Author Topic: Episode #65 (Read 20487 times)

JHGRedekop · « **Reply #15 on:** Oct 21, 2006, 06:50:21 PM »

I can't remember who it was who suggested doing up an "Ass on Mars" website, but the great animated TV series Invader Zim beat you to it! In the episode Battle of the Planets, the alien Zim discovers that the Face on Mars is a piloting module that lets you fly Mars around the solar system like a rocket. His nemesis Dib (a UFO nut) sets out to foil him using the mysterious (but little known) "Butt on Mercury". Most of the rest of the episode is a hilarious chase scene with Mars and Mercury winging around the solar system like some Velikovskian fantasy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets_(Invader_Zim)

cosmicvagabond · « **Reply #16 on:** Oct 21, 2006, 08:54:48 PM »

This week's puzzle answer is:

Highlight here ---> The human palm

bigbad256 · « **Reply #17 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 12:24:47 AM »

I don't know about you guys but to me this does NOT look like

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Another shattered mechanical housing from the interior of Shorty Crater

it looks like a giant moon-lobster trying to hide from the camera under a rock. You can only see its red body and tail poking out towards the left of the image. One claw is seen also.

Giant lobsters ... mmmm... now there is a reason to go back to the moon. All I need now is a couple of candles, a bottle of bubbly and a date.

Clintsc9 · « **Reply #18 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 01:27:14 AM »

Totally agree with cosmicvagabond re his answer to the puzzle.

Congrats. You beat me to it.

cosmicvagabond · « **Reply #19 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 01:45:48 AM »

Quote from: "Clintsc9"

Totally agree with cosmicvagabond re his answer to the puzzle.

Congrats. You beat me to it.

Thanks. I probably just have more time to kill right now than you do. :wink:

bigbad256 · « **Reply #20 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 07:42:00 AM »

good call on the palm cosmic. gotta be right.

reed · « **Reply #21 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 09:29:08 AM »

Quote from: "bigbad256"

it looks like a giant moon-lobster trying to hide from the camera under a rock. You can only see its red body and tail poking out towards the left of the image. One claw is seen also.

Giant lobsters ... mmmm... now there is a reason to go back to the moon. All I need now is a couple of candles, a bottle of bubbly and a date.

You're probably right, bigbad. Right above the moon-lobster, they're giving you the thumbs-up.

cosmicvagabond · « **Reply #22 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 12:49:22 PM »

Quote from: "bigbad256"

good call on the palm cosmic. gotta be right.

Thank you...where's my prize? What? There's no prize? Aw bummer, man.

Clintsc9 · « **Reply #23 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 04:22:44 PM »

There is a prize Cosmic. I got one for the last puzzle. I got a mention on the podcast. You can't get a better prize than that.

Clintsc9 · « **Reply #24 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 04:26:28 PM »

Quote from: "bigbad256"

All I need now is a couple of candles, a bottle of bubbly and a date.

I'm sure of you looked around, you would find rocks that looked like candles, bottles of bubbly and dates. Enjoy. :lol:

JD · « **Reply #25 on:** Oct 22, 2006, 05:53:26 PM »

Two date rocks, please.

cosmicvagabond · « **Reply #26 on:** Oct 23, 2006, 01:50:54 AM »

Quote from: "Clintsc9"

There is a prize Cosmic. I got one for the last puzzle. I got a mention on the podcast. You can't get a better prize than that.

I was thinking more along the lines of a free brain transplant fron Dr. N. Mine is getting a little feeble in my old age. :wink:

Erik · « **Reply #27 on:** Oct 23, 2006, 12:09:59 PM »

I thought I heard it said that the nuclei of atoms are held together by the weak nuclear force. That would be the strong nuclear force that holds the nucleus of the atom together. Although the weak nuclear force is needed to build stable atoms with a large number of protons, it doesn't actually hold things together.

JHGRedekop · « **Reply #28 on:** Oct 23, 2006, 12:16:33 PM »

Quote from: "Erik"

I thought I heard it said that the nuclei of atoms are held together by the weak nuclear force. That would be the strong nuclear force that holds the nucleus of the atom together. Although the weak nuclear force is needed to build stable atoms with a large number of protons, it doesn't actually hold things together.

This is my understanding as well -- the strong force is responsible for holding nuclei together, and the weak force governs beta decay and some other interactions.

Since the strong force is very short-ranged, large nuclei become more and more unstable as the protons near the edges feel less and less of the strong force.

Steven Novella · « **Reply #29 on:** Oct 23, 2006, 04:44:44 PM »

Correct, I screwed that up. I was thinking that the strong force is what hold quarks together into protons and neutrons - which it does. But the residual strong force (which has also been called the colour fource) is also what holds protons together. The weak force mediates beta decay, and the residual weak force (or more accurately, the residual electroweak force) is electromagnetism.

Thanks for the correction