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Drug effects without consuming drugs!
antimatter replied to stingray78's topic in Psychiatry and Psychology
There's already been a thread about this: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=17992 -
I agree with Klaynos, he was a one-in-a-kind individual. Even his brain was physically different than a normal humans brain is. To even associate him with us lowly people is...HERESY! Just joking, but really, there's no use writing about a person as if they were just a regular, when they most definitely weren't.
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I suppose it's also about strength of personality and character, who can control their urges, right? I mean, I'm not a very angry (anymore) or violent person, though I do enjoy the occasional bout of Half-Life 2, in which I blast the heads of zombies with a .357 magnum. I do however have a friend, who's sort of a pushover, who plays F.E.A.R. and Crysis obsessively, and just two weeks ago he told me that he was going to knife me in the stomach. It's pretty consistent actually. So that's my evidence I guess, am I wrong?
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Any way to induce hallucination without drugs?
antimatter replied to hw help's topic in Psychiatry and Psychology
I hope this isn't out of context or anything, but I read through most of this thread and I found several cautionary tales, but I don't know if any of them are really real, but this is one I heard about at my sister's college. During a fraternity party they were using shrooms, and one kid, who according to my sister was a really nice guy, had a hallucination that he couldn't breathe, and actually grabbed a cooking knife and cut his own throat open. His friends tried to stop him, and in the process he cut off his friends finger. True story. -
Shooting range? ha! As Shakespeare once didn't say: "The Whole word's a shooting range, and all men merely targets" But irony aside, I don't think there's a way we can ever prove a correlation, not to mention have a reasonable argument against it.
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A way to simulate gravity perfectly in the space station
antimatter replied to Hypercube's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
I think they employ rotation in 2001, though it's been a while since I read the book... I do remember though in the movie they use something like velcro so that people can walk upside down. -
How exactly does that work?
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According to the ancient Greek philospher Zeno, you can never reach a pre-specified destination because you must travel half-way, then half of that, and half of that, down to infinitely small values. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#The_dichotomy_paradox As Aristotle said: Here is the equation that "proves" it: Essentially there are two standpoints, one philosophic; that you can easily reach your destination, seeing as it happens all the time, or the scientific, which I already explained.
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Binary Systems and Supermassive Black Holes
antimatter replied to antimatter's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
uh... if you have the time, or the patience, would you mind explaining that one to me? I'm still...not really there in math in school... does the triangle mean change? -
First of all, they're not on Earth and that's the whole point, know one knows why. Who knows?
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Binary Systems and Supermassive Black Holes
antimatter replied to antimatter's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
What do you mean they appear in maths? I don't understand, would you mind giving some examples? -
Ah okay, so they're not common at all... maybe it has something to do with the environment?
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Is it difficult to make these droplets because they decay so quickly? or because it's just physically difficult to get them all together?
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Another "Itching" Thread
antimatter replied to antimatter's topic in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience
Oh, one more question: Is there some disease that makes it so that your connections aren't 'cut'? So everything has an over-amount of these connections? It's still a little difficult for me to grasp the concept, sorry if what I'm saying doesn't make any sense. -
Binary Systems and Supermassive Black Holes
antimatter replied to antimatter's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
It didn't say within the article, I just assumed. Why do we speak of them though, if they don't exist in nature, because wouldn't that mean that they don't exist at all? -
they decay in a millisecond? my god... and you're saying that could kill people between 1-10 km? Why hasn't anyone taken advantage of this as a super-weapon??
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so neutrons emit neutrons in decay?
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Right, but what was that list? Particles emitted in decay? Or particles THAT decay?
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Has anyone read Big Bang, by Simon Singh? If you haven't, it's a very good book about the history of Cosmology, with lots of science-y facts and the history behind major scientific discoveries.
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So when neutrons decay, they release radiation? I don't understand what that list of particles are, are they the particles that are released? If so, then why is a neutron part of that list?
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A man after my own heart.
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How would the decay wipe out living things? Radiation it emits? Sorry, I don't know very much about this...
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I wouldn't...
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Would you mind explaining the relevance of that post?
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Tricking Your Subconscious
antimatter replied to antimatter's topic in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience
I guess this is sort of like breaking away from your sub-conscious and having...two of them...