January 2004
2004.01.08
How deep is Challenger Deep?
2004.01.07
How tall is Mount Everest?
2004.01.06
How many US states connect to 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. others?
2004.01.05
What is twos' compliment notation?
2004.01.04
When and where was FedEx founded?
2004.01.03
Will the exploration rover "Spirit" land successfully on Mars?
2004.01.02
What is Benoit Sokal up to these days?
2004.01.01 Is
pure Oxygen heavier or lighter than air?
December 2003
2003.12.31 Where is Lake Biwako?
2003.12.30 When
and where was UPS founded?
2003.12.29 How large a data file would be
required to store satellite imagery, topography and bathymetry of the Earth to
1-meter resolution?
2003.12.28 Do
the so-called Australian "road trains" exist?
2003.12.27 What
is a "squib," damp or otherwise?
2003.12.26 What,
exactly, is a "kahuna?"
2003.12.25 Can you get good sushi delivered
in West Boca?
2003.12.24
What is the origin of the word
Yule (as in Yuletide / Yule Log etc)?
2003.12.23 Can
a stock 747 get out of Rio Amazonas (SESM) in one piece (in Flight Simulator
2004)?
2003.12.22 What
causes the 137GB IDE drive limitation?
2003.12.21 Does
icing really exist in Flight Simulator 2004?
2003.12.20 What
are the eight neopagan Sabbats?
2003.12.19 Has
anyone walked on the moon in my lifetime?
2003.12.18 What
are the Star Trek "Quadrants?"
2003.12.17 What
is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
2003.12.16 Qui
est "Toutatis"?
2003.12.15 Was
Pliny the Elder any relation to Pliny the Younger?
2003.12.14 Why
does a Newton's Cradle behave as it does?
2003.12.13 What
is meant by the term "Rare Earth?"
2003.12.12 "WikiBooks?"
This sounds cool -- what is it?
2003.12.11 What
is (or was) the US carrier CV-66?
2003.12.10 What
is meant by "Calvary?" Can so many people really be misspelling
"Cavalry?"
2003.12.09 What is NafionTM?
2003.12.08 How
does a "ratchetless" roller clutch mechanism work?
2003.12.07 What
is (or was) Xanadu?
2003.12.06 Is
there such a thing as Adamantine?
2003.12.05 Where
is Bassett, VA?
2003.12.04 How
easily can two random pages in WikiPedia be linked through surfing nongeneral
hyperlinks?
2003.12.03 Is
the Zilog Z80 still being manufactured?
2003.12.02 What
vocal ranges correspond to Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Soprano etc?
2003.12.01 How
well does BitTorrent work?
November 2003
2003.11.30 What
is the difference between Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area
Networks (SAN)s?
2003.11.29 What is typical of large
data-storage-center capacities?
2003.11.28 What
is required (in the United States) for a school to be considered a University?
2003.11.27
What genus and species are
turkeys, anyway?
2003.11.26 How
large would the entire NASA APOD site be, if mirrored?
2003.11.25 Can Flight Simulator be
modified so as to allow deployment of thrust reversers while airborne?
2003.11.24 Can a 737 (in Flight
Simulator) be landed safely using only autopilot controls?
2003.11.23 What are the respective
market values of (similar stones of) diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, etc?
2003.11.22 What
is the chemical composition of caffeine?
2003.11.21 What
is the chemical composition of (grain) alcohol?
2003.11.20
What is the exact meaning of the shipping term "Freight On
Board" ("FOB")?
2003.11.19 How
is Dry Ice manufactured and stored?
2003.11.18 How
much does Dry Ice cost per pound?
2003.11.17 What
is an "inner product space?"
2003.11.16 What
is a "Hilbert space?"
2003.11.15 What does (the European
video standard) SECAM stand for?
2003.11.14 What does (the European
video standard) PAL stand for?
2003.11.13 What does VHS stand for,
anyway?
2003.11.12
What is the SR-71 Blackbird like to fly (in Flight Simulator)?
2003.11.11
What exactly are the "Seven Corners" in Northern Virginia?
2003.11.10 Who
was Arthur Treacher?
2003.11.09 How far could a Cessna 182S
fly (in Flight Simulator) with an extreme amount of fuel?
2003.11.08 Is
there a single highway that stretches across the US, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific?
2003.11.07
What is the large-scale chronology of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth?
2003.11.06 What is the "Axiom of
Choice"?
2003.11.05 Can a fair, N-sided die be
made?
2003.11.04 Can
a set of nodes be connected in a manner such that one or more nodes can be said
to belong to more than one community of nodes in the set?
2003.11.03
What does Pi look like in
numbering systems other than Base 10?
2003.11.02 What
is one method to calculate the square root of 2 to arbitrary precision?
2003.11.01 What
is Borwein's Algorithm?
October 2003
2003.10.31
Where and when is Hallowe'en thought to have originated?
2003.10.30
What is a Hobgoblin, traditionally?
2003.10.29 Has
a Triple Eagle (or "Condor" or "Ostrich") ever occurred in
regulation golf?
2003.10.28
What does a Canadair RegionJet 200 fly like (in Flight Simulator 2004)?
2003.10.27
How accurate is the modern Gregorian calendar thought to be?
2003.10.26 Who
wrote The Harmony Of Song theme from Cosmos??
