Ten curious questions you never thought to ask, and their answers:
Q: If a smoker goes in to a coma for long enough, do they wake up without a craving to smoke?
A: It takes around 8 days for nicotine to completely leave the bloodstream, taking with it the physical craving. If a person is in a coma for longer, they would not have cravings for nicotine when they wake up, though they may still feel the effects of the habitual nature of smoking.
Q: What is the temperature at the tip of a burning cigarette?
A: 1292 Fahrenheit (700 celsius) when the smoker inhales. It is cooler between puffs.
Q: When will the world end?
A: Unless a major catastrophe occurs beforehand, in 4.4 billion years the sun will cease to provide heat and light.
Q: If you fell out of a space ship and held your breath, how long would it take you to die?
A: Holding your breath in space is likely to damage your lungs. You have about 15 seconds before your pass out and die in Space, due to lack of Oxygen.
Q: What are the average wages of a porn star?
A: From 50 – 1,500 dollars per scene. Women generally earn more than men, and successful stars can earn six figure salaries.
Q: In which countries is prostitution legal?
A: Parts of Australia, Parts of the USA, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and a number of other nations. For a more complete list (in case you are planning your vacation) try this Wikipedia article.
Q: What country is Timbuktu in?
A: Timbuktu is in Mali, West Africa
Q: How much does a mail order bride cost?
A: $5,000 is about the overall going rate
Q: Who invented the drinks can?
A: Ermal Fraze of Dayton, Ohio, invented it in 1963. It us US Patent 3,349,949
Q: If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
A: The cat would land on its feet as they can twist in mid-air to ensure they land feet down. Toast only has mythical power to land butter side down.
great list The buttered cat paradox is hilarious but I prefer the theory that this situation will produce an anti gravity effect. The cat slows down then starts rotating as both sides try to land the way their supposed to. look it up on wikipedia:)
if anybody fell out of spaceship…they die immediately due to high vacuum pressure. your eyes will pop out before brains and guts squashed out of your exploded body.
also..a female *****star does not earn more than a male *****star. a gay *****star may earn up to 3 times more than an average straight male/female *****star.
How do you know that?
same question
That’s not entirely true, dumb. You’ve got about a minute and half of consciousness if you breath out immediately. Then your lungs, muscles, and guts start to swell. And your eyes don’t pop out like on that bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, but the liquid in them (and your mouth) will begin to boil away. But, eventually, the air pressure messes with the gas exchange in your lungs and you pass out. And then you die.
nope. The lungs are what ‘splode due to pressure. And only with a breath full of air. And their is nothing to absorb heat in space either so they wouldn’t freeze.
nice list, would be nice to see more Q&A though. I felt unsatisfied with only 10
Don’t be so quick to assume that old wives’ wisdom is false, jfrater! Several groups of physicists and mathematicians have demonstrated that bread dropped from a plate actually does tend to fall buttered side down — although you are correct in your assertion that it’s not because of any intrinsic property of the bread; it’s merely a function of the speed at which falling bread tends to rotate, and the average height of a breakfast table (which gives bread time to rotate 1.5 times on the way down).
Your estimate for unprotected survival in space is also a little pessimistic. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs — you should exhale as you leave the airlock — but if you do exhale, the situation isn’t too grim. According to NASA, you’re looking at at least half a minute before you suffer any permanent injury, although sunburn, bruising, and the bends will become uncomfortable after about 10 seconds (but at that point, you’ll probably just be thinking how cool it is that the saliva on your tongue is boiling). You’ll black out at some point around the 15 second mark, but your crewmates can still haul you in; it’s an inexact science, but you probably have up to 2 minutes out in the cold before you’re dead.
Daniel: wow – that is such a revolting description of an unprotected space experience! You should write me a list!
Juggz: I was unsatisfied with 10 too, but it is cheese and bacon flan for dinner and I had to leave the computer
Samsung: I am definitely going to look it up – I am quite astonished that it is actuallly mentioned on wikipedia!
jfrater: always about the food isn’t it?
jamie: cheese and bacon flan? what the heck is that?
I’ve tried the bread thing with no less than 50 cats and managed to warp space time itself with all the anti-gravity spinning and created a wormhole into another universe. Muwhaha.
great list, you should make a list of weird questions like “why do we park in driveways but drive on parkways.”
And how come our feet smell and our nose runs!!!!
Prostituton is legal in the Netherlands surely? I went there once and they had shops where women who stand like mannequins and you could pick a girl as you pleased.
