Moontanman

Back in the "good old days" when the USA was expanding, snake oil was a common term used to describe something someone was selling that was of unknown origin or content. A great many people would mix up "elixirs" and sell them as cures for what ever the customer was afflicted with, some of it was best used to remove stains or kill insects, A Rocky Mountain Cliff Diving Turtle is fictional of course (but the Washington Coast Tree Octopus is real ) but "snake oil' salesmen were famous for making up exotic ingredients to claim it was contained in their medicine so no one else could make the same claim. Of course the ingredients changed as the salesman moved from one area to another. "Snake Oil" is an euphemism for something (usually medicinal) not really what it is claimed and possibly harmful. If you pay attention to TV commercials you will often hear them claim nothing is better for this or that from pain to hair gloss but you will seldom if ever hear them say their product is better than everyone else's. I love those nutty commercials promising to do everything from grow hair to make your penis bigger, they are often so funny it's difficult to see how the manufacturer could be serious.

Volcanism is not constant and a snow ball earth would have allowed released CO2 to build up when a non iced up earth would have removed it via weathering.

Hmmm, an anti anti freeze, that is a challenge. Maybe you should try this experiment, I'm not sure how you would lay it out but you can use salt to freeze water.... Oh and another thing, aspartame, or at lest diet soda seems to freeze faster than regular soda, that could be a starting point to investigate.

I'm getting to the point that i hate these sensationalized "science" stories....

Are you saying salt has a lower heat capacity or that salt water has a lower heat capacity? It might be very true that your instruments are not sensitive enough to measure the difference, try super saturating the water with salt and see what happens. Although salt crystallizing out of solution as it cools will have an effect I would think. (are you using sodium chloride or sea salts?)

Quantum Physics First: Physicists Measure Without Distorting http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110602143159.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

From your link

I know! I am so good at so many things I bore people to death No matter how smart you are or think you are there is always someone who is snapping at your heels at least and probably more ahead of you hoping to stay ahead, genius is mostly hard work and inventiveness, take either one away and you will miss them greatly.

I think it's reasonable to say that birds did at one time have a tail fin, they had long tails that dangled down to provide stability, it didn't stick up like a airplane but it served the same purpose and it was lost in the evolutionary struggle at the K/T extinction and only birds with the rudimentary tails they have today made it through that bottle neck, the birds that all modern birds descended from lost their tails, possibly due to better brains, so they no longer needed them?

I read the link, the experimenter seems to be saying that the hypothesis is that salt water will cool faster than freshwater. I think this is flawed, salt water is denser than fresh and so a liter of salt water would be heavier than a liter of fresh so the salt water should cool slower. The salt water should cool slower due to evaporation from the salt water being slower than evaporation of fresh water as well.

What! You don't believe the oil from the rare Rocky Mountain cliff diving turtle will make your hair shine like the sun... shame on you for rejecting capitalism... snake oil has been a big part of our reality for a very long time, it used to be a lot worse and the idea of buyer beware was your only protection. Now there are at least rules that (mostly) keep them from being able to make dangerous claims but I agree using a model for beautiful hair who's hair has probably been that way since birth and using her good genes to sell a product by claiming the product will make your hair look as good as hers is despicable.

It was a complement Phylis, and I agree, family is a huge part of what makes us who we are and if your Dad beat your Mom then his sons will be likely to do the same thing and his daughters will tend to seek out abusive men. Blaming it all on the Mom seems to me at least to be simply more of blaming the woman for what the man does.... I knew it was Momma's fault

I'm not sure how much real science is involved in this study but what about the Dads? Dads can have a huge influence for good or bad on their kids, nice pic btw, you remind me of my Mom.....

A cool link, i didn't know there was missing baryonic matter, cool to know for sure.

I don't know about you Marat but i think I'm a bit of a Wiener,,,,,

The Casimir effect used to create photons! http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-researchers-create-light-from-almost.html

Absolutely awesome! I really want to see if anti-matter is the same in all ways as matter, gravity, spectrum, this is really heady stuff to me.... So many questions

I think this is reasonable evidence that elephants have and need a culture similar to the way humans have and need culture and the culture of chimps, whales, and some other animals. I am defining culture here was behavior that is not transmitted through our genes but through adults teaching children who have extended childhoods and cannot survive well if at all with out this information, this information tells them how to behave, where food and water is at different times of the year, any complex information they do not get via simply being what ever animal they are and has to be passed from adults to children and to their children on and on. I think it is part of the reason animals with complex cultures tend to have large brains and intellegence. I would like to question the idea that Elephants and rhinos get along, in the wild they are not exactly pals, Elephants are quite intelligent creatures live in large, long term family groups and generally do not harass other animals that leave them alone, rhinos on the other hand are dangerous, irritable, and apt to charge and gore almost anything, elephants included. Elephants are sometimes killed by rhinos, in the wild Elephants give rhinos a wide berth. I have honestly never heard of the opposite happening. How about a link to this info? Can you be a bit more clear on the unusual sexual behavior?

I've often wondered why some words seem to incite such a horrific response under some conditions and illicit quite another under different conditions when the words basically mean the same thing. I have in my life whispered the so called F bomb into womens ears with certain words before and after it and received quite a different response than when I've said the same word to the same women with different words before or after it even though none of the extra words were in any way bad or demeaning. I mean if the word F--k p-ss-s you off when it's said one way why not the other and why if i smash my finger and SHOUT F--K! I get a completely different response than if for instance a I loose my pen and just say f--k out loud? F--k is a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word, why is it hated so much? Frak it! BSG for those of you who are not literate in science fiction vernacular. Remember shoot is just shit with two o's How about "rapports sexuels" nah, doesn't quite have the same ambiance, maybe baiser?

I once read that the sun would expand and sterilize the earth before enough hydrogen from our planet could be fused to make a measurable difference in the amount of water in the ocean or some similar thing and that is probably pretty close to being correct. The main thing to remember about hydrogen fusion is that it does release neutrons and will cause other things to become radioactive so in the long term it is not much better than fission as far as waste is concerned, well the fusion waste probably wouldn't be as nasty as the waste from fission but there would still be a lot of it... except of course for aneutronic fusion, which perversely would use helium3 as it's fuel and produce no particle radiation and "could" skip the entire turning heat into motion and then into electricity cycle all other power plants rely on. The perversity of this is that helium3 is practically non existent on the Earth but occurs in a more reasonable quantity on the Moon! Don't ya just love it when a plan.... well lets just say doesn't quite come together. lol BTW a link was posted in another thread that has very good graphics and explains nuclear energy quite well and if it is correct Canada already has reactors that can operate on thorium... http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/57643-nuclear-energy-infographic/page__pid__610859#entry610859

Great link, good graphics, thanks for posting it.

How thin would this one metric ton of neutronium have to be for it to be one square meter?

I have a seafood addiction, i see food and i want to eat it! It's more difficult to stop eating once it gets out of hand than many people seem to realize. I eat late at night for some reason but seldom during the day, addiction is weird, hard to understand unless you have been there.

Yes but it would be an incredibly trivial amount, just a few hundred kilos, at most, of hydrogen fused would be enough to power the entire USA power grid. I don't know where his mind has taken him on this but that one thing is so inaccurate it's difficult to really go any further with the discussion he is presenting.