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I see what you mean. It’s both the responsibility of the speaker and the listener to make the communication work using terms that both parties can understand. All too easy to step on toes when you have no idea about the person at the other end of cyberspace.

same here. I can't see what other use an international science forum has. (I can get information on any given topic much faster by more direct means). perhaps most people do not see the true potential of such a fortunate time and place.

lol. the two situations seem mutually exclusive. how do you ease the apparent paradox? like this? http://www.studyworksonline.com/worksheets/Composition/Images/C1LS_Roller_Coaster.jpg

This is really fascinating to me... can we please divert from love waves for a sec to get this sorted.... The reason I like to circle around a topic like a wolf around prey is to make sure I know what I’m about to go after.. and that I pick the best point of attack... Do you fear that the direct approach and quickly eliminating unlikely issues will lead to an incomplete or superficial understanding?

Did some research. Beating around the bush is a Wild Boar hunting term. Peasants beat around the bushes to flush out wild boar for the nobles to hunt. It was best not to face a Boar in the thick…it is at the advantage there… and has razor like tusks. The good thing about beating around the bush is that as well as getting the Boar into the open where it is easily seen…you also flush out other sorts of useful game…like rabbits and quail. So…I guess it depends on how you work.

Hey, no way...that's the way I like to work. trouble is, most other people don’t. usually it's more like...oh yea I have the answer and I’m going to show you were you are wrong and why. It's so nice to have a name for it...Praxes.....cool. I thought that it was the normal way people figured things out.... this conflict is a real revelation to me.

They are still screwed, They don’t have hands. And fire won’t start in water.

So is light like this http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/NewtonsCradle.cfm or like this http://www.danshistory.com/military/5inchgun-firing-lg-projectile.jpg

we get signals from space probes right? So are you saying you can compress and rarefy space … I thought space was almost a prefect vacuum?

Water waves are a compression and expansion of water. So… water waves travel in water. And… Sound waves travel in air. What medium do Radio waves travel in?

yup. and his dad will tell him to: "Pick your battles son" and he will say, "look dad, this is my most important battle". and his dad will say..."see you for golf next tuesday then".

Hi guys…I’m kind of interested in the concept of the matrix…from the point of view that it’s a good way to represent the real world using numbers. Might be useful for creating an A.I. processing stack or something like that. Maybe even a matrix of matricis…think really big. So, is a bar graph a matrix? can you have a matrix in more that three dimensions? Like, could you have a matrix that evolves to another over time?

I like waves. especially three dimensional spherical radiated waves... and multiple point generations sources.... all overlapping creating nodes. I hope one day that we will find out that reality waves, and that light is the basic unit of all things. I even heard that gravity might be mediated by the photon. As for what love waves do...they make you jealous , feel like not eating... make you sit for hours watching the light reflect off the face of a loved one...that sort of thing.

BBC today... moon craters explained by dislodged outer system asteroids freed by two largest planets aligning causing non circular orbits of planets and shifting of all planets distance from the sun... french computer simulation accounts for up to five unexplained solar system anomalies ... thoughts gentlemen please. Publication called "Nature" I think.

Dexter’s laboratory. I want that lab!

my most respectful advice to you is get a library card and get out a kids book on world civilisations. This is a perfect way to create a set of cubby-holes or grid if you like to stick all your information into. also I like to think that for every thing we must learn there is a person in history who figured it out first. I don’t care much for pi, but i do care about the first Babylonian wheat farmers trying to figure out how to make their land square using mathematics. So try and find out the who where and why for every what. also one other thing...try and get your knowledge first hand. don’t read about for example a "tiger"...get into that local zoo, watch the beast listen to the subsonic rumble of its growl... feel the fear... ask the keeper if you can watch it when it comes in for dental work... recapping...make a framework to place the information into before you start. Get the most first hand information possible.

David... were you... Autistic as a child? I'm still puzzling as to why anyone would bother re inventing the English language into a percentage efficiency style?

To make the exercise more useful to yourself, you need to analyse how your brain made the connections between the question and the answer. and figure out what mental bridge you did not cross...and tuck that bridge away in your memory for the next time you encounter a puzzle. hint classify what type of puzzle this is and locate the key word in the question, that unlocked the answer.

There was one small part of the latest film that totally captivated my imagination... don’t read on if you want to see the film unspoiled. When the guy from L.A. Law tries to take the baby princess Lea away to be adopted and the clone troopers try to stop him...one of the baby Jedi kids somehow survived and even though he is ill prepared gives it his best. that I think, I could writhe a complete story around. In fact any 20 min sequence from the film I could probably see being pulled out to a movie length, insightful, human type story. Yep, one thing about this last film...it could be that the sheer volume of content and action de humanised the adventure. left us on the side lines as it were. Ahhh I have it....Lucas needed to change his philosophy to "Slower more intense" he always wanted to see how fast you could tell a story...well maybe that was just tooo fast.

I'm thinking about all of your replies... ps Richard...if you are in the bottom of the bottomless pit... can you by chance see the top of the topless dancer?

huh? you mean sees colours as sounds with the bung eye. I know something about this...but I cant remember...isn’t there some drug that produces this side effect...

I am the beginning of eternity, I am the end of time and space, I am the start of everything and the end of every place. What am I ?

Ahh…set it back in the thirties…the Nazis have water collecting blimps which heard the clouds off to the pole to solidify them in order to control the world by controlling the fresh water. And some idea where the increase in ice cap size has some sort of knock on effect and Tom Cruse and that girl from Dawson’s creek can be in the movie.

oh good a story. how are you going to get rid of the rain? what is it about the planet earth that you will adjust? where on earth is there already no rain? is there ever rain in the desert? is there rain at the poles? what makes a cloudless day cloudless..... there must be a cool hub to centre this story around... thinking...thinking.... evaporation. water changing form...hmmm..... ice.... snow.... rain.... mist.... rivers .... ocean....evaporation.... clouds....hmmmm not an easy cycle to break.... introduced self replicating molecule synthesized from a comet causing water molecules to loose their ability to form into drops... new form of air bourn water algae that colours the clouds green and purple... suck up all the water then fall to earth with a great splash???