uh, I am starting a thread that asks trivia questions!!

[contrapunctus]

Asking trivia questions is my fav. game that i play with my friend, so every few days i will give you some superb questions that you are gauranteed to get wrong or your money back.

What is the tallest mountain in the world if measured from base to peak?

Which country has the most volcano?

Mozart tied this person in a famous piano dual.

And for all you Lotr fans out there: what is in my pocket?

[Waldszenen]

Most volcanoes: Indonesia

Mozart question: I think it might have been Clementi

Pocket: "String, or nothing!" -- Golum

nah real answer is Ring

[pianonut]

i thought mountains were measured base to peak. hmm.  isn't mt. mckinley the second largest mountain?  (besides mt. everest)  ok.  mt. mckinley.  and, it is beautiful!

handkerchief?  pen?  toothpick?  small lead sheet for the goldberg variations?

 

[Dazzer]

everest is the tallest moutain ABOVE sea level. not from the base to its peak.

are you sure you don't mean triviaL questions?

[TheHammer]

Isn't the Mauna Kea (Hawaii) considered the tallest mountain from base (6000m below see level) to peak (4207m) = >10000m?
Could be wrong though...

[BoliverAllmon]

does the sun revolve around the earth or earth around the sun? Surprisingly this question has been discussed even up to the 1950's. Experiments have been done that show that either one could happen. Even Einstein himself could not give a definite answer.

so give us your answer and why.


boliver

[pianonut]

it seems that the earth is revolving around the sun because it rotates from day to night in different increments according to it's orbit (giving us calendric measure).  BUT, what if, what if ... asm1469says, copernicus was wrong.  i mean.  what if the sun could go around our earth in a day and create the same effect? of course, it would have burned up by then by going so fast.  am i right?

[BoliverAllmon]

if you think the sun would use energy to revolve around the sun, then you would have to say that the earth itself would have burned up. the sun could rotate on different orbits each year due to the gravitational pull of other planetary objects that would cause it to move slightly.

Something to think about

boliver

[pianonut]

yes, i imagine it could move.  the fact that it has so much energy continuously is quite interesting, too.  if our earth is as many billions of years old as some believe, that means the sun would have to be that many years, also.  unless, God recreated the earth - and at that time created a new sun.  i don't put it past Him to do whatever He wants.  Hab. 3:3 explains that God himself is like the sun.  perhaps it is a lesson that we are not the center of the universe.

[BoliverAllmon]

If you want to use the Bible look at Isaiah 38:8. it says that the sun returned. There is something like 66 verses indicating the the sun moves, but the earth stands still.

I wasn't going to use the Bible, but thought it was applicable for your post.

[pianonut]

time stood still at one point.  God must have been able to control the movements of both the sun and the earth, to hold back time.

in rev. i think it says the sun and moon will become black.  this must signify something, too.  some have said from pollution?  others, that God might cause darkness at the time so that His light will be the only one that people will see. and people will see His return "as lightening from the east to the west."  or something like that.

[BoliverAllmon]

Isaiah 38:8 says

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

you quoted 39:8

[pianonut]

oops.  my mistake. 

yes.  that's power.  making a shadow go backwards.

also, i was reading about what people know about the sun.  something like 20,000,000 F at the core?  how does one measure this, anyway.  it sounds good.  is there some mathematic formula that you can measure (if the outer layer is a certain degree) to get the core temp.  (if you knwo the approximate size of the sun).  this is amazing that people would even GUESS what the temp. is.

interesting note in rev. 21:23-25 that in the 'new jerusalem' "there will be neither day nor night...for the glory of God will illuminate it...."  i don't understand everything in the bible either, but i do believe what it says.  only God can know what He made and how it works fully.  we know a little bit.  i don't, however, know of any place that says the earth stands still and only the sun moves.  maybe just in that one place in time that God caused time to stand still, so to speak.  it doesn't even say that he stopped the sun/earth - it just says the shadow went backwards.  in our way of thinking, He must use everything in His power.  but, mabye he just putzed with the shadow.

[thalbergmad]

Isn't the Mauna Kea (Hawaii) considered the tallest mountain from base (6000m below see level) to peak (4207m) = >10000m?
Could be wrong though...

Could be Mt Chimborazo. Becuase it is almost on the equator, its summit is further away from the earths core than Everest.

Exciting eh

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[contrapunctus]

answers,
tallest mountain              mauna kea
most volcanoes               United States (because of alaska and the islands off alaska)
Mozart dual                      M. clementi

the earth rotates around the sun because the sun has more mass. the sun rotates around the black hole in the center of the galaxy.

[BoliverAllmon]

answers,
tallest mountain              mauna kea
most volcanoes               United States (because of alaska and the islands off alaska)
Mozart dual                      M. clementi

the earth rotates around the sun because the sun has more mass. the sun rotates around the black hole in the center of the galaxy.

right ok.

[BoliverAllmon]

oops.  my mistake. 

yes.  that's power.  making a shadow go backwards.

also, i was reading about what people know about the sun.  something like 20,000,000 F at the core?  how does one measure this, anyway.  it sounds good.  is there some mathematic formula that you can measure (if the outer layer is a certain degree) to get the core temp.  (if you knwo the approximate size of the sun).  this is amazing that people would even GUESS what the temp. is.

interesting note in rev. 21:23-25 that in the 'new jerusalem' "there will be neither day nor night...for the glory of God will illuminate it...."  i don't understand everything in the bible either, but i do believe what it says.  only God can know what He made and how it works fully.  we know a little bit.  i don't, however, know of any place that says the earth stands still and only the sun moves.  maybe just in that one place in time that God caused time to stand still, so to speak.  it doesn't even say that he stopped the sun/earth - it just says the shadow went backwards.  in our way of thinking, He must use everything in His power.  but, mabye he just putzed with the shadow.

which translation did you use. AV says the sun returned.