Is it true that the earth is round?
In 1989 I saw a slightly different proof that our earth is round 🙂 There are many ways to prove that our earth is round. But in 1989…
What are some scary facts about history?
One of the nastiest ways to die in the Middle Ages was toilet related. Because in medieval times, men of power and wealth made use of primitive toilets…
If you take a gallon of water from the deepest ocean and bring it up to the surface in a sealed container, will the pressure break the container as it is risen up into the surface?
At the depth of the typical ocean floor — about 3km — water is compressed to 98.2% of its sea-level volume. The Mariana Trench is just over 11km…
What can we learn from Elon Musk?
We learn that: When Someone asked Elon Musk “You don’t have any degree in Aeronautics and still You are the founder most successful private Rocket Company. How did…
Were 1990s Russians dumbfounded when they first visited capitalist grocery stores?
Yes it is true. There is a rare video of Boris Yeltsin, after visiting the Johnson Flight Center, making an unscheduled visit to a grocery store in Houston,…
Was it really necessary to rename the Gulf of Mexico?
Let me start with the elephant in the room. I am neither American nor Mexican so I have no stake in the naming/renaming game. My opinion about the…
Is Steven Seagal really a martial arts expert?
Let’s start out by saying that Steven Seagal is extremely cocky, extremely overweight and has been proven to tell lies. I won’t go into all of them, but…
When people fire guns into the air to celebrate New Year’s eve, is there a risk or danger from the bullets coming back down? Or not so much anymore because of the speed and gravity as well as velocity compared to when first fired?
Yea pretty stupid idea. People who do this don’t understand physics—Let me tell you why it’ll kill you—just as dead as a direct shot. A bullet fired straight…
Do firemen just sit around at work waiting for a fire to happen? Do they still get paid if there’s no fires one day? What do they do all day long in this instance?
I can give you a full break down of a typical day or just summarize. We start shift promptly at 0730. That means in uniform, gear on the…
What is a slap-in-the-face job offer?
I was a private chef making 100k a year cooking for a wonderful family in NYC. My roommate from culinary school asked me to come out to California…