# Ponderable Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137 "2013-08-13T15:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/21 "2013-08-13T23:19:16Z")
The deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench. How many times have people been to the bottom of it, what year(s) and how much cumulative time did they spend there? ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/22 "2013-08-13T23:42:49Z")
What are we waiting on? ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/23 "2013-08-14T00:23:48Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Nobody. 😃 [picks teeth] correct, Grant and his wife are entombed there. Above ground so not buried. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/24 "2013-08-14T00:48:19Z")
Okay, then who’s buried in Lenin’s tomb? (Seriously, one of my teachers asked this on a test and was told things like “Stalin is buried in Lenin’s tomb”, “They fly airplanes in Lenin’s tomb,” “They have parades in Lenin’s tomb”, and “There’s a shopping mall in Lenin’s tomb.” I guess the question left a lot of 12 year olds pondering.) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/25 "2013-08-14T01:04:02Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Is 0.9999… equal to 10000? > [@aNewLeaf](#): > > No. But the interval from 0.9 to 1 contains as many numbers as the interval from 1 to 10000. > That’s ponderously imponderable. Then you’re in the wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/26 "2013-08-14T01:10:48Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Then you’re in the wrong thread. I was pondering that. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/27 "2013-08-14T01:17:00Z")
How come my nose runs and my feet smell? If I send goods by water, it’s called a car-go, but if I send them by road, it’s a ship-ment. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? Why is it called a blowjob, when she sucks? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/28 "2013-08-14T01:53:20Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > How come my nose runs and my feet smell? > > If I send goods by water, it’s called a car-go, but if I send them by road, it’s a ship-ment. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? > > Why is it called a blowjob, when she sucks? Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/29 "2013-08-14T02:17:35Z")
What _is_ a ponderable question? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/30 "2013-08-14T02:20:51Z")
What does post 30 say? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/31 "2013-08-14T02:27:33Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > What _is_ a ponderable question? [See this thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=699307) This isn’t that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/32 "2013-08-14T02:37:01Z")
Why is it called a triangle? Why do we swim in swimming pools? Can I have some cheese? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/33 "2013-08-14T02:38:16Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Can I have some cheese? You really believe in cheeses? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/34 "2013-08-14T09:37:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why do things fall _down_? The reason for this is that things only appear to fall “down.” They are actually falling **toward the center (source) of gravity.** There is no “absolute up;” “up” is a direction that only exists referrent to something else. Imagine that you are standing near the North Pole, and an associate is standing near the South Pole. (Just far enough off to adjust for the earth’s tilt.) You each drop a bowling ball. From the perspective of your position relative to your associate’s, his or her bowling ball **IS** falling “up.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/35 "2013-08-14T23:01:24Z")
> [@slm2955](#): > > Why? Why not? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/36 "2013-08-14T23:07:35Z")
What? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/37 "2013-08-14T23:22:31Z")
> [@slm2955](#): > > What are we waiting on? We’re waiting on the earth. What we’re wating _for_ is a different question. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/38 "2013-08-15T00:27:20Z")
How’d I get to be so damn smart, sexy, and witty? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/39 "2013-08-15T00:28:46Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > The deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench. How many times have people been to the bottom of it, what year(s) and how much cumulative time did they spend there? I still haven’t gotten the answer to this one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137/40 "2013-08-15T00:29:19Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > How’d I get to be so damn smart, sexy, and witty? You _definitely_ should take this one over to the “Imponderable” thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponderable-questions/666137.md?page=3)