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Yeah hot air balloon maybe. Its fuzzed probably because its not in focus with the ground, which would make sense I suppose if it was pretty high altitude.

Yeah, not enough information to even guess.

Edison's greatness should not be rated on his patents. He owned big companies in which he paid people to develop the technology, which he would then patent. A great many of his patents had little to no involvment with him except that he owned them. He did of course invent a bunch of stuff too though.

Yeah they helped with that casimir effect, not sure if the spelling is right. The attraction of two conducting plates when extremely close together.

Look at peacocks, and all kinds of other birds. Females have superb camoflage. Males have bright colors, huge plumage, which amounts to a big sign that says "eat me". Males in most species are only required for a very brief conception. Females must actually carry the young for months during pregnancy, and then often raise them afterwords. Its also already been noted that if a population were to suffer a decline in males, that decline can be brought back up in pretty much a single generation. If there was a similar decline in females, it would take much longer for the population to rise again.

Scientists: Einstien, Maxwell, Newton, Galileo Plenty more of course, especially ancient greek philosphers (who wern't really scientists), and tons of important inventors. edit: Forgot Darwin

Step one: Learn how to write coherently.

I would be, but since I live in Canada and because of the way our school year is arranged, we dont have enough time to cover the subject matter before the exam, we still have 2 months of school left here. Well, my class is AP math 12, which is calc, so I assume we are talking about the same thing. I'm pissed, becase math is probably my favorite class and I probably would have been able to do well on it, if I had been taught the subject matter.

Another planet has occasionally been postulated to explain mysterious gravitational effects, or strange orbits of comets or moons. I'm not sure if there is any indication of another large body that we dont already know about, but the kuiper belt is far enough away that we'd have a hard time seeing another rocky/icy planet out there.

With that drug thing you then have an entire population addicted to what must be an extremely potent drug, probably with some side effects as well. If you want that society to actually function, there could be problems. Plus the population must be constantly supplied with the drug. If the supply ever dwindles, then large scale riots would quickly follow.

I hate these time travel arguments. To simply say that time travel is impossible because paradoxs are impossible is a rather childish way of looking at things. There are way to many things we dont know, like causality, how time travel would actually work, how time actually works. To simply say that paradoxs are impossible when we dont even know if time travel is possible doesn't make sense. Until we get a much much greater understanding of how these things actually work, you can't say time travel is possible or impossible, its all just a blind shot in the dark.

Surey it couldn't be used in that way. The energy put in would be greater than the energy gained, unless fusion was achieved.

Something about the first post makes me think that the poster is in fact, an idiot.

You can get energy from stuff falling.

I dont know what information you are looking for, but it sounds very specific, I doubt you will find a table with those values and probably not a simple formula either.

If the computer cannot determine the breakdown it may be because we dont know enough about it to predict it.

This seems to be a bit of a circular question. Pain by definition is something that is unpleasant. If we liked it, it would no longer be pain. We dislike pain because it serves a defensive purpose.

Well a nuclear reaction would have to do with changing the configurations of the atomic nuclei, not just moving the atoms themselves around. I dont see why it would take a tremendous amount of energy, I would think it would take a very small amount, since an atom is very, very small. Are you asking how would electricity be transmitted over such small scales? It would be difficult, but I'm sure its possible to make something that can carry energy to a tiny device like that.

How would a person go about predicting transparency of different things to certain wavelengths? Or is it too complex, considering how many possible compounds there are out there.