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October 21

Key for transposing instruments

What determine the key of transposing instruments (such as clarinets and trumpets) when writing for an orchestra? Is it the key of the music? Aquitania (talk) 00:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In general, yes. Instruments that are usually referred to as "in the key of C" such as flutes, bassoons, and strings will have their parts written out in the key of the piece. B-flat clarinets and bass clarinets and trumpets and cornets play in a key that is one full musical step higher than those instruments. For example, if a piece of music was written in the key of E-flat, the music for the B-flat instruments (such as clarinets, bass clarinets, tenor sax, trumpets and cornets and some treble-clef baritone horns) would be written in F. When an orchestra tunes up by playing a B-flat scale, the clarinets and trumpets will play a scale in C. The same works for those instruments that play in A-flat, E-flat, etc. Percussion instruments other than timpani and chimes, etc, are not assigned a particular key, and their notes are often represented on the musical staff by Xs.--Romantic Mollusk (talk) 01:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So it doesn't matter which key you select for clarinets and trumpets, B-flat and E-flat? I have seen clarinets in E-flat and Trumpet in B-flat in the same piece. Sometimes the key of the instruments match the key of the music; sometimes it doesn't. So is there any pattern? Aquitania (talk) 01:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All such instruments should be able to play every note in their range. They will not, however, necessarily be able to play all such notes easily, and certain keys are naturally easier for certain instruments than others. My wife plays flute, and complains about certain "evil" keys. I play guitar, which like piano, is much easier to play in just about any key. Once you know all of your bar chords, and develop a sense-memory for a song, you change the key simply by moving your fretting hand up and down the neck to a new location; or by using a capo. The actual playing of the song is roughly identical. With keyed wind instruments like clarinets, it isn't so simple. --Jayron32 01:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"B-flat trumpet" isn't just a notation choice; it's a characteristic of the instrument. It means that the part is intended to be played on a trumpet whose fundamental frequency is B-flat. That's the most common type of trumpet. "E-flat clarinet" is not the most common type, which for clarinets is also B-flat. So if the music contains a part labeled "E-flat clarinet" that means that the composer intends it to be played on a smaller member of the clarinet family. That choice may have been made because the part contains high notes that are more easily played on the smaller instrument, or because of a specific desired tone quality. Once the proper instrument has been selected, the choice of what key to use in the notation is simply determined by what the players of that instrument will be accustomed to. For a lot of brass instruments at least, the rule is that the fundamental frequency is notated as C, a rule which allows players to switch instruments within a family while maintaining the same correspondence between the note on the page and the fingering required to play it. 67.162.90.113 (talk) 07:09, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Our article Transposing instrument has more details. Thomprod (talk) 14:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What intro music is used in Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections ..?

What intro music is used in Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections ..? Electron9 (talk) 02:30, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

James Bond as a code name

I read an article the other day that claimed James Bond (as a fictional character) was just a re-usable code name for many different agents, therefore explaining the different incarnations. This made a lot of sense in hind sight. But I had always thought the character, James Bond, simply existed in a "floating" timeline, where the character never really aged (per se) despite the passing of the years. So my question is: For those who have read the novels (I've only seen most of the movies, in passing), is there any canonical evidence to support this theory? Quinn ^{❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY} 02:40, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the novels, it is clearly (or at least, most likely) that he's the same person. That is, the character has a consistent personality and timeline and backstory, and there is nothing to indicate that "James Bond" is actually multiple characters. In the films, the issue is not dealt with. The idea that "James Bond" is really multiple agents is something that the "fan community" has put forward as a means to retcon the fact that the character exists by being performed by different actors, and in different time frames, without apparent contradictions. The reality is the films don't deal with the issues of between-film continuity much at all; so your supposition that the character exists in a "floating timeline" is probably closest to the truth. An interesting parallel idea is in the Space Odyssey series of novels; Arthur C. Clarke played very "fast and loose" with the continuity between his books, while the books are all clealy in a series, the timelines and, sometimes, significant plot points (such as the mission of the Discovery spaceship) don't match up. I think of the Bond franchise as a similar idea; you know the characters and broad themes and settings shared by all the films, but don't look for any series-wide continuity. It just isn't there. --Jayron32 03:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

