insane_alien

everytime i try to use the 'new posts' function the forum returns an out of memory error. i've seen this happen with carnac before but not the search function.

because they're too small funnily enough. your eye has limited focusing ability and limited resolution. neither are good enough to view molecules straght on. but its more than that. molecules are smaller than another physical limit on the performance of the eye. they are smaller than the photons with which you are trying to observe them with. basically the photons will just pass them by most of the time.

a pretty major point here, 11.2km/s is escape velocity not orbital velocity. satellites only circle the earth at ~7km/s depending on altitude(orbital speed decreases with altitude). with 11.2km/s youjust wouldn't be coming back to earth, you'd enter a solar orbit rather than an earth orbit.

i already did give the next question.

well, its considered a possibility by superstring theory. whether this is true or not remains to be seen. the LHC may be able to answer this once we finally get the damn thing working.

sulphuric acid. easy. next one, this element sounds like it steals the letter L

and the rest of the post which points out the utter insanity of battery power electrolysis?

and are you just going to ignore my post?

ah misread it. it looked to me as if you were saying that only the countries near europe had the 20 mile zone of vegetation.

common sense doesn't matter if thats not what happens. common sense accounts for bugger all. its common sense that liquids sit at the bottom of a container yet liquid helium will climb the walls, run down the sides of the container and pool around it. its not common sense but it happens.

thats because of your refusal to accept even the possibility that you are wrong.

you still haven't addressed the fact that a pure hydrogen/oxygen mix will burn with a nearly invisible flame (the emmissions are mainly ultraviolet) so it would be ****ing useless as a light source. The bitumen in the batteries is used as a sealant. it is one of the many uses for bitumen. those pages do involve electrical calculations but there is bugger all to do with batteries. if you want some maths on the situation, fine. we will assume 100% efficiency at all points in the cycle(which will skew the results in your favour). you need 192970 coloumbs to generate a mole of hydrogen gas from water. with the oxygen this is 33.8 litres of gas mix(although obviously you wouldn't keep the gasses mixed). so to generate 1 litre of the gas mix we need 5709 coloumbs. we'll assume the baghdad batteries were roughly on par with a modern day D-Cell(this is being very generous here). they contain 12Ah of charge this is equivalent to 43200 coloumbs. so from one battery you get ~7.5 litres of mix. to sustain a flame you'll need something like 0.05litres per second. this means you could (in theory) get 150 seconds of flame from a single battery. however, the current is massive. 43200C/150s is 288A. yep. thats a lot of current. infact, at 1.5 Volts thats 432 watts of energy. so you'd need a lot of batteries to generate that sort of current. lets say the can sustain an output of 10A(again being very generous here) thats 29 batteries in parallel you need. that will get you 1.2 hours of flame(thats actually invisible). now, one flame isn't going to be very useful to your workers. so lets say you have 5 and the chamber is continuously lit for 16 hours a day(there are no unions in those days). you need 14 sets of batteries per day per flame. (16/1.2) or 70 sets of batteries per day. so 70*29 is 2030 batteries PER DAY. that is a ridiculous number for the period and the pharoh is going to find his tomb rather short on gold as he's spent it all on batteries. and this is if we have 100% efficiency. overall efficiency is probably somewhere around 10% so 20,300 batteries would be required. remember, this is only for five nearly invisible flames here. its a LOT of expense where you could for less cost, effort and expense, construct a pair of bellows and a canvas duct to circulate air and have enough oxygen to burn a torch.

this is actually wrong. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg all the green bits are areas of vegetation. while the sahara is the dominant image of africa there is a lot of vegetation there.

you don't tend to get oxygenation in deeper waters due to biological activity and limits of diffusion of oxygen through the thermocline.

there should be sufficient ions to make a half decent electrolyte. but it wouldn't be very practical because of high internal resistance. a much better way of getting electricity from trees is burning them and using the heat to generate steam to turn a turbine.

well, if you want to get pernickity about it all chemicals have a quantum nature as they are bound together by the quantum properties of the electron shells. so the distinction of 'quantum' chemical frame doesn't really make sense and is quite redundant. kind of like when my mum calls a CD a 'compact CD disc'

what type of hydrogen generator? electrolytic? acid-metal? what?

oh i know the physics(and the chemistry) behind it. but the fact of the matter is that the batteries are pretty crap in design. the voltage IS enough to electrolyse water but the current they are able to produce is pretty crap. not enough surface area on the electrodes and high internal resistance. the enrgy density is also crap. a few hundred joules at most per battery. this does not amount to a lot of hydrogen per battery and the materials necessary for the construction of the batteries would be very expensive at that time. it is much more plausible that the batteries were used to electroplate objects. possibly with gold.

you could probably use the rubberband to stem the bleeding an cause a numbing effect before you cut it off.

you would need thousands of those batteries every minute to keep a substantial flame alive. not to mention, a 2:1 mix of hydrogen and oxygen doesn't really put out much visible light.

you'd generally want explosion more contained than that. it's not really practical to do in your garage.

you could try replacing nssutil3.dll you'll have to use another browser to get it though.

hot plasma is easy to create. look at nuclear fusion reactors, paritcle accelerators, plasma arc welding, the sun, ionthrusters, electric arcs. the list goes on. true, you can't make a plasma out of a compound as most break appart but elemental and mixtures of elements work fine.

so whats the source of where you copy and pasted that from? btw, klaynos is somewhat knowledgable about this. he does have a degree on it.

huh? salt is Na+ and Cl- even when in its solid form. there is no ionization involved in forming a salt solution. this doesn't make any sense whatsoever. ionization is when an atom or molecule gains a non neutral charge either by the addition or subtraction of electrons.