Skye

Explosives act on flesh like hitting a water balloon with a baseball bat. If you have enough force to project the body a decent distance the body seperates into pieces and alot of the energy is lost. The things that travel are things that can withstand the shock, eg. the axle from the Bali car bomb travelled about a hundred feet onto a roof.

4 mg/L, not 4 mg/mL. This is from studies of towns with naturally high levels of fluorine in the water, so it should account for the differences in water that people drink and that. If you drink a glass of 4 mg/L fluoride you'll be fine though. Skeletal fluoridosis generally takes years to have a noticable effect. You get dental fluorosis at lower figures, under 2 mg/L. It makes your teeth mottled brown, but other than that it's not so bad IIRC.

The problem with fluoride is that there's not a huge range over which it's beneficial. So most drinking water that is fortified with it is at around 1 or 2 mg/L, the amount needed to be effective for teeth, but above 4mg/L and you start getting skeletal fluorosis in the community. Skeletal fluorosis causes the bones to become more brittle, and is caused by chronic over-consumption. I'd be a little concerned about fluoridated toothpaste because it's going to be hard to control the amount she gets. That being said the benefits of having the right amount, especially for children, are well studied. An alternative to the toothpaste is fluoride tablets, then you can control the amount she gets.

Sure. They want more than some sort of punishment though, they want one that fits the crime. If you gave him a six month sentence no-one would think justice was served or that it was revenge or retribution. Even the most severe penalties we currently give can barely be seen as justice. So in that case even if he gets the death penalty, so what? It's nothing compared to what he did.

I met Ms. Wright about 4 years ago, close enough for me. And I'm not just a toy, as it turns out I'm also various household appliances.

I don't know that much about it. From what I know they are more active. Problems arise if they get bored, then you get bad behaviour and learning disorders and that.

Singular = ovum Plural = ova Perhaps the easiest way to get extra DNA is through the sex chromosomes. The somatic ones tend to be fatal aside from 21, and it's not great in any case. XYY is the best to have as its main effect is to make you taller.

It's not inbreeding with bananas, since they don't breed as such. They propagate from suckers, so in essense they are all clones. There are many varieties, they are one of the older cultivated plants, but most commercial plants belong to one of a few of these.

But then, how can you let him die so easily as through lethal injection or the electric chair? My problem is that there appears to be no punishment to fit some crimes, or if there is it's so terrible I feel it's an act of debasement.

I don't really think we can get close enough to really justify (wink) the whole exercise. If someone had killed my daughter horribly, even if they died through capital punishment, I'd still feel that justice wasn't yet completely served. I'm not sure anything you could do could balance the scales. I'd rather not hold out the idea of justice for people, or engage in this contract of exchanging my right to perform the deed for such a poor payment. That being said, I'm not saying there shouldn't be a fear of repercussions, but that's a matter of deterrence rather than justice I think.

I don't really like the idea of a justice system. The problem is that there's often a divide in regards to appropriate punishment between the public (on behalf of which laws are written) and the victims. Governments should simply admit that life's not fair, because it's not and no government can make it so.

Who wants to wait around for people to do their homework for them?

Oh ok, I think it's kimchi but who knows with Koreans and their consonant musical chairs.

Yep. Yep. It can be made from soy beans. Sauerkraut I suppose.

Cadmium also has effects on the cell membrane permeability I think, but zinc is in so many enzymes (I think the most of all transition metals) that you'd expect it to have multiple effects. HCN mainly works by blocking cytochrome oxidase, which kills the electron transport chain so no more aerobic ATP production. Mustard gas causes blistering, which if severe enough will kill you. There are no immediate problems, but after a few hours the symptoms start to show up and gradually worsen. It forms a very electrophilic molecule in the body. Obviously with so many nucleophilic molecules in the cell there are lots of potential reactions. One thing it does do is lead to the alkylation of DNA, which then sets off a series of cellular reactions which supposedly cause blistering.

There may not be a huge amount of data, but then evolution is a theory, so it there to explain the data rather than generate it. In any case, any other theory that wishes to explain that data is relying on the same quantity of data to do so, and so is in the exact same position.

Nah they make lactic acid. So I imagine it'd taste like a mixture of beans and sharp cheese :/

Eyes are almost entirely coloured by the melanin pigments, eumelanin that is brown or black and pheomelanin that is yellowish. Eumelanin predominates in brown and black hair and theomelanin predominates in blonde and red hair, so it would probably be possible to have quite yellow or orange eyes with a large amount of theomelanin. I'd hazard a guess this is the case with yellow-eyed animals. Albinos lack melanin, so the blood becomes visible.

In addition, not all of a plants cells photosynthesise or have chloroplasts, but these cells still need to produce ATP to carry out their normal functions. Much of a plant is under the ground, constantly growing, storing nutrients, synthesising protective chemicals, etc. Plastids that become chloroplasts in photsynthetic cells are used for many of these tasks.

Yep, that would be entirely possible. But just because the code is the same doesn't mean it encodes the same thing.

I wouldn't worry, they are all doomed to the fires of Evolutionary Hell. Due to my lack of imagination right now, it's very similar to regular Hell, only inhabited by those who don't accept evolution as the most plausible explanation for the current diversity and organisation of life.

google.com.au has a poppy theme going on, to be fair.

So how did your 15 seconds of fame feel?

Experimentally the number is a bit lower, something like 35 molecules as a maximum.

Well if you are are resolute in going to war to prevent Iran getting nukes then the language is fine. I don't think the US people or government have reached that position yet, so I think that the language isn't the best possible. No. But my point in there was that there's some domestic political importance to what he's saying about nuclear energy, so it's not just a front to get the nukes. Well yeah, Ahmadinejad is difficult. But there are plenty of Zionists who use similar language. And the Axis of Evil talk isn't helpful. So sure it's not a good sign, but it's still just talk at this stage. People just need to stop talking each other into a war that nobody really wants.