At the start of For Your Eyes Only, Bond (Roger Moore) is seen visiting the grave of his wife, who was killed by the bad guys in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which Bond was played by the immortal George Lazenby. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:58, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's a bit of a nod to the discontinuity at the end of the opening sequence of OHMSS: after narrowly escaping from some bad guys, Lazenby says (something like) "this kind of thing never happened to the other fellow". (Of course, this was the first time there had been a "new" Bond".) AndrewWTaylor (talk) 15:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that was a funny one, reminding the audience that it's only a movie. Reminds me of one of Roger Moore's final Bond efforts, in which a snake charmer was playing the Bond theme on his flute, and Bond says "Catchy tune!" Also, the American spy called Felix Leiter was played by a number of different actors. There were also several actors who played Charlie Chan in the 1940s, but I don't think anyone ever suggested that there were multiple Charlie Chans. For that matter, there was only one Darren in "Bewitched", but two different actors played him. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:03, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That reminds me of an old, naughty joke. Bewitched was the first time there was ever nationally televised Dick transplant. --Jayron32 16:49, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lassie has been making screen and personal appearances since 1954. That is one old dog. :) -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 20:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC) [reply]

And not only have there been many collies playing Lassie over the years, supposedly they have all been male. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Was it this website? Matt Deres (talk) 01:11, 22 October 2011

Yes, that's the one. Came across it on Stumbleupon. Quinn ^{❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY} 03:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good website, BTW, for entertainment at least. Wonder whatever happened to the old Cracked magazine? Guess that's a question for another thread. Quinn ^{❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY} 03:58, 23 October 2011 (UTC) [reply]

This question reminds me of the comedy Casino Royale (1967 film), in which multiple agents were renamed "James Bond" to confuse their opponents. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:06, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lynne Koplitz Birthday

in a video, Lynne shares that she is 43 not 42 as stated on your bio has her B~day as June 13, 69 (so it must b '68).

plz refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtZA3Bqnl4&feature=related

Brentwood23 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brentwood23 (talk • contribs) 17:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 22

Zumba lyrics "I like...soda?"

A friend of mine takes a zumba class with people of her age group. The group's favorite song (at least partially in Spanish, or could be Portuguese, she wouldn't know) has a line which they were all enthousiastically singing as "I like soda!" The teacher corrected the class, saying the word was something like soca or zoco. Can anyone identify this? μηδείς (talk) 02:05, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably soca music? It's listed among the components of zumba. Though the article doesn't describe the soca rhythm, I seem to remember it's in irregular compound time (5/4?), which makes anything likeable. Card Zero (talk) 02:47, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That must be the word, I swear I googled it. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 11:14, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How can re obtian a web site which was used by me for the last 3 years

Dear Wikipedia team,

I was holding a domain @ www.zehrat.com for the last 3 years and now it was taken by a domain company without approaching me. So where can i approach to get this domain back to me.

Your help required in this matter and hope to have a reply from your team to act accordingly.

Thanks & Best Regards

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.148.35.193 (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed your contact details to stop you being spammed. Judging by the whois data here you should try contacting this company who seem to own the domain now. There is nothing that we can do for you though - Wikipedia editors don't own the internet. SmartSE (talk) 21:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are basically out of luck unless the company decides to sell it back to you. Try contacting them. TheGrimme (talk) 18:05, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball stadium records

Is there a website (or book) that lists various records for each baseball venue (past and present)? For example, if I want to know who has hit the most home runs in a certain stadium, where could I find that info? It's possible to do this by going through the home run logs for every player on baseball-reference.com, but that's a little tedious, to say the least. Is there an easier way? Adam Bishop (talk) 18:10, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Retrosheet has some info,[1] but it depends on what you're looking for. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:42, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, that's exactly what I need, they have individual career stats for each stadium. Thanks! Adam Bishop (talk) 06:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What movie is this clip from?

