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you misinterpret my point. you cannot extrapolate that complex compounds will behave the same as simple compounds. this is what i was saying. you cannot use an extremely simple compound to prove that a complex compound would work. well, my train of thought at that point in the video(i typed it as i watched) was that you were using magnetic induction to attract the metal(this works for all conductors) it has the downside of causing the metal to get quite hot after a while which would necessitate using something to carry it and not keeping it sitting still for long in case it melted on to the device. should probably be noted that i do not represent the scientific community in total, just myself. and nobody has ever accused me of pompousness before, i thik most who know me would consider that somewhat absurd. anyway, there are plenty of valid points in my post. including not 1 but 2 methods by which these results can be replicated without resorting to misinterpriting magnetic moment. no, its not. you didn't even bother to google that. the magnetic moment is a materials tendancy to align with a magnetic field. it's also measured in J/T not in seconds or any other unit of time. again you're just showing your ignorance of magnetism which takes further weight away from your arguements. so, can you post something of substance or what?

i think you are confusing heat and temperature. the big one will lose heat faster than the smaller star but due to its large heat capacity, its temperature will decrease more slowly.

so, just going to ignore all the points i raised? pretty much what i expected to be honest.

cooling slows down as the temperature drops. yes, it drops like a stone initially, but if it kept up that extreme rate of cooling it'd hit zero K in a few thousand years. it follows an exponential curve. and a neutron star will cool much slower than earth when it gets down to a similar temperature. due to its MUCH smaller surface area. these neutron stars are only about 10km across. that makes their surface area tiny. and rate of cooling is directly proportional to surface area.

tends to be software that causes 'bluescreens' and so on.

well, if you post what you have already it'll save a lot of time and stop us mentioning ones you already have.

to be honest, thats closer than i expected to be. like i said, i only have a rudimentary knowledge of the US education system. i'm unlikely to remember that list either but still, cheers. and still plenty of time to decide which area of science you like best. back when i was that age i didn't want to go into science at all(okay, i liked chemistry as a hobby) i wanted to join the RAF and fly planes.

i know how to do it if your on linux and use pulse audio. otherwise dunno.

not entirely sure what a valvular conduit is even after googling. but still, one isn't required to operate a tesla turbine on any compressed gas. more still why its worthy of mention. EDIT: ah right got it, after reading the patent on it it sounds just like a crap one way valve without moving parts. but seriously, why wouldn't you just use a 1 way valve like a check valve?

yes, a very long time. as in, much longer than the age of the universe before it gets close to equilibrium.

ask a silly answer and we'll provide an answer several orders of magnitude sillier.

why do you think that all areas of the brain being utilized(when those bits are needed) is equally dumb? the brain is a very expensive (in terms of energy) organ to keep running. if there were significant areas that could be cut out without reducing functionality as they are never used then there would be large selection pressures in favour of those who develop without those bits or at least smaller versions of those bits. you'd also have to come up with their former use, why did we need unused bits in the first place?

it doesn't make me uncomfortable at all but its usage tends to attract idiots who claim is gods punishment for homosexuality or eating meat on a friday or working on the sabbath or some crap.

wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. soap can and does kill bacteria. if you are planning on causing a deliberate infection of some microbes, first you need to eliminate those already present THEN put some starter colonies on. just rubbing youself in dirt isn't going to work and anything it did do would be undone at the next wash anyway.

so, you want a mobile accessible forum? or a mass texting service? i think you'll need to give us more details for useful info.

unstable intermediates tend to self react (ie. spontanteously disintigrate) rather than require the presence of another reagent. though the lifetime of unstable and meta stable intermediates tends to be on the order of nanoseconds (its less than this but it helps you get the point without me having to explain everything). you can however capture these unstable states by freezing them in an ultra cold(near 0K) matrix of xenon atoms IIRC. i can't remember exactly how it's done but i've read about it being used to keep helium ionic compounds around long enough to be observed.

genecks posted a scientific american link that says what i was saying, although iirc i got my info from a new scientist article. it'll be in a box in my wardrobe.

no, but you can assess the liklihood of his making a useful, or even coherent contribution. also, by the miracle of literacy, we can read and analyse pioneers post and determine, yep, he's displaying his usual standard of post.

yes, it was greed, so what? my points still stand. they are a business, they will continue to be in business if people still want to trade with them. this is so so therefore they still trade. sure, their reputation is badly damaged but they can rebuild that by simply not being idiots. there isn't anything complex about this. and lets keep god/s/ess/es out of it eh. render unto caeser and all that.

politics isn't and doesn't claim to be a meritocracy (ruled by that which is best) it is just a popularity contest, the voting public chooses who they want and the person that gets the most votes wins. the world of politics is not a logical arguement therefore the fact that it is ad populum doesn't really make any sort of a difference. if it was a logical arguement then being ad populum would be significant.

people changing there habits is hardly the destruction or even close to the destruction of anything. it is simply a change. things change regardless of whether there is any particular crisis or cause. now see, there was actual destruction, but notice it was not a financial disaster that destroyed the town.

well, its certainly possible to trust them again, but they would need to earn the trust back. i fail to see the problem with advertisement. they are after all businesses and businesses need to advertise to continue to do business. and its not as if they wanted to plunge the world (not just the united states) into a recession because, well, its bad for business both in terms of profits and brand reputation. ie. not a sound business position. and it never got anywhere near to destroying any country. at all. if you look back at it, and compare to other financial crises of the past, it just wasn't that bad at all. i point you to the weimar republic(germany essentially) in 1921-1923 where money was burned in fires because the paper notes contained more fuel value than the amount of wood or coal it would buy you. they were even used instead of wallpaper. they survived that or even the worst one of all in 1946 in hungary, prices would DOUBLE every 15 hours. hungary survived that. or in your country, the great depression, far worse than what you got this time round. you guys survived that. to say it nearly destroyed any country is utterly ridiculous all it meant was a slight reduction in the standard of living and people having to be a bit more responsible with their money.

well, you are unlikely to find anywhere thats great in anything as broad as 'science in general'. you should look to refine your interests in science to a specific field such as physics, chemistry or biology. and even from there you'll want to refine your interests a bit more, but 3 choices is enough for now as you have plenty of time (if my rudimentary knowledge of where juniour lies in the US education system (it's something like 13-14yo right?)). once you have a good idea of what fields you like then you can look for universities that have some form of specialisation in that field.

well, the chemical engineering industry has been left relatively unscathed by the economic crisis(job opportunities have continued to grow although the have slowed a bit). much better than other areas of engineering such as electrical and electronic engineers which are enduring a shortage of jobs just now. damn right its biased, but i'm capable of backing it up.

you missed out a zero on the first one, it should read 8099