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I`m not a beleiver soley in the "Advantage" part, I think redundancy plays a part also (I could be wrong, but I understood Darwinian law to apply both ways)? a bit like muscle atrophy(sp?) don`t use it... lose it.

I expect we`de be spending more time indoors and less likely to encounter REAL as opposed to artificial light. the little toenail is very diminished on most folk anyway and the appendix is no longer anywhere near as usefull as when we ate berries with seeds and nuts and stuff that required it`s use, ( times outa 10 where an abdominal OP is performed it`s removed as a matter of cousre anyway (I beleive astronaught requirments state that it has to be removed by default) the reduced immune NATURAL immune sys is what what I stated. we`ll have become far too dependant on medicines, and not naturaly exposed to things "Biologicaly radical" as we might today in a jungle somewhere, or with one to one casual contact without screening, most medicines you wouldn`t even be aware of, it would be GM in your food, they already make plants with vaccines in them! what in 10,000 years time? I think it will par for the course and something you`de read about in a history book.

Interesting question! at a guess I imagine, the loss of the little toe nail, possibly a reduced or absent Apendix, faster fingers (nimble), a greater intolerance to UV light. a larger area of the brain (not phsicaly) that retains numbers. a greater gap between the athletic and the cerebral (nerd types). an almost universal language by then also. voluntary cybernetic prosthesis like we`de have a "nose job" today. a greater sensitivity to temerature differences. thats just off the top of my head, with more thought I`m sure there would be more profound changes. hope this helps? oh yeah, and a radicly reduced "natural" immune system!

One of my Hobbies is extracting metals (rare types where possible). I did an experiment this summer whilst camping by the Sea. I have 8 powerfull ring magnets from microwave ovens, strung together with nylon zip ties, that I then attatched to a lage rock while the Sea was out, I waited till it came in and went out again then collected my magnets,,, they were covered in manetic metal particles. When I got back home I washed it off in clean water then dried these particles (about an once), then let them sit in a flask with Hydrochloric acid. surely enough, the liquid went a golden yellow color indicative of Iron Chloride. here`s the snag though, How is it possible that these iron filings didn`t oxidise in the sea? we all know that salt water rusts cars and iron very quickly as it works as an oxygen ion carrier, and the sea if full of oxygen too. so they shouldn`t exist really? it`s got me baffled?

Wouldn`t this tethered cable into space for the lift idea just become one huge lightening conductor? and maybe even cause an ionic/electrical casscade that would be almost impossible to stop? certainly if done at a either of the magnetic poles. because the Earth and Ionosphere works like a huge capacitor constantly being charged by friction and solar particles (a bit like the silk cloth rubber over an amber sphere). maybe a neat way to generate electricy perhaps though?

as a general tip, because the BP of both is a little different (not much though) throw the 1`st half a cup of your distilate away. the rest will be ok(ish) though. it`s only a ROUGH guide however. and never drink pure ethanol, mix it with orange Juice or something. as Glider said methanol will oxidise into formaldehyde (embalming fluid, chemical toilet disinfectant) so you`de literaly pickle yourself! and be carefull with the Ammonia too! it will set up Amines, some of which despite being toxic can also be explosive (think hexamethaleneTetramine, "Hexamine fuel tablets" also a precursor for RDX!) avoid lead (solder) as well. and keep it all well ventilated, wouldn`t want to waste all that booze in a big Fuel/Air explosion! I made my 1`st still when I was 15, I used an old presure cooker, the tubing from the back of a refrigerator (that went into the top valve with PTFE tape to seal) and the second hole (pressure releif) had my cooks thermometer in it (pressed into a cut down rubber cork) It worked great So... When`s the party?

September 01 2003 at 01:12PM St Ives, England - Two British pilots were making final preparations on Monday to take the world's biggest manned helium balloon to the edge of space. Colin Prescot, 53, and Andy Elson, 48, hope to set a world record by piloting their 387m-tall craft, QinetiQ 1, to 39 600m. They plan to drift there for an hour and conduct experiments on the stratosphere before returning to earth and, they hope, a place in history books. "I'm feeling calm but very pleased," Prescott said of a good weather forecast for Tuesday's launch as the balloon was being put on a ship for lift-off near St Ives in Cornwall, south-west England. Pilots will wear space suits and sit in an open canopy at -70°C "I will be rehearsing everything in my mind during the next day," he said. The QinetiQ 1's canopy is made of 1,7 ton of polyethylene only as thick as a household freezer bag but will be 400 times the size of a regular balloon when fully inflated - that's as tall as New York's Empire State Building. Scientists from the Russian space agency Zvezda will help the pilots into pressurised spacesuits that will enable them to survive temperatures as low as -70°C while riding in the balloon's open gondola. The balloon is scheduled to lift off between 6am and 8am from the research ship Trinton 15km offshore. It should take four to five hours to reach its target altitude and two hours to return to earth. A British military helicopter will pick up the pilots after splashdown in the sea. The envelope will be 40 times the size of a regular balloon At their target altitude Prescot and Elson will be floating in a virtually atmosphere-free environment and be able to see the curvature of the earth. The two men, both commercial balloon pilots, have 40 years' experience between them and a number of ballooning records. Most recently they jointly set the world endurance record for any aircraft in the earth's atmosphere by flying from Spain to the Pacific in 17 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes as part of a round-the-world attempt. They initially tried to make the "space" flight last year but poor weather forced them to cancel. The altitude record for a manned balloon - 34 667m - was set in 1961 by United States navy pilots Malcolm Ross and Vic Prather in Strato-Lab, part of the US space programme. Nobody since then has tried to go higher, leaving the upper reaches of the stratosphere - nicknamed the "ignorosphere" - largely unexplored. The balloon is sponsored by QinetiQ, a British science and technology research firm, and is expected to be visible for many kilometres during its flight. Police urged spectators to avoid Saint Ives but to watch instead from a number of vantage points along the north Cornish coast. - Sapa-AFP (taken from google news at 13:41 GMT)

