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I thought the explaination that they were insects caught in the flash was pretty good.

I always used to tell my mum it was futile, it will just get messy again.... never thought to use thermodynamics to argue the point though.

Quite a few good explanations have been given for what these photographical artifacts are, if you would bother to read the thread you might see them there. How are orbs in any way human??? As for the translucent anomaly why do you think its human. It seems your reasoning is that since we can't explain it it must be ghosts ....... the proper reasoning to have would be we don't know what it is untill it can be explained.

ise or ize both are acceptable... Or are you an american?

I read something like this about a robot controlled with hangfish neurons in New Scientist about a year ago. The first thing that spang to mind when I read the title was "vampire bats".

Potatoes are stem tubers actually.... I would think the result would be similar, but you are right, some potatoes have waxy skins, this may prevent osmosis taking place. You would definately get a similar result with a peeled potatoe, provided the salt concentration was greater than the osmolarity of the potato, as is the case with the carrot.

One night I counted to 40,000 then it was morning....... too many damn sheep in New Zealand.

Actually, its anthropomorphising or anthropomorphizing.... seems google isn't a great dictionary.... well anyway, whos gives a stuff....... if you want to know how to spell it there it is, but we knew what you meant, good try though.... try spelling it phonetically if you can say it, works for me normally. an-thro-po-mor-phis-ing edit: needed to shift a hyphen

Maybe life down below the crust on the far side could survive, there are some anaerobic bacteria that can live deep in the ground. Wheter eukaryotic multicellular life would re-evolve from this is another question though.

Mind you I always hated physics.

Let me try again. If you compressed pure water you would increase its density and its pressure. If you compressed sucrose solution you would increase its density and its pressure. The density and the pressure of each of these solutions is therefore proportional. However if you have two solutions and they are both of different densities and they contain different substances the proportional property of density to pressure is lost, this property only holds when the substance is kept constant. For instance mercury and water are both at the same pressure, 1 atm, but mecury is more dense.

wow, bold font, thats extravagant for a brit

Thats why, now wheres the evidence that they have.

Was my groan energy or did it contain energy?

Yes, alcohol and tobacco do far more health and social damage than marijuana, but if they made these illegal the government would lose all those taxes.... not to mention the backlash and the potential black markets, just look at the example from prohibition in the USA. The only difference between marijuana prohibition and alcohol prohibition is that alcohol was once highly popular while legal. Marijuana has only ever been highly popular while illegal.

Perhaps if you thought of the universe was an infinite void and that it is only this part of it that is expanding, then it might make more sense to you..... however this is incorrect, but it kind of gives you peace of mind though..... nothing, what a ghastly concept, infinity is so much more peaceful.

I interpret the expansion of the universe as matter expanding away from itself, it is not necessarily expanding into anything, since there is nothing (thats nothing, difficult concept) for it to expand into. The universe is everything (that we can observe, that can be measured and tested, so everything from a scientific viewpoint) it cannot be expanding into anything, since anything that it would be expanding into would have to be a part of it in the first place. Now off to read this exact same post somewhere in sayos link.

I didn't read past the front page, but I'd 'bounce' them if I saw them.

Which way? Swam the english channel when it was lower sea level? Walked over the sea ice? Crossed in boats? Havent seen the series, New Zealand public TV is crap.

Ooops I meant heidelbergensis. Heres a nice link: http://www.open.ac.uk/StudentWeb/s292/ Having trouble finding out about human history in the UK though.

Homo ergaster lived in the UK hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens, I think, but am not sure, that there was lower sea levels at this time, a few hundred thousand years is also enough time for continental plates to drift so perhaps the UK was slightly closer to the mainland at this time. If the sea level wasnt sufficiently low for humans to get to the UK via the english channel before the invention of boats, then they may have walked across the sea ice, perhaps they were out here looking for seals or something and came across the island. Im not sure what the earliest record of human activity in the UK is, I will do a search now.

Well the migration from africa took place over several thousand years, it wasn't a once off trek across the globe. During this time the earths climate was changing, at the peak of the last ice-age the sea level was much lower than it is today, due to the water being locked up in ice sheets, this allowed crossing of passages such as the bering straight which let Humans into america, and also possibly through the indonesian islands to australia, maybe only required a short swim. Also passage across from north africa to spain via gibralta may have been possible. I think you may also need to re-read the thread, he wasn't asking anything about how they walked so far.

I say yes, and I also say yes for legalisation for recreational purposes. The gangs here make too much money off it, this could otherwise be going to the government as taxes, this tax money could then fund health care and addiction counceling.

No, pangea existed ~245 million years ago, gondwana and laurasia split about 135 mya. We are talking 60 thousand years ago, not million, this is a very short time on a geological time scale, the continents were basically in the positions they are today. Anyway, what does pangea have to do with it?