel
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Horsetan
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:17 |
Nigel wrote:
If a man speaks and there is no woman to hear him...is he still wrong ? |
You don't really want the answer to that 
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steven.seed
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 18:22 |
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Horsetan
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 19:59 |
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Rhys
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Posted: 20-January-2006 at 21:10 |
livvy wrote:
Speed of light is only constant in a vacuum at 186,282.397 miles per second.
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How do you know this, did you clock it with a speed camera?
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dutch
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Posted: 21-January-2006 at 18:03 |
no scamera's involved it was being followed by a unmarked scooby
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Posted: 21-January-2006 at 18:08 |
steven.seed wrote:
Can any one answer this one then, we all know the speed of light but what's the speed of dark? |
Dark doesn't have a speed because it is merely an absense of light. I suppose you could say that it travels at the same speed as light becuase it appears at the same speed light disappears 
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Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 22-January-2006 at 07:40 |
Nigel wrote:
If a man speaks and there is no woman to hear him...is he still wrong ? |
Yes!
Did you know there was a man who finally figured out what makes women tick?
Unfortunately he died laughing before he could tell anyone!
Edited by Derek M5
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Thought of the day!
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