John Cuthber

For a start, please stop making your posts difficult to read.

The issue isn't so much with the singly + charged ions as with the products. The free metals are fine, but making Ag++ is not easy. So 2 Cu+ --> Cu (0) + Cu++ is plausible But making Ag++ isn't

[Cough], British gets a capital letter in English.

OK, so no evidence that it's doing any harm. Some (albeit inconclusive) evidence that it's unlikely to do much harm simply because it's so much less than the background. And you use that as the basis for An awful lot of straw manning. And a whole lot of ad hom attacks etc And you seem to ignore the fact that lots of claims made are actually based on evidence. For example you say that you can't assume that Cs and K act similarly just because they are in the same group of the periodic table. Well, you can, because that's why they are in the same group. You say we can't tear beta emitters as being similar- well the people who have looked into it say that the evidence shows that you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Radiation_type_weighting_factor_WR You are saying there's no evidence to support the idea that small increases in dose will only produce small increases in harm. Yet we know that people actually live in areas where the background level is huge. And you belittle the suffering of those harmed by the root cause- the tsunami- while banging on about a purely hypothetical risk that flies in the face of the evidence.

And yet, it remains the case that if someone disputes the evidence described by their opponent as indisputable, they get to show that their opponent said something that's not true. Since they can always dispute it, the guy who calls it indisputable is a fool- no matter how much he gets paid. Re. Well, it would be better than being dead, and there is a chance that I could eventually provide a home for my family and raise my children. False dichotomy.

At least in so far as saying an inelastic collision delivers more energy than an elastic one, iNow is right. Whether or not either of those cases is applicable is another matter. Elastic collisions can do very odd things.

Firstly, you need to check that it is even a theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory but, at first glance the answer to your question seems to be; no.

A gel is a solid, but (like all solid materials) it's not perfectly rigid.

If you compare the rebate to a really expensive car, it's not a lot of money. OK, so don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt US$39,995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf $35000 Even the Tesla isn't a $100000 car unless you buy the top of the range http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Features

Very Freudian.

I got this far before I gave up. " Once presumption that gravity is confined to operate requiring energy to manifest."

When you guys have all finished discussing force gauges cameras and punch bags, perhaps you could address the difficult part. How do you propose to eliminate the psychological factor of hitting the bag harder because you think you can hit it harder?

There are generally at least two lawyers in a court. If one claims the evidence is "indisputable". it's the other one's job to dispute it. the first one should know that. if he says it's indisputable then the other can always prove him to be wrong about that. Having shown that he is wrong, you have shown that he is unreliable. That's the sort of spin you are talking about and it's exactly why no good lawyer should say the evidence was beyond dispute. (For the record, I'm a forensic scientist and trained as an expert witness, but I have never been called to court. The courts always accepted my written evidence. I didn't get the whole of my understanding of the court system from watching cop shows) "If we are going to discuss this, we should do it honestly; so imagine two tribes going to war.... Or you can take charge of these people. " And, if your old book doesn't tell you that it's right to enslave them you treat them as equal citizens. Sorry, did you think you had a point there? Of course the next question would be why have a war in the first place? Would that be because your priests told you that the other tribe is "subhuman" and so deserves to be slaves because your God(s) say so or is it because of limited resources that,for some reason, your tribe has overpopulated? I'm also puzzled about just how happy you think you would be as a slave, knowing that it would be "only" 7 years.

did it occur to you that many might not be able to?

If the steel in the reinforcing bars had turned to Fe2O3 the building would have fallen down without needing to be hit by a plane. So, in the real world, there just isn't much Fe2O3 to react with any Aluminium. Nobody specifically mentioned magnesium but someone mentioned "certain types of fire can't be extinguished by water" and magnesium fires are a fairly well known example of that. I used magnesium as a specific example of the real reason why you can't put those fires out with water. The web page you have cited doesn't say anything about thermite or aluminium. The element that is present in the debris that is not present in the original steel is sulphur. About an eight of the weight of gypsum (used in plasterboard etc) is sulphur, so it's presence is perfectly predictable. Why are you trying to argue?

OK, that's the hearsay. Where's the evidence?

"What happens if Al join with f.e. Fe2O3 at high enough temperature" Why even ask the question? People don't reinforce concrete with Fe2O3 do they? If the steel has already oxidised to Fe2O3 then it's lost practically all its strength. re."At high temperature water instantaneously changes to vapor, then separates to gaseous Hydrogen and Oxygen." Barely. You need to get to about 3000C before half the molecules break up. At that temperature the concrete and the steel will be liquid. So, it can't actually be relevant. "In WTC debris there has been found Thermite and melted iron." Not really. There's plenty of aluminium from the structural components of the plane. And there's no shortage of iron and it's oxides from the rebar and rust etc. "And Oxygen can react with anything, especially metals, especially Iron to create Fe2O3 f.e.That's why certain types of fire can't be extinguished by water." Not really. You can't put out, for example, a magnesium fire with water because magnesium will cheerfully burn in steam. That's all the sort of nonsense that the conspiracy theorists make up. It never did make sense and it should be dead and buried by now.

Got any evidence for that?

Cameras are small and cheap. we can put them on officers' guns as well as on the police. The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

A good lawyer should know better.

I very much doubt it is a solid soluition. there's a phase diagram here for the related CaCl2 KCl NaCl H2O system and it doesn't include a mixed phase. http://www.phasediagram.dk/quaternary/NaKCaCl.htm this page http://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/Papers/KCl-NaCl.pdf suggests that you can make mixed crystals of the two salts, but only by melting the components together- adding water causes the phases to separate. The two salts acn be separated quite easily by recrystallisation.

No, The point he made was that you have not provided any evidence to back up your position that there is a significant risk of harm from the radioactive material released by the Fukushima accident. What you did instead of that was to ascribe beliefs to me that I never had and post a whole bunch of strawmen. You have not yet explained why you did that. Did you think it somehow helped advance your cause?

"An electronician would never say "wattage"." Exactly when did the word "electronician " pop up in the English language? Not everyone needs (or can afford) a Rolls, and it's not unreasonable to complain about their weight. "The EU forbids Sn-Pb solder in professional equipment (RoHS directive). That's nonsense because the present stuff solders nothing." It works fine when I use it so the problem is clearly not with the solder- it must lie elsewhere. Any suggestions? In my (humble ;-) ) opinion, anyone who thinks that one soldering iron is best is just as wrong as someone who thinks there's only one good song. re. "Most professionals use Weller because they're better: the butt tip has no play, conducts heat better - and no, it doesn't fall off, that would be known by now" Who says it isn't known? "I JUST bought a Weller WM120 soldering pencil. Took it out of the package and the tip fell out. I put it back - it falls out. It fits VERY LOOSELY in the barrel of the soldering pencil" from http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WM120-120v-Pencil-Soldering/dp/B0000WT586

Well, since the word "isotopically" doesn't make sense in context, I guess it's a mistake.

I think you are solving the wrong problem. The question is not "How can we pollute the atmosphere more safely?" but "How can we avoid polluting it at all?" It is true that here in the UK the political pressure might keep the risks well regulated, but I'd not bet on it.