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insane_alien

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  1. there is no distinction between acceleration and decelleration, they are both acceleration. your frame of reference will determine whether energy is added or subtracted from the object(in your frame of reference obv.).
  2. yes, but you can treat metals so that they do not react with acid. the process is called passivation. its a common process.
  3. wow, you actually got one thats reasonable accurate. finally. a much more awesome approximation can be found here although its a bugger to calculate http://www.futilitycloset.com/2010/05/12/pandigital-approximations/ takes forever to evaluate numerically but it's good for 18,457,734,525,360,901,453,873,570 decimal places. of course, if you are going to that much effort, then you are better calculating the true value from the start.
  4. this is due to drag from the tenuous atmosphere that extends that high. if the earth lacked an atmosphere then we would not have to boost it every now and again.
  5. so where does white matter come from?
  6. well, you can make a current go round a superconducting ring without a permanent voltage source, two orbiting bodies will keep orbiting each other for billions of years, there are a number of things, none will do anything useful.
  7. you canmake something that will keep going essentially forever, but you will not be able o power anything with it. the moment you start extracting energy from the device, it will start to stop moving.
  8. its not, its worse than other plants which is the problem.
  9. so you say but you make basic errors about energy, matter, electromagnetism and so on. we're talking half way through highschool level errors, not some subtle well hidden thing in the more advanced stuff. i highly doubt that. if you do engineering(? i'm assuming thats what it says, spell check please) then you should be intimately familiar with energy and hence not make the mistakes you have already made. there isn't any shame in being wrong, but you'll make yourself look silly to claim your something your not.
  10. bet no=one can read my important emails(except for the intended recipients) encryption ftw.
  11. something tells me you have too poor an understanding of physics to coherently discuss dark matter and dark energy.
  12. same problem, you need massive amounts of fertile land area in order to grow them meaning it competes with land area for food crops. fertile land is limited. adding more demands to it means something else has to go, whether it be old growth forests or farmland. if we switch to electric cars then we do not need excessive land area. and definitely not arable land either. you can build a nuclear plant pretty much anywaere and it'll supply far more cars for the same area.
  13. you mentioned special charcters. will underscores (_) be affected?
  14. it's well known that the egyptians built them. not sure how this is relevant. and this is one of the reasons why its all bunk, the people claiming there is some masive scale conspiracy tend to point at something well explained by science, history, whatever and go "LOOK! HOW DOES THE ESTABLISHMENT EXPLAIN THAT?!" showing their own ignorance of what is actually happening and making them essentially unqualified to comment on the subject. also, these global takeover conspiracies have many many practical flaws. for instance, lets take the human resources required, in order to control the global economy and goverment institutions will require an unprecedented administrative capacity, simply massive. it would be the greatest beuraucracy ever in history. so, you have the equivalent of the population of a small country working for your plan to take over the world. lets for the moment, assume these people are human and not evil nazi robots( i doubt this is claimed in the video but my point will become clear).] humans are fallible, we have things like emotions and conciousness. a large number of the people working for this project will be able to deduce what is going on, it would be impossible to totally hide something this massive. so, what happens when people find out something big is happen and being hushed up? it leaks. information would be leaking out of this thing like a seive. intelligence agencies, activists and even news organisations would pick up on it. lets assume its a 1 in 10000 chance of someone leaking information. thats still going to be about 100 people a year. maybe 20 of them will leak something good. there are far more reasons. it would take forever to list them. as to the 'proof' in your post. all i see is stuff about america being in debt and africa being poor. the big question i have with this is: so bloody what? none of that means a 4th reich will arise. infact, i fail to see how anything is related to a 4th german empire i assume the implication of this word is that the world will be taken over by a fascist regime of some sort likely trying to put all the connotations of hitler with it. is there any evidence that this is the case? i do not have the time nor the desire to watch a 2 hour film about utter BS which is what i got when i had a skim through it.
  15. oh you can utilise the stalks of corn, but you don't get anywhere near the yeild and they are already used for a wide variety of things, they are not simply discarded. the only thing is to get the ethanol from them, you need more time and hence a bigger conversion plant.
  16. its the same old crap packed in a slightly different design of bag. this kind of conspiracy theory are pretty much always bunk for the usual variety of reasons.
  17. ethanol can be made from any plant material. high sugary crops such as sugar cane are best. starchy and cellulosic crops are not as good as the starch and cellulose needs to be broken down before it can be metabolised to ethanol. BUT the big arguement people have is that crops for fuel compete withcrops for food. some people misinterpret this to mean its okay to make fuel from crops we don't eat(like above). The real downfall is that the fuel crops compete with the food crops for arable land area. you cannot get round this when using crops for fuel and food, if it needs to be grown then it needs lots of fertile land to do so. as fuel consumption is generally greater than food consumption, the fuel crops would require more area. enough so it would eat up fertile land that could be used for food crops. and as the worlds population is ever expanding, we need to keep expanding our food farms(and fuel farms if we get them). it just means you run out of arable land a few times quicker.
  18. and what of the other concerns DJBruce raised that can be addressed on a purely theoretical basis?
  19. can you explain the derivation of the equation? also, you should use the full equation and not the simplification
  20. schrodingers cat isn't a paradox. and it has nothing to do with conciousness
  21. okay, i can't be bothered going to the effort of creating one that covers them all but i'll show you the principle with a simple substitution cipher lets say his string was ABCD now, there are an essentially infinite number of keys you could use for this. but lets keep it simpe and stick to 3 keys that give different results for the same string. A=D B=A C=W D=N ... this key(no matter how the rest of the key is formulated would give dawn out of the string input.) another key could be A=D B=U C=S D=K ... this key returns dusk or A=D B=O C=G D=S returns dogs. of course these are very simple substitution ciphers but it proves it is possible to decrypt a string to multipl sensible cleartexts by using the wrong key. of course, as the cipher text and methods get bigger and more complex the taks becomes much harder but it is still equally possible given enough time and skill.
  22. a cryptogram can be decrypted an infinite number of ways. most will be gibberish but a number of keys will return sensible information(only one will be right however, to get that information you need to use the correct key however) It is definitely possible to set up a crypto scheme that could decode to multiple different strings that could be preplanned. the fact that he isn't releasing his prediction until after the result means he could do a switch(he is a magician after all and i assume he is capable of more than simple substitution tricks. if he wanted to be truly impressive, he should have told the prediction to a group of independant observers, had them remained isolated until after the world cup is finished and then got them to reveal his prediction after half time.
  23. there are too many potential risks to list in any usable form. the chances of any of them happening are however quite low.
  24. we could iTell
  25. well, its a membrane that selectively lets through one gas better than others. i'm not sure what else you want as there are many types and materials used.
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