anotherfilthyape

Anyone knows a gas that is denser/heavier than air at room temperature (at 20ºC, add or substract 5ºC) and which isn't lethal to humans? (preferibly it gotta be translucent, but even more important, it gotta be cheap and safe for people to walk through it as long as they keep their nose well above it in order ot breath real air or only sink their noses in it as much as they can hold their breath)?

Wikipedia claims that a horse's neck length is a third of the horse's body length but data on horse size rarely ever mentions horse body length... They mention body height only... Anyone knows the length?

Ocrrectionn; Bravant heavy horse or Belgian heavy horse or bravant or belgian horse... Besides the Shire horse

When I search fo the body length of the Chaco golden knee, Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula and Goliath bird-eating spider all I find is the length of their lengths, their legspan... but no data on their body length... Could anyone help?

In the mus genus... which is largest? And how large? anyone knows? (size in cm or inches, not weight in grams or the like)

 

Useful theoretical implications = Theoretically, something may be useful.

 

'What is the ultimate purpose of Evolution?' is an example of a meaningless philosophical question because it implies that it is being premeditatively guided,..which is cobblers. I use meaningless in the sense that a question is lacking in validity or utility.

 

Hint: Ask the author what he means before you ridicule him.

You weren't the author so why are you answering on his name? "useful theoretically implication" is not the same thing as "theoretically useful implications" just like "4 elevated to the power of 9" is not the same as "9 elevated to the power of 4"

"what is the ultimate purpose of evolution" is not a philosophical question; Loaded questions are never philosophical questions and this is a loaded question... Learn what is philosophy before leaving yourself in ridicule...

 

"Useful theoretical implications" simply means it's a useful concept that could assist in the development of a theory. The equivalence principle certainly has useful theoretical implications, considering Einstein used it when developing General Relativity.

 

A "meaningless philosophical question" is a question that cannot be answered by science, yet people attempt to answer anyway. It's a question where even if someone had the right answer, they could never know for sure. It's a question that's pointless to attempt to answer. An example would be, "what is the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics?" Interpretations are just that: interpretations. There's no test or experiment that could be performed that could answer this question.

 

• Protanomaly (1% of males, 0.01% of females):^[21] Having a mutated form of the long-wavelength (red) pigment, whose peak sensitivity is at a shorter wavelength than in the normal retina, protanomalous individuals are less sensitive to red light than normal. This means that they are less able to discriminate colors, and they do not see mixed lights as having the same colors as normal observers. They also suffer from a darkening of the red end of the spectrum. This causes reds to reduce in intensity to the point where they can be mistaken for black. Protanomaly is a fairly rare form of color blindness, making up about 1% of the male population. Both protanomaly and deuteranomaly are carried on the X chromosome.
• Deuteranomaly (most common — 6% of males, 0.4% of females):^[21] These individuals have a mutated form of the medium-wavelength (green) pigment. The medium-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum resulting in a reduction in sensitivity to the green area of the spectrum. Unlike protanomaly the intensity of colors is unchanged. This is the most common form of color blindness, making up about 6% of the male population. The deuteranomalous person is considered "green weak". For example, in the evening, dark green cars appear to be black to Deuteranomalous people. Similar to the protanomates, deuteranomates are poor at discriminating small differences in hues in the red, orange, yellow, green region of the spectrum. They make errors in the naming of hues in this region because the hues appear somewhat shifted towards red. One very important difference between deuteranomalous individuals and protanomalous individuals is deuteranomalous individuals do not have the loss of "brightness" problem.
• Tritanomaly (equally rare for males and females [0.01% for both]):^[21] Having a mutated form of the short-wavelength (blue) pigment. The short-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the green area of the spectrum. This is the rarest form of anomalous trichromacy color blindness. Unlike the other anomalous trichromacy color deficiencies, the mutation for this color blindness is carried on chromosome 7. Therefore it is equally prevalent in both male & female populations. The OMIM gene code for this mutation is 304000 "Colorblindness, Partial Tritanomaly".

The afore-mentioned definition does not specifies which are the wavelength intervals at which colour vision peaks for these anomalous trichomat humans... Elsewhere wikipedia says

The three types of cones are L, M, and S, which have pigments that respond best to light of long (especially 560 nm), medium (530 nm), and short (420 nm) wavelengths respectively

but does not specifies any better... Could you specify the peaking (in wavelength) for these anomalous trichomats?

What is the etymology of the subspecific epithet "cassiquiarensis"?

What is the differences between the Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis and Saimiri boliviensis peruviensis?

Besides the names Bolivian squirrel monkey and Peruvian squirrel monkey do they get any unique subspecific names? Maybe something realted to titi?

I cannot find the common name of the Peruvian night monkey (or Andean night monkey) or the etymology of its species epithet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_night_monkey

Haven't you heard that the moth is attracted to the candle flame? I guessed those ants where moth-like then

Differentiated cells could be used in cases where you want to distinguish them from pluri- or totipotent cells (pluripotent cells are not fully differentiated, but more limited in what they can become than totipoten cells). In almost all other cases you would designate the cells according to what type of cells they are (which can be more or less specific, depending on context).

Yes I think that would work... What I wanted with this term is describe a fictional character who can transform a subhistic level, but not at a subcellular level, into a limited set of inorganic substances and in this form transform into organic form again but for an instant when going from inorganic to organic she would be a mass of totipotent cells... So I had to make it clear that thereafter she would no longer had permanent shapeshifting power... I write science fantasy (to put it simply) and I like to stick to science as much as I can (if I am gonna take an unscientific route I want to know I am doing so)

All cells are categorized according to their their differentiated state. Examples include neurons, myocytes, hepatocytes etc. and can often be subdivided according to specific functions.

