"Since when was shale gas low carbon?"

Most of the energy comes from burning the hydrogen in methane.

A mole of carbon (12g) burning to CO2 (22.4L )emits ~350 kJ

A mole of methane (16g) burns to CO2 (22.4L) + 2H2O and gives ~900kJ

As a total aside..

I wouldn't have known you in my former life as Von K by any chance ?

If you don't immediately know what I mean that's fine - Von K isn't you

I prefer the quote attributed to Einstein ..

which (roughly) is ..

"In science everything should be as simple as possible ...but no simpler"

"taking two of each animal onto an ark"

Leading to totally inbred animals

"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.

but it won't be that bad...

So being hit by a heavy, pointy, metal object at terminal velocity is OK ?

"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

Nice analysis

I can only add that our (UK) house which is moderately large and uses electric cooking averages a consumption over the year of 4 amps - any significant numbers of electric cars are going to swamp the grid with demand

"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 ....

"I want 1.57E33 ppi!"

You sir are a Planck !

"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.

Sorry - shouldn't really call it chaos theory

Non-linear dynamics is better

"over major swaths of linux"

Well on my OpenSuse installations neither Firefox or Thunderbird will allow executables to run by just clicking and even if you save the file it's set as non-executable so you really have to have a death wish to run an unknown binary. It doesn't matter at all what the extension is.

It is possible to have FF etc set to run interpreted files if you really, really want to.

"oes not the string tied around Alice's wrist in Gran Sasso not tug"

NO !

Effect propagates at speed of sound in string or whatever material you use.

Indeed

how do they know the starting time as these things are so hard to detect or have they got a fast gate in the beamline. No it can't be that as the little devils would just go through it. Must look it up

"go a bit funny in curved spacetime"

as does Mercury's orbit - which is not predicted by Newton's gravity but is by GR

From "Hitchhikers..."

"So time flows that way for you " or similar

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.

There's also the problem ..

of small radii generating a MUCH greater differential force head to foot so that blood pools in the lower limbs.

If by that...

you mean a rotating system it has to have a considerable radius otherwise the force acting at head level is considerably different to foot level and can't be compensated for so blood pools in the legs.

Staying in bed is just lazy and

Gravity is still Earth normal not zero G

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.

"it will just take a long time to get there"

How long have you got ?

Even if you can manage 10000 km/sec it will take ~120 years and you'll need >5E18 joules to accelerate to that speed in even a 100 tonne ship

"we(IT bods and bodets) are supposed to be the champions of change."

I think you're supposed to be champions of IMPROVEMENT not change

As far as I know depletion of ozone depends on ..

chlorine derived from CFCs.

The actual reaction is atomic chlorine + O3 -> chlorine monoxide and oxygen.

Unfortunately chlorine monoxide can react with oxygen atoms of which there are some in the upper atmosphere to regenerate chlorine atoms to perpetuate the cycle.

ClO + O -> O2 + Cl

A Non-fluorine containing material such as carbon tetrachloride is also an ozone destroyer.

I've not gone into the details of this ..

.. but I'd *guess* the patent is for the control of an application by gesture on a touchscreen NOT for the software to implement that. After all it could be by an ASIC or some other means.

Still thin-end of the wedge-ish