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Hi John, I heard a very interesting article on ABC Radio National about 9 months ago. A US professor was working out of one of the Sydney universities and he was an expert on power networks. He said that since Australia had introduced its National Electricity Market (NEM) in 2000, on average, 45 % of Australian electricity was delivered from another state and 65 percent, on average, was lost before it reached the receiving states borders. That means 65 percent of 45 percent, 30 percent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of our national electricity generation is wasted into our atmosphere from long line transmissions. So, how did Australian politicians solve their collective neglect to actually build power stations remotely close to where the power was going to be required??? They introduced a Carbon Tax and the figures have come in for the first 3 months of the tax with a 15.6 percent increase in electricity prices. When you add that up with the other 15% increase in the six months prior to the introduction of the tax, our electricity bills are 50 percent more than they were 12 months ago and very little has been spent on clean energy. And to top things off we are now linked to the European system which has a much lower carbon credit and as a result our most polluting power generation plants will not be closed because they are economically viable on the European rate (but weren't on the original Australian rate).

That's a good one Semjase, and its probably one of the main reasons why the BB theory is out of favour, apart from those who have already taken a leap of faith.

Tres Juicy, it looks like you've seen the episode.

When the majority of the global elites have more in common with each other than they do with their own people and the majority of the worlds people have more in common with each other than their elites, the peoples 'god' dies. Pausanias, a greek doctor wrote circa 200AD in Book VIII of his Guide to Greece, When 'god' loses the plot and becomes a handmaiden to the elites and their endless lust for wealth and power at the expense of uncountable numbers of innocents most honest moral people reject this neo 'god' because it has become their slave master on behalf of the elites. This is what religious people refer to as the anti-christ while most non religious just refer to them as shit kicker politicians, the bane of humanity.

I saw this one in an anime. The enigmatic giant blocked the bridge and said:- What do you have to say to cross this bridge?

Time goes on both ways forever, despite all mortal human endeavour, infinity will be reached, never ever. Chaos is purely nature in action, first find that correct butterfly, and you can make anything happen. Anti chaos is also quite easy to do, first find that correct butterfly, and then say boo!

Has anybody done any research on what happens to childrens teeth if they have flourine in the water supply for their first 5 years or so and then the supply of flourine is stopped?

If you can get something like aluminium foil or even paper it might not deform as much. Even a thin foil insert at the top might work with the plastic bag.

Calculus and programming are more like complementary skills that go hand in hand so if you are just interested in specialising in one area it may not be a problem. On the other hand if you want to get into design and development or engineering, across a wide range of industries, then you must have a good understanding of things like discrete math as well as calculus. What other maths subjects are you studying atm aimforthehead.

I have known two mates in the past who had similar conversational styles (along your gradient from 1-10, both started at 5), both were stylish and had good relationships with women but one was gay and one was not. One went down to take a role in 'Cats' for 2 years in another state capital and came back with an arrogant slant on his conversational style with men (gradient 2), compared with before, so it appears that there is some kind of experiental aspect, at least with regards to changes to conversational styles and attitudes. I saw him after another 5 years and his conversation style was back to normal (gradient 5), from my perspective anyway, while my other mate did not really change.

Hi Yuri, Note that the reduced Compton wavelength is used in relation to Planck length and is proportional to the Planck mass while the Compton wavelength is proportional to the inverse of the mass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_wavelength

Hi PsychGirl and Miser, I am an ENTJ who had a non technical supervisor and manager. It was a bit of a worry actually and I do not work for that company anymore. While you as a INFP understand why you learned to function as an ENTJ PsychGirl, do you think the opposite should be true for technical roles or is there a limit? I am an applied scientist so I would be interested in hearing what you think.

