In a small metal fabricating shop, two men were welding aluminium brackets when both men felt dizzy and collapsed before they could get out of the shop. A foreman bringing his truck in to be fixed at that moment opened a bay door and drove in. Seeing the men on the floor, he jumped out […]
John was drinking a bottle of Diet Coke, and he had a Mentos mint in his mouth. He accidentally back-washed and the mint went into the bottle. He screamed, dropped the bottle, and stepped back about ten feet.Why did he do this? AnswerWhen he loses the Mentos into the soda, the gelatin and gum arabic
I was drinking champagne at a party, when someone came over and spilled a raisin into my almost full 20-ounce glass. It was shaped like a regular glass, though much larger. Two friends, who always quarrelled, came up. The first one said that the raisin would sink, while the second said that the raisin would
In Madadia, a rather strange and misguided assassin, from his hidden position, uses a high-powered rifle to shoot someone in the foot from 50 feet away. The bullet travels at 1,300 feet per second. Both the person being shot at and the assassin are at sea level. What will be the first evidence to the
A scientist gives you two jars: one is filled with the poisonous gas of chlorine, and the other filled with the dangerously reactive element called sodium. He will pay you 5 million dollars if you ingest both jars. How do you do it without killing yourself? AnswerEasy. You pour the contents of both jars together
If boiling water is poured into a thick drinking glass as well as a very thin wine glass, of the two, which is more likely to crack? Explain. AnswerSurprisingly enough, the thick glass is more likely to crack since glass is a poor conductor of heat. In a thin glass, the heat passes more quickly
Duffus Mcclutski, having way too much spare time on his hands, decided to train the ducks in his pond. When Duffus held up a dark blue card, the ducks swam to the right; and when he held up a dark red card, they swam to the left. His neighbour, Mr. Redneck, was quite impressed –
A man was walking through the Sahara desert, and was dying of thirst. His caravan was attacked by a group of brigands. He ran off, and the brigands let him live. He was desperately trying to find water, when he stumbled upon a random town. He went up to a random man, and pleaded for
While his parents were away, a teenage boy and his friends drank some of the parents’ gin. This, of course, was strictly forbidden. They then poured water into the gin bottle to return the level to where it had originally been and put the bottle back exactly where they had found it. However, when the
Billy decided to step up his income by becoming a magician. On his first performance, his first 29 tricks went over like a flapjack. For his grand finale, small, weak, Billy would tear in half a New York City Phone Book with his bare hands. When he approached the podium holding the phone book, he
A man was going to bleach his socks because they had got muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilled some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes later, he was dead. What killed him? AnswerWhen you mix
NASA is on a mission to collect dust from the moon’s surface. A team is put together to design an apparatus that an astronaut can use to accomplish this task. One member of the team designs a type of vacuum cleaner which can be used to suck up and collect the dust. He is immediately
Why is it that a plane is allowed to take off and fly in a thunderstorm, but the space shuttle is not? AnswerThe exhaust plume of the space shuttle effectively grounds the space shuttle for a considerable part of its initial flight. Therefore, the shuttle could be struck by lightning. A plane is not grounded,
A tightrope walker frequently carries a long pole to help him balance. Why does this help? AnswerA tightrope walker remains standing by keeping his centre of mass directly above the rope. If his centre of mass moves off the centre, he must correct this or he will rotate off the rope and fall down. By
A blacksmith wishes to cool his hot piece of steel as rapidly as possible. He has a bucket of icy-water and a bucket of oil (at room temperature). Which bucket should he dump his steel into? AnswerHe should put the steel into the oil as the liquid will lower the temperature quicker. The water will