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Geek Culture / Big List of Pointless Questions 1.0

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HZence
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Hello everyone...

I don't start new threads here often, but I've been pondering quite a few things in my mind for some time that I've never really understood or been able to find the answer too (yes, I've tried google and HowStuffWorks). So perhaps some of you could help me. (Basically the point of this thread is to ask questions you've always wondered but never known the answer too...or ask questions that you've always been to embarressed to ask.)

1. Why do we gasp? You know, when you see something shocking, like a person getting hit by a car, or when you turn around to see someone's about to punch you, you gasp. Why? I don't understand this reaction...can someone explain it to me?

Gah, I had more, but I can't seem to think of them right now. Nonetheless I'm going to post this one question and see if I can get an answer. I'll post more as they come to me.

Oh, if any of you have any questions you wanna ask I'd love to hear those too, heh.


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Saikoro
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If I was to guess Id say its so the body takes in oxygen in case something happens that it would need extra air for. Even if its unnecesary.

Sorry, no questions from me at the time.

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Dave J
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Posted: 14th May 2004 10:07
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Good question, Vash's answers sounds reasonable but I don't know for sure.


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Andy Igoe
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Gasping is a defence mechanism, there is no natural situation that can suprise you for which you dont want to have air in your lungs. Space travel hadn't been invented when instinct was developed.


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Peter H
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Quote: "Space travel hadn't been invented when instinct was developed.
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i think it is sort of a "tensing up" of your muscles that results in breathing in...


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HZence
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Sounds logical...

You can't tell me that none of you guys have ever thought of stupid things like this.


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ReD_eYe
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meh, how can you prove the fridge light really does turn off when you close the door?

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Soy Cocktail
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jump into the fridge and close the door, duh
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Manticore Night
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I did that.

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Quote: " meh, how can you prove the fridge light really does turn off when you close the door?"


Push the button that the door pushes when it closes

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Posted: 15th May 2004 03:56
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Quote: "You can't tell me that none of you guys have ever thought of stupid things like this. "


I think I've wondered why we hiccup once.


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Oh what is the MEANING OF LIFE(big loud voice).

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On the fridges, don't completely close them, leave them open a crack and you can see the light turn off

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Quote: "Oh what is the MEANING OF LIFE"


The meaning oh life is what you make it...

*sips tea*


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I make that pimms o'clock.

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Ooo! Ooo! Download the meaning of life right here!

http://www.richtertoys.com/life.exe

I figured this out about 4 years ago, and want to share it with you.

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Manticore Night
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So according to your logic the meaning of life could be, fart and kill people, hmm sounds fun!

I ALMOST clicked it. I made something like that before.

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All you have to do is press 'space', unfortunately nothing happens anyway so it's just plain stupid.


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flea ware - your sig is massive


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I'd say also, that when it's something kinda scarey etc, your body would almost instantly start producing adrenaline which would kick up the speed of your heart, which in turn would require more oxygen. And, thus, your body has developed a natural reaction to get the little bit more oxygen into the body just as the heart starts to kick out a drum beat.

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Quote: "Oh what is the MEANING OF LIFE(big loud voice)."


The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. However the question is a matter of some debate.

I've never read the Douglass Adams book, but I have seen the BBC serialisation of it and i'm sure the question to the ultimate answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is "What do you get when you multiply six by seven". However a bookworm friend of mine suggests that in the original book the question is "What do you get when you multiply seven by nine".

The book would explain better Fords reaction, "I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe".

Did the BBC get this wrong? Or is the fact that I haven't seen the show in so many years clouding my memory?


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I fixed it.

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@Andy Igoe

I think the book is more correct, because it fits with Douglas Adams universe.

I love his theory on how to fly. "Throw yourself at the ground and miss". Apparently there are flying acadamies at which you can stand on a building and just as you throw yourself at the ground, someone jumps out and scares you, making you miss


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BBC definatly screwed up . Apparently they didn't get it

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I thought we live so we can survive long enough to


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lol, yeah, I think that is why

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makes sense. Hope i live that long


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Quote: " I thought we live so we can survive long enough to **"


Sad sort of life when you only live long enough to do it once

Why we live or die is entirely up to us. Heck, even the answer is up to us: Life or death?

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Chicken or the egg?

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egg, it was layed by a creature which evolved a long long time ago from something resembling a chicken, it would probably have looked pretty similar but was missing one(or more) of the qualities we associate chickens to have, when this creature laid an egg, that egg had changed ever so slightly to become a chicken as we know it today.


even if thats wrong it sounds like i know what i'm talking about.

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As someone once said, on a site:

Land Here

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Have a Body, Emotions, Thoughts and a Soul

Have Challenges

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Display

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Break Rules

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Write Your Story

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Enter a Next Realm

Be Remembered.

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Ditto .

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Quote: "As someone once said, on a site:"


Someone once said that?


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Quote: "Chicken or the egg?"


If you're asking which came first the answer is the egg DUH! Dinosaurs layed eggs


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