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This deserves to be quoted for further repetition - it's the method that matters.

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It depends where you're looking. In the head, the brain vastly predominates the signal, in the legs, the muscles dominate. To do magnetoencephalography, you just have to focus the detector on the head rather than the rest of the body. Besides, no real processing occurs until the spinal cord, and even there it's minimal.

Timecourse of scavenging, ideally. It may be possible to determine from the wounds whether they were inflicted shortly after death or many hours later.

It's just like strain - percent elongation. If you have a strain-to-failure of 3%, that means a 10cm sample will be 10.3 cm long when it breaks.

If you're not here to discuss your claims, you have no business here. Link removed.

Not necessarily. For instance, I have a hypothesis about this - the Lammergeier vulture. This species is native to the Alps, and has been reported to drop rocks on mountain animals (including humans) in an effort to scare them into falling. I'd hypothesize that the vulture scared the cows, and caused a stampede. I can test the hypothesis by examining the cow carcasses for signs of scavenging by this particular bird (should be fairly straightforward, since it's the biggest bird in the region with a nearly 9 foot wingspan).

It didn't disappear, it was deleted. There were multiple threads on the topic in the deleted post, all of which were closed due to persistent fallacies. You have been told multiple times to take discussion of this theory elsewhere, as we're all sick of it and your shoddy method of arguing it. The post that was deleted was a direct circumvention of mod action (closing threads). Do not try it again.

The nervous system doesn't really work the same way a wire does - it's not a stream of electrons, but rather a localized change in potential that propagates down the axon. It's also worth noting that information flows in *both* directions in most nerves, at frequencies that constantly vary. Plus, muscles are electrically excitable and are HUGE relative to nerves. Humans *do* produce a magnetic field, but it's chaotic and messy.

I've heard there are problems with solid state in terms of simple access speed, but that's just a vague recollection, and may no longer be true. Also, I doubt they'll ever be integrated into motherboards for a more pragmatic reason - upgrading. This way, you can buy a new drive when you need one, rather than having to shell out for a drive + board.

Yep, that's about it.

You'll need to make sure the water is dechlorinated - you can buy water dechlorinator at any fish shop. If the water just has chlorine, the chlorine will evaporate out within a few days, but some areas such a more stable chemical called chloramine. Again, any fish shop will be able to give you stuff to remove it.

No possible way that's real. Not unless this is take #50, and all prior trials are now in the morgue. I suspect everything from when he disappears in the curve of the ramp to when he emerges from the pool is CGI.

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so that you can meet girls." -- Matt Cartmill, Prof of Anthropology

Thank you for that useless and totally off-topic insight. Read the other posts before replying, and make your reply on topic, or I'm going to start deleting your replies.

Stay on topic and stop flogging your pet theory.

Neither are the insights from any single experiment in other sciences, including physics. It's putting them all together that makes it possible to gain larger insights. You can't just abandon the scientific method when it doesn't solve everything on the first try. Actually, IME, anything with humans is easier because you can give humans instructions, and we document everything anyway. Anyhow, we could quibble over which is more complex, but the point is that both are tremendously complex systems, yet one has embraced the scientific method and became a legitimate field, while the other has avoided actual experiments and became pseudoscience.

I dunno about the sea-to-land transitions - from what I know, most seem to have occurred in shallow freshwater rivers, lakes and swamps.

It's pretty obvious from an anatomical POV - once you eat, your body diverts blood and energy to the gut to process the food. And not a small amount, either. You have 3 major gut arteries - celiac (stomach and that general area), superior mesenteric (midgut, including most of the small intestine), and inferior mesenteric (part of the large intestine). The former and latter are big enough to stick a pencil into, and the superior mesenteric artery is big enough to put a finger in. By comparison, your So when folks say 'increased blood flow to the gut', we're talking about a LOT of blood.

He's a raving moron. See here. Yes, that's the same guy, and he really is stupid and deluded enough to have such a Disney view of nature.

Not always. While they aren't the majority of cases, IIRC, a substantial fraction of abortions are due to medical necessity (i.e. horrific deformities which would literally rip the mother apart from the inside were she to try and birth it).

Look, it's perfectly simple - the law is irrelevant to scientific fact. Any decent laywer could convince a jury that God made the Earth 6000 years ago, especially given the rules of jury selection and our population's staggering ignorance, and it would mean nothing. How you argue a case in court is VERY different from how you do science. In science, you cannot exclude evidence, rule out lines of questioning, hand-pick the jury, or rely on fallacy and argument from emotion. If you try, you'll get slammed. Is it right all the time? No. But a) science *eventually* gets it right, and b) it's probably got a higher rate of accuracy. The entire idea is a farce. Anyone who thinks this will be worth the effort it takes to laugh at it is deluded, stupid, or both.

Not really. Sure, at the macro scale things are a bit difficult, but it's very easy to set up smaller-scale experiments which, if designed right, can give valuable insight. As I pointed out earlier, look at ecology - it's vastly more complex than economics, but we've managed to gain quite a level of understanding by finding model systems, using long-term manipulations, etc. Any economist who claims "we can't do experiments" needs to go take ecology. For a lot who harp on about 'hard work', they sure are lazy.

The algae actually live in the stomach of the polyp, so they either excrete nutrients or are just digested.

If you're just outputting it into an AVI, you can download VirtualDub for free, pick any image file, place it anywhere in the video with any level of transparency. It's hands down one of the best video programs on the market, better than most of the ones that cost money.