felixthecat

NEW ANSWER IN: Should guns be banned in america?

felixthecat: Everyone who is not insane or a criminal should be allowed to have guns, and even 'open carry' those guns wherever and whenever they like.

NEW ANSWER IN: What Christmas gifts do you buy for your family members this year?

felixthecat: Bags of coal, toilet paper, and snake food.

NEW ANSWER IN: What would be the best work out playlist?

felixthecat: I listen to a lot of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, AIC and stuff like that when I work out.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the most influential medical discovery in the past 50 years?

felixthecat: So, that's like 1960. Ummm...I guess organ transplants, but effective psycho-pharmaceuticals are also important.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you think space exploration is worth the resources?

felixthecat: Yes, it is worth the expense. "What about the money that could feed the starving hordes?" There will always be starving hordes. We could expend all our resources on the starving billions and still have more starving people.

Space exploration gives us something grand and glorious to hope f...

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could travel to another planet, but never return to Earth, would you do it?

felixthecat: No, unless it was a wilderness paradise, with all sorts of wonderful things to discover. Sitting in a bubble on Mars for 50 years has no appeal.

NEW ANSWER IN: If You Could Afford To be Frozen for 100 years, would you do it?

felixthecat: No thank you. That hundred years would just propel me into an over-crowded, diseased, totalitarian world. Does this conflict with wanting to live to be a 1000? No, because in the latter instance society would be rearranged for the millenials.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you feel when you wake up?

felixthecat: I am an early morning person. I hop out of bed ready for whatever.

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could extend your life 1000 years with science and technology, would you do it?

felixthecat: Sign me up right now. It is almost within our grasp.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is human cloning ethical?

felixthecat: As long as the clone has no capacity for consciousness, there are no ethical concerns that can be seriously entertained. At least none that are divorced from religion.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does the irenew bracelet actually work?

felixthecat: Key words: may, possibly, believed to, perhaps, might, it has been said, and so on.

You're money will be better spent by sending it to me. I promise to think good thoughts about you, which is believed to possibly perhaps help your health, and it has been said may promote a sense of well-bei...

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could hop on a plane to anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?

felixthecat: No where. I have the world's most miserable cold at the moment, I hate flying, and I dislike traveling.

NEW ANSWER IN: Will a lip grow back?

felixthecat: No. Maybe a newborn baby's lip would partially grow back, but for anyone else, there will be only scar tissue.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you rent your movies?

felixthecat: I don't rent anything, but if I did, I guess I would rent a movie from "On Demand".

NEW ANSWER IN: How often do you listen to music?

felixthecat: I listen to music when I am driving, and that is about it.

NEW ANSWER IN: If an earthquake struck your area right now, how ready would you be?

felixthecat: I'd be pretty ready. I would climb out a window or one of the five outside doors that I am blessed with. And then a sprint to the supermarket to get supplies before greedy, selfish people get there before me.

This does return to a question I once asked: What if your only avenue of escape, say a nar...

NEW ANSWER IN: What computer are you currently sporting?

felixthecat: Some sort of Dell with numerous vaguely understood mods that various people have generously volunteered to add to it.

NEW ANSWER IN: How far are you willing to go to be "green"?

felixthecat: Since no efforts whatsoever are being made to limit population growth, or to decrease global population, why should I do anything that does not directly provide me with a short-term advantage? Giving up a car or riding public transportation would disadvantage me, so forget that. Having an electr...

NEW ANSWER IN: Are we alone in the universe?

felixthecat: So many stars, so many possibilities. The sad part is that there may be billions of civilizations but the distances are so vast between stars and galaxies that we may never know of them. IF there are any close by, and they develop the capability to reach us, I imagine that they would be peaceful. Wh...

NEW ANSWER IN: Which mobile phone do you want next?

felixthecat: Whatever is cheapest with the least amount of annoying bells and whistles. I don't even own a cell, but my wife and kids each have one. If someone wants to talk to me, they can reach me at my office at my convenience.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can genetic testing be done on dogs to determine their breed mix?

felixthecat: I saw an ad for this at PetSmart. I guess that it would be interesting to discover what one's mutt is, but at 129.95 I would pass.

NEW ANSWER IN: What do you think will one day replace oil?

felixthecat: Foot power. In an over-populated world, footpower will replace oil. China just announced that it was severely cutting back exports of vital rare earths that are needed for electric car technology (among other techs). There is not enough for everyone, and what little there is is disappear...

NEW ANSWER IN: How far could a steam engine pulling a train of, say, ten cars in the 1880s travel before needing to refill its water tank?

felixthecat: In miles please, not kilometers.

NEW ANSWER IN: Where do you think technology is going to be by 2015?

felixthecat: I believe that small nuclear reactors will be marketed to towns and mid-sized cities. Coal, natural gas, and wind energy are not enough, too dirty, or too inefficient and unreliable.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do chickens out number rats in the world?

felixthecat: I would bet on the rats.

