Daveyboy

Cracking idea. Without it I cant see how it would get funded. Unless it was a global effort, hardly likely. Mars 2010- No.

True. Ive probably got a biased attitude towards the subject, due to my intersest in it. Is the Mars "outreach" program costing an estimated $Trillion. Probably a fair argument to say there are more pressing causes on the planet worthy of that money.

How much methane does a cow produce then. Does it really add to a greenhouse effect.

fair point. Dont know how you can put a price on knowledge though.

How long would it take a solar sail propelled craft to get to mars from Earth.

cheers. That clears that up then. One thing though. I was reading his website. Can anyone ecplain this to me?? Q: How can freezing water expand, even bursting metal pipes, with no energy input to explain it? A: According to today's science, this is impossible. As we all know, every energy output requires a balancing energy input to remain within our laws of physics. A balloon left in the sun will expand and burst, in the process doing work against the surrounding atmosphere as well as its elastic skin, but this is balanced by the energy input from the sun, so it is no mystery. However, freezing water has no energy input. In fact, it has just the opposite of an energy input -- energy is continually drained from the water as it cools toward freezing. So, how does the water suddenly expand with such force from within that it easily bursts metal pipes? No scientifically viable answers to this mystery can be found from today's scientists -- only confused explanation attempts that crumble under logical scrutiny.

Didn't happen i guess. What a surprise.

cheers, will do

True.

I've just been told of a book called "final theory" by Marl McCutcheon. Has anybody heard of or read this book. Does the book stand up. http://www.thefinaltheory.com

Its something my lecturer gave to the class. Just a brainteaser for us i guess. cheers

Yeah i know that, but does it hold up mathematically just doesn't add up to me

Can anybody make any sense of this??? A thought experiment illustrates this. Imagine a company, United Differences (UD), operating in a community that is 25 percent black and 75 percent white and 5 percent homosexual, 95 percent heterosexual. Unknown to UD and the community is the fact that only 2 percent of the blacks are homosexual, whereas 6 percent of the whites are. (The numbers are fictitious and chosen for illustration only.) Making a concerted attempt to assemble a work force of 1,000 that "fairly" reflects the community, the company hires 750 whites and 250 blacks. However, just five of the blacks (or 2 percent) would be homosexual, whereas 45 of the whites (or 6 percent) would be (totaling 50, 5 percent of all workers). Despite these efforts, the company could still be accused by its black employees of being homophobic since only 2 percent of the black employees (five of 250) would be homosexual, not the community-wide 5 percent. The company's homosexual employees could likewise claim that the company was racist since only 10 percent of their members (five of 50) would be black, not the community-wide 25 percent. White heterosexuals would certainly make similar complaints.