Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Science Test: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2086335/Great-Scott-16-believe-Back-Futures-Dr-Emmet-Brown-discovered-radiation-science-survey-shows-British-ignorance.html

I knew one.... guessed the rest... even got question 18 wrong.

My score: 8/20

17 out of 20, but one was a guess.

Doozergirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

Cats are cool . But cats are never cute. Cats are fierce predators that would conquer the world, if it weren't for the fact God has not given them opposable thumbs. But eventually, they will work out a way to get them. Then the world should watch out.

Anyway, on another note, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE .

Funny

I wanted to show you my favourite youtube video ever but it's been removed! I have found a facebook page demanding it be reinstated. Can't find it anywhere! Have I posted it before or has anyone seen it, it was called "Kitty is a very bad mystic"

Treeeeeeat...

zagubov

19/20 - forgot the transplant surgeon. Like chewey, I noticed the dubious doctors amongst the genuine ones!

Amount of brain being used. Used to have to teach a science course where we debunked pseudoscience - turns out the 10% was a factoid basd on brain stimulus experiments which was used as a title for a self-help book during the depression.
Eventually became a better-known "fact" than many genuine real facts.

There's a billion interesting facts out there. Used to read the Skeptic and the Skeptical enquirer and was amused and worried by the fluffy nonsense some people apparently swallow. And all the true stuff people won't buy into.:o

LydiaJ

Most of the questions were very familiar - and several of them were things that I teach every year. I hadn't a clue about the lung transplant, but guessed, and got it right, although I don't think I deserve any credit for that. I agree with the others that some of the definitions were not very accurate (enzyme, Doppler, pathogen), but at least if you knew the right answer you could easily tell which one was the one you were supposed to pick. The question about the colour of the sun is downright misleading. Almost all stars produce all colours of the visible spectrum and thus produce white light. However, different stars have different proportions of the various colours, so in astronomy they are categorised accordingly, and the sun is officially a yellow dwarf star. So I think it's misleading to give "yellow" as one of the possible answers and then say that "white" is the only correct one.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Almost all stars produce all colours of the visible spectrum and thus produce white light. However, different stars have different proportions of the various colours, so in astronomy they are categorised accordingly, and the sun is officially a yellow dwarf star. So I think it's misleading to give "yellow" as one of the possible answers and then say that "white" is the only correct one.

Sparked a big debate in the Zag household!

I gather by the way that if the sun was a red dwarf star our planet's habitable future would be up to a hundred times longer than it is:A:D

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

I thinks it's interesting idea that you don't want to reveal your name or meet with people who you have chatted to almost daily for years, but would give this information to people who might share genes. For me the safety consciousness in both are kinda similar. In fact, one could even argue contact between relatively close strands of a family might have been dropped for a reason:eek:


Edit read that back and it sounds critical, it wasn't Written with criticism head on, just comparative situation for you own safety threshold!

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Yes, I am. Yes, it is. Depends, really - do you want me to send it for you?

All life is a risk.
Friendsreunited resulted in being invited to a (re-union for me) party - which was interesting - still in touch with several of the old lags - fate plays strange tricks on the way people's lives turn out.
My Googling has turned up a a long lost cousin of my wife's of Xth degree removed Y times - she lives in N.Wales and, like Osama, is a descendant of the 4th wife (of g g g grandfather).
My sister has tracked down a Californian, we share the same maternal g g grandfather. Fascinating letters about a youngest daughter who was effectively sold into slavery in New Zealand.
I have a "friend" in Illinois - we share my paternal g g grandfather and possibly we both have a link to a little "shrine" web site to another gg grandfather.
You have to be careful of research in USA - they tend to romanticise and have problems reading old document as Lawyer (when it really says Sawyer).
Families, especially Victorian ones, did cover things up - I think I have proudly posted on here about another distant cousin, who started life as "xxxxxx the B@st@rd", but ended up the village lady schoolteacher.
I found a deceased mystery great uncle, seems he took to the drink, rotted his liver and was never spoken of again. Very confusing as the family always gave the first son his fathers Christian name.

Wife and I had a great holiday down under visiting the results of one of her gggg uncle's attempt to populate the new continent by his own efforts.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Science Test: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2086335/Great-Scott-16-believe-Back-Futures-Dr-Emmet-Brown-discovered-radiation-science-survey-shows-British-ignorance.html

I knew one.... guessed the rest... even got question 18 wrong.

My score: 8/20

two guesses (wrong), two use of logic(right) 2 incorrect knowledge:
Lung transplant X
Percentage of brain (I've got synapses I've never used and know plenty of similar people!) X
Sun is a "white" star * (?!?)
Becquerel is the radiation man *
Pluto is no longer a planet ! X
The Earth is paired with Venus (an over heated chemical hell hole) not some other piece of rock circling another sun.
= 4 wrong .
Mind you Wikipedia thinks that Aristorchus of Samos had named the earth and several of the planets as circling the sun before Christ. .

PasturesNew

All this going back generations, I don't even know who my maternal grandfather is. Illegitimate, but with a couple of stories that indicate a last name ...... and no long birth certificate in existance. It's eventually on my "to do" list to get a copy of the long birth certificate to see if that gave a name. The father was known, so it wasn't a one night stand with a stranger after three tots of sherry. In fact, after he'd left the country his local relatives used to donate clothes .... so clearly there was shame, but not complete abandonment and veil of secrecy.

JonnyBravo

Good quiz but problems with some of the answers as others have stated.
18 officially but I would argue the "sun colour" question as I too answered yellow. Guessed wrong on the lung transplant.

John_Pierpoint

I cannot comment much about the ship ........................
"We have a malfunction" ?
Perhaps its electronic management system was suffering a nervous breakdown, but it is four years younger than my car.
Costa Concordia 2006 2006 – 2012 (Sank) 114,500 tons Italy Sank.
Costa Serena 2007 2007 – Present 114,500 tons Italy Modified Conquest-class
Costa Pacifica 2009 2009 – Present 114,500 tons Italy Modified Conquest-class
Costa Favolosa 2011 2011 – Present 114,500 tons Italy Modified Concordia-class

..........................all the web sites are jammed (flamed)Anyone want to swap stories of Giglio circa 1960 ?
I've just done an earthview - its a bit like friendsreunited: tends to destroy romantic memories.
Interesting place - a sort of Goodwin sands or Devon - of Italy.

http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1298809230-Weather-Isola-del-Giglio-Panoramica-Porto-Giglio-Porto

http://www.ukdiving.co.uk/wrecks/map.php?area=sweng
I love the wreck on Bodmin Moor

Beware you sailors with a sat nav app on your I-phone.:eek:

Nikkster

Need to vent: made the 90 minute journey into work today to find that someone switched off the piece of equipment I need. It will take 2-3 hours to heat up again - not a happy bunny!