NEW ANSWER IN: What can I catch from cockroaches?

felixthecat: The most awful of diseases, at least fifty of them.
Dr. Xing Ping Hu, an assistant professor of entomology at Auburn University: "What we do know is that cockroaches are known carriers of many different diseases. That includes 32 bacterial and 17 fungal-related diseases, three protozoa-...

NEW ANSWER IN: What about Questional would you like to see change?

felixthecat: Pictures in answers, the old way that pictures in Questions were able to be presented (I was majorly disappointed when that feature was removed), and animated pictures in questions and answers.

NEW ANSWER IN: Cameron rolled dice 20 times each time he rolled 6 From this he concluded that the dice was bias is this fair interpretation & why

felixthecat: This would be a rare event, but not impossible. Each roll of the die is an independent event, and there is no reason that the six could not come up 88 billion times in a row. But it is statistically very unlikely, so it would be natural to assume that the die may be defective. So yes, the interpreta...

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could be stranded on a desert island with 3 objects, what objects would you want to have?

felixthecat: A fat person for food, a loaded flare gun, and an axe.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many people are regularly on Questional?

felixthecat: I stop by everyday just to look around the place.

NEW ANSWER IN: What's wrong with my laser?

felixthecat: My house is full of airsoft guns that are broken, work oddly, or malfunction regularly. Pieces of junk.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there a risk of electrocution in this situation?

felixthecat: No. Unless lightning bolts were shooting out of the plugged in thing, you would be safe.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why aren't 11 and 12 considered teens?

felixthecat: Eleven and twelve are remnants of the old base twelve numbering system. Thirteen began the next series of numbers; twenty, though, started another group- "two tens". Counting systems changed to base ten, so we are stuck with the mix of two systems.

NEW ANSWER IN: Would you get an ultraviolet tattoo?

felixthecat: Interesting, but I would prefer getting the regular kind.

NEW ANSWER IN: What about Adobe Illustrator should I teach?

felixthecat: I use Photoshop for the artwork, but Illustrator for the lettering. Illustrator can do wonders with lettering, even down into the tiniest of micro-fonts.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there a gay gene?

felixthecat: From what I can see, the media claimed that scientists had found a gay gene, though the scientists themselves claim that all they found- in a fly -is a non-specific sexual gene. You are right to be skeptical.

NEW ANSWER IN: How often do you actually use your cellphone for calling people?

felixthecat: Never. I don't have one, mainly for the freedom. If anyone wants me, they can wait or leave a message with my secretary. There is no one I am ever desperate to call to tell what I am having for lunch.

Yes...but my wife does that.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you enjoy trolling?

felixthecat: I enjoy watching a good troll work when the victim is deserving. It is a skill few can truly master.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does this make you feel small?

felixthecat: Yes, very. I love that graphic! And who knows? There may even be bigger stars to be discovered.

NEW ANSWER IN: How does volcanic lightning work?

felixthecat: The MSM has been suggesting that volcanic lightning is not yet very well understood, and this is true. It is unlikely to have a paranormal or metaphysical source though.

From the Chicago Tribune:

"Volcanic lightning, while frequently observed, is not fully understood. It appears that volcani...

NEW ANSWER IN: Is Lockerz a scam?

felixthecat: I don't know. There are plenty of people who say that it is a scam.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is it true that if you look slightly above an image of a possessed person, you will see the demon possessing them?

felixthecat: Who'd you try it on?

NEW ANSWER IN: Is it true that if you look slightly above an image of a possessed person, you will see the demon possessing them?

felixthecat: That would be a handy talent to have. But how to determine if they are possessed in the first place? I can take some guesses, but these may just be naturally wicked people.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many computers do you own?

felixthecat: It seems like there are computers all over the place here. I just tossed one into the garbage can running on Windows 98. Personally, I just have two, one for here, and one for there.

NEW ANSWER IN: Did you know that global warming is happening not only on Earth but all of the planets in our solar system simultaneously?

felixthecat: Which question do you want answered?

NEW ANSWER IN: Who is the smartest person on Questional?

felixthecat: C. Nugget? D. Audio? They both seem pretty sharp. I know who thinks that he or she is the smartest person (ever).

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you think Questional will ever come back up in popularity?

felixthecat: That would be nice. They tried to do something really nice here, and it is only through neglect that Questional has fallen on hard times.

NEW ANSWER IN: How long will it be before an administrator sees this question?

felixthecat: Nine days. Maybe. I won the September contest which was like almost six months ago, and I'm still waiting on that.

NEW ANSWER IN: What was this drug called?

felixthecat: Nitrous oxide, the getting-high drug of choice of many dentists.

NEW ANSWER IN: Are fruits living things?

felixthecat: Yes to both plants and people. Until a fruit loses all cellular activity, it is indeed alive. Same thing with vegetables. The iceberg lettuce in your salad is probably still alive as you feed upon it.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the most powerful acid?

felixthecat: Molecular acid is said to be extremely strong.

