John Cuthber

Yours might be... I'd love to see you come up with some actual evidence for that suggestion.

Nor is someone "without any previous knowledge " So, what predictions could either make? Indeed, about what could they make predictions? They don't know anything.

We do, it's just that we don't recognise them as such. We can, for example, read, write, and speak. We can predict the next eclipse. We regularly stave off death by the use of weird chemicals and such like. And, we can point out things like this to people whom we don't know across on the other side of the world while sitting in our nice warm houses.

Have you considered this sort of thing? http://www.mathesongas.com/pdfs/products/Methyl-Mercaptan-Gas-Mixtures.pdf I know it's expensive, but it makes life a lot easier if you can just open the tap and get the stuff. Anyway, the real problem here is that when you say "an easy (pseudo-home) chemical reaction " it doesn't inspire confidence. The reaction of dilute acid with the sodium salt will certainly produce plenty of the stuff (I'm assuming that a butterfly doesn't make much of it so even a small quantity would be plenty). The galssware required is pretty trivial (at least compared to how good a fume extraction system you are going to want. Finally, if you are going to play with thiols please let the emergency services know in advance so that they know how to react when they get lots of calls saying there's a gas leak. (Been there- done that)

"By concious awareness I mean that which would exist if you woke up from a coma without any previous knowledge of experience but capable of thought." That looks to me like the state in which we are all born. Can we ask a newborn baby to come up with an answer to the OP's question?

You can't get magnets to hover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw's_theorem There are ways round this with diamagnetic materials, but the Earth's field isn't going to be strong enough for that trick to work.

Do you really think it's "judgemental" for us not to want someone hurt? What do you really need the stuff for? There may be a less stupid alternative.

CDs will absorb some of the IR very strongly, so would a piezo (and I'd be interested in seeing a piezo driver with enough range of movement). A detector cooled by liquid N2 will improve the signal to noise ratio, but that isn't so important unless you want fast scanning. A grating would work, but you would need order sorting filters which make things difficult. There are well documented advantages to an FT system, rather than a scanned one (prism or grating). The third light source referred to is a white light source used to establish the point where the optical path difference is exactly zero. The speed of the moving mirror is not important, but you need to know exactly where it is and that's a lot easier if it is moving at a constant speed. IR systems generally use mirrors to collimate light, rather than lenses, partly to avoid absorption of the IR but also to avoid chromatic aberration.

Well, that settles it "Mentally ill people don't know the delusion isn't true. " The people who go to Church on Sunday don't know their delusion isn't true. So the "believers" are mentally ill. On the other hand this ""deciding to believe in something one knows is not true" isn't a sign of mental illness. It is a sign of humanity. " is a problem. How would you go about deciding to believe that I am a cabbage white butterfly? Seriously, what would you do in order to be able to pass the lie detector test while asserting that I'm a butterfly (Pieris brassicae to my friends)? For the moment, let's assume there is a lie detector that actually works.

Well, it did, so you are wrong. That's the end of the story.

Well, if you are playing scrabble metaphysics is worth 23 points.

As far as I can tell, they have hats on. What's it the crankshaft from?

Forget messing about with multimeters unless you know what you are doing. Plug a 60 W lamp in at the end of the extension leads. Plug in + switch on the fridges (also at the end of the extension lead). If the bulb dims a lot then you have a problem with the leads. Alternatively, look at the back of the fridges and check the power rating(s). Divide the power (in Watts) by the mains voltage (120 I guess). That should tell you the current which the fridge draws. Ad up the current for each fridge. If that is less than the current rating of the extension lead it should be OK. However, it sounds like the big fridge has worn out. Nothing lasts forever and the refrigerant slowly escapes.

In addition to not accepting the laws of physics, the "wrong" starts here "So more turns of wire, then, means more energy created for x watts."

The USPO does permit patenting perpetual motion machines. One of the criteria is that you set one up at their office generating power and leave it running for a year. This latest idea will, of course, fail the test.

It is, of course, especially discourteous to those whose first language isn't English. Incidentally, I suggest we close this thread. In the mind bendingly improbable event that John Titor shows up, he can sign up, prove his credentials and send a message to the OP. In the meantime, adding to the thread serves no real purpose.

The evidence shows that C14 dating works quite well. Of course that might be because God is lying to us. If He is a liar then He might want to consider the morality of that decision. Perhaps the OP's friend might want to explain why he worships a liar.

Carbon dating is pretty good and it can be checked. When I was at primary school I learned that you could tell the age of a tree by counting the rings. A slightly more refined version of that lets us verify carbon dating for something like 10,000 years. That's far enough to prove the 6000 years Biblical account to be wrong.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe

"I have some metal parts of a combustion chamber we fabricated for our Gas Turbine Engine....... Now I want them to be ceramic coated!!" Why? Unless you can do plasma spraying or something, any sort of enamel will need to be baked on above it's melting point so that melting point will have to be less than that of the steel (or whatever) that the blade is made from. That means that the coated blade will be less heat resistant then the uncoated one. It will also weigh more. It's likely that it will have a less accurately defined shape. What are you seeking to achieve with a ceramic coating? In any event,. if you do decide to use one, make sure it has the same thermal expansion coefficient as the metal you are coating.

The other thing they take a lot of is water, but they also get other nutrients from the soil.

I was born at about 13:00. But I'm not a Gemini I'm a Sagittarian. This "helpful and compassionate to them who are in pain (if the nakshatra is ardra)" is meaningless because it says I'm either something or I'm not, which is tautology. This "always wanting for somthing change in life" is a classic Barnum statemtnt as re a lot of the other comments. Who, when told they are "good communicator, highly intelligent" sure to win the support of the people, helpful and compassionate to them who are in pain" etc is going to say otherwise? So, it seems to me that my prediction has come true and my prediction was based on the hypothesis that Vedic astrology is bogus. I formed a hypothesis and tested it . It was verified. The scientific conclusion here is that Vedic astrology is, at best,no better than the fraudulent practice used by charlatans.

The superscripted 3 prefix is sounded as "triplet" and so on.

December 10 1965 Esher near London, England. I have an alternative prediction. Yog's predictions will look a lot like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

"So you mean that the silver as a solid electrolyte allow the movement of ions without the need for a liquid or soft membrane separating the electrode. " Yes. "I can't believe that the current is provided by mving Ag+ ions." Nobody here is responsible for what you believe.