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duckfan77

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Drunken Scots.

It's 1 page, so I'll probably do that, yeah.

Sneak around or ROAR at everyone?
 

GamerwithnoGame

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Oh ROAR, definitely.

ROAAAAAAAR

When is the best time to build a spy satellite - before the apocalypse, or after?
 

duckfan77

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Before. The infrastructure is useful, and it would probably be destroyed by the apocalypse

What colour is the sky?
 

GamerwithnoGame

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Colourless. The apparent colour is just caused by Rayleigh scattering of light.

Could you have spectacles made of aluminium oxynitride?
 

duckfan77

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Probably, the optical properties being different from glass may mean needing some extra work for making the lenses

Why must I start coming down with a cold the day of the career fair...
 

GamerwithnoGame

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Because Winter Is Coming.

(good point about the lenses; I wonder if you'd get chromatic aberration if the RI for different colours varies too much)

Why are my children so bad at not wrecking their school books really early in the school year...?!
 

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Because you are well connected and generally well liked.

If the half-life of my physics text book is 6 months, then when will it no longer be usable?
 

GamerwithnoGame

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(do you know, I've never eaten pumpkin pie! A friend of mine from the States made some recently, I should ask her for the recipe)

An album by Gyan.

What's a whiter shade of pale?