I'm Bored!

[MayDay1]

Oh great and wise Mayday, does hot water weigh more than cold? (Given that they are the same amount and in the same kind of container, etc. etc.)

O.K. this is a doozy that stems from a conversation with my husband. He remarked that our Earth and universe couldn't function properly without the property of ice being able to float in water. It has something to do with our weather because hot water rises and cold sinks. But I had to ask what about outer space when there is no planetary gravity? Can ice float in outer space?
So here's the question:
Imagine an airtight container of water (with some air inside) with one ice cube is in zero gravity (taking into account expansion etc.). There is no movement, no temperature changes.. Would the cube float in the water near the air or would it just stay in place wherever it was in the first place. What if you did shake it first and then place it in zero gravity, would the water and air mix slowly over time like a lava lamp with the ice cube in the center? Would the movement of the water and air create enough friction to melt the ice ever so slowly?

Also, if you're bored,

go write a haiku
deliciously addicting
definite brainstretch

1. Why do you guys keep calling me that?
2. Yes.
3. Questions of science
Made up termonology
This makes my head hurt.

 

[MayDay1]

Bite me, mayday, Im answering. 😀
In the zero gravity of space there IS no up and down so the concept of "floating" is entirely useless. I guess the ice and water would just float around freely in the container with no regard for anything. Of course it would have to be temperature controlled to keep the water from feezing cause isn't space extremely cold? Or is it extremely hot? I suppose it would have to do with your location relative to the sun but I mean just outside of Earth's atmosphere where, presumably, you would be with your ice and your water.
Incidentally...if anyone has links to all the cool anti-gravity experiments NASA has done I have always been curious to see them.

You are so blackballed. 😡

 

[MayDay1]

I have a Question..... and I'm being totally serious here...this is for those moms out there..


During childbirth, which part of the baby hurts more when it comes out? The head or the body?

Moms can start their own thread.

 

[MayDay1]

*approaches Mayday and drops to knees*


All great and powerful Mayday....when will Madonna release her next cd? It feels like I've been waiting forever....

I think your best bet are those endless streams of remixes. But I have a feeling she's bound for Vegas.

 

[MayDay1]

Which of these theories is correct and is Marty in the past when he arrives in 1985 or the present?

Sorry but I had to edit your post. That was way too long and I'm a space *****.

Since the skateboarding, rock n roll, and turning into a werewolf to win the basketball game (Whoops! Wrong movie!) had no effect in Doc Brown's murder, I won't bother to get into that.

Here's how it works. When Marty was stranded in 1955 he tried to warn Doc about the Libian terrorists who murder him. Doc, afraid to know too much about the future, rips up the note. In a last ditch effort to save Doc in the future Marty purposley set himself ten minutes prior to when he originally went back in time. So therefore he is in the past. Ten minutes in the past, but the past none the less.

Here's the kicker. If time travel were truly possible (It ain't. Trust me.) there would be NO FRIGGIN' WAY you could travel into the future since the future has not happened yet. The past has, so that makes it more tangible. We know certain dates, times, and places events occured making the concept much more feasible. Since the future is an abstract idea at best, if you were to travel to the year 2099 you'd either be stuck in limbo or would simply implode. But since Marty is from the future and is aware of certain JC Penny parking lots to try out crazy azz experiments, he can therefore travel there since it occured in the past when he was there before he got zapped to the days of poodle skirts malt shops. So yes, it is possible for him to go forward in time since he knows it allready happened.

 

[Dussicar]

Oh, great MAYDAY. Do you believe a word you just said in your last post? 😀

 

[MayDay1]

Oh, great MAYDAY. Do you believe a word you just said in your last post? 😀

I don't believe it. I know it, buddy!

 

[nessonite1]

Sorry Mayday! Last post on the subject, I promise! 😛

I am officially MORE frightened to have a baby now....*shock*

*ahem* thanks Ness.

No need to be frightened. Painful though it may be it IS somewhat natural to do it and, evn though it may not seem like it at the time, you DO recover. You've been through much more painful medical procedures than that already anyway, you should be well prepared. 🙂

Well it all depends on how far along the baby is and how wide your pelvis is. Wider pelvises have more room thus less stretching needed and less pain, right??

The pelvis sort of...opens. So yeah it's easier for a wide-hipped women to pass a baby than a narrow-hipped woman but getting through the pelvis is just long and difficult, not PAINFUL per se. There are a few women who are so small with babies so large that they physically can't do it, in which case doc needs to find other points of entry/exit. But what causes the pain is very large objects being passed through very small openings in SKIN. 😀 The body does prepare itself though. The skin is pretty numb from being stretched so taught...the contractions hurt more than that anyway...which is why so many women are crying for drugs. Like me. 😛

And I have a question for MayDay the Magnificent
What does a digital camera mean by EFFECTIVE megapixels? I see cameras with like 6 mp and some with 6 EFFECTIVE mps. What's the difference?

