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Chemistry / ?How does the environment effect the melting of ice and how fast will it take?

« on: 20/12/2010 17:21:57 »

If ice were suspended in the center of an insulated sealed room two times the volume of the ice, where the ice is surrounded by ambient air,

If there is no exchange of heat with the room's walls, the ice cannot melt, because that mass of air (I assume it's at standard pressure = 1 atm) is not enough to do it.

Under Ideal situation but you are not given an R value nor a thickness of insulation.

The ice will not stay ice forever in the boxed room will it?

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Chemistry / ?How does the environment effect the melting of ice and how fast will it take?

« on: 20/12/2010 14:40:45 »

If ice were suspended in the center of an insulated sealed room two times the volume of the ice, where the ice is surrounded by ambient air, and in another similar room, if ice were suspended the same way only that it is surrounded with ambient water, which will melt to a point where the environment were ambient, and how long will it take?

I know that the R value and thickness of the insulation  needs to be known I leave that for you to decide a realistic R value and thickness.

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New Theories / Origin of Gravity

« on: 18/10/2010 06:14:09 »

Most items in science seem to be consistant...
 Magnatudes differ while charateristis are similar
May I express my thoughts...

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=34382.msg325975#msg325975

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Technology / trying to design and implement a tracking system using bluetooth, any ideas?

« on: 18/10/2010 04:58:43 »

Bluesniff ? ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3226116.stm

I was reading this and asking myself "has this guy been living under a rock?" when I noticed that the article was from 2003!

BTW - wouldn't the Old Bill be after him for yakking while driving these days? I really wish all cars in the US were equipped with Bluetooth jammers  []

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack

security issues

What they need is a cellphone jammer, the car will make all sorts of noise, like disturbing the peace type noises, when ever the cell phone is active. Attracting the COPs...
 Deactivating the phone only reduces the volume of the noise to only the acoustic of the compartment.
 You would need to pull off the road and reboot your car to shut things down.

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Technology / trying to design and implement a tracking system using bluetooth, any ideas?

« on: 18/10/2010 04:24:59 »

Thanks Graham. I was under the (false) impression that even hands-free was not allowed in the UK. Personally, I think the driver should not be allowed to use a phone except in emergencies, but then, I'm not renowned for moderate views on anything  []

The reason I say this is because we tend to develop tunnel vision when we are talking to someone at a remote location. I believe this has been rather well proven scientifically, and I have conducted many experiments that appear to confirm the finding.

When I'm in the passenger seat, I can stick my tongue out, wave, and make highly inappropriate hand signals at drivers who are talking on their phones, and I have never (I'm not kidding!) been able to make eye contact with any of them. You should try it the next time your wife is driving. I'll even chip in to help bail you out if the Old Bill hauls you in.

I didn't know about the "no drinking anything" law in the UK (does it fall under driving without due care and attention?). If they did that here, everyone would be in the clink! Come to think of it, when I lived in Arizona, it was quite legal to drive with a beer in your hand. I think they did put a stop to that though.

Quite interesting yea as a matter of fact while my wife was driving I noticed that too...
Until my wife blind sited me with a  backhanded and told me to stop it the COPs were following.

That is why there is a pilot and naviator you always need someone to tell you where to  go to avoid distractions

That brings up the reason why I never get lost there is someone always telling me where to go.

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General Science / Air pressure and it's effects

« on: 18/10/2010 03:41:17 »

Pressurised  aircraft ?  …

Cabin pressurization is the active pumping of compressed air into an aircraft cabin when flying at altitude to maintain a safe and comfortable environment for crew and passengers in the low outside atmospheric pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization

Don't fall for it! If I remember rightly, you are at a pressure that's equivalent to about 10,000 feet. If they kept you "at sea level", they would wear out the airframes much faster. The added advantage of keeping you at high altitude is that the lack of oxygen makes you sleepy, so you are less likely to get into a brawl with your fellow passengers or the crew.

Well mom did not have the fortune of testing it at different altitude. Good to know it isn't the cause.
But she never missed a storm, Why I ask?

Is that  how cabin fever is controlled now? I thought that they secretly pumped Nitrous Oxide into the vents...   [)]

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Just Chat! / Help with motors plz

« on: 18/10/2010 03:27:25 »

"Servo3I/O 3 axis DC all-in-one.
   
  The Servo3I/O combines a digital 3 axis DC servo motor amp, spindle motor speed control AND a PLC I/O for machine accessories all on one board! This cost-effective design combines all the common electronic controls for a typical CNC control installed on a knee mill, bed mill, engine lathe, router table, and other machines. By combining what is typically at least three different sub systems into one card, installation time is drastically reduced, reliability is improved, and cost is lowered. American ingenuity and technology! "

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Just Chat! / Pick a number

« on: 18/10/2010 03:04:45 »

As for your signature Lee, that would be an ecumenical matter. []

Yes!

For those not in the know, the entire Father Ted series is currently available on 4OD.

For us old folk can we find the sound track on 33 and a third?