NEW ANSWER IN: What changes/upgrades to Questional would you like to see the most?

felixthecat: 1-Keep the site updated.
2-Search feature
3-Unanswered questions feature
4-Pictures in answers ability
5-Auto "this may have been asked already" feature

NEW ANSWER IN: Why is it when people think of a future or futuristic setting for mankind, the tech is always amazing, but the medical advancements are limited to cloning and curing all diseases and cancer?

felixthecat: I never think that. I envision a future that is part Road Warrior and part Cannibal Holocaust. In about 60 years we'll see who is right.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is Questional's background not loading for you guys, either?

felixthecat: You mean the flying saucer thing? No. Maybe they got rid of it for reasons unknown.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there no ignore function on Questional?

felixthecat: If there was one, what would happen to LiteStyle?

NEW ANSWER IN: Do internet data entry jobs actually work?

felixthecat: When you have to pay upfront to do work that you supposedly will be paid for, alarm bells should start ringing very loudly.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does combining ammonia and bleach create mustard gas?

felixthecat: No. It creates chlorine gas which will decompose your sinus linings and corrode your lungs. Mustard gas is a liquid and is not the same thing. Urinating in swimming pools, if enough do it, will create chlorine gas, but it usually is only irritating because it is diffuse.

NEW ANSWER IN: It has been a slow day on Questional... Do you agree?

felixthecat: In a word, yes.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many of you want old Questional back?

felixthecat: I miss the old Questional in many ways. It had some great features the lack of which is not enjoyed.

NEW ANSWER IN: What family does a bear belong to?

felixthecat: Ursidae.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do air soft guns work?

felixthecat: I have several for some reason. Some work on a gas cylinder, others are electrical and need to be charged up.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there a food that starts with 'Sh'?

felixthecat: Shepherd's Pie, shugar, and shampagne.

NEW ANSWER IN: Old Questional or new Questional?

felixthecat: Things that I miss: the search feature, unanswered questions tab, and the old way that images were displayed. The new Q does look nice though.

Why isn't the site being kept up to date? October's totals are still in place and being added to. And it is almost December.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you think occult members and such like will commit mass suicide as 2012 approaches?

felixthecat: I don't think so. 2012 is more media hype and profiteering than anything else.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you think the 200-300 volts of "life electricity" constantly present in our bodies could be the soul?

felixthecat: No, that is just a myth anyway, promulgated by those who need science to provide their beliefs with legitimacy.

NEW ANSWER IN: Which of the three variations do you like the best?

felixthecat: I find number three to be intriguing. This isn't some snare question to expose us as mentally deficient buffoons, is it?

NEW ANSWER IN: What add ons do you use for firefox?

felixthecat: I've added a few, but the only one I use is the "FlagFox".

NEW ANSWER IN: Plasma or LCD?

felixthecat: Everyone likes LCD better. Why do they continue making plasmas, I wonder?

NEW ANSWER IN: When will battery/hydrogen powered cars be available at ordinary dealers?

felixthecat: Hydrogen cars, probably never. Battery cars, a few years from now. You can buy electric cars now, but not from an ordinary dealer. The heavily subsidized Tesla is available only to the wealthy or the financially foolhardy, but the XEBRA is available for about 12k. And any vehicle can be converted to...

NEW ANSWER IN: As of November 7th 2009, what is the world population?

felixthecat: Who can really know? Every second more babies pour forth. The population of the USA is 50 million more than the official figure, and probably the world figure is purposely distorted too.

Most of our global problems are the result of over-pop, and until over-pop is addressed, everything tha...

NEW ANSWER IN: Out of all the species of animals on earth, which is the most populated?

felixthecat: I would hesitate to include micro-organisms in the Kingdom Animalia. I would say krill, water fleas, and things of that sort. Small, number in the trillions.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is it possible to live with just one lung?

felixthecat: Yuppers. People do it all the time.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is your favorite Beetle song?

felixthecat: A Day in the Life

NEW ANSWER IN: Has innovation over the years led to a drop in overall intelligence?

felixthecat: I was listening to a science show the other day. The eggheads said that the human brain is smaller now than it was 10000 years ago. Asked if this meant that people were growing stupider, the scientists said that there was no real way to tell. I think that some may be smarter than ever before, but ov...

NEW ANSWER IN: What cars have the best resale value?

felixthecat: Volvos have a fair resale value, but not the American Volvos. Moonrise selected the cars with perhaps the best resale values.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why do bug bites itch so much?

felixthecat: It is an allergic reaction to saliva and other chemicals that the insect injects.

