The Lounge

Question : Can you write in blue color using a red ink pen Answer is yes but how ?

Hello, I'm new to the forum and I hope I'm not posting out of place or otherwise inappropriately. I'm working on a bit of amatuer science fiction, and I need what is essentially a number representing something like a decade (13 years would be ideal), built symbolically from a mathmatical or scientific basis instead of using base terrestrial measurements like seconds/days/years/etc. The Voyager Record and it's play instructions in symbolic references is part of my inspiration for this. For the base measurement of time I'm using the Crab Pulsar rotation, but I need to multiply it by larger values to make it about a decade in length instead of 33 milliseconds. I'd like…

A Learned man cannot become a slave to the wealthy People!- Bhartrihari ( Neeti Slok 17) cheers all scientists , the learned people on earth.... what the ancients think about the learned people Ancient Sanskrit text : अधिगतपरमार्थान्पण्डितान्मावमंस्था - स्तृणमिव लघुलक्ष्मीर्नैव तान्संरुणद्धि । अभिनवमदलेखाश्यामगण्डस्थलानां न भवति बिसतन्तुवरिणं वारणानाम् ॥[17].

Ok mods, although I never strayed from gravity in my last thread, never speculated and asked questions, you still closed it down, so is there any point trying to discusss anything? This section according to your rules I can discuss anything? So here you go lets talk weapons technology and the design for an electro pulse rifle. Perhaps if the cultured society does not want listen, I should go find an extremest site to listen? Do i breach your rules in this section? anything (not comparable) In any way, any extent or any degree. That isn't anything like a car. ''''in philosophy, ideas are usually co…

Hi. Over twenty years ago, I was told that the cent coins (pennies) were made from zinc sheets with bonded copper foils above and under by a very high pressure explosive method, and then the blank rounds cut from the resulting layered sheet, to be later stamped at a mint. Is that true ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/disney-sued-for-250-million-by-woman-claiming-frozen-is-stolen-from-her-life-story-9754862.html Apparently Disney plagiarized off somebody. I'm sure they have probably never heard of this person in their lives.

So, one day during a lecture, a fellow student asked if I could help him with a particular concept. Since lectures go by fast and he didn't want to forget to ask the question, I decided to help. We were whispering of course and no one else seemed to find it distracting. However, another fellow student(to my knowledge) got angry that we were whispering. We stopped of course to respect his request, but I think it is dumb for such a request. For one thing, the professor has never called out on doing so because everyone could hear the professor and was distracted by us whispering to the point that we could barely each other and no one else has. Is it just that they finally go…

Hello. Always had this doubt about the expression being perfect English. - He is going to switch this on. - He will switch this on. (He is going nowhere to switch this on. The switch is right here) Understandable in this case: - We are going to eat at the restaurant tomorrow. - We will eat at the restaurant tomorrow. (Because the restaurant is not here, we have to go there) - There is going to be elections next week. - There will be elections next week. ( I believe 'going to' is not correct, or better said, 'not perfect') Yes, both ways are commonly used, perhaps the 'going to' more often. Even when there is no actual going anywhere/moving/travel…

Hello nice people! Some older or disabled persons can't reach the ground but would like to continue gardening. I imagine we could put at the proper height smaller plants (redcurrant, strawberry, raspberry, tomato, blueberry...), example: Have you already seen a similar item for sale? I think at it for my old mum. If it doesn't exist yet, someone should produce it. The soil would better be around hip height, so dumping it right on the ground would need an excessive amount. I'd like a mobile item to adapt the sunlight exposure to the plant, to move it when mowing the lawn, and to get rid of it without damage if the attempt ceases. The capacity of a wheelbarrow seems a …

Interesting presentation from the BBC . About Plutonium . LINK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29274491 MIKE

Im usually on this forum everday, but have been excpetionally busy the past 3-4 months with school. I plan to finish my BS in biotechnology in 1.5 yrs...and there is talk of some biotechs going to into research, and some going into sales. Does anyone know what "sales" in the biotech industry would be like....telemarketer? Do you have any experience with sales and science? What would be some marketable things I could do..i.e. minor in business... ~EE

