Radical Edward

just a couple of things... what UN decisions has the US disobeyed exactly? from what I can see, the US has been upholding UN decisions by inflicting serious consequences on Iraq because it didn't comply with resolution 1441. furthermore, why the consistent focus on cluster bombs? afaik they have not been used that often this time round, and not often near civilian areas. I have only heard reports of them being used twice. Is the German Press going on about them or something? despite living here I don't actually read any German papers or watch the German news!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2936401.stm recent research on monkeys has not produced a single pregnancy after hundreds of attempts, shedding much doubt on the recent claims by several groups, the raelians amongst them, that a human clone is possible, and indeed has been achieved. The obstacle according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine appeqrs to be the way the genetic information is parcelled up when the cell divides.

so is the US.

"nice" thank goodness I ate my breakfast a while ago. Are leeches and maggots quite regularly used now then? I had heard of sugestions of them being used a few years ago, but nothing really since then. incidentally, what do you mean by granulating?

with brains that siye, they have probably thought of something better! would this mean that dinosaurs would have been relatively numb and unfeeling, if they only have titchy brains then?

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again, you have to stick it into the equations, so it takes care of all the time dilation and length contraction effects... I can't do it intuitively unfortunately, but it isn't too hard one of the beauties of SR, and GR I suppose, is that it doesn't actually generate any paradoxes at all.

okay, ignore the rest of the universe for a minute. two objects, when at rest have identical mass, are hurtling past one another at nearly c. which one has the energy and which one's gravity is greatest?

<annoying geordie voice> calm down calm down </annoying geordie voice> out of interest, where does the carbon go?

no problem with it at all. actually one of the ways to derive length contraction and so on is to use exactly this sort of approach. incidentally, ms paint drawings are 1337.

what about the inflammation due to a sprained ankle, or knock then? Is it the body just inflamin just in case there is bone damage? and as for infections, is it just that leakiness providing better access for all the antibodies and so on? thanks by the way

I thought of this just after Toms "sue" thread.... Elephants and Whales have huge brains don't they? what do they do with it all?

If it did hunt, then lots of its targets were probably fairly slow too... how big was it's brain by the way? I heard years ago now, ehat even these monstrosities onls had brains the siye of a walnut... which is fairly suprising.

umm... I suggest reading a book on special relativity, all the equations are rather easy to derive from a few basic premises and thought experiemnts, and looking at it from a mathematical point of view might help you see it more clearly one of the things you can't have, is something with mass travelling at c.

yeap... then you get those interesting cases such as some cyclists who have to be very careful after they have been cycling to have a proper warm-down period, since their resting heart rate is so low. My Biology teacher had a heart with unusually large capacity, and he was very healthy too.

I would suspect that the inflammatory response isn't that useful in the repair process itself, it just provides a good cushion to the region being repaired (for example a sprained ankle). while useful in the wild, the response is no longer required, as sitting around and having food bought to you is a realistic possibility these days. Similar for scarring too, where the scabbing is just there to stop infection getting in, but makes the scar look worse. I recall an experiment where if you stop the nasty scab forming (the wound was sealed using something else like surgical glue I think), then the wound is quicker and more neatly healing, but more prone to infection (which can be dealt with now).... this is old second hand knowledge btw. I could be wrong.

why does it need to expand into something? if you are going to follow that line, you end up with an infinity of infinities, since everything would have to be contained within something else.

be a bit careful there with your wording, interpreting things like momentum energy and mass. The thing to do is look at the Lorentz Transforms to see what is going on, in terms of energy and so on. I can't see wha an object travelling near c would have greater gravity, since it is still the same mass, and if you were in the same inertial frame as the object, its "mass" would be "normal" and as such the gravity too.

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just everywhere

a photon with a pi phase shift?

so, discounting diffraction, two infinitely long parallel laserbeams would bend towards one another?

I had successfully purged the knowledge of the existance of that program from my mind too....

no no, that's fine. just so long as there is evidence. I hear too many people making unsubstantiated claims about the war, and then can never back it up. and yes, groups like the fedayeen are exactly the sort of reason saddam should be removed, I was merely contesting your point that people would move if they didn't want to be human shields, by utilising the fedayeen as evidence that often they don't have that choice.

In the short term, it is will known that the US will control Iraq, for as much as 6 months, probably more. you can find this sort of thing on CNN and the BBC alone.