NimbleJack3 said:
heyheysg said:
ottenni said:
Why is a group of Owls called a parliament?
Oh there's a Sandman comic that explains that, plus a Murder of Crows
Wasn't it a parliament of
rooks?
Pretty damn sure it's owls. Rooks are mobs, if I recall correctly (anyone know for sure?) Rooks are also rather intelligent. They're at least as good as chimpanzees and other primates at using tools.
Armored Prayer said:
If a vampire sucks a victim's blood and the victim has AIDS, what will happen to the vampire?
It's very possible that the vampire would in fact be capable of destroying the AIDS virus internally, in the same way as the mosquito (it would make sense for a blood-sucking organism).
LeonHellsvite said:
why do people say they have a consience I never met or saw mine =(
Because other people don't pretend to be as cool as you.
Woem said:
Did the Christian God create just Earth or all other planets as well? In the Bible it says he created just Earth and I'm wondering what that implies when we get in contact with other species. Would those aliens be created by another God? Or would those aliens also be created by the Christian God?
Amusingly enough, someone from the Vatican was at NASA not too long ago discussing exactly that. They maintained the amazingly open-minded position that aliens could well exist, and that perhaps God may have told them something he hasn't told us. Alternatively, he might not have reached them yet, in which case it would be our duty to bring the word of God to them. Which of course brings up the rather challenging question of whether aliens would have souls (presumably yes if they were, like us, created in the divine image and likeness of God). So in answer to your question: the Pope is working on it, he should get back with an answer whenever he feels like it.
RebellionXXI said:
But what the heck is 'nigging' supposed to be?!
Presumably something done by the inhabitants of Niger.
heyheysg said:
Do animals get turned on by pictures and videos?
Some do, certainly. I think it was chimpanzees who would trade food for chimp porn (those wacky scientists), but it might have been gorillas. Fun fact: a female pigeon can only ovulate if she can see another pigeon. If no other pigeon is around, her own reflection in a mirror will do.
El Dingo said:
Who was the first guy to think it'd be a good idea to drink cow's milk? When you stop and think about it... It's a REALLY creepy thought.
It's also massively nutritious and a REALLY easy meal if you can find a cow (or bison or goat or sheep or whatever you had originally). And how is it that creepy? We drink our mother's milk, but we don't eat people, whereas we do eat cows.
Pm0n3y said:
And if a plant eats another plant, would the predator plant be called a carnivore, a herbivore, or an omnivore?
Herbivore, presumably, since the terms roughly translate as "meat-eating", "plant-eating" or "all-eating". Are there any plants that eat other plants though, that's the question. Ivy kills trees it's on, but is that because it just steals their nutrients or actually eats them or what?
My question (not all that weird, but about a weird thing; does that count?)
How the hell does morphic resonance work? (when suddenly blue-tits in England and Scotland simultaneously learn to peck open milk bottles, and sheep in New Zealand thousands of miles apart learn simultaneously to roll over cattle grids, that kind of thing.)