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of course its folklore. its a frikkin legend. people don't think dragons (of ye olde firebreathing type) are real because there are a bunch of stories about them. is there a point to this besides stating the completely obvious.

IFOR one thought it was quite funny. +rep for ydoaps

Hey, this isn't strictly computer help but i figure its close enough. The main TV is a phillips(can't remember the exact model number, i can get it but my dads watchingsome david attenborough programme on it just now so i'll get shouted at if i check just now) but it developed a problem a few months ago, on the right half of the screen, the red pixels do not go to full brightness(or at least not all the time). its actually a bit complicated, i tried this out with my laptop, if you set the red value to 254 then the screen is equally bright all over. if you up the red to 255 the left half doesn't seem to change which is pretty much expected, but the right side gets dimmer. about where it is at about 200. i have no idea what causes it. on a very likely related note, when the tv is powered on, a small dialog bog comes up(it's blue-grey) but it fades to black over to the right hand side. it shouldn't do this. i've tried googling around but i only get sites selling the tv. any help appreciated.

michel, the analogies used such as the balloon analogy are only used in the most basic circumstances. where a person comes in with no knowledge of it at all. it is a quick way to get the basic feature over with minimal complications. if you were to try an describe a bus to someone who had never even heard of such things what would you say? i'd probably go with, its like a big truck with lots of seats in the back and people pay to ride it. sure, its not perfectly accurate in every way but it is enough that the person listening would be able to recognise one if he saw it

the universe is under no obligation to be easily understandable nor to follow the quotes of a 17th century frenchman. EDIT: a quick google reveals the Boileau character was a poet. he didn't do science or philosophy so it can not be said he was qualified to speak on the matter. it is also likely what he said was in the context of a work of poetry (being a poet and all) in which case, it would be accurate.

just because gravity and electromagnetism follow an inverse square law doesn't make them the same thing. the inverse square part is due to the 3-D nature of space. specifically the surface area of a sphere.

really? try googleing 'Industrial Ethanol Applications' pretty obvious search term, turns up many many useful results. even just the wiki page on ethanol would be very useful(obviously you'd have to find external references(look to the refference section of the wiki page) to back it up)

don't just give out answers to what is clearly a homework question. this is in the rules you agreed to when you signed up. to the OP, why can't you just google this?

yes lesages theory, also known as wrong.

yes, you can lose the crackpottedness but it is likely any claims you make will come under increased scrutiny. this is probably a good thing as it will be a driving force to increase the quality of your knowledge.

mm, but if you constantly use the ground as a heat sink/source for a heatpump then you need to be careful to vary the load over time. constantly dumping 'cold' there can freeze the ground and ruin your heat pumps ability to transfer heat from there. dumping heat constantly can have the same effect but without the freezing.

they still have zero credibility though. and videos are easily faked and steorn has a history of faking it. we're going to need more evidence than a video from them.

if you add H+ you get an increase in the concentration of H+ ions. also, due to the equilibrium, you will get a decrease in OH- but the H+ will still be higherthan it was before.

you mean there isn't an app for that?

yep, truedeity is a douchbag. he'll be linking you to his conspiracy videos in a minute. i wouldn't take anything you hear from him as fact unless verified by sources. i can't really help you on your question, but we're not all like truediety. he's been here only a few days and doesn't appear to have read the rules. i doubt he'll be here much longer.

the salt doesn't contribute to the volume of the water. it will become more dilute, but this is merely because it has more volume available for it to occupy since it could not travel to the volume taken up by the ice. since the ice has melted there is more fluid volume(but less solid volume) again it all cancels out.

again you missed the point, i do realise there would be a lot, heck, a majority of stuf completely out of our reach. BUT there would also be lots of little things that we COULD reverse engineer. for instance, alloys and materials. we likely have the technology to replicate those once we analyse the structure and composition. we could probably make advances in antenna and sensor technology as well. all i'm saying is that we would not be completely stumpd by every example of technology outside our own. pyramids are all human. oh ffs try to keep on topic and within the bounds of realism.

yes, but the technology is not all going to be so far ahead of us that we have no hope. we still use old technology as well as new technologies. this is what i was trying to get across with the zips and the romans. a roman will never have seen a zip before, the precursor didn't arrive until 1851, the zip as we know it was around 1914. but, romans had the technologies to recreate a zip. this is just one example, there are many more. flat pack furniture could be an other. electronics do have a leap in understanding required, but not every technology we use is electronic. not all technology on the alien spacecraft will be whatever advanced shit they have. i'm pretty sure there will be a huge number of technologies that they take for granted since they've been around so long that we'd find interesting and be capable of reverse engineering. assuming that there is enough variety in the technology around it would be possible to work our way up the chain of complexity. sure, it may take a century or two of work but we could do it.

well we, would be able to get to the advanced technology quicker than otherwise. and a LOT of resources would be spent in accomplishing the reverse engineering as well. all we'd have to do is learn lessons from the less advanced technology to understand how the more advanced stuff works. this is infact how reverse engineering works just now when the device being reverse engineered has more than one innovation. start with the easy bit then move on to the hard bit.

i seriously doubt that ALL the technology onboard a spacecraft is going to be so far in advance of our own. sure, there will be a bunch of stuff that is just beyond our understanding for the moment but it would surprise me if there wasn't some stuff that was only a short leap in understanding probably even some stuff that is only in the theoretical stages just now but hasn't been realised technologically. while some stuff will be like romans trying to reverse engineed a computer, other stuff will be like romans trying to reverse engineer a zip. while they wouldn't manage the former, the latter would be relatively easy, they have metal working skills even at the fineness necessary for a zipper but they never mused them. certainly not to the extent we do.

their 'live testing' has never actually made anything clearer, only shown that they're so full of crap farmers keep trying to buy fertiliser off them. seriously, they keep claiming to have built devices that contradict the laws of physics and then never put up any evidence. if ANY of their 'inventions' done what they claimed they'd be trillionaire, have multiple nobel prizes, achieve world fame and adoration, save the planet from global warming etc etc. but no, none of this has even remotely happened. and it would make no business sense to withold the information about it. you'd need to get patents, submit papers to journals, make lisencing deals, proposals to world leadership for its use in grid infrastructure etc. they haven't done that. they're talking out of a non-oral orifice.

i think humans have a good few hundred millenia to go yet. it'll likely be evolving into something else that finishes us of as a species(i wonder how they'll figure out the turning point where we are no longer homo sapiens sapiens). civilization on the other hand, well thats a fragile thing that but i don't see a major collapse anytime soon.

yes, its pressure caused by extreme temperature. in a supernova that creates a black hole there IS an explosion. the pressure created forces the core inwards on itself and eventually the collapse will be unable to stop itself with degeneracy pressures.

i'm pretty sure thunderbird has an option to export the database and you can probably import them to googlemail.

yes, you need a frame to support the membrane but the pointis that it can hold against a ~1atm pressure difference.