Greg H.

It isn't difficult to comprehend at all as long as your first premise is that they think they have the right to legislate the morality of other people. After that it all makes a twisted kind of sense. It still makes me want to climb in a hole and permanently seal the hatch after me, but ...

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This, and to mix the flavor syrup evenly through the drink, so you don't end up with syrup in one spot.

I don't know about that, but they will render modern encryption standards obsolete.

Quoting myself from the other thread, in reference to PfA's comment:

I find that vodka helps.

Which leads to the following, seemingly nonsensical, phrase:

Personally, I'd be happy with a President from any party that could actually LEAD the country and help put an end to all of this partisan crap that freezes the country up every budget cycle. We need someone that can reach both sides of the aisle, and foster communication, consensus, and compromise. Then we might be able to actually get some real work done. But in order to do that, you need a candidate that is moderate enough to be acceptable to a large enough voting block on both sides, and the cuirrent primary cycles almost guarantee that won't happen - at least not anytime soon.

Abortions are legal in both the United States and Canada. In fact, as far as I can tell, the laws in Canada are even less restrictive than our own. According to the CDC1, the abortion rate in the United States has actually declined from 2000 to 2009(the last year I could find a report for). Canada's abortion rate is actually lower per capita than the United States', depsite them being less regulated.2 In fact, the country with the highest abortion rate, according to the UN records, is Russia. So I would say that the evidence suggests no firm correlation between abortion legality in North America and abortion rates. 1: See Pazol, K, et. al. (2009) Abortion Surveillance - United States 2009, available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6108a1.htm 2. Data from UNData Gender Stats Database.

Space is essentially the American Wild West circa 1850 at this point with a much higher barrier of entry.

Ted Cruz on any ticket scares me to no end. It's the same reason I didn't vote for McCain. I actually liked McCain and a lot of his ideas - but his choice of running mate left me with no doubt that things would get much worse much faster.

Or some venture capital? We could call it "Starguard", and charge counties a (relatively) small fee based on land area to provide early warnings. Bundle with "Waveguard tsunami detection now, and save 20%".

You could try a mixed application. Use the rubbery undercoating spray to form the initial shape and then coat both sides of it in the spray foam to give you your rigid surface.

Actually, a study done in 20101 indicates that we're not quite sure if gorillas eat meat or not. The study found three possible reasons for the presense of vertebrate DNA in the fecal matter of bonobos and gorillas. First, obviously, they were eating other small animals. Second, it could be contamination from the environment. Third, it is possible that some populations eat meat and others do not (similar to the differences in diet among populations of humans). It would be more reasonable to say that it is possible that some gorillas eat meat, but this has nothing really to do with the presence or absence of canines in the primate population. The answer is probably very complex, and stems from a variety of factors, such as dominance/mating displays (with larger canines being favored thus leading to more offspring), defense (larger canines leading to more adequate defense bites, leading to more offspring), or past environmental factors that led to those with larger canines surviving better (again, more offspring). The answers to these questions are rarely very simple, pithy statements like "They eat meat!" We eat meat too, and our canine teeth are pretty diminutive compared to a chimp or a gorilla. It might also interest you to know that there are several herbivores that have canine teeth - such as the horse. See Hofreiter, M, et. al. Vertebrate DNA in Fecal Samples from Bonobos and Gorillas: Evidence for Meat Consumption or Artefact?

And sooner or later, we'll get another E.L.E. impact. The problem is getting people to worry about things that may not happen durig their lifetimes. As a species, we're very short sighted, despite our intelligence.

Have you tried forming the net into the required shape and just spraying the insulation onto it? (I assume you have, but I thought I would ask) If it were me, I would probably use rigid foam insulation instead. Cut it with a hot knife or hot wire cutter to the proper shape and then use an adhesive caulk to join the bits and seal them. Given that I don't know your final application, that may or may not work for you. but I do something similar to build up insulation layers for hills on my model railroad.

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A lot of what goes on in Astronomy and Cosmology (and in physics in general) is supported by matematical models - we use those models to make predictions that we can test. Without the math, physics is just a bunch of interesting stories that may (or may not) actually relate to how the universe really behaves. That math is what tells us what the orbit of the earth looked like before we could send a spacecraft out of the orbital plane of the solar system to actually look at it. It lets us land spacecraft on the Moon and Mars, put them into orbit around places ever further away, and tells us about places that no one living today will ever see. Math is one of the most powerful tools the human race possesses and the best thing about it - it never lies. It may be misapplied, or the results may be misinterpreted, but those are failings in the humans using it, not in the math. If you're going to trust nothing else, trust the math.

What are you trying to do? That may help people provide suggestions.

They were intended more for the OP that your response, Moon. Sorry that wasn't more clear.

Why does Bloomberg feel the need to make the NRA afraid of him and his organization? When are we going to take the fear mongering out of the discussion, and sit down like a group of rational adults to have a serious discussion on what is necessary? As far as I'm concerned, Bloomberg is as much a part of the problem as the NRA. Stop using fear and sensationalism, and start using facts and logic.

I have three different ones in mind - WTF...?

I live in the Midwest - it routinely gets to be -10 degrees here in midwinter, -30 with the windchill, and people still go out and do what they do. If asphyxiating due to cold were a thing, the Inuit people would have died out a long time ago. More likely, the man died of something that closed off his airway, such as a severe allergic reaction, or inhalation of something toxic.

Speaking of Thrungbeasts, anyone know how to get the smell out of the carpet?

This sounds suspiciously like a homework question. Regardless a little judicious applicaiton of The Google would give you a starting point: https://www.google.com/search?q=hormones+produced+by+the+endocrine+system&oq=hormones+produced+by+the+endocrine+system