The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVII

[Camikaze]

What is 'homecoming'?

 

[Cutlass]

It's an excuse to hold a school dance. Usually associated in the US with when the school football team comes home for home games sometime in the fall.

 

[madviking]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming

 

[SerriaFox]

If your where to take the assets of the richest 10% in the US, then subtract their debt, then divided by the entire population of the US, how much money would that be?

 

[cardgame]

All I can find while number googling are percentages of wealth that the top 10% have, not actual numbers

My Google-fu is weak today.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Is there a list of all the habitable, earthlike moons of gas giants that have appeared in science fiction?

I can only come up with two off the top of my head, and they are Pandora from Avatar (obviously ), and a moon whose name I can't remember that was the setting for an episode of the Stargate SG-1 tv series.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

Is there a list of all the habitable, earthlike moons of gas giants that have appeared in science fiction?

I can only come up with two off the top of my head, and they are Pandora from Avatar (obviously ), and a moon whose name I can't remember that was the setting for an episode of the Stargate SG-1 tv series.

Fictional? I'm not sure, you could always head over the the Star Wars wiki. I watched the entire lenght of Cowboy Bebop (a really good anime) and it featured our solar system's moons populated by humans after the near destruction of Earth.

From Wikipedia:
In 2022, the explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the Moon, resulting in a debris ring and meteor bombardments that eradicated a large portion of the population. As a result, many survivors abandoned the barely habitable Earth to colonize the inner planets, the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter.

The series is set in the year 2071, when the entire Solar System has been made accessible through reliable hyperspace gates. Mars has become the new central hub of human civilization, and interplanetary crime syndicates exert influence over the government and the Inter-Solar System Police (ISSP), limiting their effectiveness in dealing with crime. As a result, a bounty system similar to that in the Old West is established to deal with fugitives, terrorists, and other criminals; the bounty hunters involved are frequently termed "cowboys."

 

[Arakhor]

The obvious one is Endor, assuming that Yavin IV was a gas giant.

 

[Yui108]

Is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence given any regard in philosophical circles?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I'm looking for a specific tv car commercial. Normally, I mute commercials, but one time I didn't mute them, and then that commercial came on and I liked the music in it. Unfortunately, that was the last time it aired because it was a summer sales event commercial and summer is now over.

I forget which brand it was advertising, but it shows a car sitting at a stoplight, and the pedestrians going around the car, admiring it, and the guy inside seemingly wondering why people were going around him or something. I know the camera kinda focused on one of the female pedestrians.

If I recall correctly, some commercials are regional, so if it helps, the commercial aired here in Minnesota, in the Minneapolis area.

Anyone know what that commercial was and where I can find it?

 

[Cutlass]

Can you describe it any better?

 

[NiRv4n4]

The obvious one is Endor, assuming that Yavin IV was a gas giant.

Actually, wrong on a variety of fields; Yavin IV is the habitable moon of Yavin, and Endor is the habitable moon of Endor.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Can you describe it any better?

I found the commercial I described on youtube, but it turns out I was describing the wrong one. The commercial I found was the Buick Lacrosse commercial that aired in Wisconsin.

Watching it did make me remember that the commercial I'm thinking of focuses more on a woman who, while walking by, admires an advertised car sitting at a stoplight. She had wavy blonde or chestnut hair, and was dressed in a dark, winter coat. The car advertised was a grey or white four-door small car. I can't remember the brand. EDIT: It might have been in slow motion.

The music was similar to a youtube user'sown take on Kakariko Village from Zelda ( ), but a few semitones higher.

That's about all I can remember.

 

[Arakhor]

Actually, wrong on a variety of fields; Yavin IV is the habitable moon of Yavin, and Endor is the habitable moon of Endor.

Well, opinion appears to be divided on what Yavin IV is in fact, but even if it is itself a forest moon orbiting the Yavin gas giant, the case still applies.

 

[Cutlass]

In Firefly the planets are sometimes interchangeably referred to as moons.

 

[W|M]

So Endor is a moon of a moon?

 

[madviking]

Yo dawg.

 

[GenMarshall]

So Endor is a moon of a moon?

We need philosorapter to tango with this....



...or George Lucas divided by zero and caused the gas planet to disappear.

 

[Ajidica]

When doing laundry, what is the best way to keep jeans from shrinking? I think I may have slightly shrunk some of my jeans, but I washed them in cold water (the setting was delicate).

 

[SuperJay]

When doing laundry, what is the best way to keep jeans from shrinking? I think I may have slightly shrunk some of my jeans, but I washed them in cold water (the setting was delicate).

Hanging clothes out to dry rather than using a dryer will help. Heat is generally the cause of the shrinking, so avoid hot water and either line-dry or use the dryer on a "no heat" setting if you have one.