dragonstar57

you can still go back and get that? wow well i realize i was a disruption to the conversation but now I regret it and I would like to be able to use the chat again. and I should have realized that the other users have no obligation to answer my silly questions nor even have to listen to them and even if i don't get unbanned consider this my official apology to the SF community. i am sorry

but are the functions and names of the organelles correct? I am planing on trying to skip biology (which I can, if I can pass the finial exam without taking the class) so is this a good way to learn some cellular mechanics ie. how cells work on a biology 1 level? I started a new thread here about the skipping biology part -drum role please and heres the link http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/51558-high-school-biology/

my school allows people to skip a class if they can achieve a passing grade on the finial exam without taking the class. so what would be the best way to prepare for the exam when I haven't taken the class?

the idiot put the decimal point in the wrong place (the owner of the jewelry store) so it was 35.0 an oz which. i guess is higher than normal

my not believing is not so much as not believing in god as not believing in the existence of a heaven. Christianity says that if you do x y z then you get an eternity of paradise. and deep down i know that no paradise would remain a paradise for eternity eventually it would either be torture or it would just be life. the idea of paradise is just naive and once I realized this it was not a choice, I COULD NO LONGER BELIEVE. it wasn't me choosing no hope over hope It was me realizing that there is no hope and that i could not lie to myself enough to make myself believe once again. and truly when I hear Christians talking about heaven i want it to be true but i can't force myself to believe that it is.

the problem with war becoming laser tag matches is whoever was loosing would just arm his army with ak47s rather than a laser toy. war where there is no bloodshed would require both sides be willing to loose to preserve human life.

correct me if I am wrong but it seems that he is asking when it is it time to say call a certain group of animals in a species no longer part of that species but a new species entirely

but how far is such scaling possible before that effect takes effect enough to make the animal nonviable? it may depend on the definition "nonviable" so i'l define it in the way i used it nonviable-respiration and circulation is hindered enough to limit energy and cause a significant lifespan decrease the speed of an animal is affected to the point that mobility is affected severely this definition may be lacking but i think you get the idea

under biology there should be a category called "cellular mechanics" and it would be about the inner workings of a cell

how do you make a signature on this site?

almost a month

wow every topic I have even visited has a comment by Mr Skeptic and or insane alien and there all good comments. how does one have enough time to comment on everything said on SFN sry i'm off topic but i started the thread so its not as bad

how do you become unbanned from the chat if you have been baned in the past?

what would you suggest for someone wanting to build a lab that would be allot like the lab described here http://www.powerlabs.org/ where does one start when starting to build such a laboratory? how much does it cost? somewhere around 5-10k? and what is best for creating a "lair of a mad scientist vibe" ps please also tell me the best size for the room and the best material for the walls to be constructed of

my kidney goes to the first offer of ten million dollars(U.S.D) but if there was a forced kidney donation law i would flee to mexico or Canada or Timbuktu but I can imagine reckless people selling their organs for 50k just to get a sports car or something. my grandmother suggested my brother sell his organs and blood on the black market when he asked if she could help him with the tuition to get into A major university. stuff like this would happen all the time if a kidney market were legal but i would get ten million

there is a video game called cellcraft that many people are claiming is a method of pushing creationist views. i have played it and it was a cool game about cellular mechanics. I don't see any creationism in it at all. but maybe i'm being naive. so could someone look at the facts in this game and confirm or dis-confirm them? and could someone tell me what about this game is incorrect unverifiable or strays out of mainstream science in anyway? I get that some creationists worked on it but it seams like it would be easy for a non-creationist to review it and make a conclusion based solely on its content on weather or not it is a viable teaching tool for teaching MAINSTREAM high school curriculum biology. heres a link http://www.cellcraftgame.com/Home.html ps. creationism vs. evolution is outside of the topic of this thread, as is weather the established curriculum is correct, as is the question of weather or not a creationist bias to the game is a problem, as is asserting that if a creationist worked on a project their views surely affected the finial product. this thread is just about weather this game conforms to mainstream science or weather it has a creationist bias. so now that we are clear about what is and is NOT the topic of this thread feel free to start threads discussing the topics CLEARLY stated as another topic and link to this page. (unless a moderator says not to and as long as you have a comment about THIS topic as well as your link)

so how far can things be scaled up or down? would it be possible to scale up a mouse to the size of a medium or large dog (90-150 lbs?) or scale a dog up to the size of a horse? or a elephant down to the size of an s.u.v? (i may be overestimating how big elephants are to begin with) and if you scaled a mouse up to the size of a dog or a elephant down to a s.u.v or a dog up to the size of a horse would these creatures instincts be the same Ie. mouse liking cheese, elephant using its nose to drink,and dog chasing cars?

if you somehow designed a positron (ignoring all the issues with this statement) and were in a complete vacuum (like space) and shot it at something the beam would annihilate with the electrons and possibly blowup whatever you are aiming at but if you had 3 beams (1 firring a positron beam 1 firring a anti neutron beam and one firring a anti-proton (or as some people call it incorrectly a negatron) would it annihilate the whole object. or would it be beater to just fire 2 intersecting beams one a positron beam and one a electron beam. kind of like the M.D or little doctor in ender's game

but would that work ageist light or antiparticle based weapons?

can someone post a video that also includes how to get the nearly as valuable silver back? after all an ounce of silver can be worth as much as 350 dollars (or at least that what I have to pay for it)

"The escape velocity of a large asteroid like Apophis would be about 0.14 m/s or 0.31 miles per hour."-mr skeptic is that before or after it looses half its mater due to antimatter/mater annihilation? so would just a few lbs of antimatter work?

"Looks like someone here wants to vaporize our solar system"-mr. skeptic it depends on the size of the asteroid and the distance from the earth. if the asteroid is the size of a semi it would just cause a 1 million megaton detonation. remember that to destroy an asteroid you have to blow it up hard enough to not let the pieces reform into a molten ball of lava on a collision course with the earth

a nuke uses a c4 detonation to start the fission reactions and the c4 wouldn't work without o2. so a classical nuke would not work at all. but I doubt it would be difficult to add some supplied 02 to the c4 to make it work. and a bunch of how powered rail gun shots probably would be enough to change its course

if energy is the problem then it would seem that a tank would have the necessary energy to also be equipped with a rail gun possibly even explosive rail gun rounds could be used

"A antimatter a size of your fist would destroy all of New York city." said by nec209 i'm assuming that this fist size chunk of antimatter is equivalent to 1-2lbs of antimatter and would then be equivalent to 4-8 Tsar Bombas or 200-400 megatons which would probably wipe out the entire content of north Americana not just new York city.