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Posted 26 January 2008 - 04:55 PM

Define clockwise without using left or right.
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 01:35 AM

On the more common variety of functioning analog watch, the way counter to the direction the hands move is counterclockwise.

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Posted 27 January 2008 - 04:22 AM

When something orbits around something else, going in the same direction that the planets go around the Sol. (When Sol's north pole is above its south pole in your view.)
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 06:03 PM

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 27 2008, 04:22 AM, said:

When something orbits around something else, going in the same direction that the planets go around the Sol. (When Sol's north pole is above its south pole in your view.)

How can Sol have a north or south pole?
Unless you mean magnetically, which I don't even know if it has.
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 06:25 PM

The north and south poles are the two halves of the axis Sol spins on. North being the one that corresponds with Earth's north pole.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 10:44 AM

Left is the direction of the STINKIN' COMMIES!

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Posted 29 January 2008 - 04:46 PM

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 27 2008, 06:25 PM, said:

The north and south poles are the two halves of the axis Sol spins on. North being the one that corresponds with Earth's north pole.

So which pole on Earth is north?
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 06:22 PM

The one with the least ice.

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Posted 29 January 2008 - 06:57 PM

The one that's near the magnetic north pole. Which you can find on a compass.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 08:42 PM

View PostRebelious, on Jan 29 2008, 06:57 PM, said:

The one that's near the magnetic north pole. Which you can find on a compass.

How do you construct a compass?
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 09:17 PM

Wow, this is getting Socratic.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 09:57 PM

View PostRickton, on Jan 29 2008, 09:17 PM, said:

Wow, this is getting Socratic.

Define "is".
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Posted 30 January 2008 - 12:13 AM

View PostMispeled, on Jan 29 2008, 06:57 PM, said:

Define "is".

Define "define".
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 02:59 AM

define "point" (as in math)
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 10:45 AM

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 31 2008, 02:59 AM, said:

define "point" (as in math)

That which has no part, obviously.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 06:24 PM

View PostPufer, on Jan 27 2008, 01:35 AM, said:

On the more common variety of functioning analog watch, the way counter to the direction the hands move is counterclockwise.


Does an alien know how our watches turn?

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 27 2008, 04:22 AM, said:

When something orbits around something else, going in the same direction that the planets go around the Sol. (When Sol's north pole is above its south pole in your view.)


Define north.

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 27 2008, 06:25 PM, said:

The north and south poles are the two halves of the axis Sol spins on. North being the one that corresponds with Earth's north pole.


Our axis of spin is different than our magnetic axis, and both are different than the sun's.
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 01:03 AM

View Postmrxak, on Jan 31 2008, 04:24 PM, said:

Does an alien know how our watches turn?


Does an alien understand English?

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Posted 03 February 2008 - 12:49 PM

View PostPufer, on Feb 1 2008, 01:03 AM, said:

Does an alien understand English?


Maybe not, but they'll have a concept of left.
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 12:57 PM

I dispute that statement. Aliens don't understand left. They're like space chickens.

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Posted 04 February 2008 - 02:20 AM

View Postmrxak, on Feb 3 2008, 10:49 AM, said:

Maybe not, but they'll have a concept of left.


I wouldn't be so sure about that. That's assuming that they operate on the same sensory principles as we do.

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Posted 04 February 2008 - 04:04 AM

Here I was, impressed that this topic had stayed on topic for so long... :3

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Posted 04 February 2008 - 06:41 PM

There are probably some. I've never seen or played one, nor do I want to. I have enough problems with the one I have.
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Posted 08 February 2008 - 08:40 PM

Extend both arms to both sides, and extend both index fingers. now lower you right arm and no longer consider it for the rest of the time you read this post. Rotate any number of degrees; preferably 360. The entire time you did this, you were constantly pointing to your left.

View PostBuffalo the Kid, on Jan 15 2008, 12:52 AM, said:

(Yet again... What happens when teens can't sleep...)


When I can't sleep, I just watch this in my mind: http://youtube.com/watch?v=d6g1yyWEfks
Not the first 3 and 1/2 minutes, but mostly the last part.

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Posted 09 February 2008 - 01:06 PM

So guys... I heard Edwin has left.
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Posted 09 February 2008 - 03:31 PM

View PostDestroyer E, on Feb 9 2008, 10:06 AM, said:

So guys... I heard Edwin has left.

That would be a tragedy. Did he explain why?
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