Posts by Chemist

Very good but

you should really acknowledge that the quote is from Hitchhikers

"but will is actually kill you"

Yes at concentrations of ~5-10% in air

Re : So which is more likely....

6) The distances are too large and nobody has found a way round that.

But ...

they're NOT all inbred today ( including pigs). So where did they come from ?

"the radioactive decay of a material doesn't ........."

What has radioactive decay to do with atomic clocks ?

At 500 miles range ..

It's going to need some mechanism to steer it just to keep to the earth's curvature unless the ballistic arc just happens to match.

OK if it hits something solid like a building or tank but a thin-walled, unarmoured warship - it will punch a hole clean through unless it hits something with significant resistance/mass.

"there are quantum differences...."

Do you even know what this means ?

"the important system routines that are analyzing..........."

That had a certain 'Hitchhikers" feel to it.

Trust and Microsoft - two words that you don't see together without Don't in front

Who on earth downvoted this ?

"Note just under 19 cars require a MW of power"

I think you need to check your figures - at ~9 kW I make it 111 cars/MW - I think you might have divided by the six hour charge time which isn't relevant.

The power they require is ~1MW for 111 cars. The energy consumption is ~1MW.h for 19 cars if the charge time is 6 hrs

"The equation to use is E=MC (squared)."

Please don't post on issues you clearly can't understand

Strange

'Cos I can go online with my ( mainstream UK ) bank and send money to my Swiss current account with a few clicks and a £10 fee. I've used it for other transactions too.

"if each pixel emitted just one photon"

I guess you already know that each pixel would be MUCH less than the size of an atom and as visible light comes from electron orbital transitions around atoms ....

"What would you rather? Your bank runs its ATMs on Solaris or Red Hat"

ANY time, absolutely any time

"I am disappointed with the way desktop Linux is going"

I use OpenSuse 11.4 on 6 machines with KDE and it all just works

Don't know what the rest of you all are doing.

and.....

Java, Flash, Silverlight ..........

"measured speed of those neutrinos"

This has nothing to do with speed of light or neutrinos - it's another test of General Relativity

"executable bits and such won't apply to an Adobe vulnerability"

They will on my system 'cos there's no Adobe.

As a scientist ...

and someone who writes LOTS of terrible code I generally agree.

I have however met some great programmers who were once scientists

On Earth with 1G

your head and feet are so far away from the centre of gravity that there is little differential effect. In a small radius centrifuge there is. That would be far from physiological.

Cost

Depends on how much you are buying but ~£4/L - this stuff is used all the time with superconducting magnets. Chemistry NMR instruments hold ~~ 100L

Incidently the LHC uses ~120000 kg or ~~ 650000L I believe.

On another point (although I wouldn't recommend trying this) a stream of liquid nitrogen droplets will bounce readily off the skin without harm due to the boiling liquid being insulated by a layer of gas. As the skin cools however then the problems start. We used to use these types of materials without gloves as any finding its way down a glove could easily produce a nasty burn.

"basically, anti matter are organised in bubbles around galaxies."

What !

I take it you've already

... deposited your penny and booked your table.