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if they were just organized by Z then the entire periodic table would be a single row. because it is done by electron configuration(of which one factor(the number of electrons) depends on Z) it gets organized into rows, colums, and blocks. the nucleus does not explain all of this.

the centrifugal force does exist, but only in rotating reference frames. when most people say centrifugal, they mean centripetal force anyway.

i seem to get level3 (from the wikipage) rather regularly. i know it says a bunch of stuff about meditative relaxation techinques but i get them nearly everytime i close my eyes. also when i'm not under the influence of any psychadelics(i am far from a regular user, occasional at most). can be annoying at times.

with me it just happens when i try to open mail from pidgin. i cannot install the official client as i do not have a proper windows install. the browser client works fine though.

i've been getting that too. i always assumed it was because i was using pidgin though

well, they are generally very robust when it comes to unexpected powerloss whether its a power cut or a silly user. but still data in the cache which may not have been written to disk can be lost. the cached data could be some temporary file that is inconsequential or that thesis you've been working on for three months. this especially applies to external devices like usb flash sticks. an extreme example you could try is to set up a virtual machine with linux installed with the root partition as XFS and see how many times you can quit it and still boot up the virtual machine. there would be no Hardware damage as the computer never gets shut down but it will illustrate the filesystem problem quite nicely. i picked XFS as it is kind of sensitive to this but all filesystems are to some extent. FAT32 would also be an example of one that deals with it poorly as it has no journal.

yeah, we need more information. at the very least the reactants of the smoke bomb. what you said is equivalent to 'how is a musical instrument made?' there are many types of musical instruments and they are all made in different ways.

basically, you react the carbon with hydrogen to make various hydrocarbons(mostly methane) and then you go through the process of polymerising them. It is a very simple process when you say it like that but the polymerising step requires a fair bit of energy and is kind of difficult to control accurately. that and any plant will need intensive and regular maintenance as the reactor and separators will get clogged by tars, waxes and soots. and you would still need fractionating columns to get the few useful fractions. its a simple process with a whole lot of complications that make it very very expensive. It certainly would never be used for something as trivial as fueling a car. when the extractable oils run out then it will probably be used to manufacture plastics and speciality materials but fuel will likely be something completely different like hydrogen. possibly a biofuel such as ethanol

messes up the filesystem in a similar way to what bascule described. it won't break the hardware though you may lose data.

it is true that stars release a lot of energy when they explode. but even if the nearest star to us wen supernova by the time the gamma rays got to earth they would be so spread out that the energy density would be useless. we get more energy from the sun than gamma ray bursts

only in a reference frame where it is not moving does your statement make any sense whatsoever. which is what the postulate is all about. in a frame where the object is moving, an outside observer will see the light moving off the leading edge with a velocity c-v and the trailing edge velocity of c+v relative to the object in question. basically, what you said is that a non moving body has no motion.

do think maybe the only reason you think it is only a verbal description is because you are only looking at a small part of the whole? the maths comes in the later sections.

just fyi, the X is actually the greek letter chi which in the greek version of the new testament is the first letter of christ. so, actually, it is a valid shorthand in the veiws of the church. not that many of us are christian. i'm certainly not.

its all to do with the harddrive. as bascule said, it may be that data was being written or about to be written to the disk and you end up trashing something or just losing it which isn't as bad. it can also cause a head crash. if the disk spins down while the heads are over data containing bits of the disk it can cause physical damage. this isn't as much of a problem in more modern drives as the arm should immediatly throw itself over to the park position(though this in itself isn't a good thing for it). It was a serious problem not so long ago. its not so much now but it will still reduce the lifetime of your drives. the solid state hardware on the other hand should be fine.

you have obviously never read a proper science journal and compared it to the crap that gets published in the media first. there is a very obvious difference in quality and quantity. both are higher in the journals.

no, a proper researcher submits it to a peer reveiw journal which both raises the profile among those people who matter and gains the additional study and determines whether he might be onto something or not. media does none of these things.

we as in the other members of this forum. evidence, otzi, ancient cultures such as the egyptians. the native americans that you mention had head dresses (or hats). i'm pretty sure any culture that developed farming or herding would have worn hats. Early hats would not preserve well because they would be made of straw and animal skins.

we have given evidence that a hat can help keep you cool or warm. just because some tribes didn't wear hats doesn't mean it isn't true. just because they help, does not mean that they are necessary.

according to ikipedia that have made chip scale atomic clocks, there is a picture of one here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock not sure how much it would cost but i imagine it would be pretty pricey.

It is not a planet. It is a Kuiper Belt object. Basically, a really big asteroid on the same order as Pluto.

when i was thirteen we just got general chemistry, we didn't study its various branches. i was still fascinated by blowing stuff up around that age.

Look at post #13.

Well, the conventional understanding is that space, time and energy were all created at the same time(if they were created at all) matter condensed out later when the universe got cold enough and large enough. To Zephir: this is what we mean by you hijacking threads. this is NOT about your AWT. If you are going to respond please use accepted theories. keep AWT to your own threads.

HannonRJ seems to think you cannot understand a subject unless you look at the older revisions of it where there were errors. as if the newer revisions did not contain everything the old version got right.

Google has all the good ones. I mean, have you seen the hamster powering the SFN servers? Skinny little runt with only three legs. and that was before Sayonara3 got to him.