A round up of your How It Works questions and answers

by Lisa Cardy

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THE mechanisation of all kinds of objects and things have been baffling you, but The AnswerBank has ironed your How It Works problems out.

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rbanucha wanted to know how to make his million with the lottery, well don't we all. richardb and tonylai had some useful advice, click here to�read it.

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Although you shouldn't throw stones, kjring wanted to know how fast one would travel if dropped from a great height. The evil dad did his sums for him, click here to see the answer. The evil dad is obviously a bit of a maths whiz as he also helped out mum121 with an explanation of how base 2 works. Click here to see his very succinct answer.

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JohnThorn put Deck Mon in the driving seat with his explanation of oversteering and understeering, if you need to know too, click here.

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It keeps us warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the rest of Europe, but isaacr didn't know how. Jesse pointed him in the right direction to find out about how the Gulf stream works,�read this answer here.

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Maybe rolf has a pet canary because he wanted to check up on how gas detectors work. Hopefully hotdog's answer reassured him that his pet is safe.

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TheSprocket shouldn't have any more problems getting his boomerang to come back to him after the very thorough explanations of how this works by Ed Ancona, Sql. dr and anneduncan. Click here�to read them.

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And finally, thanks to a whole bunch of bright sparks who brought Justin down to earth about the reasons for the English 3-pin plug. Read it here.

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That's all for now, unless of course this sample has set you off trying to work something out, in which case, just click here to ask away!