insane_alien

only if you buy into the idea that cabbages are the most sentient form of life and are working in secret with the elephants to take over the world in 2012

its bunk. specifically, its some new age spiritualists that have added quantum infront of one of their ideas to make it sound sciency without being real at all. there is no evidence for it anywhere.

knupfer, evolution IS basic biology. if you accept that organisms reproduce and that the offspring are even slightly different to their parents then you must believe in evolution. as i assume you are not a perfect clone of your mum or dad then you are different from them and your children will not be perfect duplicates of you and your wife/husband either. if you accept that then you accept evolution.

thats why you capture a small asteroid and use it as a counter balance.

i think it would be possible but you'd be looking at a multi-tonne(probably multi-kilotonne) device that will be rigid and far from practical and still very fragile and likely a use-once and then its trashed deal. stick with slapping some gold paint on a traditional parachute. much better.

look at what glaciers do. they are made of ice, they move. they move rocks, planes, people, anything thats on or in them. oh and just because you cannot imagine something does not make it correct. it is perfectly plausible that an event that happened 12000 years ago has slipped out of human culture. mainly because it would consist of, 'yeah it was freezing a few hundred generations ago and its a bit warmer now' hardly an enthraling story compared to that really huge bear they killed a few summers ago. i didn't list them because its basically everything. it doesn't even agree with itself on when jesus was born. or what age he was when he died. or even who was king of certain times. records by historians at that time agree on who was king at that time. there is more to it than that as we can observe the valleys forming TODAY. there is no evidence of creation so don't bring it up. The most likely method of formation is glacial erosion. it fits with the other evidence and fits processes we see happening today.

Tsadi, contrary to all the evidence available, most of our administrators have lives external to SFN and may be to busy to respond to every single person who sends them a PM with in the same day/week/eternity

it had nothing to do with the bible, it was to explain observations. you mean like the bible did? the bible contradicts its own history, it is not the be all and end all of correctness you know. it wasn't even written as a historical document but rather a book to teach people morals. much like Aesops fables. more than that, there are U shaped valleys which cannot be explained by water erosion but are seen where glaciers are. this indicates that it was a glacier that caused them, U shaped vallies are also absent at latitudes close to the equator except in regions of high altitude where glaciers could form and are still there. not all cultures and they disagree on the dates, also the rocks show no sign of extensive water erosion which would be present if they were moved by a flood. science cares little for the bible. it is neither factually correct or even relevant to the topic. well, it does snow in places, and if its cold enough the snow doesn't fully melt in the summer so builds up and forms glaciers, i mean, just a crazy idea here, it could have been the slow and steady accumulation over thousands of years as temperatures gradually fell which also lowered the level of the oceans as that was where the water was coming from. the lowering of the oceans led people to move with it so we see settlements that are underwater today but were quite far inland during the iceage. IIRC there are a lot off the coast of the uk. well the equator tends to be the warmest part and the temperature falls off towards the poles, south of the equator has the coldest place on earth today. it was not a sudden thing like you imply, in fact, we are still warming up and have not reached the equilibrium temperature yet. truth is not a democracy. it was not the big band that caused the earth to be hot in its inital formation, it was the fact it was formed by rocks slamming into each other. the iceages were not sudden and they have been happening in cycles for millions of years. we suspect it has to do with a combination of solar activity and the earths orbit.

big industries have very tight regulation on how they process the meat, but that is not always the source of the infection. the animals could have been infected before going to slaughter. a fair number of bacteria can kill you, they are found everywhere. probably more likely to be in your kitchen than in a factory that follows the regulations.

the amount of salt in the tank will vary with time. you need the rate in and yes it is correct as it has a flowrate of 2 gal/hour.

pretty much, bullets preferentially fall on their sides but if they are spin stabilised they will go point first. this decreases drag and stops it swerving off to the side.

yes, coal fired plants release more radioactivity as they do not have safe guards in place like nuclear plants do. HOWEVER, a serious nuclear accident, say chernobyl, will release more radioactivity than if you burned all the coal ever mined and even that still down there. no it is not, the radioactivity released is a few orders of magnitude different, sort of like comparing a bucket of water to a lake of water, but hey, its both water so its a completely fair comparison right? oh yes they will, they'll burn up travelling several kilometers per second and this is where the radiation release is likely to happen(i say they'll burn up as we are discussing a major failure and it isn't a controlled decent) and if travelling faster for interplanetary travel then they may still be intact and travelling several kilometers per second upon imapct with the ground. one way or another, its going to crack open the reactor. the thing is, the speeds are not reasonable. a few hundred miles an hour and i'd say 'yes, it is feasible to suitably engineer the reactor to survive the impact' for a few thousand miles an hour the answer becomes, either A. the vessel is so massive it will never get off the ground and will be a strictly space based vessel or B. not a chance in hell, the thing is going to release radiation on impact.

you do know we have electron micrographs of the HIV virus don't you? we know what it is, claiming it is something else is just denying the facts.

there is no maths involved. heat is the only form of energy in the answers the rest are chemicals. note to any physics nitpickers wandering by, i know heat is the transfer of energy but at the level this guy is at it is considered energy.

yeah, its sharing needles that increases the chance of aids. it doesn't depend on what you are using the needles to inject. it could be anything from heroin (there is no e on the end, if there is then it is a female hero rather than a drug, they're pretty hard to inject as they don't fit through the needles) to a vaccination for measles. you don't increase your chances of getting aids if you take heroin by smoking it(which a number of heroin users do) as you are not going to be exposed to infected materials.

traveler, WHAT THE HELL? the sun is a plasma, not a liquid or even a gas. and why don't we see it spitting out more planets? this is not how planets formed.

no, pioneer is talking out his ass again, he thinks hydrogen bonding is the be all and end all of life. he generally ignores reality in order to sustain his viewpoint.

nope, not plausible. one reason is that the dead star would not have cooled down so far even if it went kaput at the beginning of the universe.

we are made from a dead star but it didn't happen in the way you think. dead star exploded and formed a big gas cloud called a nebula, the nebula collapsed and formed the sun and a protoplanetary disk, rocks and gasses stuck to each other to form the lumps we call planets today. and 99% of the sun is millions of degrees hotter than the core of the earth. its only the surface which is a relatively chilly 6000K

the grand canyon displays all the hallmarks of water erosion. you can even see some arches way way up the wall of the canyon in some places, rift valleys don't have this. compare it with the african rift valley, it is shallower, a depression rather than a more crack like valley. its not a rift

why the long face at a surprise party? don't you like suprises? i apologise for the above crap joke but it had to be done.

Sisyphus, it is the pressure differential that causes the force. If it were density then the bigger the difference in density then the bigger or smaller the buoyancy force, but the buoyancy force is THE SAME for objects of identical shape no matter what their density. IFF this force is greater than its weight then it will be buoyant, if not, it will sink. density differences will only tell you if it will be buoyant or not and the average acceleration but that is a trick of the principles behind it, much like how special relativity is a special case of general relativity,

john, i said that on IRC the otherday. prior art dude.

do you think they'll release pictures of it, cause in my mind it looks damn cool.

well, its better than his gay plumber business.