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What do you mean by "psionic energy"? Big electric balls of purple energy shooting from my hands, or energy behind telekinesis, or telepathy?

Stop, you're making me hungry! Then there should be the question of whether that is good for us? I'm far from being a vegetarian, but do we need to eat as much meat as we do? Protein is great, but that can come from other sources just as easy, if not easier.

Haikus are easy But sometimes they don't make sense Refrigerator.

Well if you took away all the electrons in a wall, it would quickly grab more from the air around, or from you trying to walk through it. And also if it had no electrons, then it's molecules would break apart and it would probably be more like a gas or plasma if it was contained.

This is true. When I press my hand against a wall, the only thing stopping my hand going right through it is the atoms and molecules of the wall repulsing the atoms and molecules in my hand, and vice versa. You would think that since atoms are made up of mostly empty space (and thus all matter is as well), that I should be able to walk through a wall. But the electrons and protons that make up the atoms are charged and will repel each other. So technically the basic building blocks of matter in my hand don't necessarily physically touch the matter in the wall, but what I feel is the repulsion between them. Of course atoms are always moving and we are constantly swapping atoms and their electrons with everything we touch and even the air around us. The earth is just one big moving soup of matter.

Interesting, but does this mean that humans couldn't live an average life on, let's say, a chimp's diet? Because I know a lot of humans who eat a lot of junk food and other processed food that shouldn't be in their diet. So, wouldn't those people technically be better off on, a close enough to a good human diet, monkey chow? Also, do you know what species would have the closest dietary requirements to a human?

Well protein shakes and bars are full of good protein and carbs, but I was more hoping that something less expensive and full of vitamins as well had come out. Of course something like that would probably taste horrible but I could get over that.

Not the craziest post ever, it is a nice idea but it wouldn't work. Antimatter isn't found in nature so far, it can been seen being created in particle collisions, but usually in a matter and antimatter particle pair which annihilate right after. Here is a quote related to your subject from a CERN physicist: -from http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html So it's a no go at this time and in any foreseeable future.

Is this kind of what you are looking for? It lists the alleles which you do, and gives the phenotype for each.

If wikipedia can be considered to be reliable here, then you may have some form of heterochromia or sectoral heterochromia, if I read your description correctly. But it seems it could come about from a number of possibilities. You would probably have to be genetically tested to be sure. The pictures on wikipedia look so pretty. I wish I had different coloured eyes.

Electrons don't tend to disappear and be eaten up by space itself. But maybe the graviton, if it exists. There could be a force carrier particle for gravity (the graviton) that could be carrying the energy to bend space, but it hasn't been identified yet.

What's the story behind this discovery news article? They seem to claim that cold fusion is possible. I will make a wild guess and say that most people here would tell me the opposite. Why? What are the hurdles or snags in cold fusion? And do you think the scientists talked about in the article believe that it is possible?

I want to watch that one for sure soon, but I'm still finishing up reading the book.

I think it is just how you want to phrase it in your own mind. I wouldn't see anything wrong with calling that time travel. Technically we are traveling through time as we speak, and to an extent we can control this with our movement through the spatial dimensions. Traveling at the speed of light would be as if time had slowed to a stop. Too bad we can't travel faster than the speed of light, because then one might be able to take a leap and say time might run into the negatives, or we would travel backwards in time? I'm not a string theorist, so I wouldn't know for sure, but does time need to be contained within the extra dimensions that string theorists like to tag on? When they talk about 11 dimensions, time is included as one of those dimensions. The rest of the dimensions don't all have to be spatial either, what if there were more dimensions that acted more like our familiar time dimension, but more compact and curled up instead of blown up to interact directly with our senses? I found Brian Greene's the Elegant Universe book and documentary on Nova to be quite interesting on these subjects, but it really does leave everyone a bit confused in the end. There are many different versions of string theory as well as m-theory going around, and there could be any number of possibilities when talking about extra dimensions.

Right, but without a filtration system, would the air inside the plexiglass shield be any cleaner? And I would have to remove the shield to open the plates... unless maybe I had two holes with gloves attached so I could just slide my hands in. hmmm

That is a great show. I don't watch a lot of tv, but I do quite enjoy that show. There are so many things that I used to clump together into the "they are all just made in a factory somewhere" group, but it's actually interesting to see the details of the manufacturing process that regular people usually wouldn't.

haha yeah I realize that I won't be gene splicing in my room anytime soon, but I was kind of hoping there would be something else that I could do with bacteria cultures, relatively inexpensively. I have cultured bacteria under strict step-by-step lab procedures in a biology course before, so I was hoping there would be something a little more advanced or something extra that I could try to do with the cultures. Thanks for the good cleaning advice. Would a plexiglass shield really help much if the plates have covers on them anyways?

Excellent! I'm looking into a few of these now. Thanks people. As a side, without trying to derail my own thread... has anyone seen the Elegant Universe on Nova with Brian Greene? I know it's probably simplified a lot for laymen and non experts like me, but I thought it was very well done, with a lot of visuals to help me understand the concepts a little better.

Do you have any favourite science documentaries? It's your chance to promote your favourites, and it would be very helpful to me as well. I'm in the mood for a few good documentaries in any area of science to keep me entertained after work. I know that people on these forums would know which documentaries to watch and which are to watch out for. That is my main reason for asking. I don't want to accidentally watch something that will brainwash me into believing lies or seeing only half of the story. Thank you!

Good to know, thanks! Is yogurt bacteria is relatively safe and easy to culture? I remember seeing mention somewhere of people culturing yogurt bacteria and then making it glow with a fluorescent jellyfish gene, and I'm sure I could think of other ways to modify the culture for fun and personal knowledge. I realize that by doing this at home it will be hard to ever culture something without contamination and difficult to do it all by the book, so to speak. Any suggestions or precautions or guides?

I looked him up on youtube, because you have to register for that site that you linked to. I watched Signing Emo, it was weird because it broke in with emo in places. Is the song supposed to be against large music labels for signing crappy bands just to make a quick buck?

Ah, gotcha! What's the Gene Generation all about? It looks like it could be a good watch. And yeah Daft Punk totally fits the bill. My roommate used to crank that song in uni residence and play it over and over again. He was in love with that song.

That Klein Four song was amazing! I will have to look up more songs by them. They have some very clever lyrics.

Wow! That is actually extremely fun. Great find!

Wow YT2095, combichrist videos are insane! I watched a bunch on youtube, and their music is pretty good, but where is the geekyness? I totally forgot about MC Hawking! haha it's pretty funny stuff. Just in case anyone is interested in that style of music. The lyrics are pretty funny, and IMHO the video itself is hilarious. It's cool if you like Star Trek, and Everything I Do has some comedic lyrics. I also remembered the name of that Klingon death metal band. haha They dress like Klingons, act like Klingons, and I believe even sing some songs in Klingon. Can't get geekier than that.