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Sounds like some people can still wear tinfoil hats in a crowd during a thunderstorm and still be near the same odds as everyone else of being lightning struck. I wonder if WWII soldiers in helmets got blasted very often in Europe? I remember sitting in the Llanos of East Colombia with miles of flat ground and I had a 19,000 lb reconditioned steel military truck sticking 9 ft up during intense lightning strikes every 3 seconds for about an hour. We sat in a small hollow 100 ft away with fire extinguishers and a case of beer in case of a strike. I guess it was a good reason to drink a lot of beer but we never got hit, though we got soaked. Lightning is damn unperdictable. Just aman

Human genetics somehow protects certain individuals from infection. There are people immune to plague or HIV at hundreds of times the normal exposure level because they have both pairs of the protective gene. It's the gene that was heavily expressed during the European Black Death. I think soon we will be able to engineer genetic resistance and although bio-attacks may still be nasty terror weapons for the general public, the "key" people may be immune. Just aman

I watched a special on PBS yesterday about water and the hydrologist mentioned water occurs in seven different states but did not elaborate. I know of gas, liquid, and crystal ice. Are there any others I don't know about? Maybe one of those other states would allow freezing with no damage. Just aman

When I worked at Rockwell for defense crap, the surplus area was full of neat equipment for sale. With a little cash you could build a nice lab. I bought lots of early instruments from the 40's and 50's in leather boxes and recent equipment was available also. It's amazing what you can get for 2 dollars when a company can't store it anymore. Just aman

Maybe we could go back a little out of phase, only able to observe but not interact. I think that would fit best. Just aman

It's good imagination. I have a problem with the reality of it because if we change the speed of photons and try to keep the rest of reality intact and calibrated a camera to react in our frequency we still shouldn't have a photograph of anything recognizable. I can see the "minds eye" going there but the presentations look to me like abstract art. Just aman

Looking at basic evolutionary life through electrical engineering, it seems the first step in evolution would be to build an amplifier. "Life" previous would blossom or die due to chance. True life would build an amplifier to detect traces of remote locations of needed resources. We are evolved amplifiers of very limited ranges in five directions. We took a DNA route to sentience building our amplifiers. Anywhere we see amplifiers we see the potential for life if combined with a storage of energy. That's about as basic as it gets but looking at it this way it is easy to visualize life forming on many levels other than our distinct organic. Just aman

It all comes down to football, Nebraskas coming to get you Faf. The first few seconds of the universe is how it appears to us now through some very serious observation to the best of our abilities. I think Faf did a great job summarizing it but that is only the best description so far. We can't see smaller than an electron, we can't split time to isolate the generation of a photon and we have trouble figuring out where a photon really is. We look at a forest that an elephant walked through and try to describe the elephant from its travel. Just keep an open mind that it is just starting to get interesting. Just aman

Would the core matter if there was an aggregate surface of balanced Earthlike elements? I imagine intelligent life may not arise but life should be able to evolve. Twin planets might share a deeper atmosphere if they were close together, maybe? Just aman

It seems in the animal world the infra-red sensors are handled most efficiently outside of the eye and on the skin, closest to the source. It seems it would take a lot of amplification if the source was on the other side of an optical lens and vitreous solution of a common eye. Maybe if there were two lenses in an eye and the infra red could be focused? Just aman

You can have a lot of consensus on a hypothesis but it doesn't add to its validity. Common sense usually helps judge the propositions as blike put forward. To some minds though stuff makes sense to an individual first and he has to get consensus. Valid accepted arguments help support the case. It's hard to accept a hypothesis on faith alone. Just aman

If one twin travels in empty space near the speed of light and one twin circles a black hole for a while where gravity has compressed space, will there be a time differential observed? Just curious. Just aman

For anybody who enjoys Sci-Fi movies and having some basics presented but approaching the edge of theoretical science, this book is great. Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward Neutron Star physics, gravity, time. I think imagination drags us into scientific fact. The idea comes and the answer after and this book plants a lot of idea seeds. Just aman

I've seen some good arguments and rationalizations of how things could actually all be moving at C,or why not faster than C, from a to b to be where they are. In my mind the whole universe works faster than C and we only perceive up to that limit. I imagine there is a little consensus but I can't devise an experiment yet that will prove it. Still workin. Just aman

In a language we all recognize, a point is a point in time. It exists after it didn't exists and exists as long as it does. Makes sense to me that time is the first dimension and a point is two dimensional. As far as perception we only have consensus by the best minds available for pointing us in good directions. This place has a good amount of good minds peeling a really big onion layer by layer. Technicalities are really strong layers built like all the previous layers and it takes good arguments to say the next uncovered will be totally different. Just aman

A point can be two dimensional if you consider time. Just aman

Fermentation Distilation I'll drink to that. Just aman

There is no test I know of that combines IQ and common sense testing except life itself. There are extremely high IQ people that can over engineer simple common sense problems and extremely able common sense people that sometimes are afraid to push the envelope. I think a balence of being very able with both is the best potential for success and also happiness. I think people with only a high IQ to speak of should get handicapped licence plates. Just aman

When matter and anti-matter collide, don't they release their energy in photons which pretty much are basic energy quanta and neither of the above? There also is no other universe with another blike, faf, or Saya. God is not that cruel. Besides, what would be the point. It would have to make scientific sense, and even nature seems to learn from its mistakes. Just for thought. Just aman

I was turned on to this site the mentions a Project Thunderwell that may have sent the first manmade object into space before the Russians. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/1892/sputnik.html I bet it would be hard to tell now that it was manmade. Just aman

Does a photon actually collide or does it reach a threshold distance wich effects its stability? I can't imagine on the quantum level anything actually touching. Just aman

anti gravity warp drive cold fusion Oh yeah, the rest of you can't do that yet. Just aman

Our universe is full of anti-matter. There is supposed to be big clouds of it perpendicular to the center of our galaxy but seperated by empty space. It will react when it hits regular mass but is still there theoretically and lots of free anti-matter floating around other places. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with an alternate universe. There is no reason it can't exist in an absolute vacuum. Just aman

We first discovered we are, then empathy, how we relate to the world. Those we built on in our head. Then tool making abilities and fire. I assume you ask about signifigant discoveries after these. refining metal steam engine Just to add two. Just aman

Aren't the true differences in these particles the effects we try to document. They have consistant masses or no measurable mass, consistant electrical charges or no charge, consistant source, velocity, size, and lifetime. And some we still just guess at because data indicates they might be there. It seems we still try to define the quantum universe in terms we apply to our reality. I like exploring these particles as only transistionally existing in our four dimension universe and that we will not understand them until we can see beyond the speed of light barrier. But that's just me. Just aman