I didnt actually do this by the way, I just observed it.
I mean I actually observed it from outiside the shop, I was too young to participate. Not that I would anyway.
love this list!
The toast would land butter side down, then the cat would flip over and land on its feet. All without the cat touching the ground until the last moment.
@JT: I think it’s technically illegal, but just not prosecuted. What I heard anyway.
JT doth protest too much, methinks!
No, I’m pretty sure its legal. I read an article a while ago about how it was free for the disabled. I’ll check wikipedia.
JT-
Suuurrree you wouldn’t. :0p
Yep. Here we go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****#Socio-economic_and_legal_status
http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10028&index=1
Nicotine leaving the bloodstream does NOT take with it the craving. I know your intent was innocent but as someone who quit in 2000 and has coped with nicotine demand since, thats wrong. Sometimes you do just crave it mentally, other times its a demand so strong it feels like suffocation or being crushed, a constant unbearable pressure and very physical. Like getting your assed kicked from the inside. Addiction isnt just mental. Sorry, sore subject.
what a whinger! yeah, it's science – you're just *****weak
***** is legal in Las Vegas, Nevada, US
It is legal in some counties in Nevada, but not in Clark County, in which Las Vegas resides.
New South Wales isn’t a country, It’s in Australia.
J Coustark.: notice how it says New South Wales, Australia and then ; New Zealand.
***** is only legal in Australia in the State of NSW.
ImplosiveFire.
Thank you, I stand corrected
I think I know you J.Coustark
In my fourth grade science class, we use to drop buttered toast tied to black cats all the time …and Daniel, your wrong.
Smokers do feel cravings for many years if not forever, because nicotine causes your brain to produce excess dopamine. After a while your dopamine center is burned out, and nicotine is the only way to get it because your brain can no longer make it on it’s own. That’s why it’s so hard to quit smoking. Your brain is altered.
It says countries not States so therefore NSW is wrong
Jamie, you forgot to answer Jackie’s question, “cheese and bacon flan? what the heck is that?”
Hehe. I’m quite curious myself. Is it some kind of quiche?
Hey – sorry for not replying – Cheese and Bacon flan is a type of quiche but it has a softer filling than quiche
Wow – talk about taking a beating!
I have corrected the ***** question.
“Just a few other nations.”
Great.
Thanks for helping me plan my vacation Jamie!
Yarr: so as to not spoil your holiday, I have updated the item AGAIN!
J Coustark and SarahJ: now now – no ganging up on me
Juggz: comment 5: I do have other interests! I just don’t let them show
HAHAHAHAHA MORTAL FOOLS THE WORLD WILL END IN 2012 DUE TO CANCER FUSEING WITH AIDS TO MAKE THE ZOMBIE VIURS WHICH WILL KILL US ALL also great list man i love this site
Jaw comment 18: It is not legal in Las Vegas. Vegas is in clark county which is the only county in Nevada where ***** is in fact illegal.
thanks for telnilg me the battery style im gonna see if i can find the battery cheaper than green smokes and go from there
so what happens if you strap 2 cats together back-to-back and drop them?
George, you dont want know, YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW!
your ***** answer is so misleading as to be basically incorrect; ***** is legal in quite more than “a few” countries. according to the wikipedia article you reference, ***** is legal in almost all western european countries and in several others around the world: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey.
most of these countries regulate it in some way, and *****s and/or *****ing might be illegal. but ***** itself is quite legal in these countries (in Japan, intercourse-for-money is illegal, but providing oral ***** for money is legal).
johnny: I have modified the text – thanks.
Horrible list. This is the worst one yet. I am seriously surprised this made the cut.
tekno: hey! I thought they were all very interesting questions – particularly useful for anyone looking for a prostitute, ***** star, or mail order bride
Nicotine has a half life of two hours.Its gone within a day.Whoever wrote the smoking-coma answer is someone who just makes stuff up and shouldn’t be used as a source for anything.
Damn Right! I love my Thai hooker wife
Amanda – Thanks a lot. I’m trying to quit smoking and right now I’m wondering what the point is. Are you saying that I’m never going to be happy again without a cigarette?!
I wonder if I drink enough so that I lose consciousness for a week if that would help?
kinda a weird one here but, how do blind people know when they’re done wiping? thats always haunted me
Tom – do you have a reference for that? I would love to see it.
