Lil Quiz

[LordMagicMan]

What is/was :


1 ) 9.3E7

2 ) 280,000,000

3 ) 186,000 mps or 300,000 kps

4 ) First bug in a computer

 

[Mistress]

Umm..I dont understand...all the masterbating must be going to my brain..repeat question again please...

 

[LordMagicMan]

Was just wondering if anyone knew the answers to these questions.

Just tell what each stands for and answer the last question

 

[Styphon]

What is/was :


1 ) 9.3E7

2 ) 280,000,000

3 ) 186,000 mps or 300,000 kps

4 ) First bug in a computer

1 - 930,000,000 what??? (Possibly miles to Sun)?
2 - 280 million what??? (Possibly miles to the Moon)???
3 - Speed of light in vacuum.
4 - It was an actual insect in a computer, found by a female Military programmer/analyst. It had shorted out some circuits. Its where the term "bug" originated.

Probably nowhere near right

Styphon

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[KillerMuffin]

The last one was a moth, was it not? The Rear Admiral Ruth Whatsherface retired from the Navy at 87 last year.

 

[LordMagicMan]

Number 2 still needs an answer.

Yes KillerMuffin on number 4

Yes Styphon on 1 and 3


If a clue is needed for number 2... maybe the word Census helps

 

[DarlingBri]

Population of the US?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

People in the U.S.

 

[Starfish]

It isn't the age of the earth, that's for sure....


(465 billion years, instead of my former submission of 4560 million years, in case you can't do math....fucking geologists)

I think yer right, dix and bri, if not than ????

[Edited by G.R. on 03-28-2001 at 01:41 PM]

 

[LordMagicMan]

yes bri wins

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

465 billion years? The Universe is only 12 billion.

 

[Dillinger]

280,000,000 is a quadruple prime?

The number of people who speak Russian?

The population of the United States?

 

[Dillinger]

Football generates US$ 280,000,000,000.00 in revenues per year in the world.

280,000,000 was the world's population in the year 900.

$280,000,000 was the amount spent last year by the US Senate on the Foreign Operations International Organization.

There are 280,000,000 drops water in 10,000 gallons.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Mistress]

Ok, its shit I never would have known..I'll go back to masterbating then!