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  1. Yeah. Only problem is it is happening so slowly that the Sun will have expanded prior to the process reaching completion. I can't help but wonder what it would have looked like from the ground. Imagine people taking vacations to "moonside" Earth to see it hanging in the sky.
  2. I wish to express my condolences. It is terribly sad when one has fallen upon hard times and must rely upon public limo services.
  3. There are more than two parties. Our elected officials do frequently compromise. In some cases though compromise isn't needed depending on which party ends up controlling what. The country is generally more capable of taking decisive action(for better or worse). Voting system is different leading to different strengths and weaknesses. At this point in time the Electoral College vote is closer to defacto-direct. A majority of states have laws compelling electors to vote for a pledged candidate and there exists a large potential for backlash if the vote ends up going against the popular vote. There is in fact a movement trying move things towards a direct vote. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up going that way in the future. Every country has its share of ignorant souls. More important to recognize the differences. We can only hope down the line that politics and nation founding becomes more of a science.
  4. Mother Nature is already ahead of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
  5. It was just another way of saying that there won't be any force observed. Sure, typical example given is for a falling mass. aEarth = (MassObject x 9.8 m/s2) / MassEarth
  6. I'm certain the Government already does have people in place. Main issue would be compartmentalized nature of the enemy. Individual cells. Separation of specialists, leadership and those desiring to martyr themselves. You can reasonably assume that electronic intel wasn't responsible for every successful drone strike. For that matter some of the drone strikes were likely staged. Have a "narrow miss" bolster someone's credibility or a "hit" cover an extraction.
  7. Obtain magic ticket(formerly owned by Harry Houdini). Use magic ticket to enter the movie Limitless. Steal NZT. Use NZT. Leave movie. Rewind and repeat as necessary.
  8. It'll have a gravitational attraction on other objects with mass. Though since there is no block, this particular force pair is gone or to put it another way zero force exerted downwards is balanced out by zero force exerted upwards. Forces are simple, they always balance out.
  9. only word that is close besides triptans is the non-English tripitans.
  10. Depending on the camera it may just be using an IR filter. Instructables is a good resource for modification projects: http://www.instructables.com/howto/ir+camera/
  11. Because the object has mass. In what you posted last: without the block there is no mass and thus no force produced. Assuming it is adjusted correctly, your bathroom scale will read zero if 'nothing' is on it. You can probably hold it stationary for awhile. You can do this in open space as well and two counterbalancing force pairs will still be present. I strongly recommend thinking of it as attraction and not falling. You attract the Earth, the Earth attracts you.
  12. I think the easiest way to understand this particular force pair would be to simply pick up something heavy and hold it over your head. You are going to feel the effects pretty quickly. No repelling going on.
  13. Could the observed differences balance out to yield the same value for G? ie. G = ar2/M a↓ r↓ M↑ In their own frame at least they would see the same value. Speed that gravity propagates at is also c, which is a constant for both.
  14. High temperature ovens are used. Not sure what the answer is to your question about friction for a polymer. http://www2.dupont.com/Teflon/en_US/products/safety/how_its_made.html
  15. At present I'm thinking Kolmogorov complexity might apply. Basically trying to decompress some (quite possibly unknowable)constant and end up with all the prime numbers.
  16. gizmag has some more details: http://www.gizmag.com/food-allergy-probiotic-therapy-gut-bacteria/33603/ Basically helping on the allergen front by triggering an immune system response. Some of Clostridia tend to be the most dangerous bacterial offenders. Makes sense from that perspective.
  17. Endy0816

    Satellite Phones

    Cost per minute is pricey. Reasons off the top of my head: Satellite cost. Satellite positioning(launch costs and and any further fuel expenditures). Getting your signal to the satellite which adds to the cost of the phone itself. Space junk issue(need to allow for possible damage and eventual repositioning to graveyard orbit). Labor needed to keep the system up and running. Limited life expectancy, eventually requiring another launch or in theory some means of in-space repair.
  18. Wikipedia has some material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer#Analog.E2.80.93digital_hybrid_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_computer
  19. A molecule isn't an atom... An ion is defined as an having more or less electrons than the number of protons.
  20. If you want to take a look here is a tool to calculate and some different examples/discussion of effects. http://www.smartconversion.com/unit_calculation/Acceleration_calculator.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Typical_examples_of_g-force
  21. Endy0816

    Eugenics

    You can have an amount of beef. You would probably rather have a number of people instead of an amount of people.
  22. That's fake/satire. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/microchip.asp http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-microchip-implant.php Logically it doesn't even make sense. Be too easy for literally anyone to track and fairly simple to block/remove. Anyways back to the topic at hand, I think once they figure out how to send more complex inputs into the brain we'll see the most progress. Direct data sensing and Mind-to-Mind communication. No language barriers, no worrying about egos and emotions, no looking at data converted to something you can use the standard senses to figure out. I don't think it is even possible to imagine what we'll accomplish then.
  23. Square roots have both positive and negative results. [latex]\pm \sqrt 4 = (2,-2)[/latex] So 2 squared equals 4, but taking the square root of 4 yields both positive and negative 2. So you can't end up in a logic breakdown where 2 = -2(or anything similar).
  24. @OP: Make sure what you are posting is original content and that you are not spamming the same thing across multiple sites.
  25. The concept of a superorganism would be closest to what is being described here. Personally I see the term as being more applicable to individual species than the Earth as a whole. We can provably survive without the bulk of the planet's lifeforms. If we were truly incorporated this wouldn't be possible. Conversely we can't survive long at all without other humans. More suggestive of a humanity superorganism than Gaia.
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