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Our engineers need jobs. Jeez, they're mopping at rest homes. Some solid contracts for Aerospace would do wonders for the country. Just aman

About 10,000 years ago there is some evidence of a great surge of glacial water at the end of the ice age. This can be supported by fossil evidence of ocean depth changes on many coastal areas. Geological evidence shows a flood in the Middle East was probable that might have started the Noah story. This is evidence and ideas but it is still not fact pending further research. There should be plenty of easily found evidence to support your planet idea if it was based on reality. If the Earth stopped, how come the balancing rocks in the US deserts didn't topple over? Sorry but there is more evidence that you are wrong than right at the moment. Just aman

The human body has set routines it goes through when it is exposed to stimuli. A broken bone will set off the production of endorphins, adrenalin, etc, and also start protective behaviors. It seems that anything that triggers the same set of reactions in a body could be defined as pain. Just aman

It sounds useful to me. Some of the past discussions would have fit. Just aman

In meditative disciplines they teach people how to process information in their heads without mentally verbalizing. It seems the practice helps make correct decisions. It seems since we gained language, we actually slowed down processing and it's easier to make mistakes. To bad we aren't all empathic telepaths. Since all we can do is talk and write and idiots have an equal right to do so, we just have to weigh our words carefully and do the best we can. I see an interesting future for humankind. Just aman

It takes a lot of work to know your Soul when your alive. It's easier to put it on hold and approach existance through technology. Technology has its limits in barriers of time and size and velocity. Not barriers to a Soul. Still it is fun to use technology to explore the existance we can see. We can get general ideas but I'll agree, not complete understanding. Just aman

The major obstacle is all the noise in a persons head. It takes a lot of work to willingly put yourself in the circumstances that removes the noise and then you have to let it happen. I wouldn't count on it happening overnight. Just aman

The vacuum in the cylinder though should be absolute. Can we generate one this pure on Earth? Just aman

Geez Fafalone, you aren't supposed to be grumpy on vacation. Ya got great bedside manner for interning in a Fla. hospital. :cool2: :cool2: :cool2: :cool2: :cool2: :cool2: Come back all merry and wise. Just aman

Hope you aren't doing anything boring, Fafalone. You'll have plenty of that after you graduate and become a Doctor. Why don't ya sneak over to Cuba and rescue some good people. I'll send care packages and help you escape when they throw you in a Cuban prison. Maybe join a neighborhood watch in downtown Miami. Walk the alleys with a flashlight and nightstick protecting the innocent. I'll send a card and flowers to the hospital you'll wind up in. Those are just suggestions to spice up ye'r life. I think a guy as talented as you should be well rounded in world experience, like me. Enjoy. Just aman

The brain is a lot more complicated than electrical signals passed through neurons. Millions of signals are processed in parallel in many areas of the brain to form a single thought. Where is this thought and what is it? Since the many signals also generate an electrical field, maybe the thought is in the field. If thought is electrical field related, then all sorts of paranormal effects are possible. If it is hard wired, then I guess we are actually just stuck inside our heads. I need to do a lot more research. Just aman

Is dark skin an advantage in space against radiation? Would black astronauts be safer on a Mars voyage? Just aman

Thanks Ahmad, It seems we have a lot of ways of cheating aging with most of the organs and a little promise with parts of the nervous system where connections are clear or simpler out of the major bundles. Kenels question started with what causes aging. Since the nervous system is the main stumbling block, and it starts out with such vast reserves of cells to begin with, why doesn't the brain last forever? Just aman

I've been working on an idea that an empty universe needs energy to sustain itself. To have three infinite dimensions of empty space, eg. pre big bang, would take energy to keep from collapsing into a non-point. I need a device to make some measurements to prove it. First a question. If I take a piston in a cylinder sleeve with perfect ring seals into the vacuum of space, can I pull the piston down in the cylinder creating a vacuum as large as I want and let go without the piston being pushed back because the pressures should be equal on top and bottom? Just aman

Pleased to meet you Ahmad, If a body was on major life support while a damaged medula oblongata was removed and a new one was transplanted in with stem cells at the old connection sites, do you think the connections could regenerate and the transplant be useful? Granted this is in the future a ways since we are still working on stem cell therapy and also the life support would involve regulating every organ and gland from the upper brain down for a substantial time. Maybe stem cells could just rebuild an entire medula oblongota? Trying to rebuild anything higher might make you younger also but it would risk making you a different person. Just aman

I just finished a real technical Sci-fi I couldn't put down. It's about evolution on a neutron star involving time, energy, gravity, and a little philosophy. Lots of diagrams in the back. Dragons Egg, by Robert L. Forward I recommend it highly. Just aman

It was just the holidays, I'm glad you all found time with family and time for personal enjoyment more important at the end of this rough year. It's good to see you all trickle back. I hope all rested and sharp. It's going to be a challenging new year. Just aman

It is possible with existing technology but is not anywhere near perfected. The ethics of intentionally creating a shorter living and handicapped baby into the world just because we can is frowned against by me at least. If it happens naturally, so be it, but intentionally is cruel. No clone so far has been as good as the original and it starts to really show as time passes. Just aman

If we developed elemental anti-iron, wouldn't it be easy to contain in a electromagnetic field? If it was ground into fillings and stored in a chamber next to a chamber containing regular elemental iron filings, then each chamber injected one particle at a time into an exhaust cone, it should make a very efficient propulsion system when the particles met. Electromagnatism is anti-matter neutral, so are photons from microwave energies to gamma ray, maybe the Higgs boson and gluons, also gravity. That's a lot of tools so far to build a containment chamber for the gasses and liquids but the solids will be the easiest. Just aman

Thanks Blike:cool2: to pad is bad:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: Just aman

Are there any working theories for anti-matter containment in a matter enviroment? I can't imagine containing a gas or liquid but maybe if we have a metal anti-element it can be magnetically suspended in a vacuum. I read the problem with making anti-hydrogen last for any period of time is its neutral charge as an atom, so it loses magnetic containment and reacts with the walls of the chamber. It seems we can make plenty but we can't seem to keep it around. Just aman

I haven't had a problem for a long time. I just jump in and out all the time. Just aman

It depends on how technical you want to get with your project. If you used a laser and an absolutely 100% reflective surface in a vacuum, you should not be able to get photons to hit at the base of the V dead center. Since you are using an incandescent bulb and an aluminum reflector some photons will incidentally hit the base of the V because a few photons will spread out and reflect off the air over the V. Also the surface of an aluminum reflector under an electron microscope will show it is not flat and a good quantity of photons will reflect towards the base of the V no matter what the angle. Just aman

That's why I like my Discover Magazine. It doesn't let established ideas get in the way of expressing opinions and arguments and lets the reader decide. Sometimes it's good information being interpreted by an idiot with psuedoscience ideas but the information is still usefull. I need information. If the straight data were presented on evolutionary research without outrageous claims then it would probably be published in the accepted forums. Just aman

I tried researching more on the Higgs Boson which is supposed to be the answer to why things have mass but I don't know if it has actually be discovered yet. If it is an attachment to sub-atomic particles that adds the mass, would there be an anti-Higgs Boson for anti-protons or are there some quantum "particles" like possibly photons and Higgs Bosons that may be neutral in either enviroment? Just aman