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Electromagnetic detection of pre-seismic locations
Bufofrog replied to Eddie B's topic in Speculations
You are not the first person to think that tidal effects could trigger earth quakes, unfortunately the evidence is not there. It seems quite plausible but it just doesn't pan out. I guess when you realize that the tides occur 2 times each day and the highest tides occur every 14 days of so these are just not big unusual events that can trigger quakes. -
Match brain structure with optogenetics and achieve immortality
Bufofrog replied to fredreload's topic in Speculations
Won't the clone object to that? -
Another way to look at this is how much do you think the feather or hammer is causing the moon to accelerate towards them? I think negligible is maybe even an over statement, don't you agree?
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I am not sure what you are saying. Are you surprised that a hammer and a feather fall at the same rate on the moon? Do you think because the hammer has more mass it should fall faster? If that is your question the reason is that the feather and the hammer are both << than the mass of the moon, so there contribution to the acceleration (or spacetime curvature) is nil, compared to the moon. That is not about gravity and the curvature of spacetime, that is just the force needed to change the direction of the mass. Since F=ma the larger mass needs a higher force to achieve the same deflection as the feather. I hope I have not misunderstood what you were asking.
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It is the smallest possible amount of an element. The nucleus or center of an atom is made of protons and neutrons surrounded by electrons. The number of protons in the nucleus defines what element the atom is. Look up atom on Wiki for more info.
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Well that would be a useful!
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So your equation for the average earth to sun distance is off by about a 1,000,000 km, which is not too bad. I tried your equation on Mars (using the geocentric gravitational constant for Mars = 4.283 x 10^13). The results of your equation put the orbit of Mars inside the orbit of the earth. That does not seem quite right. Either I did something wrong or your equation needs a bit of tweaking.
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The 10 costs you showed add up to about about 33% of the total of $12,000. But the 10 costs represent only .5% of the total number of costs. That means to me that your 10 cost sample is not representative of the total. I do not see how you could get anything that is useful out of these numbers since your sample is not representative of the total. I am not a statistician so maybe there is some "magic" they could do to give you something useful. Good luck.
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Lightning strike power plants using x-ray/ gamma ray laser possible?
Bufofrog replied to consuli's topic in Quantum Theory
I think you have your cause and effect wrong. You are effectively saying a burst of x-rays cause the lightning as opposed to lightning producing x-rays. There is not that much energy in a lightning strike anyway. From Wiki "Harvesting lightning" According to Martin A. Uman, co-director of the Lightning Research Laboratory at the University of Florida and a leading authority on lightning,[9] a single lightning strike, while fast and bright, contains very little energy, and dozens of lightning towers like those used in the system tested by AEHI would be needed to operate five 100-watt light bulbs for the course of a year. When interviewed by The New York Times, he stated that the energy in a thunderstorm is comparable to that of an atomic bomb, but trying to harvest the energy of lightning from the ground is "hopeless" -
The mechanism of the vertical circulation of the waters of the oceans
Bufofrog replied to Fermer05's topic in Speculations
I do not disagree with anything you have written. My issue is that it seems that Fermer05 does not think that the moon and sun have anything to do with the Astronomical Tide, he thinks that these twice daily tides are due to whirlpools (or gyres) only. -
The mechanism of the vertical circulation of the waters of the oceans
Bufofrog replied to Fermer05's topic in Speculations
Fair enough. I was trying to point out the major drivers of the water level change and it sure isn't whirlpools. -
The mechanism of the vertical circulation of the waters of the oceans
Bufofrog replied to Fermer05's topic in Speculations
There are 2 major tides per day, which is caused by the moon, the sun and the rotation of the earth. There can be a large 'tide' from a storm surge. A tsunami can cause a 'low' tide followed by a flooding tide. A major river flood into a bay can cause the level in the bay to rise. That is about it. The currents (or whirlpools if you like) in a bay, ocean or lake will have almost no effect on the water level. -
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The simplest model is just to look a the cooling loop. This is where you have a heat exchanger and a heat source. The heat exchanger is the radiator and the heat source is the engine. You can write a simple equation for the amount of heat removed by the heat exchanger as follows: \[\dot{Q}=\dot{m}c_p(T_H - T_C)\] Where \(\dot{Q}\) is the rate of heat transfer \(\dot{m}\) is the mass flow rate \(c_p\) is the heat capacity of the coolant. so you can see that increasing the delta T or increasing the coolant mass flow will increase the heat removed by the radiator. The actual equation for the heat transfer is very complicated. Consider this: as you increase your speed your engine produces more heat but the heat production is not linear and as the speed increases the ability of the radiator to remove heat increases from the air flow and again it is not linear. The car maintains the engine temperature quite easily with a thermostat. As the engine heats up the thermostat heats up and a bellows connected to a valve expands which allows the coolant to circulate through the engine when the engine cools the bellows contract and shuts the valve decreasing coolant flow. The thermostat is designed to allow the engine to run at the desired temperature. The radiator is designed to be able to cool the engine when running at the highest rated steady state speed during a predetermined highest ambient temperature. What that means is the radiator has excess cooling capacity, so if the thermostat valve was always fully opened then the engine would run cold all the time, it could not heat up to the optimum operating temperature. Hope that answers your question.
