Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Yellow Fang]

Inspired by yesterday's music night theme: is Europe really a continent? Isn't Eurasia the continent? Is America one continent or two? Is Antartica a continent; nobody lives there. Is it significant that Europe, if it is a separate continent, starts with an 'E' when the others start with 'A'?

 

[Yellow Fang]

If coastal erosion is a yard a year in some places, how come the whole country hasn't fallen into the sea? At a yard a year it would take 1760 years for the coast to erode one mile, but if we believe scientists, the planet is 4.5 billions years old. Even in one million years the coast would have come inwards about 600 miles. That is practically all of Great Britain. In ten million years every continent on earth should have fallen into the sea.

 

[lazybloke]

If coastal erosion is a yard a year in some places, how come the whole country hasn't fallen into the sea? At a yard a year it would take 1760 years for the coast to erode one mile, but if we believe scientists, the planet is 4.5 billions years old. Even in one million years the coast would have come inwards about 600 miles. That is practically all of Great Britain. In ten million years every continent on earth should have fallen into the sea.

Erosion in some places.
Deposition in others.
Plus there are geological processes (volcanism and plate-techtonics) and biological processes that create land.

Also, the Dutch.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Is there a name for the feeling when you know there is a word for something, but you can't remember what it is?

Thingymebob

 

[Moon bunny]

In the bible, at the beginning when god said “let there be light” who was he talking to?

 

[lazybloke]

In the bible, at the beginning when god said “let there be light” who was he talking to?

Herself

 

[Chislenko]

In the bible, at the beginning when god said “let there be light” who was he talking to?

Scottish Power

 

[Chris S]

Do the residents of New York realize that their city is named after a place where men have cloth caps and whippets?

 

[Webbo2]

Do the residents of New York realize that their city is named after a place where men have cloth caps and whippets?

I presume you mean “New “where ever that is. Because you won’t see a cloth cap or whippet in York, it’s mainly pissed ladies in groups either on a Hen do or staggering back from ladies day at the races.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

In the bible, at the beginning when god said “let there be light” who was he talking to?

Also, if there was no light, then how did the 'days' work up until that point? 🤔

 

[grldtnr]

Also, if there was no light, then how did the 'days' work up until that point? 🤔

I take it you are a non believer in a supreme omnipresent power?
Coz I certainly don't believe, a very blasphemous thing to write on the Sabbath..
Anyway , who believes the omnipresent one is a 'he' as is oft quoted, with the amount of balls up going on around the universe, more likely a 'she' ,
Or Frank Spencer.......

 

[MontyVeda]

Watney's Red Barrel as it was endorsed* by Monty Python


* Not so much endorsed as mentioned in the 'Travel Agent' sketch

It's also mentioned in the spoken word intro to Hawkwind's Utopia...
"...where the streets are paved with hamburgers and the rivers run with Watney's Red Barrel."

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I take it you are a non believer in a supreme omnipresent power?
Coz I certainly don't believe, a very blasphemous thing to write on the Sabbath..
Anyway , who believes the omnipresent one is a 'he' as is oft quoted, with the amount of balls up going on around the universe, more likely a 'she' ,
Or Frank Spencer.......

Lapsed Church Of Scotland.

I can understand why they didn't write 'In the first 48 hours' or whatever it was, as the average goat herder had never heard or conceived of a watch, but, still. 🤣

As for who 'God' is and your sexist comment aside... I thought they were a flying spaghetti monster. That still doesn't answer what gender said monster is though, I admit.

Besides, with everything happening in the world, it's more likely to be a bloke, as a woman would have kept things much tidier!

 

[simongt]

when the others start with 'A'?

And of course Africa, contrary to some historical assumptions, is a continent of fifty two countries and not just a very big country.

 

[Alex321]

If coastal erosion is a yard a year in some places, how come the whole country hasn't fallen into the sea? At a yard a year it would take 1760 years for the coast to erode one mile, but if we believe scientists, the planet is 4.5 billions years old. Even in one million years the coast would have come inwards about 600 miles. That is practically all of Great Britain. In ten million years every continent on earth should have fallen into the sea.

It is a yard a year in *some* places. In others, the land is actually growing, from deposits laid down in river mouths or sea currents.
In most places, the coast hardly moves at all.

And over periods of millions of years, we also have geological activity raising landmasses.