insane_alien

shockwaves. not to sure what a good WMD would be for a vacuum. depends on what your trying to destroy. a big nuke in a little asteroid would probably be pretty lethal.

i know that site is misinterpreting what quantum entanglement actually is with the CD thing so i'm disinclined to beleive the rest of it. anyway, its still a single point of failure. what if you lose it? how do you prove who you are to get a new one? bottom line is, i hate it when gadgets all get lumped into one (okay, so my PC works as a radio, tv, computer, alarm clock and a gaming console but it uses expansion cards.)

remeber to give 'em hell.

you should have used the industrial one on the super-luminal spaceship.

actually, i would say that to gates but not because of pirates (although they did crack vista before it was even released) but because of the better alternatives out there for free. quantum entangled encryption? i don't know how it works so i can't comment on it but it sounds computation intensive.

go read a book about basic atmospheric physics. please.

yes a nuclear bomb would work but it would mostly be a heat weapon rather than a blasting weapon. there would be almost no concussive force as the only matter available is that of the bomb itself. most of the energy would go into the heat and radiation effects. probably not going to be as effective. concussive force is basically the force the shockwave would hit you with. the blast radius is the radius from ground zero to the furthest reaches of its destruction. its got all kinds of enrgy in the blast, kinetic, electromagnetic, heat etc. etc. pretty much everything in a nuclear bmb casues harm once its detonated.

hc, the towers fell down the way they di because of the way they were built. there was a weight bearing core and weight bearing sides with concrete floors basically sitting on plates sticking out from the support structure. the weight of the floors pulled the walls inward slightly (it was designed to do this to make it slightly more stable under SOC). it also has the nifty ability to make it likely for it to fall straight down unless something really really big hits it (bigger than a jet). and back to WTC7 we go. the building had a chunktaken out of the bottom corner from the 18th floor down. there was a fire. all the remaining load bearing structure was under unusual stresses. het weakens fire, one truss lets go, the rest follow, big pile of rubble, end of story. yeah i've heard the audio. i know he said 'it' and i already said that its used to mean 'get the hell out of there' trust me on this one. or i can go into how the phrase came about if your not easily offended.

yeah but most domestic heating systems rely on a varying U for temperature control. its easier to handle. U us dependant on the flowrate so you just open/close a valve to control the heat flux.

what do you mean? I INVENTED the robots! thats how i know. jeez, i thought they gave you guys a list of who was involved so you wouldn't accidentaly 'whack' them.

the average velocity of the molecules and the fraction of molecules with sufficient energy to react are two different things. its perfectly accurate. remember, wikipedia isn't ALL bad. it provides you with at least a rough idea and there are usually references down the bottom.

makes more sense than some of the theories out there. seriously, some of the people out there are probably convinced that the sky is green at night but the government puts a giant blanket up every night to make it look black and stars are little robots crawling over it to repair it.

i thought they changed it to 'urectum' to stop those silly jokes.

i think i vary from day to day though.

wouldn't it just give you a different set of real numbers?

you can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone

john, yeah jet engines burn very hot but i don't think that the WTC buildings had fuel diffuser systems.so the temperature was substantially lower than that but still damn hot. steel loses 80% of its strength by 700*C which would probably be sufficient for collapse.

still boiler on low radiators on high. there are maybe a few conditions where the opposite would be best but i seriously doubt that you would encounter them in a domestic heating system in wales.

its because its OLD technology, we had the ability to do that years ago. the reason nobody has implimented it is because it could be used for sneaking in a police state and people are already becoming more aware of being spied on. Also, as an engineer in training, i know that lumping every critical component into a single system is a VERY VERY VERY BAD IDEA! if onething breaks then chances are it all breaks you also need to remember that no piece of hardware is uncrackable. i would say that within 2 months of that being released the identity theft rate would skyrocket and eventually, you would be able to go into the dodgier areas of town and buy one as fake ID.

yes the almighty phrase 'pull it... just pull it.' with so many meanings in so many fields. for instance it can mean: 1/ get the hell out of there(emergency services and military, this is most likely context) 2/ drag it(most other contexts) and the one that conspiracy nuts cling on to like flies to steaming piles of excrement. 3/ demolish it (used in the demolitions trade and also in structural surveying as i hear and is usually used before the building is even rigged up. even then it usually reffers to getting a JCB some heavy chain and pulling out structural parts of the building so it collapses on its own. generally NOT explosives.) since the guy who said it was a fireman i would say with 99.999% certainty that it was the first one he meant and the first one the firemen were responding to when they left the building.

its 854917632 digits long when written in unary? seriously, there are millions of things this could stand for. there is no possible way to decipher any meaning without more details.

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you went from mind crunchingly drunk to perfect legibility in 3 minutes? that must have been one strong coffee

does this look like minor damage http://judi.kw.nl/uploads/fok/wtc7-sw-corner1.jpg the smoke pouring out one whole side thing i mentioned earlier http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/WTC7.jpg/300px-WTC7.jpg the partial collapse of the winsdor building where steel structural elements collapsed but it didn't cause the rest to collapse http://external.cache.el-mundo.net/documentos/2005/02/windsor/album2/img/10.jpg i assume WTC7 got damaged when two of the worlds tallest buildings fell down quite near it. also, what is wrong with three buildings meeting this criteria in 9 hours? it was pretty damn exceptional circumstances wouldn't you agree? its not everyday planes get flown into some of the tallest buildings in the world.

hotcommodity, i was arguing that steel structures CAN collapse due to fire. its just that there are safety measure in place so it means that a LOT of things have to happen for it to completely fail. as it stands, even with the fire proofing office builings have partially collapsed due to fire, the winsdor building you gave is an example. the windsor building didn't have a whole side shaved off it like WTC7. the heavy damage on WTC7 was the reason it failed. if it wasn't damaged then it would not have fallen due to the fire.