Well... consider it as a compliment I value all your opinions/ideas to feel confident enough to ask and KNOW that I won`t get some bull$h!t answers! your all a great bunch on here! and I don`t say that lightly as I`ve been on other forums (and regreted it) as a waste of time. Here`s more like Home on that note, I`ll get my HUGE list of other questions out, and work my way down (I have a supply of spare keyboards too). All the best

atinymonkey, Thnx man that explains it perfectly! cheerz

well I understand these elements as: Ar,4s,3d 5,6,7 and 8. but I can`t work out why that makes them special towards magnets?

I didn`t know wether this belonged in Chemistry or Physics, so I figured I`de put it here to be on the safe side I`de like to know, what makes the elements, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt and Nickel so special in the way that they are the only elements that will stick to a magnet? why not Copper or Silver for instance? and is the reason that they`re all side by side on the periodic table anything to do with it?

aha! good point, solar flares and sun spots can create havoc with electrical systems (usualy every 11 years or so). so the idea of the stars creating this noise isn`t all that far fetched then. though I expect that the sun being closer would be the main contributor towards it. Thnx for the input guys

yup 600 mhz. 614 to to 854 MHz UK WFM TV Channels (audio and video) to be exact

with regards to the 1`st part, I think it`s something to do with the earths molten core being like a huge chemical factory, and new Uranium is being produced in it all the time, Stars are much better at it than our core though. as for being able to create something more inteligent than us, I can`t see that as being an impossibility, we can conceive things more powerfull than us easily enough, huge machines or nuclear weapons etc... so something more inteligent than us isn`t inconceivable either, we already have computer than can out perform us with maths and speed. that`s where our Gift of Imagination comes into play Sorry but the other points you tried to make, I had difficulty in understanding?

or Twice if your a Budist ! though I`de laff my a$$ off if you came back as a prostitute

OK, I found this, http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae158.cfm seemed to say to me that if I can shift an object at 7 miles per sec, I`ll get it into orbit now if something has a DV of 9000 meters p/s (easily acheivable) that would be roughly about 7 miles per sec? or am I a bit off here? because if I`m right!, you could send objects up all day long for pocket money (nothing usefull because the initial velocity would destroy it) but certainly ball bearings and stuff!

Glad ya added the last bit, it began to sound like the voice of experience there for a sec

i`ll TRY and ellucidate my thoughts as to WHY I think it`s not lightening or nuclear reactions. lets talk TV for a sec... runs on a freq approx 600mhz or 600,000,000 on and offs per second, lightening at best on Earth strikes roughly 50 times per sec, that would at best cause a little black dot on a screen, probably so fast you wouldn`t even see it even with retinal image retention. now for "nuclear reactions" (I could be wrong here) but any nuclear reaction capable of messing with a TV or radio I`de want to know about quick smart! (based upon MAN made units). that`s where my thinking is re: lightening and nuclear reactions.

heheheheheh I hope that was a typo, coz between us we`ll just end up in a Mobius loop, and get nowhere! need fresh blood!

got ya

cosmic waves? ok, but not entirely sure what that is? I DO know that certain stuff can pass clean through entire planetary bodies as if they weren`t even there, so I expect there MAYBE "in between" particles also. but where are they from? and what are they?

I could be wrong here, but wasn`t Schrodingers point more rellated to philosophy? more specific "existentialism"(sp?). a bit like if a tree falls in the woods and there`s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? (I could be wrong, but that`s what I got from it)

sounds nearly plausible, but sorry I don`t buy it, not in it`s entireity anyway. I`m sure they`re all contributors, but there has to be more, otherwise it wouldn`t have the same effect in space or a farraday cage that blocks MOST E.M radiation, I think there`s a bit more to it, I just don`t know what? example, my mobile fone will lose almost to ALL signal in a lift (ellevator) and yet a radio and a pocket TV will still show that same "static"? beats me as to what it is?

patent 1981 !!! and they ALLOWED that? well yeah, I supose they must have, it IS MONEY after all but i`de hazzard to say that almost ANYONE with an ounce of common sense wouldn`t have wasted their money and gone and spent it on little 50cc Johnson outboard motor and be done with ) neat site tho

ok, and accepted, but what causes it?