Does a duck's quack echo?

[Faceman]

The Russian Rocket/Teabag Joke:

It's a party joke:

You take a common teabag and a pair of scissors and announce to the audience that
"The Russians are building a rocket but because they have not enough funding they can't afford the fuse" - now you cut of the string of the teabag
"they have so little resources that they cant even afford the fuel" - you cut the teabag open and pour the tea out.
"But" - Now you unfold the teabag until you get a narrow tube (it's easier than you think) adjust it and place the tube on the table like a standing rocket
"despite all these setbacks the rocket still works" - now you light the teabag at the bottom and watch the audience as the teabag takes off and flies up to the ceiling (if you do it right - sometimes it just lifts up for one or two feet)

The physics behind that is simple. Once you light it the air inside the teabag heats up and as hot air is lighter than cold air while ascending it lifts the teabag (which is extremely light) up.

The funny thing about that scientist was that he didn't even explain that on TV. He just showed a trick which I've seen first performed by some drunk guy on a party. I was rather disturbed that such people can get a degree and show off their drunk party jokes in TV and call it "science".
He could have as well said: "Hey look I can make my cigarette sparkle."

[ 09-08-2003, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Faceman ]

[Dragonshadow]

So... the udcks were lying, all along!

[Cloudbringer]

I dunno, I never heard an echo from a duck....maybe if a duck quacks in the woods and nobody is there to hear it......

[Jorath Calar]

But if a quack ducks.... oh nevermind... this is getting too silly...

[Bozos of Bones]

Intriguing studies:
Japanese scientists have calculated approximately 15 000 billion digits of pi.
Americans calculated the color of the universe. Tirquisely purple.
Lobsters and crabs piss on each other during combat.
Octopusses use their left eye 10% more than their right eye.
When connected upside-down human nerves function the same.
A duck's quack does not echo off stone, metal, sand or water surface because of it's wavelenght. It is absorbed.
The average female breast is weighing 2.3 kilograms.

Let me see if I can remember/find some more.

[Jorath Calar]

Originally posted by Bozos of Bones: The average female breast is weighing 2.3 kilograms.

Now there is a study I'd like to be involved in... (is there free beer too...)... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[slicer15]

Originally posted by Jorath Calar: quote: Originally posted by Bozos of Bones: The average female breast is weighing 2.3 kilograms.

Now there is a study I'd like to be involved in... (is there free beer too...)... [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Typical pheramone induced lust...

[Gammit]

Thanks, Donut. I was actually thinking about this the other day. Odd, I know...