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I should be working

But I am writing Haiku

Low production day

I don't support either candidate. What specifically do you mean by "defies the constitution"?

It would be easier if there were standard numbered theorems in plane geometry

E.L.F = small

not tall

But parrots (Umbrella Cockatoo and African Grey Congo) can live from 80-100 years.

Electrocardiographic Reference Values for Macaws (Ara species) and Cockatoos (Cacatua species)

Issn: 1082-6742 Journal: Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Pages: 17-22

Authors: OGLESBEE, BARBARA L., HAMLIN, ROBERT L., KLINGAMAN, HEATHER, CIANCIOLA, JANINE, HARTMAN, STEPHEN P.

 

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) were recorded from 41 healthy macaws (Ara species) and 31 healthy cockatoos (Cacatua species). All birds were anesthetized via face mask with isoflurane anesthesia. Standard bipolar (I, II, III) and augmented unipolar (aVR, aVL, aVF, V10) leads were recorded with birds in dorsal recumbency using a direct-writing oscillograph. Heart rates for macaws and cockatoos ranged from 231 to 571 beats per minute.

Pretty amazing as to how they can maintain that rate for so many years.

I am a Civil Libertarian at heart but the party has a snowball's chance in h*ll of winning the presidential election. I don't care for either of the 2 major candidates. Bush, at least, is a known quantity. Kerry is a pathological liar and stands for nothing.

Trees are a renewable resource. The forests should not be clear cut, but certainly need thinning and the underbrush cleared and made into pulp. Proper management is of utmost importance.

does anyone know of any other distributed programs like folding or seti? I have both, but Im always looking to help out a good cause. (that and I like the feeling that Im always being productive)

2cpu.com has a whole list of DC projects on the forum.

Folding@home

http://folding.stanford.edu

Team 2CPU.com. Team #3074

FOLD FOR THE CAUSE (TREATMENT)!

Here's a great forum, filled with computer geeks who are always willing to help.

http://forums.2cpu.com/

Poem by Frederick Winsor....I forgot to give credit where credit was due.

How about this:

Flappity, Floppity, Flip!

The Mouse on the Mobius Strip

The Strip revolved,

The Mouse dissolved

In a chronodimensional skip

Important can be defined many ways. Just surviving is important

Not to our gene pool.

And if a tachyon is travelling faster than the speed of light and backwards in time doesn't that mean they're travelling to the start of the universe since they can't exist before it started because there'd be nowhere for them to exist

If the Big Bang happens more than once and universal expansion/contraction is cyclical, than perhaps the cycle is infinite and therefore, the tachyons could continue to travel back in time. For us to detect such a (particle?) wouldn't some other source than the Big Bang be responsible for the tachyons as our timeline is the furthest point in the future for every nanosecond that passes.

And what could possibly take a collection of fundamentals and create one of these tachyons, wouldn't it take a phenomenal amount of energy to send something off at a speed faster than light??

Who knows, perhaps ours is not the only universe and tachyons are not native to ours. A Black Hole does not capture everything. Maybe tachyons exist and are uneffected by events such as the Big Bang.

Just some thoughts over my morning cup of java. Thanks for the thread, gave my mind a kickstart this morning.

As I understand, the chemical equation of electrolysis is:

2 H2O -> O2 + 2 H2

and 4 OH- -> O2 + 2 H2O + 4e- at the anode.

My question is, are the 4 electrons taken back up by the anode or do they float freely? Is heat created by the reaction?