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I would start with craigslist.

I agree. Can you imagine interior molten magma freezing in seconds just because the sun shuts off, even if you remove the atmosphere as well?

Well, they stopped making these before they could really catch on. I think we all know what will happen if we get a really decent alternative electric car as gas prices start to rise. Batteries will get smaller and more powerful, recharge alternatives will pop up all over, and an electric infrastructure will emerge that is market driven. I'm a bit skeptical of the battery swap idea, but that's probably because I'm so enamored with the idea of having PV shingles installed on my house and being able to charge my electric car myself. Generating my own power makes my nipples hard.

This is a discussion forum. If you would like to contribute towards that end, Paul Potter, then please stop trying to take members off-site to discuss your thread starters.

So can anyone give me a good recipe and instructions for making a colored smoke bomb I can devise for our Independence Day celebration in a month?

The Toyota RAV4 EV, a smallish SUV but fully electric, was sold for 6 years until Chevron stopped selling them the large format NiMH battery it ran on. They had to govern it's top speed to 78 mph and it could go 120 miles on a charge. There was little tooling cost since the RAV4 with an IC engine had been selling well for years. With rebates, the RAV4 EV sold for about US$29,000. IMO, this is how we should have hybridized cars, by switching already popular models to full electric. GM had their EV-1 and probably could have avoided their current troubles if they hadn't sold the NiMH technology to Chevron.

Agreed.

Do you want this post split off as it's own thread, possibly in Engineering? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedThis post was split from the thread Global Warming at the request of the thread starter.

I've heard when one assumes a missionary position, it requires effort, diligence and focus.

But that's not what you asked in the opening post.

Is it assumed that the ambient temperature of this "hypothetical totally empty vacuum" is already absolute zero?

... or less detail, of course. Come on, you bitch about the logo, tell us you can do better, and then go halfway?! No GutZ, no glory! I do like the image of the colliding lines, sort of like the LHC (except non-circular) and it also implies a collision of ideas, viewpoints, and cultures. Any way to make the impact look more productive, without making it the entire focus? Not bad, GutZ, but not there, too tentative. Give it your best shot if you want something that will impress.

This insulation would need to act as a plug against active magma being explosively ejected through the tube, protect up to 1300°C, and be airtight as well to protect against the toxic and explosive gasses associated with volcanic tubes. I would imagine that the resources spent on this would exceed those of shielding from the surface effects.

Volcanic tubes are also a great conduit for lava, which generates pain and death for explorers.

I totally agree. It even happens here at times, and I'm like you, I hate to NOT read all the posts and then repeat a point someone has already made since the last time I posted. Too big to fail? I think we're too different to fail. SFN isn't as repressive as some other sites, while maintaining rigor to keep it from being like some of the sloppy science sites out there. And of course, the civility you find here is quite different. We're just edgy enough to be interesting, but we don't allow the flame-fests that are so prevalent on the web. Actually, we're too trig* to fail * trig: v. t. - To fill; to stuff; to cram. a. - Full; also, trim; neat.

Perhaps one day's worth of posts is not enough to gather sufficient information to make such a blanket statement. Perhaps others with more input will see this thread in days to come.

Your double entendre was not Lost on me.

Deposits of gas hydrates are exposed by tectonic and thermal activity, and when the pockets happen to be underwater they are released as bubbles which rise to the surface. It's possible, though highly improbable, that a large pocket could swamp a ship on the surface, or disturb the air-to-gasoline mixture of an internal combustion engine if the plane were flying low enough for the methane to retain a high concentration. Oceans are really vast amounts of open water. The probability of a methane bubble large enough to do damage occurring underneath a passing vessel or plane is small, but not non-existent.

That would make them too independent, and their winter monsoon season may not be solar-friendly. South Korea should offer to give them free electricity if North Koreans buy their electronics.

I was going to suggest sending refrigerators and washing machines, but part of the problem is a very poor electricity transmission infrastructure. Maybe South Korea could start a black market business selling electricity to the North Koreans to get them "hooked", and eventually NK would become junkies looking for a fix wherever they can get it.

I believe studies were done on the methane pocket hypothesis. An aircraft would have to be flying very low over an area where a fresh methane discharge occurred in order for the concentration to affect an internal combustion engine.

I agree. Aren't you risking delay if the scanners can see that you're trying to hide something?

How do we know you're really -Demosthenes-?

Rofl, I approve of your post, here's some reputation points, you reeking wad of donkey snot!