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  1. Rubbish! Come on Tom! Your dictionary is extreamly poor. Buy a better one. Oxford English Dictionary- Sound: 1 - sensation caused in the ear by vibration of surrounding air or other medium. 2 - a. Vibrations causing this sound. b. similar vibrations whether audible or not 3- what is or may be heard. 4 - idea or expression conveyed by words. 5- mere words. 6. sound produced by regular vibrations - noise. 7.etc.. etc..... it goes on and on for half a page. Of course it makes a sound - this question was invented by philosophers just to annoy scientists with pointless arguments about symantics. In any decent dictionary you get a descent definition of the word.
  2. what if they made the bank notes from nitrocelluose? Might be difficault to get them looking right - would ned to be very good forgeries.
  3. I doubt many men would turn her down - whatever type they prefer.
  4. It's the parents these days - If I complained about water when I was a kid I would have got a sharp frown and a telling off "just drink it - it's good for you! - what's wrong with you!?" Might have been alittle uncomfortable at first but you get used to it. Water is the most refreshing drink there is (unless you're adicted to coke - then there's nothing like it) - if you get back after a 5 mile run in the sunshine then NO-ONE is going to turn down a nice glass of water - and of course it might feel uncomfortable on the way down - it's life.. We've all been a bit spoilt maybee? If you lived in some parts of Africa you would do almost anything for a glass of water. You'd drink it or die. Military or with old fashioned parenting.
  5. That's because you are a well educated person with morals that you have either picked up or have been taught or whatever... there are MANY morons out there. Some people just don't care - and they arn't the type of person that would be reading this forum. You get the cases in the UK where girls get themselves up the duff just so they can get moved up the housing lists and get more benifits and a free flat. They see it as an advantage to have a child because their benefits increase. Not all of them, but alot of the really moronic ones do.
  6. DrP

    X rays vs UV rays

    Depends upon the wavelength of the bonds you are trying to break to initiate reaction. UV will initiate a reaction if it breaks bonds in one of the reactants, leaving behind a radical that will react. If you hit the system with an x-ray instead, then you might not break your target bonds as they vibrate/break at different frequencies. It coulds pass straight through, or hit different bonds. This leads to a question: Does anyone know if you can get a different reaction occuring by hitting the same system with different radiation? i.e. the UV breaking one type of bond, leading to reaction A. Then x-rays, microwaves or some other type of radiation hitting the same starting system, breaking different bonds, leading to a reaction B with different products?
  7. If they realise they have a chance of being preggers that is. They might be more inclined not to care and to "take a chance" that they haven't concieved, safe in the knowledge that if they have, it won't matter because they can just get an abortion. I am 100% PRO choise. But I don't think it should be encouraged as a contraception option.
  8. Cheers - I'll let him know. It'll be interesting to see if he can reproduce it and what he'd come up with as a test to prove it.
  9. What is the temperature at the centre of a black hole? What is the net mass of the material at a point in the centre per mm^3?
  10. It should be about personal choice with abortion. Allot of people are against it so forcing them to fund some-else’s abortion is unfair. Also if it is funded you will get people not worrying too much about contraception because they know they will be able to just go and get a free abortion afterwards anyway. If they know they have to pay for it then they might think twice before getting banged up without caring about the consequences.
  11. I don't understand it, but a very reputable person I know claims he can dowse. He is a scientist and an excellent computer programmer and doesn't take any nonscense. He can't explain it scientifically but claims that he demonstrated this effect on holiday in Arica. He asked the owners if they had a plan of the hotel and that they should get it ready. He then drew his own plan out and dowsed round untill he had built up a map of all of the pipeworks running through and arround the building. His map overlaid the building plans exactly. He doesn't know HOW he does it - it just works he says. The people in the hotel made him an honory witch doctor. I've tried it and can't do it - it seems that some can and some can't so you would have to do an exeriment with people that claim they can do it. We've been thinking about possible explanations - they all involve some kind of electric field set up by the free electrons in the running water being detected by the rods. This would be VERY small, too small to deflect the rods, but maybe if you know what you are "feeling" for then the subconscious may amplify this efect - who knows?
  12. Laptop Vs Desktop? What are you needing it for - do you need it to be portable or will you only use it in your room at the desk? If you need portablility then get the laptop. If you don't need it and you are happy to work at a desk then get the desktop as you will get more for your money in terms of power, storage etc..
  13. Or if you live in the UK you get rushed to hospital in an ambulance without anythought at all if you have insurance or not - we are ALL covered for such things here regardless of wallet or brain size. Well of course it can! That's life. I still don't see your point at all. I could get run over by a bus tomorrow, or maybe not. So what? Didn't we all get taught this when we were about 2 years old? Your parents should have instilled and drilled into your head that the world is a dangerous place and that just one slip can get you killed - or indeed just one slip from someone else can get you killed without you even doing anything wrong at all. If not then you'll get a shock as you lean this the hard way.
  14. The polystyene foam you mentioned sounds best to me. And as people have said above - stop air flowing in and out of the stytem.
  15. That's because alot of them are sheeple with an average IQ of about 100. No disrespect - that's just the general public for you. The Times and Telegraph both ran stories about the support he is getting from other scientists in his dept. They think his dismisal was unfair.
  16. The public want to know the truth - not to be lied to. No-one disagrees how dangerous drugs and alcohol are - we just want the facts. Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than dope - fact. We have a class system based on how dangerous the drug is. Heroin is class A and rightly so. Canabis fits into class C. If the government make it class B then it defeats the whole point of the graided system in the first place...... What are they going to do next? Ban Alcohol? That would be the next logical move if you up the class of canabis.
  17. I think we crave peace and quite. Sometimes violence is the only way to achieve it though!
  18. In a plasma, you have the situation where all the electrons have been stripped from the atom.
  19. Wow! See, I said this cause problems - my post has been thought away into nothingness already!. Be carefull.. Lest my Brane explodes.
  20. DrP

    Test

    If you can't, try viagra.
  21. What was that Next Gen episode? It had The Traveller in it. He used the thoughts of everyone on board to take The Enterprise above warp 10 - they went about 10,000,000 light years in a few seconds. Wesley suggested that Time, Space and Thought were connected and wern't that dissimilar. The Traveller freaked out a bit at this and suggest that this line of thought was VERY dangerous and he shouldn't even think about it as the human race wasn't ready for such things. So be carefull dude! .
  22. It's fairly safe because when it has been emited, it doesn't get very far without crashing into something. Even a sheet of paper will block an alpha particle. Personally, I wouldn't want the lining of my digestive track being the thing that blocks them though.
  23. So far today - (apart from gettng a nice hug) - hearing the TMBG's lyrics at the intro to their song: The sun is a Miasma Of incanescent Plasma Always pleasing to have a little flirt now and again. I know the feeling.
  24. Loss and gain of Hydrogen? Up to you to work out which way round though!
  25. "Love thy Neighbour as thyself". "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Are quotes that suggests you need to forgive yourself and find ways to love yourself (not arrogantly, but in the "Agape" way) - then you can share your love with the world..... e-hem (coughs), the Agape love that is..
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