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That would be because there isn't anything wrong with it. you'll notice that nasa uses centrifuges for training quite a lot to get steady >1G gravity. one issue however is likely to be the size, you'll have stresses on the compartment due to the orientation of it and the gravity thats about as well as the rotation. ther might be technical challenges in achieving the idea, but none theoretically.

Tnad, all you posted was quotes. in science quotes are crap. where was the science? if this is a science class then you need to back up your opinions WITH SCIENCE

as long as your arguements are well supported and backed then there shouldn't be any issues whatever the viewpoint, thats all they're looking for, that you can back up an arguement in a reasonable manner. just out of curiosity(and to give you some practice) why DO you think its propaganda?

a conductor is something that conducts electricity. in the earth this is the molten iron-nickel core and in the sun it is the plasma. neither iron nor nickel are magnetic at the temperatures of the inner core.

perhaps if you could post the source of this for some context. i'd imagine it would scale with the volume over the surface area.

anti-photons would not appear dark.

no, it isn't scientifically plausible. infact you can even demonstrate how implausible it is without dying OR becoming a zombie. I'm pretty sure you'll have experienced "pins and needles" or your leg going to sleep. This is brought on by loss of blood flow and hence a lack of oxygen to the muscles, and it can happen within a few minutes. If you've tried walking with a severe case you'll have noticed that its really quite difficult bordering on the impossible. well, this would happen to a zombie walking around and it'd only get worse with time. but even before that, the lack of oxygen would render the brain incapable of producing nerve impulses to power anything. brain death would be quick. when you die, you really do die. having a virus in you isn't going to allow your body to be functional afterwards. you could maybe make a case for it if your lungs, and heart still functioned (and to a lesser extent kidneys) but still, its not going to take long for the rest of the bodies systems to go down. There's a reason you don't see people with organ failure up and about even at a reduced capacity, they're bed ridden and full of tubes for a reason. a zombie will not have these things and thus will die just the same as a normal person.

probably because all evidence so far says thats impossible. maybe if we get some form of unfied field theory there MAY be a way to do it but its miles away technologically speaking.

pioneer, the particles were moving very fast and bouncing off each other. these are collisions. especially true due to the confinement. you say there was a center, well there was no center. everywhere was and still is the center, so what you are saying is that the particles were very ordered and sitting perfectly still. not really a hot plasma is it?

it is. if you don't believe me then ask nasa http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ latest discovery was made on 23rd of december 2009 and it uses a RTG not a nuclear battery. these things produce very predictable power outputs which is why they know they aren't going to be able to power any single instrument by 2025

you don't split up quarks just by bunging them round an accelerator really fast, you need to collide them with something else. there is no speed at which things just magically disintigrate.

well, you could send up a robotic mining operation to strip a couple of asteroids. exploration, just seeing what's out there, humans don't need to be the probe to find cool stuff.

D H, there are a few thing that can't be done by some cheap ground based gradstudents simply because of the fact that there's too much gravity around and could only be done in a space environment. until we can recreate that niche here on earth, space based experiments will have value. and anyway, at some point we're going to have to leave this rock and relocate to another rock or two. the earlier this investment gets done the better chance we have of surviving in the long-long term.

1/ the process is slow. the signal would be lost in the thermal radiation given out by the acretion disk. 2/ it doesn't happen very fast until the black hole is very small, also lessening the signal. a kilo of antimatter annihilating is only going to be equivalent to a tsar bomba(largest nuke ever detonated) which, in astronomical terms is an incredibly tiny event. 3/ the annihilation happens INSIDE the blackhole. the energy released wouldn't get to us anyway.

the voyager missions are still on going. they haven't transmitted anymore pictures because there was nothing to look at. the voyager missions are expected to continue until 2020 and all intstruments will need to be shut down in 2025 due to a lack of power. they are still providing valuable information about the heliopause and the interstellar medium. also, we do know the properties of the interstellar medium as we can observe it from right here. it will not provide any barrier to communication as radiowaves pass through it fine.

as the sun is all conductive(as it is made of plasma) then the magnetic field will be produced throughout the whole sun i think. gravity is produced from all the mass, not just the inner core.

They aren't related at all. And the magnetic field doesn't necessarily pull towards the center. For instance, due to the diamagnetic properties of water nad the human body being mostly water, it's actually pushing you AWAY from the center. The earths gravity is related to the mass of the whole earth, the magnetic field is related to the rotating ball of liquid metal commonly known as the earths core.

think of it this way, you have 2 dice. that means there's 6^2, 36 possible combinations. but you only have 2 dice. like has already been said, there will be many chemicals that do't exist anywhere in the universe right now, but they are possible to synthesize. heck, we've probably made a few already.

no you haven't

well the sounds vibrations are picked up by hairs in your chochlea(sp? big spiral thing in your ear that looks a bit like a snail shell). each of these hairs is connected to a nerve. The hairs are of different lengths and position within the chochlea and thus resonate at different frequencies. when they resonate a signal is sent down the nerve to the auditory processing centers of the brain.

well it depends on the CEO. there isn't really anything you can do about it but if you keep pestering them to make the decision it may count against you. just chill out and wait for them to get back to you, they're not going to just forget about you if you managed to have a successful interview.

because i was trying to explain why latency and bandwidth are two different things and that for online gaming it's latency that is the important one as there isn't usually a lot of data exchanged.

anyone else notice that this event took place 70 million years before the dinosaurs went extinct? something tells me the two events may be unreleated.

right, seems i need to explain this a little more. lets say you want to transport some data from A to B. Bis 10 km from A you have 2 options, you can send it down a 1Mbit/s connection or send a harddrive by car at 60kph. for clarities sake we will assum a 100GB harddrive. so, the bandwidth for the connection is 1Mbit/s but what's the bandwidth for the harddrive in the car. well it'll take 10 minutes to get from A to B assuming a constant 60km/h so thats 1.333Gbit/s so the hardrive has more bandwidth(more than 1000 times the bandwidth) so according to you the truck should have a lower latency. unfortunately not. the truck will have a latency of 20minutes(there and back with the reply). always. the latency for the wired connection will be quite low(however long it takes for a signal to be sent and then sent back which will be a few milliseconds at most.). big difference.

there should be an option to make that permanent somewhere(unless the programmers followed a chocolate teapot strategy) and no, i have no virus scanner. the only time i run windows its not connected to the net anyway. linux has no known viruses in the wild anyway and they typically aren't viable for long anyway.