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

[GinandTonic]

Where does Google get the images for their Google Earth program? Do they own their own satellites? Do they have a satellite time-share?

Along those lines, do Satellite TV companies have their own satellites? Do cellphone's use satellites, and do the phone companies have their own satellites?

And if all these companies have their own satellites, how is that not a national security risk? How do they get them up there? Do they pay NASA to send them into space? or the Russians?

A variety but IIRC mainly some French outfit.

 

[Supr49er]

Yay, I'm popular! BTW, does anybody here know how the series of The Dark Tower by Stephen King ends? If anybody can answer me, please do it in a fairly short way, so that I'll just get the basic idea and not the complete plot.

Spoiler :

Roland gains the tower and climbs to the top. When he opens that last door, he is transported back to the desert chasing the Man in Black with no memory of the future. Right back where The Gunslinger began.

 

[Ayatollah So]

OK, inspired by the "movies whose name you don't remember" thread, here's a book whose title and author I don't remember. The genre is fantasy.

The part I remember best, a/the main character was locked behind bars. In the place he's locked into, he finds a magic bottle and ring whereby using the ring, one can be sucked into the bottle like a genie. Inside the bottle are lots of provisions, including vast quantities of nourishing but yucky powder called siege dust.

The guy tries to kill his captor by firing something through the bars, but no luck. Finally he figures out to put the bottle on the other side of the bars, and use the ring...

What was the title? Author?

 

[eastsidebagel]

@Supr49er: Thanks for answering my question! I also got the question already from Mowque yesterday per PM, but whatever. It's a really sad and depressing ending of this fabulous saga IMO.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

When did the first viral videos come about?

 

[GoodGame]

When did the first viral videos come about?

According to Wikipedia, they arose from people sharing through the email chains, before video websites (youtube) were around.

 

[Mad Man]

Can someone open this jar of salsa for me?

 

[Mowque]

Can someone open this jar of salsa for me?

gladly, just mail it

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Just don't ask Catharsis to do it.

 

[Mowque]

my friends have been bugging me. What do YOu think it is the better band name?

Imager OR 2X4 (More then Hard Wood) ((please don't make the joke here...they havn;'t thought of it yet. Just consider it for what THEY want to say... ))

 

[Dachs]

What kind of music do they play?

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Is it pronounced "two by four" or "two ex four"?

Anyway, I always vowed that if I ever started a band I would call it the steel-toe shoes.

 

[Mowque]

two by four. light rock, cover band

oh, another one was LBP (you have to guess what it stands for)

 

[eastsidebagel]

What about "The Cool Musicians"? It has everything, people will instantly associate them with being musicians and there will be never a need to explain what they're actually doing with their instruments.
EDIT: LBP stands for Liberal Beer Party, right?

 

[Irish Caesar]

Low Blow Posse.

 

[Annex]

If I had a band I would name it Team Annex. That or Brainkreig.

my friends have been bugging me. What do YOu think it is the better band name?

Imager OR 2X4 (More then Hard Wood) ((please don't make the joke here...they havn;'t thought of it yet. Just consider it for what THEY want to say... ))

Neither seems too appealing to me.

 

[eastsidebagel]

Do I have to say that me, Bigfoot and Huayna already created a band, named the "Three Awesome Dudes"? All the info I gave you guys about my job in a in a Belgium prison, my German childhood and my plans about immigrating to Canada are utter bogus, I'm actually living in Manhattan under the name Johnny McCloud and am practising together with the band our new songs (BTW, I do the vocals).
If you would be high, it would sound totally reasonable...

 

[Catharsis]

Just don't ask Catharsis to do it.

Oh man, it's a good thing it's snowing because I just got an epic burn.

Mowque: Imager sounds better out of the two, if only because 2x4 is often pronounced 'toobee four' which sounds stupid. And LBP stands for Love By Proxy.

 

[Mesousa]

Math again ...

The chance to roll any double with two ten-sided dice is 10%. How does the chance to get a double (not triple etc) increase as you add ten-sided dice? If you roll three or four, what's the chance any two of them will show the same number?

 

[a_propagandist]

Aya brought up a good topic. As a kid, I remember reading a book about storks. The plot concerned a bunch of kids, I believe, who wanted storks to nest in their town, but, since their roofs were too steep, no storks would come. What's the name of this children's novel?