{"id":948,"date":"2006-12-20T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/20\/unanswered-questions\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T13:52:53","slug":"unanswered-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/20\/unanswered-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Slate<\/cite>&#8216;s Explainer presents a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155836\/fr\/rss\/\">list of questions that were submitted but not answered<\/a>. They propose to answer one of these, chosen on the basis of a reader vote. (Details at the bottom of the article.)<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>Lasers are now powerful and small (at least I think they are), so why don&#8217;t our troops carry laser guns?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Because Home Depot doesn&#8217;t carry an extension cord long enough to reach Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><i>Is it possible to collect all the cookie dough in Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream and actually bake cookies from it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming up next on <cite>Mythbusters<\/cite>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Just suppose, one day someone wants to sell you an old gold bar. You don&#8217;t know if it belongs to any treasure, and you can&#8217;t find out if there is any reward for it, if it was a lost treasure. How would you go about melting it and selling it? The same would go for a gemstone about the size of a dinner plate. How would you go about selling it? If you&#8217;re living in a country that is corrupt and you cannot trust the government, or anyone else, what can you do?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see, I have this&#8230; friend&#8230; whose father was the former ruler of Freedonia, and&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>PYGMIES: How\/when\/where\/still in existence\/do we mate with them? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Really, it&#8217;s the formatting that makes this question.<\/p>\n<p><i>I have noticed that a lot of mainstream movies feature men peeing. Are the actors really peeing?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You know, it never occurred to me to wonder about that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate&#8216;s Explainer presents a list of questions that were submitted but not answered. They propose to answer one of these, chosen on the basis of a reader vote. (Details at the bottom of the article.) Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}