Archive for March, 2008
Why do Americans call fuel ‘gas’?
In ancient America, they used Gas cylinders in cars as a prime source of fuel. That worked for sometime until there were men driving around in cars and women had no cylinders left at home to cook food. They eventually beat their husbands to pulp and took back the cylinder to where it originally belonged. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If I go 100 feet below the ocean surface, what is the weight of the water above my head?
I have realized that it is finding answers to such questions that has led to the coining of the term ‘Curiosity kills’. But it’s a CK promise to answer reasonably sane questions. So here goes.
Since you have specified yourself as the test specimen in this experiment, we’ll start by throwing you in the ocean. Then [...]
Diving Deep down under… how much down under?
I hope your good sense has prevailed and you haven’t dived into a pool first to check the answer. There are others who are slightly insane who’ve done this for you.
Free-diving, or apnea traces its 4,500-year-old roots to pearl diving and Mediterranean deep-sea fishing. Deep diving without equipment is not such a bright idea. Although [...]
What is the SPF number that one sees on a sunscreen bottle
How does one decide what sunscreen to buy? I thought the higher the number on the SPF, the better the protection!! Invariably I would look to buy a sunscreen that has the highest SPF number. But why would anyone buy a bottle that has a lower SPF?
Does SPF 15 mean there are 15 layers of [...]
Cabin pressure in aircrafts
Cabin pressure in aircrafts
If cabin pressure wasn’t required, you could have a good open-window view during flights and people would fight for window seats! (not that they don’t do it now, it’ll just be more). You could, literally, keep your head among the clouds! What if someone decided to open a window and jump? Oh… [...]
Solving the mystery of how bats pee
The answer, my friend, is that they don’t do it upside down. When bats have
to attend a nature’s call, they get straight and do it. The more than apt illustration makes up for my loss of words for furhter explanation.
If you haven’t seen a bat do this, be paitent and keep observing
(i.e. if you don’t [...]