Trying to find the source of this clip: Orchestra Video

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.124.132 (talk) 19:40, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's a French film called "La Belle Verte". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.232.97 (talk) 10:48, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Kaiulani (film)

Who played Kaiulani's mother Likelike and Queen Kapiolani? They only had brief appearances though. I've already search Internet Movie Database and found nothing.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:52, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Music search engine

Is there a search engine that can recognize names of musical pieces (So if you input it with a YouTube video, it would recognize the name of the background/not background music and tell it's name, or at list link to other videos with similar music)? If not, what about a Question & Answer site destined to recognizing music? Thanks, Oh, well (talk) 23:35, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You mean something that can recognize and identify music from the sound alone, not tapping into metadata tags like an mp3 might have? That is a relatively difficult thing to do and was basically impossible not all that long ago. Some progress has been made, but there might not be something out there that can do exactly what you want. And I don't know of a program that takes a youtube URL. There are some that you hum or sing into, see Query by humming. A program that could analysis a youtube video, figure out which part of it is "background music", and be able to isolate and identify it--that sounds very hard to do. I'd be surprised if there was a tool to do it (outside of ongoing research projects anyway). But I'd love to be surprised and learn there is! Pfly (talk) 00:05, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Musipedia and Musipedia: Musipedia Melody Search Engine.

—Wavelength (talk) 00:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shazam or SoundHound can do this, to a limited extent, though I do not know if they can do it from a web portal - generally they are apps for smart phones. ^Avic _ennasis @ 01:53, 25 Tishrei 5772 / 01:53, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've got one on my Android phone, it's called TrackID. It might help in searches if you use this name. --TammyMoet (talk) 09:10, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AudioTag[2] claims to do this. You upload a sound recording. I've not tried it. --Colapeninsula (talk) 13:40, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 23

Can you find this Burberry product online?

[3] I can't. I can't afford it either, but I'm curious. Thanks. Imagine Reason (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's plenty on Ebay. Try searching in the UK and you'll find all the women's Burberry raincoats you can shake an umbrella at! --TammyMoet (talk) 09:08, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find in on Burberry's site... Imagine Reason (talk) 13:00, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It may not be part of their new season's collection but may well be available elsewhere - in fact it certainly is as the Google search I did earlier has found! --TammyMoet (talk) 14:07, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do share. I'm not familiar with fashion, or clothing... Imagine Reason (talk) 02:11, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Most all purpose yards in (U.S.) football?

Can anyone tell me what player has the most all purpose yards in a single game of American football...specifically Division 1A or the NFL? Regular season...not pre-season or exhibition. I have a steak dinner riding on the assumption that it's a quarterback, but my buddy seems to think it is most likely a running back/kick returner. Quinn ^{❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY} 04:06, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glyn Milburn (RB, NFL, 404 yds) and Emmett White (RB, NCAA 1A, 578 yds), I think, after some Google searches. AlexiusHoratius 04:18, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if we're counting passing yards (which doesn't seem standard but does seem to be the OP's intention), then it probably is a QB. Norm Van Brocklin has the single game passing record with 554 yards in 1951[4]. I don't know if he gained yards any other way, but he's already ahead of Milburn. --209.253.116.50 (talk) 02:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right, if you count passing yardage (David Klingler threw for like 700 yards in one game) but the All-purpose yardage article makes it sound like neither the NFL nor the NCAA count passing yards, so like you said it depends a bit on the wording of the original bet. AlexiusHoratius 03:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's correct: All-purpose yardage is the sum of receiving + running + return yardage. If passing yards were counted, they would actually count twice (for the receiver and for the passer). Since the sum of all-purpose yards for the individual players should equal the total all-purpose yards for the team, passing yards don't count. --Jayron32 14:46, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brylle

Hi everyone! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.108.174 (talk) 06:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This is the Wikipedia Reference Desk. Do you have a question we can answer? --TammyMoet (talk) 11:18, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.112.82.1 (talk) 19:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good way for a spy and his handler (espionage) to pass information, no? μηδείς (talk) 01:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is Joanne Woodward related to Sir Thomas John Woodward (Tom Jones), OBE, of Wales?

Is Joanne Woodward related to Sir Thomas John Woodward (Tom Jones), OBE, of Wales? Having read the Wiki pages on both, I can find no reference to their shared surname or possible Welsh relations in Ms. Woodward's page. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.38.113.196 (talk) 12:28, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think this has to go under "doubtful if possible". How possible would it be that two people with such a relatively common name be related? Here is a link to a history of the name. This page tells us that the name is still more common in the UK than the US. --TammyMoet (talk) 14:03, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Frank Sinatra's song

Hello! What's the name of the Frank Sinatra song, played in the ending of this commercial? Doncsecz^talk 17:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"...as if I had a sign telling me that this was love at last." Sounds familiar, but can't place it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:16, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the lyrics:

We may never pass this way again

never get another chance to meet

if we never chance to meet again

life would be forever incomplete

<remainder removed as a copyright violation>

-- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 18:27, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Should bit (in two places) not be beat, and should loosing (in two places) not be losing?

