The Alabama was a blockade runner, maybe he was on it.Elijah Baley wrote:Heck, TPH should just watch Gone With The Wind - Rhett Butler running the Northern blockade is referenced several times.Bamaman wrote:Farragut and Mobile Bay come up quite a bit on the show.
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Greenhouse effect. Yes, the same one on Earth.TenPoundHammer wrote:I need to see the words to that clue again.Bamaman wrote:Tyson explained it in the answer.TenPoundHammer wrote: Why is Venus hotter than Mercury? That doesn't make any sense.
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I'm assuming you're referring to FJ. The TOM were the years given. The League of Nations was formed after WWI and started to crumble at the outset of WWII.TPH wrote:How about a TOM or something in this clue, huh?!
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It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
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Again, I tuned out the years as irrelevant noise, and thought they were going for a "these names kinda sorta almost vaguely sound like they belong to a certain country" like they so often do.This Is Kirk! wrote:I'm assuming you're referring to FJ. The TOM were the years given. The League of Nations was formed after WWI and started to crumble at the outset of WWII.TPH wrote:How about a TOM or something in this clue, huh?!
Still, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah hottest in our solar system", why would you NOT knee-jerk Mercury?Bamaman wrote:It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
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1. Mercury isn't in the habitable zone.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah hottest in our solar system", why would you NOT knee-jerk Mercury?Bamaman wrote:It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
2. Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere.
3. You don't try to make excuses for not knowing the astronomy basics.
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Because 1. and 2. are sooooooo widely known, right?!Volante wrote:1. Mercury isn't in the habitable zone.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah hottest in our solar system", why would you NOT knee-jerk Mercury?Bamaman wrote:It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
2. Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere.
3. You don't try to make excuses for not knowing the astronomy basics.
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What, no sarcastic reply to 3. as well?TenPoundHammer wrote:Because 1. and 2. are sooooooo widely known, right?!Volante wrote:1. Mercury isn't in the habitable zone.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah hottest in our solar system", why would you NOT knee-jerk Mercury?Bamaman wrote:It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
2. Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere.
3. You don't try to make excuses for not knowing the astronomy basics.
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Yes, they are.TenPoundHammer wrote:Because 1. and 2. are sooooooo widely known, right?!
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There is no need to have any knowledge of astronomy other than the names of the planets and their order from the sun. You seem to know that.
You said it made sense that the closest planet would be the he hotest. I agree that is a logical conclusion. But that is why Tyson explained why Venus is hotter. If Mercury were the hotest it wouldn't be an interesting fact to know that might come up in a trivia game. In other words, if it was Mercury, they probably wouldn't ask it or at least not give such a detailed explanation.
Tune into his show on the National Geographic Channel to learn more.
You said it made sense that the closest planet would be the he hotest. I agree that is a logical conclusion. But that is why Tyson explained why Venus is hotter. If Mercury were the hotest it wouldn't be an interesting fact to know that might come up in a trivia game. In other words, if it was Mercury, they probably wouldn't ask it or at least not give such a detailed explanation.
Tune into his show on the National Geographic Channel to learn more.
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Frankly, TPH, my 12 year old could tell you that, as could either of my college aged sons. But we've all got an aptitude for science, perhaps that is what is lacking in your case?TenPoundHammer wrote:Because 1. and 2. are sooooooo widely known, right?!Volante wrote:1. Mercury isn't in the habitable zone.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still, "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah hottest in our solar system", why would you NOT knee-jerk Mercury?Bamaman wrote:It would seem logical that Mercury would be hotter. That is why he gave a detailed explanation of why it isn't.
2. Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere.
3. You don't try to make excuses for not knowing the astronomy basics.
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This. Also, "Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system despite being farther from the sun than Mercury" is about as basic a trivia factoid as there is. Just trust us, it is. Commit it to memory. It will come up again.Bamaman wrote:There is no need to have any knowledge of astronomy other than the names of the planets and their order from the sun. You seem to know that.
You said it made sense that the closest planet would be the he hotest. I agree that is a logical conclusion. But that is why Tyson explained why Venus is hotter. If Mercury were the hotest it wouldn't be an interesting fact to know that might come up in a trivia game. In other words, if it was Mercury, they probably wouldn't ask it or at least not give such a detailed explanation.
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But if you don't know all that already, then it's easy to just go "Oh, hottest planet, must be Mercury" in spite of the tl;dr explanation.BigDaddyMatty wrote:This. Also, "Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system despite being farther from the sun than Mercury" is about as basic a trivia factoid as there is. Just trust us, it is. Commit it to memory. It will come up again.Bamaman wrote:There is no need to have any knowledge of astronomy other than the names of the planets and their order from the sun. You seem to know that.
You said it made sense that the closest planet would be the he hotest. I agree that is a logical conclusion. But that is why Tyson explained why Venus is hotter. If Mercury were the hotest it wouldn't be an interesting fact to know that might come up in a trivia game. In other words, if it was Mercury, they probably wouldn't ask it or at least not give such a detailed explanation.
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If you aren't even going to listen to the clue then why are you even here?
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If you all know he's not going to listen to the clue, then why are the rest of you even here?Bamaman wrote:If you aren't even going to listen to the clue then why are you even here?
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So what I'm getting is "Sometimes you have to pay attention to all the words in a clue, sometimes you can just glom onto a random word or two."
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Q.E.D.TenPoundHammer wrote:So what I'm getting is "Sometimes you have to pay attention to all the words in a clue, sometimes you can just glom onto a random word or two."
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I see what you did there....econgator wrote:If you all know he's not going to listen to the clue, then why are the rest of you even here?Bamaman wrote:If you aren't even going to listen to the clue then why are you even here?
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This may be your most remarkable statement yet. I don't remember the exact wording of this clue, and it isn't in the archive yet, but the mention of Moses was supposed to help guide you to Joshua. If the clue had just been "He led to the Israelites into the Promised Land," Moses would have been what we call a negbait - a response that seems highly plausible, sometimes even apparently obvious, but is wrong. (Although if Jericho was mentioned, then that is what we call Pavlov for Joshua - a word in a clue that almost always leads to a particular response. The name comes from the famous Pavlov's dog experiment.) But if you know Moses is ruled out, then that should guide you to Joshua.TenPoundHammer wrote: I also saw "blah blah blah Israelites blah blah Jericho" but then also saw "Moses", which was enough to convince me that no way in a billion years could it possibly be Joshua.
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I didn't make the connection of Joshua being Moses' successor. I thought their stories were completely unrelated. So that's why "Moses" threw me completely off the trail.Stanislaus Jacob wrote:This may be your most remarkable statement yet. I don't remember the exact wording of this clue, and it isn't in the archive yet, but the mention of Moses was supposed to help guide you to Joshua. If the clue had just been "He led to the Israelites into the Promised Land," Moses would have been what we call a negbait - a response that seems highly plausible, sometimes even apparently obvious, but is wrong. (Although if Jericho was mentioned, then that is what we call Pavlov for Joshua - a word in a clue that almost always leads to a particular response. The name comes from the famous Pavlov's dog experiment.) But if you know Moses is ruled out, then that should guide you to Joshua.TenPoundHammer wrote: I also saw "blah blah blah Israelites blah blah Jericho" but then also saw "Moses", which was enough to convince me that no way in a billion years could it possibly be Joshua.