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Hmm good that you brought it up, as I apparently missed it. Oh well, going to watch it later today. Edit: Alrighty then. Well, there was a lot of bullshit that I already knew to be bullshit, such as the new age ecowhatever and those shady carbon credit companies. I knew quite a bit of the statistics beforehand too and overall I didn't really get any wiser but I wasn't expecting to. Excellent entertainment nevertheless.

There are many factors that affect the atomic radius. The Wikipedia article has a decent summary about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius ( Try to think about it too, not just copypaste from Wikipedia. )

That reminded me of how superstitious Icelandic people take their mythology pretty seriously; basically every rock on a hillside is a petrified troll, every rock actually on a hill or a mountain ledge is also a petrified troll, where there aren't rocks there are presumably invisible elves, and every land formation was made by, you guessed it, trolls (or giants, Viking hereos, gods and whatnot). Also, in every single saga people get axed. A lot. And if they don't get something cut off with an axe they get impaled on a spear. Unfaithful spouses get axed, everyone who acts suspiciously (or weighs as much as a duck?) is obviously a witch and gets axed, sometimes someone is just bored and decides to axe someone a bit just because they don't like their face etc. If someone is extremely lucky and doesn't get axed or impaled on a spear, they're bound to get crushed by a landslide because they didn't give shelter to a pregnant woman or something. Oh, and one more thing about buildings etc. The people in the rural areas have a serious deathwish. I saw countless steep hills and cliffs where dozens of car-sized rocks had tumbled down. And quite commonly in between of these scary-looking rocks there were houses with sheet metal exteriors. Reinforced concrete might be more suitable considering how likely it is to get hit by a seven ton rock at some point in the future.

Looks like one carbon is bonded with three C and three H. Anyway that aside, it is indeed a 2,2,5,6-tetramethylheptane.

Arnold Schwarzenegger? Sorry, no. Surprising amounts of graffiti in Reykjavik though, seeing how vandalism and crime rates in general are very low. Perhaps they're not too strict about graffiti... partially due to the lack of building facade regulations maybe?

Note that some volcanoes are lactose intolerant. You shouldn't drop nacho cheese in there.

Well, my hair's shorter now so people won't necessarily call the cops when I go to a job interview. Still working on that.

Words cannot convey the level of fundamentally deep and adamant agreement that I am experiencing regarding this matter.

What's up with the high school bullying I keep hearing about (...not to mention seeing dozens of movies about) btw? I don't think I ever saw anyone get bullied in high school and I haven't heard of high school bullying from my friends who went to other schools. Which makes sense to me as people should've matured enough by then, in my opinion. Is it an American thing? I've always trying to take bullying attempts lightly, sometimes just joking about it was enough or even just telling people to quit it. Of course, that doesn't work for everyone but I've noticed stabbing people with sharp objects earns some extra respect. Then again I do have slight anger issues.

Can you detect these tempons only at a certain time of the month?

At least the discovery of radically different alternate biochemistries would be a bit of a smack in the face of the Rare Earth hypothesis, which admittedly has a point but relies heavily on narrow temperature ranges, water availability and other habitability factors with mainly Earth-like life in mind.

Finally uploaded some pictures.

Actually no, that's about 43 megatons, it wouldn't even be as powerful as Tsar Bomba. It'll be quite a while before we'll have antimatter weapons capable of vaporizing the Earth to any noticeable extent. Edit: Huh? Where did you get your extra megatons from, insane_alien? Or did I mess up my calculations?

I wish there was a best comeback category... so that I could've lost to Radical Edward.

Humans are the only animals to commit suicide for certain reasons, such as honor, religion etc. Obviously, these are all human concepts and thus it makes sense that such cases aren't evidenced in the animal world. However, self-termination in general isn't unheard of amongst animals, which can be considered suicide (I think the dictionary definition is simply any action that ends one's own life?). Some insect species "explode" themselves to protect their colony, and IIRC some animals appear to act in ways that guarantee a faster death if they're unable to reproduce, in physical pain etc. Perhaps someone else can give an example of the latter. But I suppose humans are the only species known to commit the kind of suicide where the sole intent is, due to psychological and abstract reasons, just dying without considering how it might affect other members of the species. Also, you should've probably used the search function as this subject has been discussed (a lot) in this thread.

To put it bluntly, sh!t would happen. The "every atom in body becomes ion" case is an interesting scenario though. Molecules would tear apart due to electromagnetic repulsion and I'd imagine you would meet a quick end in a violent, presumably spectacular ionic explosion. The ionized air scenario wouldn't be too pleasant either, one reason being that the oxygen molecules would turn into superoxide which is horribly toxic.

Hmm good point. Well, perhaps in the distant dystopic future when everyone has a microchip in their skull it could be set on "marriage mode" by the minister after engagement, prohibiting purchase of these kinds of services. "--ATTENTION HUSBAND JH62-X532-- YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF A BROTHEL PLEASE LEAVE THE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL BE VAPORIZED"

Couldn't married women (for example) just hand out posters to brothels with their husband's faces on them saying "Do not sexually gratify this man in any way"?

Exactly. We should all go to a country where prostitution is legal. Or even better, legalize prostitution wherever possible to see what happens.

Elements having some fundamental need to create life sounds almost as silly as water having memory and feelings etc. But sure, there are theories about alternative biochemistries. For example silicon and ammonia seem like possible substitutes for carbon and water, respectively. Actually since our understanding of life in general is a bit lacking, the presumption that all life is quite similar to life on Earth is sometimes thought to be a bit ignorant and is referred to as "carbon chauvinism".

Ah indeed, v > c results in an imaginary mass. FTL is an abbreviation of "faster than light". Causality concerns cause-effect relations, and is an important part of relativity. Violation of causality creates a paradox, for example the famous grandfather paradox.

They indeed have, for example if something has negative mass it will always travel at superluminary speeds. However, as something of negative energy goes back in time it can be seen as having positive energy and going forward in time. AFAIK this is how causality is preserved even with hypothetical superluminary particles like tachyons as no information is transferred FTL.

Well there's uh... hmm. I think I might get a haircut and a job sometime soon, preferably in that order.

...As mentioned many times earlier in this thread, solid ammonium hydroxide doesn't exist. NH3(aq), ammonia dissolved in water, is sometimes called ammonium hydroxide. If you want a 26% solution by mass, you can just dissolve ammonia into water until this is achieved (as ammonia is very soluble in water at room temperature), for example approximately 26g of NH3 in 74g of H2O.

It's good for a horrendous diarrhea/vomit reaction I hear, nothing wrong or illegal about thoroughly emptying one's bowels or stomach every now and then.