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1. Correct. :)

2. Forgivable. The main differences are the caliber (.45 ACP for the 1911 vs 9mm for the Glock 17), the safeties (trigger mounted, firing pin block and double action trigger pull for the glock, external thumb and grip safeties on the 1911) and the trigger pulls (single action only for the 1911, double action only for the glock). There are other differences, but I consider them secondary.

3. Issac Asimov, it's the sequel to I, Robot.

1 :D

2: Damn was going to say caliber

3. FUCK FUCK I should know that. I think I looked into readying that years back but never picked it up.
 

Mr. Pedantic

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Science, eh?

Where are the heart and lungs, relative to palpable surface landmarks?

In case you were wondering why I would ask such a stupid question: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/bc-srp061009.php

What does the acronym NSAID in medicine and pharmacology stand for?

Why are steroids administered to mothers whose babies are about to be born premature?

What is a brown dwarf?

Inspired by irishScott: describe the "Valsalva maneuver".

Who persuaded Voyager 1 to turn around in 1990 and take the famous Pale Blue Dot picture?

Who was Samuel Hahnemann and what discipline did he create?

That should be a good start.
 

busydude

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Does 2*f mean you sample twice per wavelength?

If the wave is periodic then yes, but practically we seldom see periodic waves. Practically, signals are a combination of high and low frequencies(Just open up an mp3 in audacity). In order to avoid aliasing.. a sampling freq > 2*f is used.

The sampling frequency of a CD(Digital Audio) is 44.1 KHz.. which is >2 * 20 KHz(The max frequency human ears can hear).
 

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Lifer
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Science, eh?

Where are the heart and lungs, relative to palpable surface landmarks?

In case you were wondering why I would ask such a stupid question: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/bc-srp061009.php

What does the acronym NSAID in medicine and pharmacology stand for?

Why are steroids administered to mothers whose babies are about to be born premature?

What is a brown dwarf?

Inspired by irishScott: describe the "Valsalva maneuver".

Who persuaded Voyager 1 to turn around in 1990 and take the famous Pale Blue Dot picture?

Who was Samuel Hahnemann and what discipline did he create?

That should be a good start.

Well as for palpable surface landmarks I'm not sure I know 100% what you are talking about. However the lungs are under your rip cage, probably starting somewhere below your collar bone and extending down close to your last ribs. Your heart is under your lungs and on the left side of your upper chest.

NSAIDs are a class of pain meds. I believe they stand for something like Non Specific something something...

Not sure on the steroid one.

Brown dwarfs are a class of "failed stars" they are stars that have too little mass to fully initiate self sustaining fusion at their cores the way stars that shine do. Hence they are more like giant Jupiters, but off by themselves like regular stars. The line between large Juptier like planets and brown dwarfs is a little fuzzy. Especially with the new class of brown dwarfs they recently discovered, labelled Class Y, that have surface temperatures down to about 30 deg C. I believe the other class of brown dwarf are T class.

Valsalva maneuver. A maneuver used to equalize pressure in your sinuses. Usually used by divers and snorkellers. I believe it's performed by swallowing.

Carl Sagan I believe.

Never heard of Samuel Hehnemann.
 

Pia

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Which nations clashed in "Winter War"?
(bonus: How did the war end?)
 

Moonbeam

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Did you stop drinking? Who is the best therapist in your area for social interaction difficulties.

Have you begun experiments to determine if exercise helps depression. How many pounds have you lost. What kinds of help networks are there in your area? When are you going to volunteer? Is it better to fall in love and have sex or to have sex causally?
 

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Lifer
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Did you stop drinking? Who is the best therapist in your area for social interaction difficulties.

Have you begun experiments to determine if exercise helps depression. How many pounds have you lost. What kinds of help networks are there in your area? When are you going to volunteer? Is it better to fall in love and have sex or to have sex causally?

No I have not stopped drinking. However I never drank every day. I tend to drink about 2 bottles a week. But like I said I bindge drink them, so like a bottle in 5 mins or so.

No idea who is the best therapist in the area, or about the help networks here. I'm sure they exist though.

Exercise does help my depression. However starting to exercise is difficult in and of itself due to the depression. During 2 past occasions I lost 100 and 60lbs respectively.

Once you fall in love you obviously should be having sex just with that person. But aside from that they are both good, for different reasons and at different times in ones life. One is not inherently better than another in an of itself.
 

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How deep would the oceans be if they didn't have sponges?

Lol I've heard this one before. Joking aside the difference wouldn't be measurable. Also sponges would displace less water than other solid object their size, since they "absorb" water.
 

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Why is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?

If you mated a bull dog and a shitsu, would it be called a bullshit?

If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?

Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

Why is it called a "drive through" if you have to stop?

Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?

