insane_alien

Surely the more obvious choice is to not leave pets/babies/thermally sensitive materials in the car. enjoy your heavily scratched windscreen. The only windscreen this would stand a chance of working on are perfectly flat windscreens which are few and far between these days and even then they'd suck as the blade would bend in the wind and rain and when it encounters dirt it has to scrape off.

yes, but a hydrogen is essentially an unbound proton. This prevents a lot of other atoms deviate a fair amount from integer values. carbon allows a larger number to be close to integer values.

I'd go for your program has a bug rather than you've broken the laws of physics.

ugliness IS subjective. one persons idea of beauty is another persons idea of ugliness. to say everyone has the same idea of beauty and ugly would just be flat out wrong.

ugliness is subjective

edited for truth. you'd be in contact with more urine just by dipping your toe in a public swimming pool. It doesn't bother people then so why should it bother people there. not to mention that there was probably more than a few litres of animal urine in there, not to mention animal crap as well.

basically, its based on a book by a science fiction writer (L Ron Hubbard by no coincidence) and claims all worldly problems are cause by ghosts of aliens who were blown up by nuclear bombs under volcanoes. it should also be noted that L Ron Hubbard was famous for saying 'the best way to make money is to start a religion' it is all a scam.

basically what you are saying there is 2 pi radians equals zero radians which is true just as 360 degrees is the same angle as 0 degrees. i thinks its time for you to turn 360 degrees and walk away.

I know someone who, according to BMI standards is verging on morbidly obese (he even got rejected from the police based on this alone) he's pretty much a solid wall of muscle. he is over weight for his height but its pretty much all muscle. he was a soldier and could run 10miles carrying 50kg of stuff through a desert no problem so i'd call him healthy. if you're talking about high fat content and being healthy i'd disagree.

all of widdekind's posts are like this. It is getting quite annoying.

because it was only a novelty it served no practical purpose that would encourage financial investment. I know nobody likes to think of it in terms of money but developing single person flying machines is difficult and costly and there doesn't tend to be a lot of demand for them outside a novelty market. nobody wants to invest millions in perfecting one only to have it cost as much as a house, be very few in existance and then the owners won't be able to actually fly them to to aviation regulations.

yes it can play music by varying its frequency its not exactly good at it but you can force it to. much like you can play music on your floppy drive, printer or scanner. yes, you can film tesla coils. i'm not really sure how it would be impossible. basically a tesla coil is a large resonanting transformer turning low voltage AC into high voltage AC which undergoesa corona effect with the air. the electric sparks super heat the air which creates shockwaves we hear as noise and due to the high frequency, we can modulate it to produce sound in the audible frequency range.

an infintely sized universe does not imply steady state. i'm sure you won't find anyone here that believes in steady state universe theory as it is obvious from the evidence that it is expanding.

the center is relevant as you yourself define middle to be equidistant from center and edge. therefore if it has no center then it cannot have a middle. doughnuts have a center, it is just outside the bounds of the torus. its all moot anyway, the universe does not have what would be called an edge or a center so it is equally impossible to be equidistant from both.

Well, the probalby had a number of documents relating to him, particularly those ordering his crucifiction. however, you have to consider how rare it is to have documents last 2000 odd years. the roman empire was huge even by modern standards. they likely had one hell of a beurocracy and produced a mountain of paper work of orders, meeting minutes, reports, correspondence etc. very very very little of this remains. It would not surprise me if there were portraits of jesus produced during his life and that they have just been lost over time to fire, flooding and general aging.

its not expanding into anything. its just expanding.

no. universe by definition means the whole enchilada. an inability to imagine a lack of an outside does not mean that there must be an outside.

its very likely that there was somebody called jesus (it was a common name at the time and is still commonly used in some demographics) who was a preacher (again, a common theme for the time) who was crucified (again common) did he perform all the miracles as described in the bible? no. the miracles in the bible smack of somebody seeing something they didn't understand and exagerating the events as us humans are prone to do. its likely that more than one or two are entirely fictional.

yes, there would be some radioactive particles released into the water but if you're say 1 mile away from it then the concentration caused by the downed sub will likely be lost in the natural radioactive substances found in the sea water. basically, the components aren't that soluble and the fuel is typically solid pellets of uranium oxide(so even if water contacts it, it won't corrode as it is in essence already corroded to the maximum possible.) Lets remove the radioactive component from this just for a little thought experiment. lets say you have a conventionally powered vessel that goes down somewhere (lets say the titanic) now, its made of lots of quite insoluble materials (both by necessity and for strength reasons) but heres the thing, iron is more soluble than the nuclear fuel everybody worries about. now, if you went downstream of the wreck and tested the water, would you find much higher amounts of iron in the water? probably not. and we can even consider this from a practical point. there are quite a number of uranium ore deposits as well as other radioactive materials such as thorium and so on which are relatively similar to what you find in nuclear reactors (albeit more diluted, but the deposits are also much much bigger) now its by no stretch hard to believe that there must be some exposed veins of these ores somewhere on the sea bed with all these lovely radioactive molecules ready to seep out into the oceans. they've even been there billions of years. life has struggled on. radioactive molecules would leach from the reactor slowly enough to be extremely heavily diluted by the time they got anywhere. and we're talking homeopathic levels of dilution.

I don't think this has anything to do with thermo, more the effects of levers. the lower end will lose mass faster (this is demonstrated by the lower flame being larger) both by burning and by wax being able to drip off the candle to the work surface. The higher side loses mass slower because the only flow of wax to the flame is via capillary action and not also gravity feed. alls molten wax will remain part of the candle. as the lower end burns off mass it becomes lighter causing itself to rise and the other end loses less mass and becomes the heavier side.

typically the submarine sits at the bottom of the ocean. thats about it. unless there are a million fish that like to sit next to the reactor for a considerable period of time and the reactor has been damaged to the point of there being a breach in the shielding then there isn't much chance of killing millions of fish. really, water makes quite an effective radiation shield so really they need to eat a bit of the radioactive stuff to die. probably more die from stuff like oil and various soluble toxins found on submarines than the radioactive bis.

hasn't happened when nuclear submarines have sunk.

false, that applies to quarks within neutrons not to neutrons themselves. otherwise fission would be impossible

This is true for commercial land based power stations as they use low grade uranium. The reult of using low grade uranium is that you get BIG HEAVY reactors. Not a problem fro soemthing static and with no cargo capacity such as a building but on naval vessels you want something relatively compact. The only way to get this compactness is to go with some more potent uranium. you also don't want to have to be refueling a ship-borne reactor too often either which is another reason to go highly enriched. It might not be full weapons grade but it is a LOT closer than the stuff you find in your average reactor. I'm actually fully pro-nuclear. I think we should be building more nuclear plants. It is just impossible to deny that have large quantities of highly enriched uranium floating(literally) about poses an elevated proliferation risk than having some nice big obvious (and the ultimate theivery deterrent) weighty lumps of low enriched.

attractiveness is a subjective measure. It will vary from person to person. for instance, if you and I were comparing ideal partners you'd likely have a very different set of attributes to maximise attractiveness to you. it is even possible that our differences in what we find attractive means that i would find your epitome of attractiveness quite repulsive. also, i wouldn't call OCD an addiction. thats outside of the definition you proposed.