—Wavelength (talk) 20:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Doncsecz^talk 08:32, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(b) The object of his/her love doesn't return his/her affections and has to be restrained. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:43, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The name of the song is "It's All So New To Me". I have removed the balance of the song's lyrics above as a copyright violation.--71.183.174.150 (talk) 21:41, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Downton Abbey

Am I right in thinking a false heir turned up in "the Titchfield Inheritance" or similar Possibly Hitchcock. Kittybrewster ☎ 23:04, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See the (real life) Tichborne Case. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.78.39 (talk) 01:46, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 24

Megan Mullaly Webshow Where She Is A Cerebral Palsy Doctor

What is the name and link of the web show where Megan Mullaly is a doctor with Cerebral Palsy?Curb Chain (talk) 00:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Childrens Hospital and it's a real TV show now 67.162.90.113 (talk) 04:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tuning for glissando

What determine the tuning of notes in a rapid scale/glissando? Is it the chord or the key signature? Specifically, I like to know the tuning of a glissando in A-minor. Aquitania (talk) 02:07, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard of glissandi being in any specific key. If we're talking about the white notes on a piano, the only time a glissando would correspond to a scale would be one that started on C and ended on a different C, making a C major scale. Start on any other note and you get a sequence of notes that does not correspond to any key. If you start on A, you get A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A ..., which is not A minor (that contains G♯, not G), or A major (that is A-B-C♯-D-E-F♯-G♯-A). -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 07:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A minor (that contains G♯, not G) - well, it depends what you mean by an A Minor scale. G♯ occurs in the harmonic minor scale, and in the ascending melodic minor, but the "natural minor" scale is the white-key sequence A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:52, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Our article Glissando has more information. Thomprod (talk) 14:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan (film)

In the 2009 film Orphan, at 1:41:51, we see Leena Klammer (disguised as Esther Coleman) in bra without her "Esther makeup". I want to know whether this scene was done by Isabelle Fuhrman herself or by a body double. --X44toyrojso (talk) 02:45, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The only double listed in the credits is a stunt double, Angelica Lisk, who is black and 42 years old. Fuhrman, as you likely already know, is a 14 y.o. white girl. So, it wouldn't seem that the scene was done with a body double. Dismas|^(talk) 02:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

But the woman shown in the scene has well-developed figure and is hiding her face with hand. This is why I am suspecting it may be a body double. --X44toyrojso (talk) 05:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Body doubles aren't always listed in the credits, e.g. Shelley Michelle who famously doubled for Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman isn't credited. --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To become a film maker

In India, how can one who has no background in film industry (also no course attended related to film making)become a film director in a short period of time - 3 to 4 years? Also by not spending much! What all should that one do in 3 to 4 years to become a film maker? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.224.149.10 (talk) 04:45, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an expert on the Indian film industry, but I would say: make films! You can get great results with a cheap video camera or DSLR. Get your friends to help/act or find wannabe actors and technicians. Post on YouTube or similar forums, enter competitions, talk (online or otherwise) to other filmmakers, publicise yourself.

You could be more precise as to what you want - do you want to direct big-budget studio films in India, which may have a more specific career route in, or something else? Also "not spending much" - can you afford a camera? film school? --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:54, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your advice echoes something that Stephen Spielberg said many years ago. It worked for him. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 10:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I can afford a camera, also arrange friends and upload some short films online. I wish to pursue my career in film making. I asked because I am already 27 and completed post graduate in bioscience. I hesitate to begin from first doing a full time course in a film school. So asked for other probabilities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.224.149.10 (talk) 10:18, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another idea is to find work on films doing entry-level menial jobs. See if you can get work as a production assistant. You'll basically be making photocopies and getting people coffee and stuff like that, but if you work well and make good relationships and contacts with people those sorts of things can be invaluable. If you keep at it, and work your way up the ladder you may be able to find work in jobs with more and more responsibility, which can lead to more and better contacts. In filmmaking, as with any industry, it is more important who you know than what you know. --Jayron32 14:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

   Yes. Well said. Thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.22.32 (talk) 19:11, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Poem treating of female genitalia

