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Glad to see you're pondering the big issues of today. Just Speculating here, seeing as this is a fictitious scenario, but I'm guessing you're right. An alien population that advanced would have prepared for such infections. Especially considering they go from planet to planet using up biological material regularly. The infection problem was a systematic one too, suggesting no real preparation, e.g. getting out of their machines and walking around a house with no suits on for protection. I think they were looking for Tom Cruise to kill him for spreading the cult beliefs of Scientology, which are so stupid it's an insult to the alien race.

If you're testing medicines for the correct compositions you'll need a degree to show that you're competent enough... I hope. What country are you in? xD Using analytical techniques will require practical, as well as theoretical practice and know-how to be successful. I don't know, but I think GC/MS machines cost an arm and a leg. Reading chromatographs and spectras requires supervised practice and you need to know all of the flaws involved with the techniques that might give false readings and stuff. Either go for a degree, or an apprenticeship, which places like GSK offer I think.

Nicely summarised, thanks. I've heard about Iranian officials talking about wiping out Israel. Completely idiotic to expect the world to allow you to build weapons of mass destruction when you're saying stuff like that.

Any historians about who would care summarises Israeli-Iranian relations for me? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19424097 There is fear that war between the two countries could be close now (more so than previously). Let's hope not. I've looked into their history but it's complicated and I am still confused about it.

This seems to be a recurring concern expressed across the internet. There's a new piece of technology that targets cancer specific genes and turns off the malignant cells. Sounds great, right? But then I scroll down to the comments section to see people discussing how it could be weaponised to target genes belonging primarily to certain ethnicities and them out. I personally think there are many flaws in that plan. Where did you hear about the idea? Or did the thought just come to you?

The UK gives £280mil to India every year, to 'improve' post-colonial relations aka. after exploiting them for many years. Even though the Indian finance minister said he doesn't want our help and what we're giving to them is "peanuts". In terms of history, we have a lot of debt to pay (in general), especially Europe to Africa, I'd say. That's the thing though, if you went back far enough, most countries have screwed each other over at one point or another. I'd say the debt should probably still be recognised if said country is still suffering at large, as a result of what another country did to it in the past. I wouldn't say the British Empire really owes India because they didn't really make things worse for them today... from what I know.

First SOPA then PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, and now TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership). TPP has cleverly been disguised as a free trade agreement, but yet again has snuck in corporate 'privacy' laws; which benefit nothing but corporate interests and restrict everyone else. When (if ever) do you think this madness will come to an end, i.e. when will the American government stop trying to pass this law with different names? Which the people have opposed again and again and again. Perhaps more relevantly, what will it take to bring a stop to it? http://www.guardian....free-trade-deal

W...what? how do you know it says that?? I'll have to ask the others who use the PC if they made it lol. Edit: I have a hunch that it may be a spoiler for one of the games on my PC.

Cheers Ivanv. Probably just techno babble in that case. John Cuthber: Dontmove through the door if the light is green.

So I was looking through my computer using the Start button's search bar, for a windows 'reminder' application. Apparently one doesn't exist. But I did find something else... something pretty weird: a doc. file called 'reminder'; when opened there is some text, written in the symbol font- so I can't understand it. Any idea how I can translate or decrypt this seemingly hidden message?

That's fully reasonable. You can go into A Level Biology if you have lower than a B in GCSE. Bare in mind that you will have to put in much more time and effort for A level than you did GCSE. Do segments of revision frequently. Success in A Level is essentially down to hard work. If you're in a state school, don't rely on teachers to give you the information; take the time to learn it yourself. Unless you go to private school, you can't expect decent help in school- for the majority of cases.

Freemasonry is surrounded by conspiracy theory... that doesn't make it a conspiracy. It is a private group with private interests. Talking of private interest, can you name your objections to private interest groups please?

I think examples could help to give us an idea. Freemasons? Bohemian Grove List?

Those extreme examples you used... we no longer have an Empire, we're no longer at world war, we aren't Communist China with millions upon millions of people able to work for nothing at all. Just because walls have been built in the past doesn't mean it's practicable today... it's too expensive for a small war like this. Those walls you listed were built to defend homeland territory defence; they didn't travel across the world to build a huge wall for one military operation. And it's easy to see why.

I think you're confused. I said "I've watched BBC documentaries" before you posted your BBC documentary. Therefore, when I made the comment, your comment with the video didn't exist yet. Why are you responding as if I somehow pre-emptively ignored your future comment? That would require time travel. I'll get round to watching it tomorrow.

Just this free website should do the trick: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/ There's a section called atomic structures and bonding. I can't really recommend any reading for chemistry, unless you want to buy OCR AS chemistry. Because that's basically where I learnt all of the fundamentals up to this point; along with the A2 book. Edit: Look into DNA. See its primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure when making up protein. This should help you too.

But as Phi For All said it used to be useful for humans. When we had longer hair. I think the theory is that it just never stopped happening, since when people had longer hair on their bodies. It's become redundant in a sense.

What I said wasn't strictly true, in that, the molecules are affected. In a sense. Their positions in space change when you stretch the shirt, but the molecules' connections to each other are unchanged... that is, the bonds aren't pulled apart, and the molecules are all the same positions relative to each other. I think at this point you need to learn more about the atomic level and how it results in the macro-level structures. Otherwise you will struggle to understand it. I can see the gap in your understanding, and it's not easy to fill without teaching you a fair amount of chemistry with detailed examples.

Indeed, they are. But there are many folds in the fibres- before you even reach the molecular level. Stretching the object only causes the 'macro folds' to become unfolded. (macro fold isn't real terminology, I'm using it to help though.) In the picture I've attached, you can see the 'primary folding' (the big zig-zag). If we magnify a section of the primary folding [in green], we find there is a secondary folding within it. This can repeat many, many times. But so what? When you stretch, say, a shirt. It is impossible to unfold all of the foldings, let alone therefore, to reach/affect the molecular level, which is smaller than all of the folds before it. This prevents tension reaching the molecular level. Did this explanation help?

Ah fair enough. "nuclear physics" a character next to sheldon answers the question, and says: "back in former soviet Russia I am nuclear physicist". lol.

Basically, the water is exerting force back against you, as you do to it. When you stand up, you are pushing down on the ground, and the ground is pushing up against you. With water It's the same, just lesser.

The molecules don't change. The fibres move positions in the object.

It does look like a Mandelstam Variables diagram. I'll try a search using a chain of wiki-links to try and get there now. Edit: Looks even more like a Feynman Diagram. Still some variations between them though. e.g. time is horizontal instead of vertical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagrams

Wow. Everything about what you said is stupid. Darwin's theory of evolution is an observation. It doesn't have attached to it, some stupid opinion about the killing of those perceived weaker than others. What religion really did in the past was to kill people who were perceived to be demon possessed, evil, or witches. Nice protection of human life, I see your point. Edit: for the purpose of staying on topic: "As we head into the future, will religion ever lose it's grip amongst the people?" It is and already has done. But ultimately I guess it depends on whether humanity continues to advance, or if we start going backwards for whatever reason. "Would the world be a better place if we were all evangelized?" You could equally ask, would the world be "better" if we were all atheists. To both of those questions, I'd say probably not. "Does anything else teach better ethics than religion? " That's down to opinion/belief. That's why religious beliefs should stay on a personal level, and should *not* be forced on everyone. Bad *typo* for a second there.

Purely out of interest, does anyone here know what this equation- extracted from an episode of The Big Bang Theory- is about? (other than nuclear physics). It gets sheldon cooper (despite being fictional) stuck, and he's meant to be genius. From that, and that alone, I'm assuming it's something pretty complex?