Ask the experts.... Trivial questions

[Tingkai]

I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

[Juggernaut]

Is it true that if you choose to settle in Svalbard, you need a psychological certificate proving you don't have any mental problems, since it's completely dark half the year?

[Immortal Wombat]

I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You were asleep

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

You were asleep

A reasonable answer, but no I did not sleep through midnight.

[Chowlett]

Originally posted by Tingkai
I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You crossed the Int. Date Line. But I don't think that sort of thing is quite what the thread's designed for.

Unless you were genuinely confused.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Tingkai
I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You crossed the international date line during your flight. Left Vancouver before the new year arrived and landed in Hong Kong after they had already switched over. I think...

[Immortal Wombat]

What is a mojo man?

[Chowlett]

Austin Powers' sex-drive, man

[Immortal Wombat]

That question always kills threads.

[MrFun]

I have a trivial question.

Why do men have adam's apple, but women do not have one??

[KrazyHorse]

Adam's apple protects windpipe from crushing if struck. Because of behavioural attrributes male primates tend to be in more danger of this happening (both hunting and fighting) than females.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Adam's apple protects windpipe from crushing if struck. Because of behavioural attrributes male primates tend to be in more danger of this happening (both hunting and fighting) than females.

WTF???

Are you serious with your claim??
That this specific, potential for aggressive behavior triggered this kind of biological evolution??

interesting, if true

[KrazyHorse]

I recall reading that the function of the Adam's apple was defensive. The rest was speculation, but rather well-founded IMO. Why do you think men's bones and skin are 25% (?) thicker, their muscle mass is higher, etc.?

We don't have it as much as some species. IIRC, orangutans are truly sexually dimorphic; their females are only half the size of their males.

[Chowlett]

Why do Ni-Cad batteries get a "memory"? In other words, if you charge a Ni-Cad before it's fully flat, why does it (eventually) not use the last bit of it's power?

[Sandman]

Free Marketeers: Why is it wrong for the government to regulate the quality and quantity of things produced, but right to have regulations to stop cartels and monopolies building up?