Cap'n Refsmmat

The law of conservation of energy, which means that energy cannot be created or destroyed. That's sort of linked to matter by e=mc2 so thus there is a finite amount of matter and energy. Or, as another answer, he could say, "I'm actually educated."

A manned submarine can pick its target and choose what to blow up. It also can blow things up more than once. It can be deactivated. It can choose between friendly ships and enemy ships. The list goes on. Look, even SOSUS can't detect a Kilo diesel electric sub when it's running slowly on electric motors. Who would say that it could detect a submarine that is not even moving at all?

I mean getting the claws removed entirely. I like YT's analogy, but still! We tried yelling at her and whacking her when she clawed it, but it didn't work. She has scratching posts, and she scratches those too, but she still does the furniture. Once we had padded wallpaper (it was there when we got the house) and she clawed her way up about 5 feet of it.

It becomes invisible? What? Due to relativity, any mass approaching lightspeed has its time slow down, and its mass increase. The amount of energy required to speed it up reaches infinite, and even if you did hit light speed time would stop. Therefore a photon can't have mass or it wouldn't hit the speed of light.

Wait! You obviously don't understand submarines very well. This would sit in a fixed position on the bottom. Its reactor wouldn't even need any pumps running, since no motors need to run and the coolant can circulate by convection. Therefore it would be nearly silent. Next, that extra-accurate sonar is not effective at as long a range as it could be. You can hear the pings before they bounce back strong enough for a ship to see you. So you could easily tell they were coming. Then you just vertical-launch a torpedo and BAM! no more ship! It would be a great and cheap defensive weapon.

How the heck could they detect you? A modern US submarine can't be detected at any speed under maybe 7 knots and over 2000 yards. They're quiet enough. And you wouldn't go around using active sonar that would alert them, since they'd blend in with the sea bottom and they could detect your sonar before the return signal gets strong enough for you to see them. Then they could blast you with a torpedo.

This was with electrons, not photons.

I read an article in Popular Mechanics a few years ago. It had this idea. What do you think of it? You'd have a submarine who's hull is made of concrete. Yes, concrete. It's supposed to withstand greater depths (when it's a foot thick) and it's supposed to be cheaper than a steel hull of the same strength. The idea is to have a concrete submarine that will float out and sink onto the seafloor, and just wait for months until someone goes overhead. Then you vertically launch a torpedo at them. To get to its station, it would need to float. A concrete sub with a hull this thick probably wouldn't float very well, so you'd have turbines mounted vertically to hold it up. What do you think of the idea?

Many people have their cats declawed and spayed/nuetered (including my family). This sparked a thought: Is declawing comparable to getting angry at a human for scratching you and taking their fingernails out? I mean, it's a cat, but do cats have this right? Or are they lower than us? Does our furniture have greater rights than our cats? () Same with neutering or spaying. I think they should be declawed, but I really couldn't defend that position. I'd like to see what you know.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/sidewinder5.htm

According to other sites, NO gas station explosion has been attributed to a cell phone. How do they know that? Well, they have a habit of investigating all of the explosions so they don't have gas stations blowing up left and right. So they ask all of the people that were there what they were doing. It seems that in none of the cases was anyone on a phone, or more accurately, they were not on the phone at the time of the explosion. It may be that they went in and out of the car to get their phone, thus building up a static charge, and then got blown up.

Nope, I get crap about tuning musical instruments.

I'm not sure actually, but considering that there are also many other pages disproving it, I believe them. They only showed on TV them trying 1, but they may have done several really. In fact, Shell denies that there ever was a cell-phone related explosion at a gas station (the myth says it was at a Shell, as do the news articles). There are also claims where someone was on their phone at the time of the explosion, and that caused it, but more interviews showed it to be incorrect.

I read this in a Dilbert book, but slightly different. Supposedly they changed it so the sensors deleted the data after the experiment was done. Then it changed, so they thought that information in the future can change the past. Then he says the conscious part of the brain only activates AFTER you do something, and he gives the example that you're pricked with a pin and you jump before you think about it. But you say "I was pricked by a pin, then I jumped" and somehow he makes it sound like you changed the past. Reflexes, anyone? Could it possibly be that the detectors create a magnetic field that mess up the experiment?

Actually, I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but yes. Think about it a second. You may have two elements that, if they are added together, will become another, but the typical fashion is for them to decay and become smaller, not larger. Fusion is the only process where two small atoms combine to be larger, but that requires another fission bomb (in the case of an h-bomb) to set it off. But if you gave these atoms enough energy, it might just be a fusion reaction: they turn into helium (in the case of two hydrogen atoms). Currently scientists are trying to create a reaction which is sustainable so that we don't have to put in more energy than it creates. So, sort of, a fusion reaction is like that.

Read the links I posted.

I have 2 old records of him, and that's it.

What?!?!?! I like the commentary where they go on about some symphony as it happens, talking in baseball terms. "And it looks like it's coming to a climax... and no! They came down again.... and it looks like it's the oboe this time that's holding that one note, he obviously doesn't know what he's doing!' "Yeah, Bob, I don't think he'll be on the roster next year."

Apparently you have forgotten what was posted before that. budellerwagh says they might just have gotten a bomb from the nuclear sub. You say "And then they take on the world?" like you think one bomb wouldn't save them. Then I tell you that you sure could defend yourself with it. We're talking what MIGHT HAVE happened.

With a nuclear bomb you can scare a lot of people out of their pants, can't you? If they buried it on the beach all of our soldiers would have been vaporized. It would be a disaster. We might be able to still take them, but we'd have to nuke them back. We couldn't tell if they had more of them and where they would have them, so we couldn't risk invading onto a nuclear minefield.

Cell phones do emit some radiation, but you could also say cordless phones (the ones with a base) do to, because to communicate with their base station they use microwaves. So you microwave your head, at low power. There's also a myth that a cell phone will ignite gasoline at a gas station, so they tell you not to have them on when you're filling up. It's a myth. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-cellphone-gas-fires.htm http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp Also it was on MythBusters. (added evidence to satisfy sayo)

I'll have you know that editing the databases is not something I like you to do, when it affects me. I suppose this thread will be deleted, but I think it would be funny for people to notice it.

I don't have the time, and I share this computer, so I couldn't really sit in it for a while. However, it would help if certain people would actually stay for a conversation instead of vanishing after they say " 'lo". (wink wink nudge nudge)

It didn't work.