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Indeed, it has little to do with the incident itself, but it certainly will play in to her account of the incident. These are 18-24 year old males stuck in a horrible catch22. If they don't shoot, it could be a suicide bomber. If they do shoot, it could be a family of scared Iraqi's who don't understand what's going on. It sucks, but I doubt it was intentional. That doesn't mean heads won't roll.

How bout some of THAT!

What a truck load of horse manure. Anyone claiming the US is responsible in any way shape or form has either lost the ability to reason or has deliberatly supressed their own intelligence in favor of dishing out America hate. Here are the facts. "NOAA issued a bulletin indicating no threat of a tsunami to Hawaii, the West Coast of North America or to other coasts in the Pacific Basin—the area served by the existing tsunami warning system established by the Pacific rim countries and operated by NOAA in Hawaii. NOAA scientists then began an effort to notify countries about the possibility that a tsunami may have been triggered by the massive 9.0 undersea earthquake. The Pacific Basin tsunami warning system did not detect a tsunami in the Indian Ocean since there are no buoys in place there. Even without a way to detect whether a tsunami had formed in the Indian Ocean, NOAA officials tried to get the message out to other nations not a part of its Pacific warning system to alert them of the possibility of a tsunami. However, the tsunami raced across the ocean at speeds up to 500 mph. Below is the timeline of agency's actions once the undersea earthquake was detected by the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. " 2:59 p.m. The rupture of the great earthquake begins in the Indian Ocean off NW Sumatra, Indonesia. 3:07 p.m. Initial seismic signals from the earthquake trigger alarms at the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii. 3:10 p.m. PTWC issues a message to other observatories in the Pacific with preliminary earthquake parameters. Several geophysical observatories, including PTWC, initially under-estimated the size as around a magnitude 8.0. 3:14 p.m. PTWC issues a Tsunami Information Bulletin providing information on the earthquake and stating there is no tsunami threat to Pacific coasts. It is a text message distributed by multiple means to participants of the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific. PTWC also advises the following offices by telephone as part of its standard operating procedure: 1) Hawaii Civil Defense, 2) Pacific Command (PACOM) of U.S. Military Forces, 3) U.S. Navy-Hawaii Region, and 4) International Tsunami Information Center. [3:15 p.m.] Tsunami waves begin striking the coasts of northern Sumatra and the Nicobar Islands. 4:04 p.m. PTWC issues a second Tsunami Information Bulletin to the Pacific revising the earthquake magnitude to 8.5 based on later seismic energy. The bulletin again indicates no tsunami threat to the Pacific, but language is added to advise the possibility of a tsunami near the epicenter. [4:30 p.m.] PTWC attempts to contact the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to verify they received the bulletin. As their main line was busy, they called Emergency Management Australia instead. EMA indicated Australia was aware of the earthquake. [4:45 p.m.] Tsunami waves begin striking the coasts of Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2358.htm

True. Forced, and not quite so subtle after I italicized it.

Because of my fidelity.

Another image that I can't stand is and Thanks for doing this! I'll probably end up resizing the other buttons before you get a chance to

The currency of choice is monopoly money, and cigars.

The ones inside the post (edit post, quote, and quick reply) would look better a bit smaller though. You want me to shrink them or do you want to take care of it?

I like them

Great, I'll work them in tomorrow morning.

Good question, I've been wondering the same thing.

Go for it :}

That's a good question. As far as I remember, methylation of nucleic acids in bacteria identifies the host DNA and prevents restriction endonucleases from splicing it. In eukaryotes, it plays a role in regulating gene expression. You might want to look into the role of methylation in promoters. Do a google search, you should be able to come up with something.

Coquina, here's a study that might interest you: Reactions of hand-reared and wild-caught predators toward warningly colored, gregarious, and conspicuous prey Access to the study is limited, but the abstract contains a good deal of information about their results: "The results confirm previous results regarding the innate avoidance of color. Naive predators seemed to have a genetically or culturally transmitted avoidance of yellow and black prey compared to brown prey. Surprisingly, yearling wild-caught great tits were more selective than adults, which did not show as strong avoidance of yellow and black prey. More importantly, birds did not find gregarious prey more aversive than single prey, which indicates that grouping alone does not serve as an innate avoidance signal. Conspicuousness itself was not aversive to the predators. Our results suggest that the avoidance against a particular color pattern probably has an inherited basis, whereas gregarious and conspicuous characters of prey presumably aid the avoidance learning." http://beheco.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/3/317

You could theoretically major in pharmacology, if you could find a university that offered that degree. Nonetheless, an undergraduate degree will do you no good in the professional world (aside from previous exposure to pharmacology). Your B.S. becomes largely irrelevant once you have a professional or doctorate degree.

I find that many highschool text books have sloppy wording. Nonetheless, I've heard phrases like "x has come up with a novel solution for y by chaning z trait" a million times in college. It's just assumed you understand evolutionary theory and that you can place phrases like that in the proper context.

Is it possible to store entangled photons for a period of time, and then use them later?

I guess the states that were victims of the sniper attacks can no longer seek the death penalty for Malvo.

Can't you perform an experiment to determine whether particle B is behaving as a classical particle, or according to the wave function? For example, when a classical particle is subjected to the two-slit experiment, it will show a classical banding pattern. For instance, assume two billion particles are entangled. Spaceship A takes one half of the entagled particles, and spaceship B takes the other half. Spaceship B will then travel to the edge of the galaxy. When it arrives, it will collapse the wavefunction of all the particles (by measurement of some sort). Meanwhile, spaceship A is running tests continuously to determine whether its half of the entangled particles are behaving classically. If they are, then spaceship B has arrived at the edge of the galaxy. If they aren't, then spaceship B hasn't arrived. However, this really isn't FTL communication, because to separate the particles you still have to give them a ride on the spaceship. Edit: Also, the two-slit experiment was just an example. You'd probably have to find a way to determine whether or not the property you've entangled is still in a superposition.

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Photons are affected by gravitational fields. Think of Einstein's interpretation of gravity as bent space-time. A photon travelling in a "straight line" through spacetime will follow the curves therein.

I ask because Einsten proposed a thought experiment (commonly called the EPR Paradox) in which photon's positions were entangled. This link implies that photons can be spatially entangled. "Since spatially entangled photons are generated whenever individual photons pass through an optical beamsplitter, the practical study of entanglement with photons is connected to the realisation of devices for generating single photons on demand, henceforth referred to as single-photon sources." However, it also throws my whole understanding off a bit. I was under the impression that, when presented with a beam splitter, a single photon has a 50/50 chance of passing through or reflecting. In it's unmeasured wavefunction state (quantum state? I don't know the terminology), the photon's wavefunction shows an equal probability of finding the photon in either path. If mirrors are set up to reconverge the paths, the wavefunction actually interfere with itself, producing a typical wave interference pattern on a photographic plate (after successive photons are subjected to the same setup). That's really a side point, but I'm confused again. Ah well.

If the entangled electrons are created in a manner that sends them in opposite directions, then measuring the position of one would reveal the position of the other one. <--e1-- ( source ) --e2--> Uncertainty doesn't say we can't know the position by itself.

So measuring one collapses the wavefunction of both particles spin? If we measure the spin of one, then we instantly know the spin of the other, right? Does the same hold true for measuring position?