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people who work in nuclear power stations actually tend to get less radiation than people who don't. i think you are going to have to back that up. are you maybe talking about children born to parents who were affected by chernobyl

einstein, all you need to do is change the powerstations. streetlights will run on electricity whether its from fossil fuels, nuclear or solar power. it doesn't matter as long as the frequency and voltage are within tolerances.

do you want to be more specific?

no. for a variety of reasons. 1/ charcoal is anything but pure carbon. it has a mass of impurities in it. you can see a fraction of them with the ash leftover. 2/ the clamp will not be able to provide sufficient pressure 3/ your lens will not be able to deliver sufficient heat to do it in your lifetime 4/ your carbon is exposed to the atmosphere meaning you will merely ignite it. If it was that easy then diamond would be common place by now. chemical vapour deposition should be possible to do at home although will still be finiky and difficult to get right without proper equipment. you can do it at 800*C and 27kPa absolute with a 1:99 mix of methane and hydrogen. but unless you have some diamond anvils then you aren't going to be able to get the high temperatures or pressures necessary for HPHT(high-pressure-high-temperature). EDIT: i should mention that there are other methods but these involve explosives and only produce diamonds that you would need an electron microscope to actually see.

wavelengths less than 240nm will produce ozone.

there are no specific materials you make them out of. if you really wanted you could make an all wood wipple shield. and as i doubt you know, wipple shields are only effective against hypervelocity projectiles.

perhaps you could be more specific about which materials you want?

they are employed on the ISS for protection against micrometeorite protection. they are relatively simple to build. just two or more layers seperated by an air gap.

i explained in the post. how about you READ it.

if the pressure is low then that likely means the weather is a bit stormy, or at least windy. this disturbance can cause mixing through the thermocline allowing for oxygenation of the bottom layers.

i already posted what i suggest but you only seemed to have read the camoflage part. and stealth is always a good idea, they even camoflage aircraft carriers. Mokele: mobile artillery platforms, mobile missile launch platforms, mobile airfields, mobile command and control etc etc.

protein crystalls are absolutely crap. their structure is too loose to be used as armour. and the hardness of a substance usually counts against it for armour as it laks the ability to deform and absorb the blow. hard stuff tends to shatter.

there isn't anything in particular that can support you indefinitely. you need a diverse intake. if you were stranded somewhere there's like a variety of edible plants and animals and you shouldn't stick to any one thing. for instance, eating only rabbit you'd die within a month or two from malnutrition. similarly if you consumed a single type of vegetable or fruit. variety is the key.

no, he means a naval ship. he showed us a video of the game this thing is it. also, with crystaline armour that could be ANYTHING. proteins form crystals, metals form crystals water forms crystals etc etc. need more infor here. if it is capable of withstanding railgun shots we can probably assume its something like a wipple shield though. an thin-ish outer layer of armour to be sacrificed to disintigrate the projectile and then an airgap to allow the projectile and armour vapour to spread out followed by a thicker layer to catch the expanding cloud of vapour and particles. although with the mass of a railgun projectile you'll probably want at least 2 air gaps and some kevlar lining on them all. the armour will need to be better than 3-inch titanium plate though. that would likely be something like the outer skin. for the inner armour you'd be looking for a ceramic composite and super-alloys. titanium isn't the strongest metal but is used in a lot of stronger alloys. the colour can be handled by a paintjob although i don't know why you'd want it black and lime green. you'd want it to be camoflaged. or at the very least dazzle patterns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

its called clustering. here's a 4 motherboard one. http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/ it will make stuff faster but only if you set it up right and then only stuff that benefits from multiple threads.

why would it affect people?

but the more people hwo get it then the more likely a more lethal mutation shows up. tamiflu will imit the number of infections and chance that a lethal mutation becomes widespread. it may have been mild to you and your family but it is already potentially lethal to many others.

If you are going to be doing that can you film it and set it to auto-upload to youtube? i want to see an idiot cough up his lungs (literally)

yes, that would be it.

its not so much to do with heat transfer as the temperature remains pretty constant throughout the process(the heat has plenty of time to transfer to the center). although it will play a role, just not as significant as raising the temperature to get faster denaturing of the proteins.(See EDIT2:) i'd advise against making your own pressure cooker as without a relief valve there is nothing to stop it rupturing and causing horrible steam burns or embedding shrapnel in you. go for one of the commercial models (i've seen them in asda which is the british branch of wal-mart so try there). EDIT: oh and read the instruction before you use it. but they're basically don't open it straight away. it'll either have to be left to cool for a few minutes or have a valve to release the pressure first. opening a pressure cooker while it is pressurise is a bad idea as the force on the lid could potentially be enough to send you flying. EDIT2: just thinking more about this(need to get life). the heat transfer through the potato isn't as important if you boil them the way i do, put the potatoes in while the water is cold and then heat it to boiling. BUT it would be much more important if you added the potatoes to already boiling water.

you missed like all of the backstory of that quote.

yes, leaded fuel can leave contrails as it is the water vapour in the exhaust that causes the contrail. although aircraft using leaded fuel thesedays typically don't fly at a sufficient altitude to form contrails. and ther tend to be broken up a lot more due to the turbulence of a propeller(coming out a get the stream of gas is relatively smooth). but, if the conditions are right you will get a contrail. perhaps the reason this wasn't seen long ago was that the aircraft simply didn't fly high enough often enough. jets fly somewhere between 30-40 thousand feet usually. propeller aircraft are more like 8-30 thousand. tending towards 20000 or thereabouts. and before pressurised cabins, passenger aircraft stayed below 15000. this could explain how it got started.

yes, it would probably require a base more akin to a small city before the resources become available enough to produce such a construction.

it should be feasible on the moon and mars(the atmosphere there approximates a pretty good vacuum)

i like planes, simple as that. infact, before i decided to study chemical engineering i was planning to join the RAF. my knowledge of planes comes from my interest in them and my knowledge of the supposed 'chemtrails' comes from my chemistry knowledge. and with even a little chemistry knowledge you can call bull shit on the whole 'chemtrail' conspiracy. you'd have to pay off MILLIONS of people. pilots, engineers, groundcrews, mechanics, designers, every goverments Aero space authority, chemical suppliers, anyone with more than a casual interest in planes etc etc. the list goes on.the money needed to pay off these people would exceed the money available in the world. and for the conspiracy to exist it means that EVERYONE took the payoff and almost NOBODY leaked the information. considering information about nearly every other damn thing no matter how tiny has been leaked, a conspiracy of this scale should be leaking like a sieve. especially considering the value of such a target.