This weeks question. - Go on it's fun!

[Ees]

It can't stretch to infinity. It's limited by:

- Your non-zero size (you'll get in the way of the reflections, eventually).
- The fact that the reflectivity of the mirrors is less than 100%, and they're not perfectly flat (light will dim/spread out).
- The limited speed of light (the reflection will stretch further and further at the speed of light, but not to infinity).
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle (the chance of the reflections getting off the mirrors approaches 100%, for a sufficiently large number of reflections).

Next!

Martin

[Paddy]

The limited speed of light

Whay cant you stand there forever?

[Paddy]

<font size=4>R</font>ight!

Last one and then someone else can think of one.

Question:
How can ants survive being inside a microwave oven (yes it is turned on!)

[SteveC]

Are the microwaves in the microwave oven, as in the actual bit where you cook? Or, are they just inside the casing somewhere?

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[ALBPM]

Their little brains are already cooked from trying to answer the previous questions.....

Oh Gawd!!!! It's way to early and I do not want to go to work today.

Paul

[Paddy]

It's not a trick question - at least i dont think it is

[dZeus]

maybe the only water that exists in their body has been absorbed (or whatever) by other molecules, in such a way that there is no water in the form for the microwave to heat up.

[Paddy]

The following is from a gazetteer, published in 1790, about Harlech in Wales. "A remarkable phenomenon was seen near this town in the year 1694 and it continued about the space of eight months. It was a livid vapour, or fiery exhalation, which seemed to arise from the sea on the borders of Caernarvonshire. It made its first appearance on the side of a bay, a little after sunset, and from thence spread itself in the most gradual manner, until it had set all the houses in the neighbourhood on fire. Not only the ricks of hay, corn, and all other forts of grain were destroyed, but also the vegetables in the gardens, for it had so noxious a smell that everything perished where it diffused its baleful influence. Its effects were severely felt by the cattle, to whom it communicated a contagious distemper, but which many of them died. It made its appearance regularly every night, always rising at the same place; nor did it stop its course either by rain or storms. It was sometimes visible by day, but it was very remarkable that it never did any damage except in the night. The flames were no way violent, but its continuance at last consumed everything that opposed it. The methods used to extinguish the flames were to blow bellows, horns and such like instruments, but that was seldom attended with the desired effect."

Can anyone explain what this phenomenon might have been?

[Chris B]

Some Welsh folks conducting weird ant experiments

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Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.

[Jorden]

Why don't we ask Ant?

Still wonder what the answer to the very first question was, though. Wasn't it like 40,000 bacteria living on every square inch of your body?

Oh, and another question. As there's the speed of light and the speed of sound, what's the speed of water, or air?

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 29 September 2000).]

[Paddy]

It is estimated that 10 million individual bacteria live on the average square centimetre of human skin - although this figure varies considerably about the almost 2 square metres of the human body.
It is also estimated that there is an excess of 200 different species of bacteria in total living on/within the human body.

[ALBPM]

Ok Paddy, we give!!! What caused the foul cloud at Harlech??????

Paul

[Helevitia]

Damn! I'm going to start charging rent.

Dave

[Pneumatic]

Question #1 More than I thought. I may go boil myself.

Question #2 Mucus is green because if it were brown.......... well that would just be gross.

Question #3 I tried the mirror thing and grabbed my binoculars. It didn't help.

Question #4 I think the ants have grown immune to intense heat since the invention of the magnifying glass.

Question #5 Sounds to me like the Loch Ness Monster had been eating too many WOW chips.

[ALBPM]

Paddy you there???

Paddy must still be busy cleaning and picking up around his place. Must need it "BAD" if he's got newspapers from 1790 lying around.

Paul