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Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« on: September 10, 2008, 08:34:30 AM »
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If heat cannot travel through a vacuum why does the sun warm the earth?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2008, 08:43:14 AM »
Because the sun emits infared radiation which the Earth absorbs and turns into heat.

IGCSE physics can come in handy!
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2008, 08:45:35 AM »
Why do men have nipples?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2008, 08:57:52 AM »
I know this one because I looked it up years ago!  ;D

It would seem that no one really knows for sure. However, popular thinking is that in the womb all babies are "built" to a female template. Nipples are created before the sexual organs and so aren't treated as such by the body.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2008, 08:58:37 AM »
Global warming: man made or just happening anyway?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2008, 09:00:57 AM »
Difficult. Hole in ozone totally man made. However, I think global warming is in general a cyclical thing. See ice age. Although it is probably exacerbated by humans, I believe we are a parasitic race.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2008, 09:04:30 AM »
What do wasps actually DO?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2008, 09:08:07 AM »
Who invented Gateau du chemin de fer?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2008, 09:09:04 AM »
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2008, 09:09:23 AM »
What is a boson?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2008, 09:12:20 AM »
Quote from: Nick on September 10, 2008, 09:04:30 AM
What do wasps actually DO?

Well I assume they are involved in cross pollination and I imagine they are part of the food chain and without them there would be hundreds of some other vile insect.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2008, 09:13:57 AM »
Quote from: Nick on September 10, 2008, 09:09:23 AM
What is a boson?

Had to google

Any of a class of particles, such as the photon, pion, or alpha particle, that have zero or integral spin and obey statistical rules permitting any number of identical particles to occupy the same quantum state.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2008, 09:14:08 AM »
Quote from: Nick on September 10, 2008, 09:09:23 AM
What is a boson?

If memory serves me correctly bosons are particles which obey Bose-Einstein statistics; and are named after Satyendra Nath Bose. (I think thats how to spell the name)
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2008, 09:17:28 AM »
Quote from: Nick on September 10, 2008, 08:34:30 AM
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If heat cannot travel through a vacumm why does the sun warm the earth?


Why can't an English Teacher and MA spell vacuum?
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