As far as I remember, there is an English 19th century poem dealing with the richness of detail that is peculiar to female genitalia. The last verse was, according to my memory, "with such a very short and unimposing word." But Google research failed, thus I probably remember some detail wrongly here. Does anybody know the poem? --KnightMove (talk) 18:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently early 20th century rather than 19th. You can find it quoted by Gershon Legman here (p. 106), with an attribution to A. P. Herbert. --Antiquary (talk) 20:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is also the late 20th Century piece, O Fishy, Fishy, Fishy, Fish. μηδείς (talk) 22:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --KnightMove (talk) 15:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 25

Body horror films

Please suggest some really scary body horror films like Re-Animator or The Fly --X44toyrojso (talk) 01:32, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to suggest David Cronenberg, some Peter Jackson, and Altered States because I happened to see it recently, but the list in the article Body horror is better than my list. Oh, one thing missing from that article: recently there's been a fad for short East Asian body horror films, such as those found on the compilation Three... Extremes. The directors of the films on that compilation are worth investigating, if you want more of the same, although of course their work will vary (like that of Takashi Miike, for instance). Card Zero (talk) 08:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Um, as hesitant as I am to suggest it ... The Human Centipede. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 18:59, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Star Trek Warp & Halo Slipspace

I am trying to do a warp speed table but also work out a "light-years per day" section like in Halo, by that I mean on the Halopedia Wiki it says that, Earth ships can travel at approximately 2.625 light years per, Covenant ships can reach 912.12 light years per day and so on. So if Warp 9 (using the Warp Factor Scale from the Daystrom Institute Technical Library site) is 1'516 xC (I assume thats times the speed of light), than how many light-years per day whould that be ? Scotius (talk) 12:09, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with your approach is that there never was a definite scale for warp speeds in the Star Trek universe - Memory Alpha has a table of wildly inconsistent warp speeds mapped to "real" speeds taken from various episodes and some background info here. As far as I recall, warp factors were intended to be a simple logarithmic scale with warp 1 being the speed of light and warp 10 unattainable infinite speed, but in essence the show's writers made it up as they went along so there simply is no reliable canon source for how fast warp 7 or warp 8 actually are. -- Ferkelparade π 12:30, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That said, if you wanted to lock into a given point in the canon (the Next Generation era writing was, for the most part, reasonably consistent), then yes, you could use Warp 9's definition as being 1,516 times the speed of light. Ferkelparade's memory is correct, and again goes based on how the writers for the NextGen era of shows were looking at things. Some quick math: 1516 x (186,000 miles/sec) x (3600 sec/hour) x (24 hours/day) x (1 light year/6 trillion miles) = 4.06 light years/day. --McDoob AU 93 14:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager) (and the corresponding Memory Alpha article) state the 70,000 light year journey home will take 75 years at maximum speed. That suggests a speed of around 2.5 light years per day. Dialogue in various other episodes suggest somewhat faster speeds of 3 or 4 light years per day. Astronaut (talk) 11:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Will the internet survive a zombie apocalypse?

For the purposes of a work of fiction, I am trying to ascertain whether the internet will survive a zombie apocalypse. Please help. --123.237.74.1 (talk) 17:17, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... well thinking about it, if there was a zombieapocalypse, some of the survivors would probably be able to still run their servers and computers, but moch or most of the internet wouldbedown, assuming anyone had any free time to spend on things other than fighting off zombies, finding/making food, and deloping anti zombie weapons. Heck froze over (talk) 17:23, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to Seanan McGuire (writing as Mira Grant) - it will. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.66.116 (talk) 17:50, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you're writing fiction, you can decide for yourself. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's a pretty worthless answer. I'm sure the person in question is aware of what fiction is, but you seem unaware that believability of a work of fiction often requires as much technical accuracy and attention to detail as possible. APL (talk) 02:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's certainly unnecessarily aggressive, APL. I'm sure Bugs has read fiction before as well. Dayewalker (talk) 05:11, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Having a working Internet would certainly be a great advantage during a zombie apocalypse - you could communicate with other survivors, tell each other about weapon/ammo/food caches, create real time zombie infestation maps, and get manuals for building improvised weapons and for using all that specialized military hardware you've never laid a hand on before. That being said, the Internet consists (basically) of lots of already configured routers and servers, they would just continue running as they are now...at least for a while. There are two things to consider:

Mechanical components in servers (hard disks and cooling fans) will fail over time, so the Internet will gradually become "smaller" as more and more servers fail and shut down.
More importantly, all those servers and routers will only continue to work as long as they have power - so the real question is, how long will the power infrastructure work without any maintenance work/without anyone refuelling power plants?

