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Results may vary from the truth, heavily.

Google searched: "Weird questions to ask" Results may vary from the truth, heavily. "What happens when you get 'scared half to death' twice? Well fellow humans, you get scared to full death, obviously. "Why is it that when things get wet they get darker, even though water is clear?" Without any prior research, to me it seems that by adding water to something, you're in fact changing its density. This is how much of something there is in a certain space. So by wetting something with water, the material will be more dense, thus reflecting light slightly different than it did when dry. For those who need further explanation, we see colour by the amount and type of light the object reflects into our eyes. "If a picture is worth one thousand words, what's one thousand words worth?" They are worth one thousand words, not a picture. "Why is quicksand called quicksand if it works slowly?" Because it works faster ...

Got My Head In A Vacuum

Welcome back! Few things to cover today I think might get a laugh, because they were just pure moments of weakness. First, I made coffee on my own for the first time. Failed miserably. It like overflowed and made some strange noises and well, bad experience. We just bought the damn thing too. Second, my febreze laundry solution, worked for like 3 hours. Guess I'm doing laundry tomorrow. I don't have a mug so I was forced to drink my coffee out of a soup bowl. Please refrain from bringing that up at Christmas dinner. Lastly, I was taught how to make a graph in Excel for a third year engineering class. I bet I could Excel the shit out of you Mr. prof. Moving on. I had a thought today, actually it was like 3 days ago now since I'm a huge procrastinator. Anyway, a small thought about just how small we really are, in a more grand scheme of things. We were talking about momentum in class and I paralleled it to space. When something in space begins accelerating, it t...