What U.S. State Is The largest?

Texas Or Alaska?

~Mr. X

Dear ~Mr. X,

Gotta say, I love the tilde. Great addition to the mysterious name. Now this question, can be quite simple. Of course, the answer depends on how you look at it. Let’s look at it a couple ways.

For starters, Alaska is, by far, the larger state in terms of the land area. Texas is a mere 260,000 square miles, while Alaska more than doubles that at about 650,000 square miles. That’s a lot of land… Alaska is about one fifth the size of the continental United States.

Now, let’s look at it in terms of population. In this case, Texas is the winner. In fact, Alaska doesn’t even stand a chance against Texas in this case. Alaska has an estimated population of about 640,000 people. Texas, on the other hand, exceeds it by more than 30 times that of Alaska. Texas has an estimated 21.8 Million people. That’s quite the difference. Can you imagine having approximately 1 square mile all to yourself? Wouldn’t that be just fantastic? All that space, you could do anything. You could put multiple theme parks in that space!! Unfortunately for Texans, they only get a mere 7 or 8 acres each. Poor Texans.

So, in the end, the answer to your question is BOTH!! Alaska is larger than Texas AND Texas is larger than Alaska.

Hope I was able to help ya out. Keep being your little mysterious self.

Wimble

Why is Torch Lake so clear and clean?

Michelle

Dear Michelle, again,

I’m glad to hear from you again. This question has been the only question so far that has actually extremely confused me. See, here’s the thing. You’re not very descriptive in your question. For starters, I know of three Torch Lakes. Two in Michigan, and one in Wisconsin. I’m sure there’s many others, but I didn’t have the time to look those up. I’ll consider the two lakes in Michigan since I know them the best.

Now, here’s the main problem. The two lakes that are located in Michigan are nowhere near each other, and are complete opposites. One of which is located near Houghton, MI. This lake is one of the dirtiest in the world. The other lake, which is located in Antrim County, MI, is one of the cleanest in the world. Now, I don’t know what you think of that, but I see something wrong. How can two Torch Lakes be complete opposites?? You would think they would have named them something different, if they aren’t even similar. But, oh well, nothing you can do now.

Now, I’m assuming that you’re talking about the Torch Lake in Antrim County, since it’s actually clean and clear. Well, the answer to your question is quite simple. Over the years, there has been very little pollution put into the lake. As a result, the lake has remained clear and clean. The other Torch Lake, on the other hand, has had extreme amounts of pollution which resulted in what we have today.

That’s the only real answer to your question. Little pollution. Hope I was able to help.

Wimble

Ok.here is one where did the saying when pig’s fly come from?

jaric

Dear jaric,

Well, jaric, let me start of by saying that I’m not sure what an “ig” is. For all I know, they do fly. But, being the Great Wimble, I realize that occasionally during the electronic transmission of data, there can be errors. Thanks to my Coding Theory course in college I am able to understand this. So, obviously there was originally a “p” with the “ig” that seems to have been dropped during transmission. Of course, there’s a greater chance it was a typo.

Now, the phrase “when pigs fly” has a long history. I won’t go into detail with that though. Many years ago, some person happened to say this phrase, and word spread and it became very popular. Now, there is no way to tell why this person chose to say these exact words. But I’ll give it a go.

One day, a person (we’ll call John Doe), was asked to do something extremely impossible. Well, John Doe contemplated the task they were given. Being the sarcastic and spontaneous person that John is, John didn’t really think before they said what they said. Many people are like this. I can name a few myself, but I won’t go there either. So, obviously, the first thing that came to John’s head was “when pigs fly”. Why? Simply because John knew that pigs can’t fly and will never be able to. So, John was simply informing this person that the task John was given was an impossible task.

So, that’s how the phrase “when pigs fly” came to be so well known today. Hope I was able to help.

Wimble