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There's too many factors to give definite figures i.e it depends on the individual, the potency et.c et.c

 

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Yes but in general it does affect reaction times - I do agree though that some people can drive under OH influence (usually old guys who have done it for years and are used to it) BUT most people's abilities are seriously affected by drink but they think they are fine - Thats the problem, nearly all that drink and drive actually think they are fine to do so when they are not. People who smoke and drive actually think they shouldn't be on the road but are often fine! (agrred that it may vary for some)

 

Here is an independent test on driving ability vs THC levels in blood.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/driving/driving_6.htm

 

Reaction time relates to:

 

1) Stimulus is presented

2) Recognition of stimulus

3) Decision making on proper reaction to stimulus

4) Reaction (or implementation of the decision)

5) Effect of reaction

 

 

Steps 2-4 are all impacted when under the influence.

 

Agreed - but NOWHERE near as much as when under the influence of alcohol - it really is just a fraction where with alcohol you are talking multiples. (as I said before it sometimes seems that way due to the increased parinoia).

 

 

(PS - I am not condoning dope driving at all - I am just saying that compared to drinking and driving it is nothing like as bad.)

last time i was high(don't worry wasn't driving unless you count need for speed on the PS2) my reaction rates sucked ass.

You thought they did! They probably wern't as bad as you percieved them to be. That is the whole point of my argument.

INOW "Not sure why, but your statement (likely not very accurate) reminded me of this from a Michio Kaku presentation:"

I will watch it with sound when I get home tonight. Why wouldn't it be accurate - I read it about 3 years ago in the New Scientist. They were doing an article as to why you shouldn't drive when stoned. I thought they missinterpreted their results. I'll look it up for you when I get home.

If someone drilled a hole right through the centre of the earth (supposing there was no heat, compression, magma).

 

AND THEN YOU WALKED RIGHT INTO THE HOLE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

The person who dug the hole would shout 'MIND THAT BIG F@#;ING HOLE!!' and after you fell in he'd say 'what a dick!' :D:D:D

My 2p: - (figures are rough quotes from memory until I look the article up and give you the facts).

Alcohol - seriously reduces reation time by a mile (cant remember exact figure - half to x3 or more if really drunk?) - INCREASES confidence and risk taking by miles. THUS - you drive more dangerously, taking more risks and are nowhere near as capable as you think you are!

THC - reduces reaction times SLIGHTLY by about a tenth (Obviosly not good - but NOWHERE near as bad) - DECREASES confidence so you drive more carfully. THUS - you drive well within your abilities, stick to the speed limit and are alot more curteous to other drivers. -- SAFER!

The case against dope driving is that it reduces your confidence and slows reaction times - seems valid. However, in comparison, if you are driving more carefully due to reduced confidence / increased parinoia, but are only alittle slower (10%) then you are LOT safer than the drinker (or in fact a tired/ill person or someone using a mobile phone). An experienced driver/doper is alot safer in my book than a completley sober person just out of their test who thinks they are invincible. Most accidents happen in the first year or so of driving.

2ndly! Football hoolagans! They drink 10 pints and start fights and riots! Give them 10 splifs and see how many fights they start then! Notice that when the Brit footie hoolagans went to Holand there was absolutly NO violence at all.. I wonder why??

I knew a girl with three nostrils who could play three-part harmony on the Mongolian nose-flute. A rare talent.

yea right!

I knew a guy with 3 nipples at school - he never got laid either.

Density is mas per unit of volume, and AFAIK there is a difference between mass and weight. Mass does not change, while weight does due to g.

 

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Mass is in Kg etc... and as you said - is constant.

 

Weight is in Newtons (ans as you said can change with g) as it is the force which this mass exerts under gravity.

 

 

Thus - a 10 kg block on the moon is still a 10 kg block, but weighs alot less (about 1/6th?)

IIRC from watching David Attenborough, the fork in the tongue allows the snake to sense direction as well as smell/tase. It picks up scent through tasting the air - the fork gives it 2 refference points with one being more potent than the other so it can tell which direction it's prey went.

