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gelinas
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Fall Short Questions
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Sep 24 18:03 UTC 2003 |
I saw Jamie's item for questions addressed to the resident genius, so this
is the item for the rest of us to offer answers. The title says "Short
Questions," but we really mean short answers: Questions that you think can
be answered in something less than a page, with fewer than 10 equations and
figures, combined.
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gelinas
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response 1 of 239:
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Sep 24 18:04 UTC 2003 |
Why does EU use the abbreviation GB for the United Kingdom, instead of UK?
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mynxcat
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response 2 of 239:
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Sep 24 18:10 UTC 2003 |
Great Britain I guess. What is the difference between Great Britain and the
United Kingdom anyways?
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jp2
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response 3 of 239:
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Sep 24 18:20 UTC 2003 |
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dah
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response 4 of 239:
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Sep 24 19:33 UTC 2003 |
Pratt Library.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 239:
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Sep 24 19:55 UTC 2003 |
That turned out to be a really interesting question, jp2. You'll have to look
at http://www.nic.us/delegated_managers/delegated_subdomains.txt to see who
to contact for the particular name you want. I suspect you won't be able to
get "jp2.md.us", for instance, but I can't get the list of reserved names to
unzip.
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twenex
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response 6 of 239:
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Sep 24 22:27 UTC 2003 |
Re 1 and 2:
"GB" seems to be the standard/official international abbreviation for the UK.
Canada Post say that letters addressed to people in England, Scotland, Wales
or Northern Ireland should be marked "GB" or "Great Britain". This *may* have
something to do with the fact that the ownership of Northern Irelandi
sontested.
The official name of the country is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland". Great Britain is the larger of the two main islands
composing the countries of Britain and Ireland. the term "UK", or, informally,
"Britain" (i.e. no "Great") refers to England, Scotland, and Wales (on Great
Britain) and Northern Ireland (the Northeast 6 counties on the island of
Ireland - try saying that in an accent where you don't pronounce "r".)
("Northern Irelandi sontested" above should read "Northern Ireland is
contested".)
I tried to keep this as brief as possible, but as you can see, it's
complicated.
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twenex
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response 7 of 239:
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Sep 24 22:29 UTC 2003 |
Of course, you could just call the whole country "England", but that annoys
the hell out of the Scots and Welsh (and the Northern Irish?), as does the
term "The British Isles" for the islands owned, separately, by Britain and
Ireland.
And then there's "Ulster"...
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mynxcat
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response 8 of 239:
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Sep 24 22:48 UTC 2003 |
Ulster?
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jp2
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response 9 of 239:
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Sep 24 23:08 UTC 2003 |
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gelinas
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response 10 of 239:
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Sep 25 02:42 UTC 2003 |
What do you mean by "under the third tier"? jp2.md.us or jp2.there.md.us ?
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jp2
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response 11 of 239:
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Sep 25 02:45 UTC 2003 |
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albaugh
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response 12 of 239:
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Sep 25 19:33 UTC 2003 |
Ulster is one of the 4 original provinces of Ireland, along with Leinster
(where Dublin is), Munster (where Kerry, Killarney, Limerick etc. are), and
Connaght (sp) (northwest). Ulster is essentially the 6 counties of the 32
which is now Northern Ireland. Refer to the song "4 Green Fields".
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asddsa
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response 13 of 239:
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Sep 25 19:56 UTC 2003 |
SINCE WHEN HAS 13 BEEN CONSIDERED UNLUCKY?
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twenex
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response 14 of 239:
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Sep 25 21:29 UTC 2003 |
Thankyou albaugh. I was going to post that these evening, (it's 22:25 here),
but you beat me to it.
For those wondering about the "essentially" bit in albaugh's post, Ulster the
geographical province of the island includes all 6 counties of Northern
Ireland, plus three in the Republic, to the east and southeast of Northern
Ireland.
One small correction - the spelling is "Connaught", or "Connacht", but i
believe the former spelling is now the official one. "Leinster" and
"Connaught" are pronounced, roughly, "Lennster" and "CONNot", I believe.
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jp2
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response 15 of 239:
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Sep 26 15:53 UTC 2003 |
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mynxcat
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response 16 of 239:
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Sep 26 16:01 UTC 2003 |
Trojan's better. Or maybe not.
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flem
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response 17 of 239:
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Sep 26 18:08 UTC 2003 |
Abstinence brand? What, are those like really uncomfortable or something?
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gull
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response 18 of 239:
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Sep 26 19:57 UTC 2003 |
Maybe they're hoping for a little free advertising when people say "the
best protection is Abstinence." Sort of like the scam where a guy
created a long distance company named "I Don't Care".
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gelinas
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response 19 of 239:
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Sep 26 21:30 UTC 2003 |
How is engine displacement derived? Is it the amount of water displaced by
the entire engine, or is it the size of the compression/combustion chambers?
I'd always assumed the former. Of course, I've never really thought about
it, either.
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murph
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response 20 of 239:
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Sep 26 21:49 UTC 2003 |
Engine displacement is the difference in combustion chamber volume between
the piston at full out and full in. So, let's say you're looking at a 450cc
motorcycle engine with 2 cylinders (which would be a .45 L engine, in the
car world's terms). 450cc/2cyl = 225cc (.225L) per cylinder. This means
that each cylinder can hold .225L less water at its smallest (piston furthest
in) than it can at its largest (piston furthest out).
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gelinas
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response 21 of 239:
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Sep 27 05:10 UTC 2003 |
So my 302 V8 had 37ci/cylinder. Cool. Thanks. :)
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murph
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response 22 of 239:
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Sep 27 13:10 UTC 2003 |
You're welcome. Ask me sometime when I can draw on something and I'll
explain what the 4 strokes in a 4-stroke engine are and graph the power
output for a cycle. I have half a degree in this stuff; I need to get
*some* use out of it...
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rcurl
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response 23 of 239:
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Sep 27 15:50 UTC 2003 |
Animated 4-stroke engine at
http://www.marinediesels.info/Basics/the_4_stroke_engine_explanation.htm
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asddsa
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response 24 of 239:
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Sep 28 16:37 UTC 2003 |
Nice!
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