insane_alien

just kind of stumbled across these forums one day.

a battery/dc voltage source and a resistor. if you want to go really high tech then you could add a switch.

go to the forums at http://www.orbitersim.com and look under space maths and physics. it has been discussed ad infinitum. its also a really cool sim.

Chemical engineer starting my first year in uni in october (although there'll be an introduction week in september)

yes let us dig down into the earth and become mole people!

well the ir spotlight appears really bright on an infrared camera but i don't know if thats image enhancement or what.

FOOD YOU FOOL!!!!! thats just plain sick what your suggesting.

oh and whats this about pets being dirty? if my dog'll eat it i'll probably eat it as well.

yeah actually they now think that the "slaves" were farmers who worked on the pyramids when the nile was flooded as they could not farm at that time.

why not use velcro instead of artificial gravity from the centrifuge effect. much cooler.

UV light can burn those silly people who spend too long lounging in the sun. I have and infrared spotlight typ thing made out of L.E.D.'s but if you put your hand in it it doesn't feel hot. its a high frequency IR lamp like what comes out your remote control.

i've never seen anything like that on my tonsils. dude just go to a doctor and ask him about it. whats wrong with meat anyway? i eat meat, i'm healthy, wheres the disadvantage? most things are good for you its just the excesses that kill you. if you cook meat properly then you won't get food poisoning.

look at the sun its hydrogen/helium it is sustaining a nuclear reaction therefore it is at critical mass. thats how we make the bombs bigger today we have the fission device but that is only the igniter for the fusion reaction which can level cities with the amount of hydrogen in a party balloon(if it was filled with hydrogen instead of helium)

How can you belive that simple organisms can't mutate? look at the flu virus! why do you think there is a different vaccine for the same virus every year? reason: the old virus mutated into this new one. mutagens and radiation can cause cancer and usually non beneficient mutations because the mutate so much of the genetic code at once and randomly. think taking a car then replaceing the engine with a wheel the wheels with seats and the seats with suspension springs. is it going to work? i think not.

Oh right it just seemed like you were putting the emphasis of A.I. intelligence on the processor speed.

you could always take a large amount of halluceniogenic(sp?) drugs

Meta, we hear and acknowledge your objection to this thread but as this is a democracy and you appear to be in th minority we will be swiftly moving on to resume the branding of the most idiotic members of this forum.

just thinking about the bowshock that the solar wind makes as the sun moves through the galaxy and i thought, if you make a dyson sphere then the solar wind is blocked and the galactic wind(is there a better name for it?) would eventually start hitting the sphere. Would this be serious or is it not worth bothering about?

the cpu doesn't make a computer smarter it just increases the speed at which it processes the program. if its a dumb A.I. program then a fast processor will make it able to do dumb things faster.

he means the air intake filter... it think. probably up the power a little bit although it also might make the engine block explode

the tripods could have died out and another tetrapod evolved and dominated the wourld. but in theory yes. You can make yourself a tripod just cut off a limb.

why don't you go to a hardware store and get some iron nails and then file them down. ... or buy more breakfast cereal

Why don't you put some on your wifes face(if you have a wife) while she is asleep and see her reaction in the morning. cruel practical joke but i think she would eventually see the funny side.

Gold fish can see the flashes from your remote control. did you know you can convert your webcam to pick up infared only? try this its quite cool http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.johnson2/IR/

i've read (forget the source) that the raindrops start to condense around bits of dust (some from space apparently) and they get bounced about by air currents merging and growing bigger then once the air curents cannot support their weight any more they start to fall still merging with others in the cloud. The water vapour can rise due to thermals in much the same way as a glider pilot will use thermals.