I'd go for fatalistic.

plants would have little reason to become mobile and predatorial.

Hmmm.. what about the Venus Fly Trap? Or Triffids even?

http://www.billionheartbeats.com gives a brief overview. Type 'billion heartbeats' into google for loads of stuff. -- I havn't read any respected scientific journals regarding this but there is alot to suggest that it is a good approxination.

Humans however go way beond their billion heartbeats (science cheating nature??) - we get about 3 billion according to the pages I read.

Jupiter has a solid core?

The Schumacher-Levy -9 comet (if that's what it was called?) hit jupiter so hard that it made the core 'ring' apparently!

why do animals like the Galapagos turtle live longer than say a horse when it's smaller?

Because the turtle will have a slower heartbeat / slower metabolism - so it will take longer for it to reach its 1 billion heartbeats.

Aren't some of the gas giants moons made of ice?

Would one charged particle have gone through both you and your dad's retina's simultaneously though?

Yea - good point! I must admit when thinking about it further on my way home last night I had the same thought. I doubt it would have gone through both of us.

Apparently astronaughts see them as little white flashes in space - even with their eyes closed. This is because they just go straight through the body - leaving a white flash on the retina as they go through it. Most get deflected before getting to the earth, but I heard somewhere that they can get through to the earth.

The grapefruit size may not be that accurate - it was a long time ago and that was how I remembered it. Thanks for your input!

I read somewhere once it had something to do with a set (or close to) number of heartbeats. An elephant's heart beats very slowly compared to a hampsters which whizzes away. How true this is I am not sure though - could be an urban myth! I'll look it up.

OK - on a quick search it seems that mamals live for (very appox.) about 1 billion heartbeats. I'm not sure this counts for EVERY animal, but it is a rough guide for some from what I could tell (don't have time to look it up properly right now).

It could be that the bubbles in the liquid settle on the tablet? Thus there is less surface area of the tablet actually in contact with water. That coupled with your suggestion that the water is diluted by the disolved gasses sounds reasonable. This is just a guess however and I do not actually know.

I see what your saying - because I was in a 'strange' enviroment (a room I was not used to sleeping in) I could have seen a flash from outside reflected off something. I do however believe we would have seen it with our eyes closed even. It was that kind of intense 'electrical' (for want of a better word) type flash, like mini, instantanious ball lightening. Also it seemed to come out of thin air - not from a surface.

About 10-15 years ago we had a family holiday. My father and I were lying in a dark room in 2 seperate single beds talking about the day. Just as we said goodnight, there was an intensely bright white/silver flash that started at a point just off centre from the middle of the room and grow to the size of grapefruit. It dissapeared instantly (the whole thing lasted but a split second). We BOTH saw this and my dad was amazed and said "what the hell was that" We did not know.

Could this have been a cosmic ray? Do they reach us here on earth? Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Interested in your views.

Yea Klanos! but just look at the picture again more closely!.... it's certain proof that a man went to mars and had a sit down! I'm mean.... you just can't dispute that sort of evidence!

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The Pyramid is not a natural geological feature. It is a designed and built

structure. I have come to this conclusion by simply looking at the photographic evidence. QUOTE]

 

 

I'm not saying it's definately NOT a 'man' made (or squigoth made) structure... it's just that you can't draw that sort of conclusion from these photos alone. You'd have to go there and get a closer look. NO CONCLUSIONS can be made from these really nice photos.

 

With the 'evidence' available I'd say that it is probably (99.9999999%) a natural feature. I would be happy to be 'proven' wrong when the next Mars lander gets a close up.

I wonder what conclusions he'd draw from my mates carpet?

I must admit that I like the pictures. However, when I stare lathargically into my mates beer and coke stained carpet, I see faces/images all the time! As it has been said already - the human brain looks for these sorts of patterns in anything.

It's probably just aliens scanning the earth for intellegent life.