Radical Edward

Probably because of spelling and grammar.

use a fan I suppose. most computers need them anyway, since convection will not cool my AMD 3.2GHz chip

since they are doing stuff without your consent, you should see what there are in complaints procedures and so on. I know this sort of thing is heavily frowned on in the UK. something similar happened to my parents over their gas bill and they got about 6-8 months of free gas out of it, since all previous charges were refunded.

can we have a bit of backup for the uninformed please

the reason water freezes so quickly upon being ejected into space is because it boils and disperses, giving it a massive surface area over which to radiate. Futhermore, in order to boil, the water has to obtain it's specific latent heat from somewhere in order to boil, and it does this by taking the energy from other bits of water further accelerating the freezing process. You can see another effect which will freeze the water if you open a canister of pressurised CO2; a load of water will freeze around the nozzle as a result of PV/T=constant. So there are a number of freezing processes, and radiation is a very very minor one. If wou were to fill a football full of water and dump that into space, it would take alot longer to freeze. (just notices swansont's reply, which is spot on)

the problem with that pov is that it neglects to notice that the viruses are evolving more rapidly than we are, natural selection only has a weak influence on humans now, and it also neglects the functioning of the immune system. Furthermore, the human population is now so large, that it is effectively in stasis - it would take aeons for say, a gene which provided resistance against HIV to spread through the entire population (if it ever did), so the initial argument is wrong, and there is no need to argue against it by saying we are simply speeding up that process.

yes, but they haven't actually seen them directly, merely their effects - for example the wobble caused in the position of the star they orbit, or eclipses as they pass in front of the star. This is actually the light from the star bouncing off a planet and then towards us - the same sort of way we see the other planets round our sun.

I agree. It just needed someone to lay the smack down. and as I am not involved in the conversation, I though it would be me who should do so

I have to confess I have never heard of them. could you tell us a bit more? references and links if you have any

some. in moderation. Children can be doing much better things than watching TV.

to test your idea: (1) get a magnet and put that near the antenna. (2) rub a piece of perspex with a soft cloth or something like a jumper for a bit (static electricity) and put that near the antennae. I suspect that (1) won't move, and (2) will move. try it on insects that have been dead for different lengths of time too, since there might be some effects of rigor mortis, or whatever the insect equivalent is. then perhaps try on different sorts of insects. If you design the experiment carefully enough, and are patient enough, you could come up with som more quantitative results, such as distances and angles and so on, and perhaps apply a statistical study as well. do the experiments, write a little paper and post the results here That's what science is all about!

Mod Note: All the skulls on mars stuff has been moved to pseudoscience. I don't want to see it here again, any further pseudoscience posts will just be deleted on sight. I am thinking what to do with the cooperation with martian civilization stuff, since that doesn't fit into pseudoscience either. thanks.

there are no irrational numbers between 0.99999... and 1.

yeap. I would rather be wearing strong rubber pants though.

haha, naah, just mucking around. Liquid nitrogen is excellent stuff to play with and throw at people. Just don't drink it though.

the only really dangerous bit is your nose, ears, mouth and eyes since that is where the air will get out, anywhere else, the pressure is pushing against your internal organs, ribcage and so on - kind of like an inflated football. also your bottom and other assorted plumbing might need sealing too. We are only talking about a millisecond or so though, however I think that sayonara is correct in that you should expel as much air as possible first though. There is less to expand that way.

1ms is not too bad to hold your breath for though. and moonless nights are quite bright, at least I find so anyway. perhaps I have good night vision.

a couple of seconds. I was perfectly fine.

what a spammer, someone ban him.

yeap. one concern though might be your feet. In the time you were there, the heat from your feet would probably boil away a good bit of the methane ice underneath you. (I think that methane ice is proposed on the surfaces of these planets). one ms wouldn't be much though. I have held my hand in liquid nitrogen for alot longer than that.

no. Freezing to death isn't too much of a problem, because the energy would have to be lost by radiation, which is quite slow. assuming you held your breath and had earplugs in, you should be ok. It would be quite bright actually because of the masses of starlight.

once, but they think it was just a scratch and I am fine thanks.

Analyses of several white dwarf objects have revealed what could be the first extrasolar planet to actually be observed directly. Investigations are still ongoing to determine if the objects seen are not just the result of background stars creeping into the picture. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707185.stm

Gamma Ray Burster all the way.

I guess it is gluons then if it is, could fratka tell me ans I will change the topic title.