felixthecat

How many people die each year because they stupidly used homeopathic remedies?

felixthecat: What brought this to mind was an idiot who is using homeopathic medicine to treat her child's earache. She became quite indignant when I told her that maybe she would someday make the front page for child neglect induced death.

• Fact
• death
• brain
• pus45filled ears
• medicine
• idiot
• death
• homeopathy

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 (1 answer)

• Fact
• distance
• 1880s
• engine
• steam
• train

What colors can an ant see?

felixthecat (4 answers)

• Pets & Animals
• Fact
• ant
• vision
• color

Are there more cars than people in the USA?

felixthecat (1 answer)

• Motor Vehicles
• Fact

What evidence is there to support Creationism?

felixthecat: The only thing that I can think of is that we seem to be the only creatures on Earth that need to use toilet paper. All other animals have a set-up that either makes toilet paper unnecessary, or they are able to self-clean with a lick or two. People, on the other hand, are sloppy defecators.... (2 answers)

• Science & Math
• Opinion

What is the closest relative to the dodo bird, and would it be possible to use selective breeding to recreate the dodo?

felixthecat (2 answers)

• Pets & Animals
• Fact
• dodo
• bird
• breed
• science

Are invasive species a type of pollution?

felixthecat: Trevor Reynolds, invasive species adviser for the (British) Environment Agency, said: "Invasive species are a kind of biological pollution." He hates raccoons, dormice, mink, and a host of other non-natives. (1 answer)

• Pets & Animals
• Opinion
• pollution
• species

“James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher”?

felixthecat: A perfectly correct sentence lacking only the proper punctuation. Sort of like "Buffalo buffalo buffalo" which needs no punctuation other than a period. Can you solve it?

• Games
• Fact

In 0-60 acceleration tests, does the driver slam down on the gas pedal as hard as possible, or is there some other way?

felixthecat (1 answer)

• Motor Vehicles
• Fact

What is the maximum human population that the Earth can reasonably support?

felixthecat

• Environment
• Fact

Should we be sad when a poacher is killed by an animal, or pleased that the animal fought back and won?

felixthecat (4 answers)

• Environment
• Opinion
• Poacher
• animal
• kill

Why do people seem to fear the Theory of Evolution?

felixthecat (3 answers)

• Science & Math
• Opinion
• evolution
• theory

Why is Questional no longer being kept up to date?

felixthecat (3 answers)

• Internet
• Opinion

Does Windows Live Mail have a "select all" option anywhere?

felixthecat: I was happy with Outlook Express, but was then forced to switch to the "New, Improved, Yet Sucks Like a Bucket of Ticks" Windows Live Mail. I have hundreds and hundreds of messages that are not worth keeping, but I am forced to delete each one individually. THere appears to be no "se... (1 answer)

• Internet
• Fact

Will non-Latin alphabet web addresses this week make the internet better?

felixthecat: International Internet regulator ICANN is accepting applications for non-Latin alphabet web addresses this week: Greek, Chinese, Mongolian, Russian, Ancient Egyptian, Sylvan. Will this make the internet even better, or make large parts of it inaccessible, as well as slowing net speed down?

• Internet
• Opinion
• latin
• alphabet
• internet
• web address

What are your thoughts on The People of Walmart website?

felixthecat (3 answers)

• Internet
• Opinion
• people of walmart
• website

Plasma or LCD?

felixthecat: Which is better, TV-wise? (4 answers)

• Electronics
• Opinion
• plasma
• lcd
• television

What is Facebook "poking"?

felixthecat: Someone was jailed recently for "poking" someone on Facebook. True, a restraining order was involved, but is it that hard to block someone? (1 answer)

• Internet
• Fact
• facebook
• poking

Should extinct animals be resurrected, recreated?

felixthecat: Scientists sat that someday in the nearer future, that animals such as mammoths, woolly rhinos and others may be "resurrected" from old DNA. Some say that this is unethical, for when an animal goes extinct, it should stay extinct. Usually their best argument is that "man should not be... (1 answer)

• Science & Math
• Opinion
• science mammoth rhino

On average, how deep is the ocean (that is, all of them combined)?

felixthecat (2 answers)

• Science & Math
• Fact
• ocean deep felix

What is the cheapest cell phone that I can get that I don't have to pay monthly for?

felixthecat (2 answers)

• Electronics
• Opinion

Why are insects attracted to bright lights at night?

felixthecat (4 answers)

• Science & Math
• Fact

If you drilled a hole to the liquid core of the Earth, would all the molten metal shoot out onto the surface?

felixthecat (3 answers)

• Science & Math
• Fact
• liquid
• earth
• core
• metal

Is it true that if you put a penny on a railroad track and a train runs over it that the penny will be squashed to half dollar size?

felixthecat: I have always heard this, but have never had the opportunity to try this. (1 answer)

• Motor Vehicles
• Fact

Traveling at a third the speed of light, how long would it take a spaceship to get to Alpha Centauri?

felixthecat (1 answer)

• Science & Math
• Fact

Do you rate your own Questional questions? Why?

felixthecat (6 answers)

• Internet
• Opinion
• rate
• question

What is the difference between hair and fur?

felixthecat (2 answers)

• Science & Math
• Fact

Can fire be weighed?

felixthecat (3 answers)

• Science & Math
• Fact