insane_alien

no, they are nomore population limiters than wolves are for their prey. they simply fill a niche of being able to survive inside a host and multiply. they do not keep tabs on the population of their particular host species and they don't kill someone only if the population is too high. the only 'purpose' they have is reproduction. just like us.

it does indeed appear to be a pebblecrab. many things eat crabs including birds which lift them up and drop em to get at they yumminess(to them) contained within. doing a bit of google earthin there are three bodies of water reasonably close. one by mcsherrystown/hanover and the other over by gettysburg. and another a raubenstine. it could have came from either of those, carried either by an animal or a human. heck, there's even a chance it walked there.

perhaps he wants to use it for something else as well depending on the composition.

protons are over 1000 times heavier. so they'll move less. much the same as the sun is at the center of the solar system because its so much more massive than the rest (and its only 100 times heavier than the nearest competitor(jupiter))

dr.syntax, nobody is talking about anti-virals. they're talking about penicillin. stay on topic.

swansont, you forgot to reverse the polarity. thats essential in fixing everything.

wiki also says its 11. the pkA is variable. you need to calculate it based on the conditions present.

http://capitolwords.org/word/underwear/ Brian Dorgan, a democrat from north dakota says underwear 17 times more often than most (although only just over 4 times more often than republican tim walberg from MI, not sure on the two letter state codes.) brian dorgan also mentions towel 10 times more than the nearest competitor. perhaps he is a hitchikers guide to the galaxy fan.

well, if there is an unobservable part of the universe, it can't intereact with us. and nothing in the observable universe can get to it either. including antimatter. so to say that thats where the antimatter is still doesn't make sense as the antimatter from in the same place as the normal matter. if there was a substantial amount of antimatter left over from the big bang it would be highly visible

but there are other ways to do it. we'd be happy to help you design a heat exchanger capable of handling the load, but we will need more information.

when what has lightning? and i've never heard of lightning being responsible for mushroom growth. mushrooms are fungi so if its damp and dingy then they'll grow happily. with or without lightning

i'm going over this with him in the IRC. its relative to the ground. EDIT: resolved.

um... why such high frequencies?

what he means is you got the post number wrong as post number 53 is the post you posted before iNows reply.

its very bad idea to rule out memory problems. especially as you seem to think that such errors are very uncommon(as to be impossible for it to happen to all the cases). but here's the kicker, such glitches in memory are EXTREMELY common. you'll typically get a few per day whether you notice it or not. the common side effect they have is known as deja vu. and seeing as we are only looking at 'positive' cases (and not one where the subject had no idea about what was coming up) then it will inherently filter in favour of such a memory glitch occuring making the chances thatthe all had a memory glitch go up from one in a million to almost definite. the reson we get dejavu is because that due to the response times of our nervous systems, we have to be able to calculate whats going to be happening a few milliseconds down the line so our brains are extrapolating forward a bit all the time. this is needed for everything from typing this post to catching a ball to spearing a fish. this process malfunction every now and then though. so disbarring these answers is unlikely to get you anywhere near the truth.

Airbrush, lets stick to the accepted science in this thread. if you wish to discuss multiple universe hypotheses then please open another thread. as to your concept of "hyperspace" all you are describing is an area of complete vacuum. this has not been observed at all.

no, just a better predator than us. there is not such thing as 'perfectly evolved' there is no perfect, there is no ultimate goal

yes, but at the border between the region of normal matter and antimatter there will be gamma rays produced. space isn't as empty as it is made out to be and there are trace quantities of verious plasmas everywhere. inbetween galaxies there are a few particles per meter cubed. this isn't very dense at all but there would be many cubic light years of space where mater and anti-matter would interact and release gamma rays. this would be very very very obvious to our telescopes.

yes there is proof. we can't see any with our telescopes. if antimatter was in abundance anywhere then it would be throwing off massive amounts of gamma rays from where it borders on regions of normal matter. we cannot detect a strong gamma source with the properties that would indicate such a scenario so we are fairly sure that there isn't any region of space which is primarily anti-matter.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ free and open source.

you can ask a mod. then they will consider removing the posts. whether they actually do is another matter.

no. in the biological case energy is lost through chemical reactions so the energy goes to heat and in the case of the electric motor the energy is lost to resistance (and hence turned into heat) as there must be current. if you used a clockwork mechanism that used a spring to deliver the energy then the spring would not come unwound over time(ignoring the fact that you can never get a perfect spring).

again, all the energy is lost in the non ideality of the motor.

impulse. but holding a book sstationary does not actually take any energy so again impulse is zero too in this case. you get tired holding a book up because your muscles have to keep tensed. this requires a reaction going on in the cells that produces an abundance of chemicals that give the tired and achey feeling. the energy expended does not go into the book, only to keepin your muscles tensed due to certain mechanical disadvantages of our body. when thinking about this it would be best to consider a nonbiological system. such as a book sitting on a table.

i'd also worry about how they'll react to people with different views than them. usually you learn how to deal with it pretty early on in life but if your that sheltered your parents won't let you watch a speech encouraging you to do well then chances are your not going to have developed the ability to handle it like a human.