John Cuthber

I was offended, but nevertheless amused to see a graffiti addition to a sign asking for people to help funding the spastics association (now renamed Scope, I think). They turned " Help spastics" into "Help! spastics!". Chemistry (and I guess other) journals are full of instances of a particular type of error. The material was analysed using chromatography. There's only one thing there that can be doing anything, and that includes chromatography... Did the material analyse itself? Compare it to "The celebrity was photographed using cocaine". My all time favourite is from a wartime newspaper. The punctuation etc is perfectly correct. A headline that was drafted as British army push bottles up Germans had been repositioned as British army push bottles up Germans And then there's English spelling.... but that's another subject.

Was the drone wearing a protective tinfoil helmet?

It may be easier to trawl through the patents than to try to work it out.

So, not the cheap ones like Na Ca , K... You have to shift about 5 tonnes of water to get a gram of Lithium. That's on the market at about $17000 per tonne, $17 per Kg 1.2 cents per gram Good luck. Getting Mg is just about worth it at 1300 ppm. So there's about 6500 times as much Mg as Li. It's just possible that a plant that extracts the Mg could, without too much additional work, extract Br, Sr maybe others.. Since the Mg production is already paying for the pumps, and workforce, it might be possible. The people who know about it either are already doing it, or know it can't be done.

It's impossible to tell. What set of digits are the sequence chosen from? all the digits 0-9 Binary digits 0 and 1 or even hexadecimal digits 0 to F.

Vitamin K was originally defined as anything that would treat vitamin K deficiency (which causes problems with blood clotting). It was later found that there are a number of chemicals that will do that so they are all referred to as "vitamin K" but given numbers to distinguish them

It's a long thread to look through... Can anyone tell me if the fact that the slap might have saved him has been considered? It's possible that such a slap would have pushed him out of the way of a meteorite.

Not in your world; they get allowed to carry on, and other people have to change how they dress in order to accommodate them.

So, other people get to decide how she dresses. Well.... it's a point of view. I prefer the version where the areseholes get called out for being areseholes. Is your view based on evidence?

Cartoons typically show water as blue, even though it is essentially colourless.

And according to wiki "Pegasus is able to exploit iOS versions up to 14.6," so my iPhone, running iOS 15. something is immune. Most people set their phones to update automatically, so most phones won't be vulnerable.

well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute Are soldiers allowed to take their phones into battle with them? It seems a but foolish to me Damned hard to maintain radio silence when your phone is permanently polling for a signal.

He never won 50% of the vote. He got in with a promise of building a wall, getting Mexico to pay and jailing Hillary. He failed to do any of those things. He really should be a complete wash-out. Even those who voted for him should realise that he was a con-man. Interestingly, the Republican party still thinks he's their best hope. They are probably right. That says a lot. It's interesting to compare him with Boris who won a "landslide " 42% on the promise of getting brexit done. Still hasn't finished it. Is considered by the Conservatives to be their best hope... They are probably right. That says a lot.

That's a rather narrow definition of "we". Plenty of cultures disagree. And... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary_(1989_film)

We are discussing a very important part of science. The importance of mutually agreed, clear definitions.

Eggs are crunchy- they have a shell. The thing with chicken DAN predates that shell. There's a 50:50 chance that the first chicken didn't lay eggs. We won't get a chance to ask him.

Because it implicitly refers to chicken eggs rather than, for example, insect eggs. Otherwise, it's a silly question. We might consider that there's some combination of DNA that marks the difference between "chicken" and "pre chicken". That presumably arose as a combination of genes from the parents of the "first chicken" (possibly assisted by some mutation). And that DNA was in place, in the fertilised cells inside its mother before a yolk and shell formed round it and it became an egg. So the chicken came first.

Because, in fact, they give mixed results. Plants are very variable. The lack of a good profit margin is also a factor. Did you know the prototype statin was derived from a fungus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_yeast_rice

Show me skeletons, not quotes from old books.

What do you think is behind the development of electric vehicles?

We answered. It can't-, or, at best, it can't usefully- replace lead. Consider yourself better informed. The s orbitals have a non zero electron density at the nucleus. With some isotopes, they sometimes "fall in". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture Have you got to grips with the fact that metals are chemicals yet?

Yes they are. It shows.

In the context of using it in a battery, that has to be the dumbest statement I have heard in a while. What did you think you meant? Uranium chemistry is complicated; I'm not saying it would be impossible to make a battery with it. A flow cell battery might be the best bet; something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery But the high atomic weight of uranium is a drawback, not an advantage. That's why lithium is so popular; less mass to carry around for a given number of electrons. However, none of that could possibly outweigh the problems that uranium is toxic and radioactive. (with even bigger problems for uranium mining waste)

I also try to avoid self referencing when I write spreadsheets- and for the same reason.

A large part of the job of the colon is to remove water from the gut contents before they are expelled. If it doesn't do its job, you get the runs. Stomach acids will not attack, ceramics, glass or most plastics or even some metals, such as copper. They don't even destroy tomato pips.