--Ferkelparade π 20:47, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And there are, of course, internet zombies. μηδείς (talk) 01:20, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a somewhat relevant article The Straight Dope : When the Zombies Take Over How Long 'till the Electricity Fails. If a single town still had electricity, people in that town could probably still email each other, but I wouldn't depend on them being able to connect outside their little island of electricity.

In a local emergency, keeping lines of communication open is a big deal. Both for government incident teams and for civilian companies. Check out this truck put together by Cisco systems. Satellite based internet connections would survive for as long as the ground-based stations they connect to survive, which would probably be a while. Those communication hubs are designed to survive emergencies. But how much would that help? I'm sure, for example, Twitter headquarters are not so well fortified against disaster.

I would like to point out that Ham Radio operators already have a "internet alternative" that would survive the zombie apocalypse, for while at least. Packet Radio and the AMSAT system could be used in place of the Internet if any of the survivors are Ham Radio operators. APL (talk) 02:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~I was just about to mention Echolink, which is another radio thing.~~ (oops, I was wrong about Echolink!) I knew there was some kind of radio based system that could be used in an internet-like way, but couldn't remember what it was called. And I seem to recall an emergency system that could "take over" cell phone tower equipment in order to create a data and communications network with decent bandwidth. In addition to ham radio operators, Emergency management agencies have a variety of tools for establishing some kind of network were the Internet to go down. As I understand, some of the methods are able to function even if there is massive infrastructure damage. Of course, if an Internet website server goes down, it is down, whether or not you have a communications network up. Perhaps that is the main point--there are alternate, robust communication systems that can be deployed relatively quickly, and which can handle digital data, voice-over-IP, and such. But if you want data from some webserver and that server is down...well, maybe there is a tape backup that can be physically accessed? Anyway, if the electrical grid goes down, say goodbye to most of this--though perhaps radio-based networks could still function off portable generators and batteries, I'm not quite sure. Pfly (talk) 09:12, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, another possible source of information is the book The World Without Us, which explores the idea of what things will last and for how long, and how they might fail, if the world suddenly had no people. Pfly (talk) 09:17, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See List of Internet exchange points (and Internet exchange point). While it no longer seems to be the case that wiping Reston, Virginia (MAE-East) off the map would close down the Internet, I still have little doubt that the supposedly mythical Internet kill switch would be flipped in the event of any zombie apocalypse, to help prevent it from driving down the stock market. Wnt (talk) 23:46, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's difficult to imagine what could drive down the stock market more than the federal government shutting down the Internet. Besides the direct economic impact, it implies that the government is in a state of total panic. Far better to leave things running but announce that a solution is just around the corner.

APL (talk) 06:01, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actors who've been on Doctor Who

I have recently rewatched all the vintage Doctor Who episodes from Tom through Colin Baker. I am still amazed how many faces pop up, like Graham Crowden playing Soldeed and Joan Sims as Queen Katryka. Then, lo and behold, Brian Blessed shows up in the second segment to the Trial of a Timelord. Is there a list of actors who've appeared in Dr Who? And who was perhaps the most prestigious actor to appear on the vintage Dr Who? μηδείς (talk) 17:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See List of Doctor Who cast members, perhaps? Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pokemon mystery dungeon anime

How come the first episode didn't get any other episodes to continue it on I am meaning from the them go getters episode. --86.45.134.83 (talk) 21:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 26

Help in locating song

On YouTube, I saw this video for a 1985 jazzy song with an upbeat tempo. I may be crazy, but I think the artist's name was No Compromise. The song was called, "God's Gift/Music of the World." I'd like to find a copy of it on CD. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it very much. Thank you.24.90.204.234 (talk) 04:38, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

superheros

you should list superman in this list — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.106.185 (talk) 05:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Which list? There are at least a hundred lists of superheroes on Wikipedia - see e.g. Category:Superheroes, Category:Lists of superheroes. He's in Category:DC Comics superheroes, Category:DC Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds, and plenty more. But if he's not in a list you think he should be in, either add him, ask on the talk page for the relevant list, or let us know. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:30, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clearing up the confussion

