Forum: Questions and Answers

Ok, if I know the raduis of an arc and its length, what is the formula to get the "height" of the arc. I can draw it out in TurboCAD but something I can use as a formula in Excel would be much more easier. Cheers

Just musing about starting a mower with a crippled shoulder (yes, electric is how I'll go) - it occurred to me - with a single cylinder, firing sequence is null - if I were to reverse the starter cord on a mower, would it still run? If so, maybe...

I slept last night with a fan blowing on me and this morning I awoke with an earache. That could be coincidence, but I've definitely gotten earaches after being out in the wind before. Why?

So it's Saturday night and I'm bored at home flicking thru the TV channels. And lo and behold, Joe Dirt is on and I catch the scene where a dog's stuck to a deck by his nuts freezing to it. Due to boredom, I start ruminating on this. Never...

So let's say that I was in a shipwreck and the only things that washed up on shore were me and several lifetime supplies of sealed, powdered baby formula. There's a spring with fresh drinking water, but no edible vegetation and I'm no good at...

I am using a Mac at home, but a Windows machine at work. I sometimes type a few words at the office and bring them to the apartment on a flash drive. The Windows machine was set up to use a nice font called "Californian;" it looks good. So I...

How do they do it? I run a few miles a day, on average, and the final thing I do before I run is pee. (And I don't drink anything for a hour beforehand--I drive out to the beach to run, it takes me almost an hour, and I rarely drink as I drive.)...

I have recently broken out in some sort of rash, on my arms and legs. Note that I DO have a doctor appointment set up, but it won't be for more than a week, and I'm curious now. On my arms, it's an apparently random distribution on the underside...

Example "...lawmakers passed a measure allowing concealed, loaded firearms to be carried in national parks...The Senate voted 67-29 on Tuesday to attach an identical measure to a bill cracking down on credit card fees." Why is this done? I can...

When I was a kid several other kids I knew had asthma and used inhalers. As an adult I've never seen anyone grown up using an inhaler. Do people's need for these diminish as they get older or because of some lifestyle changes from childhood to...

My roses have black spot. We have 40 rose bushes in the garden. What do we do? We don't want to use chemicals, what other options are there? Go at it gardeners...

We have two new kittehs. Are there ways to estimate from their current weight, size of ears or feet, etc. how large they'll be if they remain healthy?

(Windows computer) So, I want to stick a couple of movies on my iPod touch for a couple upcoming roadtrips. I've heard good reviews of Handbrake, and the program seems worthwhile with the 30 seconds I played around with it before realizing it...

From what I've heard on the internet from people working in restaurants, it sounds like most big chain restaurants bring in a lot of their food frozen and basically just reheat and plate it in the kitchen. Is that accurate? If you go to, say, the...

We got new windows last summer, the nice doublepaned ones that fold in for easy cleaning. Sweet! But after just three seasons up in Chicago, the screens are...mucky. With that sort of black greasy city dust, not the nice clean white suburban dust I...

I had a particularly bad case of toothache that flared up on Friday afternoon, setting me up for a weekend of absolutely no sleep, with most of my time spent rocking, moaning and impotently clutching at my head. (I'm British and having problems...

Is there a company out there that offers to cover financial losses suffered from missed appointments due to heavy traffic?

Are there any recorded instances of a ship simply snapping in half after being caught between two huge waves (that is, the bow on one wave, stern on the other, and the middle of the ship in free air)? It seems hypothesised that this happened to SS...

OK. I have to cut the grass. It's not much grass, but it has to be done before the landlord gets a letter from the borough. I have never had to cut the grass before. What I need to know is whether there is anything I have to do with the mower...

I've been watching NFL Films stuff for the past 25 years or so, and I've always wondered why the occasional audio clips used are always from radio broadcasts and never from TV broadcasts. In all this time, I don't think I've ever heard - not once -...

My brother's pc is running Windows 2000 - I know, he's a cheap-skate! - and his internet connection was fine the other day, before he had to disconnect everything while work was being done on the windows in his room. Today, he has set it all up...

According to the Wikipedia article on the Bounty bar, Saddam Hussein had Bounty bars, hot dogs and 7 Up with him when he was captured. Nothing strange about that, but it then goes on to make the unsourced statement that after his hanging eighteen...

Or to quote a recent question that came up in chat: "How many mhos in urine?" Obviously there's quite a lot, given the number of stories of what happens to unsuspecting people when they whizz on electrified fences. I'm just wondering what...

