Science Quiz

[nonconformist]

Correct, it was indeed Sarin! The questions are going very quick at the moment.

 

[The Last Conformist]

That means it's me again?

Einstein received his Nobel prize for?

 

[Kinniken]

Not to mention in the attack on Tokyo's subway. It did not prove that effective though...
I think Saddam can keep his prize of "only man having used poison gas as an effective weapon"...

 

[Kinniken]

The discovery of the Law of the Photoelectric Effect.

It's in my website's science quiz

 

[betazed]

For his explanation of Photoelectric effect.

<Edit> : Darn! I always seems to be 1 minute behind.

 

[nonconformist]

Kinniken: during the first world war, was chlorine not a poison gas?

 

[Kinniken]

Alright, guess it's my turn. Somewhat harder:

What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus?

 

[stormbind]

I wanna ask a question but my internet connection isn't fast enough to win a round. I never realised lag was such an issue in text games

 

[Aphex_Twin]

What about mustard gas?

 

[nonconformist]

Is it the curve of the earth?

 

[Kinniken]

Originally posted by nonconformist
Kinniken: during the first world war, was chlorine not a poison gas?

Yes, but from what I've read it was not a very effective weapon, mainly because the trenches were so close to each other that the gas spread on one side would very often float back to the trenches that had send it.

Saddam's "brilliant innovation" was using it behind the line, to target Iranian reply bases (usually towns full of civilians, but I guess he considered that a bonus). Same with his campaigns against the Kurds.

 

[Kinniken]

Originally posted by stormbind
I wanna ask a question but my internet connection isn't fast enough to win a round. I never realised lag was such an issue in text games

hopefully this question will last longer and give you more of a chance

nonconformist: nope

 

[The Last Conformist]

That you can easily make an egg stand upright by crushing the shell at the bottom.

Edit: This was supposed as a (jocular) answer to the Columbus question.

 

[nonconformist]

But ppoison gas was none the less effective. Anyway, the side releasing it would wear their gas masks.

 

[stormbind]

Higher sea level nearer the equator?

 

[Unexpected]

Originally posted by Kinniken
Alright, guess it's my turn. Somewhat harder:

What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus?

Unlikely but is it the Northern Lights?

 

[The Last Conformist]

The Italians use of poison gas in Abyssinia is supposed to've been tolerably effective. Moral: Attack someone without the infrastructure to make effective gasmasks.

 

[Kinniken]

Lots of interesting hypothesis (just what I hoped ), but none of them are even close

 

[stormbind]

Heh, it's the magnetic poles

 

[nonconformist]

Conformist, you are my arch enemy .