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john said it, either have lots of air flow or get more dehumidifiers. if you have windows on both sides of the base ment then you should set up fans blowing inwards on one side and fans blowing outwards on the other to create a good cross flow of air. if the humidity outside is 100% then there isn't much you can really do appart from heating up the floor but that is unlikely to be a popular move with the players. although, an altogether easier way of dealing with it is to have a mat on the floor where the players are so they can have some traction.

well, it would work exactly like it does now. working in a field, you'll not produce 1 kW otherwise we exceed one horse power, its possible to do this for short bursts, but not an hour. how much you are paid would be dependant on the value of your work, if the job requires lots of skills then you would likely be paid more than someone doing a menial task. it would really be up to the employer to decide how much the job is worth as it is now. remember, a lot of the financial conventions could be transfered over as is or with very little modification from the current system. basically, the simpler ones that have been around for centuries. the only difference is that the currency follows different rules, it doesn't change value dependant on time, economic success or failure or which country you're in. a joule remains a joule regardless of what happens in the complicated world of humans.

not the way i'm thinking of it. in order to get more currency, you need to put more energy into the system, either by producing more or by reducing losses. this way you avoid the whole spiralling until it can no longer support itself phenomenon. but the joule will always be worth a joule, the only way to squeeze more value out of it is to increase efficiency.

you can't increase speed merely by using software. the only possible way to achieve this(without upgrading to a faster service) is to use a compression proxy. however, access to one will cost money and to be honest, your provider probably already employs such a system for its network.

i was just about to book some flights. now im holding off.

never mind that, there isn't enough currency in the US to back your national debt

perhaps we(as a species) should switch to an energy based economy rather than some fictional number that we have now. we are obviously not responsible enough to deal with money as an abstract. i mean with the current system you get all sorts of incomprehensible effects like inflation and crashes and booms and we're crap at dealing with them. with an anergy based system a joule is always going to be a joule and the only way its value can change is by introducing more efficient machinery to do work with that joule. of course, a joule is far to small to be used as an everyday unit of currency, probably something along the lines of a kWh or even MWh would be the 'base' unit, however this can be arbitrary as long as it's proportionally tied to a joule. seems to make more sense to me but then again, i'm an engineer, i'm used to dealing with energy.

and you are repeating your own mistakes. just because modern people interpret ancient depictions as aliens does not mean that they were aliens. you cannot just keep saying 'we have a history with these entities' and make it true. i mean, if we really did have a history with aliens then why didn't the aliens mention this, are we really going to say that our ancestors were so retarded that they couldn't express the notion that there were beings from another planet in regular contact with them?

but you should still post the work you have done so far up until the point where you can no longer continue. we are not your personal calculator, do not treat us as such.

actually, the and is perfectly acceptable and it is definitely well used in the UK at least. i've actually never heard your method used of calling it one hundred one

if it's a metal there are delocalised electrons. its how metallic bonding works.

it's non-conductive because there are no free charge carriers available. everything is all tightly bound in place. in conductors there is soemthing that is free to move within the substance to carry a charge from A to B. in the case of metals, this is delocalised electrons, in a conductive solution the ions are free to move etc.

just pour some of that ol' janx spirit over it. that should wipe out any enlightened civilizations of bacteria that may be forming.

ah, but are you a hoopy frood?

yes, well, obviously you've never wore a towel soaked in nutrients. it leaves you ver very sticky. while this is suitible for climbing walls and annoying people, it isn't wanted when drying off after a shower. as it happens, i have a washcloth thats soaked in nutrients just in case.

well thats you're opinion then isn't it. as it stands, the apple tree isn't part of science at all. it has bog all to do with any theory as laid down in the papers that discuss the actual science. any attatchment to the apple tree is down to the fact that us humans (as a generalization) are sentimental. the attachment isn't scientific, merely emotional.

no, but it is wetted for both cooling and combat purposes.

of course i know where my towel is, i'm wearing it.

the apple falling on his head is a myth. but he did say that the apple falling from the tree is what inspired him. i'd hardly call it a relic. unless you call everything in a museum a relic as its really just a historical artefact.

and then they through us out of an airlock without even giving us so much as a cup of tea! thats vogons for you i suppose. at least they're stuck losing and finding the triplicate forms they had to fill out in order to read us poetry and chuck us out of the airlock.

i agree with the tree, wolfram alpha is far superior for this sort of thing than google.

i take it the russians, europeans and japanese don't count then? ESA, JAXA and Roscosmos have all sent probes around the moon.

capn, remember, those infrared telescopes and such are looking for incredibly weak signals (really quite ridiculously weak and could be outshone by the body heat of a termite a few thousand miles away.) anything big enough to shunt a craft around at the accelerations commonly seen in 'alien sightings' is going to produce an elephantine amount of waste heat and be bright enough to appear on the wide angle detectors at the very least.

see, the thing about space is, its really difficult to hide. if there really was an advanced civilization in this solar system other than us then we would have detected them by now from the massive amounts of waste heat they'd inevitably produce.

doesn't work like that. it is not a linear relationship at all. look up P-T phase diagrams. they show the relationship between state temperature and pressure.