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something like this? http://ontariobusinessreport.com/en/small_bizz/articles/smlbiz_article_07.asp

No! (Reminds me of the old joke about a masochist who met a sadist in a pub)

The OP said a closed loop? By this I assume a complete circuit of fluid, rather like the car cooling example.

Yes, as long as the liquid expanded when heated and contracted when cooled. Early cars used this system where the water around the engine rose and the water fell as it was cooled by the radiator. "Engine cooling 1937 diagram of engine cooling entirely by thermosyphon circulation Early cars and motor vehicles used thermosyphon circulation to move cooling water between their cylinder block and radiator." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosiphon

The steps of the Scientific Method are: Observation/Research Hypothesis Prediction Experimentation Conclusion http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/scientific_method.html As well as we can follow these steps?

What are Pheromones? "Pheromones are naturally occurring substances the fertile body excretes externally, conveying airborne messages that generate social responses from others of the same species. Pheromones were first defined by biologists in 1959 as chemical substances excreted by animals to trigger reproductive behavioral response from a recipient of the same species. Pheromones are now widely recognized to be the mediator that promotes the survival of each species." http://www.athenains...dsexuality.html At different times and under different circumstances I have found the gentle odour of a clean human body somewhere on a scale from interesting to exciting!

No names, no pack drill - but if you feel that this contains good advice.................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuR4eHymCQ

All three components are mutually at right angles to each other. By the way you should be using the left hand rule for motors. Both of your points raised are therefore true. The force is perpendicular to to the magnetic field and the current is also perpendicular to the magnetic field. Your fingers represent a three directional situation The diagram (where current is flowing into your computer screen) is from the link:- http://physics.mq.ed...ge/BRIDGE09.pdf

I sometimes think of the fact that everything we experience is an interpretation by our brain of signals from our sensors that allow us to exist in the world. For example we see a "solid" wall, but almost all of it is space. But we know that walking into it is impossible The wall may not really be solid but it is in our interests to see it as such. What we really experience is nothing more than electrical and chemical disturbances in our heads.

First you need to define what sin is. For example sexual attitude? The quote is from the link. "The views of religions and religious believers range widely, from holding the belief that sex and the flesh are negative, to the belief that sex is the highest expression of the divine. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_sexuality

Interestingly, if the windows faced north the puzzle would not work. Well, it could but would take a lot of arranging!

Great granddaughter (nearly 3 years old) came to visit and demanded "Wheels on the bus - Incy wincy spider" She climbed onto my lap while I ran up my laptop. While we were waiting she buried her face in my shirt, lifted her head and said "Great Granddad you smell!" As I had come out of the shower shortly before her visit I asked confidently "Do I smell nice?" to which she answered "No!" Ah well, you can't win them all!

If you want to believe any given civilian will act with an individual morality in times of peace by all means do so, but you are mistaken. A group of soldiers (IMO) is likely to contain a greater percentage of people with a high moral standard than (say) a group of bankers! Of course in both groups you will find a range of moral standards - but a group of soldiers is a group of human beings much like any other group. I was lucky as I never had to handle loaded weapons except for practice on the firing range. It would have troubled me greatly if I had to do so.

Civilians, whether legally trained or not, are expected to keep within the law. Why not members of the armed forces? The general populace is not full of moral philosophers but I've never heard that used as an excuse for breaking the law. Members of the armed forces are as much human beings with the same characteristics as human beings in any other sphere of experience. The fact that some of them have to take rapid life or death decisions on occasion adds to their burden of responsibility.

Extracting shale gas reserves under Blackpool UK has been blamed for two minor earthquakes. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/small-earthquake-in-blackpool-major-shock-for-uks-energy-policy-2291597.html

Seems to have a lot in common with this link:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_need By the way, my father who died in 1949 was a much respected member of the community noted for his efforts to improve the lives of many people. He was also Secretary of his local branch of the Communist Party.

Go on Xittenn - say something - you know you are dying to! Or maybe not ?

I have touched on this before, but feel it has been overlooked as the debate has gone up the ranks. The people that may have to take the risks and perform the tasks are the "foot soldiers". One of the first things I was told when I joined the British Air Force was that disobeying a LAWFUL order was a serious matter. However if I was certain the order was unlawful then I could, and should, refuse but be prepared to defend my position. Admittedly easier said than done but I hope the people on the ground in the American forces are told the same. "Seems like pretty good motivation to obey any order you're given, right? Nope. These articles require the obedience of LAWFUL orders. An order which is unlawful not only does not need to be obeyed, but obeying such an order can result in criminal prosecution of the one who obeys it. Military courts have long held that military members are accountable for their actions even while following orders -- if the order was illegal." http://usmilitary.ab...eyingorders.htm

I think the suggestion may be that an offshoot of the evolutionary process, particularly the starting process and development of a foetus, is so similar to the staring process and development of a cancerous growth that perhaps the two have always co-existed. Perhaps the same process of evolution that allowed sexual reproduction allowed cancer to form? Perhaps formation of cancerous growths were random events before sexual reproduction and had some effect on the development of sexual reproduction?

Apparently the development of cancer is very similar to embryonic development . I wonder if it is part of the cost of evolution. Perhaps if cells were never able to reproduce under uncontrolled conditions there would never have existed the possibility of controlled reproduction? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cancer-clues-from-embryos

I guess we shall have to agree to disagree.

Are you saying that gender and sexual awareness are two different and quite separate things? Are you saying that unless influenced by older people most boys of about 16 would not tend to look at girls of about the same age (and fantasize about possibilities) with a lot more interest than they do other boys? Or are you saying this sexual awareness has nothing to do with gender? I see sexual awareness as an important component of gender identity and something that develops naturally.

I imagine young people between the onset of puberty and 18 years of age would insist for themselves that they were not genderless! To deny them this realisation would be to rob them of part of their natural development (IMO).

I think that often what is seen as evidence in one age will not be accepted as evidence in another age. To give an example of what I mean I consider homosexual acts between men. I am heterosexual and so was happy to accept the fact that, for over half of my life (I was in the British military until the age of 40), there must be reason for this discrimination and why it should be a crime. I think one classic piece of "evidence" was the "fact" that it was a reason for the collapse of the Roman Empire. We didn't want our Empire to go the same way did we? All shake your heads! I now believe that the collapse of the Roman Empire was a very complex matter and homosexuality had little or nothing to do with it. The human mind being what it is, the change in my inner feelings from abhorrence to complete acceptance that these feelings are normal for others has been a slow process. People should be careful and as objective as possible when they present or consider "evidence". http://www.telegraph...osexuality.html