AzurePhoenix

i believe chromium is a grayishblue silver, but doesn't it have some unusual properties in the realm of color? Chromium means color... or soemthing like that. and I think it causes the colors to occur in rubies, emeralds, and alexandrite (a stone for which it causes to change color in low light)

Just try to remember that we never really get to tomorrow, because by the time it comes around, it's metamorphosized into today. See, no mo' 'morrow!! Also, fear of aliens (and i'm not talkin' mexicans) is a 100% valid fear.... i know i've been afraad of 'um since that night in the mountains a year or so back... man, i got sooo laid that night!!! I'm sorry, i'm so sorry,

when i lightly brush my palms, feet, lips or, um, female-chest-parts, i get a very intense "tickling" sensation that's almost unbearable, but it's very similar to the feelings i get, um, *cough*, down there, *cough* when i'm with a guy (or on my own ). Otherwise, i can't tickle myself whereas anyone else can, say, my abbs or neck. Odd. Didn't realize i had a foot fetish

ahh, my mistake

right, that's how we i.d the composition of luminous stellar bodies (with a spectrometer i think?) i just wasn't quite sure that the flame test and spectral sig. were really correlated. Thanx alot. Mercury's spectral signature covers ten bands of color, so it would burn white, right? I'm fairly sure i've got it.... thanx again.... *hug*

i'm trying to compile some data for class, and would like to know, when you add an element to a flame, and that flame changes color (magnesium=white, potassium=violet, and copper=green-blue) is the resulting color of the flame related to the element's spectral signature, or whatever that's called? And most importantly, is there a site i can go log onto to find what color each element burns, as well as their spectral signature, if they are different.... i'm particularly interested in cobalt, gold, silver and platinum.... i'd really appreciate some help, Thanx

just remembered, anyone see or read about the recently varified Microraptor gui fossils? All four limbs feathered for advanced gliding (possibly powered flight) plus a specially feathered tail... Sweet Stuff!!

Another basic theory is that afte evolving for whatever purpose (i personally fly with the thermo-regulation jazz) feathers attained even more prominant use stemming from their purposes for display... i think its obvious that dinos were very visual creatures (look at the crests on ceratopsians, horns on therapods and pachycephalosaurs, and the varying patterns of plates employed by stegosaur, or the crests evolved by hadrosaurs.) Such visual devices, though perfectly capable of serving those groups purposes, were biologically expensive to grow and develop, whereas feathers can be embellished and unique-ified just as well, for a fraction of the cost. This need for a unique visual identifier may hve helped to develop the structures needed to get past fluffy down (just speculation, on my part) and towards asymetrical flight feathers In addition, coelusaurs were the most bird-like of the saurischians, and probaby gave rise to birds. What many paleontoligist have determined is that the flapping motions performed by fying birds are almost identicle to the "mantis-strike" grasping movement supposedly employed by such smal coelurasaurs as troodontids and dromaeosaurs. It'd be easy to imagine small arboreal dinos leaping through the jungle canopy and reaching a point where natural selection leads to combination of these two separately evolved features, and bippity-boppity-boo, gliding... a few thousand years and natural selection favors better flappers, and in no time - Yay!!! Birdies!!!

Hey Dokta, go to this site, it might help you out, just found it, its not quite what your saying, but its interesting, and no philbo, it don't include no goddamn fossil sandals http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020418073440.htm and we're not talkin apes here, or even monkeys, just little guys, like dwarf lemurs Philby, buddy, try to play nice, it will get you so much further... you should keep that in mind as as grow into adulthood (yes, i seriously doubt your older than fourteen Mr. "Professor")

and as for the chicken... people can be unimaginably cruel to non-human animals when there's a chance thay can make a buck or get on the news

obviously, it was either not as dead as you thought, it was somehow relocated by natural or unnatural forces, or something ate it

Sorry philbo... i didn't mean to rag on your metaphorical poptarts...

huh... blinking? minor lip twitches? how bout your tongue?

and caustic, why the hell did you decapitate a poor, innocent, helpless, defenseless, angelic rattler? What harm could he have done to you.... sniff, sniff, overwhelming sadness

if you ensure its getting nutrients too, i don't see why you can't get it to live a long time, of course, you'd also need a filter to cleanse all the blood, but i know i'm missing something beyond obvious, several somethings, as to why even that wouldn't work right,

hehehe maybe if you had some evidence, a freakishly old jaw bone, or an ancient, eight million year-old primate palyboy.... but you don't, there is absolutely nothing backing up your claim, short of a wild theory with no supporting... stuff... to back it up, just pulled it outa your a$$ and made good ol' Ophiolite waste his time chastizing you for your immaturity... sorry, i'm just in a really crappy mood today...