Why are Softballs hard?

Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?

If the professor on Giligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but people don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn't it be called an inlet.

Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

Can blind people see their dreams?

Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?

Why do they call it "getting your dog fixed" if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?

Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn't it be leaving a dump?

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?

How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2?

What color would a smurf turn if you choked it?

Where's the egg in an egg roll?

Why aren't blue berries blue?

Where is the lead in a lead pencil?

Why is Greenland called green when it is covered in ice?
 

eits

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Science, eh?

Where are the heart and lungs, relative to palpable surface landmarks?

In case you were wondering why I would ask such a stupid question: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/bc-srp061009.php

What does the acronym NSAID in medicine and pharmacology stand for?

Why are steroids administered to mothers whose babies are about to be born premature?

What is a brown dwarf?

Inspired by irishScott: describe the "Valsalva maneuver".

Who persuaded Voyager 1 to turn around in 1990 and take the famous Pale Blue Dot picture?

Who was Samuel Hahnemann and what discipline did he create?

That should be a good start.

1. lung apices are about an inch above the clavicle down to the 9th intercostal margin. heart is between the right parasternal line and the left midclavicular line.

2. nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory

3. a couple reasons... it increases insulin for mothers with gestational diabetes and it speeds up baby's lung development.

4. small star that glows a dark red color

5. increasing intrathoracic pressure by forcing air against a closed glottis... basically, what you do when you strain to take a dump or lift something really heavy.

6. no clue. gonna guess carl sagan.

7. lol homeopathy


i liked those questions... keep 'em coming.
 

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Lifer
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what two countries that start but don't end with the letter a?

what is necessary in order to intake vitamin b12 in the average human?

what company did google just buy about a week and a half ago for $12.5 billion?
 

Locut0s

Lifer
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Oh.. fuck you had to didn't you.

Why is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?

We use term "to go off" when we are talking about events that are expected to happen or 'timed'. Alarms, firecrackers, bombs, they can all be said to go off because the event is expected

If you mated a bull dog and a shitsu, would it be called a bullshit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTbRCy2EU1A

If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...lance-runs-over-biker-s-body-115875-23351583/

Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts?

Just to fuck with people like you

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

The song is about Jimmy Carter

Why is it called a "drive through" if you have to stop?

Technically if you move slow enough you don't have too.

Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?

Because it does stale in the bottle. Probably from chemicals leeching into the water from the plastic.

Why are Softballs hard?

Because they are softer than handballs.

Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?

I believe the conversion is to include the movie itself and the end credits,

If the professor on Giligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Have you seen Ginger and Maryann? Who the fuck in their right mind would want to be rescued from them?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but people don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

This is from a well known stand-up comedian I believe. Answer because we all have genitals and know what they are used for, watches have only been around for a couple hundred years, we aren't born with them.

Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn't it be called an inlet.

Because an outlet is a place where something comes out. In this case it's the place where the electricity comes out.

Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?

This probably has to do with the physical motions involved.

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

Don't know Pluto. I know he's a cartoon dog but can't remember where from. Was Pluto from Popeye?

Can blind people see their dreams?

It stands to reason that people who have been blind from birth don't have visual dreams. Not in the way we do anyway. Their dreams would consist of places as they know them by feel and layout alone.

Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?

Marketing

Why do they call it "getting your dog fixed" if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?

Cause you are fixing the problem?

Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn't it be leaving a dump?

Because we can "take" many actions. You can take a nap for example. Or take a break.

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?

Nowhere

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

I was not aware they did this.

Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?

Because you can steal the pen. It's hard to steal the door.

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Yes

Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?

Society dictates it must be so

How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

Because you hope that the battery is not dead but merely weak. You hope that by pressing harder you will make better contact.

If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

Hmm that's a good one. I'm guessing the colour may have come from the fruit and not the other way around?

If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat?

Try it and let me know. Make sure someone is filming

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2?

Lead hardness is graded by number and letters #2 just happens to be a happy norm people like.

What color would a smurf turn if you choked it?

One can not answer this without knowing more about their anatomy.

Where's the egg in an egg roll?

Inside

Why aren't blue berries blue?

Many are

Where is the lead in a lead pencil?

Just another term for graphite.

Why is Greenland called green when it is covered in ice?

Greenland is owned by Denmark I believe. I'm guessing its original name wasn't Green as in the colour but something that sounds like that in Danish.
 

Locut0s

Lifer
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what two countries that start but don't end with the letter a?

what is necessary in order to intake vitamin b12 in the average human?

what company did google just buy about a week and a half ago for $12.5 billion?

1 Azerbaijan, Can't think of the 2nd but I should know this as I memorized all the countries of the world some time back.

2 Don't know.

3 Motorolla's cell phone division

Again why all the medical questions? :p