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- Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:15 am
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: EmDrive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2116
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:37 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: EmDrive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2116
EmDrive
UK research into a propellant-free microwave engine designed for spacecraft propulsion is stirring interest from US and Chinese aerospace companies, its developer has claimed. Despite sounding like the stuff of science-fiction, SPR (Satellite Propulsion Research), the company behind the EmDrive –...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:36 am
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Croc Hunter dead, killed by stingray.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1216
Croc Hunter dead, killed by stingray.
Australian environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin has died during a diving accident. Mr Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray barb to the chest while he was filming an underwater documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. Paramedics from the nearby city of Cairns rushed to treat...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: Philosophy & Theology
- Topic: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3057
The difference, as mentioned has to do with deathtolls after the weapons use. A nuclear weapon will kill 300,000 people and destroy your target. A pervasive nerve agent will kill 350,000 people and kill everyone in your target. A biological weapon will take two weeks in incubation, be carried to a h...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:44 am
- Forum: Philosophy & Theology
- Topic: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3057
Go read about Spanish Flu. Look at the infection and mortality rates, 20% got sick and 2.5% died. Look at how effective quarantines were in that slower age, Marajó, American Samoa, and New Caledonia avoided the flu. Possibly Japan as well. Atleast 50 million people died from it. Now do all those ni...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: Gaming & Technology
- Topic: OS/Browser discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3983
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:46 pm
- Forum: Gaming & Technology
- Topic: OS/Browser discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3983
The answer to all your Windows Woes. Or atleast it will be some where down the line.
- Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:33 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Hoth: why did the Rebels even try infantry?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5577
- Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:25 am
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Strangest foods you enjoy
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6698
Those seasoned fries, now they need ranch and lots of it. Mustard can and often does go on anything. In fact I have several different mustards; a chipotle for Mexican dishes, a horseradish heavy one for brauts and most other things, a Coney Island mix for hotdogs and burgers, and French's yellow gun...
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:38 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: A sense of scale...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9936
I'm trying to rember a National Geographic special where they linked the development of the Earth to a clock. Earth formed quickly, if I remember correctly, gaining mass and its oceans within the first minutes. The Mars sized moon maker hit, I think, no more than half an hour in and reheated the pla...
- Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:01 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: A sense of scale...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9936
These super giant stars only have a short lifespan, don't they? A few tens of millions of years, not anywhere near enough time for life to evolve. I suppose some intelligence could come a long and use a planet in whatever the habitable zone currently is, but that would only be viable for a short whi...
- Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy & Theology
- Topic: Is it less ethical to letl a baby die or an adult?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3971
That still falls into a kill room style situation with a mechanism on the inner door of one opening the outer door of the other. I suppose its a good example, but its just not something that would be implimented in reality. With a bit more though, the best I can come up with is a burning building. T...
- Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:52 am
- Forum: Philosophy & Theology
- Topic: Is it less ethical to letl a baby die or an adult?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3971
Can you give a better scenario? All I can come up with are kill rooms, a crashing plane (One parachute for the three of you), and possibly an ocean lifeboat sitution. The kill room likely won't happen in reality. In a crashing plane, if you can take along an extra 90kg on you chute, the 7 the baby w...
- Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:36 am
- Forum: News & Politics
- Topic: Dan Simmons: The Century War
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1358
Mr. Simmons has made a follow up post to his April story. It's an interesting read that expands greatly on what he wrote in April.
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:25 am
- Forum: Fantasy & Comics
- Topic: Ra's al Ghul vs Lex Luthor
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3826
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:00 pm
- Forum: Fantasy & Comics
- Topic: Transformers, Prime's leadership.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3517
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:56 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: Can you follow instructions?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5661
The "before continuing" in 2 is the improtant part, isn't it? You must read all the instructions before continuing with this exercise. Therefore you will read instructions 3-9. You will reach 9, having followed instruction 2, reading all the instructions before continuing, and see that instruction 1...
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:17 pm
- Forum: Science & Logic
- Topic: Reading in Dreams
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2152
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:13 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Futurama vs StarTrek
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7565
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:53 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Futurama vs StarTrek
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7565
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:16 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Futurama vs StarTrek
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7565
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:36 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Futurama vs StarTrek
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7565
Futurama vs StarTrek
Who wins in this battle?
I have my money on Futurama as they build sidewalks that can support the weight of Nibbler's poop.
I have my money on Futurama as they build sidewalks that can support the weight of Nibbler's poop.
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: Transportaion
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10166
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:58 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: A Question of Great Importance
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9294
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:53 pm
- Forum: Great Hall
- Topic: A Question of Great Importance
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9294