John Cuthber

Do you know what "Polar" means and do you know what shape the molecules are?

http://xkcd.com/169/

It's even more absurdly wrong than that. People (hyperglycaemic or not) emit a whole bunch of volatile organic compounds. However the amount that we contribute is much less than that produced by plants and other animals. These get into the atmosphere. They will react with any chlorine there. Typically half the chlorine is immediately converted to HCl by that reaction. HCl is very soluble in water and will be washed out by the next shower of rain. The other half of the chlorine is attached to the organic molecule, but it's not likely to stay there. Any organochlorine compound is thermodynamically unstable in the presence of water and there's always water in the atmosphere. Eventually the carbon- chlorine bond will be hydrolysed. The products will be the corresponding alcohol and (again) HCl. The only question is how fast is the hydrolysis (or other destruction reaction). Adding other functional groups to the molecule like ketone groups is likely to make the hydrolysis faster. The reason that CFCs get to the ozone layer is that they are unusually stable- the hydrolysis reactions are slow. So, even if you kept people away from swimming pools it wouldn't stop their exhaled organics reacting with chlorine from pools. If it reacts then it doesn't matter much because practically all of it will me scavenged out by rain before it gets anywhere near the stratosphere. Much more chlorine will reach the stratosphere as a result of chlorination of drinking water. Many diabetics benefit from exercise and, for some of them, swimming will be their preferred form of exercise. A suggestion that these people refrain from doing something that will help their condition, on the basis of a non-existent effect on the ozone layer is, to say the least, unhelpful.

She isn't. I forgot to mention that these 12 foot tall; space- alien lizards are shape changers too. Sorry for any confusion I may have created by my error.

Yes, I knew that because I read it here http://www.davidicke.com/ Seriously, David Icke was, I understand, accused of being anti-Semitic. People assumed that his references to a world conspiracy of "reptiles" running the banks etc was a veiled attack on the Jews. His defence was that he really meant that the Queen, the Pope and a whole bunch of other people were 12 foot tall reptiles. (Obviously, but just any reptiles- but Space Alien Reptiles.) It's perfectly legal to be a loony in the UK, so he was not charged with any crime.

I think you may be flogging a dead horse there.

"The OP did not indicate if he meant 10% v/v or 10% w/w, or even w/v, or a Normality (molarity) value. " Actually, he did, albeit tacitly.

Incidentally, complaints about "immigration" into the US should not logically take place in English. Try one of these. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas

Since those people without language can still think (the most obvious and numerous examples being young children) it is clear that you don't necessarily think "in" a language. Also, if thought only happens "in" language, how come we use diagrams (and gestures etc.) to explain things? So the whole premise of this thread is questionable. Clearly some languages will express some concepts better than others- but it's hard to see that generalising much or there would be no translation.

yes, there is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis

You could just about keep the stuff in a plastic bag. That was never the issue. What is difficult is the bit that you gloss over by saying "I didn't and won't check how to catch 85Kr from the fuel rods". Unless you can answer that issue the idea is dead in the water anyway. You would have a better effect on the overall death rate by spending the money on speed cameras or some such.

How does it compare to simply burning the plastic and recovering the energy from that?

"They can't just call someone a terrorist a detain them. " They did. http://www.smh.com.au/world/terrorist-suspect-freed-by-court-order-20090907-feez.html " If someone is fighting for the other side why shouldn't they be treated as such? " The only evidence that they were doing so was that someone chose to " just call someone a terrorist 'enemy combatant' and detain them." The phrase was made up to describe someone who they couldn't call a terrorist- because the law treats terrorists as criminals and offers them due process- and they couldn't call them a "prisoner of war" because, firstly no war was declared and secondly, prisoners of war have rights too. They wanted to lock them up and torture them, but they had no legal (or evidential) basis for doing so. BTW, Captain, I think it's related to this thread http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/61841-habeas-corpus-is-on-its-death-bed/page__p__641822__hl__%2Bland+%2Bfree__fromsearch__1#entry641822

It may be that he only read the first part. (it's not as if it inspires you to keep reading.)

Surely the big problem is that diamond is brittle. You could shatter this "sword" with a good thump from a length of scaffolding pole.

Does this help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Possibility_of_human_tetrachromats

"If Britain does not have enough good jobs, perhaps it is not a good time to be bringing in more workers consumers. "

Is there a way to look at this "Governments need to be more careful before they let in more immigrants, especially from certain countries where the people are likely to comitt crime at higher rates (Pakistan, North Africa, Mexico)" so it doesn't look like blatant racism? "Why have people not been having enough children? Perhaps because they do not feel they can afford them? " Possibly, but if that were the case then poorer people would have fewer children and I don't see any evidence of that- rather the reverse if anything as far as I can see. "Simply bringing in more immigrants, who are willing to have many children while living in relative poverty," Again, is there any evidence of that? " More immigrants will just mean even fewer births of native of Britains. " Or the other way round. "There is no shortage of workers. If there was, wages would be increasing ..." Until the point where the factory owners realised it was better to move the jobs somewhere cheaper. It's not clear to me that Britain has too many workers. As I see it, we have too few jobs. (and the current government's decision to axe 700,000 jobs is- shall we say- difficult to understand.)

I read as far as "Mass immigration has been the undoing of leftwing political parties across Europe since it erodes the shared values that are an essential prerequisite of a well-funded welfare state." Then I realised that I live in a country (in Europe) where Left wing political parties are practically dead, but where there has been no mass immigration.* So I stopped bothering to read. Is the rest of it equally unsupported by reality? *There has, of course, been immigration into the UK. But without it our population would have fallen. Just think for a minute about how a falling population affects a left wing community.

Soot.

"That was likely a bad comparison on my part, I concede, however, for a large part of the country" Other countries are also available. "Unions are formed so that the "rich overlords" will have to give them those items (freedom and recreation)." Unions were formed precisely because rich people didn't behave in the way you seem to expect them too.

Does this help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafiltration

Dear Sir, your poetic license is hereby revoked with immediate effect.

I think the milk is "designed" to fit the bay, rather than the other way round.

Just to let you know: in order to act as adequate radiation shielding during use the containment vessels of nuclear reactors are so thick and heavy that they would survive a plane crash. Meanwhile, back at the topic. Do you have any actual evidence of any explosives residues having been found in the debris from the twin towers? Please note that (1) thermite is not explosive (2) thermite will not actually cut through steel (at any rate- not vertical girders and the quantity needed to cut horizontal ones is impractical) (3) thermate might be able to cut through steel (if you box it up and carefully attach it to the girders with bolts set into neatly cut and tapped holes) but it leaves a lot of barium compounds behind which would have been found i by the elemental analyses of the debris. So, it's a simple question. The answer is either "no" in which case that's pretty much the end of the debate or it's "yes" in which case can you please provide a reference. Do you have any actual evidence of any explosives residues having been found in the debris from the twin towers?