Riddles

[TheBigDog]

A bit is an archaic type of currency. 25 cents is two bits. A bit is thee part of a horse's bridle used to control its head. A bit is a short comedy skit or routine. A drill bit makes holes. And you can have a would from being bit by a dog.

 

Bill

[ronthepon]

I see. That is an excellent riddle then.

[Turtle]

A bit is an archaic type of currency. 25 cents is two bits. A bit is thee part of a horse's bridle used to control its head. A bit is a short comedy skit or routine. A drill bit makes holes. And you can have a would from being bit by a dog.

 

Bill

 

Exactly! May I expound? As if.:)

Specifically, a 'bit' is 1/8th of a Spansih Doubloon. As they had no smaller coinage, people cut the doubloon into 8 roughly equal pie-shape parts, each called a 'bit'. The old saying "2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar, comes from this practice. Today we still call a quarte(dollar) in the US, two-bits.:D

[Turtle]

I see. That is an excellent riddle then.

 

Why thank you. I much rather enjoy making them than solving them.:)

[Jay-qu]

so the fact we have 8bits to a byte is just a co-incidence..

[Turtle]

so the fact we have 8bits to a byte is just a co-incidence..

Engineers humor there.:confused: :lol: I considered adding that as yet another clue.:hihi:

[damocles]

Engineers humor there.:confused: :lol: I considered adding that as yet another clue.:hihi:

 

Here is a riddle, then, a "cut" below the rest;

 

When can light travel faster than light?

 

As always, the best of wishes.

[ronthepon]

Kinda... when it's not real light...?

 

Or maybe it's racing with some more light.

:)

Hell I don't know, riddles leave me confused.

[learnin to learn]

when it is traveling at the speed of light^2 ?????:cup:

[Turtle]

Here is a riddle, then, a "cut" below the rest;

 

When can light travel faster than light?

 

As always, the best of wishes.

 

 

When it's a headlight (ahead light).:cup:

[damocles]

When can light travel faster than light?

 

When it's a headlight (ahead light).:hammer:

 

That's very good! That is a keeper!:D

 

But it is actually when you can see © it shifting into reverse.

 

Explanation.....

 

May 11, 2006

Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?

 

Light propagating backwards

 

 

In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light.

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Read the rest of the article at:

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2544

 

As always, the best of wishes.

[learnin to learn]

now that is pretty cool!

[ronthepon]

Oh my god, this is a riddle?

 

Looks more like a complex science GK question to me.

[Michaelangelica]

Change the geography if you like but this catches a few

 

Two doctors were walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge

One doctor was the father of the other doctor's son.What relationship were the two doctors?

[Jay-qu]

possibly married, at any rate they are both parents of the same kid

[Michaelangelica]

possibly married, at any rate they are both parents of the same kid

Try it

(say it fast -it looses something being written)

You will be surprised how much sexist thnking is out there.:phones:

[Jay-qu]

yeah I was caught up on that for all of .5 seconds.. call it practice :phones: