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

[Birdjaguar]

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[Mad Man]

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

How does one get a specific dream when they go to sleep? Does thinking about a particular subject, object, or event when you go to bed/sleep make you more likely to dream about it?

 

[Tani Coyote]

How does one get a specific dream when they go to sleep? Does thinking about a particular subject, object, or event when you go to bed/sleep make you more likely to dream about it?

Possibly, though some dreams come out of NOWHERE, so logically there doesn't have to be a connection...

I do know if one thinks about lucid dreaming before sleeping, however, your chances of lucid dreaming are much higher.

 

[cardgame]

there was a study that if you eat a certain type of cheese 30 mins before bed it influences your dreams, including one type of cheese that caused no dreams at all.

I don't have alink but try google. Hint: it was in the UK!

Question: I have a theory about the origin of the hillbilly "dad gummit"

I believe it is a contraction of a contraction of "darned government"

here's the trail: Darned Government --> Dar'd gubmint --> dad gummit

confirm?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

It's a weird version of "God Damn It!"

God Damn It! -> Dod Gamn It! -> Dad Gum It! -> Dad Gummit!

 

[Lord Baal]

It's a weird version of "God Damn It!"

God Damn It! -> Dod Gamn It! -> Dad Gum It! -> Dad Gummit!

This. It's hillbilly pig Latin.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

According to some sources, when the sun dies, it will expand either to 100 to 250 times its original size. My question is, why so big?

 

[Dachs]

That's what she said

 

[Lord Baal]

That's what she said

Not to you she didn't.

The Sun's expansion is basically caused by it slowly going nova. I'm sure there are literally hundreds of people on these boards more capable of explaining this than I am.

 

[Ulyaoth]

According to some sources, when the sun dies, it will expand either to 100 to 250 times its original size. My question is, why so big?

I don't know what the size is, I just remember it being said it'll expand to about Jupiter, then that outer less dense layer will be blasted away leaving a white dwarf. It's because the fuel is running out, and somehow that lessens the gravity or soemthing.

 

[LightFang]

F = G(m1m2)/r^2

When fuel gets burned, mass decreases. Thus gravitational force also decreases by necessity.

QED.

 

[Lord Baal]

F = G(m1m2)/r^2

When fuel gets burned, mass decreases. Thus gravitational force also decreases by necessity.

QED.

That's what I thought, but I knew I couldn't explain it and was afraid I'd get it wrong. Thanks.

 

[Ulyaoth]

I don't think the loss of mass from fusion is enough to make much of a difference. The reason was supposed to be some kind of relationship to the switching from fusing hydrogens into Heliums to combining those into bigger atoms, making it expand or get less hot or something.

 

[Takhisis]

This might help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution

 

[Cutlass]

F = G(m1m2)/r^2

When fuel gets burned, mass decreases. Thus gravitational force also decreases by necessity.

QED.

But the mass of that fuel remains....

 

[say1988]

Like fission, the energy released in fusion is mass, creating a net decrease. And while the difference is very small, there are a lot of such reactions.

Not saying whether LightFang or Ulyaoth is right, as I don't know, though.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I love that game, but no, I missed that one. If you'd mentioned buying an "anti-aircraft gun actually used when we kicked Australia's ass," I'd have caught on.

...just a hoppin and a killin...

 

[Elta]

Is there any practical purpose for wearing a Beret?

 

[cardgame]

Is there any practical purpose for not wearing a Beret?