StringJunky

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Group:: Senior Members
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Member Title:: Atom
Age:: 50 years old
Birthday:: February 16, 1962
Gender:: Male
Location:: UK
Interests:: Fishing and Reading
Favorite Area of Science:: Cosmology And Earth Science

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Posts I've Made

In Topic: Please help me with firefox!

Today, 12:35 AM

Try this, you are going to do full clean install:

1. Backup FF profile with Mozbackup So you can go back if what follows doesn't work. This will put all your customisations bookmarks etc back.

2. Backup just your bookmarks like THIS (Manual Backup)

3. Download the free version (down page) of Revouninstaller .Install it and select the Mozilla icon then Uninstall. Choose Advanced. Follow the prompts. The firefox unstaller will start first where you will choose to remove user data as well. After this Revo will do its own search where you will delete everything it finds. Reboot computer. Reinstall FF. If the problem has gone the problem lies in the profile folder and really I would say start again with all your extensions and customisations but you can put your bookmarks back with the restore option mentioned in step 2 above.

If the problem hasn't gone away you can go back to the beginning by using the restore option in Mozbackup which will put everything back as it was when you started.
In Topic: What makes me a genius?

Yesterday, 10:39 AM

Xittenn, on 15 May 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:
I never understood how having -7.50 dioptre myopia at the age of seven equated to having intellectual prowess. What precisely is the advantage of being blind? I have tried to reason it out and have concluded that in fact this is more of an advantage for a warrior. It's much easier to kill randomly when you don't see their faces or the counter acting weaponry!

In terms of effects on intellectual ability, I think, limited sensory input can force a person to use their 'mind's eye' a lot more, to compensate for the damaged/disabled sense, which causes them to learn to extrapolate meaningful information from limited and disparate data input...this action over a long period can give them a powerful and useful imagination. I've a feeling a person with a severe sensory disability develops a kind of Synaethesia to cope and engage with the world around them. Necessity forces them to think 'out of the box' which may have the fortunate effect of giving them novel ways of thinking that is ultimately beneficial to the species.

I am a severely deaf person that uses lip-reading and my prior thoughts are based on this experience accumulated over the last fifty years of my life. I can 'hear' people speak with all the apparent sounds/words complete yet I know I can't when tested or they are out of sight.

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The greater the degree of separation between two pieces of information and yet still be able to connect or correlate them defines genius.
In Topic: Why does light travel at the speed of light?

24 May 2012 - 05:37 PM

Have you tried another browser to eliminate if it's Internet Explorer related?
In Topic: Gravity

22 May 2012 - 04:12 AM

elfmotat, on 22 May 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:
The force due to rotation is ω²R. At the equator, this is (7.2921150 * 10^-5 rad/s)²(6,378137.0 m) = 0.033916 m/s². Compared to the gravitational acceleration of 9.79 m/s² at the equator, it is almost entirely negligible.

Thanks...it's just of academic note then.
In Topic: Gravity

22 May 2012 - 03:52 AM

swansont, on 4 April 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:
No. The spinning actually results in the net force on you being smaller, depending on your latitude, but it is not the source of the gravitational force.

Interesting. What would the percentage increase be on an Earthbound object's weight if the Earth wasn't spinning?