NEW ANSWER IN: What do YOU think of questional?

felixthecat: I enjoy being here, and I like the people here, even the ones that I appear to hate.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many times a day do you think about Questional?

felixthecat: I don't know. I like you guys, and admire your efforts with this. I pop by during my free moments.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can anyone understand why I would say that electricity is one of the most concentrated forms of negativity known to man???

felixthecat: I guess that I can understand why you, in particular, would say this, but I reject your reasoning as being seriously flawed, even aberrant.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you deal with internet/forum trolls?

felixthecat: I find them interesting for the most part, especially the skilled ones. At one forum site some old hag called everyone a troll with whom she disagreed. It turned out that she was the troll all along. I'll engage them just because they can, at times, keep things interesting.

NEW ANSWER IN: What do you think about facebook's new upgrades?

felixthecat: I check Facebook once every month, and any upgrades they make don't really matter to me.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you feel about the planets in our solar system increasing in vibrational frequency & temperature?

felixthecat: Global warming is a natural phenomenon caused in large part by solar fluctuations. If such fluctuations and aberrations can change the Earth's climate, it would also affect the other planets to greater or lesser degrees.

NEW ANSWER IN: What are the silver bars in front of Septa buses for?

felixthecat: The bars look like a bike rack At least, that is what they are used for around here.

NEW ANSWER IN: What do you think is hidden in area 51?

felixthecat: Advanced airplane designs.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you feel about little kids with cell phones?

felixthecat: Some parents give their kids everything. What does a little kid need a cellphone for anyway? Even I don't have one, and my life is none the worse for it. If anything, it is better.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do the Mac commercials make you want to purchase a Mac over a PC?

felixthecat: No. And if I got a Mac, what would happen to all my programs?

NEW ANSWER IN: In nature, what has natural symmetry?

felixthecat: There is no perfect symmetry, so we must look for imperfect, yet reasonable symmetry. In this regard, many animals can be considered symmetrical, and even some plants.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many hours a day do you use the internet?

felixthecat: Only about three. It is a good place to look up legal information and to spend some idle time.

NEW ANSWER IN: How often do you get on Questional?

felixthecat: Everyday, more or less. Sure that are a few retards on here, but they are everywhere in life. I really should just ignore them.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can animals/mammals other than humans really understand words when we speak to them? or do they just understand tones from our voice?

felixthecat: Parrots seem to be able to intelligently use words, not for the superficial association of a word with an action, but a word as a symbol.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do seances really work?

felixthecat: There has never been a seance that could demonstrate actual supernatural involvement.

NEW ANSWER IN: Which came first? Etch a sketch or Video game counsels?

felixthecat: I think that Etch-a-sketch came out in the fifties or sixties, so it must be older.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there a cure for gangrene?

felixthecat: Amputation, fire, boiling the infected part in acid, all these methods are tried and true.

NEW ANSWER IN: What was the first multi-celled organism to appear on Earth?

felixthecat: There was a time that the seas were populated by a weird multi-celled organism that looked like a fan blade. These "animals" were without predators for tens of millions of years, and predated the jellyfish. I vote for them.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do birds and squirrels not get electrocuted when sitting or walking on electric wires?

felixthecat: This is generally true, but still on high voltage wires, many birds are electrocuted. Most wires are not high enough in voltage to harm an ungrounded animal.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do all new passports have the tracking chips?

felixthecat: Who else? The government. How it will help with terrorism is unknown, but it will make tracking us easier.

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could have any 3 wishes, what would you wish for and why?

felixthecat: The realization of faster than light space travel, world peace, and, one selfish wish: immortality.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is your favorite electronics store?

felixthecat: ZOMG... not Best Buy, please not Best Buy. I buy everything like that off the internet.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the most chemical-intensive crop in the world?

felixthecat: Corn is a fragile crop needing a lot of care. I would argue for corn then.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the best way to get stinky shoes to smell good?

felixthecat: Wash your feet more regularly.

NEW ANSWER IN: Which type of heatsink would have better heat conductivity: Aluminum or Copper?

felixthecat: Copper is the superior metal. Aluminum is junk. Everytime something goes wrong around here its because some cheapskate tried to save ten cents by using aluminum instead of copper.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why Would Facebook Ask Me If Someone Is Under 18?

felixthecat: Maybe they are suddenly worried about pedophiles and preeverts?

NEW ANSWER IN: Does anyone play Pokemon?

felixthecat: Once, but not in awhile. I played gold.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you think we should have a character limit for giving points to answers?

felixthecat: "Does the Moon orbit the Earth?"

Simple answer: yes.

Long answer: "You have asked if the moon, our jolly nighttime friend, orbits ol' Terra Firma. The answer, my friend, is definitely there for all of us to see. When we look up at the sky, that glorious panoply of Heaven....&q...

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the best college in America, do you think?

felixthecat: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago...

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you care when people litter?

felixthecat: I don't like it, and never do it myself. When I had a badge I could do more about it.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does alcohol add or cause depression?

felixthecat: Technically classified as a depressant.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you properly dispose of batteries and electronics?

felixthecat: Toss 'em.