I am curious of the economic outcome if America had a small happenstance in its economy. Please allow me to entertain your thoughts. Consider Americas economy to have establishments that will give all its registered citizens $60 cash once per day. Every day but holidays. These establishments are as abundant as fast food places and gas stations. All a person needs to do is show up and wait their turn in line to collect the money. The money does not come from government funds. The money being given is projected to reoccur for at least 10 years from multiple civilian contributions out of pure generosity. However, the money is taxed and 25% to 30% of every dollar given went …

Just kickstarted our new channel 'QuickBrainFuel'! Would love to hear your suggestions (Link removed by mod)

The scientific method is always accompanied by a description of the standard experiment that holds everything constant except the variable of interest, [math]x[/math]. Suppose it would be very difficult to design an experiment that separates [math]x[/math] from [math]y[/math], so your experiment instead quantifies the effect of [math]x + y[/math]. Am I right to think the problem is solved if you can run experiments to quantify [math]y[/math] or alternatively [math]x + z[/math] and [math]x + y + z[/math]? If the scientist can verify that there's no interaction, it should be simple math. There might also be the option to decompose [math]x[/math] into simpler variables t…

I agree. Science has resulted in medical improvements that have increased the human life expectancy from 20-30 (before 20th century) years to 67 (now). I think philosophy, especially secular humanist philosophy is second, and art is third. What do you think?

This can show how a major asteroid strike affects the Earth. http://www.abroadintheyard.com/interactive-map-effects-asteroid-comet/

I remember hearing a fellow student talk about how it was a bad idea to teach community college physics. I'm just curious, would it really be that bad to teach at a CC while looking for a research position after obtaining a PhD in physics? Why would this hinder your opportunity to get a real research position when I would think the teaching experience would be a good thing?

I was just thinking about how high technology is changing certain aspects of life, such as education. A lot of things have been replaced, such as paper notebooks. The simple fact that I have to use the word 'paper' (I don't know what else to call them) to indicate that I mean 'notebooks notebooks' and not portable computers, says something about the present. When you search for 'notebook' on Google, you'll get instant results of portable computers, but not any results for paper notebooks that top the page. Of course I understand why, but that's not my point here. There are people who call me a nostalgic person because I prefer certain ways of the past centuries over cert…

On my tumblr, I create strings of art that have particular meaning together, and it takes more pattern recognition than thinking in words, after a period of time you'll start to fall into a trance or euphoric state where everything seems perfect, you'll then be able to imagine psychosis, and ways it may come around, by example and not doctrine. An example of the types of things you'll be thinking: "waking up is like a Sunrise, at first your head is in the clouds, you feel groggy and argumentative, but then like the Sun you rise about the clouds into a new day, and all becomes clear". I will provide an example here (a string of art with meaning), if you study the pictures …

The Renaissance was a time of profound tectonic cultural shifts in intellectualism, belief, creativity, and innovation. It was a time marked by new connections among groups, indivuals, and even among brain cells. Are we experiencing something similar in our modern world, a cultural displacement or paradigm shift writ large? Do you think the changes we're currently experiencing will be a good or a bad thing? Does your answer change in any way when viewed in context of the immediate-term versus the longer-term?

Gentilice is french. Gentilicio is spanish. Volksbezeichnung in german. Gentilico in portuguese. -AFAIK- Is there such word, or perfect translation/meaning in proper English? I thought having seen such word somewhere within English text, but may be confounding the spelling to look for it. I do not want to believe in on-line dictionaries for this one.

Hi all. Name the favorite toys, the ones that stayed in your retina, the ones you had, the ones your rich friend had and you always drooled for... Starting... - Pedal firetruck... well, I was like six. Unforgettable. Zero plastic. - A building blocks set. Not Lego, did not exist then ! - 9 transistor radio. Had shortwave band ! Fixed it when was ~15 - Lionel electric train given used from rich people, and still in the family. Real all metal. - A free-flight diesel engined model airplane balsa kit, given to me by someone out of the family because was too complex to put together. I did, and crashed first launch as I was reluctant to give full trottle. - An e…

Suppose you’re given three wishes, what would they be?

I am currently a fourth year student in a mathematics department. I am aware that only science can help to survive humans in future. How do we attract more young people to science? I want to start to do something for it. I want to lecture in university to train younger students, but I afraid that many will laugh at me.