DrP

no and no from me. Interesting anagram here: JSISPAT ~ SPAT JIS

bellend25 - did you try any of my experiments? You might find the antenna, being metal and obviously free from friction (sarcastic mode on ), just slips straight in through one ear and out of the other, just like everything else.

Here is a discussion with someone who tried to make one: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=32492&highlight=vacuum+balloon&page=2

can the surface tension of the water be reduced with an additive (solvent or surfactant)? it might still need supporting but it may help reduce the stress a bit?

In the news yesterday there was a monkey who had an electrode stuck in it's head - it managed to move a bionic arm with the impulses coming from its brain. Try sticking a very long needle like electrode into your brain and then, pointing the needle at an object, concentrate REALLY hard - you never know, it might just move! The needle will act as a sort of aerial or transmitter for your thought power! You might get better results if you stick it in one ear and out of the other and attach a couple of electrodes to the mains power. The electricity will help amplify your mind power. PS - If you try the experiment I suggested - please get parental guidance - electricity can be dangerous.

Very funny - I don't have time to play from work unfortunately. ydoaps - do you like this one? [ATTACH]1808[/ATTACH]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The more I know, the more I know I don't know!

I'm not so sure it wont work if you force it through the right nossel. He only wants it below 18C - I'm starting to think this could work, but I can't find anything practical about the AD expansion of water at the moment, just info about certain type of nossels. Will search harder when I'm not supposed to be working. Anyway, the spray could be quickly collected into a container so it is back to a full body of water again within a couple of feet from the nossel. (:embarass:Cringes as he realises he has spelt nozzel wrong about 5 times already )

OK, slap me if this is stupid, but couldn't you have the water in under pressure and then have it exiting at pressure through a small nossle. As the water exits the nossel it will cool due to adiabatic expansion. You could adjust the pressure of the water to get the temperature right - higher pressure = faster expansion and thus cooler water. (?) I'm sure you could do some maths to work out what the pressures should be and the nossel sizes (or you cold just play arround with it and see what happens by trial and error).

Exactly - if they can't find one of their own products on their own website with their own part number with their own search engine....I need say no more!

[attach]1806[/attach]

Yea I know..... Seriously tempted. Cheers - I was just having a rant really whilst I was in a bad mood - I intended the thread to be about the search engine really and just added my vista woes on at the end as the rage took me.. Perhaps I should have posted it seperately in the pre-existing slag off vista thread.

What if you bubbled the N2 through the water from the bottom at a reasonably steady rate (with stirring so the water wouldn't freeze up the pipe of course).. I reckon you could make a Slush Puppy in this way. (?) Heston Blumanthal makes ice cream with liquid N2. Even so.... I agree it would be inefficient. Someone asked me for ideas for an ice maker once - I also suggested a high powered Peltier or quick release of a pressurised CO2 capsual through a small nossel (bit like a snow maker).

A few years ago I needed to buy a piece of microsoft software. I had the part number. Went to MICROSOFT's web site and typed in the MICROSOFT part number into the MICROSOFT searchengine................. about a min later I got back a message saying that what I was looking for did not exist... Hmmm I thought.... lets try google... OK, I went to google and typed in the MICROSOFT part number.... less than 2 seconds later i was directed to a page on the MICROSOFT website showing a picture of the software, a full description and an option to 'buy it now'. Microsoft are apparently offering cash incentives to get people away from google to use their search engine... NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!! I wont even bother trying it out! :mad: ...................................................................................................................................................... Hmm... whilst on the subject our new PC has VISTA on it. We we told we could not have any other OS options at all when purchasing... 3 months in and it has completely broke - needs complete new install losing everything we have done. (got back up of course but not the point)... The support guy on the phone seemed quite unphased and suggested that ' oh never mind it's quite normal..... you can expect this to happen every 3-4 months'... WTF!??! We have to reinstall our complete system EVERY 3-4 MONTHS!! My attitude to Bill Gates is the same as the US General in the South Park movie - if only I had a gun "GET ME BILL GATES!"

I think they are Peshwari nans! The sweet ones - go very nicely with any curry with cocconut in it.

Oh yea Klaynos I know it's not anti grav..... I know it's not Mind power either! It does however (as does the lifter) give the appearance of levitation and it is quite cool (especially the superconductors. .... about2-4K)) (PS - Yipee - 100+ posts!)

Thanks - I'll read arround it when I get the chance anyway. One thing I have seen though, which is pretty cool, is that you can get a magnet to hover abouve a superconducting sheet. The magnetic field is mirrored I think in the SC and thus repelled and the thing floats in the air! ................ yea - here's an example in this site, although I have seen better pictures. http://www.coolmagnetman.com/magsuper.htm And here:

IIRC - It is thought that all galaxies, including our Milky Way have a super massive black hole at the centre.

If you ignite hydrogen in air (oxgen) then the result is water. 2H2 + O2 -heat-> 2H2O

Nothing to do with 'mind power' (!?!) but type 'ion lifter' into google and have a look at that - it isn't antigravity, but it is pretty cool. Some people think that UFO's are govement prototype tests for ion lifters and other 'antigrav' type devices which have been kept secerate. I havn't really got time to search into it right now, but does anyone know anything about spinning super conductors? I seem to remember some interesting claims regarding these and gravitational shielding (??!??!). Anyone know anything about this?

The steam could then drive a turbine to generate electricity as in a powerstation. Or as you say a ship could be propelled by steam power by having the steam pressure build up and used to push a piston. Look up steam engines.

Hi Ron. My Father suffers from chronic depression and he is a poet also. I typed up his anthology of poetry for him as he doesn't like computers. This was quite disturbing as some of the poetry was quite dark and down. Knowing that it could of been a reflection of what my dad was feeling was very sad for me. Apparently it is quite common or artistic and creative types. Soem poet lauriates have been sufferers and lots of comics get it too. I am no expert, but I have watched other people go through tough times. I myself have suffered mildly in the past as well. I put it down to being reasonably intellegent and taking the worlds (and ones own) problems on your shoulders and not being to work a way through them in your mind. Anyway - sometimes things build up. The last few years have been ace for me - getting properly paid work and getting married to my lovely wife - so things have leveled out alot. I don't know if what I am saying is making any sense at all. I dont really know what I am talking about really but thought I'd reply anyway, I hope thats OK - best regards to you. P.

OK - I don't claim to completely understand the whole experiment, or have the time to spend disecting it completely, but here is one thing I noticed in his 'proof of the ether' experiment. He calculates the error in his timers by doing shed loads of runs.... Fine. He then measures two differing times and sees that they are VERY slightly different.... He then SUBTRACTS the error he calculate as if it is an absolute error (surly he should quote it as plus or minus) and finds (what a suprise ) that the answer is still not identical to the theoretical and claims that this reading is FREE FROM ERROR because he has subtracted the errors already. He uses this difference to the theory to claim that the theory is out. Surely he can't do this? When working with extreamly small figures with the level of error in his equipment - he can't just say 'on average the error is xyz, so if I subtract xyz from my final averaged result then there is no error in the result.?..... I stopped reading it from there.

Congrats - enjoy your summer!!! Are you working or having some free time? I finnished my finals about 15 years ago now! And submitted my PhD thesis in 2000! Time flies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!