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Oh yes, he's written a ton of them. He's a workaholic. I can't tell you where he's been published, I've seen articles here and there that he's shown me and where his work was published in books. His name is Dr. James Ho from Wichita State University. Here's a brief bio about him from the university: I love the man to death, so I'm sad I can't give you more direction. He also doesn't have a page on wichita.edu that gives his publications like the other instructors. Next time I talk to him I'll get more specific info on where he's been published and pass it along.

I imagine an infinite amount of apples as two things 1) having as many apples as you'd ever need 2) drowining in apples. But that all depends on how you mean infinite. Infinity is not a number, it's a symbol. Of course we can conceive the infinite, we invented it.

My physics professor does research with liquid Helium as a supercondutor. He has gotten it down to 0.00001K. I have no idea what that is in the pico- micro- prefix world. But that's been the lowest I've heard. He also does it with a machine he built himself out a scrap junk, so needless to say that I'm impressed. I wonder if liquid Helium is different, but you have a second to touch liquid nitrogen. The same guy had me stick my hand in liquid nitrogen and tell him what I felt. It feels like a little gentle vacuum cleaner, you feel nothing, and and when you bring your hand out it's not wet. You can do this (over short times) because your hand is initially warm enough to give you a protective zone of vaporized nitrogen around it. If you do wait to long and the nitrogen does touch you you will get burned badly, but you have a quick second. For anyone who hasn't done it I suggest it, though not at home.

Methane is lighter then air, so when the plane hits a bubble it essentially puts the plane in a free fall. It's the same principle as why a propeller plane would not work in space (no fluid to push against). Also the presence of the gas would make the pilot go loopy and screw up his instruments. As for the ships, being directly above these methane bubbles drop them sharply and they take a lot of water on board and sink. There's a lot of methane in that area. Deep water exploration is difficult, and the boats and planes may be there and we may not be able to get to them if they're too deep. Get James Cameron to go look, I don't think he's doing anything.

The Discovery Channel (not to be confused with the Discovery Institute) has a show that examines this and blames it on giant methane bubbles that crash airplanes and sink ships. I'd suggest watching it if you're curious.

What does it say about this guy that he gave up waiting? Well, I'm not sure he planned on dying from being nailed to a stick in the sun. But if it does happen I'm sure he'll be on drugs for our sins. I've never looked at religious indoctrination as dictating someone's race. Then again, race itself is poorly understood by most. Either way, I figure he'll be as much as a christian as Marx is a communist. It's said that the religion this man inspired is very guilty of the things he was protesting against.

I've noticed that this sort of thing is difficult to overcome when there are a chorus of people holding up the same "strawman". Nice illustration, thanks. Ah, thank you. Seems like a byproduct of debate. I don't know about everywhere else, but I know that here people taught debate are taught to defend their initial position no matter what, even if they've been proven wrong. That sort of close minded behavior makes me gag. What progress can be made if the truth isn't allowed to win?

Could someone explain to me this whole strawman thing? I've never heard of it but it seems to be pretty well known here.

This is beautiful Mokele. Don't forget about the methane too. Tully_Beaver, it's all about what your getting and need. I'd say that travel is so life enriching that it is a need, but traveling by SUV is wasteful. It burns unneccessary fuel at an unneccessary rate, therefor not only releasing unnecessary amounts of pollution but also raising the price of fuel for everyone else. The only reason I can see that would work is if you have 10 kids to drive around, which is perfectly reasonable. I guess you've made up your mind, because your drawing a very different conclusion than everyone who has posted here. You seem to have already made

Have you read your own thread?

Good logic... ... .... Not really.

My fall semester offically ended today, and I'd like to congratulate others who have finished as well. For those who haven't finished yet, hang on it's almost over. I'd like to thank my mother for giving birth to me, my father for being a rational and almost saintlike person, and the federal government for having the Pell Grant. A big thanks to Galileo, Isaac Newton, Michael Farraday, and Humphry Davy. I'd also like to thank my instructors, except 3, for not being frauds. For the next month I plan on working with my hands as much as possible, hopefully making some real progress on engineering a few machines I've been working on, and experiencing Xenon and Krypton in their solid form. That's 1 more down, and however many more left to get whatever you're going after.

