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This question is more for those that know more about NSW driving laws.

Earlier tonight I was involved in a minor car crash while driving in Sydney. As far as I was aware, I apparently drove past a red light without realizing it and did a small hit on the side of an intersecting car. Not only that but I did not stop to exchange details. I just want to know, what is the maximum penalty for this driving offense.

If you are interested to know, my left front light is broken. However there is not much of an obvious damage in that area of the car. Yes call me a coward for driving away but I just don't want to make my parents worried about my driving.

I have an Australian Wii system, bought in Australia. I have looked at Ebay for Wii remotes and nunchucks at a really low price from Hong Kong.

Would a Wii remote work on any other system in the world? Or does it have similar PAL/NTSC restrictions as games do?

It is a commonly known 'fact' that Saturn is less dense than water and so would float if there was a large enough ocean.

Now if there was a large enough body of water to dip Saturn into, what would happen?

Would all the Hydrogen and Helium mix with the water and diffuse?

I think it is stupid that many books mention that Saturn would float, but fail to mention that it would float only if the whole planet stays together as a ball.

As a side note, if there was a large enough body of water, it would just be gravitationally attracted to Saturn anyways.

I have filled in a lot of forms over the Internet, and there are fields which are mandatory. In most forms, the titles field is mandatory, e.g., Mr. Mrs, Miss, Dr,...

I am a guy and so it is easy for me, I just choose Mr. My question is, is there some sort of importance in using titles in your names, or is it JUST common courtesy?

Personally I would rather leave it out. It makes no difference. But then it looks good of you have a doctorate, PhD or a member of parliament (Dr., Prof, Hon....).

I am fairly young compared to the other regulars here. When I became interested in Astronomy, the facts I remember from back then was that Jupiter had 16 satellites, Saturn had 18, Pluto was a planet and had only 1 moon.

I am asking, what was astronomy like when you were young?

I have read through a few websites like Wikipedia on White Dwarf stars. I understand the Pauli exclusion principle that no to electrons can have the same quantum state.

In a white dwarf, all the electrons fill up all the energy levels. I am guessing all the protons would still be there too. Could white dwarfs be considered as a giant atom? What phase of matter dominates a white dwarf? Or is it a completely different state of matter altotogether?

We all know that light is produced on the atomic level, and sound is produced by the vibrations of molecules.

How is "smell" or odour produced? Is it just a property of each element?

Be honest, don't look it up. What's the most number of decimal places you can remember for the number pi.

I can remember 3.14159...5 decimal places.

Don't copy the person above you!

Yeh that is my question.

Could Clyde Tombaugh be considered as an amateur? Although I just read that he has 2 astronomy degrees. However discovering Pluto is pretty impressive.

What do you think the population of "2012 world ending believers" is?

My rough estimate is around 140 000 believers in the world.

I Googled this: "2012 end world site:answers.yahoo.com" so that it will filter questions asked here. It came up with 28 800 results!

Say for example the 1st question was asked about a year ago. That is a staggering rate of ~80 questions about 2012 / day.

21st December 2012 is roughly 1387 days from now.

80 x 1387 + 28 800 = ~140 000 believers assuming 1 question asked per believer.

This is a VERY approximate number, under many assumptions. Do you think this is a close value? What should it be?

Has anyone here been involved in the SETI@home project? I have downloaded and install the BOINC software and downloading SETI@home data, but it takes more than 13 hours to download!

Is the project worth doing? I don't want to download it for nothing if it isn't interesting.

If you could collect all the believers of this year 2012 world ending hoax, where would you put them?

I would put them on Earth's L3 Lagrangian point so that it would be very difficult for them to communicate with us!

Both songs are from the band Queen. Which song do you like more?

Most physics learnt in school and universities extensively uses SI units. The general American population "speaks" in imperial units.

For those that have learnt or taught physics in the past, how difficult or annoying was/is it to constantly convert between SI and imperial? Pounds is a measurement of mass and force. Ton and tonne can be tricky if not careful with spelling.

A lot of questions asked here are in US units, which is OK when units are the same. I am fortunate enough to have been raised in Australia, metric units are all we know.

Most of us here would have gone through high school, senior high school, college, university, etc... learning physics.

Personally I have gone through 5 years of learning physics! 2 years at senior high school and years at university. Even during those 5 years, we never got to learn about General Relativity. I do know the basics behind General Relativity but was interested in learning the mathematics behind it.

My question is: what physics topic did you want to learn about but never go the chance to?

Here in Australia, they try to teach you so many topics at once that we don't have time for more exotic topics.

Sometimes while I am sleeping, I might rest on my arm. When I wake up I see grooves running down my arm. My reason on why this happens is that it could be down to lack of blood circulation through your arm.

But why do grooves appear? Does skin get pulled back in through where the grooves are? Just interested to know, thanks!

I'm not sure what section I should put this in, since I do see weird questions in physics and astronomy.

A lot of people have been asking about the year 2012. The theories behind it are just stupid, on how the world is ending. Another weird question was how long does it take to reach the moon based only on fart propulsion!

What is the weirdest question you ever seen / answered here on Yahoo answers?

Most of you would have attempted to open many jars without success. My mum has this way by putting an elastic band around the neck of the jar and it opens much easily.

Why is this so? Jars are mainly glass and a simple rubber band found at home possibly could not exert a considerable amount of force.

The Australlian ODI team has been currently suffering with key players out with injury. If the team had Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Nathan Bracken and Mitchell Johnson playing all 5 games against South Africa, would the result be different to what it is now and to what extent?

Personally I think the bowling has been good. It's just that the batting has been let down. So if the Australians were at full strength, how would the series have ended up?

Theoretically imagine a body far from any other influencing forces like gravity. Say if I was attached to a piece of string and was swung around in perfect circular motion. Could I "feel" centripetal force acting on me, or do I just feel the centrifugal reaction force? Centripetal force is a centre seeking force as I understand it.