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If you take the kind of dirt called clay and mold it moist. After it dries you can fire it in a kiln and it will become rock hard but brittle. If you take an assortment of many other "dirts" and mix them in water and paint them on before you fire the clay you will get many different colors in a glassy coating. These are called glazes. Take a ceramics course. If you want to get metals out of dirt, panning like a prospector works because gold is a heavy element. Diamonds are found by pouring dirt over a tray of waxy substance that catches the diamonds but lets the other crap flow over. Other metals can be melted out of special dirts called ores. Some ores need to be treated with chemicals to get the desired elements out. Some need to be heated and then the gasses released are condensed. What kind of dirt are you considering experimenting on? Just aman

If we cooled an asteroid to absolute 0 Kelvin, would it finally, theoreticaly, collapse into a singularity? Or would it be a clump of very unusual matter?:shrug: Just aman

I use the term "injected" since it seems in popular assumption that everything here came through a tiny point in our universe and expanded. It seems to me that a universe could easily progress from begining to end without us, but we introduce change. That is our only difference. Change is vital. Think of your life without change. Maybe that's the way the universe sees it. If you gave me a computer, a superior intellect, unlimited time, unlimited energy, size, velocity, and direction, I could create this universe since we know it's pattern but because of life and change I have no idea what tommorrow will look like until it gets here. I think evolving universes might have a benificial pressure to have change in them. Just expanded evolution. Just aman

Howdy Zarkov, I have to admit that if we don't get one of our regularly anticipated hurricanes soon in the Gulf of Mexico we are screwed. The crap runoff from the Mississippi has so many nutrients it is creating an anerobic river of water 60 miles wide and about 150 feet thick that is wiping out the shrimp and fish population. Without a good storm to stir up the gulf we are going to see a lot of death. We need something to shake up the water. Watch for it cus it's coming this time but we can't keep crossing our toes it will come again. Just aman

Thanks Fafalone, I could see stuff wrong while reading but it is a lot simpler since you pointed out valid arguments. I appreciate you taking the time to do this since I am slower but I am still following all of this. Your arguments should be food for thought and hopefully not tossed aside as ignorant critisism. Just aman

Howdy Cheryl, Have you ever had the chance to hard wire a breadboard? It's tedious and meticulous work but fun since it's R&D. The A6 to G27 and Y41 to G26. Count and attach over and over. I did one board for a week and when I checked power to ground I found a short. I tried to find it counting over the whole wiring system again and couldn't find it. Finally I hooked the bare board to a power supply and sloly crancked up the voltage until I saw a tiny wisp of smoke. It had been a tiny piece of wire debris, one piece of a tiny multi-strand wire that I couldn't see under my mess of wires. The short was gone and when the chips were put in the board worked almost perfectly but now the problems belonged to the engineer who designed it. Fun stuff. Just aman

Since it doesn't seem to go against entropy that building on lower levels of energy from upper levels can be true. There is such an abundance of energy in the universe injected since the big bang, maybe a medium range of energy is where we find ourselves and some natural equation pressures toward the creation of life here for a time. It would have to have been encoded in the math of the big bang. It's like they say, follow the money to the truth in humans. Here it's follow the math to the truth in existance. There is a very large equation that got us here. Just aman

Hey Cheryl, Are you allowed to do any work as union or do you have to call in a union solderer to come in or are your free? At Rockwell I had to call the union to send over a tech at $15/hr to solder any repair work that I found. They usually sent me a really incompetant tech that had already worked 8 hours so we got charged time + 1/2 for crappy work. Once we had some batteries for the GPS system ready to be launched into space sitting on the loading dock. No union guy was available so the head of our dept. drove them over since they would be ruined sitting, and our dept. was fined $20 grand. The batteries were $100 grand apiece. The union strangled us. Can you imagine that the GPS system in space could have been held up and hundreds of thousands lost because no union driver was available. I finally had to contract a union tech full time to sit around and if I found a simple problem, I had to take the board over to him and point it out and ask him to fix it. Then I'd inspect his work, give it back and ask him to fix it right. It sucked. Just aman

I spent time in one jail and two South American prisons. It doesn't sound half bad except their surgical techniques left a lot to be desired. I guess I'd stick to those damn basic tortures they say they don't use but I can tell you they do. Just aman PS. I think riding motorcycles stimulates the spinal column production as long as you don't crash. Especially with a pheramone producing female on the back. Just passing along personal observation.

Nat. Geo. for Oct. just came out to subscribers and it's got a lot about the state of the worlds health. I think the balence of it is in favor of a good outcome but the solution emphasizes change. Just aman PS. The Nat. Geo. special is going to open the mysteries of the pyramids in two weeks.

