Endy0816

Generally every time we want a bit of energy our main means of obtaining it is via combustion. Decreasing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and increasing the amount of carbon dioxide. As more of the world industrializes we can reasonably expect this trend to accelerate.

CO2 traps heat better and none of us wants the Earth to end up looking like Venus. There's reasonable evidence it can also snowball. The trapped methane in the oceans is only stable within a narrow pressure/temperature range. It gets too warm and the methane starts bubbling exacerbating the problem.

Problem with changes caused by lifeforms is that the lifeforms don't stop having an impact. If you want to look up the "Oxygen Catastrophe", it illustrates this fact well.

Methanol and Boric acid should do the trick.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Spirit-Lantern-Green-Fire-20/

We kind of already do this though admittedly using hydraulic fracturing instead. Geothermal sites and in natural gas drilling operations.

Article gives mixed data on the subject if you read to the end.

Cooling. Doesn't swallow coastlines like warming can.

Mostly a money/prosperity issue in terms of fixing or even creating stop-gap measures to deal with the problem.

Go under the wall.

Thanks, and yeah, my brain is a bit fried.

Would it be possible for one or more cases of successive gravitational lensing to direct light back towards its source?

Problem with numerology predictions is that they tend to be base dependent.

We use base 10, but we could just as well use base 8. Universe at large doesn't particularly care about the number 9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal#Other_bases

There are different disorders along these lines, though I don't know of any that exactly fits everything you are describing.

Probably one of the more well known cases out there, where a man lost his ability:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/23/in-search-of-the-minds-eye/#.VLSNm3tN8eM

You may be able to work to improve it.

http://www.self-help-and-self-development.com/visualization-exercises.html

Maybe working with real and/or virtual blocks as well. Lego's, Minecraft or anything similar(and there is no shortage out there).

...and note, just because you can mentally visualize how something works does not mean you can repair it. Sometimes you fail to visualize something small, like rust, and your repair effort instead results in a hole in the wall and a small but unstoppable leak(sadly shutting off the home's water main was not considered a valid repair option by my family).

Generally speaking I would say that the benefit lies being able to visualize a task or system without needing to physically interact with it.

What do you see in your mind's eye when you try these kinds of tasks?

I use it to sign-in to different sites. I have a few Twitter accounts for the same purpose.

There is Ello if you want an alternative to FB.

Is she grading based on how easy an essay is for her to relate to?

That we went through a period of adaption to a semi-aquatic environment.

It is the question of whether our adaptions are specific to that environment which is the issue.

If you make the case the descended larynx's suggest adaptation to a semi-aquatic environment and I bring out a male Red or Fallow deer, he makes for an effective counterpoint.

I do have to admit some unavoidable bias. We have a score of accidental drownings every year in Florida. The media coverage at least is frequently concerned with cases involving young children. Can't really get away from the public safety campaign against it.

On a good day I can reach the bottom of the deep end. About the same as the family dog...

As for why Fido doesn't take down that great horned beast that keeps swimming around in the jacuzzi... Well, I can only speculate that the risk of injury increases when more common tactics would fail to work.

There's too many counterpoints IMO. You start looking at the actual history of water birth, infants with their non-descended larynx, other mammals with a descended larynx(ADH - Aquatic Deer Hypothesis), it all just looks really shaky.

Possible, sure. Probable, I am not seeing it as such.

At the top, what would cause the water to come out of the capillary tube?

 

Voting for top 3 candidates ranked by preference (instead one person all or nothing)?

Something along those lines.

Historically it went: Winner takes all Voting system --> 2 Parties

You get vote splitting in our present system when you introduce a 3rd party into the mix.

Ron( R ): 50 votes

Daisy(D): 48 votes

Susi(S): 37 votes

Ron wins, but all of Susi's supporters would have voted for Daisy, if Susi had not been on the ballot. The math is pretty much the why of it all.

Ideally in the future we run simulations prior to drafting up a Constitution.

Well there are a number of religions which engage in the practice of casting spells. Rationally you can answer "Yes" and not indicate whether you believe the spells themselves to actually work.

As for ghosts, I think at least a number of people have had odd experiences. Whether this is due to little known physical phenomenon, actual spirits, or our brains misfiring, who knows.

We would probably need to see a voting system change for US to move away from the 2 party system.

I don't know. Generally political systems muddle onwards with only relatively minor modification, until something major happens.

This is the full quote from Scientific American:

 

14. Living things have fantastically intricate features--at the anatomical, cellular and molecular levels--that could not function if they were any less complex or sophisticated. The only prudent conclusion is that they are the products of intelligent design, not evolution.

This "argument from design" is the backbone of most recent attacks on evolution, but it is also one of the oldest. In 1802 theologian William Paley wrote that if one finds a pocket watch in a field, the most reasonable conclusion is that someone dropped it, not that natural forces created it there. By analogy, Paley argued, the complex structures of living things must be the handiwork of direct, divine invention. Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species as an answer to Paley: he explained how natural forces of selection, acting on inherited features, could gradually shape the evolution of ornate organic structures.

 

Generations of creationists have tried to counter Darwin by citing the example of the eye as a structure that could not have evolved. The eye's ability to provide vision depends on the perfect arrangement of its parts, these critics say. Natural selection could thus never favor the transitional forms needed during the eye's evolution--what good is half an eye? Anticipating this criticism, Darwin suggested that even "incomplete" eyes might confer benefits (such as helping creatures orient toward light) and thereby survive for further evolutionary refinement. Biology has vindicated Darwin: researchers have identified primitive eyes and light-sensing organs throughout the animal kingdom and have even tracked the evolutionary history of eyes through comparative genetics. (It now appears that in various families of organisms, eyes have evolved independently.)

 

Today's intelligent-design advocates are more sophisticated than their predecessors, but their arguments and goals are not fundamentally different. They criticize evolution by trying to demonstrate that it could not account for life as we know it and then insist that the only tenable alternative is that life was designed by an unidentified intelligence.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/

What was presented is quote mining and almost invalidates the argument by itself.

Tilt?

Still no free energy though.

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Icky.

Part of what it does is also weight individual citizen votes in smaller population states more heavily than those of larger population states. I suppose you could do literally that sans Electors, but I can't imagine most would go for it, were the weighting so obvious.

I guess my thinking is that the more insidious side of ochlocracy is tyranny by the numbers. Not necessarily a demagogue or fanaticism holding the majority of the population in thrall.

and yeah, there is a crap ton of inertia involved. Pluses, minuses, Pareto efficiency, yadda, yadda, yadda, mixed in.

Random events may not have an even distribution in their effect.

ie. 5 random numbers 1-10(Random.org)

3 8 4 9 3

Due to sheer luck some numbers were lost and one number came up twice. Were three to represent a person with bluish skin then many of the next generation's population will end up looking like this guy:

Anyways back to OP's question, this should give a good overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_perception

Basically involves how you are wired and what your brain subsequently trains at from birth onwards. Personally I would say I've always been able to recognize my own pets even at a distance after having them for awhile. I'm sure other animals could be individually identified were you exposed to them often enough.

There are coil guns out there if that is what you mean. I'm not certain if they can work via permanent magnets, but electromagnets, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun