As I understand it, in Islam, when a man dies he gets a load of virgins when he gets to heaven, I'm not sure of the number. My questions are 1. Is this the case? 2. Are these virgins in a stockpile or...
Probably not but certainly once money is injected into a sport it then slowly spreads its influence like germs in a petri dish destroying its very nature. What started out as a football club...
I was just wondering about something I read by Christopher Hitchens. He stated; "I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same...
Each cell contains 2 metres of DNA. If I put 2 kilometres of two-ply wool in a suitcase it would be hopelessly knotted. Why doesn't DNA get knotted? It obviously doesn't, because tangled DNA would not...
Here's a puzzle. My car radio works well, except that there is a loose connection somewhere that causes all sound to be lost when I go over a bump and then come on again as I go over another bump. The...
My e-mails are via Outlook Express. Until yesterday, when I clicked on INBOX I would get a list of the e-mails awaiting me, giving sender and subject so that I could decide which to open and which to...
The Jewish and Christian prejudice against homosexual practice derives from Leviticus, that long list of do's and don'ts for Jews, which says that when a man lieth with a man as with a woman it is an...
In an electrical wire is there any electricity actually in the wire if the final circuit is not connected.? IE if you touched a "live" wire you would get a shock because you have...
why is it not possible to break the speed of light using a series of gears. I calculated that a motor spinning at 5k rpm, would need a ration of 1:60K to do it
I watched the programme about Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution on CH4 and found it interesting. One of the points that Dawkin's (the presenter) was talking about was the fact that all being's on...