Random non-philosophical questions

What is the evaporation level of gasoline?

What is the speed of smell?

can you outrun your farts?

-Imp

It was a genuinely serious question. :wink:

I don’t know the answer. I suppose that it might fluctuate given varying environmental criteria. Is it in a wide open container? A bottle? Is is spilled on the ground? What is the temperature? The humidity level?

depends on the diffusion rate between the smelly substance and the air/presure (assuming you are in a air environment.)

A small tightly sealed container in a modest temperaturate climate.

I’d say the rate would be relativley low.

So in small tightly sealed containers as I have illustrated do you think the gasoline could last for about 70 years?

nope. gasoline has a low evaporatino point. and plastic is not air tight.

what you need is an inground tank.

but i’d go solar,

I think gasoline degrades, no matter how tightly sealed it is. It can be treated, but I don’t think that will keep it right for anything like 70 years. As with everything else, you have to rotate stock. Whatever you are using the gas for will have to be run once in a while, anyway.

recall the Werklempter cattle carousel…

-Imp

Is sleeping with your eyes open just as healthy as sleeping with them closed?

No. You would be better off setting a perimeter with boobytraps, motion-sensor-activated floodlights and maybe keeping some automatic weapons locked and loaded. Or unlocked. Don’t forget a digital recording of attack dogs barking. And maybe some remote-controlled explosives. They give the impression that you are not alone.

From what I have read, anyway.

How long would it take for stockholm syndrome to take effect in a person under mental duress or psychological manipulation?

I’ve heard in many cases that after it is achieved it can last for years or even for an entire lifetime.

“The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal.”

Pretty fucking neat, huh? :slight_smile: :laughing: =P~

Nothing simple.

Nobody knows. Not a recognized Medical Subject Heading.

At times, almost equal to the speed of light. :wink:

The time it takes to convert an olfactory stimulus molecule into a neuro-electrical signal must be somewhere between a nanosecond and a millisecond.