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Evidence of Human Common Ancestry
Bufofrog replied to Radical Edward's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
I always found this line interesting. According to the bible God created people to be stupid. You know, like horse or aardvark stupid. When we became intelligent he got pissed off! The goal apparently was to make morons that wandered around in a garden. Well that didn't work out as planned... -
You joking, right? The picture made me go, huh?
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Kicked out of a forum for asking a question? Are you sure there was not a bit more that resulted in you getting banned? Since mainstream science is in agreement that there is no such thing as "outside the universe", I would have to go with the pushing possibility. You would need some evidence to support your pulling idea. The 'pushing' is not from the 'inside out', by the way, it is a 'pushing' in ALL directions. 1. That is not a question, it is a belief. That is fine, you can believe what you want, just don't expect people to agree with you. 2. Science doesn't prove things. If you cannot observe something that does not mean it does not exist - it just means there is no evidence for the 'thing'. 3. I do not believe there is anyone here that is going to jump on you for asking a question, no matter how awkwardly, they will just ask for clarification.
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I do not think Special Relativity would enter into this, since we have no velocity relative to the universe. As far as General Relativity goes, if there was a civilization that was on a planet orbiting close to a black hole (I do not know how that would actually be possible), I think you would in fact deduce that the universe was much younger than 13.8 billion years. In any 'normal' gravitational scenario the effect of gravitational time dilation is negligible. I await a response from one of our resident physic aces to give a better explanation (or possible point out where I am nutz)
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Electromagnetic detection of pre-seismic locations
Bufofrog replied to Eddie B's topic in Speculations
Based on the last post you made I am not surprised. There does not appear there could or should be any cause and effect between the 2 phenomena -
Electromagnetic detection of pre-seismic locations
Bufofrog replied to Eddie B's topic in Speculations
I do not follow, surely you do not think sunlight causes earthquakes. Are you implying that the orientation of the earth, moon and/or Sun cause earthquakes? -
Is it possible for lightning to...
Bufofrog replied to DARK0717's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
Yes, it can be done and is done quite a bit to study lightning. I do not know about weaponizing it though.... Lightning Rocket There are some youtube videos that show these rockets and the lightning they 'capture'. -
Pour your brains here on how to build this contraption...
Bufofrog replied to Externet's topic in Engineering
I would think and easy way to do this would be to have a battery bank in the glider and solar cells to charge the battery. When the batteries are charged to a set amount a motor will move a piston and spring arrangement that compress a gas or air and latches which will pull water into a cylinder making glider sink. When it reaches a certain depth or the batteries are low the piston can be released so the gas expands and pushes the water out of the cylinder. The glider will then return to the surface where the batteries can recharge. -
I simply entered "low faecal elastase slightly elevated glucose" into google and got some pretty clear results...
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Help Needed on Science Friendly Software
Bufofrog replied to jimmydasaint's topic in Computer Science
Blender is a free open source drawing and animation software. It is quite good, the learning curve is a bit steep but there is a whole community that uses it and lots of helpful tutorials. -
Voluntary Blurry Vision?
Bufofrog replied to Voluntary Blurry Vision's topic in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience
I can do all of those things. I assume everyone can. The reason you cannot get a video of your shaky eyes is because the movement is to small, it just seems like a lot from the inside. Have friend look at your eyes when you do that and he will confirm your eyes are vibrating.