This is true, in the same sense that no irresistible force has ever met an immovable object.

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of…

During the election all candidates have to be dropped down a stairwell to determine density.

I'm afraid it'd be almost impossible to allow for the differences in mass.

For instance those merely full of hot air would fall at a slower rate than those full of s**t. Then…

Terrorism is the greatest threat facing the democratic world.
We've been invited to their country, and it's tor their own good.

Bullshit , crap, f*ck off. Now give me your oil. Just had to get that off my chest... why? because I can :-)

We've been invited to their country, and it's tor their own good.

Gangs are a growing threat to society.

P is the most dangerous thing you could get into.

The gays will ruin marriage, with all their butt-secs.

Kids these days,…

It's actually SQRT(k.m/S) where k is a factor of g, air density, Cd, etc.

You, sir, are, in my correct opinion, a charlatan. I challenge you to a plummet.
As long as I can have a parachute of which has an area not less than the square of my mass…

Wouldn't it be cool if we could get an old passenger liner, The QE2, or sum such Icon into space. It could orbit the moon, as an amateur astronomers attraction.

Traditionally it is a teapot in orbit around Mars...

In any event, this little factoid (hey – I used it right!)

THIS!! Far too many people seem to be under the impression that a factoid is a small fact...

-oid ≠ small! I kind of wish it was, though. Just think of the possibilities, dwarves would be androids! :D

You must have thought I was a total idiot :-)

Not at all Graeme, Twas my brain that were fuddled by this new fangled daylight saving thingy, I still don't know whether i'm early or late.
Anyroad, It seems that financiers fall at the same rate as their portfolios, most…

The sky is blue because it is reflecting the sea...

wiki o doom says
"The sunlit sky appears blue because air scatters short-wavelength light more than longer wavelengths."

During the election all candidates have to be dropped down a stairwell to determine density.

If we're showing they're less dense than the Media they're floating in, that won't tell you much.

BTW I had it explained to me that what Galileo should have done was taken a cannonball and a…

Anyway... back to the dropping thing.

During the election all candidates have to be dropped down a stairwell to determine density.

After all we don't want overly…

Gravity does affect the heavier object more, but so does inertia, both in proportion to the mass of the object, so that acceleration due to gravity stays the same.

Fair enough. I could’ve worded my sentence better, but the net effect is what matters, for the purposes of the point…

Does poor weather on election day favor the National Party?

I think the myth is that it is bad for the incumbent

But doesn't the objects weight need to be heavier than air?

Denser. Not heavier. But yes.

And yes, as it happens, I did just check this out myself yesterday, while tinkering around in the backyard.

You own a tank? Cool!

Many people have a common sense notion that heavy objects tend to fall faster than lighter ones because gravity affects the heavier object more.

Gravity does affect the heavier object more, but so does inertia, both in proportion to the mass of the object, so that acceleration due to gravity…

1. Heavy objects and light objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum.
It helps to complete sentences sometimes ;-)

Quite. The acceleration due to gravity is the same for heavier and lighter objects. And considering the point of using this example of the limits of ‘common sense’ is…

It certainly didn't in 1984. Pissed down most of the country, most of the day.

It may have done, once upon a time, when cars were less common. Even then I have my doubts.

if someone can up up a blue one, I'll be a happy man

Does poor weather on election day favor the National Party?

Didn't they do this one on the Daily Show or something last week? [update: yeah, John Stewart discussed this with Tony Blair].

Which would be how the conversation arose :-)

1. Heavy objects and light objects fall at the same rate

I don't know about this one. I mean, it's clearly untrue as it stands. but is there seriously anyone who thinks that, say, a duvet and a block of cheese weighing the same amount would, on a windy day,…

Still looking for pedantry points, the War of 1812 between Britain and the US would seem to be a fairly clear-cut example of two democracies at war with one…

Oh, right, things that AREN'T true.

You must have thought I was a total idiot :-)

"Socialism has never worked"
because it doesn't fit in with
"greed is good"
and we have the power to ensure it doesn't work.

And…

2. Labour won the last election because of a fantastic get-out-the-vote drive in South Auckland and the fact that people suddenly remembered what National was like.

3. No two…

Try dropping a feather inside a glass (tall to reduce eddy currents.)
IF the feather falls slower than the glass it will come off the bottom of the glass. Does it? Try it.

You don't need to go to the moon!!!