NEW ANSWER IN: What brand is your computer?

felixthecat: Dell.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can a pregnant woman drive in the carpool lane?

felixthecat: What about Siamese twins?

NEW ANSWER IN: How much does someone have to drink in order to get alcohol poisoning?

felixthecat: The very first drink results in alcohol poisoning. A hangover is alcohol poisoning. But death? As we see, the amount of alcohol that it would take to kill someone varies person to person.

NEW ANSWER IN: Will using Fix-a-flat ruin your tire or wheel?

felixthecat: Mechanics love to fix tires that are filled with Fix-a-Flat. Try it and see!

NEW ANSWER IN: What is imitation seafood?

felixthecat: They use pollack because of its cheapness. Disguised with food coloring and chemical flavorings, it makes the pollack/imitation crab almost edible.

NEW ANSWER IN: Has anyone ever had a bad experience with a Ouija board?

felixthecat: No. My mother's church tells all sorts of horror stories about them, but are any ever verified? I would think not, but .....maybe?

NEW ANSWER IN: How close are we to colonizing another celestial body?

felixthecat: True, there is no will to do this. As for the technology, we have lost a lot of ground since the 1960s. We are close enough to maybe colonize Mars in a few hundred, and other star systems in a few thousand. Maybe.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can pure gold be molded with hands?

felixthecat: I don't think that it would be quite soft to enough to mold by hand unless it were fairly hot. Lead is similar, and you cannot mold that with bare hands.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the best board game?

felixthecat: I like the old Life game

NEW ANSWER IN: Should online game addictions be treated on the same level as drugs/etc.?

felixthecat: Not that psychological addictions aren't important to remediate, but physical addictions such as drugs seem more problematic and life threatening. So I would hesitantly answer no.

NEW ANSWER IN: Has anyone ever been addicted to texas holdem?

felixthecat: No. Poker is a mystery to me. I have a poker face but I cannot follow the game. I'm just barely bright enough to be able to play baccarat.

NEW ANSWER IN: How well can a human smell compared to a dog?

felixthecat: Dogs can sniff out cancer that doctors are unaware of, and maybe even a cocktail of death chemicals in the soon to be dead elderly. There is a nursing home dog that becomes quite attached to a person days before their death. I don't know if I would find that to be reassuring or frightening.

At ...

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the legal window tint percent allowed in Pennsylvania?

felixthecat: In general, and as former police officer, I can say this: if a cop cannot see in to the front seats, the windows are too heavily tinted. Not only will you get a ticket, but now you have an edgy and nervous person with a gun scrutinizing you.

There was this one time with a Mercedes. The windows wer...

NEW ANSWER IN: What causes migraines?

felixthecat: From the Migraine Headache Center's Fun Fax:

"The exact causes of migraine headaches remain something of a mystery and despite the fact that it was believed for many years that they resulted from a dilation of the blood vessels, recent research suggests that this may not be the cause of th...

NEW ANSWER IN: What's your favorite video game genre?

felixthecat: MMORPG. Currently, EVE Online. I played Entropia for a short while and discovered it was just a slot machine.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is there a correct way to put on iPod ear buds?

felixthecat: I gave earbuds up for larger headphones. The advantage of this, besides no more pain, is that people know to leave me alone when they see the 'phones.

NEW ANSWER IN: What State has the most Mountains?

felixthecat: I would argue that Alaska has the most mountains because of that state's immensity, but the real answer?............Nevada!

NEW ANSWER IN: Do people still use public libraries?

felixthecat: I go about twice a month. A lot of books being published are rubbish, so why waste money buying and tossing them if the library already has the book?

NEW ANSWER IN: How often do you use Facebook?

felixthecat: About once a month. Everyone with a "cat" in their name tries to befriend me, and I go through monthly to clean up the mess.

NEW ANSWER IN: What's your favorite Youtube video?

felixthecat: This:

NEW ANSWER IN: The update's been applied, what's everyone think?

felixthecat: Very nice looking, quite professional. You guys are really doing a great job with this site.

NEW ANSWER IN: What would happen if a person with one blood type got a blood transfusion with another blood type?

felixthecat: I guess they would writhe in agony and then die. Unless they were given the universal blood type O-.

NEW ANSWER IN: What does Ipod stand for?

felixthecat: Is this inaccurate or accurate then?:

Trademark

The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Od...

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you rate your own Questional questions? Why?

felixthecat: I'm not judging here. I'm simply curious.

NEW ANSWER IN: How does smelling salt work?

felixthecat: I thought that smelling salts were ammonia crystals. And it does work. We carried the things in patrol cars and smelling salts will wake the dead.

