The questions-not-worth-their-own-question-thread III

[LightFang]

i guess the answer is based off of how smart you are? Newton INVENTED Calculus with not much more math education then you (or am i confusing it with something else?)

Do you invent mathematics/knowledge? Or do you just discover it...?

 

[Dachs]

Do you invent mathematics/knowledge? Or do you just discover it...?

Or do you steal it from Germans who don't write down their ideas fast enough?

 

[LightFang]

Or do you steal it from Germans who don't write down their ideas fast enough?

Who cares, they used (and we continue to use) Leibniz's notation anyway.

 

[GinandTonic]

Question -

How old is the myth on the "man on the moon" face vs how exactly does the moons rotation match it's orbit period? And thus how long have we had the same "man on the moon" face, and the same dark side of the moon.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Where the heck does "My roflcopter goes sois sois soit" come from?

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I don't know but reading that made me laugh.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Is it possible that Ming Dynasty China could have become a major international power? Consider that its fleet at the time was the most powerful in the world, and could have projected tremendous power across the seas.

 

[Mowque]

Is it possible that Ming Dynasty China could have become a major international power? Consider that its fleet at the time was the most powerful in the world, and could have projected tremendous power across the seas.

Honestly, i'd debate 'most powerful'. Now, before you start posting all the size and tonnage data.. . The nature of European Navies was in the midst of a rapid change (due to intense competition) while Chinese naval power was probably going to stagnant and be out competed.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Is it possible that Ming Dynasty China could have become a major international power? Consider that its fleet at the time was the most powerful in the world, and could have projected tremendous power across the seas.

My 9th grade history teacher told us there was a chance we would've been speaking Chinese right now.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Can someone explain to me briefly what "tragedy of the commons" means?

 

[West 36]

Can someone explain what happened in Greece between the end of WWII and the creation of it's current republic?

 

[Globex]

Is it better to clean your hands with foamy soap (the one that comes out of those special foamy soap dispensers) or regular liquid soap?

 

[Dachs]

Can someone explain what happened in Greece between the end of WWII and the creation of it's current republic?

They had a civil war, where the communists were briefly successful but eventually driven out by the monarchists. Then came the generally successful reign of Paulos, with fun economic prosperity; his son, Konstantinos II, decided to fight against his prime minister, Giorgios Papandreou, which led to parliamentary chaos during the late 1960s. This caused a military coup in '67, leading to a rule by the military junta of the colonels. They tried liberalizing but kinda failed, and in '74 they were replaced by a Captain Ioannides, who in turn fell from power after the enosis episode. Parliamentary government was resumed, under the more conservative Nea Dhimokratia party (led by the Karamanlis family, generally). PASOK, the primary Greek socialist party, took over during the eighties and continued in charge until 2004, when ND recaptured the premiership, save for one hiccup in the early nineties.

 

[Brighteye]

Or do you steal it from Germans who don't write down their ideas fast enough?

Or have some Germans try to steal it from you and pretend it was theirs all along?

Can someone explain to me briefly what "tragedy of the commons" means?

It's when there is a freely available, but limited, resource for multiple users and the usual result is that it is overused and 'wasted' as everyone tries to get maximum benefit for themselves and as a consequence everyone gets only a marginal benefit, if any.
For example, if there is a field available for grazing animals in your village if everyone uses it there'll be no grass and it'll be churned into a filthy cesspool.

Is it better to clean your hands with foamy soap (the one that comes out of those special foamy soap dispensers) or regular liquid soap?

I always assumed that the difference was that foamy soap used less of the soap

 

[Mesousa]

Where the heck does "My roflcopter goes sois sois soit" come from?

Can someone explain to me briefly what "tragedy of the commons" means?

Why are there so often questions in these threads that the people asking could find the answer to themselves within seconds with a Google and/or Wikipedia search?

Not saying this to be mean, I'm honestly wondering.

 

[Cutlass]

Is it better to clean your hands with foamy soap (the one that comes out of those special foamy soap dispensers) or regular liquid soap?

soap is pretty much soap. the rest is marketing.

 

[jessiecat]

Can someone explain what happened in Greece between the end of WWII and the creation of it's current republic?

Civil war, foriegn intervention, military junta, republic formed, referendum on monarchy fails, king told to not bother coming home, leftist democracy followed by rightist democracy. Not much really.

 

[Mirc]

Name me one post-Pax Romana period when the Balkans weren't like that.

 

[RedRalph]

Name me one post-Pax Romana period when the Balkans weren't like that.

45-91........

 

[Mirc]

Weren't we just talking about what Greece went through in this time??