Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Here's some questions I've always wondered about:
When bread gets stale it gets hard, when crackers get stale they get soft -- why isn't hard bread called crackers and vice versa?
When you play an audio system, the sound travels at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) through the wires, but at the speed of sound (750 mile per hour) through the air -- why don't they run into each other when they slow down?
The metric system is supposed to be scientifically based. The meter is one ten-millionth of the length of the meridian through Paris from pole to the equator -- and this was measured accurately how?
If going to europe is considered going overseas -- why isn't returning going underseas?
Vehicle tires wear out every couple years -- why aren't we hip deep in old tire dust?
There is a criminal defense for murder based on insanity-- does that mean that normal murder is something done by sane people?
My understanding is that jury members in a criminal case aren't allowed to take notes or do outside research on a case like one would do in school -- does that mean it's more important to understand why Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea than it is to decide a death sentence on a criminal?
Why don't Americans like two dollar bills and one dollar coins?
Why do we kill people who kill people to show them that killing people is wrong?
Why do most people say ATM machine and PIN number?
2fers: http://www.bbspot.com and http://www.vatican.va/
When bread gets stale it gets hard, when crackers get stale they get soft -- why isn't hard bread called crackers and vice versa?
When you play an audio system, the sound travels at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) through the wires, but at the speed of sound (750 mile per hour) through the air -- why don't they run into each other when they slow down?
The metric system is supposed to be scientifically based. The meter is one ten-millionth of the length of the meridian through Paris from pole to the equator -- and this was measured accurately how?
If going to europe is considered going overseas -- why isn't returning going underseas?
Vehicle tires wear out every couple years -- why aren't we hip deep in old tire dust?
There is a criminal defense for murder based on insanity-- does that mean that normal murder is something done by sane people?
My understanding is that jury members in a criminal case aren't allowed to take notes or do outside research on a case like one would do in school -- does that mean it's more important to understand why Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea than it is to decide a death sentence on a criminal?
Why don't Americans like two dollar bills and one dollar coins?
Why do we kill people who kill people to show them that killing people is wrong?
Why do most people say ATM machine and PIN number?
2fers: http://www.bbspot.com and http://www.vatican.va/
