And the stupid question award goes to.......

[Xanadu84]

"What's the speed of dark?" -.-

That's not a stupid question! It is the exact inverse of the speed of light through the medium in question. It's like asking how light passes through a vacuum when there is nothing in it for it to pass through (imagine a thick plastic case, completely see through - make the insides a vacuum, then shine a torch onto one side - what happens).

Actually dark has no speed since it doesn't really exist. It's merely a lack of light.

According to current knowledge yes, hence my comment/statement about the vacuum thing. How does light pass through space if there is nothing to pass through? Especially when we consider that the speed of light is relative to the medium that it transfers to. And also that light can be bent and curved. Gravity, black hole physics, the unproven concept of FTL - lots of things to look into if you end up at university or bored at work.

Dark is the fastest thing there is: After all, it has to be fast enough to get out of the way of moving light.

(If you get the reference, you deserve a cookie)

 

[Cowabungaa]

Dark is the fastest thing there is: After all, it has to be fast enough to get out of the way of moving light.

(If you get the reference, you deserve a cookie)

Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man. Or Mort, but I'm pretty sure it's Reaper Man. Or at least Discworld

 

[Xanadu84]

You deserve a Cookie. I don't have one...but you deserve one.

I remembered it from a Science of Discworld book, where there talking about concepts that are actually absences of something, then personified (Dark, cold, death, etc), and they reference Reaper Man. I'm pretty sure its Reaper Man. I'm not sure anymore, now that you have questioned it.

 

[experiment0789]

Just recently I went to a electronics store(I don't remember which one) to get a remote for my radio. I found two people who worked there....This was are conversation

Me: Hi I got a radio from this stores catalog and it didn't come with the remote...so can I buy one?

Man1: It didn't come with one? It should of come with one.

Man two: (pretty much did nothing but repeat guy 1)

Me: Yes, I didn't get one with it, that's why I'm here to see if I can buy the one in the catalog or one that would work with it.

Man1: It doesn't have one.

Me: I know that's why I'm here to buy one.

Man1: It doesn't have one.

Me: I know,can I buy one for it?

Man1: It doesn't have one.

Me: Thank you(I leafed)

I can understand not having a remote for a product sold in its stores catalog with the remote shown, but not having another remote to work the radio that I bought from them.

Another thing is when I found the product on the shelf's it showed the radio with the remote on the box.

Umm...I'm pretty sure he was telling you that its supposed to come with a remote in the package, and there's not a separate one you can buy. They probably don't sell ones separately because a remote should come with the product itself, so no one would need to buy them. I'm sure if you had said that yours was missing the remote, and you needed one with a remote, they would have let you exchange it. If not, it's poor customer service, not a stupid question. I'm afraid that the stupid question here is, "I know, can I buy it?".

1. I said in the first line of the conversation "Me: Hi I got a radio from this stores catalog and it didn't come with the remote...so can I buy one?" so yes I did tell him it didn't come with a remote!
2. if they didn't have a separate one for it they could of just said "we don't have another remote for that radio"!
3. I know it's supposed to come with a remote in the package, that is why I was there to ask for that actual remote,a substitute , or a new radio that comes with the remote!
4. poor customer service or not it was still stupid,making your self not clear and not being able to help your customer when you are the head of the electronics department is stupid!
5.I think "Man1: It didn't come with one? It should of come with one." is a pretty stupid question/comment when I already said It didn't come with one!

If you read it more thoroughly you would of saw that .

 

[tront]

Not so much a question.

"Hey look that girl has the same clothes as me" while looking in a mirror.

 

[sonicspin]

To my 21 year old sister who once spewed the following words from her yammering skull cave, "Waitaminute... Are Canadians from Canada?"

 

[Nick-O]

how is it humanly possible to not see an unpeeled banana?

 

[Xender90]

This story is not mine, but it is very stupid.

Joe:"24 hour pizza how can I help you?"

Costumer:"How late are you open?"

Joe:"24 hours a day."

Costumer:"what do you have on your mushroom and peperoni pizza?"

Joe:"Well, it has mushrooms and peperoni."

Costumer:"O.K. I'll take two."

(Costumer hangs up the phone. 30 minuets latter he calls back.)

Costumer:"were is my pizza?"

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Isn't h1n1 a racist virus name since it is pretty much the same as Shini which is a Jewish Curse? (Apologies at that little poke at another thread here).

Honestly though it would be "What movie are we watching" right after the title flicked onto the screen.

 

[Hippopotamus]

I went to Denny's and ordered the Omelette with mushrooms. The waitress came back shortly, informing me that they were out of mushrooms.

I proceeded to order a mushroom burger.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Someone in my school asked.

"I wonder if I can ever go talk to the sun people on the sun?"

Followed by:

"I bet it would be great to get a tan there!"

Last one wasn't a question, but the point still stands.

 

[MizzyKwikkid]

no joke, freshman year of high school, girl came up to me, totally serious and asked, "what's a tornado?"

i lived in maryland at the time. we have a tornado SEASON. she grew up there. xD i never answered her due to laughing my pants off.

 

[the_hessian]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.110303

not to be snooty or elitist... but dear god it's simple... like the first law/formula/thing you learn in physics!!!

 

[MarxonSR1]

My friend when filling in his CV had just started, reached over and asked me,
"Hey, what's my name again"
If I ever stopped laughing I don't remember.

Or when I stole my friend's glasses from his face while he dozed off, placed them on his head. He awoke with a start looked me straight in the eye serious as can be and asked me:
"Hey, mate where are my glasses"

 

[Harbinger_]

Ran through someone's stuff at a cash register and told them the total, handed them the receipt and the amount showed up on the screen which the customer could see. What did the customer ask? "How much did this all cost?"

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Sitting in World History class, studying Oligarchy, a type of government, when this kid says "Oligarchy... Is that where they got Olive Garden from?" This is the same kid who once ate miracle grow because he thought he'd grow faster (and he was big enough he really didn't need to do any growing anyways). Also, he was a football player, and once was caught pulling a hotdog out of his pants in the middle of a game that he had stashed there before the game incase he got hungry. Needless to say, he wasn't exactly the brightest light in the outhouse.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Sitting in World History class, studying Oligarchy, a type of government, when this kid says "Oligarchy... Is that where they got Olive Garden from?" This is the same kid who once ate miracle grow because he thought he'd grow faster (and he was big enough he really didn't need to do any growing anyways). Also, he was a football player, and once was caught pulling a hotdog out of his pants in the middle of a game that he had stashed there before the game incase he got hungry. Needless to say, he wasn't exactly the brightest light in the outhouse.

Oh, the classic 'it was in case I got hungry' excuse...

 

[Fbuh]

"How much does this cost?"

I work at a Dollar Tree. Everything costs one dollar.

 

[CaptainREBell]

A classmate: "Where do bricks grow?" ...I hated that class.
Another classmate: "If we lock ourselves in this room, will we be immune to swine flu?"
My friend, whilst drawing and looks at ther hand: "Oh, what's that? Oh, it's me!!"
Me? Umm...: "What am I doing here??" whilst on toilet X3
In general: "Really??" after pretty much anything. Not helped by a biting sense of sarcasm.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.110303

not to be snooty or elitist... but dear god it's simple... like the first law/formula/thing you learn in physics!!!

So much more reason to question it!