Thread: Conundrums

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Have lunch while you think about it.

Lunch cost $15.

Originally Posted by DeanoH

If you're in a spaceship doing 10,000 Km/hr and you shine a torch out the window how fast is the light beam traveling ?

Deano

299,792km per second.

Originally Posted by loneranger

Single handed was it? 😂

I believe that's called sculling, well I'm pretty sure it ends in ....ing anyway.

There are three empty scabbards for scissors in one of our kitchen draws. My two pairs of emergency standby scissors which should be in my 'useful things and and emergency standby items so I don't have to run out to the shed in the rain' cupboard, are also missing.
Why are they missing and why is this so?

Originally Posted by DeanoH

If you're in a spaceship doing 10,000 Km/hr and you shine a torch out the window how fast is the light beam traveling ?

Deano

Light travels at light speed. No Faster and no slower. What will change is the frequency. If you shine your torch ahead it will shorten the wave length and will appear bluer to the observer. I you shine it astern it will increase the wave length and appear redder to the observer.
If you shine it out the side it will hook on to the centre of the Universe and you will be spun around in ever decreasing circles until you disappear up your own arse. ( The last is a scientific fact, made up on the spot.)

So how do they get the smoke into Lucas wiring looms?

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Light travels at light speed. No Faster and no slower. What will change is the frequency. If you shine your torch ahead it will shorten the wave length and will appear bluer to the observer. I you shine it astern it will increase the wave length and appear redder to the observer.
If you shine it out the side it will hook on to the centre of the Universe and you will be spun around in ever decreasing circles until you disappear up your own arse. ( The last is a scientific fact, made up on the spot.)

actually, thats not 100% true. only in a vacuum is that true.

Originally Posted by d2dave

So how do they get the smoke into Lucas wiring looms?

Insulation is made from solidified smoke.