I just began reading Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. It's published under "Principia" in the On The Shoulders of Giants series, and it boasts a foreward from Steven Hawking, which I haven't read and really care less about at this point. Maybe I'll gain some interest in it later. Unfortunately the book has been translated from Latin, and it took me a few hours to realize that the first paragraph was saying that density*volume=mass, because I guess mass was a new concept at the time. I'm going to have to take notes on translating the translation to understand it but I'm excited to hear it from Ike himself (even if it's translated translated version). Directly after this I plan on devouring anything and everything I can get my hands on written by Galileo.

By his rationale, what message is he sending to his troops and does this mean he's not a patriot? He's rewording and not taking full responsibility for what happened (it's also not the full story of the failures and looting that leads back to his office). His keepers must know that this is a trump card that will give him a surge in support, because they have to know he has no credibility outside from people other than those who buy his claims of divine right. He's also taking credit for what boils down to as cronyism and what must be the same incompetence in intelligence today as in the rest of the government agencies he's ruined. I'm basing that on very scrutinized reports (by me, I'm actually very skilled in this), as I don't have the position to judge the strength of our intelligence directly. This may be a very bad sign, and makes me wonder if something is coming and he's trying to brace for it. You can tell he cares. (I don't know which smiley face implies sarcasm). I can't wait for January 2009.

Hahahahaha. Tookie would have qualified for my electric chair so I find this ammusing. It looks as though he pretty much faked his status as a crypts cofounder, and was trying to manipulate his way into the life in prison, but he was a multiple murderer. I would care less if he only killed other gangsters, but he didn't so.... night night Tookie. I'm thinking about writing a children's book about Tookie's execution.

I was just trying to give the type of scenario (the movie plot eluded to) we'd be screwed by cryogenically freezing mass murderers, serial killers, terrorists, etc., and that is, they thaw out. I wasn't talking about causes of global warming, it's just obvious that it is happening. This whole thing is silly, but I felt like answering. Money is fictional and cycles, but considering money as real it's still money well spent (in EXTREME CASES THAT I'VE MENTIONED). Morals are relative. Justice is unattainable once a wrong has been done. Life is real and it's important to protect it. That is ridiculous. They decapitate people in Saudi Arabia for drug charges too. Can you imagine living in a society where that is acceptable? What would be the point of living there? This is exactly why I stay out of Texas.

Like global warming? (NOTE: While the importance of differnet contributors of global warming is still up for debate, the fact that its happening can't be.) Why should we make the effort for a John Wayne Gacy or a Tim McVeigh? I, like the law, am taking intent into account. In the DUI case someone who drives drunk and kills someone may have not had the intent to do so, but if they do it again it should assumed at that point that the person did intend to kill someone by drinking and driving, and should be put to death to protect others. By this point, the person's license should have been taken away and him driving anyway and killing someone else is a ticket to execution to protect others from him. I'm not talking about DUIs in general either, I'm talking about those that result in the death of another person. If a DUI occurs that does not result in the death of another person, then there's no reason to kill that person. If someone has many attempted murders there's no reason to kill that person because who knows if that person really did try to kill anyone and there's no reason to protect someone else against their inability to do so. The only way to be sure is if they've done it successfully and more than once, and then they should be executed. I am talking about rare instances here and any serial killer or multiple murderer should be considered a threat to others and should be executed to protect everyone. Yeah, it's too bad that the state has to kill someone, but what's worse is when that someone kills someone else that would still be alive if that person were no longer alive, especially when the state had that person and knew the risk and threat he posed. I'd also like to point out that I don't believe in incarceration at the level it occurs, especially for drug offenses, and should only be reserved for violent criminals. I am not one to endorse any form of social control, but I do believe in protecting other people from being murdered and I also believe in doing it as effectively as possible. To illustrate, here is a list of people who would qualify for my electric chair: Tim McVeigh, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Carr Brothers, BTK. People who haven't qualified: Robert Blake (if he had been convicted), Michael Jackson (if he had been convicted), Scott Peterson, the Menendez Brothers, OJ Simpson (if he had been convicted, multiple murder but the same act for the same special reason (life in prison)). I hope you can see the differences.

