Sensei

...your apartment must be haunted.. call Ghostbusters.. Not once, I took to hands damaged light bulb and started shaking it watching broken damaged wire inside, and voila, it reconnected (just mechanically).. Light bulb could be used for longer.. It depends on in which place wire broke up. If somewhere in the middle, there is large chance to reconnect them after shaking. When wire is broke up, in low pressure or in vacuum, it shakes by itself, for long long time after event, and can reconnect by itself.

"Free will" of ants can be changed by parasite fungus: "Infected hosts leave their canopy nests and foraging trails for the forest floor, an area with a temperature and humidity suitable for fungal growth; they then use their mandibles to affix themselves to a major vein on the underside of a leaf, where the host remains until its eventual death.[2] The process leading to mortality takes 4–10 days, and includes a reproductive stage where fruiting bodies grow from the ant's head, rupturing to release the fungus's spores." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis "The changes in the behavior of the infected ants are very specific, giving rise to the popular term "zombie ants", and are tuned for the benefit of the fungus."

just got something cool slow.... Do you know that there are emulators? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_emulators Specifically 8 bit computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_emulators#8-bit_guest_systems (i.e. Commodore, Atari) Specifically 32 bit computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_emulators#32-bit_guest_systems (i.e. Amiga, Atari ST, Apple) When emulator is running on a modern machine, it takes seconds to load any ancient program, which normally loaded in 20-60 minutes like e.g. Gauntlet on Atari XE from tape thirty years ago. i.e. you will be able to check more programs or games, than on original, because not having to wait so long for reaction.

...and man can love other man, and woman can love other woman also.. just nitpicking.. ...in English often it is called "partnership of souls"... or something like that.. alternatives "unending love", "eternal love", "undying love".. "love" between sexual-partners or sexual-partners-to-be is chemical reaction in the brain. The right pheromones matches pattern and voila! You don't have to see partner. It's even used by some (smarter) matrimonial agencies for joining couples if both parties find attractive smell of second side (without knowing anything about them, including photo). But smell of body changes over time.. and start to mismatch with pattern after years of marriage/partnership/relationship.. In such situation better to be the best friend of your partner, otherwise marriage/partnership/relationship can turn to the nightmare hell, and hate between partners will arise.. It's better to split in peace rather than continue living in hell, in a fake relationship, mendacity... Did you hear about husband who killed a wife, or wife who killed a husband.. ? Some said later: "we have not separated, because divorce is a sin"... Astonishing route of thought..

If plastic is in metal pot, it should melt if metal is heated (eddy currents) by external magnetic induction.

@Airbrush Similar accident of "ancient" building in UK was Windsor Castle fire in 1992 https://www.google.com/search?q=Windsor+Castle+fire " The Private Chapel in the north-east corner of the State Apartments was being renovated as part of a long term programme of work within the castle, and it is believed that one of the spotlights being used in the work set fire to a curtain by the altar during the morning."

Notre Dame spire had 91.44 meters height.. You don't know whether enough length devices reaching it were available at the place or they had to bring them from other country region..

It's a very very sad day. Especially sad for the French people. It appears so renovations are typically unintended route to destruction of such historic buildings. It's not the first time to start fire during renovation. So worldwide people should learn from it, and revise renovation procedures and take French lesson, to not repeat it again, in their homeland. Usage of fast electric devices to cut wood or metal on the site (instead of bringing ready element).. ? Created in the cutting process highly flammable gases could gather on the top of roof, just waiting for single spark.. Lack of fire extinguisher for every worker.. ? Better to take more fire extinguishers and not having to use them, rather than have less and need them urgently.. As long as price of renovation is the main reason for choosing an offer from private renovation company, such accidents are practicably inevitable.

....living in environment free from carcinogenic compounds.... e.g. no smog caused by cars, fossil fuel heated houses, fossil fuel power plants etc...

It reminds early version of total station theodolite. From times prior lasers and electronics. Light from some external source goes to inside, and operator of device could see if object inside is illuminated or not. Eventually make adjustments with handles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodolite

If you have article about flu mentioning "severe illness" it means "required hospitalization" (because it is easy to count by people making statistics). I am looking at local government website, where is everything i.e. the number of cases (people who visited doctor at least, so they were included in database, at least), the number of cases requiring hospitalization (aka "severe illness"), number of deaths, in total numbers and per 100,000 people.

Are you suggesting influenza is not one of the top 10 communicable diseases? According to statistical data from my country in 2018, 13% of the entire population had influenza in the previous year (13,000 people per each 100,000). This includes also cases not requiring hospitalization.

An easily proven false statement on the example of influenza..

