insane_alien

looks prone to failure, i don't see an engine using this running for very long(couple of weeks maybe?) without needing maintenance. if it is an engine that gets started and stopped often then it will have a shorter lifespan.

cable TV is one way, it just has to pump it out at one end with special hardware and the decoder at the users end is designed to pick it up. internet is two way. packets must be sent both ways. this means overhead. already the bandwidth is reduced. 2nd, the cable companies will rarely sell you he full capacity of the line thats it reduced again. 3rd, your probably sharing a connection to the backbone with about 100-200 other people. this connection may or maynot(probably not) be able to handle every one of those people downloading something all at once. this reduces bandwidth again. 4th, the server at the other end might be loaded, slow, or have a rubbish connection somewhere along the line. probably other things i can't think of just now as well.

E=mc^2 mass is energy and energy is mass. if you gain energy(in the form of kinetic energy in this case) then you will also gain mass.

well, i don't want an iphone. i can't really think of a reason for me to be at the front of the line anyway. so i would have just taken as much as i could squeeze from her.

the fabrication costs would be high and if it only had one set of teeth on the crank it wouldn't work. as gcol said, you'll need three. also, i don't see it being advantageous over current methods. it looks prone to wear and tear, high costs, low torques, low rpms, and probably isn't so efficient.

yeah, we've made mechanical hearts. there was one guy who had no pulse for five years because of one. also, they wouldn't be powered by heat. where would the heat sink be? you need a temperature difference to get any work out of it. a battery is much more likely.

correction, they didn't even make it to the building. all they managed to do was singe the canopy. i didn't say it wasn't an attack. just a shoddy one. we didn't thwart them. they were just the more incompetent branch of terrorists.

people have already said yes. why don't you just post it.

he seen that wad of cash and only asked for $800? i would have went for at least $2000

sorry dude, doesn't work for a number of reasons. 1/ all light emitted within the escape horizon will head towards the singularity 2/since things are held together with the electro magnetic force, the moment a part crosses the event horizon, it will stop interacting with the rest of the object as the virtual photons can nolonger reach the rest of the object. this means it will fall off, no matter how strong the material is. its a nice idea but it sadly doesn't work. one of our physicists will probably explain this in greater detail.

dave, i can do simple exponents. i get 1.41 1.61 2 2.67 4 7.1 16 50.45 256 2545.46 65536 6479347.02 4294967296 41981937869758.1 1.84E+019 1.76E+027 3.40E+038 3.11E+054 1.16E+077 9.65E+108 1.34E+154 9.31E+217 #NUM! #NUM!

what do you mean you don't know what operating system your using? if you don't know what wine is then your not using it. i'm going to go ahead and guess your using a version of windows and that it is one of the later editions on the NT kernel, probably XP home. the reason something borks is likely because XP sucks the big one at backwards compatability.

i use wikipedia a lot when researching a report. although, it is used mostly as a collection of references rather than for the content on the site itself.

what games and what OS are you running. or are you using WINE on a *nix system?

would you mind explaining how it is the square root of 2? i'm just saying this because if i take root 2 to the power of root2 to .... 8 times... i get an answer much bigger than 2 and it'll keep on increasing.

1/ depends on the effort you are willing to put in. if you don't get something, ask, either your teacher or on here. take nice and slow till you get the basics. 2/ its a pretty basic kit from the looks of it. should be fine. just make sure you take the time to understand more than 'if i put these two together they make pretty colours' and you'll be fine.

batteries provide a reasonably constant voltage at whatever level of charge, a capacitor doesn't. a 1.5 volt batter will still proved ~1.4Volts at 1% charge. a capacitor will provide something like 0.05V at the same charge

well, you should have mention all that in the opening post. anyway, the 'attack' on glasgow airport(5 miles from me) was hardly significant. the car didn't even make it into the building. i'm still not sure what your point is .

umm, is that it? seriously, wtf are you talking about?

yeah, the quantity of chemicals that'll leach into the water is basically insignificant. if you want to see just how much stuff is in bottled water, take a litre of it, put in a pot and boil it until its dry. there will be, at most, a very thin film on the bottom of the various minerals the water contains. do the same with tap water, there will be a much more visible film of mineral deposition.

yeah, Po emitts alpha particles. it's the same material used to poison that russian guy a while back.

yeah, the admin forgot to transfer it to the new servers. don't know if they have a backup or not.

i thought it was all gamma photons produced. luckily, i am not a particle physicist if you know the mass, and the heat capacity of the material then dT = E/(m*C) where dT is the change in temperature E is the energy m is the mass of the chamber C is the heat capacity of the material.

one of the moons testicles of course.

just calculate then energy released. assuming the chamber absorbs all of the energy created then all that energy will be transformed into heat.