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Normal ice expands 11% on freezing. The other forms of ice (Ice I, ice II and so-on) expand less as they are formed under pressure. Ice formed under the pressure of several bar is denser than its liquid state, and sinks.

Probably have as much effect as throwing a banger at fog.

Good point.

I presented the hypothesis that you have 'Not had an awful lot of experience with depression'. This was based upon your contention that 'Depression is nothing more than a kick in the pants'. Ok, let's explore your experience. I'm always open to new ways of dealing with severe depression. So, exactly how many cases of severe depression have, in your experience, been successfully treated by telling the sufferer to 'get off his/her 'a$$' and DO SOMETHING about it'?

Welcome to the forum. Good first post too! This assumes the protein starts with an 'incorrect' conformation, and goes through all possible 'incorrect' conformations, ending with the 'correct' conformation. If the process is random, there is just as much chance that it could find the correct conformation in the first trial (one millionth of a second), or at any point in the series. Therefore 1.63 x 10^32 years is only the last of a huge number of possible times to the correct confomation, and is just as probable as one millionth of a second. If the process is random, there is no way to determine how long it would take.

Probably

"Bipedalism, language, opposable thumb...okay, what else." Geeze...what more do ya want? Language was a key factor. It allowed the transfer of information between individuals and groups, and the abstraction of ideas (the difference between tool users and tool makers). What allowed us to move north out of Africa, was the ability to alter our immediate environment (e.g. clothes, shelters, fire etc.), to prevent us freezing to death in winters, which don't happen on the equator.

Quite. Not had an awful lot of experience with depression, have you?

Yeah...different league from building model aircraft, innit?

Faeces = indigestible components of food (e.g. cellulose), sloughed cells, water, and anywhere between 30% and 60% bacteria (mainly escherichia coli). Broadly, carbon dioxide is the byproduct of the oxidisation of glucuse required to produce the energy to bind an organic phosphate to adenosine diphosphate (ADP), to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the mitochondria (where the krebs' cycle takes place), which is the source of our energy.

Hi Sonar. We hope you enjoy your time here too!

It's probably either genetic or practice, depending on the ability. For example, the longitudinal folding of the tongue is definitely genetic (i.e. no amount of practice will allow somebody to do it, who cannot do it to begin with). The moving the ears thing is probably down to practice. Most people make that movement when they laugh (thus most people can do it), and being able to do it deliberately is simply a matter of practice.

...his 'accomplishes'...? Sorry, couldn't resist

Silly me...what could I have been thinking?

Not really, we need the middle letters to provide cues concerning beginning and end and the overall size and shape of the words. Having said that, I just blew my own foot off by reading what you wrote, didn't I? Dangit.

I have seen little to suggest that you know much about conventional medicine either. You need to prove, or at least provide convincing evidence, that anything you do actually cures anything. It is clear you have strong views concerning your subject, but this is degenerating into abuse. If you can't present your case without abusing other members, you will lose the opportunity to present your case here at all.

....which are?

I couldn't have put it better myself.

Not quite accurate. Until it can be demonstrated that there is an action, investigations into the mechanism are irrelevant and entirely pointless. When penicillin was first shown to kill bacteria in culture, nobody knew how, but at least it was shown that it did. Investigations into how came later.

Hehe...yeah, I suppose. Her polydactyly took the form of ectopic 3rd phalanges projecting from the second joint of her little fingers, so I guess it was more 5.5 fingers per hand.

One of my friends has 12 fingers. She wouldn't have fallen for it either (simply because it wouldn't have worked on her )

No. It took a little longer (but not much). The surprising thing is the 'According to research at Cambridge' bit, which suggests it's quite recent. The principle that people read by scanning word 'shapes' and using semantic probabilities rather than reading every individual letter has been known for some time (it appears in 1st year Cog. Psych. books). Do you have a link to that research? I would be interested in seeing it.

No. I'm in that awful limbo looking for a full time post, so I'm teaching it as a part-time visiting lecturer (again ) to undergraduates ...most of whom hate it (particularly those who thought psychology was the 'cushy' option). I've been reduced to using smarties as a teaching aid/bribe. Sad really. Still, I managed to get some work on the Health Psychology module too this year, so at least there'll be some interesting debates on stuff like pain, euthenasia, drug abuse etc.. uh...don't s'pose you'd consider a swap?

Hehehe...yeah... I make me sick too sometimes