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Sure there is. The equation only cares about one specific point in time. 0 m/s2. That doesn't matter, because you're misapplying F = ma. The equation's used to tell what force could have caused a given acceleration, or what acceleration is created by a specific force (or a few other permutations on that). You need to remember that with gravity as you're standing on a scale, you're experiencing not one but two forces. They're equal and opposite, so yes, there is zero net force being applied. The forces cancel out. But that does not mean that there is no force being exerted on you at all.

Unfortunately gravity doesn't work quite the same way. Gravity is exerting a force on you equal to mg, where g is the free-fall acceleration due to gravity.

Yes, it does. Let's leave this subject to die.

And by scales do you mean a balance or a scale that takes one item at a time?

I presume each bottle of pills contains an identical quantity of pills and that the bottle without poisonous pills is filled with harmless pills?

Collisions won't start for several weeks after it fires up, and you'll probably see the first experiments being completed several months after that, and it'll take another few months to analyze the data, and another few to get the paper through review... so I'd wait a year or two before expecting anything major. Of course, if they see anything really spectacular they may announce it rather quickly.

I thought the serial comma was optional.

From what I've read, fonts with serifs aren't good choices for web sites because computer monitors don't have the same resolution as decent print media, and so the serifs end up being nasty. I can put up an alternative theme with a serif font. Is there a font face you prefer?

9.8m/s/s is an acceleration, not a velocity, so that doesn't really apply here. I think he's assuming you're in space traveling at Ludicrous SpeedTM.

I'll bet the Death Star couldn't beat a Borg Cube or two Thanks for the input, guys. I'll read through this thread again carefully and we'll try to put in action some of your ideas.

It's technically possible in vBulletin

And also that we have no system to moderate individual threads that way. We'd have to move them into a moderated forum to allow that to work. (Which would be a decent system.)

There's an edit time limit on posts -- after a certain time they're uneditable except by mods.

Religion is a very good way of enforcing social policies in large groups. (Whether you want to call it a "delusion" is up to you and Richard Dawkins.) Let's try not to wander too far into religious territory here.

A quick hint: Here's the feed. There's also an RSS feed for all new blog posts. (At some point I'm going to make that show only excerpts...) Enjoy, everyone!

We're considering starting a moderator escort service. For a modest fee, a moderator of your choice will back up your argument and give warnings to your opponent for up to a week.

Do you know if your operating system considers all of that RAM accessible? I'd agree with insane_alien -- run a memory test on it.

Unless the electromagnet is superconductive (in which case you'd need a refrigeration plant to keep it running) it'll lose some energy to electrical resistance.

As far as we know, there's no way to make a magnet with only one pole (a "monopole"). Nobody's ever seen one.

You can stop a heart with only a few milliamps, but you have to deliver the current directly to it. (A few milliamps to the skin won't work because of the resistance of your skin.)

Let's try to stick to the topic of the original post, please.

Pretty much. I pick words that would fit another situation but are entirely opposite of my meaning in the current situation.

I can change your username easily enough. I am not, however, entirely sure how difficult it would be to change the URL of your blog (the "pscience" bit). You can change the title of your blog easily (the "Moronic Acid" bit) in the WordPress admin panel. But I don't know what'll happen if I change the URL.

I think that's part of the point of this exercise.