John Cuthber

According to this http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/09567135/1996/00000007/00000002/art00004 "There is only one commercial food irradiation plant operating in the USA." It's going to be busy, or the claim in the OP is wrong.

Much of the growth of the economy under Thatcher was due to North sea oil. Under a different government more of that money might have been invested in infrastructure like education or healthcare and less of it used to fund the outbreak of Porche driving champagne swilling yuppies in the City of London.

The government already restricts the supply of oil. The mechanism is called tax.

No, I can't explain a lot to my Grandmother; she's dead.

"Do you think it would be possible to hybridize bacteria with an engine " No.

Have you tried applying for an Arts Council grant for this work? Anyway, I think it remains speculative until this theory "The aim is to show how the 2-dimensional incompressible fractions of composite fermions theory can be found in 3-dimensional atomic structure " becomes established.

I suggest you learn to use capital letters.

Since he (Tredinnick) has no apparent understanding of cause and effect I don't see how he can represent his constituency, never mind fill any other role. However, the point about science is not that they happen to know the molecular weight of albumen or the decay rate of neutrons in a warm bath. The point is an understanding of the whole philosophy that science is based on (and which is, interestingly, at odds with both astrology and dishonesty).

Millikan's oil drop experiment? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.27s_experiment_and_cargo_cult_science

"If the vertical rise for a given set is let's say 100mm; and at about 90mm of the capillary column the tube bends 180º downwards as siphon... ¿ will it drip ? " No, because, if it did, it would be a perpetual motion machine.

In this thread it's probably a waste of time, but I think someone should point out that people with OCD make a lot more sense than wastetheist. Incidentally I know someone who suffers from CDO; it's like OCD; but properly alphabetised.

"there's no reason to presume that a good director must also be a good actor." True, but a good director must understand how theatre works. Why didn't they get a scientist to fill this post? I wonder how much of a coincidence it is that both he, and Mr Cameron studied PPE at Oxford and I wonder if that had more to do with his appointment than his understanding of science.

Just what we need, another politician who (so it seems) is already known to be dishonest. "However, he was forced to resign from the latter post by the Standards and Privileges Committee over an investigation into Neil Hamilton in 1996, when it found that he had "dissembled" in his evidence to the Committee over whether pressure was put onto an earlier investigation into Hamilton." (From the wiki article cited).

My guess is that they have copied something like this Sure, it's fusion but it's a research device or a geek toy.

Does that work with the steel ones and the bronze ones?

Anhydrous calcium chloride should remove the alcohol (and any water that's there). You would probably want to add something like calcium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate as well to make sure that no HCl was able to get into the gasoline. Another option would be to distil the stuff. How much fuel are you talking about? It might be easier to use toluene or trimethylpentane.

Lol.

That's not a viewpoint I always take. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt

That's not a riddle it's just gibberish.

OK, someone has to ask; If the cross is so definitively Christian, why do you never see Christ depicted wearing one? More seriously, the symbol here 2+2=4 is secular, but the same shape in a graveyard is Christian. Symbols have different meanings depending on context. A cross per se may not be Christian, but the particular one that the judgement is about is certainly Christian. I thought the cross was a corrupted Ankh anyway. Incidentally, my Scottish ancestry means I have to point out that a X shaped cross is Christian too.

There are fungi that produce hydrazine derivatives too. I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned this little creature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle Hydrazine and hydrogen peroxide was one of the first successful rocket fuel combinations.

The woman who runs one of the local curry houses is built like an elephant. (The food's good and it looks like she thinks so too). The idea that spices keep you thin is daft, not to mention proven wrong by a number of counter-examples. Time to close this thread I think.

We are not quite as clueless as Externet thinks, there is some information on the matter. For example there is evidence that, somewhere in the brain, there are neurons that spot horizontal lines and others that recognise vertical ones.

I must have missed a few things here. Resublimed sulphur "flowers of sulphur" has been a commercial product since Noah was a lad. Recrystallising sulphur from, for example, xylene efficiently means heating the xylene to its boiling point. The flash point will be lower than the boiling point. Adding another material, like xylene or toluene will give you sulphur containing xylene or toluene. Removing the solvent by evaporation will be a lot easier and quicker with a more volatile solvent. Anyone who is frightened of toluene had better stop filling cars' fuel tanks with petrol (Gasoline) which contains significant amounts of it.

It turns out that a friend of a friend of mine is also a researcher for this show. Go on! Help a friend of a friend of someone you see writing stuff on the net. As far as I can tell they count anyone who thinks of them self as a scientist Not a rigorous definition, but an easy one.