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Wow, quite awesome creatures those imperial scorpies. The brazilian red tarantula (nhandu carapoensis) seems quite interesting too. Costs quite a bit, though. However, spiders are usually a good example of small, harmless looking -> übercreature of megadoom. http://www.bighairyspiders.com/pix/carapoensis1small.jpg Aww http://www.chameleoncounters.com/tarantulas/Nhandu_carapoensis.jpg Aiyee! 4 inch legspan. Hmm. It seems my post wasn't about H2O2 after all. Well, can't win 'em all.

Rofl. My math teacher told me a funny (and seemingly true) story today. Back in the days, his friend was late for a high school lesson. During those days, there were waaay more Jesus-and-the-like posters around. The teacher didn't mark the guy being absent nor late; no punishment whatsoever. Why? The guy said that he saw a poster that said "Jesus is coming. Just wait.", and waited for Jesus there for a while, resulting to being late for the lesson. So remember kids - don't obey posters. Except for the ones that say "Jump down the well". But seriously, there's quite often stupid things on posters. Such as "Vote Bush 2004".

Perhaps in the future we'll have computers that use radioactive nucleus-based random number generators. "forgive the typos, it was done on the fly :)" YOU AWFUL MAN! I'm going to call the activists - here's a Britt that sits on a fly while writing posts to forums! Awful, very awful. <That was for the member 15 thing you did with ed, you evil, evil man >

"I realise this cant be shown on the page of a book very easily, but I find it hard to imagine a reason Why all the planets would be on the same plane in concentric orbitals." I don't know a link, but a possible reason is this (I'm not qualified to answer this in any way, yet I do, silly me): Solar system long time ago: A cloud-like shape of... stuff. Inner parts start to become more dense. Due to spinning of the cloud, resulting from gravity, the cloud becomes more and more flat; a disc like shape. That's the reason planets are quite right on the same level. I'm not quite sure if the star-forming makes the cloud spin, but that's what I've heard. If it's wrong, blame someone else than me.

I watched a document about unusual foods; there's a store in London that sells chocolate covered scorpions and other similar "snacks". Yum yum! Had any, Sayo? Now then, perhaps my next post actually has something to do with H2O2.

I go temporarily insane when people say "this magnet is t3h l33t!" and don't give any value of the actual power (that one looks like it's at least N45 though). I think there were N52 (or about 1.45 teslas) magnet for sale somewhere... I find 1.45 teslas a reasonable power for a rather small magnet, as resonance imaging is about 4 teslas. Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, you can get N52 from lots of places.

"which last video? where?" It's highly classified.

"Actually i guess jupiter herself would have lifeform. there's a big ocean underneath." Yeah, of liquid hydrogen presumably! And metallic hydrogen under that. Bloody awful pressure there. "No thanks", says any lifeform, carbon-based or not.

It could also possibly be just random pieces of metal that gene put together to annoy us by asking what it is.

As the link swansont says, the do take much more radioactive punishment than humans (or any mammals). However, I think there was a design of a neutron bomb that was capable of giving 1kGy doses to creatures on ground level when the bomb is exploded at the height of couple km. DIE ROACHES, DIE! "temeperatures high enough to turn sand to glass..." Trinitite is awesome, that's why I'm going to get some.

It's definately a pigeon-shish-kebab maker. You now, pointy magnet stick, and iron filings mixed with bread crumbs that are then fed to pigeons.

"yes if washed and sterilised, you can use beach sand, but go through it with a strong magnet 1`st, iron particles will be plentiful and you don`t want that." That would have to be a reeeeally strong magnet. We're talking captures-all-paper-clips-within-mile-range sort of magnets, or are we?

If I would discover a species that's very primitive, I would annoy them by making patterns in fields and such. Then I would laugh my a$$ off when they're figuring out what the patterns are about. However, if there is a lifeform out there that's like me then... oh dear.

Yeah, the dictionary-one was the answer I was looking for my riddle. Yay for MadScientist.

Yeah I know, but a 1kGy dose of 1 MeV neutrons kills in the house and garden. Edit: Wow, found a nice (though old, I don't know if it's up to date) article about "munching bacteria" http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1998/10/21/news/munch/ "can withstand at least 1.7 million rads" Yipes. Edit2: Now then, back to eliminating cockroaches, if someone has something to add (YT covered the toxin thing quite well though )

"if theres a few you can watch them eat each other when they get stuck." Rofl "Go Bobby! BITE HIS HEAD OFF!"

"I wouldn't be pissed off, more like completely amazed." Yes of course at first, but when something does something without knowing s¤#% about it, the results are usually rather... bad. Another bad analogy: There's a kid. He want's to know about explosives. "Perhaps I'll make my own explosives when I have sufficient knowledge", the kid thinks. He then starts to study physics and chemistry. At a point, he thinks "I probably know enough", makes an explosive, prematurely exploding it, breaking three bones, getting bad burns and burning the house down. He didn't know enough; he just thought he did. Talking of explosives, that is probably one of the reasons why YT isn't sharing too many HE-making instructions. If he would, the kid-scenario mentioned above was likely to happen. Summary: Complete knowledge = good. Some knowledge, yet insufficient = mostly baaaad.

"you could try some neutron radiation as a good project!" You know what, I wonder why they don't use neutron radiation for bug exterminating. Or wait, maybe I do, since it's rather costly. But think about it; bomb a house with a heavy flux of neutrons and boom! Just about every living organism inside is rather dead. You'd have to wait for the radiation to go away, but it isn't too long, a couple of weeks I think (at least that's the case with neutron bombs).

Whoah, sounds rather interesting. But I don't think that I voluntarily want to breathe sulfur containing gases. Or is it so inert that it doesn't cause any problems like for example your lungs breaking into a bloody pulp?

"I think its because finland is quite cold" Yeah I realize that, but couldn't someone offer tiny, little sweaters to all cockroaches who voluntarily move to Finland? :<

You know that there's tomorrow after today, right? And a yesterday before today. But where does yesterday come after tomorrow?

Why does everyone else have cockroaches except Finland? Our nature's biodiversity sucks big time. What sort of 'roach was it? At least american cockroaches live normally more than a year, some individuals even near two years. Evaniid wasps are their natural enemy and not harmful to humans, you might want to get some of those. Or just blast the roaches with some mega insect-poison of überdoom.

"Argh, likelihood mangling detected." Just because no one has never seen a silicon based lifeform, or even proved that it's actually possible, doesn't mean there isn't a huge colony of silicon based spacemen on Europa. Usually I prefer -hoods not mangled though. Especially manhoods and Robin Hoods.

Remember the possible silicon based lifeforms - they don't necessarily have a need for water.

"Actually NASA currently funds a development team that studys the possibilities of faster then light travel. They hypothesize that antimater reactors or worm holes might hold a key in getting us to the other side of the galaxy. Pure speculation at this point, but they seem to agree that it is worth looking into." I heard that a wormhole is quite possible, but they can't make it big enough for even an atom to fit through. However, if we're thinking about FTL communication in the aspect of sending photons through the hole, there's a problem with the photon's wavelength and charge, if my memory serves. So, that sort of wormhole would be quite useless. :<