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siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:37 PM
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:37 PM
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?
athena
03-02-2005, 03:37 PM
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
er...you want professional view on this? ;)
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:38 PM
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:39 PM
er...you want professional view on this? ;)
Yup, why not?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:39 PM
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:40 PM
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:42 PM
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why and how do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:43 PM
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
athena
03-02-2005, 03:44 PM
Yup, why not?
technically speaking, by pressing harder on the remote control, i feel it does help. electronics basically work on the concept of charge transfer. when the batteries, are new, there are more charges available . the contact of the button on the remote control are mechanical. slight contact(surface contact) , with lotsa charges, the remote works. when the batteries are weak,press harder, hopefully surface contact is bigger, helping to ease the transfer.
any engineers out there to help me out here? :)
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:46 PM
technically speaking, by pressing harder on the remote control, i feel it does help. electronics basically work on the concept of charge transfer. when the batteries, are new, there are more charges available . the contact of the button on the remote control are mechanical. slight contact(surface contact) , with lotsa charges, the remote works. when the batteries are weak,press harder, hopefully surface contact is bigger, helping to ease the transfer.
Then how do you explain why ppl hit the remote control on their palm hoping that it works too?
athena
03-02-2005, 03:49 PM
Then how do you explain why ppl hit the remote control on their palm hoping that it works too?
hmmm....tricky....let's see....professional view:
you see, there will be buildup at the terminals(postive negative) due to chemical reaction. so by hitting the remote on the palm, they are actually loosening the buildup. alternatively, you could remove the batteries and just wipe it off . :)
siewjang
03-02-2005, 03:53 PM
Athena, which will you normally do?
athena
03-02-2005, 03:57 PM
Athena, which will you normally do?
i remove the batteries..hehe...
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:09 PM
i remove the batteries..hehe...
That will normally be the last resort ppl does.
athena
03-02-2005, 04:11 PM
That will normally be the last resort ppl does.
i dun change the batteries..just remove to clean nia :D
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:14 PM
darn... should have told me this yesterday. I just threw away my batteries.
athena
03-02-2005, 04:15 PM
darn... should have told me this yesterday. I just threw away my batteries.
hehe...not too much of a waste la. lifespan nearly up anyway :D
hey congrats jang...touchdown wrong place though :D
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:41 PM
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?
Insufficient Funds for THAT account only mar.
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:42 PM
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Because there is no way to check the actual amount of stars out there. To check whether paint is wet, walk up and touch the surface...
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:44 PM
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Glue reacts chemically with air. in the bottle.. not enough air to make it react (and turn hard)
Tarzan got into a little accident when young which restricts beard growth..
dreamwh
03-02-2005, 04:44 PM
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
its more like 4,121,312,675... tak percaya pegi kira la.
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:47 PM
Superman's bullet stopping ability rely on the speed of the moving object he is stopping. Should any object fall below 100ft per second, it will hurt him. That is why he has to avoid a gun being thrown at him.
Bubbles are formed when air is trapped inside the thin film of chemical consisting of water and bubble bath liquid. The colour of the bubble bath liquid does not make the soapy bubbles. They are just colouring.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:48 PM
Because there is no way to check the actual amount of stars out there. To check whether paint is wet, walk up and touch the surface...
Oh I see........ but I know Dino will check at the website is you ask him the amount of stars out there. no?
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:49 PM
its more like 4,121,312,675... tak percaya pegi kira la.
Have you just done a goggle check on that?
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:50 PM
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why and how do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
Previously in 400 AD, the urugalap people use wooden craze measuring 26' x 13' to store food stuff. It is more like a community thing where the it is a village food store. So even if you check it out and there are not food items you like, you can always return to find new food items other villagers put in.
Enclosures, especially wooden crates are built using wood. Most of these bugs come as larvae in the wood which eventually become bugs and end up eating whatever is in the enclosure and then die after there is nothing to eat.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:53 PM
Superman's bullet stopping ability rely on the speed of the moving object he is stopping. Should any object fall below 100ft per second, it will hurt him. That is why he has to avoid a gun being thrown at him.
make sense.
Bubbles are formed when air is trapped inside the thin film of chemical consisting of water and bubble bath liquid. The colour of the bubble bath liquid does not make the soapy bubbles. They are just colouring
Scientific answer
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 04:54 PM
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
This has been discussed in detail by Mr. Yung and local pyschologist Mr. Paul Jambunathan. The result was conflicting but both agreed on one aspect where people generally do not like confrontation and thus just brush off the incident when it happened by would bring it back out two years later when they meet up with some frens for yamcha sessions.
fishingcow
03-02-2005, 04:55 PM
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:56 PM
Enclosures, especially wooden crates are built using wood. Most of these bugs come as larvae in the wood which eventually become bugs and end up eating whatever is in the enclosure and then die after there is nothing to eat.
We are talking about a light fitting. Don't think that is any larvae in the florescent tube. Try again.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:57 PM
This has been discussed in detail by Mr. Yung and local pyschologist Mr. Paul Jambunathan. The result was conflicting but both agreed on one aspect where people generally do not like confrontation and thus just brush off the incident when it happened by would bring it back out two years later when they meet up with some frens for yamcha sessions.
