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    #902
    RuggieBear
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    Great barrier reef


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    #903
    Carcharodon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,980 ✭✭✭Carcharodon


    RuggieBear wrote:
    Great barrier reef

    Yep, over to you


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    #904
    RuggieBear
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    How far is the sun from earth?


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    #905
    Carcharodon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,980 ✭✭✭Carcharodon


    RuggieBear wrote:
    How far is the sun from earth?

    93 million miles is what they roughly say it is


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    #906
    RuggieBear
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    yep


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    #907
    Carcharodon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,980 ✭✭✭Carcharodon


    How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

    If its too obscure we can go with whats the longest river in Britain ?


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    #908
    RuggieBear
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    Carcharodon wrote:
    How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

    If its too obscure we can go with whats the longest river in Britain ?

    severn


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    #909
    Kojak
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    Carcharodon wrote:
    How far away is 10 meters to the power of 25 ?

    I thought I'd have a go at this despite RuggieBear answering the other Q.

    Is it 1 million Kilometers??


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    #910
    Mick86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Mick86


    Kojak wrote:
    I thought I'd have a go at this despite RuggieBear answering the other Q.

    Is it 1 million Kilometers??

    10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 m or 10 septillion metres

    10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km or 10 sextillion kilometres


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    #911
    Kojak
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    Mick86 wrote:
    10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 m or 10 septillion metres

    10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km or 10 sextillion kilometres

    I see I was a bit off. :o


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    #912
    Carcharodon
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    Severn is correct

    and

    1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it :D


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    #913
    Mick86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Mick86


    Carcharodon wrote:
    Severn is correct

    and

    1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it :D

    It'sa long way off anyway.


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    #914
    Fey!
    Registered Users Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Sysiphus wrote:
    aside, I alway heard that f.u.c.k. was forced unlawfull.... ie. (wher'd that come from??) rape, and was an old legal term.

    Fornication Under Consent of the King - the king had the right to sleep with a new bride before the husband.


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    #915
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Carcharodon wrote:
    1 billion light-years is a easy way to say it :D
    More like 1.056993 billion light years - not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it ;)

    /waits for RuggieBear


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    #916
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?


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    #917
    Capt'n Midnight
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    RuggieBear wrote:
    whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?
    A location with none of the above ?


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    #918
    Mick86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Mick86


    RuggieBear wrote:
    whre is the Dept of Communicaions, Marine and Natural Resources decentralising to?

    Waterford


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    #919
    The Hill Billy
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    More like 1.056993 billion light years
    I beg to differ. I make it 1,057,724,807.198604 8 light years or 1.057 026 584 hubble.

    Not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it the 731,807.198600054 light years difference.

    At an average walking speed of say 6km per hour - how long would it take to cover the difference?


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    #920
    quazzy
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    Hill Billy wrote:
    I beg to differ. I make it 1,057,724,807.198604 8 light years or 1.057 026 584 hubble.

    Not a huge difference, but I'd hate to walk it the 731,807.198600054 light years difference.

    At an average walking speed of say 6km per hour - how long would it take to cover the difference?

    131 Trillion Years

    Give or take an eon or three....

    Yes...No...


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    #921
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,777 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    quazzy wrote:
    131 Trillion Years

    Give or take an eon or three....

    Yes...No...

    Not bad. 131,634,167,310,242.01 years.


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    #922
    Mick86
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    Is there a question anywhere in our future?:D


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    #923
    Goodluck2me
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    Mick86 wrote:
    Is there a question anywhere in our future?:D
    who was the first person to notice gravity? how did he do it?


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    #924
    quazzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭quazzy


    goodluck2me wrote:
    who was the first person to notice gravity? how did he do it?

    Newton + Apples = Gravity ????


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    #925
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    lots of homo species figured out the earth sucked in prehistoric times

    aristotle recognised gravity existed but got it wrong

    galelieo was the first to show that the acceleration was constant and independent of the mass of the object

    newton was the first to work out the inverse square law

    or course no one has explained it fully , we are still waiting for the grand theory.

    cavendish was the first to measure it, he was a man with BIG balls ! (and little pithy ones too ;) ) and he used to watch them through a peep hole


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    #926
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,457 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    To 3 figures, what is the Golden Ratio?


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    #927
    Capt'n Midnight
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    guess 1.73

    CBA working out the sequece by hand


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    #928
    Pal
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    Answer : 1.62

    Question : name of the statue on top of Dublin's Custom House ?


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    #929
    quazzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭quazzy


    Pal wrote:
    Answer : 1.62

    Question : name of the statue on top of Dublin's Custom House ?

    Statue: Commerce

    Staying with Dublin Trivia:

    Which famous author was once the Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?


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    #930
    Kojak
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    Total Guess: James Joyce ??????


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    #931
    quazzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭quazzy


    Kojak wrote:
    Total Guess: James Joyce ??????

    Nope


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