The Unanswerable Questions Thread - Bill O'Reilly First Edition
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Basically, the objective is to devise a question so impossibly mind-fucking that you completely stump everyone.
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First question:
[i]How did the moon get there?[/i]
Magnets?
Why is up?
No, it's not.
[QUOTE=Matix;28247684]
First question:
[i]How did the moon get there?[/i][/QUOTE]
The moon, like other planets, were formed from gasses that condensed together. A common theory is that the moon was formed right next to Earth around the same time.
I think it goes something like that...
Also, as for my question.
If Pinocchio says that his nose is going to grow, what happens?
Things to note: His nose grows when he lies.
Can you explain to me now if you're still able?
The moon was created as a meteor hit earth soon after earth was formed. The resulting explosion send derbis flying around earths orbit, coming together- much like any planet would- to form the moon. the explosion is also one of the things that helped life be habitable on earth.
[QUOTE=Zakkin;28247771]Magnets?[/QUOTE]
A magnet (from Greek μαγνήτις λίθος magnḗtis líthos, "Magnesian stone") is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.
A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field. An everyday example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door. Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone. Although ferromagnetic (and ferrimagnetic) materials are the only ones attracted to a magnet strongly enough to be commonly considered magnetic, all other substances respond weakly to a magnetic field, by one of several other types of magnetism.
Ferromagnetic materials can be divided into magnetically "soft" materials like annealed iron, which can be magnetized but do not tend to stay magnetized, and magnetically "hard" materials, which do. Permanent magnets are made from "hard" ferromagnetic materials such as alnico and ferrite that are subjected to special processing in a powerful magnetic field during manufacture, to align their internal microcrystalline structure, making them very hard to demagnetize. To demagnetize a saturated magnet, a certain magnetic field must be applied, and this threshold depends on coercivity of the respective material. "Hard" materials have high coercivity, whereas "soft" materials have low coercivity.
An electromagnet is made from a coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current passes through it but stops being a magnet when the current stops. Often, an electromagnet is wrapped around a core of ferromagnetic material like steel, which enhances the magnetic field produced by the coil.
The overall strength of a magnet is measured by its magnetic moment or, alternately, the total magnetic flux it produces. The local strength of the magnetism in a material is measured by its magnetization.
[QUOTE=koeniginator;28248140]A magnet (from Greek μαγνήτις λίθος magnḗtis líthos, "Magnesian stone") is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.
A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field. An everyday example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door. Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone. Although ferromagnetic (and ferrimagnetic) materials are the only ones attracted to a magnet strongly enough to be commonly considered magnetic, all other substances respond weakly to a magnetic field, by one of several other types of magnetism.
Ferromagnetic materials can be divided into magnetically "soft" materials like annealed iron, which can be magnetized but do not tend to stay magnetized, and magnetically "hard" materials, which do. Permanent magnets are made from "hard" ferromagnetic materials such as alnico and ferrite that are subjected to special processing in a powerful magnetic field during manufacture, to align their internal microcrystalline structure, making them very hard to demagnetize. To demagnetize a saturated magnet, a certain magnetic field must be applied, and this threshold depends on coercivity of the respective material. "Hard" materials have high coercivity, whereas "soft" materials have low coercivity.
An electromagnet is made from a coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current passes through it but stops being a magnet when the current stops. Often, an electromagnet is wrapped around a core of ferromagnetic material like steel, which enhances the magnetic field produced by the coil.
The overall strength of a magnet is measured by its magnetic moment or, alternately, the total magnetic flux it produces. The local strength of the magnetism in a material is measured by its magnetization.[/QUOTE]
I think I speak for all of us, when I use the statment below;
Wat.
What famous explorer made the discovery of the internet?
[QUOTE=ilikeminifridge;28248234]What famous explorer made the discovery of the internet?[/QUOTE]
Al Gore
Ted Stevens
[QUOTE=slayer20;28248081]The moon, like other planets, were formed from gasses that condensed together. A common theory is that the moon was formed right next to Earth around the same time.
I think it goes something like that...
Also, as for my question.
If Pinocchio says that his nose is going to grow, what happens?
Things to note: His nose grows when he lies.[/QUOTE]
That's a mind fuck.
Technically he'd be telling the truth but aswell would be lying.
If he says his nose is going to grow, and it doesn't, he then lied as a result his nose will grow.
Other wise he divided by 0.
[b]Question:[/b]
Why do men have nipples?
Can God create a stone so heavy, that he himself can not lift it?
[QUOTE=Spherexd;28248372]
Why do men have nipples?[/QUOTE]
Women are set as default, so men have some female remnants from when they were a fetus, including nipples, which would be used as part of the mammary gland by women to create milk for their young.
How come when I press the power button on my remote, my TV just turns on, there is perfect communication, you just can't explain it.
Plus, all people are originally female until testosterone is introduced to the developing fetus.
If you don't cut corners in life, wouldn't that make you a square?
I think that would make you a line, actually... or a point. I'm not sure which.
I actually made an entire thread for this but whatever
Are the cheap kind of colored pencils and crayons made out of the same wax stuff? Nobody seems to know this
why when i rub my cello bow on my drum cymbals does it produce a bad ass sound?
Why do duck quacks not echo?
Is there a God?
what happens when a irresistible force meets a immovable object
[QUOTE=Quq;28250205]what happens when a irresistible force meets a immovable object[/QUOTE]
Something's gotta give
The immovable object gets seduced by the irresistible force and they make force babies.
What is gravity and how does it work?
Earth's core attraction, or do you mean the low-force gravity?:v:
[B]Question:[/B]
Why can't we grab the Internet that are floating over our heads in the sky and universe?
Like stealing files by any sort of device? Not by ahnd lol
[QUOTE=Jockedevian;28254651]Earth's core attraction, or do you mean the low-force gravity?:v[/QUOTE]
I mean gravity, the force.
[QUOTE=slayer20;28248081]
If Pinocchio says that his nose is going to grow, what happens?
Things to note: His nose grows when he lies.[/QUOTE]
Depends. If he gave a timescale like 'My nose is going to grow in 1 minute' then he would be lying unless he told a lie after exactly a minute, so his nose would grow if he didnt lie by then.
On the other hand, if he just said 'My nose is going to grow', he would be telling the truth because it is inevitable that he would lie again, intentionally or by accident.
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[QUOTE=Rad McCool;28254465]What is gravity and how does it work?[/QUOTE]
The simplest way to look at it would be imagine the Earth sitting above a flat plane, which is space. Because the Earth is quite large, it causes quite a big dent into space, which is called a gravity well.
Anything that gets near the well will hit the slope in space and start rolling down towards the center of the well, which is the center of Earth. This is of course, unless it has enough force to propel itself back out of the well, or it has enough force to just stay rolling around the same section of the well like the moon does.
How do I know the whole universe isn't a dream I'm having?
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