I am thoroughly grateful

I had a dog named sadie.... didn't dream as often as my cat. Actually, i once caught my cat sleep stalking. Definetley asleep, eyes closed the entire time and didn't react to my calls or waving whatsoever, way passed her normal sleeping time (a fat, old cat) First, she walked into a glass door, fell over, got up, walked into the door again, circled around, did two laps around the living room, fell onto her side, kicked and snarled a little, got uup, went in ttwo small circles, then suddenly screeched and leapt four feet up into the air, landed on her side (not her feet!) woke up, panicked, and bolted into the laundry room. Is that bizarre or what?

As for roaches, i once had one that survived three weeks, totally headless... and besides not eating or reacting well to visual stimuli, he was quite active, and freaked out at vibrations and rapid temp changes... please, don't ask me why I had a pet roach or why i had to remove his head, the memories are just too painful. Jus take my word for it... it's a true story. Boy, I really miss Todd ...

Hey, i'm kind of a rookie-paleontology-buff, and i'd like to know if there is any validity to reports of two potentially new super-carnivores, Saurophaganax maximus, and Tyrannosaurus imperator. Apparently Saurophagnax was a giant Allosaur offshoot, possibly even a big species of the Allosaur genus. If it's been decently described and documented, how big was it? I've heard fifteen meters. If it hasn't been properly described, is it probably just a slightly large Allosaur whose size has been greatly over-exaggerated? Secondly, regarding Tyrannosaurus imperator, i've found information stating that a new species of Tyrannosaurus has been discovered that was 20% larger than any T-rex yet found, making it the largest terrestrial carnivore ever discovered, even bigger than Giganotosaurus "carrolini?" or Charcharodontosaurus saharicus. I've also read that it was probably only a big T-rex, but no conclusions to its actual size were suggested. Does the theory of T.imperator hold any value? Or was the fossil most likely just a larger than average T-rex? And if it was, how big was it really? Just a little larger than average, or as big as the upper-end estimates suggest it may have been? I'd really appreciate some information, and personal thoughts and opinions. Thanx

I would like to nominate a contender for the Darwin Award of this and the next century.

Okay, I didn't make a point, but here's one. Sure, when push comes to shove we're probably going to get back on track, but is that really the best solution? Instead of trying to cure genetic diseases so more people can have healthy kids, so that more people will be around, shouldn't we take the logical aproach and just emove bad genes from the pool so to speak. Snip snip. No more cystic fibrosis. Sorry if I'm being too blunt, but we've grown sentimental. "Give everyone a chance to have more kids," "oh no! Not enough children are being born!!" Cut the crap. For god's sake, we should just start requiring a license to breed. Of course, we'd need some way to ensure a new age hitler didn't get in charge of who gets a free pass on the parental slip n' slide. Also, two kids per couple (or one set of twins, or triplets, or a single first child then a second dose of twins or triplets) Of course, it would also help if we reverted to a more natural lifestyle. Scratch that last bit, I hate the amish... but if we lived in a limited population, in a society where people spent more of their lives out in the real (environmental) world, it wouldn't matter how advanced we became because we'd be more isolated form the rest of the world.

In my expereince, idiots outnumber intelectuals. Yup, we sure are an advanced species. I'm so proud, sniff, sniff, teardrop

Probably nothing more than some genetic oddity passed on by father to child for several generations, but puttered out and never surfaced in recorded history. One time genetic mutation that went extinct.

um, i think this planet has enough resources to support more than double the current population, and it's been speculated (i'm doubtful) that the pop. growth will level off a little bit before then, so lots of people are shrugging off over population as a threat to humanity. Personally, i'm not worried about us, i'm worried about everything else, from cutsee-wutsee (sp?) amoebes to big ol' whales. Hey, if a comet hits, there's not much we can do about it (right now), and besides, that's the natural way of things anyway. And snow lightning would be awesome.