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"Two gasoline distributors A and B are 228 miles apart on Interstate 80. A charges $0.85 per gallon and B charges $0.80 per gallon. Each charges $0.05 per mile for delivery. Where on Interstate 80 is the cost to the customer the same?" surely the answer will vary depending on the size of the order? I mean if I order 1 gallon from A at $0.85 and 1 gallon from B at $0.80 the difference in price is $0.05 So the point at which the price is the same from both companies is 114.5 miles from B and 113.5 miles from A However, if I order 6 gallons the difference in price $0.30 so at the same distances the price from A including mileage would be $10.775 and the price from B is $10.525 Do you see what I mean?

So do you guys have any tips?

I was under the impression that anybody could use type O for an infusion?

Hypothetically, if they were forced to fight (underwater Roman colluseum?) the crocodile would always win, the shark being the softer bodied of the two would sustain much more damage from every bite. Personally, I would punch them both out without any trouble and they would not attack me again (I call it percussive conditioning)

Interesting reading, what if the capillary action was used to draw the water up a slope and the down the other side (not as low as where it started), and then pool up until it poured over the edge onto the water wheel? Or, use ferrofluid - capillary action draws it upward and a magnet encourages it to form droplets and fall back down? Sorry to be so persistent with P-motion all the time, I just dont like the idea that it can't be done (it's my pet peeve)

I would guess at somewhere in the middle (eastern Europe into Asia - Mogolia maybe?)

Cross pollination? People regularly do this with cannabis at home (or wherever).

Whether or not you survive long enough to pass on your genes Or, if you will - Life A creature with a beneficial mutation may be more successful (at finding food, evading predators, surviving the climate...etc...) than one without it. Conversely, a creature with a detrimental mutation will likely die and not pass it on to the next generation.

True, but imagine we had a way to imediately tell the intelligence level of a person without requiring tests or other culturally or environmentally biased methods - for instance a machine that could take a snapshot of the brain and give an intelligence reading. I would be willing to bet that people from remote tribes were not genius's (genii'? What's the plural?), in fact I would imagine they would be very similar to most other cultures in terms of IQ

If it can be made to fall onto a water wheel before going back to where it started surely energy can be extracted. Admitedley the amount of water would be quite small so this would limit the size and speed of the wheel and therefore the energy output, but I'm sure a working model could be built

The first basic light sensing cells (which would have occurred as a result of random mutation) were obviously usefull and were passed on to the next generation. As time went on the creatures with the more sensitive light sensing cells obviously did better than the ones without or with less sensitivity to light, so passed on their dna more often -eventually resulting in the complex eyes we have today - hence evolution at work

New traits/mutations arise all the time, beneficial ones get passed on more often than those which are detrimental

Yes, but momentum comes from the energy that you put in, so you can extrapolate the amount of energy used to cause that momentum. In terms of calibration what I'm asking is surely I would need to hit it with a known force to give me an idea of how much force is needed to produce X amount of movement? Or, are you saying that I should calculate the force required using the length and weight of the thing and produce a scale that way? As for smartphone apps - I'm not really willing to smash up my phone and I very much doubt they are any good

"the brain also plays an important part in feeling pain" Part of conditioning is to teach your brain to expect a certain amount of pain and deal with it, as a practising martial artist for many years if I take a break from training (like at Christmas) I actually miss the residual level of pain that is usually with me (like an old friend) and feel strangely unsettled.

Ballistic pendulum:- Good idea, but how could I callibrate it so that I know how much movement equates to how much energy? I would need something that generates a known amount of energy High tech is too costly I'm afraid...

Hi all, How can I measure impact? I'd like to build something relatively simple that can measure the impact of a punch It needs to be fairly simple and portable, I thought about canibalising some bathroom scales... Any ideas?

"Infinity has an end within every known number squared" And tomatoes are truly the ladder of fructose in the scale of fruitiness (or whatever it was) "but they neither understand or perhaps really do not want to give this a benefit of a doubt" Science doesn't do "benefit of the doubt" that would be a terrible way to go about things "hence 10^3 kilometers = volume = cuboid." Not sure what you're trying to prove with this... I mean 10 x 3 kilometers could be a measurement of area but it could not be cuboid (for that it would have to be 10 x 3 x 3 or similar, you need 3 dimensions for volume), and 10^3 kilometers is just a whole lot of kilometers What are you saying?

He said it ran smoother than diesel and that only used cooking oil would work, I'm not sure where he was getting it all from or why stopped using it (although I think he said something about the law requiring some modification to the car to allow you to do it, which he hadn't done) It was certainly cheaper and as far as I know, he would do it again. And yes, very different to water

I disagree wholeheartedly

Exactly, the ultimate "boogey man" It's a means of control - "do as I say and you will be rewarded (after you die which is convenient as I dont want to have to reward anyone myself) and if you don't then you'll be punished (again conveniently after you die)".

Again, I would like to draw your attention to this: [/url] http://www.bigbangbl...ter-flow-uphill surely this would work?

I thought this was the internet? Is there more? Now I am confused and frightened... Interestingly, my dad ran his (diesel) car on used cooking oil for about 8 months, it smelled like chips cooking everywhere he went.

Sounds like he's talking crap

conditioning and nerve damage is also a factor

More than a while mate..... He was good. Imagine what someone like Derron Brown could accomplish 2000 years ago...