Genetically modify the all human/animal/plant cells, in such way that the all existing microbes will be unable to recognize them as target to attack.. ? Somebody called it "immunity by incompatibility". Majority of microbes are harmless in themselves. But byproducts of their living cycle can be toxic (everything is toxic in the larger concentration). As long as microbe is not fast cloning, the level of toxic substances is under control of host organism. Immunology system is working, intercepting and neutralizing microbes and other organs are filtering blood from unwanted dangerous substances. But when exactly the same microbe is in the weaker host, its immunology system does not work as efficiently as in good condition organism, and microbe can spread and clone to significant amount. And level of toxic byproducts increase above what host organism is able to handle. Summarizing: 1) scientists could develop virus which will attach to microbe, change its DNA, in such a way, it will have slower rate of reproduction. 2) scientists could develop virus which will attach to microbe, change its DNA, in such a way, it will have different non-toxic or less-toxic byproduct created. 3) scientists could develop something which will neutralize toxic byproduct.

30*10^6 * 2 * 938.272 MeV * 1.6021766*10^-19 J/eV = ~ 0.00902 J https://www.google.com/search?q=938.272+MeV+*+2+*+30*10^6 The problem here is such that annihilation of proton-antiproton does not lead to 100% efficiency.. Newly created e.g. pions+ can decay to muon+ (and further decay chain) with muonic and electronic neutrinos and antineutrinos, which take part of mass-energy with them.

Air is synonym of gaseous state of the matter, dust is synonym of solid state of the matter, and water is synonym of liquid state of the matter. Almost the all elements and molecules can be in the all three states of the matter, as long as they have higher decomposition-point than phase-change point.. It's just a matter of how much energy we will put in that matter.. and sooner or later they will change state of the matter..

Density is mass divided by volume. Volume of sphere is [math]\frac{4}{3} \pi r^3[/math] where r you can use the same radius as you use in escape velocity formula when vescape = c..

Looks very nice on screen-shots. Good work. ps. It's probably too late for that, but there is platform allowing to make applications for the all modern mobile devices called Xamarin. So support for iOS would not require rewrite of the whole code in Java.

The first predictions of Black Holes were in XIX century when early scientists figured out escape velocity formula for the Earth or other cosmic objects. It takes mass and radius as parameters. If you will extrapolate mass further than any known cosmic objects and/or reduce radius, in escape velocity equation, at some point escape velocity is reaching speed of light value.. Therefor Black Holes used to be called Cold Stars. Cold because they were hypothesized to not emit any light (in thermodynamics any object is emitting light (photons) which correspond to temperature of the object).

If you would be converted entirely to robot, including brain, "it" would be still you, or not you anymore.. ? That's just because of brain, ATM. The all others organs are supporting functionality required to brain work. There are already heart-lung machines widely used during surgery. Somebody could be indefinitely connected to such device, and have no biological heart or lungs (not really appealing view though) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_bypass Kidneys are simulated by hemodialysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemodialysis ps. If somebody would work on something like this, would not reveal it to anybody.. because what for? It would be the more top secret classified than anything in CIA and NSA both together..

I like hard ionization mass-spectrometry. Separation of isotopes with different m/z. Separation of atoms with different m/z.

If you shoot x-ray photon at oil drop to ionize it, oil drop will be positively charged afterward, and free electron will be ejected. ps. Sorry for nitpicking..

No. You want to force witness to continue working with criminals whom witness just denounced..... and then expect criminals to do nothing in revenge.. how naive and silly is it.. ? What for all these "witness protection programs" (i.e. keeping witnesses as far as possible from criminals they denounced)... ? But you want exactly reverse: keep witness close to criminals, the next desk, or the next room...

..to not end up in jail.. ? like in the example that I just gave.... After revealing criminal/misbehave activity of employer and/or co-worker, environment in which they would work would be extremely unpleasant and hostile.. Working in such environment would be unhealthy. Didn't you hear about e.g. police officers who shot their partners, after they revealed misbehaving on duty? Here you have similar (quite extreme) case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt whistle-blower was discredited, and then fired from LAPD. Outraged started murdering police officers in revenge.. How can you protect somebody against criminals tossing illegal things for revenge for revealing their criminal activity.. ??

That's quite absurdist.. Suppose so somebody learn that politician ordered killing somebody from foreign country or locally.. Attempt to report it to the government, who is actually behind the whole crime, would just mean that such "whistle-blower" would be killed, "have accident" or disappear or blackmailed.. For lighter crime of somebody from government, "whistle-blower" would be discredited in advance or blackmailed.. That's also pretty naive.. about what protections are you thinking? Against being fired from company, I suppose so.. ? if somebody is reporting illegal actions in his/her company should ASAP leave it.. and then report it to government.. Employee ex-whistle-blower could be easily being discredited by employer and/or colleagues from workplace, e.g. illegal material could be uploaded and found on his/her computers, stolen from company items or money and tossed to his/her personal locker and/or shelf.. etc. etc.