Is it the clamato? Is it just the Canadian-ness of it? I can't seem to really tell a great deal of difference between the two cocktails.

I've just come across this article, on weird ingredients in processed food. Some of the entries are more than dubious: I always thought rennet was an enzyme extracted from a calf's stomach, not the stomach itself (and isn't artificial rennet...

I'll be surfing merrily along and click to go somewhere, and all of a sudden the screen begins to flicker, turn black and letters onscreem beco,me elongated...... I have AVG virus protection , And everytime it runs a scan there'zs a little...

I’ve tried the fixative sprays from the craft store before, but they don’t really seem to help as much as I’d like. I’d like a way to try and keep one as intact as possible for as long as possible.

This is probably a strange question, but it comes from something I read about the Galileo affair a few years ago. Galileo was being a bit of a dick. The character Simplicio in his book was an idiot, and was widely believed to be modeled after the...

AVG is my virus/spyware protector, and recently I've been getting these spatters of a black screen from time to time, and the above message popped up once. :lol: I said "No shit, Sherlock", and proceeded to do a scan, and I'm virus free. ...

I am reading a neato bookAnimals Make Us fully Human. The author attacks a lot of things 'we all know," and so the book is very informative. But at one point she claims that 40% or so of horses (presumably in the modern USA are disposed of as...

I mostly have outdated skills: say if I want to find out the date that a particular movie was playing a particular theater long ago. I would probably look up (like in a book) the year the movie was released, and then go look up the local newspaper...

Ow ow ow! I'm trying this "exercise" thing. I'm dubious. I'm not one of those people who finds that exercise makes them feel good. (Weirdos.) But I also don't think it should be causing this odd symptom: my feet are falling asleep. While I'm...

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Do banks retain an artist (or team of them) to design banknotes? I can't imagine that they do, as the designs are only occasionally changed. But then, who designs the notes? I know in the case of the Euro, it was a competition that settled the...

What is the typical cause of death of the occupants of a tank if the tank they are traveling in is hit by a modern tank shell? Are they basically vapourised? As I understand it, a tank shell works by shooting molten metal through the shell of the...

I need to have a character stabbed during a fight in a story I'm writing. While a near brush with death is what I'm aiming for, I do want the character to survive. This would happen in a remote location where a hospital would be roughly an hour...

OK, I confess, I've been masturbating. And now I have a Lame question: WTF does 'FPB' mean?

Could any Domer provide an itemised billing for say, the five most common medical procedures? How widely would these prices vary among different developed nations?

OK, maybe the question isn't so clear but I wasn't sure how to summarise what I want to ask in a way that fits in the title: Is there a list of songs for radio stations not to play if certain kinds of events are in the news, because they would...

I realize that this question is huge in scope, but could someone tell me the basics of corporate personhood? What rights and responsibilities do legal persons have as opposed to you and me? What rights and responsibilities do the physical people...

My boyfriend has no insurance and no money. (He owns three businesses and he's really lucky I have a "real" job.) He snores like a bastard and I'm almost certain he has a problem with sleep apnea. At least once a night, usually, I'll hear him...

I know that the octane rating is higher, but I don’t know what that means. Is there more actual gasoline in the premium and that’s why it’s better? Help me understand why premium is as of this morning $.20 “better” than the regular stuff that I...

As in the fashion shows you see on TV, with weird clothes. What is the purpose of these shows? Do people really buy these clothes and wear them somewhere, or are they just for publicity purposes?

Excluding Humans of course. Current distribution shows none that I can find with the exceptions of zoos, pets and the Rock of Gibraltar Barbary Macaques that may or may not be natives.

My current job is to invent and develop new products for the company. I have become fairly competent at spotting products that are likely to succeed (if they will make the company money and if the technology is available to deliver the product). ...

Surely there was a market for soundfiles that take up less space than WAV before the internet. Why did MP3 and similar compression techniques not come up before 1994? What were the difficulties?

Let me cut to the chase. What the fuck does this even mean? Below is a quotation from Judith Butler. This quote and author are known to me only from being openly mocked in other sources for the excessive opacity that has become characteristic of...

My recycling depot has a new sign that specifically says they do not want pasteboard. I'm looking up pasteboard but not grasping what it is in relationship to cardboard. Can someone 'splain?

Do other countries have an equivalent of British Freeview? That is, free digital TV (about thirty channels) that only needs a set top box (i.e. no subscriptions, or other fees), or is all e.g. American digital TV subscription based?