In the TV series Battlestar Galactica ( new ) the fighters escorting the fleet use conventional cannons against attacking craft. In one scene the crew load cannon shells into the fighter in the...
I've very generously been given a lump of obsidian roughly the size of a lump of coal. As a hobbyist jeweller I'd love to break it up into smaller pieces to be set in silver and worn as a jewellery,...
I've got a box of pozidrive machine screws and self-tappers in my attic that I've had for a good few years. The screws were all made by a company called GKN and were bright in colour when I bought...
Is it dangerous to have an empty plug socket with the ON switch turned on? Does it use up electricity? I have a habit, whenever I see them, of turning switches off when there is nothing plugged into...
Hi I was out on my bike at the weekend and I came off the motorway onto a roundabout. This roundabout joins onto a short dual carraige way to another roundabout, as I was going down this dual carraige...
I have seen on Ebay newton 6 inch newtonian reflector telescope.Diameter 6 inches and focal Point 55 inches.There are quite a few at Buy Now. Would this be a good buy at ?85. Thanks
Here is a question I was asked recently and couldn't answer properly The earth is a sphere as you look at it from space - so why is it that if you travelled say from the north pole around it and back...
Can anyone name a green coloured mammal as this was put to me the other day and it is really bugging me! There must be one somewhere i just can't think! help!
I've asked this before on other sites and never had a definitive answer. Everyday we are told that we have to cut our output of CO2 a major greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, In 1992 the...
Hi. I have 1999 vauxhall omega 2.5 v6. when pressing the clutch pedal there is a slight noise. the clutch still seems to engage fine but the pedal only starts feeling normal about half way down. could...
An advert for a gadget to keep an automatic watch going when not worn all the time says it is harmful to let the watch wind down or stop and have a detrimental effect on its timekeeping. They would...