StringJunky

With my ISP, Giffgaff, you are only allowed to do what I do on a fixed data package - mine's 5GB. If you get the unlimited download plan it's not allowed, owing to people abusing it. Anybody is allowed, with my permission to use my internet; I'm paying for it.

I use my phone as a portable wifi hotspot and link my laptop to it. Or it could be an 'ad hoc' connection you are thinking of.

What you have written so far is the equivalent of someone talking just because they like the sound of their own voice i.e. content-free.

They're English words but not English sentences.

I hope you realise that was a general statement I made really, but it's true. I personally wouldn't even contemplate thinking I could bring something new to the table without having at least a Master's and fluent enough in the relevant maths to express my findings.

You will only learn how to do it by having your ideas scrutinised. Instead of being negative about it, treat every direct hit against your idea as a lesson that you've learnt something from. I think, realistically, until you've been specialising in a science subject for at least 20 years you've got Bob Hope of presenting anything new in this century.

It's an emulsifier, breaking down the oil into smaller droplets that sink throughout the water column and bacteria finish it off.

1.25 million gallons dispersant diluted in 643 quadrillion gallons of the Gulf - that's a 17 digit number.

Phytoplankton produces between 50-85% of the world's oxygen ...how that extrapolates percentage-wise to CO2 uptake I'm not sure. I'll let you make your own mind up from this image of phytoplankton distribution, in green, of the Indian and Pacific Oceans combined. The red dotted line at the top is the start of the Bering Sea. I've also posted related information in your other thread.

Partly that, but mostly the amount of upwelling of the nutrients from lower down into the upper layers, where the phytoplankton inhabit and feed, determines its population size and density. In waters like the Pacific, there is a short Spring bloom but dies off as the water goes above about 11oC because part of the mechanism that causes one type of upwelling, necessary for the phytoplankton to be sustained, is temperature-dependent. When the upper layer gets too warm a thermocline is created, which stops the nutrient-rich water column moving upwards. Apart from turbulent coastlines, if the ocean is above that approximate temperature, it is also relatively barren, in relative terms, of marine life, because the phytoplankton is the first level in the marine food chain. As you can see in the first map, from the relative scarcity of red, yellow and green areas The Pacific is not as important as you might think given its vast area on an area-to-area basis relative to the northerly seas... it's mostly too warm and deep. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4097 Notice how closely the red areas in this map of oceanic upwelling distribution geographically correlates with phytoplankton distribution in the first map.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwelling Not much. It's a relatively dead place in terms of phytoplankton. It's way too warm - in the 20s oC except on the coastline where it's shallower and more turbulent. Gulf of Mexico phytplankon distribution

No. Our bones are not hollow. We are too heavy. We have the wrong kind of muscle...etc...the list is very long.

Yep. Got it. Thanks.

Me too.

Easily done.

The vid I linked to is that one.

This Caltech article on gravitational waves is illuminating, but what is the Strain parameter in the vertical axis of the gaph?

A model is a schematic compact presentation that contains just enough information to describe the mechanism of an idea. The mechanism is the system of how all the described interdependent elements interact and what the possible outputs are given some change in one those elements.

Now that's something I thought I'd never read you posting. Is it out of your zone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_modelling

That's a sure recipe for public and council dischord. Justice and profit should not be uttered in the same breathe.

Do they spend more time fining people than doing the bobby-on-the-beat socially interacting with the community? Our traffic wardens were like this, at the behest of their city council employers, but the government is laying into them now for treating traffic violations as a revenue stream. Our ordinary police don't carry guns so there isn't that power trip so much over the public and the public don't give the police such a hard time because of it...they are more equal, and vulnerable, in a sense than US police are with their public.

I agree, I think it it helps much if there is some sort of proportional representation in positions of authority and responsibility; youngsters, of whatever societal group they identify with, need like role models to aspire to. Maybe a decade or two of positive discrimination might get the ball rolling in the right direction.. It was done 20 or 30 years ago here in the UK and there doesn't seem to be much noise about it now. If they can apply the principle in the name of feminine equality they can justifiably do it for ethnic minorities. It will annoy white people eventually but by that time it will be time to ease off on the idea. Yes, it is social engineering but I think the means justifies the end.

Up until food was plentiful all year round, people made the most of times of plenty to get them through the times of scarcity; usually Winter.and early Spring. They weren't carry excess weight all year round so morbidity from obesity was much less common and probably the sole preserve of the well-heeled. .

There's nearly always an element of 'newness' or surprise, which leads to increasing levels of pleasurable feelings, this happens less often with things that we know what to expect. On this note, I would approach the things I like doing in different ways; variety is the spice of life, as they say.

Yes,I thought so. I was reading a thread between American engineers and it's now clear they were referring to thou when they said mil. I wonder how many cock ups that's caused between an old and young engineer fresh out of college working together?!