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G byrd · Post by **G byrd** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:36 pm

yeah true thats true.

Phred · Post by **Phred** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:49 pm

Why don't school busses have seat belts?

Kamui · Post by **Kamui** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:11 pm

Er.... Some school busses do.... *recalls riding a bus with seat belts when he was younger*

Astar · Post by **Astar** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:06 pm

Ooo, I know why busses don't have seat belts! I asked a bus driver about this before. He said that if everyone nedded to get off hte bus in an emergeny, like if it was out of control, and the seat belts locked, the bus driver wouldn't have time to free everyone, so it is safer to not have seat belts so that people can get out in an emergency!

I feel usefull now...

G byrd · Post by **G byrd** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:09 pm

the stock market is really slow today i am working inside of it right now as i speak i barely have work why does the market crash back then? the great depression year.

Post by **Pez-Man** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:55 pm

Also about seatbelts, I know kids used to be stupid, so some would bring knives on and cut the seatbelts, so they just stopped using them. At least, that's what happened in my area.

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:11 pm

And some people used to poke holes in the back of the seats with a pencil...

G byrd · Post by **G byrd** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:42 am

How old was Link when he was an adult?

Astar · Post by **Astar** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:45 am

17...I thought everyone knew that...

P.S. I am very sorry for answering 2 questions, Chromus, but I knew the answers and I couldn't help but answer them. If you don't want me to answer anymore, I won't.

I'll put in a question, though:
How can people drink something and shoot it out of their eye? (like shooting milk out of your eye) I saw it on tv and wondered...

G byrd · Post by **G byrd** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:49 am

all organs are connnected .......... and so are your eyes and nose and mouth

Astar · Post by **Astar** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:50 am

That doesn't tell me exactly how. I know that they get it to come out of their tear ducts, but how exactly do they control it to make it get there?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:36 am

Astar has one of the major reasons that seat belts aren't used on school busses: in an emergency, a bus driver might not have time to assist all the passengers release stuck seatbelts, which would trap them in the bus. There are other reasons as well that were found by Transport Canada: in an accident, seat belts can actually increase the number of head injuries during a collision and would require stiffer seats to support the seat belts, causing increased injury to those who weren't buckled in. All of the retrofitting of school busses would also cost millions of dollars. Source: http://www.safety-council.org/info/traf ... usbelt.htm

I'm sorry GByrd, but you're going to have to fix that question about the stock market. If I read it correctly, you're wondering what caused the stock market crash that preceeded the Great Depression?

The exact reasons for the stock market crash are only explainable using high-level economic theory. Basically, investors (including banks) put all their money in the stock market, and when the stocks started to come down from the artificial high caused by all the investment, banks started to go out of business and people became poor from all the worthless stocks they bought. Since so many people went poor at the same time, the general economy took a turn for the worse until the government stepped in and slowly restored confidence in banks. Source: http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

Actually, the only recorded source of Link's age is in the Adventure of Link manual. It reads at a certain point: "[Link] approached his 16th birthday". This means that he was 15 when AoL happened. In the rest of the games, there's no official documentation on how old Link is. Source: http://www.zeldalegends.net/articles/article23/

Actually, the ability to shoot milk out of tear ducts is an abnormality, which is to say that normal people can't do it. It results from a malfunctioning value that connects the tear ducts to the nasal cavity. Normally, this valve only allows transport from the tear duct to the nasal cavity. In certain people, this valve doesn't work, which allows fluid to go from the nasal cavity to the tear ducts. People like this can hold milk in their mouths and "force" it out of their tear ducts through the broken valve. Source: http://www.moscropprowler.com/archives/Jun04page14.pdf

Astar · Post by **Astar** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:11 pm

About the "Link's age" question. In OoT (Ocarina of Time), when you start the game, Link is 10. After going through the 3 simple dungeons, he gets locked within the Temple of Time for 7 years. When he comes out, he is 17. I am not sure where I know this information from, but I did read something somewhere that these were his ages in OoT.

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:24 pm

Unfortunately, there's no official source telling Link's age before he was trapped in the Temple of Time. I have seen a lot of sources saying that Link was 10, but no where in the instruction manual or the game does it say that, which are the only official sources concerning the game.

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:15 pm

What happened to crystal pepsi?