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Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Dolphins are pretty smart members of the animal kingdom.

Intelligence is hard to measure, so I can't say for sure which those is the 'smartest'.
 
Gaverick said:
Bit if you're jumping, you aren't in contact with the surface of the earth
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Doesn't matter. Regardless of whether or not you are in contact with the surface, you're still moving at the same speed as it. Try standing in a bus that is moving at a constant speed in a straight line. If you jump, you won't fly to the back of the bus (in theory anyway, in practice buses give a pretty choppy ride).
 
Gaverick said:
Bit if you're jumping, you aren't in contact with the surface of the earth
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You're also pushing back off it every time you land. Keeping you in the same position per jump.

You're not being held to the surface of the Earth by friction. mavity is keeping us moving at the same speed as the Earth.
 
iCraig said:
You're not being held to the surface of the Earth by friction. mavity is keeping us moving at the same speed as the Earth.
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I'd say that's not completely accurate. You have to remember that once you've reached a certain speed, you will keep moving at that speed unless something stops you. Usually air resistance stops us eventually, but since (assuming there is no wind) the air is also moving at the same speed as the earth's surface it will have no effect. Hence that when you jump up there is nothing to stop you moving at the same speed sideways.

This is assuming the earth's surface is flat (which of course it isn't but it practically is over a small area). When you take into account the curvature of the earth then I think mavity would come into play regarding your position relative to the surface.
 
How come women often find doctors attractive (purely as a profession)? Never really understood it; I personally like to have as much dissasociation from medical things as possible!
 
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Either way, you can jump a thousand times in one spot, but you won't eventually end up a mile in another direction. :p
 
Zip said:
I heard it was spread to humans due to a couple people having sex with monkeys, They caught it from the monkeys and then they went and had sex with other humans and it spread.

Dunno if its true though.
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Far more likley to be originally transferred from the blood of a monkey infected with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) during the hunting or preparation of a monkey for food.

The interesting thing is, Immunodeficiency viruses are not harmful to their original carriers, only when they cross to another species are they fatal. HIV will cause no illness in chimpanzes which share 99.8% of their DNA with humans but scientists have yet to discover what causes the virus to change from passive to agressive. This is the key to a cure for HIV & AIDS.
 
Dr.EM said:
How come women often find doctors attractive (purely as a profession)? Never really understood it; I personally like to have as much dissasociation from medal things as possible!
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  • Intelligence.
  • Noble profession.
  • and obviously, wealth.
 
iCraig said:
Either way, you can jump a thousand times in one spot, but you won't eventually end up a mile in another direction. :p
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Yeah of course. How weird would it be if that did happen though :eek:

Here's another question. What would happen if the earth very quickly stopped spinning? Apart from a day essentially lasting an entire year of course.
 
ElRazur said:
What is the longest one can go on for sexually without any viagra or similar drugs?
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An undetermined amount of time. As long as both parties are aroused, and or have sufficient lubrication, hours and hours I guess.

Physical exhaustion would end it though. The body would have to stop and rest at some point, so I guess it depends on the physical stamina of the man and even the woman.
 
36:) said:
If a bee is flying in a plane, does it add to the mass / weight of the plane?
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If the objects inside the plane count towards it's mass then yes. I'm not sure whether putting it on conventional weighing scales would correctly report that though.
 
iCraig said:
  • Intelligence.
  • Noble profession.
  • and obviously, wealth.
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You gotta admit women are unusually interested in medical things though. That terrible city hospital program is on on weekday mornings (prime time for housewifes, sorry but it is!) and my mum watches it. I asked her why she does and she says she "likes to know about all the cures around these days" and as a woman/mother "needs to know to protect family" :confused: . I'd rather not know about any of it unless I absolutely had to and don't feel knowing about it offers any kind of advantage (apart from some symptoms). It just makes me paranoid and worried, ignorance truly is bliss on that front to me ;)
 
Gaverick said:
When does a boat become a ship?
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Traditionally a ship should have at least three square-rigged masts. Nowadays a ship is any large vessel designed for ocean or deep water navigation.

Worth noting that submarines are always boats, never ships.
 
Gaverick said:
If you jumped up and down on the spot for a long time, would the world revolve underneath you?
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I reckon if you stood at either pole then the earth would revolve underneath you but it would be very slow (one revolution in 24 hours)
 
iCraig said:
An undetermined amount of time. As long as both parties are aroused, and or have sufficient lubrication, hours and hours I guess.

Physical exhaustion would end it though. The body would have to stop and rest at some point, so I guess it depends on the physical stamina of the man and even the woman.
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Or did he mean age :eek:
 
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