The Questions not worth their own thread thread VII

[Yeekim]

This is debated. From personal experience, and chatting to a number of asthmatics, I would say that it's less easy.
However, many academics swear that anything cold stimulates constriction and that steam should be relaxing.
They seem to focus exclusively on the temperature, and forget about the huge role that humidity, water vapour and condensation play in governing air composition and oxygen diffusion in the lungs.
In particular, work here in Oxford has shown that small changes in oxygen pressure, such as in different weather systems, or easily within the range altered by changing water partial pressure, exert significant changes on breathing and sensitivity.

So basically it's harder, but you might find that many people, including practicing medics, disagree. You will also find that asthma is a widely variable condition, with triggers varying from person to person.

It really depends. Get the temperature high enough and throw enough water on the rocks, and noone will be able to breathe! Milder conditions should make it easier to breathe, though.

 

[Lord Baal]

HEY GUYS

I have to write a brief autobiography for a spanish class. What kind of fanciful made-up fantasies should I put in it? Anything is okay.

You could claim that your husband taught your children to be suicide bombers, and killed the yougest child's pet monkey by intentionally running it over with his car.

 

[Cutlass]

What quantities are normally associated with a 'shortlist'?

Essentially the obvious and non controversial choices. But "short list for what" would help define it better.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

What quantities are normally associated with a 'shortlist'?

It must be smaller in length than the original list.

 

[Atlas14]

Does apple cider ferment on its own if left inside a fridge, or does yeast/something need to be added to it?

 

[GinandTonic]

Does apple cider ferment on its own if left inside a fridge, or does yeast/something need to be added to it?

Most apple juice is pasteurised and/ or has preservatives so it's not going to happen. While if you were to press your own apples including some slightly mouldy bits there would be natural yeast just about for certain, the chances of a single litre of apple juice having some is uncertain at best.

In short if you have unpasteurised pure apple juice in a fridge turned to it's lowest setting then it could happen, but prob not.

 

[Atlas14]

Most apple juice is pasteurised and/ or has preservatives so it's not going to happen. While if you were to press your own apples including some slightly mouldy bits there would be natural yeast just about for certain, the chances of a single litre of apple juice having some is uncertain at best.

In short if you have unpasteurised pure apple juice in a fridge turned to it's lowest setting then it could happen, but prob not.

It smells funky, like sorta alcoholish right now, and I bought it at a farm-stand so I'm not positive if they did pasteurize it or not. It could also just have gone bad.

Edit: Actually, the jug says the cider was treated with UV-light, which i'm assuming would pasteurize it.

 

[GinandTonic]

It smells funky, like sorta alcoholish right now, and I bought it at a farm-stand so I'm not positive if they did pasteurize it or not. It could also just have gone bad.

Edit: Actually, the jug says the cider was treated with UV-light, which i'm assuming would pasteurize it.

Suck it and see. Rough cider smells a little like petrol. Tastes kind of like petrol too.

 

[really]

Who are the 59 guests online at the moment?

 

[kulade]

The trolls and lolcows of the future.

 

[Bill3000]

How many nuclear weapons would it require to obliterate the entirety of England?

 

[Cutlass]

How many nuclear weapons would it require to obliterate the entirety of England?

A big nuke obliterates a circle just a couple miles in diameter and does heavy damage to several miles more and that decreases with distance. So to obliterate the country take maybe 6 or 7 square miles and the total land area of the nation and do a bit of math.

 

[Earthling]

How many nuclear weapons would it require to obliterate the entirety of England?

Wow, I can't believe there's actually a chance for the first and only time this figure would be sound reasonable or be justified in context (though I can't really say it's all that accurate, but doesn't sound insignificant): 200 gigatons.

 

[Karalysia]

I have a dry cough, tightness in my lungs and slight difficulty breathing, it appeared rather suddenly a few hours ago. Is this a symptom of swine flu?

It's in the middle of the night and the health center is closed so I figure I may as well ask the internet.

 

[kulade]

It's a symptom of AIDS. Bad news.

 

[Karalysia]

It's a symptom of AIDS. Bad news.

I knew all that homosexual unprotected intercourse with foreigners was a bad idea. Damn you Obama for letting them into the country!

 

[Ulyaoth]

I accidentally swallowed an olive pit, is that bad?

 

[kulade]

Have fun crapping it out.

Funfact: My great aunt died choking on a peach pit.

 

[Brighteye]

I have a dry cough, tightness in my lungs and slight difficulty breathing, it appeared rather suddenly a few hours ago. Is this a symptom of swine flu?

It's in the middle of the night and the health center is closed so I figure I may as well ask the internet.

You need to show a number of symptoms before anyone can make a diagnosis.

 

[SG-17]

How many nuclear weapons would it require to obliterate the entirety of England?

Not many, maybe 10, 10 megaton warheads.