Doesn't click.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 04:58 PM
Tarzan got into a little accident when young which restricts beard growth..
muahahahaaaa did your father tell you that?
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 05:00 PM
We are talking about a light fitting. Don't think that is any larvae in the florescent tube. Try again.
As for bugs in the light fitting, extensive research was done at the Los Alamos Centre for Scientific Reseach. The research was headed by a Japanese-American by the name of Mr. Tsutomu Shimomura. The bugs found in light fittings are Neocrolites, basically grouped under moths, are attracted to lights. They have an uncanny ability to squeeze throw tight spots and thus able to get into the light fittings. Other findings of the research was deemed classified.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 05:01 PM
Previously in 400 AD, the urugalap people use wooden craze measuring 26' x 13' to store food stuff. It is more like a community thing where the it is a village food store. So even if you check it out and there are not food items you like, you can always return to find new food items other villagers put in.
Even if you are staying alone, you will still does that altho you know there is nothing left in the fridge. It's a human's spontaneous act...I think.
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 05:03 PM
muahahahaaaa did your father tell you that?
It was a fact that when that momma gorilla saved little tarzan from the big bad cat, little tarzan wriggled and slipped from momma gorilla's hands and hurt this obladi oblongata which hindered beard growth. Rumour has it that some other parts did not grow hair either..
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 05:06 PM
Even if you are staying alone, you will still does that altho you know there is nothing left in the fridge. It's a human's spontaneous act...I think.
That is why.. it was imprinted into mankind long time ago that when you return to fridge, you might find something more in there to eat.
siewjang
03-02-2005, 05:07 PM
It was a fact that when that momma gorilla saved little tarzan from the big bad cat, little tarzan wriggled and slipped from momma gorilla's hands and hurt this obladi oblongata which hindered beard growth. Rumour has it that some other parts did not grow hair either..
Hei, he does had some chest hair, ok?
LiLiaN
03-02-2005, 05:13 PM
Hei, he does had some chest hair, ok?
really? :huh:
siewjang
03-02-2005, 05:18 PM
Yeah, check them out.
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 05:20 PM
Hei, he does had some chest hair, ok?
Those are implanted using gorilla hair.
dreamwh
03-02-2005, 05:27 PM
Have you just done a goggle check on that?
that was supposed to be joke la.... the actual number of stars probably is way more than a trillion.
remember google is not the be all and end all of everything... its a bloody search engine.
kamkuey
03-02-2005, 05:29 PM
that was supposed to be joke la.... the actual number of stars probably is way more than a trillion.
remember google is not the be all and end all of everything... its a bloody search engine.
MUAHAHAHAHA...
Our HQ a little slow lar.. kekekekeke
why so many 'whys'?
why siewjang suddenly ask so many 'why'?
why everyone has their own answers to answer siewjang?
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 09:05 AM
Why why tell me why..
Voon Chan
03-03-2005, 09:06 AM
Why? SJ Why?
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 09:10 AM
Why does the sun.. goes on shining...
Why does the sea rush to shore...
dun they know its the end of the world...when u don love me anymore.......wo wo yea yea, i missed u more than i can say .......love u more than i can say...
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 09:18 AM
... dum dum dum dum.. trumtum tum tum tum... now she was afraid to come out of the locker... she was a nervous as sh-e would be....
... dum dum dum dum.. trumtum tum tum tum... now she was afraid to come out of the locker... she was a nervous as sh-e would be....
it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini - that she wore for the first time that day..
why is it that when we taste food that seems to have gone bad, our instinct is to say to whoever's next to us "Here, taste this!" when we KNOW it is definitely gone bad and we shouldn't eat it?
dreamwh
03-03-2005, 09:33 AM
Why skarang tak ada ais kapai?
Why skarang tak ada ais kapai?
researchers have found that with global warming, the ais kepai was proven to melt within 2 seconds of being held by a human being. and the threat of pollutants in the haze going into the ais kepai caused ais kepai to be banned from all the shops. to make up for the hole in the ais kepai market, shopkeepers invented the ais krim potong!! :D
dreamwh
03-03-2005, 09:51 AM
why skarang tak ada chickadee?
why skarang tak ada chickadee?
WHATTT?? Takde chickadee???? whennn? whyyyy? HOW can this be???? :mad:
twisties still got ah??
dreamwh
03-03-2005, 10:57 AM
WHATTT?? Takde chickadee???? whennn? whyyyy? HOW can this be???? :mad:
twisties still got ah??
Twisties doing better than ever... Now got a stupid series of ads in TV featuring two bros with Afro (go figure) fighting over twisties....Got Twisties is US ah?
siewjang
03-03-2005, 11:07 AM
that was supposed to be joke la.... the actual number of stars probably is way more than a trillion.
remember google is not the be all and end all of everything... its a bloody search engine.
