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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jun 19, 2014 11:54:45 GMT
1. A staggering 99%!! 2. An even more vastly staggering number, 10 million times more luminous!! 4. Just shy of 26 hours 5. 3 inches a year 1 The figure I have is 99.85% so to the nearest 1% the answer should be 100% as you are within 1% its worth a staggering 1 Point 2 I have an even larger figure of 25 million times more luminous but you are on the right order of magnitude and there are varying figures quoted in different literature so 1 point to you, the Pistol star is so huge that it would almost cover the orbit of the earth and emits as much energy in 1.25 seconds as the sun would in a whole year!!! 3 you are going the wrong way here 5 a slightly lower figure is required here but great bit of research bpm |
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jun 19, 2014 13:57:51 GMT
On doing some reading i just discovered science has lied to me, VY Canis Majoris is actually smaller than like 5 other stars, and i thought it was biggest by a country mile!! How wrong can one man be.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jun 19, 2014 14:45:06 GMT
On doing some reading i just discovered science has lied to me, VY Canis Majoris is actually smaller than like 5 other stars, and i thought it was biggest by a country mile!! How wrong can one man be. Like most things bpm you might have been right last week and wrong this week, especially when wives are involved!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 22:09:17 GMT
13 Sounds like James Bond, and Roger Moore.......I'll say The Spy Who Loved Me.
19 Sounds like Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jun 19, 2014 23:10:17 GMT
13 Sounds like James Bond, and Roger Moore.......I'll say The Spy Who Loved Me. 19 Sounds like Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather. 13 on the ball here Tommo 1 point 19 on the right track but wrong station here |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jun 19, 2014 23:15:21 GMT
tommo 7 points
bigphilmac 4.5 points
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Post by Dunplaying on Jun 30, 2014 23:35:33 GMT
14. Star Wars IV (Princess Leia on seeing Han Solo's spaceship)
15. Animal House?
18. The Addams Family?
20. Bob the Builder?
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 1, 2014 15:27:25 GMT
14. Star Wars IV (Princess Leia on seeing Han Solo's spaceship) 15. Animal House? 18. The Addams Family? 20. Bob the Builder? welcome dun 14&15 Correct 18 & 20 incorrect 2 points |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2014 22:09:17 GMT
19 on the right track but wrong station here Silly me ! I can see Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) saying it now, so it must be Godfather Part II. |
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Post by Dunplaying on Jul 2, 2014 23:33:19 GMT
4. I watched a documentary on this a few weeks ago, They proved through core samples that the earth was turning in about 20 hours.
5. As above, I think it was about 1 and a half inches per year.
18. Apocolypse now.
20. Shaft.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 3, 2014 7:04:54 GMT
4. I watched a documentary on this a few weeks ago, They proved through core samples that the earth was turning in about 20 hours. 5. As above, I think it was about 1 and a half inches per year. 18. Apocolypse now. 20. Shaft. 4&5 Close enough for 2 Points I have 21 Hours and 3cm all to do with tidal effects, the tides on the earth have been slowing the earths rotation over time, the distance from the moon affects the tides, if you project back to the 3.8 billion years when the moon was created the earths rotation (day)would have been fascinatingly fast and the tides would have been fascinatingly high and the distance to the moon would have been fascinatingly short, don't forget newtons law on gravitation which make the whole thing truly fascinating 1 additional fascinating point 18 Correct 20 will have to try harder, even fight your way across town to get home! 4 points to Dun |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 3, 2014 7:08:22 GMT
19 on the right track but wrong station here Silly me ! I can see Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) saying it now, so it must be Godfather Part II. Correct for 1 Point |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 3, 2014 7:28:04 GMT
Points Tally
tommo 8pts
Dunplaying 8pts
bigphilmac 5.5pts
Questions 6 carbon crystals still to be answered for 3points
and left
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Post by Dunplaying on Jul 22, 2014 1:03:23 GMT
12. Shampoo?
20 The Warriors?
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 23, 2014 17:02:28 GMT
12. Shampoo? 20 The Warriors? correct 2 points dun |
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jul 24, 2014 8:38:30 GMT
16 is the Exorcist
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 25, 2014 1:07:37 GMT
Yes well done bpm for 1 point, just 1 crystalline answer to go, if my name was coline it might be my best friend! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 7:39:07 GMT
if my name was coline it might be my best friend! 20 must then be The Warriors = an old gangster movie from 1979.  |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 25, 2014 8:12:46 GMT
correct tommo but you were pipped by Dun, all film quotes were from 1970's movies
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jul 25, 2014 9:17:41 GMT
6. Lets have another go shall we!! A huge amount of mass unaccounted for in the universe? And because of great variances in mass they are unable to sustain themselves?
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 25, 2014 15:27:17 GMT
hi bpm, nice try but getting cooler, if you look back I have given a couple of clues, a girl might help you find the answer
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jul 25, 2014 18:29:05 GMT
Your mention of crystals has got me thinking. Because the elements being burnt in the white dwarf stage simply cannot be burnt anymore in the black dwarf stage due to the drastic cooling down, if I remember my chemistry elements when they cool down go from being a gas, to a liquid, and then finally to a solid. As intense heat is the thing that emits light, my guess that intense cooling down will cause solidifying/crystalisation of the elements.
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 25, 2014 18:55:23 GMT
Yes bpm due to the pressure and heat there was an element soup which had liquid carbon falling to the centre due to gravity as this soup cools down the carbon solidifies forming carbon crystals , do you remember your chemistry at school where you made copper sulphate crystals from solution, a similar process here but on a planetary scale. So we have carbon crystals which from the clue above a girl would like ......
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jul 25, 2014 19:33:38 GMT
So at the centre is diamonds!!
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Jul 25, 2014 21:20:19 GMT
So at the centre is diamonds!! we got there in the end bpm, yes a set of diamonds encompassing a volume the size of the earth, somewhere there could be a single diamond the size of mercury !!!!! I think that's got to be slightly fascinating and well worth 3 points Points summary Bigphilmac 8.5pts Dunplaying 8pts Tommo 8pts |
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Post by BigPhilMac on Jul 26, 2014 8:59:20 GMT
So at the centre is diamonds!! we got there in the end bpm, yes a set of diamonds encompassing a volume the size of the earth, somewhere there could be a single diamond the size of mercury !!!!! I think that's got to be slightly fascinating and well worth 3 points Points summary Bigphilmac 8.5pts Dunplaying 8pts Tommo 8pts One the size of Mercury sounds magnificent. Goes to show the vast scale of the universe when objects like that potentially exist. |
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