Car Speed

You’re driving down the highway behind a vehicle that’s doing only 50 mph. When you try to pass this vehicle, it speeds up to keep pace with you. Even if you’re now going 100 mph, you still can’t seem to pass this car. What’s going on?

———- from Karin S of Woodland Park, CO

Every slow moving car emits a force field that extends from the rear bumper of the car back to the car directly behind it. When you accelerate and approach the slow car, you compress the field. DeSoto’s Third Law demands that a decrease in bumper force field size be compensated by an increase in axle rotation. So stop blaming the other guy; it’s you who’s in the driver’s seat.

Australian Warning System

My husband was born and raised in Australia, under southern skies. When he looks in my eyes and sings, “Hey, there, you with the stars in your eyes,” which stars is he seeing?

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Nuclear Physics as Fun

I don’t like to study and so I’m not doing very well in school. Is there any subject that I could concentrate on that would be fun and easy to master…you know, that wouldn’t involve a bunch of tedious study?

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Computer Virus Antibiotics

Sometimes my computer runs so slowly. I think there must be a virus of some kind that’s infected my operating system. Is there anyway I can give my computer an antibiotic?

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Metal and Chrome Cassettes

What’s the difference between metal and chrome cassettes? Isn’t chrome a metal?

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