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Science holds its last great mysteries up to the light [top 25 unanswered questions]
Times Online ^ | Mark Henderson

Posted on 07/02/2005 3:23:31 PM PDT by Asphalt

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To: Asphalt

Should I put lime in my beer?


41 posted on 07/02/2005 4:42:08 PM PDT by DC native
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To: sharktrager
My thermos. It keeps hot things hot. It keeps cold things cold. How do[es] it know?

Things at rest tend to stay at rest. Thinks in motion tend to stay in motion. How do they know?

42 posted on 07/02/2005 4:42:53 PM PDT by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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To: From many - one.

#1 Where did my other sock go? 0

It's hiding in the sleeve of your gray sweater.

#2 Why is everything in the last place I look?

Because you do not keep looking, (I do)


43 posted on 07/02/2005 4:46:59 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: WhiteGuy

so, where's my grey sweater? And how do you know?


44 posted on 07/02/2005 4:49:45 PM PDT by From many - one.
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To: Asphalt

All of these have very simple answers which I learned as a child - "Just because! and Because I said so!"


45 posted on 07/02/2005 4:50:14 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Gil4

Thanks. I'm going to be working on the speed of dark all night. ;->


46 posted on 07/02/2005 4:51:09 PM PDT by From many - one.
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To: FreedomSurge
What about: Why do socks tend to go missing by themselves?

I think you've got that backwards. Socks mate in the washer and give birth in the dryer. What you end up with is extra socks, not missing ones.

47 posted on 07/02/2005 4:51:15 PM PDT by Bob
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To: From many - one.

The one I'm talking about is "gray".........

Where is it?

Oh, you'll find out..............

How do I know?

(I'm Fartman)


48 posted on 07/02/2005 4:52:51 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: Mount Athos
How did Kerry get nearly 50% of the vote with no substantive alternative solutions, just bellyaching and vague platitudes?

Perhaps you didn't hear - he was in Vietnam, and Cambodia too, on Christmas. (That was another liberal quirk. They rail against the Vietnam war but brag about fighting there when they think it might help fool the sheep.)

49 posted on 07/02/2005 4:54:06 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Asphalt
[ Science holds its last great mysteries up to the light (top 25 unanswered questions)... ]

Last great mysteries.?.... 25.?... LoL...
The depth of the arrogance of that statement is a great mystery..

50 posted on 07/02/2005 4:55:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed me to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: umgud

Just look inside Michael Moore's jeanes.


51 posted on 07/02/2005 4:57:26 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: Dog Gone

We traded for the rib. (not such a good deal)


52 posted on 07/02/2005 4:58:24 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: PioneerDrive

Some say Oracle, I say DBase III


53 posted on 07/02/2005 4:59:03 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: conservativecorner
LOL..we humans are pompous when we think we even have a clue as to what the top 25 greatest unanswered questions are. We are but a speck of sand in this universe, and God still holds many things that we can't even begin to understand.

Since the questions are human questions, your remarks don't make sense. But, then, why would they--it's obvious that you think you have the answer: God only knows and science is a waste of your time.

54 posted on 07/02/2005 4:59:21 PM PDT by Misterioso
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To: punster

I wear a different dirty pair each day.


55 posted on 07/02/2005 4:59:50 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: From many - one.

It's in your other sock.


56 posted on 07/02/2005 5:01:13 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: coloradan
A rolling stone gathers no moss. Why would it want to?

Damned If I Know

57 posted on 07/02/2005 5:05:17 PM PDT by sharktrager (My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
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To: Asphalt
Why do humans have so few genes?

Because, for humans, unlike every other animal, the pool is closed from Sept. 1 – May 31. We gotta compress the helix doubling priveleges to compensate.

58 posted on 07/02/2005 5:15:15 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Misterioso

More like, we don't know everything, yet we act like we do.


59 posted on 07/02/2005 5:27:17 PM PDT by Asphalt (Join the NFL ping list ...everything NFL... FReepmail Asphalt to get on|FReeper Since 10/10/04)
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To: Asphalt
top 25 24 unanswered questions

I can answer one of of their "25."

How can a skin cell become a nerve cell?

By picking the right skin cell. There are nerves in the skin, thus there are "skin" cells that already are "nerve" cells too. I presume they really meant a different question, "How can a keratinocyte (the cells that form the surface of the skin) become a (fill in the desired type of) nerve cell?" As written a better question is "How do you find a good editor?"

60 posted on 07/02/2005 5:27:24 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (I)
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