insane_alien

roman numerals is used to show the oxidation of the metal ion(big hint there ) and used in that formula the proper nam would be Arsenic (III) triiodide. also, you question isn't moronic, its actually quite a good one compared to some of the ones we get i.e 'howz canz i makz0rs da bombs!!!??!!one' and in response to loragol, are you denying the existance of ammonium nitrate? not a metal in that.

well the bacteria are still single cell organisms in the stromatolyte(sp?) it was only after the oceans became habitable due to the oxygen production of the stromatolytes that multi cellular life formed.

i'm not a biology expert either but solid waste from some bacteria/animal/plant tends not to be a transitional fossil to that species. evidence that some form of life existed there: yes, transitional fossil: no. i mean he specifically says 'what better transitional fossil could you ask for' reffering to life from non-life. even though the case is life to non-life. it could have been made clearer and more accurate. anyway, i'm off to make a transitional fossil

yep but (note: the following is based purely on my own observations in highschool physics classes) people seem to have a problem relative idealised scenarios with real life especially if there is a skew in orientation(horizontal to vertical or vice versa and everything in between.)

not the impression i got from 4:30 - 5:00 (roughly)

as long as you send me a cut of the profits for giving you the idea

its not half rock have plant, it is neither. it's bacterial skyscrapers. i don't agree with his comment that it is a transitional fossil of non-life to life. its a rock made out of bacterial waste. its a bit like looking at faeces and saying its a transitional fossil between rocks and humans.

yep, do what dak says, that works in most cases.

Phi, i've actually heard of a company that will, for a subscription fee, mail you a new pair of socks every day. it may be the solution we're looking for. though there may be a problem when you reach the critical mass of the socks. and they'd never get peeled off the floor again. .... hey instead of getting a carpet just leave the used socks there... wow.

being at terminal velocity is not free fall. as anyone who's jumped out a plane can tell you. at terminal velocity you can still sense down as it's like lying on a really really soft cushion, kind of, its difficult to describe accurately. my advice for understanding the above is to go do it yourself. then you'll know what i mean.

it's difficult to set a mark, first you need to find the generic human, the most human human there is. sequence his/her DNA then grade everyone in genetic differnce from the 'gold standard' then you have to agree on what counts as sufficient genetic change. if you take something like 2% differnce then you'd have to class chimps as human and probably some other primates as well. take something like 0.0000001% and there would only be one human, the predefined gold standard human. it would be an arbitrary thing.

oh its a laptop... well. that complicates matters. it has a ethernet connection maybe? do a net install of a distro

i went through a few phases, first and earliest was archaeologist(didn't know the word then but i had the idea) because i liked 'digging for treasure' then astronaut then scientist(discovered chemistry) then pilot and now chemical engineer. those are the major ones anyway that i was interested in for more than a day.

do you own a CD drive(internal) cause if you do you could just open it up and put that in till you install linux then remove it again. it would make things so much easier as you could get a more modern distro that is maintained.

ah so they have only stopped evolving if you discard the accepted scientific defnition of evolution and use YOUR definition. see you've been following scientific method there.

i.e, go stand by an MRI

you can buy small power meters(they're really ammeters with a different scale) that plug into the wall socket and you plug the server into that. that will give you the true power usage. you might want to take it from under a heavy load since if you are moving to battery backup you generally just want to save everything and shutdown before you lose something. that puts a bit of strain on the server. if you want continuous usage though, just check you have enough battery to run for a few hours and set it up to shut down when the battery gets low.

labs are being refitted just now at uni. i'll get some pictures january or so when everything is still nice and shiny. by march it'll be back to its grubby old self

still going to need most of that info.

to get the exact mass we would need(at the very least for a rough estimate) the flames height, width, burn rate, composition, pressure and temperature.

not irrelevantly, it is by the same process in which both glow. see the bit of the flame that glows? that is plasma. if it were merely hot gas you would be able to see right through it. even air at 3000*C (considerably hotter than a bunsen flame) is perfectly transparent.

super soaker monster XL actually.

ideally you would want a partition devoted to paging(like linux's swap partition) but i'm not sure how or even if you can set this up on windows. big page files get fragmented and big fragmented page files are hopeless. and anyway, with 1G of RAM your computer should never touch the swap file.

hydrostatics are boring. when it is a dynamical system is where it gets interesting.

MrMongoose, it IS a plasma for the last time. take a oxygen rich natural gas flame, burns bright blue. is it hot enough to emit primarily in the blue spectrum? no. nowhere close. this is because of plasma interactions. much like in a fluorescent bulb.