[insane_alien]

NPK - You should see(hear and smell them as well) the cows in the field behind my house. you might reconsider that statement.

[NPK]

insane_alien said:

NPK - You should see(hear and smell them as well) the cows in the field behind my house. you might reconsider that statement.

lol Yea, they burp more than they fart though.

[Douglas]

An ounce of gold thrown into a rushing river for 1000 years, will still be an ounce of gold.

A LUMP OF PURE GOLD THE SIZE OF A MATCHBOOK CAN BE FLATTENED INTO A SHEET THE SIZE OF A TENNIS COURT

[starbug1]

Isaac Asimov is the only author to publish a book in every category of the Dewey Decimal system except philosophy.

[computerages]

The average velocity for the moon to make one revolution around the Earth is approximately 1024.8 m/s, which is equivalent to the amount of megabytes (1024 MB) in a gigabyte (1 GB).

[Edtharan]

Other than Nuclear bombs the bigest explosion that has been created by humans was a Wheat Silo

[navynuke]

Solder, made up of lead and tin, has a lower melting point than either lead or tin.

[RyanJ]

Tin has the most stable isotopes of any element (10 of them).
Cesium Hydroxide has the highest pH possible, 15, and can dissolve glass.
Glass is not actually solid but is a Thixotropic Liquid.
Viruses may some day be used to fight colds via genetic engineering.

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[ecoli]

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Viruses may some day be used to fight colds via genetic engineering.

That's not a fact... that's wishful thinking.

[RyanJ]

ecoli said:

That's not a fact... that's wishful thinking.

Its a fact, its already being tested as such and is therefor a fact.

Another one seeing as I'm posting.

Helium is the only known element that does not form a solid state at standard pressure no matter what temperature you try due to its weak inter-molecular forces!

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[Kermit]

CanadaAotS]Water is the only compound known to be [I]less[/I said:

dense as a solid then a liquid.

I think that's wrong. I've read somewhere that solid plutonium will actually float on liquid plutonium due to solid plutonium being less dense. Someone confirm this?

[RyanJ]

Kermit said:

I think that's wrong. I've read somewhere that solid plutonium will actually float on liquid plutonium due to solid plutonium being less dense. Someone confirm this?

Afraid not, at room temperature Plutonium has a density of 19.816 g/cm³ and at its melting point its density is 16.63 g/cm³. Solid Plutonium is denser than liquid Plutonium.

Although I do not agree with the statement too, its one of only a few known that their solid states will float on the liquid form, there are otherss I just can't remember the names!

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[ecoli]

RyanJ said:

Its a fact, its already being tested as such and is therefor a fact.

The cold virus is not a single virus, but there are many different forms that are constantly mutating. I wish we could fight it, but there is no simple way to combat this. What is this research you speak of? Please provide a source.

[RyanJ]

ecoli said:

The cold virus is not a single virus, but there are many different forms that are constantly mutating. I wish we could fight it, but there is no simple way to combat this. What is this research you speak of? Please provide a source.

What do you mean what research? Science magazine covered it in last months issue :S Not only that its part of the Cancer fighting research and viral biochemical research too.

And I know its not a single virus but the way they said it was a virus can mutate to fight the mutating virus.

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[ecoli]

well, seeing as how I don't read science magazine, I couldn't have known that they published an article on it, could I?

So they're using viruses to fight the other cold viruses? That's what it sounds like you said.

[RyanJ]

ecoli said:

well, seeing as how I don't read science magazine, I couldn't have known that they published an article on it, could I?

Good point.. :embarass:

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So they're using viruses to fight the other cold viruses? That's what it sounds like you said.

Experimentaly they are thought he mutations of both the good and the bas strains are proving hard to keep tracks with and this they both end up becomming quite ineffective soon... thats one problem that needs to be ficed!

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[treva]

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Experimentaly they are thought he mutations of both the good and the bas strains are proving hard to keep tracks with and this they both end up becomming quite ineffective soon... thats one problem that needs to be ficed!

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

:confused: :confused: :confused:

How do you use one virus to fight off another? Viruses can't infect eachother (although one viruses RNA has been found to 'hitch hike' with a pox virus). Bacteriophages can theoretically be used as a theraputic for bacterial infections though...

[Nevermore]

Viri must fight for room. If a relativly harmless virus takes all the room for the cold, it will die.

[treva]

Considering viruses complete their life cycle by hijacking your own cellular machinery and using it for their own benefit, and considering the fact that if a cell recognizes it is infected with a virus it will sucide (assuming the infected cell isn't killed by your immune system first), and also considering that infected cells can have up to 1 million viral particles inside them, oh yeah and also considering the fact that for some virsues the only way they can get out of the cell after assmbly is by blowing it up, what exactly is a 'harmless' virus?

Also viri isn't a word pertaining to multiple virus particles - its viruses.


A few cool facts-

One of the microbes used to make yogourt is also present as part of the normal flora of the human vagina.

Bacteria and other intestinal microbes may consititue up to 50% of the mass of fecal material.

[RyanJ]

treva said:

Considering viruses complete their life cycle by hijacking your own cellular machinery and using it for their own benefit, and considering the fact that if a cell recognizes it is infected with a virus it will sucide (assuming the infected cell isn't killed by your immune system first), and also considering that infected cells can have up to 1 million viral particles inside them, oh yeah and also considering the fact that for some virsues the only way they can get out of the cell after assmbly is by blowing it up, what exactly is a 'harmless' virus?

The article did say that a virus could hijack another virus - don't ask me how but I'm just quoting what was said - it did say instead of injecting RNA that makes it replicate new viruses, it just screws up the system totally.

A harmless virus is one that does no damage to the host cell, just because the ones that evolved do does not say anything about what a genetically modified one can do assuming we can get the technology to program them.

Alchemists were trying to find a magic formula that could turn any metal into gold, they fauled but they discovered many elemements in the attempts.

There can be no such thing as a perfect vaccum nor can a temperature reach or go below absolute zero.

Cheers,

Ryan Jones