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Here's one for ya.. I work rotation a shifts and it seems that the change in sleep pattern (not the lack of sleep) kills me when I go from working the graveyard shift to working day shift. When I switch and begin to sleep at night again I can easily crank out 7 hours of sleep but my body feels hungover. Not in the sense that I want to puke but that feeling that something is wrong with my bloodsugar. I can try to prepare for the change by slightly changing my sleep schedule before I go to dayshift yet I will still feel pretty bad for a day or two. Anyone have any answers/ideas/theories as to what causes this?

I think the term "loose" came from one's set of loose morals from having many partners if I remember correctly.

haha, I get it now. Where I'm from they're known as spybots or the like. Thanks.

I'm a big user of many forums but I haven't ever heard of the term "spider". Until now. There are registered users, guests and spiders in this forum. I checked the faq's and couldn't find what they are so.... What are spiders?

Oops, the only thing wrong is my ability to do math. hehe. For some reason last night I kept getting 24. Thanks for not making fun of me, heh...

I like the period table in general as well as yours! I did notice that your electron config for Ti was off though...(2 extra electrons?) I dig it!

I agree with swansont's post regarding evolution. In addition, fat is necessary for certain bodily processes including specific vitiamin absorption. Some fat storage on the body isn't too harmful. I have read an article (sorry, can't remember the source) that suggested that being obese may be linked to specific types of cancer. So while a fat cancer patient may last longer(?) before wasting away, that same fat could have caused it in the first place.

If your finger is normal color then you must be getting normal circulation. Therefore the numbness is nerve related. I did somewhat the same thing except an object struck my ankle and rendered my foot totally numb for a few minutes. Then over several days, the feeling came back to it and also most of my toes. It's been a month now and I still don't have normal sensation in the big toe. I'm waiting it out though as it's slowly improving. The color to the skin was normal so I wasn't worried about losing the foot, just getting the feeling back! Hope you heal up soon...

Hmm, so what's the deal with bone marrow?

Universities get more of your money if you're enrolled there longer, taking useless classes. That's another way to think about it.

Sunspot, could you explain more the idea that women are more colorful than men? I also think that we are more attracted to women wearing make-up due to social reasons and not some genetic reasons. On a related topic, I saw a show about a scientist that theorized that mammary glands in homosapien females are full and round compared to other near species like apes, orangutans, etc....that have flattened glands for the purpose of attracting males. Very interesting and I do mean that in a mature way.

Ya, bones are living tissues so they would heal up. With my somewhat ametuer knowledge I'd guess that most things will fix themselves except ligaments and certain nerve tissue.

As a wild guess, I was thinking 22.5 degrees as it's a comprimise between the trajectory angle and speed. But I really don't know, hehe. It's fun to think about though. And it will be difficult to know the exact angle without said protractor and I'll be drinking too.

Fortunately, we're somewhat protected by the solar systems "vacuum cleaner"...Jupiter. It collects some object due to it's gravity before it can hit us.

Hey, I've got a question I've been thinking about. I'm going on a rafting trip next month. There's a rope swing next to the river. If I want to swing on it, let go and get the most distance at what point in the arc of the swing do I let go? I realize that my speed is greatest at the bottom...and to release when traveling at 45 degrees with reference to the water (normally the best trajectory) I will almost be stopping at that point in the arc. Please help so I can impress people with my distance, hehe

I imagine that it can't be nitrous oxide as the body probably would have processed it already. How to stop? don't know. How to help someone stop? Tell them it causes impotence.

Eye color is an allele...an inherited trait with many outcomes...but finite.

Isn't this scenario technically called equilibrium? There is a lower amount of moisture in the air so the water goes into the atmosphere, one molecule at a time? Considering pressure and temperature, the water is not boiling to get into the air. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Science is the art of explaining how God created everything. The probability of life was a roll of the dice, depending on environmental factors and once life was created statistics went out the window. Evolution kicked in. This is how God formed life as we know it. The Bible is correct in many ways but it is misread because of the time and social background in which it was written. So don't take the Bible literally. But do take the most important things from it. Historical/scientific research backs many other events from the Bible. You just have to filter out certain religous(ironic?), social and technilogical interpretations.

You can if you're blessed with Synesthesia. Very interesting phenomenon. I don't know if I have it but, as a possible anecdote, since kindergarten I always thought of even numbers as "dry" and odd numbers as "wet".

OK, I've read the responses including the other thread that relates to this concept. So what if we forget about an outside observer off the wheel and it's just you and flashlight on the edge of the wheel, spinning at c. Isn't there an absolute speed of light regardless of the velocity of the emitting object? I'm having a hard time explaining my point here.(?) And also what if the wheel was made out of a neutron or some object bound together by one of the nuclear forces...wouldn't it be able to withstand the forces of gravity or is the amount of centrifugal force brought on from the mass too much to handle? What about an object like a black hole...it's gravity is such a strong force of gravity...would this be enough to hold a wheel together if it were interwoven with a black hole?

This has been a thought in my mind for several years now and I remembered it while lurking here and thought I'd ask you all as some of you will surely give me some great insight. I'm aware that faster-than-light speed isn't possible because of the mass issue among other things. But we tend to think of objects traveling in a single direction, trying to reach "c". So here's another approach.. So here's my question. In theory, could you build a very big wheel with a circumference of 186,000 miles or so and apply an energy source close to its axle that could spin it at 1 revolution per second or slightly faster, thereby causing some points on its outer edge to travel at (or faster than) the speed of light. There is a mechanical advantage here much like a bicycle tire on a geared bike. What factors would make this impossible? I'm sure the driving energy and durability of the wheel are issues. Would centrifugal force tear the wheel apart before you reached desired speed? etc. I'm pretty rusty at this stuff and I can prove that "cognitive decline" does happen when you work rotating shiftwork so please go easy on me. Thanks!