NEW ANSWER IN: What's your favorite web comic?

felixthecat: Perry Bible Fellowship

NEW ANSWER IN: What animal do you think will go extinct next?

felixthecat: Saiga antelope. The WWF decided something had to be done about 600 million Chinese men clamoring for rhino horns. So the WWF said that Saiga horns would be as effective. Out went the helicopters, and now there are almost no male Saiga left. Herds number in the millions, but are almost entirely femal...

NEW ANSWER IN: What are some awesome wallpapers?

felixthecat: I take from here:

NEW ANSWER IN: Why are we unable to tickle ourselves?

felixthecat: What parasyte said is the official reason, but how come when there is no possible surprise, you can still tickle someone? No one knows.

NEW ANSWER IN: Where do polar bears live?

felixthecat: Parasyte is closest. They live all around the Arctic Circle, both on islands and on the continents.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is anyone else having a problem with deviantART?

felixthecat: Lots of people are complaining about the problems that they are having with deviantArt. I wish I could advise how to fix it, but....

NEW ANSWER IN: What's your favorite search engine?

felixthecat: Google. Once I used Excite, but that quickly grew old.

NEW ANSWER IN: How long can cactus live without water?

felixthecat: Cactuses can survive for months without water, but in the end, succumb to dessication and cannot be revived. Most cactuses get daily water from dew, but requirements vary among the species.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many people from here play world of Warcraft?

felixthecat: EVE online is my current game.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the Card Game Sequence?

felixthecat: It is a simple matching game played on a gameboard. You have to line up like 5 in a row of the same suit or something of the sort. I haven't played for awhile. It is pretty entertaining though.

NEW ANSWER IN: Have you ever seen the movie Riverworld? Thoughts?

felixthecat: It is based on a series of books by Jose Farmer. In the books, the British explorer is the hero, and learns to commit suicide easily to escape the violent and perverted societies along the River. Many people are kept tied up and naked in the dark, because each person is supplied with a kit that resp...

NEW ANSWER IN: What kind of cell phone do you use?

felixthecat: Some Motorola with no functions. I hate cell phones.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is your favorite card game?

felixthecat: Sequence.

NEW ANSWER IN: What makes a person homosexual?

felixthecat: Many animal species have individuals that demonstrate homosexuality, leading one to think that it is more genetic than nurturing. As an evolutionary adaptation it may just be random, or some sort of artifact like male nipples.

NEW ANSWER IN: Who is a member of Neoseeker.com?

felixthecat: Not I.

NEW ANSWER IN: How much longer is the exclusivity contract between Apple iPhone and AT&T?

felixthecat: Eventually a lawsuit will turn this situation around. The Europeans are less tolerant of this sort of thing than are the Americans.

NEW ANSWER IN: When did the dodo bird become extinct and why?

felixthecat: Yeah, late 1600s. Rats, pigs, cats, dogs and of course people finished them off pretty fast. They had no fear and were slow.

Their closest living relative is the Malabar Pigeon, I think, and some say a dodo can be re-engineered from that.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is it bad to be on the internet while burning a DVD?

felixthecat: If it is, then I have been doing bad things for years.

NEW ANSWER IN: Have you ever made a website?

felixthecat: I made a few state websites, and some gaming and art websites.

NEW ANSWER IN: What image programs can save in .svg format?

felixthecat: I use Illustrator.

NEW ANSWER IN: Will the sun eventually burn out?

felixthecat: Another five billion. Brown dwarf stars can burn for hundreds of millions.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why does your body need sleep?

felixthecat: Last I read, they still aren't exactly sure. It is said to refresh systems, or is an evolutionary adaption to keep a species from harm when certain predators are about, or to reduce the need for food.

NEW ANSWER IN: What are the black wires that go across the road for?

felixthecat: They measure traffic volume and traffic speed. Unfortunately, they tend to cause drivers to slow down, and some polities place the wires near traffic lights to provide faulty data to residents concerned about speeding cars.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do alarms make a car more safe?

felixthecat: After a year, I disconnected the annoying alarm. They say that alarms in general are worthless, except for the peace of mind that they provide some.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why doesn't the US use the metric system like the rest of the world?

felixthecat: The metric system is an unnecessary encumbrance, and one that should be tossed out the window with the rest of the garbage. It has no history behind it, unlike the English system. I'd rather walk an English mile than a French kilometer.

Furthermore, the Fahrenheit scale is much more precise a...

NEW ANSWER IN: What causes you road rage?

felixthecat: People who somehow get in front of me and then drive slowly, people in the left lane driving slowly, stoopid bicyclists, and jaywalkers.

NEW ANSWER IN: I have a unpaid ticket that I forgot to pay, how can I find that information?

felixthecat: There are two ways: the first is to go to the town hall or whatever, and have a clerk look it up based on your DL# or plate. The second way is far more dangerous: have a police officer look it up. The second way may result in your immediate arrest if a bench warrant has been ordered for you, and the...

NEW ANSWER IN: What do you think about this "Farting Preacher" video?

felixthecat: At first I thought this video was a joke, but when I realized that it was all real, with no dubbed in sound effects, I laughed even harder.

