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That would be Ebola then. It's a lovely little mutating virus with high contagion rates and low gestation. It's apparently almost impossible to contain unless you can get Dustin Hoffman to help out, like he did for SARS.

I wanna know the story! Did you headbutt it? Did you? Butt it with your head, sir? Mmmmmmmmm I bet you did.

So, Doc Brown mislead me, I've attatched the stone of shame. Apparently the tempting of storms in the UK is a quite poor idea, before you get crazy ideas.............................. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1516880.stm

Ohh, there's a nice shop near where I live that sells surplus and redundant electrical equipment. It's quite expensive, but fun to wander round the big piles of junk. I forgot all about it until that reminded me, it's nice decoration for 'the house' tm No, what power it produces

I seem to remember a fella from Cambridge explaining to me that the lightning strike has traveled such a distance that having a small 3 foot metal pole is not enough to convince it to change direction at the last second. The lightning isn't 'aware' of the tree, golf club or ground until it connects (then it sometimes arches back to the lowest resistance within a certain radius of the strike, like Blike said). As for collecting the energy, I'd have to quote Doc Brown

Spiffy indeed! I wonder what the output is, if the background radiation is so low?

Nothing causes people to have more violent thoughts than evangelist starting a hoedown on a banjo. :shudder:

Country music and evangelical religion, obviously.

That particular one is especially meaningful, as Wilfred Owen was one of the great war poets. He died 7 days before the end of the war, after writing prominant anti war poetry during his service. He only continued to fight as he felt a sense of duty toward the men that he lead, that he could not ignore. The telegram informing his parent's he died arrived on armistice day (as peace was declared). Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori ~translated means 'How sweet and noble it is to die for you country', the recruting line the Army used at the time for the most bloody war ever to be fought. It was all just a bit to much for a 13 year old Monkey to take in though.

Different legal terms in the UK to the US (even though it's based on the UK model ) it's from the Misuse of Drugs Act in the UK. Class A is Heroin, cocaine, LSD etc and maximum prison time is life for supply. Class B is speed and designer drugs, and 5 years prison time for supply. Class C is Valium, tranquillisers or any none harmfull perscription drug. Still carrys up to a 5 year sentance, but it's up to the Judge as to the time to be served. But the class structure is basically the same, class 1 and 2 are the cases that get you sent to jail and class 3 is the same risk as stealing cookies. The effects from Canabis are far from temporary, have a look around any town center and you will find the local pothead with his brain fried from overuse, singing at the clouds. Alcohol has classifications, but no classifications under the Misuse of Drugs Act. For instance Snakebite is not legal (half cider half lager and blackcurrent) and neither is ponteen etc, I don't really know why.

Yup, and no one would remember Watson and Crick if Watson had not been a shameless self publicist. They just put odd bits of research together in a neat readable package. To get right down to it, few famous scientists were much more than well educated self publicists. Faraday is my favourite example. Doesn't really detract from the man though, or the message.

I'd be tempted to say that your teacher is a bit of a goofball. I'd be a bit worried that they were expressing personal opinions in schools, mind you I have a few friends teaching who worry me. Husband and wife, family, close friends etc knowing what the others are thinking has nothing to do with psychic connections so far as I'm aware. I think it's simply cognitive logic, the prediction of an event based on the analysis of thousands of situations of a similar nature. I wonder where that theory came from though? I hope it's not on your exam!

I love the BBC's reporting http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3100550.stm Just standing under David Blaines little box going 'oooh, it's a bit boring isn't it?' to nobody in general. Don't know if you heard about in the US, but the Londoners are annoyed with david, they keep chucking food at him and playing drums under his plastic tub. It's funny people just trying to mess with his mind. He didn't get that in the US. I'm trying to convince Sayonara³ to come down with us so we can walk around his a box with a sign that says:- Heh.

Me! No, wait, Darwin. No, no, Dawkins. No actually, James Watson's double helix thingy book, he and Crick discovered the double helix don't cha' know

Dammit. That's true, without the weight of a pill your just mesuring mass for no particualr reason.

No, there is an answer. And yes, it is a thought process evaluator, specifically an analytical one. No, it's not simple (like using a crazy 4 level pivoting scale). And they are all the same size, I assume, it doesn't matter.

I'll have to side with Dave's GCSE comment here. I won an award for a poem I wrote named 'harbingers of decay' about daffodils, I was trying to mock my teacher through poetry. It backfired. GSCE poetry is goat poo. You try appreciating Wilfred Owen when your 13. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Dulce.html

It's out of print. All 400 pages of it.

Of course they do, it's taught in secondary school. It's not a complex thought process, it's taught to 5 year olds, and there is no special school where Homeopaths children are sent. I can get you the key stage packs for 7 to 11 year olds where the scientific method is explained, and the 11 to 15 year old teaching plans for the US, UK and European educational systems. Really timokay, that's a silly thing to say.

Parallel for the high setting, as the 240v will be divided between the two elements. Series would step down the V over the two elements, with the first element acting as a regulator by providing resistance for the second element, the inefficency of the curicut should reduce the Volts to heat ratio sufficently to be called the low setting. One element all alone would be the medium power setting setting, as the 240v would be efficently transferred to the one element without resistance other than that in the element as it converts the energy to heat. Probably. I'm guessing as I'm bored.

The Pope...is of the opinion...that life....was created....through evolution.....the question is not did God have a hand in it, but how it happened. There was no pixie dust sprinkled on the planet, something triggered the creation of life in a empirical way, not in an arcane method.

ooh, I was wrong. The National Physical Laboratory is a genuine institution. Quite establised in fact. However Dr Richard Lord buddy from the university (Richard Wiseman, mentioned in the news story) is the guy who recently conducted research on 'the world's funniest joke', which is serious study indeed.

That's about the crux of it. What would produce those vibrations? Sod all, so far as I can fathom. Not that I'm disputing the effect, I'm just at a loss as to the supposed cause. I understand that ultrasound could cause unease etc, but it's a fair old jump to ghosts and goblins. Isn't still just feasable to say big old houses make people uneasy? What's wrong with that theory?

Lightening? Not that far really, remember how far the thunder travels. Plus the atmosphere in which lighting storms are created often throws the pressures around, which affect balance in the inner ear. It's why cat's and dogs go mental if they are outside in a thunderstorm.

It was a rhetorical answer