insane_alien

nope, the gases we dumped would not get to the core where there is a relative lack of fuel.

no, that would be the wrong value for 1 amu. 1 oxygen atom is a thousandth of that value.

we have found dark matter, we can even map out its distribution. we just have no idea of what it actually is. because it doesn't interact with anything other than gravity (and maybe the weak force) it is very very hard to observe, especially on a lab scale. this is primarily why we don't know what it is. we call it dark because it doesn't interact with light. its just a label until we can analyse it better.

yes it is theoretically possible all you need to do is dump a load of hydrogen onto it. however, the amount of hydrogen you need to dump on it would outweigh the gas giant itself. and stars and the sun were created by a whole bunch of hydrogen getting together in one place.

yes, you used a false value for 1amu the first time round. you were out by a factor of a thousand

if you're trying to separate two components that have the exact same chemistry with only a slight difference in reaction rates its going to be very energy expensive to do. there isn't much of a way round this.

okay, lets go back to this ruler vs, model that accounts for as many variables as we can feed it. using your ruler, within a few millenia the world will be too hot to have oceans. using the computer models, even the most pessimistic assumptions never see the earth get that warm. so, you see the flaw with your 'its a straight' line model. and for the record, the computers don't predict a straight line and the temperature is following the computer models line more closely than a straight line.

neurons are not transported by white matter, neurons don't move, at all. they do send electrochemical signals.

bacteria generate heat, meaning there will be a temperature difference, work can be extracted from this. not the most efficient way to generate energy, especially as bacteria are greedy little buggers and will keep most of the fuel for themselves.

its not the same as a covalent bond as no electrons are shared. think of it as being the same as a balloon sticking to a wall through static electricity as compared with it actually being melted onto the wall so that it becomes a part of the wall. and don't listen to pioneer when he shows up(as he eventually will) he is a kook but nobody has the heart to get rid of him.

do you realise the idiocy of what you have just said? thats like saying any theory of gravity has to predict an object spontaneously falling upwards at several thousand g for it to be proven. just because the model says nothing spectacular is going to happen doesn't mean it is wrong especially if nothing spectacular happens when it says nothing spectacular will happen.

i never knew that about lasers, oh well, learn something new everyday here and all that.

oh dear god! my eyes!

telling oxygen from hydrogen does not need a quantum physics scanner. we've been able to do that for over a hundred years. and from millions of light years away at that. and you really don't get the complexities of transmitting that much data do you? we're talking all the storage space in the world times a few quadrillion and then some more. not only that, but you need to turn that data into an actual structure, without it falling appart in the process. if it was a block of lead or iron it would be hard enough, but humans are squidgy and wet. also, the very act of scanning to the depth required for quantum duplication would likely destroy the origonal anyway. as seen on startrek/stargate.

imaginer, life used to use CO2 for its oxygen source infact, oxygen used to be the waste gas of life. they even expelled so much of it they suffocated themselves leaving those that could adapt to use oxygen. humans will not evolve to breathe CO2 in three thousand years. that is a major major shift. i don't think even 3 million would do it. plus, there isn't enough CO2 in the atmosphere for us to be able to breathe it. i doubt plant life will diminish, they can breathe aerobically and can get by on small amounts of CO2 there isn't a whole lot of energy in CO2. read, none. where do we get our energy from then? there needs to be some reducer and oxidiser. and you know that electric eels eat right? sun blows up in our face in 5 billion years. also, this would not cause cosmology to disappear. and the sun blowing up will not throw the earth into the universe. colonies on other star systems will likely survive though.

i would have went for electrolysis followed by a seperation of normal hydrogen from deuterium.

its not made of asbestos. asbestos would be crap for it. i'm thinking it is the same as the proton exchange membrane used in fuel cells. and they are basically like fuelcells, just run in reverse.

are lasers polarised? i thought they were just coherent i thought to get a polarized bean you needed a polarizing filter? maybe it depends on the type of laser?

yes you said it didn't work but you didn't appear to understand WHY it didn't work. that is what i was explaining.

well, it can make electrical pulses. just not in any controlled manner. not all the stories you hear about dead bodies twitching and sitting up in morgues are completely untrue. it does happen.

no, you were very far from it. that would be something called 'perpetual motion'. the reason it didn't work is because the most energy you could have got from the generator is the same amount of energy you put into the motor, now, that is a perfect scenario where there is no such thing as friction or electrical resistance taking energy from the system. not to mention the light bulb would have been depleting the energy of the system anyway. by using the motor-generator part of the circuit you induced more losses in the system causing the battery to lose energy faster than if it was just connected to the bulb by itself. on a related note, and how i had nearly the exact same idea you had when i was about your age, electric trains use an electric motor working as a generator to brake, this electricity can either be fed into the over head lines and used by other trains or it can be shunted through a big resistor to turn the energy into heat.

dude, chill, i wasn't blaming anyone. just correcting a little mistake.

funny definition of nice gilded has there.

you obviously haven't seen the floating bed you can buy, held up entirely by permanent magnets and its stable enough for you to sleep in. with enough engineering it is entirely possible to make something stable enough to balance on, a gyroscope or two would improve stability drastically for instance. i think you'd benefit from hopping on the chat channel for a while, can talk about this in more detail and faster.

probably.