Things you have always wanted to know..........

[UGA12]

If you are like me occasionally things just strike you and make you ask how do they do that, or where did that come from? I would think the simple minded people like myself could be educated by some of the self-proclaimed geniuses:SIB around here. The only request I have is to keep politics out of here. I will start with a few that I have wondered about.

1) How do they get a ship in a bottle?

2) How do "secret" organizations get new members?

3) Why does a matress have a federal warning about tearing off the tag?

4) Where does the oil that they drain from your car go when it leaves the shop?


I am sure you can see what a deep thinker I am by these questions, but I am sure someone will have some better ones:mj07:

 

[Franky Wright]

If you are like me occasionally things just strike you and make you ask how do they do that, or where did that come from? I would think the simple minded people like myself could be educated by some of the self-proclaimed geniuses:SIB around here. The only request I have is to keep politics out of here. I will start with a few that I have wondered about.

1) How do they get a ship in a bottle?

2) How do "secret" organizations get new members?

3) Why does a matress have a federal warning about tearing off the tag?

4) Where does the oil that they drain from your car go when it leaves the shop?


I am sure you can see what a deep thinker I am by these questions, but I am sure someone will have some better ones:mj07:

1. They have a string they pull on that expands the whole thing, kinda like a tampon:mj07: . The cheaper ones fuse the glass around it:com:
2. By referral only.
3. The consumer protection agency is the cause of this.
4. To a recycling center if they are a green shop, or in the dump if they are not:nono: .

How did I do? :142smilie

Franky
Note; these answers are for news matter only and do not constitute an offer...

 

[UGA12]

1. They have a string they pull on that expands the whole thing, kinda like a tampon:mj07: . The cheaper ones fuse the glass around it:com:
2. By referral only.
3. The consumer protection agency is the cause of this.
4. To a recycling center if they are a green shop, or in the dump if they are not:nono: .

How did I do? :142smilie

Franky
Note; these answers are for news matter only and do not constitute an offer...

Still dont understand the purpose of the tag:shrug: and the oil can be reused I assume:shrug:

 

[vinnie]

Still dont understand the purpose of the tag:shrug: and the oil can be reused I assume:shrug:

Franky knows best :SIB

 

[The Boys]

Cut off your mattress tag already! Don't worry, you won't get locked up. As a consumer, it's perfectly legal to remove the tag from your own mattress. So why is it there? Well, the answer is somewhat involved.
Back in the 1900s, mattresses often contained a host of vermin and disease-carrying materials. To protect consumers, the government required dealers to post tags on their mattresses listing the contents. Later, the Feds added a warning to the content tag with the ominous message, "Do not remove under penalty of law," in big, black letters.

The move may have deterred duplicitous mattress dealers, but it only served to confuse consumers who didn't know that the threat wasn't meant for them. Confronted by fear of prosecution, consumers left the tags on their mattresses. Recently, the Feds addressed the misunderstanding by changing the label to: "This tag may not be removed except by the consumer."

Since then, the Feds have long abandoned the pursuit of tag-tearing merchants, though states like Texas still inspect mattresses for tags in stores. They're probably making sure their laws aren't full of fluff.

 

[UGA12]

Cut off your mattress tag already! Don't worry, you won't get locked up. As a consumer, it's perfectly legal to remove the tag from your own mattress. So why is it there? Well, the answer is somewhat involved.
Back in the 1900s, mattresses often contained a host of vermin and disease-carrying materials. To protect consumers, the government required dealers to post tags on their mattresses listing the contents. Later, the Feds added a warning to the content tag with the ominous message, "Do not remove under penalty of law," in big, black letters.

The move may have deterred duplicitous mattress dealers, but it only served to confuse consumers who didn't know that the threat wasn't meant for them. Confronted by fear of prosecution, consumers left the tags on their mattresses. Recently, the Feds addressed the misunderstanding by changing the label to: "This tag may not be removed except by the consumer."

Since then, the Feds have long abandoned the pursuit of tag-tearing merchants, though states like Texas still inspect mattresses for tags in stores. They're probably making sure their laws aren't full of fluff.

gotcha, makes sense.

 

[Franky Wright]

Franky knows best :SIB

:mj07: :mj07: :mj07:

I wish a few others felt that way Vinnie :142smilie

 

[momoney]

Why is abbreviation such a long word? Even the abbraviation for abbreviation is long?

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways??

