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insane_alien

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  1. actually, i recal something like this but it is on a whole other scale. infact, it was much much bigger and involves an exploding star. here it is. it is actually the light you se moving and not the gas cloud.
  2. if there are charged particles(usually electrons) that are on the move then there is electricity.
  3. sigh, it is a spoof. it is making ridiculous claims about what makes a hacker. it even misuses the word hacker. the descriptions above mean that every single teenager in the world would be a hacker. even if they don't own a computer.
  4. 13, no it is not a chemical fire but a nuclear fire. it only requires hydrogen. 14, no electricity is just the flow of electrons it does not require oxygen.
  5. well, A+B producing oxygen really narrows it down. i mean theres only a few thousand possibilities. why don't you look at the box of one of these things it'll have to tell you the chemicals by law.
  6. 5 cents. a rather simplistic riddle that relies on people making a quick estimation over using maths
  7. just came across this on an unrelated search, the second boer war was 1899 - 1902 even the first one was over a century after the year dan mentioned, 1880-1881 so fr this isn't going so well for him.
  8. pity there isn't 365 days in a year. its 365.25
  9. nah, the company that makes quake graciously provides a linux installer. the game itself isn't opensource. as for the PC-mac, i prefer PC's as i can pick and choose whatever configuration i want. also, i've never had much luck with macs. either the OS doesn't let me do something or it crashes at the wrong moment.(working with them in school was hell, 2/3 saves it crashed. rewrote a LOT of work) then again, windows can be just as bad and worse. you can install linux on either platform so its not all bad.
  10. Ahem! i have Half-Life 2 and a couple of other games from valve running quite nicely on my ubuntu desktop through WINE. also, Quake games run fine in linux with no compatability layer.
  11. ahh right, well, gold is softer than glass so it cannot scratch glass. but it can scratch more gold so you could use it to scrape gold off glass without damaging the glass. as for a chemical method, anything that dissolves gold but leaves glass alone would do,
  12. it's a phase change cooling system.
  13. catalysis doesn't change the enthalpy of reaction, just the activation energy. also, chemical reactions do not tap into the subatomic anything.
  14. when the research director says they don't know how it works they are lying. nowadays you don't simply develop an amazing device and not know how it works. i very much doubt they just bunged this together from random parts for a laugh. i would have to study the device with a hammer and screwdriver to tell you what is really going on.
  15. ahh seems you're right. n/m
  16. i was thinking this sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor it would keep it at a constant speed rather than just giving an upper bound.
  17. to make a steam generator: 1/Pressure Vessel(Boiler) 2/flame. make an oil burner that will heat the tank. 3/for the generator bit you will need a piston. preferably driving a reasonable sized flywheel. i'm sure it can't be that hard to find an alternator somewhere. just hook it up. and if you need 60Hz you'll need to make a govenor and gearing mechanism to keep the alternator at 3600RPM
  18. i meant to send the revision of my article today but i kind of got caught up in things. bear with me.
  19. elements to the right have a greater charge in the nucleus this holds the electrons tighter and hence, the elements have a smaller radius.
  20. i swear that when i read stuff written like that i get temporary dyslexia. i had to use a spell checker to type this.
  21. Both. you can't get a compound without it being molecular. Compounds can be classed by the primary type of bonding, these are covalent, ionic or metallic and all the intermediate stages.
  22. just because i don't use proper grammar in posts on a forum doesn't mean i don't use proper grammar elsewhere. jeez. you think i'm stupid or what?
  23. i see the DBunked forums suffer from atomikpsycho as well.
  24. yeah, that 'can't ride it no hands' does imply that it has taken quite a stability hit. and from just sitting on a stationary bike, you can keep it standing and at quite weird angles too.
  25. yeah i figured out i had accidentaly misspelled the address
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