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"The base unit of volume shall be the EU standard (5cm radius) grapefruit."
64 US fluid ounces = 3.61gf
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"In fact if the KT layer was a mass extinction event would there not be loads of dinosaur bones in that layer, not the zero we have so far found???"
The idea that a mass extinction should produce a mother-load (or conversely an absence) of fossils is an easy mistake to make. All of the dinosaurs killed in an impact event had to be alive at the time of the impact. All of those dinosaurs would have died (and therefore be available for fossilization) regardless in the next few years/decades, which is still essentially instantaneous in geological terms. So no sudden burst of fossils.
Subsequent re-population of the Earth would also happen quite quickly, geologically speaking ("Nature abhors a vacuum") so no sudden decline in fossil formation either. Just a sudden shift in the fossils found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind-Hydrogen_Hybrid_Power_Systems
http://www.nalcor.org/assets/nalcorenergyrameareport_january2010.pdf
Wow, 3 wind turbines with attached hydrogen-storage infrastructure (backed up by diesel generators) can probably power 34 homes! Now just sit back and wait for the royalty cheques to flow in. Just don't forget to watch out for invisible hydrogen gas fires.
Too bad it makes paying producers to dump the excess power look cheap in comparison.
Consider the possibility that with RSA compromised, one-factor authentication became zero-factor authentication.
Step One: identify target(s), compromise passwords
Step Two: compromise RSA
Then the one week of delay between breech of RSA and public notification opens a huge window of opportunity.
The USB spec 2.0 port provides 5 volts and a maximum current draw of 500 mA. The Xoom has a 24 Watt-hour battery that provides "up to" 10 hours of video playback, so doing the math (5V *500mA / (24Wh / 10 hours) = O crap i just fried my computer trying to watch video on my Xoom while charging via USB. The problem doesn't lie with Motorola but with USB. Do you complain that you can't charge your laptop via USB?
P.S.: Does the iPad even have a USB port or SD slot (or HDMI port)? Thought not.
I suggest you re-read the original post I was replying to. The poster was suggesting that letting a few thousand humans breed in a high-radiation environment for a few generations would lead to mutant super-humans with improved DNA repair mechanisms. The odds of this happening are vanishingly small.
We have been living in a radioactive environment since the dawn of time. The optimization of DNA repair mechanisms occurred long ago over a billion+ year time-frame. Any new germ cell mutation to DNA coding for DNA repair is overwhelmingly likely to be negative, especially to humans living in a higher-radiation location.
DNA is not homogenous. Highly-conserved regions of the genome are highly-conserved for a reason: errors in these regions cause a complete system crash requiring a hard reset.
Wrong wrong wrong. I think you are confusing science fiction with science.
Germ cell line mutations are usually bad (often fatal), especially when said mutations occur to DNA repair sequences. DNA repair mechanisms are highly conserved, indicating the code is already optimized and further changes are highly likely to be deleterious (with emphasis on "delete"). You would need to apply "selection pressure" (i.e. kill off or sterilize before reproducing) to billions if not trillions of organisms in order to have any chance of a single significantly beneficial mutation occurring. Fine if you are a bacterium, not so much if you are a human.
The Reg UK editorial office is located at 22 Glasshouse St, Westminster. According to Google mpas, there to Chatsworth ("one of Britain’s best loved historic houses and estates") is brum brum hum hum 157 miles. Maximum range of the Leaf is 138 miles (at 38mph on a cool day with AC off), but more like 70 miles if driving to Peaks District (55 mph on a hot day with AC).
On the plus side, adding a bit of walking to your weekend trip will be excellent for your health.
http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/tags/show/range#/leaf-electric-car/theBasicsRange/index
Methodological: 1. of or relating to methodology (a body of methods employed by a discipline).
Methodical: 1. performed with method: SYSTEMATIC 2. the state of being marginally easier to spell than another word with a different meaning. 3. a word thankfully requiring few enough letters for Drop Table to be able to count them all without having to take off his socks and sandals.
The bubble source is completely different. In concrete the bubbles result from air entrapment, can shake them out before the concrete solidifies. In metal casting, bubbles form at the point of solidification. The molten metal contains dissolved gases that come out of solution when the metal cools and solidifies. Can be reduced by casting in a vacuum or inert gas.
I suspect casting a high-temperature alloy would pose some problems.
And available to you for the low low price of $18.95 plus S+H.
http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/ove_glove.html
Then, given that this is a military procurement, add a small (say ~1500%) markup, alter the contract a few times after it is signed to further delay delivery and push up the price another 200% then cancel the whole thing when the next government gets elected.
You mean the artist that was critical of The Big Gipper, the Iraq War, called George W. a liar and a clown, performed at political rallies for Obama and H. Clinton despite neither of them being liberal enough for him, and has publicly expressed support for gay marriage rights?
That Mellencamp?
...but you have to give away at no charge any and all products I have even a peripheral involvement in, as well as any derivative products, in perpetuity. Oh, and also at no charge give a complete description of how to create the product from scratch to anyone that asks. Deal?
...breeze into Starbucks, skip past the till straight to the other end of the counter, swipe the first beverage proffered up by the "barista" and breeze on out. Seen it happen twice; it's a great trick as long as you're not too choosy. As an added bonus, you don't even have to own an iphone for it to work.
Gumby, what is it about a triangle that you do not understand? If you are in the middle of nowhere in line of site of a single cell tower, there is nothing to triangulate. You could be hiding anywhere in a 10 km radius, signal strength wouldn't even give an accurate distance to the tower. GPS tracking, on the other hand, would still allow the Reaper loitering overhead to put a Hellfire missile within a couple of meters of your current position.
I recommend you avoid using the boffin icon in the future.
There is in fact a perfectly ground primary Hubble mirror in existance, made by Kodak and on public display at the National Air and Space Museum (seen it myself). The flown mirror was made by Perkin-Elmer, using a improperly assembled null corrector. Testing by Perkin-Elmer showed they'd cocked up, but delivered the mirror to NASA anyway who never tested it themselves before sending it into space.
Funny thing is, do a search at perkinelmer.com for "hubble" returns autocorrected results for "bubble".