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I knew a girl once who's next door neighbour had a little white cat. It had something wrong with it so that it never got bigger than when it was a kitten. They think it had some sort of mental dammage as well as it perminantly had it's tongue hanging out and sometimes it went diagonally instead of straight. Very cute!

Whats wrong with chocolate milk? People get all funny with chocolate - what is wrong with it? Contains protean, carbs, fat... Just what you need after going to the gym or dance studio. wrt veg. lots of people don't like certain foods when they are younger but aquire a taste for them when older. Either your tastes change, or, you just learn not to be so screamish and get on with eating for substance rather than pleasure. e.g. I used to hate mushrooms - now I love them! I used to hate peas - I still don't like them, but will eat them because they are food and are good for me.

pretty certain they only eat the dead/infected stuff - must be the flavour. I saw a documentry on this - if you leave them in the wound too long then they run out of dead stuff and infected meat to feed on and then they turn on each other - there have been cases of bandages being removed and people finding just one large maggot left over!. I don't think maggot poo is an issue. Hmm.. lovely topic - I'm just off to lunch.

you guys have probably seen this before but my avitar is an example of a fully working PM machine! Just look -- the 9's are heavier than the 6's so the wheel will roll to the right continually!

hermanntrude - I sent you a PM.

That's excellent! Nano TiO2 particles are used in sunblock to get high SPF values without staining the skin white. I made my own homemade version for my wife as she is allergic to most sunscreens. (OK, it was homemade in so much as I ordered some samples of nano TiO2 from some big componies). (sorry about the BMW post - I couldn't resist it).

Some call Dihydrogen Monoxide the "Invisible Killer" Dihydrogen Monoxide is linked to gun violence Dihydrogen monoxide was found at every recent school shooting Athletes use DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE, or DHMO, to enhance performance Dihydrogen Monoxide has been found in our rivers, lakes, oceans and streams Dihydrogen Monoxide is a major component of acid rain Thousands die each year after inhaling dihydrogen monoxide Dihydrogen Monoxide can be deadly Ok, with the exeption of gun violence, the rest is in fact quite true...

Shall we assume that sunflour seeds or rasins are cheaper? or have I missed that one somewhere? It takes about 3 mins by trial and error I think. You can only use 10 units anyway to make up your 1000g. Therefore tryout 10:0 / 9:1 / 8:2 / 7:3 / 6:4 / 50:50 / 4:6 etc... back to 0:10 units of each. (or have I missed the point here?) PS - If raisins are cheaper, use 50:50(75g fibre + 30g iron). If sunflour seeds are cheaper then use 100% sunflour seeds (100g fibre + 40g iron).

...... and there was me, all pleased, thinking I'd made a good first impression, oh well.. QUOTE:YT2095 "I wanted it so that there could be No arguments made or fought because of some perceived injustice of points being awarded "when I`m a better than he / she is..." it`s simply a way of saying Thank You and showing appreciation, nothing more. I figured we have plenty of ways to show we Disapprove and lots of tools to Bash someone with, so it would be Nice to have something that does the Opposite, and be Excellent to each other with." .......... Hippy!

So, just another quick question then with regard to the rep points, as I'm quite new. I only have about 11 posts to my name so far and only half of them have been science really. I have 10 reputation points already. Does this mean someone likes me or does everyone start with 10 points anyway? Cheers.

When I was at school I used to want to grow up and solve the worlds energy problems by sorting out the problems with nuclear fussion..... ahhhh.. if only. A few years ago (late 90's) I had breakfast in a B&B near Didcot and got talking to some random bloke who was staying in the place. He worked at JET (the Joint European Torus) - I told him how interesting I thought the place was and that I'd heard they actually got to break even point (something quite superficial in the news was published that day and broadcasters didn't think that the worlds first fussion experiment to break even was as important as what colour dress princess Di was wearing that day - neadless to say it didn't get reported!). He told me that they actually had it up and running beyond break even for a few mins after that. It's such a shame we haven't moved faster in progressing towards a solution - I know the research is expensive but what a beutiful ideal fussion is if we can get it sorted. Star power for the world - no more energy problems for ever. I hope the powers at be plough the money thats needed into the right areas to get this done - I'd love to see it in my lifetime. Then we can stop using up all the oil.

Hmm.. Ok I only just realised this. (have a rep point for my dog in the woods question from another post the other day YT). Where does the window show what your current rep is though??

I'll have to say that Klaynos is right about the Youngs double slit experiment. It is excellent for explaining how an electron travells as a wave and hits as a particle. It is the definitive explanation of wave-particle duallity.

I see you point and agree, but I'm not sure that is what Martin ment. I think he ment is space infinate. (?) I think you (YT) would be very good at the following type of question: 'How far can a dog run into the wood?"

The words "could be" make this statement true. If you were to have used the word "is" instead then it would not be true because no-one knows.

During my Ph.D. (about 10 years ago!) I made some 100 nm polymers stripes on a Si substrate using e-beam lithography. My Wife for her Ph.D. makes 10 nm dots and spheres by polymerisation. So between us we are experts at making nana dots and stripes! Very useful for someone I'm sure!!

He may not even need to use the torch - just prinkle salt on the ice and it should start to melt. Salt water (IIRC) freezes at about 14 or 15 degrees below 0C.

V = (4/3 Pi.rs^3)sphere - (Pi.rc^2 . h)cylinder where: rs = radius sphere rc = radius cylinder h = 6 inches ie - volume of sphere - volume of cylinder. Then simplify.

This has happened to me as well a couple of times. IIRC the Chinease used to put this down to a spirit/deamon that sits in your chest while you sleep. It is quite annoying and, whilst in your semiconcious state, it can be be quite confusing and a bit scary.

A real hard one (which doesn't sound hard at first untill you think about it) would be the universal translator! (in star trek) Sounds easy if you know the languages to translate - but could a computer translate a NEVER BEFORE heard alien language? Answer is no way, as they have no starting point to calibrate from - doesn't matter how good the technology, a never heard before lanuague comprised of gutteral sounds and clicks could not be translated to English instantly by a computer. However, allowing them their artistic licence - it is still a great idea and a cracking series.

Mendelejev has already given this site, but check out the coffe table - it's well cool! http://www.element-collection.com/html/coffee_table.html If I had a spare £5K to waste.....................

You divide the distance travelled over the time taken. ..errrrr.... OK I finally get it - you mean reading a book fast, not velocity measurement! Depends - you may get a snippet from a research paper if you need to scan it quickly to see if anything interesting is in it, but I doubt you can pass a degree buy being lasy enough to just speed read through a text book.

That is what I ment by this really.