NEW ANSWER IN: What TV do you use?

felixthecat: Panasonic. They never seem to die or break.

NEW ANSWER IN: What are the ingredients of fake snow used for skiing and snowboarding?

felixthecat: Water and some matrix, usually ice pellets or bacteria protein.

NEW ANSWER IN: Are there going to be any future Star Trek Conventions?

felixthecat: THere will always be future Star Trek conventions. The franchise just goes on and on.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is your favorite piece of art?

felixthecat: Kawase Hasui:

NEW ANSWER IN: Why do you keep coming back to Questional?

felixthecat: I like the people here, and I enjoy helping this site become a success for its creators.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is your theory on the Big Bang that supposedly created the universe?

felixthecat: The Big Bang Theory is supported by a large body of evidence. Therefore, as the most compelling and evidence supported explanation as to how the universe began, I accept the Big Bang Theory.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can you believe the Questional.com car is dead?

felixthecat: Well, at least you are all right.

NEW ANSWER IN: Are ATV's dangerous to ride on?

felixthecat: Most people ride them without incident. The others are brain damaged, crippled, or paralyzed.

NEW ANSWER IN: If everyone could add a new feature to this site to make it better, what would you want to add?

felixthecat: Animated gifs and clips to be posted with our questions. An avatar resizer that can hadle anim gifs. Otherwise, nothing. You're doing a great job.

NEW ANSWER IN: How many animals are killed each year due to human garbage?

felixthecat: No one knows. Probably tens of millions if you count sea animals.

NEW ANSWER IN: If you could have any kind of car, what would it be and why?

felixthecat: Mustang Mach 1 from the late sixties/early seventies.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you get more followers on Twitter?

felixthecat: I agree with Kid Rock about Twitter.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can you solve a Rubik's Cube?

felixthecat: I solved two sides once and then threw the thing out.

NEW ANSWER IN: What is better, Myspace or Facebook?

felixthecat: MySpace is moribund at best. Not that I really care that much for either one.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why do most people think a hole in the ozone means we are venting atmosphere from earth?

felixthecat: Gravity holds what gasses it can. Things like helium drift off into space and that process is largely unstoppable. A heavy gas will not hold a lighter gas. The heavy gas would just sink while the lighter gas rises above it.

NEW ANSWER IN: What's the best pre-made avatar on Questional?

felixthecat: This is cool:

NEW ANSWER IN: Why does yogurt shoot out of the cup when you peel back the lid?

felixthecat: Bacterial pressure.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does anyone on Questional wake up in the morning with a song or melody in their head? Even more, how about a song that you've never heard in your entire life?

felixthecat: The demon possessed also display this ability on occasion.

NEW ANSWER IN: Is the file type "gif" pronounced with a hard g or soft g?

felixthecat: The creators did indeed mean it to have a "j" sound, but no one else says it that way. The "G" in gif is for "graphics" so what did they expect? And since the word is widely used and the creators have no real control on how it is pronounced, only an oddly pedantic perso...

NEW ANSWER IN: Which do you prefer, Photoshop or GIMP?

felixthecat: Photoshop.

NEW ANSWER IN: Do you like flying?

felixthecat: I hate flying. First, it makes me terribly ill with motion sickness. Second, the seats are too crammed. Third, I'm always behind some idiot who has to put his seat all the way back so his head is in my lap (why are bald heads always greasy looking with pimples and throbbing veins?)and my...

NEW ANSWER IN: Has anyone tried the new Rolling Razor?

felixthecat: No. I'm still using a free Schick that came in the mail. By washing and drying the blade, it has kept its edge for over a year now, and I still have two unused refills waiting.

NEW ANSWER IN: Are more of you on desktops or laptops?

felixthecat: Desktop

NEW ANSWER IN: What should you do if a neighbor parks his car in front of your house for an extended period of time?

felixthecat: Depends on where you live. If it is a public street, and there are no overnight or any other parking restrictions, and the registration is up to date, the car may remain where it is for the next 100 years.

NEW ANSWER IN: How much longer will the human race survive?

felixthecat: At current rates of fertility there would be 134 trillion people on the earth by 2300. Not only is there not enough carbon in the galaxy to support that many people, there is not enough food, water, air, or room. Unless something dramatically changes, we will be extinct by, say, 2150.

NEW ANSWER IN: Could drinking alcohol in moderation boost a persons IQ level?

felixthecat: Maybe small amounts increase blood flow to the brain?

NEW ANSWER IN: Why dont slugs really have shells?

felixthecat: Many slugs have a tiny shell, or even nascent internal shells. As to the why, slugs are able to squeeze into more places that may have moisture than a snail would be able to. This flexibility allows slugs to colonize places that a snail cannot.

