Self-Service
Science has generated an enormous
number of questions and answers. At the moment there's no easy way
to search for past answers to questions, so with the help of the
Avatars we've put together this collection of some of the
most-frequently asked questions, together with direct links to the
actual discussion threads. This page contains a gold mine of
answers.
There is another list of not-so-frequently asked
questions below which contains many additional links of
interest.
Why is North North?, sunburnt through glass?, hot water
freeze faster than cold water?, water flow down plugholes in
different directions, Lava Lamps, touch lamps, video game guns, a
fly in a car doing 100 km/hr, spoon in a champagne bottle, Guinness
"widget", petrol pump know when the tank is full?, teflon is
non-stick,?, What colour is an orange in the dark?, What is a flame
, Absolute Zero, chilli hot?, drinking glass spontaneously explode,
24 hours in a day?, flow of water from a hot water tap slowly reduce
to a trickle?, watch a car, bike, the wheels are slowly spinning
backwards?, NOT THE FAQ
INDEX
YE OLDE
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS YE
OLDE NOT THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Alcohol during pregnancy , Blood alcohol
level, are brain cells really killed, Does ecstasy bleach your
brain, Alcohol causes hiccups, Ecstasy, Forget things , Heroin , Is
alcohol fattening , Long term effects on a human brain , Marijuana
and long term effects, Medicinal marijuana, Switzerland found itself
with a rapidly increasing heroin problem, Too much alcohol , Urinate
a lot more , What causes hangovers, What causes munchies, What is
alcohol tolerance ALCOHOL
AND DRUGS FAQ
A plane's
wing generate lift, Air pocket" (turbulence) , Airplanes
pressurized, Bernoulli effect and is it real, Bird/aircraft
collisions depressurisation, Black box , Contrails , Crashed into
the WTC , Donut shaped cloud around the centre of the aeroplane. ,
Ears pop in an aeroplane , Earth's rotation effect flight times,
Engine failure , Flight weather, Fly upside down, Helicopters,
Helicopters fly upsidedown , Jet engine, Longer to fly from Sydney
to Perth , Radar , Sonic booms , Sore eyes on long flights, Sound
barrier, Stealth aircraft, Were the Wright brother the first
AVIATION
INDEX
Say no more, the odd
human questions about that odd twitch, belly button lint, IQ,
memory, death but no taxes HUMANS ARE
WEIRD FAQ INDEX
Aged
meat?, Colour change in cooked meat, Colour change in frozen meat?,
Conversion of muscle to meat , Different meats have different
colours?, Discolouration of meat?, Explosives Tenderise Meat !!!!,
Hormones in food?, Iridescent/Metallic colour of meat , Iron levels,
Lighting displays and meat , Meat tenderiser, Mechanically separated
meat? , Resting meat, Safe-handling of meat , SPAM , The colour of
meat?, The Domestication of Animals, , The flavour of meat?, The use
of nitrite/nitrate in meat , Use of antibiotics in animals , What is
freezer burn?, Why does blood leak through a bag containing thawing
meat? MEAT FAQ
INDEX
Medical
conditions, Prescription Medication, Blood, Vaccination, Childbirth,
Is Hospital Birth Better? Breastfeeding vs Bottle
MEDICAL
FAQ
Gravity and
Relativity, Time, E=mc2, Laws of Physics, Time travel,
Light speed, Heisenberg, String Theory, Quantum Gravity &
Golf PHYSICS/RELATIVITY
FAQ INDEX
Antimatter ,
Heisenberg, the double slit experiment and quantum weirdness , John
Devers Private Quantum Stash, LIGHT , MISCELLANEOUS , Quantum
Computers , Quantum Entanglement , Quantum Mechanics , Quantum
Particles , Quantum Physics , Quantum Tunneling , Schroedinger's Cat
, Zeno Effect , Zero Point Energy QUANTUM
MECHANICS INDEX
What a
geologist does?, Earthquake in Australia., All about Diamonds.,
Gold-Where does it come from?, Rock from outer space, Where to look
for gold, & oil., The age of fossils, How old is the earth?, How
were the rocks formed?, Gemstones , Geology of the sea floor,
Buckyballs, Mining the moon or meteors., Plate Tectonics, (Where
will Australia be in 1M 10M 100M years?), Earthquakes, Volcanoes,
What is the moon made of?, Why is Mars like it is? , Volcanic soil
fertile ROCK
LEGEND FAQ