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| 05-31-01 I know it isn't June yet, but for some weird reason I can't edit the May page. Anyway, this is irrelevant, but I've had such a great time the last few days that I've almost forgotten the fact that I'm very close to not graduating or having my UCLA admission revoked. Anyway, here's today's batch. I deleted the questions I'm about to answer, so the names and questions for today will be from memory and might be inaccurate. Matt asks "I keep seeing commercials for this Tora Tora Tora movie, I know it's got something to do with WWII, but what exactly does tora mean?" Tora is Japanese for tiger. It was used by Japanese bombers during the attack on Pearl Harbor (and maybe elsewhere) as a code word for a successfull attack. Actually, recent interviews with Japanese pilots who took part in the attack have revealed that it wasn't "tora", but "to" and "ra". "To" would signal the beginning of a bombing run, and "ra" would signal a successfull conclusion. The allied radio interceptors, in all of the confusion, mistook all the "to"s and "ra"s for "tora"s. "He said this place is a Mecca, I said this ain't no Mecca man, this place is fucked. Three months go by, he has no food, he has no home, he's all alone, Matty said fool me once shame on you didn't fool me twice went back to New Orleans" |
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| The next one is from SublimeFan, he/she writes "In you black-holes answer you said that the pauli exclusion principle makes dead stars stop contracting and causes them to expand, why is that?" The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that no two femions can have the same quantum state/number. What this means is that they need to have different spins, positions, energy, or momentum. When stars burn up all their fuel and start contracting due to gravity, atoms get really close to each other, and when atoms get really close to each other, their quantum states become more similar. Since no two femions (half-interger spin particles like protons, neutrons, electrons) can have the same quantum state, some electrons are pushed up to higher energy levels (valence shells). This increase in energy creates a repulsive force between the atoms. A related phenomenon is degeneracy pressure, which is pressure that's independant of heat (and is therefore used in burnt out stars). Degeneracy pressure, which results in repulsion, is a result of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which basicly says that the closer two atoms get to occupying the same spot (actually, any spot of which we know with great accuracy), their momentums (and thereby velocities) increase dramaticly and they start moving away from each other. Okay, that's it for today. |
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| June 12, 01 Juan wanted to know "[what's hentai, what were the first porno films?]" Cartoon porn, Blue Movies in the 1920s. A lafferk is followed by a togumansawav. |
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| ergonomic dildo asks "how many people are in the way family?" By my count, the Way clan has 8 people.. |
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| "Will you marry me?" from jackie Yes |
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| 06-19-01 Okay, here we go. "here's a musical question. What the hell is emo.!??!?!?!is it some trance,electronica type music or sumtin."emo" looks like elmo,a name of the extinct "groover'" clique which where ever so popular in 97/98.What happened to them anyway??how come you dont see 'em anymore?Im starting to miss the pacifier,candy necklace,bright blue/purple hair and those cute names they had(elmo,skittles,etc.).where did they go? spanks, Rod Runtledge" Emo is short for emotional. It's an emotional style of punk rock. A couple of bands that come to mind are Leatherface and HotWater Music, I think they released a split album on SideOneDummy a few years back, so you can check both of them out on that if you want to. As for "groovers", I think they joined the "rebels" and became the ravers we see today. I say this because a lot of ravers carry pacifiers (a la groovers), though that might just be because they take E and want something to grind their teeth on, ravers also carry cany necklaces, have bright hair etc. As for the "cute" names, I think those are gone. |
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| Alright, the next one is from Bubba. Bubba asks "If you could have any superpower, what would you get?" Well Bubba, I would get the power to control want. By that I mean that I want to be able to control what I and other people want and don't want. If you think about it, this is the ultimate power. Why do people wish for superpowers anyway? So that they can use them to get what they want. Well then, if you change it so that you want what you have, your problem is solved. That's pretty much where most of life's problems come from, not having what you want. You might be thinking "well, with super strength I could protect myself", okay, but with my want-control power you could make your attackers not want to attack you. Here's an example from real life: right now, it looks like I'm not going to graduate. Why? Because I didn't want to go to class or do homework, so I didn't, and now I have too few credits and too much detention. If I had had my want-power, I could have either made myself want to do busy work and want to go to class, or I could make myself want to not graduate, either way problem solved (actually, I'm very happy right now, which is weird, since I think that this whole graduation deal should keep me from being happy, but it's not, so hooray for me). Anyway, the cool thing about want-control is that it can be used both to avoid problems and fix them. So, I want to be able to want what I want to want and to be able to not want what I do not want to want. |