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Endy0816

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  1. Stated exactly what I was getting at.
  2. No, the spin is slowing down due to the Moon's influence.
  3. Nope. http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/xl1.asp
  4. You are arguing against reality. Give just one example of something that is not gravitationally attracted to the Earth.
  5. that would be essentially everywhere... the basic equation is: Force = (GMm)/r2 it doesn't say you go "X" distance out and the force produced cuts off to zero.
  6. That really doesn't make sense. The two are roughly opposites. It is like saying you are going to measure fire in terms of water units. Why do you think this is true?
  7. ^The above posts explain it much better than I could. Transport costs and oxygen reactivity are what makes the most sense as to the reasoning. Don't want to be shuttling more of the nasty stuff around than you have to. Some plants can actually support photosynthesis underground. A lot of interesting adaptations out there. Kind of curious if we could set up an artificial environment to allow a 'normal' plant to manage it. Be interesting, maybe useful even.
  8. I was thinking Boyle's Law for a starting point. Only other one that I saw might apply was F=PA. Has been awhile now though, entirely possible I'm off base. I normally just browsed the book in situations like this. Find the best fit equation(s). No gravity involved, no temperatures, friction, don't have to worry about atmospheric pressure, no piston thickness given nor anything about its connecting rod. Should be able to narrow it down at least.
  9. The electricity generated is coming at the expense of demagnetization.
  10. If light could talk, it would say that it traveled in a straight line the entire time.
  11. Solutions for the 2nd edition, but you might be able to get something out of it. http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/index.htm I would probably work the problem in terms of pressure equalization.
  12. not much lower than atmospheric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_gas Plants utilize oxygen during aerobic respiration. Daytime you have oxygen production as a byproduct of photosynthesis. Nighttime or in root systems though you have to change tactics. They can utilize anaerobic respiration as well, but not as effective.
  13. If you flip things around, you can consider it as your "zero" in terms of time experienced. |--------------------|---- c us To my own thinking it feels less arbitrary that way.
  14. You may want to ask some of your professors if discussion on ethical hacking will come up in your current or later courses.
  15. Cellular replication is only one source of potential damage and IMO not a primary source. Your immune system typically policies things to keep cells from becoming too abnormal. Worst case you could compare multiple cells and determine how the original dna would have likely appeared, then select based on that. Generally as long as the introduced cells are close enough, they'll pass muster with the immune system. As you can receive organ transplants from family members, your immune system isn't that exacting. There's even studies of parasite immune system evasion going on, so might not be an issue at all down the line. Only way I could see a potential issue would be in terms of organ harvesting. Organ printing is likely going to be the better option in the future though so I'm not seeing it as a major issue myself.
  16. He was actually decent as govenor. Fairly moderate views. That is really what the Republicans need if they're going to win anytime soon. Moderate views. Make no mention of crazy religion based policies. Appear down to earth but have or come from a record of financial success. Calming standard white guy image the country is accustomed to. I'm of the opinion they are likely to win this one. Not sure good/bad. Generally overall situation remains the same so not sure how much it matters in the grand scheme of things.
  17. Evolution doesn't assume as a human would. What ended badly before might end well the next time. It does have some limited memory. The code itself and epigenetic mechanisisms. It is not so stupid that it overlooks the obvious, but it also doesn't claim "5 fingers will always be better than 4".
  18. Generally gels are non-magnetic... Maybe gel pads combined with a feromagnetic liquid? There are soft gel magnets but price for a whole chair would be up there. My main thought is that what you are asking for would have to be custom made. Not impossible but pricey.
  19. They are pumping out water with Renewables and gaining some of that energy back whenever the sea water is allowed back in. Pumping and air pressure are the typical solutions. If you have something better then by all means describe it. Likely though, many of the options have already been considered by the enginnering team. Aside: Interesting the new sorts of batteries being thought up. One I saw was based around using renewables to move a loaded rail car up a mountain and gaining energy back whenever it was allowed to come down. Another was using renewables to make fuel and gaining energy back during combustion.
  20. Probably taking their names(and little else) from: Matrix mechanics and Lattice QCD. They certainly sound like something humans could manipulate, which is likely why the respective authors decided to use them.
  21. I'm actually of the opinion there is travel backwards. I just don't think we can observe it as such or use it to send information backwards. Everything kismet in both directions.
  22. I cringe when I see the word Aether used not in reference to a popular video game mod...
  23. Basically just using the gas as a battery. Not a bad idea, depending the use you are putting it to. Not sure which reaction they're using but there is quite a bit you can do with Ceria as a catalyst.
  24. There is a breathable liquid out there... searching... Perfluorocarbon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing Here's a decent pop-sci article on the subject: http://gizmodo.com/can-humans-breathe-liquid-1156138301
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