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http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showpost.php?p=172418&postcount=15 mine was remarkably boring. damn. why the hell did i come to this forum anyways?more to the point why am i still here?
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if a giraffe gave birth to a poodle a whole lot more than evolution has gone askew.
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yes i know there will be friction but if its low enough to allow the planes air speed to rise to its takeoff (air)speed then the plane will be able to lift off. this means the wheels would be spinning at the conveyor speed plus the takeoff speed. if for instance, you upgraded the wheels on a 747 and sat it on a conveyor belt going 100mph the other way it would still be able to take off.
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yeah the plane would just roll along to takeoff speeds an then go up, this assumes the friction from the wheels is low enough to allow this to happen.
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lol 'bottled water has no conductivity' i should bloody hope its got little. the more conductivity the more crap thats dissolved in it. 'anything ending in -ate, stay away from it' hmm what about all the clacium phosphate i have in me? must be a good few kilograms. if its really that bad why aren't i dead? and didn't he say e needed carbohydrATEs? oh noes i be confused. omg how can this guy be such a ... i can't even think of a word to describe it.
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the secret behind artificial gravity?
insane_alien replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
interstellar exploration perhaps? but then it actually starts seeming more than a tad small. call it oort cloud exploration. -
wireless card that uses anything other than pci
insane_alien replied to H2SO4's topic in Computer Science
how will he get the PCI-X slots though? he described PCI-e (e as in express) which is more likely as these are everywhere now. These are physically a different shape and size. it wouldn't work. -
the secret behind artificial gravity?
insane_alien replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
if its extended exploration (probably going to be longer than a year or two) your going to need a LOT of consumables. power isn't such a problem solar and nuclear can provide everything. -
the secret behind artificial gravity?
insane_alien replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
you mean centrifugal? that was described in the post directly above yours. -
i resolve to resolve a resolution and to resolve the time taken to resolve that resolution by the time next years resolution requires resolving. in other words 'bugger that'
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the secret behind artificial gravity?
insane_alien replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
not even close to being accurate. remember the distance would be a whole lot less that means if it had the mass of the earth you would be looking at a few tens of thousands of g's on a ship. a smaller mass would be capable of producing 1 g fields but for the densities your looking at a small blackhole in your ship which probably isn't the smartest of ideas anyway. ignoring the possibility that the first time you move your ship gets compressed into a singularity, the biggest problem is the gradient of the gravity, since your so close to the source its going to be noticable your feet might be getting 1.2g and your head 0.7 (ok this is a tad exagerated but you'd notice it. then theres the point source problem, the gravity would change direction along the ship. this could be covered by using a spherical ship, not sure if this poses severe problems or what but it might throw a curve ball(no pun intended) into the owrks. -
have you got an IRC client? it'll work better than the java client.
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dissolve the mischmetal that produces soluble salts for both metals(this will ensure that no parts of the metal are shielded by the insoluble salt) then chuck in the oxalic acid and the cereium oxalate should precipitate out.
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and here we find a common fallacy. it doesn't get adapted at once. its thought that we came from something like a lungfish. the lungfish stayed on land more often(more food or destruction of habitat) so they evolved into a land fairing animal this split up into everything that walks on land today pretty much. eventually out popped ape like creature and out them popped us. this took hundereds of millions of years and not everything changed at once. it all did so slowly. we even think that we picked up our spines from plants somewhere back along the line.
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conversion factor: apparent magnitude to footcandles?
insane_alien replied to chilehed's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
ok, another reason why there is no conversion factor is that the measurements are for different things. foot-candles measure illuminance while magnitude measures luminosity. while similar, they are different. also magnitude is unitless. while foot-candles obviously have units of foot- candles. -
its not really a theory is it? you have no evidence and i can't see much logic in it. do you even know what E=mc^2 means? and that it only reduces to that under a single specific condition?
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conversion factor: apparent magnitude to footcandles?
insane_alien replied to chilehed's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
nope there isn't any. for one, the scales are different, one is linear(foot candles) and the other is logarithmic(magnitudes). -
PV=nRT is the way to go. i assume you have the reaction equation as well
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organize the folder so you have 2(or any even number) columns. it should have organized so you have two identical colums. shift drag and delete one of the columns.
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yup, been thought of, been made, has a 1337 sounding name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator not as powerful as a nuclear EMP but its still enough to take out electronics and it doesn't have the nasty effects of a huge blast wave and radioactive fallout.
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ah. never really bothered with the naming system after the actinides. I won't come across the elements before they find a stable one and if they ever do i'm sure a proper name would be assigned very very quickly.
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eka-ununHEPTium jdurg. you need to go look at prefixes again.
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yeah, they would need to be going faster than the speed of light to maintain an orbit and not crash into the nucleus. yeah the larger elements are pretty useless as they don't stick around long enough to do anything. if a species lasts 20 ns its not going to be a crucial component of ANYTHING never mind a biological or chemical system.
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this happened several months ago IIRC. slashdot had an article on it and it was in the news part of wikipedia.
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do it in highschool its not so hard.