Radical Edward

an improved brain. evolved because it made us the best organism in our niche. your 747 analogy is terrible by the way. I hope you haven't taken Chrichton in context, because if you have, he needs a slap. I suggest you obtain your knowledge from science books in the future.

/me bans blike

not even slightly warmer areas of the surface which could be accounted for by sub-surface heat? I suppose what needs to be done is a proper analysis to see if there are any places where the methane is more concentrated than elsewhere and then look at those areas in more detail. I don't really know enough about chemistry to consider whether there could be alternate sources or even how the methane is produced volcanically.

One has to be aware of the data and coments that he makes that have since been corrected in order to avoid conclusion. It's definitely a good read, but one should take care with it (as one should with any scientific text)

how about minimising the number of new squares covered on each queen placement?

that's a shame The Government took mine from me after I almost started a nuclear war!

I will hand out free permanent bans to anyone who chooses an option other than FFVII (Just kidding, I wouldn't stifle freedom of choice in this manner, no, I would just kneecap you or something)

I have a metaphysical method.... imagine a particle travelling at near c... now imagine you are in it's rest frame and look back at yourself, you are now travelling at near c works every time.

awesome stuff can you get on the interwebnet with it?

Amstrad CPC 464. still trying to get through Treasure Island Dizzy.

olympus mons is dead, so it seems anyway. shouldn't thermal readings be able to give this away though?

Since humans with monosomy 2 cannot survive, there must have been some point at which our ancestors could survive with this condition, otherwise how would we have got here? so do we know what it is about monosomy 2 that stops us from surviving it now?

I once saw a moon-rainbow. eerie.

when you put a metal conductor in a microwave, you create a large potential difference between different points on the surface, causing electricity arcs between them. the frequency of microwaves is basically the same as the resonance frequency of water.

the individual photons would lose energy and the room would heat up as you got more and more IR radiation. Eventally the room would reach thermal equilibrium and have a black body spectrum with the peak somewhere in the IR. This is assuming no heat loss to the outside world too, if there is, then you would just end up with the BB spectrum of the outside world, asuming that it is big enough to act as a reservoir.

you could always just have a little radio pinger. Radios aren't too hard to build.

how do drugs get into prison anyway?

how about a smoke can for a trail?

Well the Chinese invented them and the Japanese and everyone else pinched the ideas. Martial arts were born from hundreds of years of killing people very effectively. It's like some of the killer pressure points we learn, I have to wonder how many people died in that discovery, or how many legs were snapped in the understanding of weaknesses.

I did it by slapping the computer with the sharp edge of an Axe whenever I lost a game. THAT'S hacking.

you don't need to bully anyone for Uranium. I present to you, the default winner of this competition, Nuclaer Boy: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/n1782_v297/21281407/print.jhtml

well for simplicity you can treat the CD itself as a diffraction grating, since the information is encoded as dips in the surface, it forms a repetitive grating like pattern. When you shine the laser on it, the reflections will interfere in the same manner as the diffraction grating. Now on the wall you will get a projection of little dots, and from that you can work out the distance between the pits on the surface. Assuming one pit to be a bit of information, you can then work out the number of bits that can be stored on the surface area of the CD.

I just remembered, you can do the diffraction slit thing with a CD and work out the amount of data a CD can hold I am not sure how big the mirrors on the moon are. probably a metre or so (so you have to treat them as the aperture now)