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:ripped: I was a carrot again. Now I'm back up to nerd.

I looked and I only had 199 posts.:uhh: :uhh:

:toilet:I had at least 220 posts and a bunch fried :flame:

I don't remember what's missing :scratch:

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What was the purpose of this sacred water? Nobody lived particularly well in that period. Just curious. It wasn't for longevity. We have records.

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Those are good guidlines.:cool2:

not everything even rates psuedoscience. :toilet:

This helps weed out bad presentations.:flame:

Sometimes ideas just need a little more thought:doh:

Thanks Sayonarra.

Just aman

Water and even ice has a vapor pressure. Moving air will reduce the amount of the original quantity of water by removing the vapor unless you have something cold enough to capture it. The water in an air conditioner condenses in still, cold cavities of air, surrounding the rectangular encasement but not on the coils. The coils are the key though because they cool the air and they take energy added to do it. Where is the energy?

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I found the whole discussion of sleep wonderful. I learned a lot. It seems we are limited in processing power by the speed of basic chemical reactions. It's sad at such an ignorant stage in our developement we already are learning the limitations of our capabilities. We are very finite entities.

We have the potential to understand the slice of pepperoni which we live on but not the pizza.

What if we figure out how to speed up the sleep chemical reactions or the results of them on the brain. I imagine in our brains, the most efficient chemical reactions have evolved. It seems that we need to speed up the reactions or replace them. Is transport of O2, chemicals, and waste the problem? Is that what limits clear thought? Make it more efficient. Careful.

It has some good and nasty potential.

Just aman

Without sentience to observe a galaxy, there is no galaxy. That is a derivitive of Schroedingers cat in the box theory.

Without the formation of galaxies there would be no sentience.

For a galaxy to form there must have been something that interfered with the homogenous expansion of the original big bang mass. It seems to have all the elements of seeding life since we find so much positive enforcment in our solar systems materials.

Somehow, some force diverted large amounts of mass to take individual paths that are contrary to a homogenous state.

I'm just postulating the universe can't be unless somebody realizes it is. That might be the reason for the galaxies but I'm going to need pages to explain my postulation of how.

I guess my assistance was only worth a nickle so far.

Just aman

Thanks for posting the site. I wish I had this when I was in college. I had two sliderules and only Einstein to deal with.

I stll can't get why the concept of 10 dimensions is necessary.

Just aman

Nobody has mentioned the crescent shaped wooden artifacts found in Egypt. Their length was the dimension of a blocks side so if they fastened these to four sides, the block was enclosed in a circle

Just amanof wood and four more on the other end turned the block into an axle in a set of wheels. Then it just had to be rolled to where it was needed over land.

Pick a good lab partner. through college I saw a couple of accidents where the student made a mistake and he burned his partner with the result, ie: putting down a hot beaker and not warning the partner. It sucks grabbing a hot beaker with bare hands. Communication!!!

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There's him who coaxes people onto boulders and many who council them not to go. It seems like tough battle. At least here. On the other side of the world do the boulders roll uphill?

As far as worthiness, my Wife says I'm worth a shit. I don't know how that translates down there but up here if you ain't worth a shit, then your in trouble.

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Thanks blike, it was fascinating reading.

I'm almost surprised it took us till the 20th century to fly in our civilization. I blame that on lack of cultural stability.

On pyramid water. I serviced grain dryers in four states and the whole science around it. Here we blow air, even at 20 degrees F over grain and still dry it out. The warmer the air the faster the drying. Cold moving air below freezing evaporates ice. Still air deposits water on colder objects. Moving air must be obstructed by a very very cold object to deposit moisture.

If you blow any amount of air through the pyramids you will dry them out. That's just physics. And my opinion.

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I saw an account of an experiment on PBS where some very patient lab techs. played with babies who could not yet talk but could almost form words. They taught them an unusual task/game and played it many times. They stopped it for two years and when the children had a small vocabulary they showed them the game again. The children could say "I put my green blocks here", "I'm drawing a picture with a crayon". They played the task/game with no trouble but they could not describe what they were doing. They had no words for it, they knew how to do it so they were thinking in "mentalese".