2003.10.25 What
are the various musical modes?
2003.10.24 Is
Uluru ("Ayers' Rock") part of the default Flight Simulator 2004
scenery?
2003.10.23
What is Ayers' Rock doing in the middle of the Australian Outback?
2003.10.22 What
does (chicken) Ramen taste like?
2003.10.21 What
are the specific meanings of the British peerage titles of Lord, Duke, Earl,
etc?
2003.10.20 Was
there really a Mary, who had a little lamb?
2003.10.19 What
sort of radiotelescope apparatus would be needed to detect a reoccurrence of the
"Wow!" signal?
2003.10.18 Where
is the longest bridge in the world?
2003.10.17
Where and when did the artist Thomas Cole live?
2003.10.16
What is the highest-numbered element yet created?
2003.10.15 Where
did the expression "OK" come from?
2003.10.14 What
are the meanings of the microwave frequency band designations?
2003.10.13
How strong was the WOW! signal, and what sort of apparatus would be needed to
detect it?
2003.10.12
Where in the sky was the so-called "WOW!" signal located?
2003.10.11
What does a dishwasher "rinse aid" do?
2003.10.10
What is "Electrum"?
2003.10.09
What sort of material do they use in blue LEDs?
2003.10.08 How many miles per
gallon would a human get?
2003.10.07
In Spider Solitaire, can you lose by running out of cards in the tableau,
preventing a deal?
2003.10.06
With all
pieces on their starting squares, what are the worst odds against which a lone
King can draw, given perfect play?
2003.10.05
What is
the apparent area of the Mandelbrot Set?
2003.10.04 Can
a Cessna 182RG, in Flight Simulator, get to Canada from Boca Raton without
refueling?
2003.10.03
For King-and-Pawns vs. King-and-Rook, who wins?
2003.10.02 Is there any pattern to the set of trapezoidal numbers?
2003.10.01
Are there numbers which are both square and triangular?
September 2003
2003.09.30 For King-and-Pawns vs. King-and-Rooks, who wins?
2003.09.29 For King-and-Knights vs.
King-and-Bishops, who wins?
2003.09.28
For King-and-Rooks vs. King-and-Queen, who wins?
2003.09.27
For-King-and-Pawns vs. King-and-Queen, who wins?
2003.09.26
Can a 737 (in Flight Simulator) fly stably upside down?
2003.09.25
Can a 747 (in Flight Simulator) execute an inside loop?
2003.09.24 Are there
any caves in South Florida?
2003.09.23 What relation, if
any, does the Star Trek "stardate" system have to actual time?
2003.09.22 Given that Moore's Law continues to hold, how long will it probably be until we
could create a
computer (within reasonable budget constraints) which could solve the game of
Chess?
2003.09.21 What,
in 1000 words or fewer, is known about the songs of the Humpback Whales?
2003.09.20 For the King-vs-complete-army
Chess problem, what is the optimal solution?
2003.09.19
Given that a new model of computer -- twice as fast -- can be bought every 18
months for
the same price, and a problem requiring X amount of computer time, when is the
optimal
time to purchase a computer and start it to work?
2003.09.18
What's up with RoboTuna these days?
2003.09.17
How many of these Questions will I be likely to end up with over my expected
lifetime?
2003.09.16 Who was it that said, "Only God can create a
random number?"
2003.09.15 How difficult is it to create a
radioisotope-powered True Random Number Generator?
2003.09.14
What are the locations in XYZ co-ordinates of the nearest 50 stars to the Solar
System?
2003.09.13 What are the different types of
telescope eyepieces commonly in use for consumers/prosumers?
2003.09.12
Was there really such a thing as a "Velociraptor," or was this a
made-for-Hollywood beast?
2003.09.11 Who was credited with breeding
the first Basset Hounds?
2003.09.10 What are the technical
specifications for DVD Audio?
2003.09.09 What are the Geologic Ages
(Silurian, Pleistocene, Devonian, Ordovician, etc?)
2003.09.08
What does it mean to raise a number to a complex power?
2003.09.07
How much storage space would it
take to store, as 320kbit/sec mp3 files, enough music that you could listen
for the next
hundred years, never repeating a song?
2003.09.06
What is the proper usage of "lie down" and "lay down"?
2003.09.05
About how many times faster is a modern Athlon XP processor than the original
Intel 8088 CPU?
2003.09.04 What were the
so-called "Seven Seas?"
2003.09.03 Who was Nebuchadnezzar? (Or, why was
Morpheus' ship in The Matrix called the Nebuchadnezzar?)
2003.09.02 Who invented Air Conditioning?
2003.09.01
What are the frequency relationships between the tones in major and minor
chords?
August 2003
2003.08.31 Approximately how much more
efficient is C++, running under Linux, than QuickBasic 7.1, running under
Windows XP?
2003.08.30
Is there thought to be a highest Mersenne Prime?
2003.08.29
What is the approximate percentage rate of mutations in human genes?
2003.08.28
How many kinds of palm trees are there?
2003.08.27
What are Quaternions and Octonions?
2003.08.26
What is the proper usage of the words further and farther?
2003.08.25
What are the approximate wavelengths (and frequencies) of the colors of the
spectrum?
2003.08.24
What is required for a piece of music to be considered a fugue?
2003.08.23
What are Coulombs and Amperes, and how are the two related?
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