Endy0816

There are mirror neurons which are designed to allow a degree of mimicry. Generally heightened cases are associated with some sort of disorder(and are done without explicit awareness) but you could have just lucked out. Do get a second opinion before going too far down the self-diagnosis route.

I think the smart thing to do would be to share the information after having traveled some distance away from the planet. Let everyone else deal with the fallout, not like you are short on time. Come back when things have normalized again.

Design-wise it is pretty simple. Block out anything not upside down while looking through a mirror set up or a couple of prisms with the right shape. ~$25 ones: http://www.psychkits.com/inversion_goggles.html That link has the basic specs too. Might be able to work based off that. Odd cut for a prism though, might cost. Normally Instructables has good stuff, but I'm not seeing anything really reasonable there.

Looks like mirrors or prisms are the easiest routes to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation#Experimental_support http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Reversing_Goggles.html I'm sure something electronic could work as well.

You can use mirrors as a metaphor, but keep in mind that is all they can ever be. Mirrors are not perfectly reflective and the act of observation limits that which can be observed. You start doing the math and it only shows standard energy conservation. Anything you've gotten out of them beyond that is entirely internal.

Not sure what to say to this one, less sure what to say about iNow knowing this information.

He's right it wouldn't. Same gravity would be felt at the Earth. Mass is the same so the gravity is the same. It is only inside the hole that you'd notice the difference(perpetual darkness not withstanding).

Thank you for making me feel better about my own age Navy Training 2002, D-Bone, D-money. Endy, came from Indy when there was naming conflict with 'myself' on a message board. Ordinarily untaken though think I have finally run into an inevitable naming conflict with the RL scientist Drew Endy. He's a good sort though and is welcome to it. I have to ask, does your nickname relate to the moon, a mountain or both? I have found assumption can do a number on nickname meaning. More than a few mistake my name for some sort of Endymion reference.

The black hole itself is 3 dimensional. There is no getting around the gravitational forces by going in at an angle. Probe would also be flying into a relativistic jet. Be a bad bad day for the probe.

A new(and tasty) use for biological scaffolds!

Yeah, I see your point. Personally only ever really watched the marine variety. Feeding off the submarine and in the barnacles on the pier. Freshwater encounters were almost exclusively as a result of seeing crawdad fishing and gut reaction overrode any and all scientific interest.

I was just posting a couple of high salinity examples. No true marine ones out there(though the crab-eating frog comes close), but should be enough to raise reasonable doubt. Several species go to great lengths to avoid laying eggs in the ocean. IMO seems more plausible that something that doesn't have to doesn't, than does. Interesting to think about though.

There are a number that can handle high levels of salinity. The crab-eating frog is a good example. Name kind of says it all there. Taylor's Salamander is another(Salamanders need love too).

Saw this in Wired. Pretty interesting work.

Mine was based off of this: Using ceramics, maybe something in the theater style? Should come out looking pretty good.

Did a death mask using plaster at one point. If you can find a plastic craft mask that helps out a lot with the forming.

Knowledge of an insane act can cause copycats. Suicide is a big area you see this in. Depending on your country there may already be media restrictions in place.

Think in terms of heat transfer. Water vs Air

Does anyone know if a rotating plasma can also undergo time dilation? Been thinking off and on about how it might allow a plasma ball to last longer than one would otherwise expect. Just not sure what the math would look like for a rotating system.

"He's good at quantum physics, just don't get him started on Schrödinger."

As I think was already mentioned, the "200 Rat study" was flawed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/09/24/does-genetically-modified-corn-cause-cancer-a-flawed-study/ ...and the Rats given Roundup in their drinking water lived the longest. We've been selecting for size, taste(sugars) and ease of manual harvesting. These are the nice, wholesome, "natural" crops we're talking about here. In the process we've introduced a number of undesirable traits along the way. We need to undo at least some of these in less than the thousands of years that it took to get to this point. Ocean problems are going to mean an increase in crop production. Mainly for our livestock barring acceptance of insect protein and/or lab grown meat. Anything that doesn't mean yet more land converted with resultant pollution is something worth investigating. Probably won't be a choice in the end. Necessity moves society forward like little else.

Scents are different chemical compounds, considerably more complex than photons.

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Yeah, more starch internally and a harder shell.