 

[MayDay1]

And I have a question for MayDay the Magnificent
What does a digital camera mean by EFFECTIVE megapixels? I see cameras with like 6 mp and some with 6 EFFECTIVE mps. What's the difference?

The ones with the word EFFECTIVE are trying harder to get you to buy their brand of digital camera. Kind of like the ad I saw once for a pet store that advertised "ALIVE!!! Dogs and cats!" That is not a joke.

 

[nessonite1]

the ad I saw once for a pet store that advertised "ALIVE!!! Dogs and cats!" That is not a joke.

Is that where Missy Val lives? 😛

 

[MayDay1]

Is that where Missy Val lives? 😛

Naw. I think the ad was from a 3rd world nation, like Los Angeles. Zam!

 

[coloman]

Note to MayDay: I forget which Marx Brothers movie it was and I will accept Napalm as the answer to the other question.

 

[nessonite1]

Most extremely important question of our age...
Is toilet paper supposed to hang over on the outside or against the wall?

 

[AcornaMordor]

I have a question too: Oh almighty Oz.. er.. mayday.. damnit I can never get that right..

IF TPing someone's house in the North means you Like them and

IF TPing someone's house in the South means you Hate them, then...

What does TPing someone's house in the Midwest mean?

 

[CellarDweller]

Oh mighty MayDay.......

Why is it....you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose????

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

O Keeper of all knowledge, Mayday, I have some questions for you:

Why is the sky blue?
If "down" is the direction that objects move when they are attracted by gravity, which way is down in intergalactic space?
If the universe contains everything, then it must also by definition contain itself (and is therefore bigger than itself). So my third question is: does the universe exist?
Is life real, or is it all somebody's dream?
My sister and I had a discussion about this one, but couldn't agree on an answer; The Irresistible Force v. The Immovable Object - which one wins?
And the biggest question of all: Why? 🙂


On a note about time travel: Time travel into the future is possible - we're all doing it all the time, moving from Now into the future (which becomes Now as soon as we move into it). Time travel such as in BTTF maybe couldn't happen, but going into the future by speeding up time for the rest of the universe is perfectly sound (and has in fact been demonstrated using Concorde and two atomic clocks).
Also, the future isn't determined because no-one is there yet; this works along the same principle as the idea of Schroedinger's cat. Once we reach the future, we observe it causing all the (infinite number of) possibilities to collapse into one actuality. Does this make sense to anyone? I can't really remember much from my relativity and quantum mechanics courses now, but that's the gist of the arguments... 😀

 

[MayDay1]

Most extremely important question of our age...
Is toilet paper supposed to hang over on the outside or against the wall?

Sorry for the delay in posts, people. I've been sick as s*** over here. I can barely stand up or walk.

Toilet.......paper? Are you making this up? I just use the newspaper!

Ha! Just kidding. The toilet paper has to hang with the pereferals close to the wall for easy tearing action when you're at your most vulnerable.

 

[MayDay1]

IF TPing someone's house in the North means you Like them and

IF TPing someone's house in the South means you Hate them, then...

What does TPing someone's house in the Midwest mean?

That's just proof that there's nothing better to do in Nebraska.

 

[MayDay1]

Oh mighty MayDay.......

Why is it....you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose????

You can pick your friends's nose if that's the sort of think you're into. I'm not gonna judge.

 

[wraven]

Heres a question...

Are Chinese and Japanese resturants equal opportunity employers???
Just a thought...

"Let the darkness be your guide..."

 

[MayDay1]

Why is the sky blue?
If "down" is the direction that objects move when they are attracted by gravity, which way is down in intergalactic space?
If the universe contains everything, then it must also by definition contain itself (and is therefore bigger than itself). So my third question is: does the universe exist?
Is life real, or is it all somebody's dream?
My sister and I had a discussion about this one, but couldn't agree on an answer; The Irresistible Force v. The Immovable Object - which one wins?
And the biggest question of all: Why? 🙂

1. God ran out of yellow.
2. Down is relative to the position you're in at the time. Say you're an astronaught and you're floating in deep space. Since there is no gravity then whatever direction your head is pointing is up while whichever way you're feet are pointing is down. Then five minutes later as your body shifts around there will be a new up and down.
3. Uh...yeah. Otherwise we're in a lot of trouble.
4. Considering the amount of pain I'm in right now, life is very real. Life does make a delicious cereal though.
5. X-men terms. Juggernaut is the irrsestible force and The Blob is the immovable object. Since The Blob is a lame character Juggy wins. So irresistable force.
6. Why not?

 

[MayDay1]

Heres a question...

Are Chinese and Japanese resturants equal opportunity employers???
Just a thought...

"Let the darkness be your guide..."

I hope not. Whitey can't make a decent spring roll to save his life.