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You've got to be kidding! I threw you a bone and now you want me to go and pick it up for you? You're on your own now kid, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

At very low temps all the indivdual atoms condence into a "super atom" and yes I guess you could say they were "smeared out" in a quantum mechanical sense

Lucky you, I'm in a good mood tonight. Try: http://www.chemtutor.com/mols.htm Enought there to figure it out on your own.

Gee, ya shoulda been listening durring class - these are as basic as it gets. Maybe pick up your textbook and read it?

It's the ultimate in fused matter as it is.

As pressure increases past a certain point a neutron star (in essence a very large and heavy neutron) is formed. Add more matter and the whole thing collapses into a black hole. The only force capable of that sort of pressure is gravity. Fusion of two nuclei is a different type of event.

Since the Montreal Protocol came into force in 1989 CFCs have been replaced, in nearly every country, with mixtures of volatile hydrocarbons, typically propane, n-butane and isobutane. Australia, being a civilized and responsible country I would assume they adhere to the new standard.

My two cents: Memetics is just approaching the Mendelian level of understanding as it were, (to compare with genetics) we are still a far cry from the Crick and Watson stage.

The bigger long term issue is not running out of fossil fuels to burn, but how we will deal with the effects of CO2 that using them produces. It is this problem that we will be dumping on the backs of future generations that they will be (with justification) damning us for - not for having gobbled up non-renewable resources.

"One person says they cured themselves of AIDS by injecting pure medical grade ozone into his veins on a daily basis." Ya, sure he cured himself, the resulting embolism killed him!

Well I should think so. Find a good lawyer.

Because the arable land taken up by cane production can be made up for by slash-and-burn agriculture to replace displaced food crops. Cane also doesn't need fertilizers like maize does. Ethanol can't travel by pipeline because it picks up too much water. There isn't an industrial strength process for making this fuel from cellulose feed stocks which means there will be a lot of energy trapped in the cornstalk, leaves and cobs, that can't be recycled or used directly like bagasse can. The sugarcane agribusiness sector in Brazil is politically powerful and so far it has successfully defended the program from its critics, the ethanol lobby in North America is also mostly agribusiness looking to push up the price of maize. If maize gets more expensive so does all foodstuffs that depend on it and its eatable oils.

Trouble with maize is that it kicks the stuffing out of the land and thus you have to use a lot of fertilizer. Fertilizer that you need oil to produce. As a major transportation fuel it just won't cut it in North America or Europe. Works in Brazil because the got a vast jungle to burn (for a while.)

Still it only will probably make sense for low-power apps. The EROEI on current battery technology is laughable so ethanol will be able to compete there very well if the fuel cells have a decent life expectancy (in cycles). And the fueling infrastructure is already in place to handle the volumes involved "I'll have a Jack Daniels. and a double for my cellphone...":-p

New nanostructured electrocatalysts, HYPERMEC™ by ACTA SpA for example may make ethanol fuel cells an attractive option to replace batteries in portable devices. This will, IMHO be the major impact of ethanol as a fuel. This would not be a trivial application as a great deal of hazmat is generated making current batteries and when they are disposed.

Rotation shifts kill. Not much you can do except try to get on a steady one. I worked Midnight-to-seven for twelve years rather than rotate, because of sleep issues. Moton Salt introduced a rotation that had each crew shift their start times forward one hour every day and looped through the cycle that way. The workforce apparently loved it, and production when up to boot.

Bad ones instantly...good ones never

Electromotive Force - Electromagnetic Pulse Six of one; half-dozen of the other.

A womans equipment, like mens comes in several sizes. Best to find one that fits.

Airplanes are vulnerable things, there are a lot of ways to knock them out of the sky. However if this were implemented in the Terahertz band (where propagating is very short range) and there was enough handshaking between the nodes, I think it could be made reasonably secure. At any rate a EMF pulse will kill Fly-by-Wire as it is.

I would guess that given an aircraft control has only one axis of freedom you could build so much redundancy into the system that it would be for all practical purposes jam/interference proof

You know what. give it twenty - thirty years and you're gonna be saying the same thing about Ruby and Rails. For the same reasons - mark my word.

Sadly your right. Something had to be done for all the 'tards too thick to grasp LISP.

Which is what? A pat to Wikipedia - or a slap to Britannica?

I agree. Programing language development should have stopped with LISP.