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I dunno, sounds like a good idea. I can imagine the lightning hitting the tree and then arcing and hitting the generator. Thats what seems to happen here in florida. Often times lightning will travel down a tree only to hit a small spot on the ground a couple of meters or so away from the tree.

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This actually hit slashdot.. http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/09/15/2227256.shtml?tid=133&tid=134&tid=186

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510054502,00.html pretty spiffy. LOGAN — A widespread belief among physicists nowadays is that modern science requires squadrons of scientists and wildly expensive equipment. Craig Wallace and Philo T. Farnsworth are putting the lie to all that. Wallace, a baby-faced tennis player fresh out of Spanish Fork High School, had almost the entire physics faculty of Utah State University hovering (and arguing) over an apparatus he had cobbled together from parts salvaged from junk yards and charity drops.

Copied and pasted from a website: Let's take the radius of Earth to be 6.37 million meters. Then the circumference is 2*pi*6.37e6 or 40 million meters. We cover that distance in 24 hours as Earth turns so the tangential speed (Vt) of a person on Earth's surface is 4e7/(24*3600) meters per second. This comes out to be 463 meters per second. Centrifugal force Fc is given by Fc=m*Vt^2/R where m is the mass of the object at Earth's surface and R is the radius of Earth. In our case lets take the mass of a person to be 100kg so Fc=100*463^2/6.37e6. That is Fc=3.365 Newtons. ---- F=ma so his force is (100kg) (9.8 m/s2) The force holding the person to the earth is 980N Just substitute values: 980N = 100(x^2) / 6.37e6 7901m/s or roughly 17 times the speed at which its spinning now. I did that really quick, so someone correct me if i'm wrong :l

interesting sayo. i hate the internet, too hard to know whats real and whats not. i take that back, i love the internet

A nearly completed, $239 million weather satellite toppled to the floor as it was being moved at a Lockheed Martin plant and was seriously damaged, officials said Tuesday. Check out the picture: Here (just a small warning, the website has an obscenity in the name)

:/ well that stinks. what does that mean? You have to take it in college now?

What do you mean "actual study" as opposed to doing it in the university?

lol, do you know what causes that? As regards to your original question: I think there are degrees of sensitivity. In other words, if you grew up with only exposure to certain types of things, you would be much more sensitive to them. However, I don't think that for example you would see IR because your body has adapted to see the light.

Point your webcam at your remote control for your television and then hit a button to change the chanel or something. I dunno what causes it, but thats how the cameras pick up the IR.

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Its impossible unless you know the base weight of a single pill and a contaminated pill. Assuming a regular pill weighs 1g and a contaminated weighs 2g.. You could take 1 pill from jar one, 2 pills from jar 2, 3 pills from jar 3 and 4 pills from jar 4. Put them all on the scale together. If the contaminated pills are in jar one, the total weight will be 5g. If they are in jar two, the total weight will be 6g, if they are in jar 3, the total weight will be 7g...

or Japanese.

Speak for yourself

lol matter, sounds familiar

Finish the sentence: Beer: ___________

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It cost me $2.30 some cents to print about 12 pages of colored text at USF. I got ripped

I meant that two people fighting could be called a war. "A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties." Sounds kinda like the Hatfields and McCoys. Doesn't take soldiers or an army, though it would probably help the cause

Sayonara has figured out the image-in-news-post trick Interesting, but I wonder if theres anything we can learn from 'blocks of ice' floating in space. I guess the main point is that "Astronomers are puzzled because while there ought to be very large numbers of these objects, only 1000 have been found since the first observation in 1992."

time for ban dawid ;] jk <3 I'm sure I ate my words quite a few times somewhere in there, and I'm sure I will continue to do so in the future ;/

good points

In a nutshell, faf was saying "because its legal, quality control will go up which should reduce violence, corporate distribution which will also help reduce violence, people would be more likely to get help because they are not afraid of prosecution, and reported use will go up because they are not afraid of prosecution." All of which I agree with. People worrying about being caught are a lot less likely to fill out independant surveys revealing their illegal drug habbits. Legalized drugs = no worries, which means people are more likely to report drug use. No, he didn't say that. He didn't even mention the media. He didn't say that either. He just stated the most likely (and logical) trend of the surveys.

hrm, i must be in the stupid section seriously though, we americans are slow, be direct. I still think there is some sort of fundamental misunderstanding in this thread somewhere because I see faf's point but I don't see yours; and usually its the opposite of that.