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well, i will be in three hours. won't be near internet until much later however.

maybe, just maybe i might buy something from it when exceedingly drunk

Well, you either purge with an inert gas, or use a low grade vacuum to evacuate the tank before filling. either option would be suitable, i'd go for evacuating the tank before filling personally.

neutrinos aren't made of quarks. you are thinking of neutrons. as far as we can tell, neutrinos are a fundimental particle.

well, basically it will point out to use that there are modifications needed to relativity for a start. further investigation of the phenomenon, different energies of neutrinos etc, will allow us to determine what modifications are needed. i'm not so sure how it affects the standard model but there will probably be ramifications there as well. who knows, this might just be the result we need to get a grand unified theory. I love science, any result is a good result. epsecially if it leads to some of the safest assumptions going down the toilet (such as nothing can go faster than the speed of light). I'm still skeptical that the result is real but i really really hope that it is.

basically, its more mono-atomic baloney than mono-atomic gold. While you can do wonderful things with gold nano particles, none of them are magical. They won't extend your life (may even shorten it) and its not going to make everything shiny. besides, most of the stuff they sell as 'mono atomic gold' isn't even the right colour. the stuff they sell is white when it should be a deep purply black.

if you're really worried, just use some latex gloves, or a tissue. but really, by touching it to transfer it to another container you aren't likely to absorb over 800micrograms which is the maximum safe daily dose. the elemental stuff has low bioavailability which makes it even safer.

if the mythbusters shot a hole in my wall, i'd be alright with it. maybe they can test some wall repair myths on it

please add a dash of coherency.

having extremely low humidity can be uncomfortable. In my work we have some low humidity environments (10-20% humidity) and being in them for a time can lead to dry skin and chapped lips. nothing major, and you do acclimatise to it but it can be a bit uncomfortable to some people. that said, i'm in scotland so i'm used to wet air.

The process of evolution IS still running. The only problem is that it is a slow process. It is more easily observable in species with a short generation time such as fruit flies. Monkeys do not and will never give birth to humans. Evolution and fossil evidence say they share the same common ancestor that lived millions of years ago. The species of this common ancestor no longer exists but its offspring such as monkeys, great apes and us still exist. we are cousins. Evolution works by small, almost insignificant changes that acumulate over the generations. just as if you were to look at more distant cousins of your family, they may share a common ancestor in your family tree but the resemblance will get less and less the further out you go. If you want examples of fast evolution, you turn to bacteria and viruses, there is a reason we get flu every year and are worried about a new mutation, that is evolution in action! also, in european humans there is a genetic mutation among some of them that helps protect against the plague thatcan't be found in DNA from before it became a huge problem in europe.

The internet is popular in places other than the US (otherwise known as the other 96% of the world). SOPA only affects the US

careful, at that many daltons the cumulative mass of the electrons starts to become significant. roughly 1kDa would be down to electrons alone.

random walk search?

The only classification that could come under (that i know of) is a class 7 (iso 7) clean room. which quite frankly, isn't that clean. apart from that the statement is meaningless unless there is common knowledge of the class system used.

neutrinos ARE difficult to detect but we CAN detect them. however, the frequency of detections is incredibly small. IIRC the FTL neutrino detections only picked up about 20 events. This would have been out of trillions of neutrinos sent. There are several active neutrino detectors around the world. All of them pick up neutrinos.

Come on iNow, lets keep this civil. I would hope that the majority of people on this forum would be able to extract the meaning of A Tripolations comment and realise it was a compliment and not meant to belittle anything. I'm not offended, no reason for anyone else to get their hackles up either. Don't belittle A Tripolations compliment by getting all petulant about his wording. The intention and semantic are positive, thats all anyone needs to know.

Something that really got on my nerves about christmas recently, a 'charitable' organisation (I won't name and shame them here) was asking for volunteers to help the homeless over the christmas/new year holidays. I thought that I would donate my time. I was asked 'are you a christian?' I said, no. I was told the following exact quote: "We can't accept non-christian volunteers at this time as we need to give our christian volunteers a chance to help out over the christmas season. We would be happy to have you volunteer after they have stopped though." needless to say, I'm taking my heathen charitable services elsewhere. So as a godless heathen I'll be enjoying christmas dinner with my family before helping out taking deliveries of meals to a variety of people who for reasons of age or disability have difficulty getting out of the house, especially at this time of year when it's icy and cold. I'm guessing zero of them will ask or even care what imaginary friend i subscribe (or don't subscribe) to. merry feast of renewal folks.

yes, in some cases you can, but thats not the stuff scrubbers are dealing with.

the function of scrubbers is not to destroy unwanted flue gasses. It's job is to remove them from the exhaust stream so that they can be processed into something less harmful. You can't process the harmful stuff while it is in the exhaust stream. This is like saying 'are recycling bins useful? because they don't actually recycle anything, they need further processing' It's true, but thats not what the purpose of the object is.

thats clutching at straws. besides, pi being an irrational, random string of numbers, you can do better than roughly. If you look long enough you will be able to find a string of numbers that gives the precise age of the universe in plank units. but pi is always equal to 3.14159 etc.. in flat space by definition. whether the universe is flat or not would not change the value of euclidean pi

no, not really. The HIV virus will stick around in other cells which would not be removed by simply transfusing blood. The most notable would be bone marrow cells.

From the little I know about the US prison system, the government pays the prison some amount per prisoner and then the privately run prison tries its best to keep operating costs down to maximise profit.(a horrible way for a business to run and a horrible way for a prison to run). Perhaps if they applied a sliding scale or penalty system based upon reoffence rates. A bonus for having a low re-offence rate and a penalty for having a high reoffence rate. Therefore encouraging and making financial sense of rehabilitation. Now, I can already hear people saying 'but that means poorly performing prisons get less money and are less able to deal with the prisoners' etc. well, to that I say 'GOOD!' That's a competitive market! The companies that have crap product go out of business and those companies that are good at it become dominant and we end up with good prisons all round. Just because the service rendered is rehabilitating prisoners doesn't change that. I believe that all the services outsourced to private companies can be made as good or better than if they were publicly run by rewarding the right goals. Don't just pay per prisoner, pay by how well the people leaving the prison re-integrate into society and become productive law-abiding members of society. We already measure re-offence rates so they even have market data to work on. This is more info than other companies have without spending a lot of money. We can do similar things anywhere a government has privatised a sector but still pays for its services. If however the sector has been privatised and is now nothing to do with the government then the government will have very little it can do. The only influence it would be able to exhert would be through trade regulators and so on. In this case it could be argues that splitting is a bad idea. Take public transport for example. In the UK public transport is a bit of a joke, high prices, crap service and it all smells like urine (no really). Before privatisation (i'm told, i wasn't around then) the prices and service were better. Some things don't change but hey. Anyway, TL;DR version, as long as the goals of the privatised business can be set externally (and there is no reasons why this should not be an option as business should be serving its customers) then those goals should be capable of being met. If we just privatise things and forget about them (a not my problem field) then of course it's going to become crap. Chances are they only reason it was a public service was because nobody wanted to do it because there was no profit to be made.

even so, C1V1=C2V2 will still apply assuming the particulars of the percentages on either side are consistent with each other.

how does it stack up with radiation hormesis? (I don't believe that has been proven wrong yet) thats the kind of dosages where radiation could have health benefits by stimulating your damage repair centres causing your body to fair better than if you were exposed to a lower dose.