This works out mathematicaly but is it true in the microcosom and macro? Math is perfect in our observation of our general existance but it seems something throws a monkey wrench into the works at the limits of our existance. Thanks for the math guys. Just aman

Maybe we could just move Venus out to an Earth orbit and let it cool off. Then we could terraform. Just aman

Logic states that due to entropy, once an object is captured in an orbit, over time it will become less eccentric if it's orbit is not affected by outside influences. Are you saying that Pluto has already been effected? Just aman

I got some stuff we subcontracted to an assembler. 50 small boards with about ten through hole and three surface mount chips besides caps. I pulled 19 out that failed first time. I looked at the solder joints and couldn't believe what I saw. The contractor was contacted and the cheif solderer came to my lab. I had a board set up under my stereo microscope as an example of the problem. The solderer had never even seen a stereo scope. The soldering had been done by eyeball. No wondr I had so many problems. The moral is, never accept the lowest bid. Just aman

Water distillation or purification systems are pieces of crap or to damn expensive to maintain. When our water table is high the water is sweet. When it's low like now we have to buy water. I'm too old to build a good system myself The state of Nebrask actually has a plan for using 260 milk trucks to be commandeered in case of emergency for transport of water. It's nice to know there is a plan. Now we have rain again though so the drought is not as serious, thank God. I'm suffering from mysterious health problems not related to the rest of my family history, but I lived in Central and South America for several years. I was in Santa Marta, Colombia in '74 when a nasty fly who bites was blown over the Andes from the Amazon by storms. The military drove up and down each street shooting DDT 100 ft in the air to kill the infestation. They would come into eating places while I was dining and spray peasants up and down with DDT to fight lice problems. The peasants would lift their arms and smile as they turned around. I saw it happen and was exposed to it. I lived on Beer and sodas and hoped for the best. It really wasn't a good thing. Just aman

Thanks Fafalone. You are handling this very well. I'm trying to follow it all and your last argument is valid as far as logic and obwervation. I'm open to any evidence of spin-gravity relevance. Just aman

Maybe superior intelligence is to know when not to do the logical thing to succeed. It's more than just what we know but to have a feel for what we don't know. Just aman

I used to debug recently engineered boards for pre-production. The problem I usually ran into was too few capacitor to ground connections. The engineers always thought that a single ground path for several chips could handle a bunch of loads without creating too much noise to interfere with at least one of the transistors. Some of our first boards were garbage. I hope the PALs are better quality now. I had about 95% programming success and had to replace quite a few. It might have been the programmer we used. It was a Hewlitt Packard too. What I liked about the logic analyzer was you could see the sequence of events on the circuit board as it actually happened. I guess that was why I kept getting the raises. You have to see the voltage levels on the board in your head and what they are doing and where they ae going. You kind of have to shrink your brain to hyperspeed and feel the board in your head. Go where no man or woman has gone before. :cool: I guess all the new stuff is surface mount or socket. Do you still have the old hot air, fry the board surface mount repair? I know solder suckers are good for surface mount caps and diodes but chips could be awfully messy. Me Jabberjawin too, Just aman

Entertainment is not a waste. Especially if it constructive for family and children. Since your 15 and want to make a difference Soulja you might want to go mow your folks lawn or pick weeds around the house. Also teenagers take long showers and waste a lot of precious clean water. Every little bit to make the world a better place is worthwhile. I remember fireworks and family and hamburgers and kids laughing. I don't think they are a waste of time or materials compared to the memories. Just aman

Kids. :rolleyes: Just aman

I just got my latest National Geo. It sounds like the looming fresh water to people ratio is getting pretty sad in the next fifty years and you have to drink what you can get no matter what's in it or your body checks out in about six days. I've had to go several days in a real bad situation without water and I would have sucked it out of the pond scum if I could have found some. Lots of wells dug more and more have all those nasty metals your talking about. We used to be able to survive on clean surface water or slowly filtered groundwater but now we suck it out of the ground with crap in it. I live in Nebraska but I have to buy filtered water $1 a gallon for cooking or drinking here. I hope it's better there. Just aman:eek: :eek:

Your right to question what happened at the big bang that lead up to evolution and then us. It's kind of a complicated story. I didn't know everything in the world until I was 24 so just keep learning for another nine years and you'll have it. Just aman

Jeez, it's almost getting affordable for home labs. Do you find the problems on the boards are still mostly bad soldering or bad chips. In '84 I used to have a ratio of about 10 bad solders, 3 bad chips, and 1 bad multilayer board short in diagnosing bad production for QA of computer interface boards. It was fun every day. New puzzles to solve and each was worth 10 thousand to the company. And by the way, glad to meet you Cheryl. Just aman

The big bang was supposed to create everything now. have you got any theories no haw it did this? Just curious Just aman

We can go to the moon and find plenty of melted dirt. Depending on the concentrations of elements they might be easily mined in the future. The starships of the future will not be built here on Earth but in space. WE are going to be a busy bunch of humans. Just aman