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They're both variables that depend on each other relativistically, but I'd use the term velocity (which is a vector, not a scalar, like speed). They are not the same thing (i.e speed and time).

I thought attraction was mainly based on familiarity i.e you're more likely to be attracted to somebody that looks similar to you (I'll look for a link). I realize that sounds very strange, however I found this paper (which I can't access) that concludes that recollection isn't connected with familiarity, which is really odd, you'd thought the two would be intrinsically connected. The paper is several years old, so somebody may know better. Interesting stuff Yoink...http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15109158 Another old paper unfortunately, I'll keep looking.

Maybe for you...I can assure you that's not the case where I live, well for most of the people I've seen wearing them, you know, when it's a nice sunny day. But yes, they are warm, don't have one myself, based on the guy I was travelling with at the time, looked like an idiot. His face didn't really suit Indian head wear. I'm going to stop typing now, because I'm celebrating YT's first suggestion, it's on Friday's where I live. tee hee

I propose, these commence on the same day...to invoke maximum confusion. Why the question mark ? <snigger> What a great day...though I am bias, because my parents are sure I was born with a hat on. I agree, I think hats have taken a turn for the worse recently. I've noticed the ear flaps are rife, especially where I live (poncey fashion worshipping Brighton)...these were practically on every market stall in Peru. I guarantee the majority of people that don these ear flap hats, aren't aware that they stemmed from South American Indians, they're called Chullo's.

If you need to get loaded to enjoy something, chances are, it's pretty bad...though that doesn't extend to my music taste

I didn't really think those examples through at all, so thanks for putting some proper thought into it. I was merely trying to illustrate a point, as I'm sure you're aware. My brain is completely mangled from doing to much maths recently, but I'm sure there are examples that would illustrate my point, and are synonymous with the measures to take due to an asteroid collision.

Isn't that called Saturday I think mine will be, 'International stand in a queue day.' Just because I know, everybody will dread that day.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I watched the revamped version the other day, and (just my opinion) it's a really, really awful film. The characters are one dimensional, (I couldn't care less if you all died), irritating, and throw away. There's nothing thought provoking, except, maybe that line from John Cleese, but his conclusion is still painfully obvious. The moment Keanu changes his mind, is wishy washy, and just makes you shrug...for God's sake don't watch this film.

I live in the UK, but I really don't know enough about economics to know whether it would be a good idea or not. One proposal that Gordon Brown is under pressure to make, is for the Bank of England to print more money, to get us out of this lull (that may have changed, I'm not sure). Now, correct me if I'm wrong...isn't that incredibly stupid, what am I missing here ? EDIT: ok, right, apparently it's to give banks more money, so they can lend more, to increase public spending. Really should of looked this up before giving an opinion. However, that still sounds a bit daft...the value of the pound will fall, and we get into even more debt...am I still missing something ? However, I'm going to say abolish it, based on the Dr Pepper philosophy.

I just had an E-mail from work, announcing it's 'International Women's Day', to commence on the 8th of March. We have Mother's Day, Father's Day even 'Talk like a Pirate Day' (my favourite day.) So if you could propose a day, what would it be ? I can't think of one yet, I suppose we could have, 'I can't think of a day...day.' But that's kinda lame.

Or (sorry if this has already been mentioned) we could forget about a huge, elaborate, costly venture into stopping something that might happen. People don't stop visiting Yellowstone park, because it might erupt at any given time. A boeing 747 might crash into my house, but I'm not going to spend millions building an elaborate shield round my residence, because that might happen. It's the same principle. We'll worry about it, when or if we detect one in time.

I actually brought this up just yesterday, on my Uni forums, where we were discussing how quickly people work assignments. I was arguing there's no fixed speed, even if somebody has a background in the subject, and find certain topics quite easy, you can have really bad days, due to a multitude of different reasons. Besides, it's not really noteworthy if you already know the subject and you work quicker, plus it could have taken a long time to get proficient. A side note, a school in the UK, (I'll find a link) were testing teenagers (mini exam) based on their body clocks. For teenagers, they really do need to sleep till eleven, and stay up till late...it's not a consequence of lifestyle, as most people like to think. There was a significant boost in marks when the test was taken in the afternoon, as opposed to the morning. EDIT:Hmmm, well this is the best I could find, the Horizon page on the BBC (where I got this info from) is no longer updated. Article from The Times. Body Clock link