I guess then I could call them "differentiated cells"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency wikipedia and google

 

simply put it goes

 

 

toti-

pluri-

multi-

oligo-

uni- this is the one you are looking for, it only produces more of itself

-potent cell

 

another option is that what you are looking for are cells that are in the terminal differentiation (ie they are the last in the line and can not reproduce any more

 

also you can call cells that are not stem cells "cells" or "normal cells"

Thanks for that but I saw it in wikipedia too and it claims unipotent cells are just hypothetical and that they are kinda like decayed multipotent cells, they still qualify as stem cells... I guess "differentiated cells" would be the proper term then... Since you agree on the fact that this involves "terminal differentation" or, in less words "differentiation"...

Elf you are funny with such nonsensical constructs like "useful theoretical implications" or "meaningless philosophical questions"... "Useful theoretical implication" is meaningless... Theory is useless if it does not applies to reality... On the other hand there is no such thing as a philosophical question that is trully philosophical and yet meaningless...

I understand that stem cells have different degrees of cell potency... But I do not understand this; What is the name for an animal cell without any potency? I mean... What is the name for an animal cell that isnt a stem cell? There must be a name for that... I mean... they behave differently, they do not transform into new cells, they just continue as the cells they are and maybe split into more cells like the ones they are but their structure does not changes... So... Any answers please? Wikipedia doesn'ts gives all the answers!

It took 1 minute 15 seconds to produce this information:

 

http://agris.fao.org...ml;TR2010001655

 

You will see that four rock eagles were treated for fracture or injury from 2006 to 2008 in the Lake Van region.

 

There are around 480 further hits on the query "Lake Van" AND "eagle" in Google Scholar.

Never knew of google scholar, thanks for that...

It would be helpful if you could be a bit more specific. For example:

 

What makes you think a new species of eagle has been found?

Where and how did you hear about it?

What form of checking have you done? Google search, newspaper archives, university biology departments, etc.

I never meant "new eagle species" maybe I should not use the word "found" I meant...

Anyone knows of an eagle species that is endemic or indigenous or xenobiotic

Is it health for his mental development to play with skeletons? I like skeletons too... But... I mean... He is a child...

I dissagree in the sense that this is a topic in the philosophy of science. We're discussing the definitions of t basic terms used in science. Definitions don't need to be falsifiable, only hyopotheses do. E.g. if I said that the electric field is defined as force per unit mass then it can't be falsified, but that doesn't mean that its wrong. The same with the concept of time.

Your example is a scientific concept... However time belongs to a metascientifical term of human experience and human thought, furthermore, it goes beyond human experience and human thought. IF scientists choose to define time and then say "time was created at the big bang" as a conclusion they can be easily begging the question...

If you are travelling northwesterly while the sun sets and approaching places with midnight sun... Will you ever see the sun set? Once you arrive to a place with midnight sun, what is the longest time you will see the sun not setting? If you were instantly teleported to the antipodes of your location... Would you find yourself in a polar night? Would traveling in a southeasterly direction keep you in the polar night?

In general wikipedia does not answers these questions about the polar night and midnight sun... what can you say about them?

Anyone knows?

This link shows a fox that became friends with a cat:

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/11/25/cat-and-fox-are-best-friends-video-photos/

Can anyone identify the species the fox is? (the cat is a van cat)

This happens in Lake Van so it must be a Turkish species of fox

This question is not a scientific question, it is a philosophical question, it must be addressed without science because you cannot falsify your conclusions... I had say that time is change, which can happen in any level of matter.

Hi, thanks, anyone out there can tell me what is the width of the Earth's grey line, terminator or twilight zone? I know it varies from North to South and by the presence or absence of mountains so... I want this data;

1.The width of Earth's terminator at its thickest (at sea level) in a plain field (with no hills or mountains)

2.The width of Earth's terminator at its narrowest (at sea level) in a plain field (with no hills or mountains)

3.The average width of Earth's terminator, at sea level, in a plain field (with no hills or mountains); by average I mean mode (or, otherwisem the airthmetic-geometric mean, either way specify which kind of average is used, thanks)

Edit: I guess that how much close we are to a solstice or equinox might also affect it, so consider extremes please and averages...

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Moderator Note

You're all welcome to create a new topic on the differences between physics and chemistry, etc. In this thread, however, the topic is creating gold from iron.

I dont know where such a thread would go... I am just asking where should this thread go...

anotherfilthyape,

 

The difference in theory and techniques used make it a very valid difference.

Good answer, I would however consider it valid if I thought that physicists could be good physicists while not knowing much chemistry or if I thought that chemists could be good chemists while not knowing good physics... Also... what does that implies to the subject of states of matter? Is it physics or is it chemistry? It involves pressure but it also involves the behaviour of matter... See, I dont see a strong distinction between physics and chemistry, I see the distinction but I dont see it is very strong.

Ok... Then I will send you a pm on my thoughts on both issues but how does the report feature works? And where does it work?

I guess it is too late to report now but I will report in the future and check the laws your forums have to be sure I understand their exact wording so I can argue correctly rather than from common sense and subsequent deduction/induction

Firstly, there is a difference between insulting a person and insulting their ideas and secondly, because I can't for the life of me see where the two posts you've quoted are insulting. If you wish to discuss this further, you are welcome to do so via PM or via the report feature (you were welcome to last time I warned you as well, for the record).

Ok... Then I will send you a pm on my thoughts but how does the report feature works? And where does it work?