CaptainPanic

I think most people who live on the moon use UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

You could study the resistance against hand sanitizers of those microorganisms in the handrails of public utility vehicles? Because although your professor might think they work, that might not be the case? There are several hand sanitizers: soap, cream, lotion And some of these only claim to desinfect when you apply it... but some claim that they have an effectiveness some time after you apply it. Obviously, you would need to know which microorganisms live on those handrails. Seems interesting to me. Just my 2 cents

I don't know the concentration of the vinegar, and I don't know how much you used on the cloths. But a laundry machine uses quite a bit of water, so the whole thing got diluted quite fast... which means it is not really a problem. Did you use bleach in solution or bleach powder?

I think the whole plan is very un-British. Since when to the British adapt to the continent?

You probably want power, not energy? 100-400 W http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_transport#Available_muscle_power http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/WeiLiangMok.shtml http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/pedal-a-watt-stationary-bicycle-generator/

I do that every morning, regardless of the timezone or summer/wintertime Coffee is my placebo.

I like your attitude, it's similar to my own way of learning. It's ok to learn by stubbornly clinging on to an idea until you have enough answers to move on to the next idea. I do the same. Keep asking questions and keep learning... but be prepared to admit that your ideas were wrong (once you've understood why).

[edit] Do I read correctly that they basically want to join the Central European Timezone, both in summer and in winter times? Why do they call it "double summer time" if it is also in effect during winters?

Necessary? No. Will the internet duplicate successful ideas? Yes. Exactly. I would see no reason to abandon this wonderful forum and go to facebook instead.

I do not think that there are any exclusive rights, meaning anyone else can do the same.

If the earth as a whole carried a net charge, would we be able to measure it? What if our entire solar system was charged as a whole, and has been since its origins? Would that make it any more difficult?

Planets are round because of gravity. Everything (all material of a planet) wants to be as close to the center of the planet as possible. That is the case in a sphere. Small rocks have such low gravity that they can have nearly any shape. There are many planetoids (small planets) that aren't perfectly round. But at a certain size, all planets are spheres. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_planet#Hydrostatic_equilibrium

Good point! I completely agree. That's why I ended my previous post with the remark that there are no signs or observations that suggest that the sun (or any other star) is giving birth to planets.

There are the solar winds. If we assume that the sun can indeed shoot out crazy amounts of mass at high enough velocities to reach orbits where the planets are, then we can also assume that the mad amount of mass will be followed by a mad amount of radiation at nearly the speed of light, which will provide the necessary force to keep something in an orbit, rather than an elipse which crosses the surface of the sun. We can also come up with some electric forces that have a similar effect. But so far I haven't seen anything that would indicate that the planets were formed this way... and other theories about the formation of the solar system seem to explain our reality quite well.

The polystyrene foam is made with another gas first... often it's pentane. The mixture gets extruded. The pentane evaporates when the pressure drops to atmospheric, and it makes the foam expand. Then the newly produced foam is then left to "breathe"... and the pentane gets replaced by air. So in ordinary polystyrene foam, the pockets are filled with normal air by the time it is used for any packaging.

I get the feeling that you wish to break up the concept of ethnic groups altogether... make people just 'citizen of the world', where people aren't part of a subculture or subgroup of any kind. And although that would solve a lot of problems, and it might create that united earth which people think is a goal of humanity, it's just not gonna work. We could remove the language barrier, but people will find another reason to identify themselves with a group. In the future, that may not be nationality, religion or language... there will be something else. We're group animals. Being part of a group makes us feel comfortable. And I don't think that people will feel comfortable being part of a herd so big that it is global. At least, not yet.

You could help us by copy-pasting a typical text that you wrote, and then we'll have a look?

Wow, very specific question. I did a quick scan of scientific literature, searching for [isobutylene membrane], but got nothing. That might mean it doesn't exist, or it means that it's being developed in companies/industry rather than academic laboratories. As far as I know, membranes are still not really off-the-shelf things, especially when it comes to larger molecules. My suggestion is that you hit the literature (journals, not books) yourself, and see how close you can get to what you want. Obviously, you should search google too, but I assume that you already did that. If you find a paper that is relevant, contact the author of such a paper directly. Unless you get lucky and find what you want, this sounds like it's gonna take some time.

Then why don't you make some mold, so that you distribute the forces to a much larger area? I never suggested that you concentrate the entire weight onto a single spot. It's still inaccurate, but you'll at least get an order of magnitude. Who knows... maybe the pressure is just a few mbar, and then you can create a pressure chamber with household equipment. Or you learn that it's several bars, and then you have to find a very different solution.

I think the answer to that is time. It will go the way it goes... and with very dominant forms of media that are nowadays truly global, it only makes sense that language becomes a more global thing too. We can try to stop that, but I think it's pointless. I think you've understood why I stopped the discussion regarding immigration. Immigration is heavily influenced by world politics, the economy, population growth, religion. That's such a broad topic that we must leave it here. I think the most interesting point in your post is that you mention languages. And I think that in this modern world, a language can give an ethnic group something unique. I think it's not religion, nationality or genetics. But at the same time, not everybody who speaks the same language belongs to a single ethnic group. But whenever people feel different, they will develop their own slang in a matter of just a few years or decades. But language evolves fast and even individual people change their accents and language as they grow older. I don't think that it should influence states or borders. Only if we would be able to find a more flexible model for a nation-state can we change them. Right now, these are very rigid institutions, and changing them often will create instability.

Have you ever thought about how the trees feel ignored all the time? Hmm? All you do is read about your 'nice motivating scientific stuff' on a fractionated and bleached tree-derivative, and you don't even give the trees a nice look. You selfish animal. [disclaimer for people with a different sense of humor than me: this was a joke]

But you do trust a bunch of anonymous people who get their information from google? LOL Anyway, there are also other search engines... and all the information that the "experts" on this forum get is also available somewhere on the internet. But what I wonder the most: Why on earth would you need to have the exact number of the European population, and why the hell do you think that Google/Wikipedia would lie about something like that? I mean, sure, there is a lot of crap on the internet... but I don't see why this wouldn't work.

Yeah, I don't really understand why this is a topic for a thread in a forum, rather than just a question for Google.

As far as I'm concerned, state and religion should be separated. But we might as well make that even broader: state and ethnicity should be separated. States should have nothing to do with ethnicity... it only creates trouble. There is such a concept as 'integration', which effectively means you become part of a society, but not necessarily an ethnicity. Immigration then is an interesting topic... and it's a topic that I haven't really figured out if I am honest. There are about 6 billion people worldwide who would probably like to move to where the richer 1 billion people live, because of the (much) higher standard of living. I really don't know on what grounds we can make a selection... and although it's an interesting question worthy of its own thread, I will not answer it here. I guess right now we make a selection on nationality, education and (potential) income... it probably makes sense.

I agree that this is always a threat to democracy itself. If people no longer make their own free choice, but instead get influenced what to vote for, then the system collapses. That's also not a real democracy... that's a sort of oligarchy or even despotism. In a democracy, voters cannot be influenced who they vote for, not by a friend or local, and certainly not by those in power (but unfortunately, this actually does happen in every democracy in the world - campaigning is important for a reason). So, when it comes to influencing voters, I agree that a "governmental authority" should be "weak". In a multi-party democratic system, and a well-informed electorate that it free to choose according to their own ideals and wishes, the democracy can still function regardless of how strong the government is. And then I define "strong" as "capable to come to decisions and actions representing the majority of the voters". I hope I understood your post correctly - you're writing long and complicated sentences, and English isn't my 1st language