Since when was Sandcastle building classified as a science?

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if you pour sand down freely from your hand or something.. the angle that the slope makes with the horizontal plane is 55 degrees or something. they call it the naturl inclination or something..

And then we wonder why other things like Cancer research arent making any progress? These guys are abusing their research budget to go play on beaches and build sandcastles. What a load

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Hmm, you think thats bad? They worked out the correct angle to dunk biscuits at so that the biscuit won't break (basically an angle that allows one side to stay dry whilst the other dunks...) and also the famous two year investigation into why toast lands "butter side down" - from which they found that.....it didn't.. - not always anyway .

There are other fantastically useless wastes of money as well - its really dumb. Spend money on cancer research......or on sand castles. Worst thing is that the toast one was funded with lottery money if i remember rightly.....and since the lottery STILL refuse to grant donations to medical charities like Cancer Research and so forth, it really gets under my collar that they helped to fund such a monumentally pile of crap research such as that.

Edited by - Chips on 5/28/2004 11:11:54 AM

Well, cancer may never be cured (indeed, if it was, people would be near immortal, population would skyrocket etc. so it's probably better it isn't cured), and this research probably had a budget of around £4, since all it would require is a days work and a few simple equations.

Besides, the perfect sand castle depends on what kinda castle you want it to be, a desert fortress, for example, wouldn't look right unless it was nearly all waterless, as the colour would be wrong.


Well, this is my new sig. Small. Doesn't do any tricks either. No bouncing up or down or spinning... Bah. Youths these days, with all their bright lights and shiny wossnames...mumble....mumble.

How can ppl waste their time like that?


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Hell I'd LOVE to do that!

The thing isall these diseases = useful since we cannot cure them thereby allowing humanity to be pruned. And yes I know how sad and tragic it is, but I accept it and move on. The thing is statisically where would everyone live if these diseases were eradicated?

Actually, even if all cancers were cured, we'd still die in the end. Our physical make up does not (yet) include a means to perpetually replace cells that die. Slowly, the ability for our cells to replicate weakens until they stop altogether.

But it is true that we'd live a lot longer. Question being whether the "end" period, whatever that may be, is something any of us really want to experience as it drags on.

In Canada, we had our scientests checking out if cow farts significantly dammaged the O-Zone Layer.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Think about it, at least this stuff is semi practical. Look at NASA and the European space agency's budget. They can determine how fast a star is moving away from earth that is impossible to see without uber x ray telescopes in orbit. Woo-hoo. However, next time I'm at the beach, this stuff will come in handy. Besides, it makes us smile a bit, and you can't put a price on happiness.

And cossair, colour? (Just a dumb yank laughing at a Brit). Although you do raise a good point about building an accurate desert fortress. --- VH16

However we can now almost freeze cells from dieing

The points about cancer being useful sometimes are somewhat valid, but if you got cancer and you faced your own slow, painful death, or even worse, faced a slow, painful cure. It's likely you'd change your opinion.

I am just a worthless liar,
I am just an imbecile,
I will only complicate you,
Trust in me and fall as well.

Not really since I hate this Plane and would lloooove to get off it

Really? So you'd like to get off it in a slow and painful method. Why don't you simply end your life if you hate this existance so much?

I am just a worthless liar,
I am just an imbecile,
I will only complicate you,
Trust in me and fall as well.