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Post by Ubereil on Feb 19, 2007 15:17:51 GMT
Right, three hours. Forgot it took three hours to lay an egg.
Übereil
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 20, 2007 0:48:00 GMT
What was the first manmade invention to break the sound barrier?
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Post by killerzzz on Feb 20, 2007 5:33:31 GMT
A bullet? (ie, gun). Cuz I'm pretty sure that breaks the sound barrier. But since how long?... *ponders*Killerzzz
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 20, 2007 5:52:18 GMT
A bullet? (ie, gun). Cuz I'm pretty sure that breaks the sound barrier. But since how long?... *ponders*Killerzzz Good guess--but no.
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Post by LaFille on Feb 20, 2007 19:13:21 GMT
A lashing thong. ;D
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 20, 2007 19:20:40 GMT
I thought of a sling shot, but I like Fille's description better! She's a baaaad girl, that Fille! ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Feb 20, 2007 23:08:42 GMT
The end of a whip?
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 20, 2007 23:53:18 GMT
Bull whip--yes.
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 21, 2007 3:47:45 GMT
OK. This next one really happened to me back in 1980 or '81. And I figured it out. I had a 1971 Chevy Vega. After removing and replacing the carburetor, the car would not start. I determined that it was not getting gas. On the chance that I might have introduced a vapor lock into the system, I hooked up my vacuum cleaner (the end that blows out--not the end that sucks) to my gas tank and turned it on. While I held the vacuum cleaner in place, a friend started the engine. The car started right up. But when I turned the vacuum cleaner off, the car's engine died. We repeated the process a couple of times and my friend commented that after the car started up, the oil light on the dash never went out. That immediately led me to the diagnosis of the problem, and in a couple of minutes I had the car running fine without a vacuum cleaner. What was wrong, and what did the oil light have to do with it?
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Post by ss on Feb 21, 2007 6:18:14 GMT
What was wrong with it is the fact that you have the nerve to admit you had a VEGA.... ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 21, 2007 6:43:25 GMT
What was wrong with it is the fact that you have the nerve to admit you had a VEGA.... ;D LOL. It was not a good car, but it ran. I had perpetual problems with the carburetion. And it was so underpowered that I had a rough time making it up that steep section of highway near 1,000 Oaks. The aluminum head never did warp though.
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Feb 21, 2007 10:48:43 GMT
you'd forgotten to uncover the air inlet for the carboreta...
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Feb 21, 2007 10:54:29 GMT
The logically equivalent statements would be: All geniuses are members of the Chaos Cascade All people who are not members of the Chaos Cascade are not Geniuses Sorry, Cleg, but your first statement doesn't exclude others from being geniuses. The idea behind what you are saying is right, but your wording is wrong. 100 non-members who were non-geniuses would, however, 'confirm' my first statement, above. And every other non-genius non-member you talked to thereafter would further 'confirm' the initial statement by adding corroborating evidence. Logically they wouldn't confirm your statement, all it would prove was that you'd found 100 people outside the chaos cascade that were not geniuses, not that there were no geniuses outside the chaos cascade. This is because the population of geniuses in the word is a subset of the population, and the members of the chaos cascade is a different subset, and your statement is trying to make the population of geniuses a subset of the population of the chaos cascade. The only way to prove your statement would be to find all the geniuses in the world and check if they were members of the chaos cascade.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 21, 2007 12:33:00 GMT
Hence 'confirm' being in quotes, DPR. It's statistical confirmation rather than actual - which is to say it's complete rubbish ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 21, 2007 12:54:56 GMT
you'd forgotten to uncover the air inlet for the carboreta... nope.
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 21, 2007 16:09:32 GMT
What normally brings the gas from the tank up to the carb or injectors?
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Post by ss on Feb 22, 2007 0:23:22 GMT
fuel Pump..
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 22, 2007 0:45:09 GMT
OK the fuel pump wasn't functioning. Why? What did the oil light have to do with it?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Feb 22, 2007 9:35:28 GMT
A little math in between? No dirty fingers dismanteling carburators and fuel pumps to find the cable from there to the oil lamp, which is hooked up to the same fuse?
a) 1/2/3/4: ...... = 28 b) 2/3/4/5: ...... = 28 c) 3/4/5/6: ...... = 28 d) 4/5/67/. ...... = 28
You must use ALL numbers per line, and you may only them ONCE - combine them by adding,subtracting, multiplying or dividing as you please, but the result must be 28.
(No cursing, while figuring!)
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Feb 22, 2007 9:48:34 GMT
32 - (4/1) = 28
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