Mysteries of the universe...

RedTartan · #1 04/27/08, 08:54 AM

Not everything has a rational explanation. Some questions have no answers. Seemingly simple questions can be mind boggling! Here's a simple question that's been bugging me for a couple of days LOL

What happens to the dirt when a dog digs a hole? You can't just fill them in again. The dirt is just... gone.

RedTartan

Put your own "Mysteries" here. Maybe someone will enlighten us

soulsurvivor · #2 04/27/08, 09:09 AM

You mean that mud that's paw-printed across my floor?

RedTartan · #3 04/27/08, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by soulsurvivor

You mean that mud that's paw-printed across my floor?

Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, yeah. That. I guess there is an answer after all.

RedTartan

**ladycat** · #4 04/27/08, 10:21 AM

When a human digs, they pile the dirt up in a heap. When a dog digs, it flies every which way and leaves no discernible trace (except for covering everything nearby with a layer of it).

I have often wondered if dogs really do dig up those bones again at some point after they've buried them.

Silly dogs!

MariaAZ · #5 04/27/08, 10:35 AM

I think the dirt goes to the same place as socks lost in the dryer.

Tracy Rimmer · #6 04/27/08, 10:36 AM

<SNORT> I'll ask my 14yo. Filling in "dog holes" in the yard is his job, and he has learned some interesting and creative ways of cursing out the mutt without actually using curse words, which he knows would result in a date with a bar of soap

Speaking of the "do they ever retrieve their dug bones".... Lucy the Wonder Dog relocates hers regularly. It was actually funny after the spring thaw.... she'd been burying her bones in the snow for months, and the day she went out and all the snow was gone, leaving about three dozen bones exposed.... have you ever seen a look of panic and horror on a dog's face? LOL!! I don't think I've ever seen her "work" so fast! She didn't know which direction to go in first! It took her DAYS to bury them all to her liking, then relocate (in case anyone had been watching the first time

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And yes, occasionally, I see her chewing on a bone that wasn't there the day before -- so she obviously goes and finds a well-seasoned one for chewing on when she feels the need.

They're smarter than we think, sometimes, I believe.

heelpin · #7 04/27/08, 11:29 AM

Same thing with a post hole, sometimes you have enough dirt to pack back and sometimes you don't. The answer to the mystery is simple, its the Moon, yep its the Moon, its all according to the phase its in. I thought everybody knew that.

Here's my mystery, where does cold come from? I'm talking about temperature, why is deep space so cold? The Sun generates heat, what generates cold? I've been told this is just the natural way of things but that does not help me.

Wisconsin Ann · #8 04/27/08, 11:43 AM

cold=lack of heat.

ain't I good at splainin' things?

I'd like to know how I can vacuum up more hair from the dogs in a day than they have on their bodies? Does it multiply as it sheds? I mean...one hair on the dog equals 3 hairs on the floor? Why aren't they bald by now?

As to socks...now that the snow is gone, I know where ours go. Outside to the backyard. They must get up and walk out on their own 'cuz OUR precious doggies wouldn't take them outside...nope. couldn't be the dogs that took over a dozen socks out back thru the winter.

Wisconsin Ann · #9 04/27/08, 11:45 AM

Hmm. thought of one that has baffled me for over a decade now.

How come my SO can find the things I'm looking for...and they're always right there in front of me? I'll look for my keys for HOURS. He'll come home and there they'll be...hanging right there on the keyhook. Or on the computer desk. I SWEAR I looked there. multiple times.

**ladycat** · #10 04/27/08, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by heelpin

Here's my mystery, where does cold come from? I'm talking about temperature, why is deep space so cold? The Sun generates heat, what generates cold? I've been told this is just the natural way of things but that does not help me.

Without trying to look it up, I think in order for warmth to accumulate, there has to be some mass to absorb it. There is no mass in space. Or I should clarify, there's no significant mass in space. There's a few specks of dust in every cubic mile or something.

Or something like that. I think it also has to do with atmosphere.

It's been a LONG time since that got explained to the class in school.

Shamrock · #11 04/27/08, 12:42 PM

What is the answer to this question?

RedTartan · #12 04/27/08, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Shamrock

What is the answer to this question?

This is the answer to that question.

RedTartan

EDDIE BUCK · #13 04/27/08, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by heelpin

Same thing with a post hole, sometimes you have enough dirt to pack back and sometimes you don't. The answer to the mystery is simple, its the Moon, yep its the Moon, its all according to the phase its in. I thought everybody knew that.

Here's my mystery, where does cold come from? I'm talking about temperature, why is deep space so cold? The Sun generates heat, what generates cold? I've been told this is just the natural way of things but that does not help me.

Thats right, most folks don't believe that about the moon. Just give it a try, you dig a post hole when the moon is increasing and one when the moon is decreasing One you won't have enough dirt to fill the hole back up and the other you will have dirt left over. Now that DOG, just make sure he digs just as many holes when the moon is increasing as he does when its decreasing and you will have enough dirt to fill up all the holes with a shovel. But if he is hungup on just digging them in one phase of the moon,

get rid of the dog or get a load of dirt hauled in.

LOL Eddie

Cloverbud · #14 04/27/08, 10:04 PM

Where do butterflies go when it rains?

hintonlady · #15 04/28/08, 06:38 AM

If a cow has usually one calf and a ewe can have 2 lambs or more, why does a cow have 4 teats and a ewe has only 2?

Do I get bonus points since mine is homestead related?

#16 04/28/08, 09:22 AM

Why is it that I can take a flock of forty pullets. Divide them evenly into two flocks of twenty each by simply grabbing whoever is nearest and moving them into the new tractor. Hang two indentical feeders in each tractor. One is full of mash, the other full of grain. At the end of the week the mash feeder in one tractor is nearly empty, but the grain feeder is still about about half full. In the other tractor it is the mash feeder that is half-full and the grain feeder is nearly empty. All four are at the same height. Week after week after week.

.....Alan.

wy_white_wolf · #17 04/28/08, 10:11 AM

duplicate

wy_white_wolf · #18 04/28/08, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by A.T. Hagan

Why is it that I can take a flock of forty pullets. Divide them evenly into two flocks of twenty each by simply grabbing whoever is nearest and moving them into the new tractor. Hang two indentical feeders in each tractor. One is full of mash, the other full of grain. At the end of the week the mash feeder in one tractor is nearly empty, but the grain feeder is still about about half full. In the other tractor it is the mash feeder that is half-full and the grain feeder is nearly empty. All four are at the same height. Week after week after week.

.....Alan.

The ones that eat grain can run faster. They are run father away from you when you try to divide them.

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Originally Posted by Shamrock

What is the answer to this question?

What

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