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I knew it was too easy.

This is an old, old puzzle that you guys will probobly solve in a heartbeat. This guy was traveling accross the country and he had a goose, a fox and a basket of corn with him. He came to a stream and the conditions were such that he could only take one of these items accross at a time. So, givin that he couldn't leave the fox and the goose alone together because the fox would eat the goose, and he couldn't leave the goose and the corn together because the goose would eat the corn, how did he get all three to the other side to resume his journey?

Glad you liked it. Give us another one.....

I misread the opening post. I thought that we were allowed a protractor. My mistake. Therefore.......

Actually, the easiest way to do this is to lay the protractor's edge so that it is just tangent to the circle and so that the center mark is coincident to the circle also. Make a dot at this center mark and another dot at the 90 degree point. using the straight edge, draw a line that connects those 2 dots and that passes through the circle. Adjust the compass so that it encompasses more that 1/2 the diameter of the circle and putting the point at one end of the line discribe an arc above and below the line. Moving to the other side of the circle do the same. Using the straight edge, draw a line that connects the points where these arcs cross. Where these 2 lines cross is the center of the circle. (or close enough)

If the circle is drawn on paper, carefully fold the paper so that the circumfrence line matches on both sides and run your fingers back and forth along the fold. Then carefully fold it the other way and do the same. Upon unfolding the paper, the creases will cross in the center.

OK boys, this one has been a wonderment to me for years. They tell me that the ancient Greeks came up with the formula for the sine tables. Now, since these constants are expressed in numbers carried out to 7 or 8 decimal places, how did these old boys figure that shit out in the first place? How did they come up with Pi? They didn't have all the stuff to take measurements that we do today. So my question is, is there some sort of natural law that they were able to apply to get the sines, cosines, tangents, etc?

Never trust a web site that doesn't know the difference between "to" and "too."

I have a couple of questions about A-51. Isn't this the same place that the so-called space ship crashed back in '47? And was it a secret area before the so-called crash? And if it wasn't a secret area before the crash, why did the government choose this area to do their secret stuff?

Perhaps. But it would require a complete specialized machine shop, a fair degree of mechanical ability and half the summer.

No.

What? A paint shaker?

Indeed! I don't even buy into the idea that time speeds up or slows down depending of the gravity it is exposed to, or that time slows down when one is traveling at the speed of light. I know that this has been "proved" with atomic clocks, but I think that all that has been prooved is that atomic clocks react differently in high gravitational fields or at high speed. kinda like taking an old fashioned spring and gear clock and attaching it to a paint shaker for an hour.

I think if you will access this site, you will have a better idea of what is planned for anwar as well as why we want to extract that oil. http://www.doi.gov/

You think they are going to pump gasoline out of those wells?

Is there any evidence that the soldiers who fired on this car, knew who was inside the car before fireing?

Without light there is no space time?

Oh yeah? How did that happen?

Does it matter? As long as you identified the theory, you must be familiar enough with it to know what I am referring to--no?

I am referring to the theory that gravity affects time as well as velocity.

Is this a take-off of the old 1960s movie where the Martians finally died from the common cold?