John Cuthber

" If the rich all have swimming pools, then those who can't afford them could just find a lake to use " Are you proposing to publicly fund heating some lakes, or do you accept that they two ideas are not really comparable? "Except for a little debt problem. " There are two ways to pay off a debt. You can cut spending or you can increase income. We both seem to have governments that only consider one side of that pair. Not only that, but they are quite happy to increase expenditure on some things for which the justification is questionable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Dossier

So much for the "land of the free". I note that Senator Lindsey Graham, arguing in favour says "They should not be read their Miranda Rights. They should not be given a lawyer," Graham said. "They should be held humanely in military custody ..." Why is he scarred of rights and lawyers? How does he define "humanely in military custody"? Like this perhaps http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project

The question has been asked, and answered. It doesn't work. I think that may be the basis of the answers already given. Or it may be that people didn't want to stoop to the same level as the terrorists. The fact that it apparently being advocated by someone who thinks that 5% of the world's population should overrule the desires of the other 95% is also rather telling.

Incidentally, I presume that communication in proper English isn't seen as important to mankind, or someone would have corrected the typing errors in the title.

I think it's only fair to mention our Ca N I Ne friends too. Pet sheep anyone? O V I Ne Perhaps not- too worried about them being chased by someone's Lu P I Ne pet ?

" If I was rich, I'd rather give my money to someone who I saw working hard but didn't have enough for a joining a private pool, than give it to the government and have them decide who to give it to." Perhaps you would but the data shows that people on lower incomes actually pay a larger part of it towards charitable causes than rich people do. The idea that the rich would voluntarily pay for, for example, swimming pools, isn't supported by the facts. "As to libraries, I am seeing libraries near me (maybe in other parts of the world and other states in the US they are more responsible) being torn down to build these huge beautiful new ones. The problem is that there was nothing wrong with the old one" Did you ask the librarians? Did you check that the antiquated heating systems of the old buildings and their design (prior to much emphasis on energy conservation) were not actually more expensive to heat than the modern ones? " I would think that a privately owned library would be a little more intellegent with their money," I don't know if you can watch this in the states http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0184xg1/Panorama_Whos_Getting_Rich_on_your_Money/ it includes an article about a school- built by a private company and privately owned , that has no light switches- so the lights are on 24/7. The education department pays for the power not the school owner so it didn't make "financial sense" for the switches to be included. "I really fail to see how this nation will continue to be able to operate Social security and the other "welfare-like" services that it runs because of the cost. Maybe I need to do some research?" Yes, you very clearly need to do some research. It's not that difficult. The nation can continue to operate in exactly that same way that it operated before. Nothing much has changed. People are born, go to school, go to work, get old, retire and die. From time to time during that, they get sick. OK, so people live longer- it's reasonable to assume that they will have to work for longer. Where I work, retirement used to be mandatory at 60. That upset a lot of people who would have preferred to carry on working. That situation has now changed. The retirement age isn't mandatory any more. "For schools, although I don't go to a public school..." You seem to have much to learn.

I have heard that you can live on beans on toast (and water of course)for a long while. It's got all the amino acids you need, it's fairly high in calories. I guess you would need to butter the toast in order to get the fat soluble vitamins and I'm not sure about vitamin B12 or folic acid unless the bread is fortified with them.

The answer to the question is, of course, no. But I'm at least as worried by this bit "Should we, the Army of our great nation, have the right to torture people in parts of the world to protect us? " Not least because that's exactly the same argument that terrorists use

Didn't actually understand electromagnetism. He noted it, studied it and wrote papers and such. The technologists made use of it 30 years before it was properly understood.

I presume that string junky's point was that the electric motor was built by a chemist who didn't really understand the physics involved. The electric motor was on the market by 1832, but the physics wasn't sorted out by Maxwell until 1861 So, this statement "technology like the electric motor couldnt be created without identification and understanding of the electromagnetic force developed by physicists and mathematicians." is plainly false.

