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insane_alien

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  1. if you want a spinning thing around a sun then you are better off with a ring than a sphere as the structural loads and stresses can be lower andhow the hell would you accelerate a sphere that size?
  2. no superconductors repel magnetic fields the liquid nitrogen does nothing but keep the superconductor cool
  3. I know what you do in it. i read the prospectus. i mean i want to know what its like from someone who is doing it or has done it. like did they find it hard to do a certain aspect of it or something like that. re-reading my post it does look a bit stupid.
  4. "Imo, ID fits the ticket nicely." - Buzsaw Imo - in my opinion, science is not about opinion hence this comment is invalid. your opinion is also not fact or evidence for a fact. example: Imo, tomato soup tastes like crap. This does not automatically mean that tomato soup is, or tastes like, crap. it is merely my brain percieving the soup to taste bad and then lumping it into the category of "crap". I actually really don't like tomato soup, or tomatoes.
  5. whoops sorry i was reading something about carbon fibre before this and got a bit mixed up. What about aluminium? that doesn't corrode past a thin layer of oxidation on the surface. The moon also has that in its crust. just cover the thing in lunar regolith to protect from radiation and there you have it.
  6. I've just been accepted into a Masters coure in chemical engineering at Strathclyde University in Scotland. Anybody else here studying or studied this? If so what am i in for?
  7. when you are dealing with a manufactured steel bottle with relatively no flaws then yes it could be done quite safely, rock isn't like that. magma is also at thousands of degrees centigrade. (1325 from a few sources) this is where we run into problems. also in a propane bottle its a gas, magma is liquid and thats a whole other kettle of fish. Just out of curiosity where did you get the idea that a valve is attatched to a propane bottle after it is filled? the valves are attached before filling and when there is no pressure. also the container is designed to hold the pressure, magma chambers are not, hence the eruptions.
  8. well all sound is related to science and music is a collection of sounds that happen to give joy to certain listeners
  9. is this hypothetical or are you planning to kidnap somebodies children? if it is hypothetical i, personally, would agree. if your planning a kidnap, call social services.
  10. the thing is that the moon is crap for that kind of thing i don't think that there is that much carbon on or near the surface and the major components of the dust is aluminium. also i read somewhere that fibre glass is leaky and would eventually vent your atmosphere. they already have designs for an inflatable habitat.
  11. nah just restart the damn thing i was just kidding around with the "give it 5 minutes to wake up" thing
  12. You have a lazy harddrive give it 5 minutes to wake up.
  13. Personally i like floppies and have a large stack of them as project backups. i also have a tape drive hiding in my loft.
  14. http://www.zvis.com/nuclear/dimg.php3?tzarbo2,tzar <picture of the tsar bomba cloud haven't found a video yet(yes that comma is supposed to be there) http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html <this has lots of data and some more picks of the bomb itself
  15. hearing protection: 1 pair of noise resistant headphones with 4 large duvets tightly wound round your head.
  16. round the four dimensional corner of your discombobulator next to the deboobifier.
  17. well if you believe this guy from another forum called zarkov then water is actually more unstable than hydrogen peroxide and will spontaineously decompose into hydrogen and oxygen. this guy also claims to have aspaceship 3 times the size of earth and is a resident of a mental institution.
  18. "increase the energy that leaves the magma pool by a few gigawatts". !?! I think your still underestimating this. although the amount of energy going into it is relatively small for the size of the magma chamber the actual wattage of the flux is still far more than a few giga watts. petawatts is more like it.
  19. i know lots of 14 yearolds who know that. Why don't you google for this theres lots of info on the aftermath of nuclear tests both american and russian.
  20. Why, pray tell, did they sit on it?
  21. He's getting movies by phoning up some DVD rental shop or getting them broadcast over the internet. he wants to know if there is a bit of software that will allow him to record these movies as they play through windows mediaplayer. ... i think.
  22. pogos just imagine that the block is in a universe all by its self and is stationary relative to the universe(assume its a universe where you canfind the centre easily)
  23. could the blue detector also pick up the infra red light? this would cause the effect ... i think.
  24. why per litre? i probably should have mentioned that its electrical consumption while parked and being used as a home, not being driven around. I know this depends on what you have hooked up to the electrical supply but i'm just looking for an average. the generator gives me a rough guestimate on the consumption but ithink some of that would go into the batteries and that the generator would not be run permanently.
  25. It seems a fair enough compromise. I'm in the UK also so don't actually know what a shelter looks like.
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