Cap'n Refsmmat

Visualize it. The box is five units long and four units wide. If you can fit six and a half cubes vertically, it's six and a half units tall. Then you simply multiply. The answer should be 130.

Give us something specific to go on that we can help you with. What can't you do? What in particular don't you understand? We're not going to teach the entire course to you here

A point about IQ tests: online ones have placed me at anywhere from 126 to 182. The only written one I have taken placed me at 140. I don't trust any of them.

There are two simple things I have to tell you: First of all, intelligence is probably (but not definitely) determined by both genes and environment. Your upbringing has quite a bit to do with how intelligent you end up, but so do your genes (it's arguable how much). Secondly, I'd suggest you be a little less arrogant about being intelligent. Computer skills hardly determine the intelligence of a person (digital immigrant vs. digital native), although your father might really be dim, and you actually are taking a rather simplistic viewpoint on this by presenting it as a false dichotomy. Genetics and heredity are not black and white; something can be influenced by genes and the environment.

Faster? Find spray paint.

This is the Brain Teasers forum.

This reads more like an advertisement for your book than an actual discussion of topics in your book.

You'll want to connect to blackcobalt.no-ip.org rather than blackcobalt.net.

I think bluenoise was right.

It is, however, amazingly easy to leave evidence behind.

It wasn't hermaphroditic though.

It's been around since 2002. We've had a bit of a slowdown recently - our best was May 2005, actually - but don't worry, someone will read this.

I split this from the other thread, as it was not relevant there.

A subatomic particle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton You go up the scale of particles until you start into organisms and finally "scientist," based on how many posts you have.

Chlamydia with laser guns?

I've moved this back into the original thread so things are clearer.

Ah, I see, dak... missed that.

Ooops, edited that. Let's try it: 9 | 23 15 14 45 18 | 8 15 23 | 12 15 14 7 | 2 8 9 19 | 23 9 12 12 | 2 | 1115 I WONDER HOW LONG B HIS WILL B KO or something.

9 2315144518 81523 1215147 2 8919 2391212 2 1115 Is that the sort of separator you meant?

Actually, I believe it is protons. Remember that isotopes are composed of the same element with different numbers of neutrons, and ions are the same element with different numbers of electrons. It is protons that matter. Check the periodic table on that one. Whoa there. Smallest particle. Remember that molecules are made of atoms, and so on. Go back and check that one. Are you sure? Remember that you answered above that neutrons have no charge. How can they balance out a charge if they have none themselves? Remember what I said about question 2. Take a look at your periodic table, and remember question 2. What element has two less protons than oxygen? Heh. Sorry, you might want to look that up. Is E a reason that they're empty space, or just a fact about the atoms? Check your periodic table. Nuclear reactor fuel is mostly plutonium and uranium, not transition metals in general. Sure? Remember what water is: hydrogen and oxygen. Remember question two, and use a periodic table. Remember question 2. Remember that atomic number = number of protons. There are only around 100 different elements... Note that I'm not giving you the answers, only help. I also didn't answer all of the questions, as some were correct and some I just don't know. Just remember these basic facts: The periodic table is organized by atomic number, which is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. Adding protons gives you a new atom. Adding neutrons or electrons just gives you a new isotope or ion of that same element, respectively. Atomic mass is also listed on the periodic table for your enjoyment. Good luck.

Ask one of us politely... bribes work well too. Just don't bother asking Phi.

Wait... you're correcting someone's spelling?

What sort of facts are they? Documents? Unearthed artifacts? Inscriptions from a 1,200 year old "1,001 Facts about Science" book? Just be careful. If you're mind's too open, your brain will fall out.

[math]a^3 + b^3 + a^2 - b^2[/math] Hmm... break it up into a difference of two squares and a sum of two cubes: [math](a + b)(a^2 - ab + b^2) + (a + b)(a - b)[/math] I think it can be simplified further from there, but I won't do the rest of your work for you. edit: I seem to be outclassed.

I happen to still have a cat that disemboweled a rabbit on my front lawn. One more off to the castle Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghh... I'm in a Monty Python joke mood.