I would think that being cryogenically frozen would fall under cruel and unusual punishment. I don't think it works as a deterrent either, and the death penalty is way overboard for just punishment, I only see it as useful in protection. I don't even really care if lifers are having a "good time," as long as they can't hurt anyone. I hear you bascule, but a low risk is still a risk and no risk is no risk, and no risk is true protection which can only be delivered by killing those who habitually kill other people.

Yeah, although I couldn't care less about Tookie Williams (although he probably would have been worth more alive to society than dead because certain people believed he was something important and would listen to him a little) I do believe in the death penalty only in cases where the offender remains a threat to society. Take BTK for example, he was looking to strike again, the smartest thing for society to do is kill him so he can't (although we can't for legal reasons). Although having the state put to death someone who killed their wife or husband or someone else under very special circumstances is stupid because I see nothing in these cases that show this person as a continued threat. Scott Peterson for example killed his wife and unborn son. We should lock him up for a real long time, but killing him protects no one from him. He's already killed who he was going to kill. It should be all about protection, and just because someone is in custody doesn't mean they're no longer a threat. A random and/or multiple killer is someone who is always a threat and is neutralized by death. Protection doesn't need a moral argument to be valid, it's always valid.

Isoamyl acetate smells like bananas and so do I.

He's admitted to killing other people, I think, and liked to claim to be a co-founder of the crypts. People bought it and gave him power. I'm didn't really care if he lived or died, but it's always hard when a children's book author is put to death by the state.

I'm working on a few things similar to this. The first I originally just began designing it as a free process to keep everyone from drowning, but then I saw how much energy I was wasting and that it could do some good work. I have three finals starting in about 5 hours so I haven't had time to thoroughly go through your post here but it looks interesting, and I haven't had time to work on my things because I'm finishing a 20 hour semester. Have you heard of that small car than runs on compressed air? There's also an engine that already exists that can run on small differences in temperature, I can't tell how similar yours is to that yet. Are you familiar with it? I'm sorry I don't have anything valuable to contribute to your post, but I'll come back.

the time was about 2:05 AM central time and the first was in the southern sky, the second was in the east northeast, and the third was straight east. The second and third were close to simultaneous. Has anyone heard of a meteor shower or anything like that? I hadn't seen any more before, and I didn't see any after. It seemed like an isolated event.

You wouldn't HAVE TO memorize anything, but this would be much simpler than the current system and would facilitate quick learning and understanding. And if done properly the symbol can take the place of the actual meaning and be as universally used as the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. This is far from an everyday occurance, and when it does happen hopefully the researches will find a proper symbol, with more thought than those who came before us. If they don't want to make one, hopefully the scientific community will come a consensus. Either way, this is small potatos compared to the benefit of doing this. Excellent, I try to do that too but generally have trouble reading my own handwriting. In an undergraduate lab, you're not going to be teaching anyone to do anything. Variables are variables when you're working, but if you're looking to publish, just look up the symbols, and when you're being taught you expect to see the same symbol mean the same thing in a different setting. Under a unified system the symbol would mean the same as the word, for example gravity would be g. That's how you could spell it. Up and down could be spelled y. Left and right would be x. Toward you and away would be z. Volume would be v, then velocity s instead of having Vv to keep straight in the same equation, and this difference would be the same no matter where you were instead of going to calculus and having s mean position. When you get heavier things get more complicated and variables shift even more. It's not like you have to sit down and memorize them, it would be the same as the word and it would become second nature after awhile. It's not very complicated at all, and it simplifies the communication, creates a permanent and universal shorthand that's easy to understand because of it's presence in other scientific areas. (NOTE: The symbols don't have to be letters, I was just using them as an example). As for the memorizing thing, I also very much believe in the US going SI, but also for terms like nano, pico, decka, centi, to be taken out of use and the scientific notation from the base unit be used. Talk about unnecessary memorization and overcomplication. I mean calling nanotechnology nanotechnology still works, but when dealing with numbers and trying to visualize and convert size it gets in the way. It's easier to visualize magnitudes than prefixes and helps in communication and understanding.