NEW ANSWER IN: Are the cars sold at police auctions sold as is?

felixthecat: The police, their families, and their cronies such as local politicos have already taken all the good cars before the auction. Next, dealers fight over the fairly good cars that weren't good enough for the police. What you get to bid on are dirty or broken down cars that permanently stink of vom...

NEW ANSWER IN: When was the last time our world went through a golden age?

felixthecat: A Golden Age is defined by those who look back to when they think that things were great. Conservatives look back at the awful fifties as a Golden Age, romanticists think of early 19th century as a Golden Age, and so on. In other words, a Golden Age is purely subjective and a particular Golden Age h...

NEW ANSWER IN: On the human body, what part has the fastest growing hair?

felixthecat: My Aunt's chin? In general, I don't know.

NEW ANSWER IN: Does sound travel faster or slower though water?

felixthecat: Between 3 or 4 times as fast.

NEW ANSWER IN: What steps can we take to help prevent another Hurricane Katrina from occurring?

felixthecat: Such things will happen again and again. Global warming may have contributed to Katrina's power, but a large storm can occur without the added impetus of warming.

Want to be safe? There is no safety. A natural disaster can strike any of us at any time. To avoid being a victim of another Katr...

NEW ANSWER IN: What would a silicone based life-form look like?

felixthecat: In the unlikely event that such a creature existed, it would have evolved from completely different antecedents than us carbon-types, and would thus look either the same or different to carbon forms of life. This would be true whether we consider the terrestrial or the extra-terrestrial case...

NEW ANSWER IN: Why are peoples eyes red in some pictures?

felixthecat: In a way, it is flash reflection. Red light from the flash is being reflected off the retina.

NEW ANSWER IN: How did the dinosaurs become extinct?

felixthecat: According to the Advanced Science Curriculum textbook for high school homeschoolers, after the dinosaurs were released from Noah's Ark, they were gradually all eaten by people. Still, they survived right into the early Medieval period when the last were killed by fierce Knights on steeds.

NEW ANSWER IN: Can you get your account permanently closed on facebook for "minor disruptions?"

felixthecat: I have been booted off twice, but I swear that I did nothing wrong! (I tried to write that with a straight face). I guess it depends what mod you have hunting you down.

NEW ANSWER IN: What do you think technology will be like in 20 years?

felixthecat: Hope is nice, but reality will set in. As the global population continues to soar to complete collapse, technologies in mass food production from unconventional sources (bacteria, rats, Soylent), crowd control, and sterilization gasses will advance. Other technologies that help a police stat...

NEW ANSWER IN: How do I get Norton Anti Virus to stop harassing my laptop every hour?

felixthecat: Search the registry and delete every mention of "Norton". Of course, that can be dangerous to do, but I finally cleaned that whole mess off my computers. Another, easier way to avoid seeing the ad is to download the PTFB program and set it to zero for the pop-up.

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NEW ANSWER IN: Why does the sky turn red in some sunsets?

felixthecat: I always heard that it was due to the angle of refraction.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why do people have such a short life expectancy?

felixthecat: Our lifespans are pathetically short. If we weren't self-aware it wouldn't matter, but we are so it does matter- greatly. Scientists are working on the problem from various angles, but for most of us over twenty or so, any breakthroughs will be just too late. Our grandchildren may li...

NEW ANSWER IN: Do bees come out at night?

felixthecat: Moths are the main nighttime pollinators. The bees are all asleep.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why is human food so bad for an animal to eat?

felixthecat: My mother was certain that the dog wanted cooked food, so she one day stewed Alpo for her. The stench was so bad that the dog wouldn't eat the stuff, and neither would the poor family next door.

I would think that human food is no worse for animals than it is for us, which isn't saying mu...

NEW ANSWER IN: What is the coolest/funniest/weirdest vanity license plate?

felixthecat: Some Californian got away with "O THIT" for awhile until some bluenose reported him.

NEW ANSWER IN: When was the first computer invented?

felixthecat: About 2-3 thousand years ago by the Greeks:

"A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well a...

NEW ANSWER IN: Does smoking marijuana make your hair grow faster?

felixthecat: I have never heard that faster growing hair resulted from smoking marijuana. Maybe it just seems like that if you are high and have lost sense of time.

Lots of sex, in the course of a few days, always seemed to make my hair grow faster, so maybe if you combine the two- sex and marijuana -...

NEW ANSWER IN: How do you like questional.com so far?

felixthecat: Love it, or I wouldn't have come back after the first visit.

NEW ANSWER IN: What car do you think best suits your personality? Is that also your favorite car or, the car you drive, already?

felixthecat: I loved my candy apple red Firebird. Now, Audi.

NEW ANSWER IN: Why is Twitter so damn addicting?

felixthecat: No one nowadays has an attention span greater than a few minutes. Maybe that is why.

NEW ANSWER IN: How do cacti live without water?

felixthecat: If you do not water them, they die. They just need a lot less regular watering than many other plants.