Well if it's a bacterial respiratory infection, and it's chronic, then you probably feel like you're going to die, same as if you have flu. Even type B flu, which I had last year, is nasty...however it sounds like Bascule had type A. I had an infection on my leg recently, which just made me feel light headed, it was actually quite pleasant. But it was obvious it wasn't the flu, (overlooking the fact my leg was swollen and *****...ewww) purely based on how I felt. So in some cases, I think you can rule flu out. But I guess it depends on the individual blah blah blah, I'm also not a doctor, or have any medical experience apart from being a member for the red cross for a year, so don't listen to me. EDIT: I said *****, not *****

An appeal to tenure is meaningless, just because you've spent many years on one project, means you've spent many years on one project...it say's nothing about whether it's correct. Also, I can't see any mathematical model predicting the results of your data, post it please. Further, the quantum numbers that classify the periodic table are far from 'trends', I'm not sure if that term makes any sense in this context. You're basically trying to reinvent the wheel, with no improvement (let alone mention) over the Schrodinger equations, no predictions, and no solid model in which to conduct experiments with. If you really had anything truly groundbreaking, you certainly wouldn't be posting it on here. There's no need to.

Immortal Kombat, would be no fun to play at all. 'Finish him!'....I can't !!!

I believe the minimum post count is 30 (at least it used to be), until you can post in the politics forum. The rationale being, that's probably enough posts to determine whether someone is here to be a nuisance.

Sorry but I choked on this sentence...you read a bunch of books on relativity, which ones exactly, because to follow that with 'I even finished a brief history of time', makes me wonder what books on relativity you're reading. The latter is a very dated, layman account of physics, and wrapping your head around some of the concepts raised, is quite tough going...however, that doesn't mean your in a position to start making claims against relativity. It may help, Tangointhenight, if we knew a bit about your background, you said earlier you were at school, (if that's the case} please don't start sniping a subject before you understand it.

I did write a lengthy post last night, but then found most of the points I was going to raise had already been covered, but for the record, my previous post was a joke. I'm well aware of the rights being discussed, within the North Dakota case. I was just pointing out how daft it is, that you can apply rights to something that's incapable of exercising those rights. Those rights, are exercised by the responsible, for instance, a baby has the right to life, but it's the person who's responsible that ensures those rights are upheld...that's all. Does a tree have the right to manslaughter, if it falls over and kills someone, well a tree hasn't been taken to court for falling on someone, so in a sense it does. But that's ridiculous though isn't it...so how can you apply seperate rights to a bunch of cells i.e the blastocyst. With the tree, the person responsible for the upkeep of the land may be taken for questioning.

That's just the politicians being cunning. There are obvious consequences if a child is allowed to purchase alcohol, get accepted for a credit card, and marry their partner. In the case of the blastocyst, they're simply incapable of carrying out those tasks e.g filling out the application form for a hefty bank loan. The politicians know this, therefore a blastocyst has the 'right' to do anything a grown adult can. The above is pending the invention of little 'blastocyst friendly' prosthetic limbs.

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or something ? We all know you're an expert in this field Bascule, don't try to hide it.

The only UK newspaper I'd trust with science news would be the Guardian, mainly due to Ben Goldacre's column...http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/badscience. Personally, I despise the Daily Mail, with every fiber of my being.

Sorry Bignose, I was on the verge of sleep when I wrote that post last night, (we're talking about two different things) what I meant by orientation is say, the direction of a field e.g in the opposite direction of [math]\hat{\bf r}[/math] so the unit vector provides that information, e.g [math]{\bf F} = -G\frac{m_1m_2}{|\bf{r}|^2}\hat{\bf r}[/math] I certainly don't disagree with what you were saying. I think I did a good job at confusing matters. I thought moth was stating that the formula he posted was a unit vector...but he wasn't, and then maximum confusion ensued. I'll errr, shut up now, before I make something basic even more confusing.

That wasn't what he was asking though, numerically the result will be the same, it doesn't matter, a unit vector gives orientation, as I'm sure you well know. If I use the term [math]cos\theta[/math] at the beginning of the equation, then there's still an angle I need to grab from that, which isn't what we're looking for. They're equivalent numerically, but so what. We're not looking for an angle, just orinentation...perhaps I'm missing something ?

Thankyou Paranoia, never seen it, and quite literally lmao. So whilst reattaching my bottom, I thought I'd make this post, very cool.