Pi is fascinating because, when derived from distances or time, it becomes a dimensionless constant. If I started photographing the sparkler around 6 and a bit feet away, the circle was 2 feet in diameter and I captured the light from the spinning sparkler in one complete circle the ratio ( A ) of the time between the rotating source and the observer over the diameter of rotation would be roughly equal to Pi. In this case the ratio ( B ) of the actual distance between source and observer over the distance travelled by light in a year would be very small and the ratio ( C ) of the observation period over the time it takes for the sparkler to be rotated once will equal one. All observations should have a width of field that covers the complete diameter of rotation of the source being observed. If I halve the exposure period I get half a circle and capture half as much light and when I double the exposure period I get 2 circles over each other and twice as much light in my photograph. If the sparkler is rotated twice as fast I would expect something that looked similar to when I doubled the exposure period but I would also expect to capture the same amount of light from only one rotation despite the doubling of the speed of rotation. If I taped two sparklers together I could halve the exposure time and double the speed of rotation to capture a similar amount of light from 1 sparkler doing 1 complete rotation. If the sparkler was moved at an angle to me I would observe an oval instead of a circle but the amount of light captured would remain the same as for a complete circle. In this simplest base context A = Pi, B = tiny, C = 1 and the observer will capture one complete cycle. On any scale where C >= 1 the observer will capture at least one complete cycle despite the size of B. On any scale where A = Pi * x, B >= 1 and C < 1 the observer will only capture the light from B * C = x of one rotation during any observation regardless of the speed of rotation of the same object. On a galactic year scale where A = Pi * x, B = 230 million and C = 1/230 million you would expect to capture the light from B * C = x rotations or roughly one rotation regardless of the speed of rotation. On a galactic year scale where A = Pi * x, B = 4.2 billion and C = 1/4.2 billion you would expect to capture the light from B * C = x rotations or roughly one rotation. This should be what we see when we observe light from an undistorted source rotating around a galactic centre that is stationary.

The soil/particles comes out with the drilling mud/water after being loosened by the chopping bit. The drilling mud is used to prevent the sides of the bore from caving in so it would not be needed if the bore was cased. The link refers to collecting samples from the bore which would involve replacing the chopping bit with a sampling bit.

He was asphyxiated while destroying equipment, the CIA was in control of the Libyan embassy at the time and the head of the CIA has recently resigned.

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/68634-dark-matter-and-compton-wavelengths/ I suppose it depends if you are in a black hole looking out or are actually outside of the 'wonderland' looking in.

And as a result of that convenience, especially when rotating sources are considered in dark matter calculations, it appears that the speed of the electrons are being increased (and therefore giving an artificial increase in relative mass) instead of regarding the sources rotation speed as being increased with the rest mass remaining constant as well as the photon stream emitting from that mass. You will always capture the same amount of light from a rotating source during a fixed period of observation whether the source is rotating at x, 2x, 3x etc. This is where our observation point is and this is where the quantum calculations should come back full circle, out of necessity not convenience.

The difference between the two is 2 x Pi and if you divide the latest quantum perceived 'dark' matter/energy by 2 x Pi there is very little 'dark' matter/energy. I read many of the latest 'dark' matter papers and while I could only find one that derived from the non reduced form down to the reduced form I could not find a single paper that went back to the non reduced form. It is very strange as the difference is quite clear. http://en.wikipedia....pton_wavelength

What about the Compton wavelength (rest mass) and the reduced Compton wavelength (relative mass).

It's probably just as well that Ferdinand Magellan ignored the risk of falling off the edge of the world to circumnavigate it. He assumed that as long as wherever you move to is connected to wherever you moved from and you travel at relatively finite velocities for fixed distances you can map your progress. It is called dead reconing navigation in coastal waters and its modern offshore partner is called celestial navigation. Whether the world was physically round or flat was decided once and for all when his boat came back in, not before, same goes for now.

Long-slit Spectroscopy provides a 90 degree twist on the doppler effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-slit_spectroscopy in an expanding universe?

I don't think Socrates was a troll. But if you ever did manage to classify him as a troll you would also have to consider him as Plato's sock puppet.

You refer to the much higher percentage of the population who have sickle cell anaemia in areas of Africa susceptible to 'sleeping sickness' (Human African trypanosomiasis) caused by the Tsetse Fly. At university (in the 90's) this was described as a local example of continuing human evolution (survival of the fittest). Inbreeding between people with this disease would serve no purpose and give no extra benefit so it is not a good example.

Hi Jacques, Regardless of what mass you use the following applies. The largest Compton wavelength (rest mass) in the visible universe would currently be 13.7 Billion ly long and this would have a reduced form (relative mass) of 13.7 B ly/(2 * Pi). The Schwarzchild radius is twice the reduced Compton wavelength for the mass so the circumference of the event horizon of a black hole with all of the visible universes mass would be 13.7 Billion ly/Pi (i.e. reduced Compton wavelength x 2). http://en.wikipedia....pton_wavelength

I only showed the paths of all the photons that could only travel from the source directly in a straight line to the observation position. The source continually emitted photons during one complete galactic rotation and this path was never obscured by anything during that time. The paths of these photons are only curved because the sources that emitted them are rotating around a galactic centre.