:thinking:

 

[2muchchalk]

Why is abbreviation such a long word? Even the abbraviation for abbreviation is long?

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways??

:thinking:

like our feet smell and our noses run.

 

[Penguinfan]

Why are hemroids called hemroids and asteroids called asteroids?

 

[UGA12]

Why is there Braille on drive-up ATM's:shrug:

 

[Penguinfan]

Why is there Braille on drive-up ATM's:shrug:

For blind people, duh!

 

[lewehands]

:mj07:

 

[THE KOD]

If you fly a space shuttle into a black hole , do you come out into another universe ?

 

[MadJack]

If you fly a space shuttle into a black hole , do you come out into another universe ?

asolutely. or dimension. does it matter?

 

[THE KOD]

asolutely. or dimension. does it matter?

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jack keyword is matter

 

[momoney]

If you fly a space shuttle into a black hole , do you come out into another universe ?

WHAT THE HELL is that??? Old oil well in your backyard? Black-sand green on Hawaii golf course?? Tyra Banks Boodyhole :shrug:

:mj07: Either that or you got one sweet one of 'dem new fangled teleo-scopes mounted to your roof!!!

 

[THE KOD]

WHAT THE HELL is that??? :mj07: Either that or you got one sweet one of 'dem new fangled teleo-scopes mounted to your roof!!!

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mo

I think this was taken from the hubble telescope , and it is a actual black hole in space.

supposedly these holes have huge magnetic type pulls and can suck in stars and just about anything that gets near it.

No one knows what happens if you go in one but all scientists seem to agree it will not be a good experience.

I still think it is how aliens visit our planet and our universe. We just dont know how to get through them yet.

 

[THE KOD]

Einstein's general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of matter. If the curvature is fairly weak, Newton's laws of gravity can explain most of what is observed. For example, the regular motions of the planets. Very massive or dense objects generate much stronger gravity. The most compact objects imaginable are predicted by General Relativity to have such strong gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape their grip.

Scientists today call such an object a black hole. Why black? Though the history of the term is interesting, the main reason is that no light can escape from inside a black hole: it has, in effect, disappeared from the visible universe.

Do black holes actually exist? Most physicists believe they do, basing their views on a growing body of observations. In fact, present theories of how the cosmos began rest in part on Einstein's work and predict the existence of both singularities and the black holes that contain them. Yet Einstein himself vigorously denied their reality, believing, as did most of his contemporaries, that black holes were a mere mathematical curiosity. He died in 1955, before the term "black hole" was coined or understood and observational evidence for black holes began to mount.

Why Study Black Holes?
Here are some good reasons:

Human curiosity: they are among the most bizzare objects thought to exist in the universe.

They should be strong sources of gravitational waves.

As such, black holes should reveal much about gravity, a fundamental force in the cosmos.

Confirmation that they exist will strengthen confidence in current models of cosmic evolution, from the Big Bang to the present universe.
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[THE KOD]

Tyra Banks Boodyhole

:SIB


2. What happens to you if you fall into a Black Hole?

Suppose that, possessing a proper spacecraft and a self-destructive urge, I decide to go black-hole jumping and head for an uncharged, nonrotating ("Schwarzschild") black hole. In this and other kinds of hole, I won't, before I fall in, be able to see anything within the event horizon. But there's nothing *locally* special about the event horizon; when I get there it won't seem like a particularly unusual place, except that I will see strange optical distortions of the sky around me from all the bending of light that goes on. But as soon as I fall through, I'm doomed. No bungee will help me, since bungees can't keep Sunday from turning into Monday. I have to hit the singularity eventually, and before I get there there will be enormous tidal forces-- forces due to the curvature of spacetime-- which will squash me and my spaceship in some directions and stretch them in another until I look like a piece of spaghetti. At the singularity all of present physics is mute as to what will happen, but I won't care. I'll be dead.
For ordinary black holes of a few solar masses, there are actually large tidal forces well outside the event horizon, so I probably wouldn't even make it into the hole alive and unstretched. For a black hole of 8 solar masses, for instance, the value of r at which tides become fatal is about 400 km, and the Schwarzschild radius is just 24 km. But tidal stresses are proportional to M/r^3. Therefore the fatal r goes as the cube root of the mass, whereas the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole is proportional to the mass. So for black holes larger than about 1000 solar masses I could probably fall in alive, and for still larger ones I might not even notice the tidal forces until I'm through the horizon and doomed.
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I have to call bullchit on this one.