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Are you saying that Snape killed Raven?

Here's my guess. Consider that a liquid running down a slanted tube will run along the bottom of that tube, as long as there isn't too much liquid and it isn't moving too fast. So I suspect that there's a hole from the cow's esophagus to the omasum which a liquid will flow into, as long as the cow isn't drinking too  fast. Food, on the other hand, gets muscled down the middle of the esophagus, and thus skips over this hole and goes into the rumen.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Here's my guess. Consider that a liquid running down a slanted tube will run along the bottom of that tube, as long as there isn't too much liquid and it isn't moving too fast. So I suspect that there's a hole from the cow's esophagus to the omasum which a liquid will flow into, as long as the cow isn't drinking too  fast. Food, on the other hand, gets muscled down the middle of the esophagus, and thus skips over this hole and goes into the rumen.
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Close...very close.  Okay, since you all seem so fascinated with bovine physiology, the answer is this;

A cow's oesophagus runs from its mouth to the stomach proper (the o/abomasum).  However, the bottom of the oesophagus is not completely solid...it consists of two folds of skin which come together to form a hollow pipe down into the abomasum.  In certain circumstances, e.g. if an adult cow is swallowing freshly chewed grass, or (undesirably) if a calf is being fed too much milk, the reflex for closing the oesophageal 'groove' is suppressed, so the oesophagus terminates in the rumen, and anything swallowed falls into the rumen.

Since it was a completely stop-gap obscure question, and SMX got the closest answer, he can ask the next (hopefully less convoluted) question.
 
Oh shit. I wasn't prepared for this. I haven't asked a question here in ages. Hell, I usually ignore this thread.

Well, this may be too easy. You could find the answer via Wikipedia in a flash if you were so inclined - but I've always considered that to be cheating. Hopefully, someone will know this offhand.

I'm reading a biography of Albert Einstein now, so here's an Einstein question:

For what discovery/theory did Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics? Hint: it was NOT the theory of relativity.
Bonus question: what did he do with the prize money?
 
Awww, you've taken the fun out of it  :P I was ready to look on Wiki right now  :bigsmile:

I won't answer then, cuz I DON'T know without looking it up  ;)
 
The whole point of trivia was not to use wikipedia or google, I thought it was in the "rules" or something.

Was it for his discovery of the photoelectric effect? I remember something vaguely like that from my old physics book, but can't be certain. No idea about the money.
 
Hunlord said:
Was it for his discovery of the photoelectric effect? I remember something vaguely like that from my old physics book, but can't be certain. No idea about the money.
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That is correct, Hunlord.

At the time, the phenomenon was called "the photoelectric effect", and it had to do with some (then-unsolved) aspects about the nature of light. Einstein's solution was a proposal that light exists as particles, which are today called photons. Along with the work of Planck and Heisenberg, this theory by Einstein founded the field of quantum mechanics.

The bonus question: what did he do with the money?
Answer: he gave it to his ex-wife. It was part of his divorce settlement, long before he won the prize - if he ever did win, she would get the money. At the time of the divorce, it was widely anticipated that Einstein would win someday. Einstein wanted the money to go to his ex in order to support his children.

The floor is open for a new question, since the bonus question was not part of the usual trivia game.
The question by thousand_suns is invalid for two reasons: he did not wait for confirmation of the answer, and it is too vague (what is a golden eagle?).
 
Fear might be rational, phobia never as by definition it's an irrational fear

To answer the question, is it niphophobia ?
 
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