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I don't think it's reflection. It's light that enters through other edges.

No, I meant other wave lengths are absorbed and only green light is reflected out.

I remember seeing a program on the discovery channel about this. They seemed to think that, in the event of human removal, then squid would evolve out of the oceans and take our place as the intellegent life form. Any thoughts?

oops, sorry I must have missed it, thanks.

I'm sorry, I support space exploration, I just don't think Bush is sincere in his efforts to reach mars. 2010? yeah right. I seriously doubt Bush gives a damn about space exploration. Maybe he thinks we'll find oil on Mars. How does he think we'll get to outerspace if he continues to cut spending on non-military research?

I like Fight Club, Princess Monoke, great movie. If you want some laughs, I suggest some Mel Brooks movies: Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the World part 1, Silent Movie, To Be or Not to Be, etc. Also I highly recomend The Princess Bride.

It is a big deal

Because of it, I can't walk

I will maim my dog!

I disagree, I liked the second much better. It concentrated more on plot then mindless killing. (blood looked too fake, by the way)

I recomend the 3rd LOTR, extended edition is out now.

They say if you get a quick sleep and wake up before you go into REM, say 15 min. or so, then you feel more refreshed. any truth?

I think Bush should concentrate on fixing the earth first he send people to f*@! up another planet.

We'll never really know the true answer, that's why so many people endlessly debate it.

That won't always happen. If shot high enough, the ball will not land in the funnel, due to the rotation of the earth. Also why a pendulum will never stay swinging exactly straight.

My dog bit my foot

I am in a lot of pain

I will kill my dog.

Good scifi/fantasy book dealing with this is the Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline L'engle

At least it doesn't kill 2/3 of the earth's population.

Actually it killed about 1/4 of europe's population, not 2/3 of the earth.

http://me.essortment.com/bubonicplague_rvdr.htm

I heard somewhere that people in europe that are known to be resistant to the bubonic plague also have immunities to AIDs, anyone else hear this, or did I imagine it?

For light to have come out the edge' date=' it basically has to have entered through another edge* so you get total internal reflection. So it travels a large distance through the glass, which is acting like a waveguide. Absorption.

 

*it's possible a small amount scatters off of some impurity, or some other medium on the surface allows coupling into the glass at some angle.[/quote']

 

 

This sounds resonable to me. Light enters at an akward angle causing green light to be reflected off of it. Does this make any sense?

I just meant, that if it doesn't scratch glass, it's not a diamond. However, if it does scratch glass, it may or may not be a diamond.

Sure, but it doesn't effect there genetic codes (skin cancer aside)

A quick test...scratch it against glass, if it doesn't scratch it, it's not a diamond.

then how do explain the theory that the universe will eventually collapse into itslelf. Wouldn't it expanding forever?

Indeed, what of the moral imperative? Should the unnecessary suffering of millions be allowed to continue because millions of others don't approve whole-heartedly of a process few of them understand to begin with?

Well said Geode. I think a big problem with the majority of people who are against stem-cell research do not understand how it works. Thats partly their own fault, partly the media. The media wants to scare people, so they portray the message that scienctists are taking embryoes and turining them into body parts. Which is obviously not the case.

did they take it offline? Maybe they just moved it. can anyone find it?

Go see a doctor, make sure he/she knows your habits and activites

I think it probably has to do with selective mating. Animals choose the biggest strongest animals to propagate the species. The mammals prefer bigger mate; better to defend young, themselves. Also many mammals fight for mates. The bigger, stronger mammals will win the fight, and the mate.

Why they became extinct?

I don't think there is only one answer. Humans make sense, but we should also consider that maybe the animals got too big for their bodies. Being big means more food, more body mass, more blood flow. Their bodies simply couldn't support themselves There is not enough food to support the population - fierce competition for food and resources. The result? Dieoffs. The bigger animals die off the smaller ones come in, to take their place. Add that with humans; resoursful animals who can use tools and weapons, and view the bigger animals as an excellent source of food, and you might have an accurate picture of what happened.

Actually humans are the third most intellegent life on this planet. Dolphins are the second and mice are the first. Dolphins found a way off the planet just it was destroyed by the Vogons, something humans couldn't do. Mice actually had the earth, really a giant supercomputer, built to determine the question to the answer of the universe (42)

Attaining absolute zero would violate the Heisenberg Princible. If an atom stops moving, as it does at absolute zero, then it's electrons would stop moveing. We would then be able to see where it is and how fast it is moving, which according to the princible is impossible.