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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #345 on: March 30, 2011, 08:42:41 AM »
I hate Chemistry.

That is all.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #346 on: March 30, 2011, 08:47:20 AM »
Personally, I consider Chemistry as applied Physics...

Either way, yeah it is boring but easy IMHO  :siderofl:

Was it clear enough or was my Engrish an obstacle?

EDIT: AH!!! It just occured to me:

The difference between L and D molecules is like the difference between the left and right hands :D
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #347 on: March 30, 2011, 09:21:45 AM »
I blame the 2D projections of a 3-dimensional molecule that means that many people fail to appreciate the spatial structure of molecules and their relevance to its chemical properties. Or something.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #348 on: March 30, 2011, 11:12:33 AM »
You guys want to carry on this chemistry discussion somewhere in a thread that cares?

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #349 on: March 30, 2011, 11:17:14 AM »

I asked this same question (languages, not boring chemistry) here about a year ago probably.  "Chinese" would be Mandarin, not Cantonese. Both might be top 10, but Mandarin is the main language.  Panther's list looks pretty good.  Not sure about Malay - they have a huge population in Malaysia, but I'm not sure about the language(s).  Japanese and German may have been top ten.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #350 on: March 30, 2011, 12:11:41 PM »
Well, some of the rankings may change depending on if it counts only by native language. If it does, I think Spanish goes in before English, otherwise English is second, I think, but I think I'll go with native language in mine, so population ranking knowledge helps ^.^. Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, German. Of course, if it's not native language, then there's probably a fair amount of the second half that are off :P
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #351 on: March 30, 2011, 02:32:21 PM »
Quote from: BFM_Panther on March 30, 2011, 03:40:39 AM
1. Chinese (Mandarin)
2. English
3. Hindu (Hindustani)
4. Spanish
5. Russian
6. Arabic
7. Bengali
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. French

 :LOL: We did this in Geography yesterday :LOL: (Please don't blame me if I am wrong, I am only remembering off the top of my head)

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k, thats all in the correct order,

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #352 on: March 30, 2011, 03:18:21 PM »
what a googler
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #353 on: March 30, 2011, 03:32:07 PM »
LOL

I thought Panther was the one who asked and that, seeing Jane's answer, determined she was next...  :doh:

Well, at least this thread helped me to survive my class this morning  ;D (I am not a morning person...)

Quote from: BFM_Kiwi on March 30, 2011, 11:12:33 AM
You guys want to carry on this chemistry discussion somewhere in a thread that cares?

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #354 on: March 31, 2011, 12:35:34 AM »
Quote from: bfm_TUR80 on March 30, 2011, 03:18:21 PM
what a googler
:P
gj panther


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Quote from: BFM_Panther on March 30, 2011, 03:40:39 AM
Quote from: BFM_JANE on March 30, 2011, 03:24:03 AM

Chinese
English
Whatever they speak in India (Hindi? I'm stupid, forgive me!)
Spanish
German
French
Japanese
Cantonese
Tagalog

And that's all I can think of. There are probably some Asian languages that are very popular, Cantonese or Tagalog, but I have no I idea. I'll just add them now :P




1. Chinese
2. English
3. Hindu
4. Spanish
5. Russian
6. Arabic
7. Bengali
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. French

 :LOL: We did this in Geography yesterday :LOL: (Please don't blame me if I am wrong, I am only remembering off the top of my head)[/b]

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #355 on: March 31, 2011, 12:46:33 AM »
New Question!

Which is said to be the longest successful civilization?

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #356 on: March 31, 2011, 02:09:57 AM »
Greeks
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #357 on: March 31, 2011, 02:53:09 AM »
Well, Greece wasn't really one civilisation, 'cos it kept getting conquered by either other Greeks or barbarians.

I'm going with Ancient Egypt - something like from 5000BC-330BC, when Alexander thought he fancied a holiday in the sun. Or, if you're counting up until the romans, then it'd be 5000BC-4AD roughly.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #358 on: March 31, 2011, 04:28:25 AM »
The Roman Empire lasted for over years, in one form or another, if you count the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Romans) and the same civilisation. Which you should.

Anyway, they lasted from about 753BC - 1452 AD.

Even so, Egyptians still lasted longer probably, but I'll throw them into the mix.

Also I think there might be an Asian civilisation that was even longer than that.
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« Reply #359 on: March 31, 2011, 04:39:42 AM »
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