I agree with Zarkov there is one but it is very basic.

Just my little input.

Just aman

Nothing done in the universe is insignifigant. I agree with most that we will accomplish seemingly impossible thing in the future that will overshadow the technology and people of today. I say "we" because we may not be there when it happens but we still helped. :) Lots of "we"

If we aren't eternal as individuals in some way then what we do is still "seemingly insignifigant". Maybe nobody will remember but it matters. I don't believe anything is insignifigant. If we are eternal entities then let's party.

Just aman

Originally posted by Radical Edward

the people of the future will thank us.

I'd like to know the mathematical reasoning behind this statement. It seems to me the future is contrary to Newtons Law so who exactly do you think is going to be in the future thanking us? Will it be you? Will you say it in squid language?

Just asking

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One argument for E to be >0 in a photon is in how it is created and how it is uncreated. An excited electron drops from a high shell to a low shell and the energy released creates a photon. It has an energy and a velocity C released from the electrons drop.

A photon hits a chloroplast in a leaf. It provides energy to transform ADP to ATP which later will be used to make carbohydrates.

The photon starts from energy and vanishes having delivered that energy.

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A squid needs water and I don't think the Nazca built pyramids to supply it. Maybe they built them 1000 miles east of the lines in the Pacific Desert and once it filled up they came ashore. By golly, you might be right. I just had to logically think it through.

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Philosophical then poetic. It's great but you should suggest a poetry section. I can't argue souls or soul mates very well scientifically. I figure it's just nice I have somebody I can live with comfortably till I die. She makes me better. Her "soul" will probably go somewhere way beyond me when it's over. As far as soul mates, that's a good question.

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I've spent nights near large bodies of fresh water in California deserts, froze my ass off and woke up white with frost. With large high energy condensers it still doesn't seem like a substantial amount of water would be generated. In a few places I worked that used liquid nitrogen, the large pipes they had would only develop about a foot of ice in twelve hours and then stop because of the insulating factors of ice. Not much water again. It just doesn't make sense to me.

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You don't flunk parenting until your jailed and the child is ruined or dead. I don't know any quick fixes but parenting is the key. We can't seem to fix it and it's gonna keep biting us on the butt.

Just aman

Small volumes of desert air only contain a small amount of moisture. One person would die of thirst if he only had to depend on the natural flow of air and condensation.

I might as well postulate that the pyramid was built in a swamp and creates sand and is still working. Soon the Earth will be buried in sand. :eek:

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Maybe schools ought to teach people how to be married. I mean besides all the basic sciences and English. Social Skills 1. Learn there is a right and wrong in math but there are twenty rights and fifty wrongs in social skills. Sometimes there's all rights (controlling) and sometimes there's none (your life sucks).

We don't teach ethics in elementary school. It should be a separate course and if you don't pass, you stay behind.

Just my opinion.

Just aman

During long trips Bedouins used to dig a hole in a desert depression. They would bury a large wad of grass and insert a long straw. Then they would cover it up and suck hard on the straw. After a while water would flow into the wad and they could drink it through the straw.

There were many ways of obtaining pure water even in a parched desert. The early people were intelligent and resourceful and I can't see them going through all this trouble to make an unsubstantial amount of water.

Just my opinion.

Just aman

I agree with fafalone. The catagories can be less specialized but I would like to be able to submit pictures.

Just aman

What is a "moment " in time? How big is it? Is there a pause in between them?

I was just curious? Thanks for your input and I want to here more.

Just aman

I played with the idea in the past too. The compression wave would not keep up with an electrical charge induced in the end of the bar. Electricity will ring the bell first at the other end. You'd think there was a more efficient way of doing it, even than electrical current. Super conductive material is the fastest hardwired way and could almost keep up with photons or energy waves. Hydraulics also with water being uncompressable still takes "mechanical" time to express a force and it is below the speed of light.

We could use mind power. Have a real paranoid individual do something real embarassing. Of course the entire universe knows exactly what he did. Just ask him.

Besides that brilliant suggestin I'll just keep working on it.

Thanks blike. Food for thought.

Just aman