John Cuthber

If the ring was big enough the bending strain might not be an insurmountable hurdle. But there would be no credible way to synthesise it.

Squashed 380 fold, and then dissolved... It's just possible that, if you managed to lock yourself in the "safe" (I'm assuming they had one) and it was strong enough, and airtight enough then you might have been able to keep breathing for a reasonable fraction of the way down- even, in principle, all the way to the bottom. Then you would be the person who was deepest when they died; still dead. The only "practical" advantage would be that you might hope to scare hell out of any salvagers looking for valuables.

Increased airflow will increase the rate at which water in the vapour phase exchanges with absorbed water. That's why tumble driers have fans. A sealed "ziplok " bag round each helmet with a little silica gel would work a lot better. However, if you want somewhere to dry them then you need a a big closed box, and in that box you need a fan to circulate the air, and a desiccant to strip water out of it. A refrigerator is a reasonable choice (especially if you can find a glass fronted one like they use for drinks in bars and shops).

For the same reason that people don't get distemper or cat-flu. Most viral diseases are pretty specific.

"I am not betting - I would not "loose" a million either way: either there is a way to build an impenetrable wall: in which case there would be something like a perfect fortress. Interesting. Or someone comes up with some proof that there will never be such a thing. Also interesting. Either fact could make you more than 1 million." The "fact" is widely known. How do you propose to make a million form it? If you can't then you just lost the million you had talked about making.

I think you just lost a million. It's hard to be certain because the problem is poorly specified. Anything inside the event horizon of a black hole is "cut off" from the rest of the universe, but it is still part of the universe.

If there's a "brexit" and if ( as seems quite reasonable) there's a consequent referendum on Scotland and Wales leaving the UK, please can we redefine the England / Scotland border somewhere near Birmingham? It's important to remember that UKIP are broadly the UK equivalent of the tea party. One important similarity is utter disregard for facts. On a related note I heard Ian Duncan-Smith (one of those who wants to leave (and is, coincidentally very rich)) being cited as saying that the whole discussion was based on the opposition running a "smear campaign" about the notion of leaving. In doing so he was, of course, "smearing" those who ran that campaign. he failed to note any positive points about leaving the EU I wonder how long it will take him to notice the hypocrisy.

Guess again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters OK, strictly speaking, there needs to be some sort of impurity, but it's still largely the decomposition of ammonium nitrate that does the damage.

If ( that's a "big" if) most of the men in your area like blue eyed women, but not all the women are blue eyed then for you to be attracted to brown eyed women is an evolutionary advantage. You will have less competition for the brown eyed women. You might want to rejoice in the fact that, for whatever reason, you are one of the lucky ones who isn't trying to chase a stereotype.

They did that when I was at primary school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet And we stopped using it when we grew up a bit.

I'm willing to look. But how much effort I'm prepared to put into a response might not be what you are looking for.

"Right, since that's what the vitamin is basically, a bacteria that delivers cobalt. " Nonsense It's a single chemical- nothing like a bacterium. (And it's fairly cheap). It's true that some people have a serious problem with absorbing it from the diet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernicious_anemia They won't be any better or worse off because, at the moment either they get supplements (prepared by fermentation) or they die- depending on whether they live in a rich country or a poor one. "Trying to argue that everyone can live without meat has no basis in reality. " Since some people do live without meat, please explain why- in principle- that can't be extended to everyone else? Don'y get me wrong, I'm not planning to give up eating meat- but let's actually stick to real world reasons for keeping it, rather than nonsense like " the vitamin is basically, a bacteria that delivers cobalt. "

Well, you can split immigration into two. Immigration from the EU which is controlled by EU law and which is small- there are very nearly as many Brits in the rest of the EU as there are "continental" Europeans in Britain. On the other hand, there's immigration from the rest of the world- much of that will come through mainland Europe and not cooperating with the rest of Europe isn't going to help that much. Oh, and it's covered by other international treaties- so leaving the EU wouldn't help. We still have sovereignty over domestic finance- that's why Mr Osborne can continue with his plans to give money to rich people. Which laws that were introduced from, or via, the EU do you have a problem with? The Human rights act, perhaps? Mr. Cameron wanted to abolish it, but he never quite explained which bits of it he was unhappy with. Here's a list of the conventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights#Convention_articles Or do you have a problem with maternity leave, or what?

Why make a change, unless you are seeking to solve a problem? What's the problem that is solved by leaving the EU?

Two points. You can get B12 from bacteria I live in an area where it's too cold and wet to grow anything but grass. I can't eat grass, but sheep can; and I can eat lamb.

"Through someone I met I know we have had plasma technologies within the department of defense for some time now and they have not stepped up to help." Do you know that a candle is a "plasma device"?

Kant sea pore tie-pin been court bye ought toe cheque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kulagina#Trickery

For the same reason that aluminium pipes don't

What's the issue here? SR is the "special" case of GR when there are no accelerations. So it doesn't work in an accelerating system It's like saying that the Bernoulli equation doesn't work for a compressible viscous fluid. Of course it doesn't; that's not the system it works in.

His argument was already fallacious. If you argue that all cars are black and I show you a white one, then I have proved that there's a fault in your argument. I haven't tracked down what the error is, but I have proves that there must be one.

Staw man argument. I said no such thing. I didn't mention them. I just pointed out that, since evolution happens, your claim that it does not must be wrong, either in the basis you are choosing, or in the extrapolation(s) you make from that basis.

And yet it happens. So there's an error in your maths or your logic somewhere. I'm not going to waste my time looking for it; that's your job.

Meanwhile, the Americans' spend twice as much on healthcare with outcomes that, at best, are not twice as good. And the Right wing in the UK want to introduce the same system here, which isn't a competent thing to do.

program or programme Whichever- though some authorities use them to distinguish between computer code and a schedule of events. "cookie or biscuit" It depends on which side of the pond you are writing, Though I'm perfectly happy to accept "cookie"- especially as either a given name or as a trade or brand name. "potato or potatoe" It's "potato". Always. Did you not realise that?