To you, Mathilda: I believe I have quit smoking after doing so for 15 years and I believe it now to be a final resolution, and I have had different attempts at quitting in the past years … yes, It is a joke , I suppose, when a smoker “quits” while smoking and is saying how they have quit before, all while puffing on a cigarette. But for me it has come down to death creeping in (actually, its more symbolically, a jazzy jiggy with a heavy foot steppin down on the turn around) . Being more aware through life and my time aboard, that this body is affected and is showing wear and tear, I came to the other end of the inevitable.
For me, having that inward voice was the main controller. The way I see it is that if you want to stop smoking, keep the thought to yourself (the actual instigation moment) and hold onto the reality of your life , in connection to why it is, that the path must lend itself to a new coarse of action.
slam the hammer down. for me it was an extreme diet, in which I stuck to a regimine: in the process my addictive mind wasnt thinking of the particullar vices, I wished to escape,as a means of nessesity
but still, I have to say that .
Every now and then I still crave a smoke during stressful times or after a good meal or when out drinking, But I tell myself the quitting is final and dont give in and buy a pack , and be on top of things, if you decide to smoke a friend’s cigerette.
I feel much more healthy and my mornings are clearer and I’m not sluggish anymore. I actually took note in a journal of the “voices” during the first couple of weeks when I started my stopping of most food, cigarettes and alchohol. you will quickly realize at what times you wish for a cigarette. That helped me a lot. Now I need to lower other vises in my life and counter balance them whith certain actions that I find that are “me”.
I dont know, this isn’t all written in the best way… but there it is.
If an unstoppable force hit an immobile object, what would happen ?
And twisting round and landing on its feet is NOT an acceptable answer.
*Update*
“42″ doesn’t work either…
Tried “42″, doesn’t work
Oh i get it – spam filter doesn’t like asterisks.
Maybe.
Anyway, what does happen when an unstoppable force meets an immobile object ?
The unstoppable force stops, and the immobile object moves.
actually, male ***** stars performing male-on-male scenes make around $5000 per scene, whereas female ***** stars performing same-***** scenes only make $500-1000. this was covered on HBO’s ***** in the valley documentary.
Thanks for the advice, Diogenes. You have much more will-power than me; I’m giving myself permission to do whatever I want for a month as long as I don’t smoke! (Except I can’t really drink – I’m tempted too much then.)
Wasn’t it in Valley of the Dolls where women were being put into comas so that they’d lose weight? Or am I getting stories mixed up? Just think, I could go to sleep and wake up a rail-thin non-smoking glamour queen. Of course, I’d have to give up a month or so of my life…. on second thought I think I’ll do it all the old-fashioned way!
Right back at yah Mathilda: I dont know how much my will power compares to anybody else in the normal sence really. I think I may have just found myself in the right place at the right time and everything happened and finally “dominoed” its way, from a continued build up.
That sort of thing I have tried to pick up on over the years and what I said in the before comment holds true. , but with quitting smoking, I dont put it past me to have a “big fall” , right back in the muck. If its happened before it can happen again. I think the change of mind and strength comes with a vague awareness of reaccuring patterns within myself. I dont know. I gave myself “one more time and this is IT!” so many times.
It just so happened that I was in a coma for 15 years, and during that time I smoked continiously, pack after pack after pack. Then suddenly I awoke and wondered what the coagulated cough was all about.
Naw, not for real. Bad joke.
Maybe some independent inventor will come up with the “safe cigarette”. But that sounds to me like the Hitch*****episode(?) about the guy who came up with a motor that ran on water.
Actually, your “to do whatever I want for a month as long as I don’t smoke” sounds like an intriguing take on the topic at hand, but I wouldn’t advise it.
“Toast only has mythical power to land butter side down.”
Haha, I love that,
It makes it sound like toast has some crazy magical powers..
Wouldn’t you just explode in space because of the lack of pressure?
Quite interesting list ^^ enjoyed a lot.
StraightToVideo: thanks
Terri: no – but your blood would eventually begin to seep out of your pores.
Katie: Thanks
I am glad you liked it.
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it, it would cause a hole to tear open in space and destroy all matter in the universe. (I know because I’ve tried it)
I thought space was a vacuum. if you took off your helmet, wouldn’t your head and brain just ex/implode?
Or at least that’s what I thought
Actually the toast normally lands on the butterside.
The reason, when the toast is pushed from the table it only manages to turn 180 degrees before landing. This is beacause of the avarage table height.(To get rid of the problem just eat on the floor, or buy a table twice as high!)