I recorded a single in 1981 under the name of "Mandisa" titled "Summer Love/Love's Dream on El-Leo records. Back then it was no internet. Since the internet came around and DJ's got old copies of the 45 it shows up on the internet as they added it on their playlist. The problem is that some people may think it was recorded by Mandisa who was on American idol. Can this be cleared up with an article in wikipedia? (four tildes) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epting7011 (talk • contribs) 05:50, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, probably not. If there is a newspaper article or something about this confusion, I suppose it could be added to the Mandisa article, if it was deemed notable, which it sounds like it probably wouldn't be. Sorry about your dilemma, though, and sorry we can't help. Herostratus (talk) 06:37, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Epting7011, you must actually type 4 tildes to make your signature. That is, type one ~, then type another ~, then type another ~, then type another ~. No spaces between them. It is not sufficient to type the words "4 tildes". -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 08:45, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By any chance, did the the single make any country's national music chart? A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 09:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It looks pretty obscure to me - [5] - and presumably non-notable. Maybe a footnote on the page of the "other" Mandisa? Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:16, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, but I would say only if there is an actual ref describing an incident of this song being wrongly ascribed to the "other" Mandisa. Herostratus (talk) 15:45, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Toby Keith's video "Red Solo Cup"

Who plays Princess Leia in Toby Keith's new "Red Solo Cup" video? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.115.156.119 (talk) 10:51, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dragon Ball

Question was relocated from the Miscellaneous reference desk by McDoob AU 93 15:36, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why do people think Dragon Ball GT is non canon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.178.176.128 (talk) 15:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Read List of Dragon Ball GT episodes and see if it qualifies as a canon ball. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To me it does.

October 27

TV SERIES 'CASTLE'

       NATHAN FILLION PLAYS THE PART OF FICTIONAL CHARACTER
  'RICHARD CASTLE' IN TV SERIES 'CASTLE' THE SERIES OF BOOKS
    RELEASED IN THE PAST FEW YEARS 'HEAT WAVE' NAKED HEAT'ETC.
   BASED ON BECKETTS CHARACTER IN CASTLE ARE WRITTEN BY 
    RICHARD CASTLE.HOWEVER THE BOOKS SHOW A PICTURE OF RICHARD CASTLE
  AS THE AUTHOR & THE PICTURE IS OF NATHAN FILLION WHO PLAYS THE RICHARD CASTLE
   PART IN CASTLE.MY QUESTION IS WHO THE DEVIL WROTE THESE BOOKS IF RICHARD CASTLE
   IS ONLY A FICTIONAL CHARACTER?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.164.88 (talk) 06:24, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They were probably written by some staff writer at ABC. (As a gimmick to promote the show.) The copyright page just lists ABC as the copyright holder, so that suggests they paid someone to write it. APL (talk) 07:54, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indents have strange effects on Wiki and your caps lock is stuck. Britmax (talk) 09:46, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gloomy Sunday, whose version is this?

can somebody identify this version of the song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3iGc_kniE --117.253.199.122 (talk) 06:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As the info below the screen says, it's Artie Shaw, whose vocalist was Pauline Byrne (no article!), recorded in 1940. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:14, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. A search with the singer's name fetches further files with the same audio track, which confirms it's Pauline Byrne singing. (I can't see any information on Youtube page about Artie Shaw. They provide copyright information specific to the geographical location, I guess.)--117.253.199.122 (talk) 10:52, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

T/V Gameshow Deal or No Deal

At what stage does the Adjudicator allocate money to the box, - before or after the player has selected a box number. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.71.154 (talk) 10:18, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BBC TV

I thought perhaps this quiestion would be better placed here, so I am moving it over from Misc.

Just wondering a couple of things here:

1) If I have quite enjoyed watching a particular series on the BBC, is there any way of downloading it from iplayer or elsewhere that I could watch it back any time I want without having it simply vanish after a few weeks? What if I copied it onto my TV's HDD recorder or my Ipod?

2) Is there any sort of service where I could find other programs I might like based on the sorts of things I have enjoyed before? Some list of suggestions of things similar, of the same genera, perhaps? I mean, not only things on now, but uncoming new ideas or even things on before that I might be able to say buy a DVD of or some such?

148.197.80.214 (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1) There's no way to legally save things from iplayer, if you want advice on how to save the videos permanantly you'll need to ask elsewhere because you won't get an answer on wikipedia, and 2) the best service I can recommend is other people, find a good forum site (for example Digital Spy) and ask for people to recommend programs to you based on the ones you like--Jac16888 ^Talk 14:53, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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