insane_alien

nice to know i'm just as memorable

perhaps as an outer casing

so does mine, if you read the thread linked to in the OP you'll find out how that turned out.

kyrisch, stop beating on durations brain. he needs that to remember where he put the torque wrench he beats his wife with.

so you beat your wife because you procrastinate?

/me applies a torque of 300N.m to Durations nipples for 10minutes.

isn't it time we put another dent on the ban hammer with this mentally devoid monkey scrotum that calls itself duration?

it doesn't NEED a vacuum, yes it would be good but its not going to happen. the killer is going to be convection, do what you can to prevent air circulating inside the insulation. the second biggest factor is conduction. you'll want to have as little direct contact area with the inside chamber as possible(but without letting convection happen) and any contact should be done with low conductivity materials. radiative heat transfer will be negligible so you don't have to make any shiny parts. if you were dealing with liquid nitrogen or molten metal then yes, radiative heat transfer would be important.

i'm a student, i have 5 normal traffic cones in my cupboard. and a diverted traffic sign.

assumin this is the same person often found on IRC i think i got through to hime last night that magnets do not have unlimited energy

well, it is theoretically possible. all you have to do is get the nuclei close enough together without using heat to overcome electrostatic repulsion. this would require orders of magnitude more than a quadrillion atmospheres, which presents its own problems.

the planck charge is nothing special its just a unit of charge that is based on some fundemental physical constants. there is no evidence of it changing over time.

As you may or may not know, I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time in the library, more than i do at home almost. (see last thread [thread]38336[/thread]) this time i decided to bring my own sandwich(i've been doing this for a few weeks now but i couldn't get a seat in my usual spot so i was forced into the political section). this has never beeen a problem before when i sit in my normal spot. i know the librarians in the engineering section have seen me munching away on my peanutbutter, bacon and sausage monstrosites before. but the ones down here seem to be taking it a tad too seriously. in short. i've been chucked out. and am now taking refuge in a very distracting computer science lecture. nobody has noticed i don't fit in mainly because i have linux on my laptop. I feel sorry for the guys in this course. there are no girls here at all. total sausage fest. my only hope is that the next lecture in here is a biology one where there is usually a larger number of females. UPDATE: it was empty, i was productive, another class came in and called my bluff and i got chucked out... again.

i believe in karma to but if i apply a bit of scientific thought to it its obvious its bull. HOWEVER it makes me happy so i go on believing it.

the mandarin hotel was a completely different scenario. no inital massive structural damage nothing to dislodge the fireproofing not even the same type of fire(fuels, accelerant, area alight at one time) vastly different supporting structure

also, what makes you think neutrons are going to be pumped up there anyway? 1/ they do not behave like a gas does when the encounter a fan because they mainly just go through the blades. 2/ they decay too quickly. you still haven't proved the chimney is for air conditioning, i have seen it listed as a steam purge and it also has involvement in emergency cooling systems. the reason for its height is actually mainly due to scrubbing to make sure that if there is an accident, nothing radioactive gets out. Its not even tied into direct contact materials so it'd have to be something pretty damn severe before the scrubber has to be there.

still no Watts/sec on that site. i see calories/sec which is a valid unit of power(although not SI)

well, you could have a closed cycle but it would need a lot more space than is available on the ISS. and you'd still need regular shipments of fuel(unless you can capture the gases present up there and throw them through an ion drive to maintain orbit). as for pumping gasses up to the space station the obvious solution is to have the pump at the bottom of the hose, then it is perfectly possible. still need a hell of a pump but you'd get some flow.

if light takes a whole second to accelerate to c then why do lab experiments (much smaller than the distance it would need to travel at to reach c) measure the speed as c? also, something that doesn't exist cannot have a velocity, even a zero velocity.

kelvin is not done by degrees.

I think you'll find that we are all very open minded here. Infact, we are open to the possibility that you are right and the possibility you are talking bull. See, we have this rule set that allows us to draw the line between fact and fiction. It is called the scientific method and uses evidence. We all enjoy a bit of fiction now and then and will even use crackpot theories for humerous effect, but this does not mean that we accept them as truth, quite the opposite in fact. Your hypothesis fails the fact test and hence, is fiction. We will accept it as fiction but we will not accept it as fact. This has nothing to do with our minds being closed, our minds are open and everything that goes in is catalogued and ordered in the correct place(or in certain circumstances just thrown out again because it isn't useful to us).

light isn't slowing down, our measurements are getting much more precise. the errors in the early experiments were much greater than what you have posted by several orders of magnitude.

fear is more useful than not being able to feel fear. fear keeps you alive and in many instances can be used for motivational purposes. but yes, it should be possible to perform surgery to prevent the fear response without physically damaging the rest of the brain. however, the part of the brain responsible for fear will be irreversably damaged.

not when the alteration itself IS damage.

theories do not become fact. theories are based on facts.