"i don't want to start a fight between physicist and chemist on this board" Then you really messed up with your choice of question. And both chemistry and physics are pointless without technology, engineering, education, healthcare, refuse collection... So the answer to "Who do you think makes superconductors and ultra-pure zone refined silicon for electronics?" is probably engineers or technicians. In principle the process for zone refining silicon doesn't really do any chemistry. If you want to argue with that statement, please provide an equation- unbalanced will do for a start. (Incidentally- note to physicists who think that they can actually achieve anything with their glorious mathematical descriptions of the world: Have you solved the 3 body problem yet? No? I though not. So, since the whole lot relies on a set of approximations, the gap between them starts to look even smaller)

Arsenic has pretty much the same electronic structure in this stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenobetaine as it has in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide but the toxicity is rather different.

Storing that volume would be easy. Nobody ever said it wouldn't. It doesn't matter what charitable donations anyone makes. You can still save more people for the same $ by doing other things. I'm not saying nobody can prove that we killed those 36 people. I'm saying that we did it and we know we did (though we will never know which 36 it was- but that's not the point they are still dead no matter who they were.) So that's 3 straw man arguments in one post. I think that might be a record.

Imagine I have two horses. Say one of them can run a hundred times faster than the other. The slow one runs at 30 KM/H so the fast one runs at 3000 KM/H Do you think I have proved that I have a horse that breaks the sound barrier? Of course not. The error was this bit "Say one of them can run a hundred times faster than the other." It simply isn't true. There's a similar problem in your post where you say "Now say Object 2 ... has double the acceleration than Object 1" Just because you say it doesn't make it true.

It's probably something similar. The bleach is alkaline and alkalis turn turmeric reddish. The change to yellow could be because it picks up CO2 from the air abd becomes less alkaline or it could be some more complicated reaction with the hypochlorite.

". Is this a coincidence of randomness or is there something to it that explains it? " There are about 7 billion people on the planet. The ones who didn't dream about 9/11 just before it happened haven't posted. The ones who did have. People dream all sorts of weird stuff. Sometimes it happens and they make a note of it.

A mole of 85Kr has 6E23 or so atoms in it. In 10 years there will only be half of them left so the decay rate is of the order of 6E22 per year that's 2E20 per day or about 2E15 per second So 1E17 Bq is something like 100 moles of gas or about 2500 liters. That's not going to be easy to find among all the air that goes through a large factory. The idea of trapping it all simply isn't practical. (Though some is trapped for research purposes.

Yes it can. It's possible to come up with an estimate of the probability of the event based on chance and to compare that to the observed incidence. If you do I rather suspect that you will find that the best explanation is coincidence. You might see if you can track down a copy of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)

"It wouldn't require to reconfigure the reprocessing plant. " Yes it would. They are not designed fo trap the stuff. Some sort of trap would need to be added (and it's not particularly easy to trap inert gases). "Which is also incomparable with cars, which do bring some serious benefits as opposed to a poison in our atmosphere." You seem to have missed something http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning#Suicide The big issue here is that it would be silly to spend millions capturing Kr to save a dozen lives when you could spend the same money on, for example, better traffic control, and save many more lives. Why are you not posting about speed cameras or providing measles vaccinations in the developing world?

How often does it happen? How often should it happen simply by chance? Until you can answer those, you are not doing science.

Not all chemistry students end up as chemistry teachers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Early_life_and_education

"I consider that since 85Kr arrives from the power plants confined in fuel rods, keeping all 85Kr confined in some storage can't be that difficult. And to avoid three dozens possible deaths, it should be done, without arguing about risk models. " Banning cars could be done, and it would save many more people do you think "it should be done, without arguing about risk models." as well? Or do you accept that the models (which are actually risk/ benefit models) might be a better way to make the decision?

Unless you can calculate how many such cases there should be, you cannot say there are "too many".

You believe in telepathy, but telepathy doesn't exist. The help you need is medical, not the police.

The precipitate would be CeO2- probably hydrated to some degree. The answer to your question about " can you give me a few specific measurements for the solutions? "X grams of NaOH dissolved in X mL of H2O2 solution", and so on?" is that I'm sorry, but I can't. I'd have to experiment to find out.