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tvp45

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  1. I'm glad to point you toward sources of knowledge, but I didn't take you to raise.
  2. The only need for artificial gravity on a space station is to enable humans to survive in a microgravity environment. Life-threatening microgravity effects show up primarily in the bones and in bodily fluid systems; the effects on the gravity receptors (mostly inner ear) are debilitating but not lethal. Currently, it is not practical to build a space station which can mimic gravity through rotation. NASA is working on a slew of other techniques to deal with the problem. You can Google NASA JSC Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Lab to get some idea of what they're doing with this.
  3. The Energizer Bunny morphed into Chuckie?
  4. Well, I think I see your point. You're arguing that the Jews in Babylon intentionally wrote the Torah. OK, I can accept that.
  5. I once had the good fortune to spend part of a day with Eric Rogers, who had been Einstein's colleague and neighbor at Princeton. So, of course, I quizzed him at length about all of Einstein's eccentricities. Dr. Rogers said that, whenever visitors came (particularly the media), Einstein would turn his sweater inside-out and muss his hair. When the visitors left, Einstein would comb his hair back in place. Rogers thought all this was the doing of Einstein's wife who worked hard at promoting her husband's career.
  6. I gave you an answer with the name of a lab that has published research. Why are you still arguing there is "no evidence"?
  7. There are three points that modify the original poster's point: (1) the multiplier on farm prices. Typically, a farmer receives less than 20% of the shelf price. The processing and distribution chain add the rest, not as + 80% but as x4. (2) the food value of the mash residue. Ruminants are able to digest the remains of the corn fairly well, but not so humans. Corn is hard to digest in general. Meat from ruminants is a good food source, but the overall efficiency is quite low. (3) diversion of arable land. Wheat and rice are more efficient food crops and do less harm to the land than corn.
  8. Come with me some Wednesday night to the Razor Ridge Primitive Baptist church, provided they're not doing snakes that week. I don't mind rolling and tongues, but those serpents!!
  9. Yes. See Army Research Insitute of Environmental Medicine.
  10. A little more luxurious, but it's been around for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train
  11. No, their existence is nothing like that of a convict.
  12. This was his question: And my question is if I can do that, combine 2 power sources, one with good voltage and almost no amperage, and the other power source with good amperage but almost not voltage, to obtain one power supply that is good amperage and good voltage. And my answer was "No". If he combines the two, at best he will have a low Voltage, good current supply. At worst, he will find why it's important to wear safety goggles when mucking about with batteries.
  13. The charge that makes up the high current is what must "have" the high Voltage. If, for example, the battery terminal Voltage were 1.3 VDC, any charging current would have to come from a source that had a Voltage higher than 1.3 VDC. A source capable of putting out 10A, but only at a Voltage of 1.25 VDC, would drain the battery.
  14. It requires current to recharge a battery. That requires a potential difference. Your charging source must be capable of supplying current at a somewhat higher voltage than the battery terminal voltage.
  15. All metals lose strength at high temperatures. It's only a matter of how much. Can you clarify your question a bit more?
  16. Isn't this an "over unity" machine? Or did I miss the part where you put in the magic Buckeyballs?
  17. Mister Spock, that's a Klingon Battlecruiser! Bibles up!
  18. I can assure you that is not true. I have several cousins who are darker than their parents. Can you give us the reference for that story? Are you in fact talking about the story in December, 2005 on a DNA change that accounts for white skin? That story, even though the cited study is in dispute, has been bastardized into some strange argument that everyone will eventually be white.
  19. That's absolutely true. There have been some studies of how, in people born blind, the visual cortex is "high-jacked" by another sensory input. But, that's not the point of my argument. My point is that the sense of balance is as innate as the sense of hearing is as innate as the sense of vision. All require cortical development.
  20. Does that mean they're implied in the original text or in the code?
  21. tvp45

    Dr?

    I always call people what they ask to be called. It seems to work OK.
  22. So, what do they do for vowels?
  23. I suspect we should simply stop. It has to do with that divide Senator Obama talked about the other day and is not likely to get settled in a few posts.
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