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the human body makes quite the resistor. it can also be achieved by rapidly discharging a very small capacitance capacitor which will only store a set amount of energy. this can be repeatedly charged and discharged to disrupt your nervous system. i think this is what happens as it feel like getting kicked in the place it hits really fast by 1000 midgets on speed.

because there is very little current involved. voltage doesn't kill, current does. doesn't mean it doesn't hurt though. its not something you want to experience.

spiders help. i love spiders. got a cupboard full of them.

does anyone know the diffusion coefficient and solubility of hydrogen in rock? i could work out how fast it should be leaking if i can find that data. seems to be scarce though. well, the mad march hare and all that. EDIT: ok, i was bored, i calculated the diffusion rate based on a 500km radius hydrogen core surrounded by solid iron(yes, solid iron) at moderate temperatures(STP) and a pressure of 300GPa. so this is very very very very conservative and simplistic. basically, the earth would be leaking 39.616 kmol/s of hydrogen.(assuming the iron was already saturated with hydrogen, else it would all dissolve in the iron.) thats around 80kg/s over the surface of the earth. may not sound like much, but the earth has been around for 4.5 billion years. and its leaking at 2.5 million metric tons per year thats 1.136*10^19kg of hydrogen lost. quite a bit i think you'll agree. and this is in the most obscenely favourable circumstances. i think you'll agree the earth is not a solid sphere of iron with a small chunk out in the middle. i think you'll also agree the core is somewhat larger. a few thousand kilometers in radius in fact. and that semi liquid rock is far far more permeable than solid iron at room temperature. couple this with the fact that the ground is NOT saturated with hydrogen(i'm pretty sure we would notice). you have a lot to explain. even still i have not taken into account hydrogen bubbling up through the mantle(it is certainly fluid enough and there is definitely enough hydrogen according to you). so, where is it? where the hell is it? i'd be willing to bet if i found the proper solubilities and coefficients for granite then applied them then we should already have lost an earth mass of hydrogen several times over.

shouldn't we ALL be going to hell for genetic manipulation? isn't that essentially why our offspring are variations of the older model(parent).

i thought the seven deadly sins were supposed to have been issued by god himself? wouldn't adding to them be blasphemy or such, something the vatican used to put a death sentence on.

i imagine it would be somewhat similar to seeing a new shape. interesting, but nothing to go insane over.

ahh starting from the conclusion are we? tut tut. anyway, why the hell should reality care what you do/don't believe in. if theres a brick coming towards your head you duck, you don't say that you don't believe in the brick therefore it won't hurt because it won't hit my head.

zule, that is definitely a scientific way of writing. proper terminology and straight to the point. Science doesn't 'try to simplify things' it just cuts through the BS arty farty types are prone to inserting all over the place.

General Chemistry by Ebbing and Gammon is good for the theory. you should be able to devise your own experiments with it. i certainly have.

he hasn't answered ANY question that would show him wrong.

well, the reason it is so difficult to find is because it doesn't really interact with anything except by gravity. and why would it make anything fly off your desk? it obeys the laws of physics too. also, we have seen it indirectly by measuring the gravitational lensing of light moving through patches of darkmatter.

that 'pyramid energy' is a load of bollocks.

yes i know, but silicon hydrides will not exist in the atmosphere. you could use nitrogen, it is a lighter molecule than oxygen but makes up 79% of our atmosphere. or even water vapour which is lighter still. the planet holds onto both of those quite well.

while i don't have any issues with the rest of your post. this bit is ever so slightly gumph. Silane(SiH4) and higher order silicon hydrides are extremely reactive. so much so that they spontaneously combust on exposure to air. resulting in silicon dioxide and water. that said, there is still the possibility that it could be formed under the conditions proposed and it could vent to ground level. if this were the case then we should see glass mounds around these vents as the silicon dioxide condenses out of the atmosphere.

not precisely. only a perfect gas will occupy 22.4 litres at STP. ammonia is not a perfect gas. the closest we have is helium. the volume occupied also changes with temperature, and pressure. so if atmospheric conditions are not standard where the experiment is caried out then you will get a different volume.

no (sudden)decrease in mass upon death has been observed. at least not a sudden one. there is of course mass lost as vapours escape the body and are not repleneshed by the intake of food and water. but this takes time before it is noticable.

its addictive isn't it. i linked to this in the blog thingies a week or so ago.

i think the OP was reffering to flying without the use of a machine. more like us flapping our arms to take off or something. although the post was so muddled i'm not sure.

sure is not evidence that it is the case. peoples own clumsiness is not a bathtub attack. the bathtub didn't hit anybody or break any bones or knock anyone unconcious or drown anybody. the water did the drowning gravity, and the people hit the bathtub and the people broke their bones and knocked them selves out on the bathtub. bathtubs don't kill people, people kill people.... with bathtubs.

the wavelength of a microwave is vastly bigger than the holes in the grid. if you could see in the microwave spectrum the grid would appear like a flat sheet of metal.

then every time he touched metal he would collapse into a puddle. not advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint. also, swimming would be a major problem for these organisms.

i think you'll find that there are many many more bathtubs than pitbulls. and also, i challenge you to find a case where a bathtub viciously mauled and killed anyone.

if ET didn't have a membrane of some sort then he wouldn't be walking. flowing to you maybe, but certainly not walking.

i want to see him try and land without a parachute