As for the moon and sun being the same apparent size…because the moon’s distance from Earth changes slowly over time, this is only true for the approx. five-million-year period during which sentient beings (humans) happened to evolve.
Some have posited that this is too coincidental to be a coincidence…that, somehow, Australopithecines were inspired to get smart when they beheld a total eclipse (or just beheld two objects of similar size moving around in the sky).
No plausible causal link has been offered, but it is a funny idea.
I once had a person at work who was arguing loudly and refused to leave. I told her I did not want to do business with her and told her to leave. She refused, so I called the police.
They arrived and told her she would be arrested and charged with defiant trespass if she did not leave immediately. Instead of leaving she slapped the state cop across the face.
I never saw anyone move so quickly and efficiently. In the blink of an eye he had her face down on the counter and handcuffed. This was Pennsylvania, circa 2005.
I know that in New Jersey, the sticker price is not a legally binding contract. If the bar code rings up for more than the sticker, I call the manager, who goes to the aisle and checks the other stickers. If there’s more than one, we do the customer the courtesy of selling it for the stated price.
Then we find out who did the stickers and make them remove the wrong ones and put on the right price. A lovely way to spend an hour.
If there’s just the one the customer has, we refuse to sell it for the lower price. If the customer gets nasty, we cancel the order and tell them to please leave and don’t come back.
The only time we had two customers get into a dispute in the store, we had the biggest guy (6’4" Dave) to tell them to please leave and take it outside. They did, and someone called the cops.
Whenever children start fighting, or any other annoying activity in the store, I tell them “We do not allow fighting (or whatever) in the store. Please stop or go outside.” When one boy got really allowed because his parents would not buy him a toy he wanted, he sat on the floor and refused to stand up. After his parents told him for two minutes to stand up and get moving, I said “You cannot sit on the floor in the store. You have to stand up.” Boy immediately stood up, his mother went purple stifling her laughter, and the father mouthed “Thank you.”
There is no law, federal nor in any state. that requires a dispensing optician to see a Rx less than one year old. They will tell you there is such a law, but there is not. It is simply internal policy by an optician who, by odd coincidence, happens to have an optometrist conveniently standing by in the back room.
For glasses, sure. You can buy from Zenni Optical or their competitors and put in whatever numbers you want, buy some comical coke-bottle lenses if you want.
For contact lenses, there is some leeway by state, but more stringent requirements. The optometrists also can’t make you buy from only “their” opticians.
According to a Bus. Law professor, an advertisement is NOT an “offer to sell” it is a “solicitation of an offer to buy”.
Hence the “Brand New Car for $5.00!” does not mean you can demand a car for $5.00, it means you are asked to make that offer. I do not have to agree to sell at the offered price.
I suspect it is a law which requires the “only one at this price” verbiage in tiny print.
So: that price sticker is not an offer to sell at that price. It is asking you to offer to buy it at that price. An offer I can refuse.
Actually, no. There are about as many lunar eclipses as solar, but because lunar eclipses can be seen over almost the whole night side of the Earth, they’re visible to many more people.
You have to keep a summer thermostat set lower in a humid climate than in a dry climate, because the principal value of the AC is to defeat the humidity, not the temperature. But the thermostat regulates according to registered temperature only and ignores the presence of humidity in the air.
I only have one thermostat. My bedroom gets warm faster if I turn the heat up. The bedroom gets warm quieker if the thermostat is set to raise the temperatue by 6C than if it’s set to raise the temperatue by 3C.
Actually, the same is true of most of the house. Most of the 18C house gets warm quicker if the area around thermostat is at 25C than it does if the area around the thermostat is at 20C.
The temperature is more even, and evens out more quickly, if I don’t let it turn the fans off when it turns the fire off, but my wife hates that.
But he didn’t do that experiment either. Or at least, if he did, he choose to use fake numbers in his published data :). Because the numbers aren’t correct: if you roll real balls, the numbers have to be corrected for rotational momentum, and his recorded numbers are only correct if the balls magically have linear moementum without having any rotational momentum.
On the buses we used to use at school, the same resevoir was used for opening and closing the door. If you kept playing with the door, the air brakes failed off. But they had seperate park brakes as well.
Can someone explain what exactly is so shocking about the fact that pineapples don’t grow on trees, to the extent that some people, upon being told this, refuse to believe it? I mean, I don’t think it’s intuitively obvious that they don’t, but all different kinds of fruits grow on all different kinds of plants, so why do people think the pineapple plant “should” be a tree? I don’t recall when I found out what a pineapple plant looks like, but I don’t recall being shocked or incredulous at the time. I probably just thought “so that’s what a pineapple plant looks like. That’s interesting.”
I learned that pineapples did not grow on trees in the 2nd or 3rd grade (I don’t remember which). It was in our spelling book. Each week, we had a story that had different words highlighted in it that were that week’s spelling words. One of the weeks’ story was about the pineapple plantations in Hawaii. They had pictures.
That is also how I learned about the Smoke Jumpers.
Didn’t everyone (at least in the US) use these spelling books? See what happens with common core? People start thinking pineapples grow on trees.
I don’t think anybody is shocked by it. Mildly surprised isn’t even a good description. We need a word that means " having an only slightly interested “you don’t say!” reaction to a bit of trivia before moving on to something of greater interest" to describe how people actuall feel when they find out the truth about pineapples.