Guys, that is a critism la. You thought I believe you ah? Gilababi joker. :p
siewjang
03-03-2005, 11:14 AM
Why does we called it a black box but the actual colour on it is orange?
Sarah
03-03-2005, 11:27 AM
haha, this thread is really funny laa.... keep it up SJ, continue asking whywhy....
Sarah
03-03-2005, 11:27 AM
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
that's a really good one.. maybe I should try that next time... :)
dreamwh
03-03-2005, 11:28 AM
Why does we called it a black box but the actual colour on it is orange?
Pernah tengok ke engkau?
siewjang
03-03-2005, 11:33 AM
Pernah tengok ke engkau?
I read it somewhere that it is orange. It's orange in colour cos after the crash, it is easier for the rescue team to locate it but why was it called a black box?
dreamwh
03-03-2005, 11:39 AM
I read it somewhere that it is orange. It's orange in colour cos after the crash, it is easier for the rescue team to locate it but why was it called a black box?
Orange box doesn't sound kool enough...
in our office we also have a white RS485 to RS232 converter, HQ calls it a black-box too. Maybe black-box is anything that stores/processes/encrypts data.
siewjang
03-03-2005, 11:41 AM
mysterious data... jeng, jeng, jeng... :cool:
in a plane there's alot of black box for every corner of the plane (engines, many switches etc:). its to record every part/thing that occured inside. so when a plane crashes, when the finds the box, it can play out, what has happened in the 1st place eg: which cable fused etc:).
y name orange, that myself also dunno. (ahem, im in the aviation line :))
athena
03-03-2005, 01:36 PM
question:if in a plane crash, the black box is alright, why dun they just mk the plane out of the stuff they used to mk the box?
siewjang
03-03-2005, 01:42 PM
Clos & Athena, jawapan tidak memadai. Sila cuba lagi.
tht gotto ask those who mk the planes (mk not invent ah!)....
sj>y dun u search in yahoo engine leh? ask us also dunno wan lah. if u know post aje lah. jgn asyik 'tiday memadai'...
siewjang
03-03-2005, 01:55 PM
This is how we keep the thread going. Good try. :p
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 02:03 PM
This is how we keep the thread going. Good try. :p
It is orange because, as you all have answered, easier to identify/find. It is called the black box because the pilots/passengers initially did not know that it was installed in the aircraft, thus the name black. It was also initially painted in black to deter recognition as something just installed.
To make the entire aircraft out of the blackbox material would not be financially and operationally feasible due to the cost and weight.
siewjang
03-03-2005, 02:08 PM
Your answer make them sound stupig.
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 02:13 PM
Your answer make them sound stupig.
Who is "them"?
and why is it so?
siewjang
03-03-2005, 02:22 PM
Who is "them"?
and why is it so?
Them = the person who invented the name.
why = it's orange colour but they called it black.
mightythor
03-03-2005, 02:33 PM
kam kuey kam kuey
can you read your PM now, i mean now
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 02:38 PM
OK OK.. now the actual answer.
The black box is what engineers (and sometimes IT people) call a device which does processing/recording. For example, my boss and I call my little programme which crunches some numbers and giving out some information THE BLACK BOX. Eg.
"Eh.. kamkuey.. why not run these data throught THE BLACK BOX"
The bright orange box is the housing for the black box or flight data recorder. So technically, the bright orange box is NOT the blackbox but it is what is inside it. But since so many people call it the black box, people just call the whole thing the black box. Just now how most people refer to toothpaste as colgate.
Some pics...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/kamkuey/black-box-ntsb-990c.jpg
What is inside the ORANGE BOX
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/kamkuey/black-box-alaska-cvr.jpg
The ORANGE BOX
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/kamkuey/black-box-location.jpg
how the black box is rigged.
janicejoy
03-03-2005, 02:40 PM
Aiseh man you beat me to this! Kam Kueh - u lucky I'm busy at work - not like somebody so free. hah!
to answer athena>
As for those of you who wonder as to why the entire plane is not made of the same material as the black boxes, the reason is that if they did, the plane would be so heavy that they would need a runway right from the point of departure till the point of arrival. This is because the black boxes are made of quarter inch thick stainless steel plates, while the rest of the plane is made of light material like aluminum and plastic.
kamkuey
03-03-2005, 02:54 PM
to answer athena>
As for those of you who wonder as to why the entire plane is not made of the same material as the black boxes, the reason is that if they did, the plane would be so heavy that they would need a runway right from the point of departure till the point of arrival. This is because the black boxes are made of quarter inch thick stainless steel plates, while the rest of the plane is made of light material like aluminum and plastic.
Wah.. the aviation lady has spoken!!
siewjang
03-03-2005, 03:31 PM
clos company is building air-craft or something like that. that is why she know well.
not building aircraft lah. so 'keng' meh.
trading aircraft parts....we play planes not cars :)
siewjang
03-03-2005, 05:12 PM
Very close also.
daLady
03-03-2005, 05:35 PM
Why do people talk louder or shout into the receiver or mobile phone when they can't hear the person on the other line (although the other person can hear them perfectly well)?
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