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New Theories / Is liquid methane an organic solvent?

« on: 17/10/2010 22:32:37 »

No back handed compliment nor am I kissing azz. True real life as you say is abupt, but this is an easy going environment, not a game of hardball.
Since you are the most forward going and most abrasive,  a kind word might just take off that edge. But you suspect the worse. If I were an aviator fighter pilot you would make a great wing man. It is a sincere compliment

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Physiology & Medicine / Can nootropics really make one smarter?

« on: 17/10/2010 16:22:49 »

Q- Did you remember to take your pills today?

A- What pills?

 Ah, ha quite the No Cal diet?

Cool Google scholar

I didn't forget to take my smart pill this morning, I can remember taking it standing on my head, can't you tell?
It is working on the wrong end...

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New Theories / Is liquid methane an organic solvent?

« on: 17/10/2010 16:00:00 »

"I have been reading some of your posts BC and have learned allot.
You are very intelligent, but lack social grace."

You respond by picking out the negative...
"I may lack social grace, but I'm not nearly as harsh as reality.
If you make an assumption that is incorrect, reality will not politely explain things to you; in the limit, it will kill you."

It is now well noted you do not know how to respond to a compliment, haven't anyone ever complimented you as a child and in returned thanked them?

To continue this it might go under Physiology & Medicine

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General Science / Re: Increasing ones intelligence ... possible?

« on: 17/10/2010 15:24:33 »

Peteuplink  measuring common sense with intelligence in the same sentence is not uncommon but is it accurate?

I think society as mistakenly staked a claim on intelligence relating to level of communication, expression, and impression.

I had to be spoon fed information and when it clicked so did the terminology and then the learning through association began, certain things as easier to understand...

I said it before and I will say it again that sometimes "having to too many irons in the fire"
can be a distraction.  

Maybe intelligence can be associated with the thirst to learn and self awareness coupled with survival instints? Maybe we can leave out the thirst to learn, replace it with the capability to be trained.

Can deductive reasoning also play a part or out witting the other guy be a measurement?

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New Theories / Can Gravity be considered an endless Super Electrostatic charge....?

« on: 17/10/2010 14:53:36 »

Accretion, I was corrected at an earlier date when I said it was by chance, gathering of mass to form a planet, for instance, is caused by the electrostatic attraction of material!
Is this static charge caused by the materials mass moving across a void type medium called the Fabric of Space?

Interesting................This fabric you talk about is the universal field. It has been stated by several capable physicists that:
"There is no space empty of field."

What you propose is interesting; By suggesting that gravity is an accumulation of static charge caused by matter moving thru this field is certainly imaginative. But it dosen't seem to explain all of the observed influences of gravity. From what I understand, the electrostatic charge doesn't bend space the way gravity does. That is unless you have information that I haven't had opportunity to view as yet. However, the idea that matter interacting with this universal field and imparting static charge to it's mass is quite interesting none the less.

..................Ethos

Ethos isn't it that gravity bends spacetime not just space?
In ballistics as an example gravity acting on spacetime the travel of matter's path over time is curved.

On a smaller magnatude, water flowing from a faucet can be deflected using electrostatic charge.

Matter's path of travel over time being is curved.

Just an association that may be interesting also...   

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Just Chat! / Pick a number

« on: 17/10/2010 12:40:04 »

The question may be an indirect exercise of carefully reading and interpretating?

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General Science / Re: Increasing ones intelligence ... possible?

« on: 17/10/2010 12:04:31 »

I think a good question to ask is, what is intelligence? Is intelligence how smart you are and what score you can get in a Mensa test? Or is intelligence more about how much you've learned in your life? Or is it all down to common sense?

I'll give an example of what I mean. I used to know a man called Barry (I forget his surname, we did a computing course together back in the 90's), he was a physicist and a very, very intelligent man. By intelligent, I mean he could solve logic puzzles and had a pretty good IQ rating (much better than mine anyway). He was also a repository of amazing amounts of general knowledge.

I visited his home one day to work on a project together, went into the living room to find that he'd taken his cylinder vacuum cleaner to bits. When I asked him what he was doing with it, he told me that it'd stopped sucking, and he'd emptied the bag, so he thought there was something wrong with the motor. I asked if I could have a look, and the first thing I thought of was having a look in the pipe to make sure it wasn't blocked. So I pulled the three parts of the pipe apart and found that the middle one was blocked by a big ball of dog hair. We put it back together and it was working fine.

So what is intelligence? Barry (most people would say, including myself) was a lot smarter than me, but it never occurred to him that the vacuum cleaner pipe might be blocked. Is common sense also a good indication of intelligence?

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=34336.msg325665#msg325665

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Just Chat! / trolling lures

« on: 17/10/2010 11:34:03 »

poaching is that like...is the illegal hunting, killing or capturing of animals
Poaching is that like ... a breakfast egg

The moral to the story there is more than one way to poach fish?

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Just Chat! / Pick a number

« on: 17/10/2010 11:09:38 »

Pick a number between 0 and 25. there is a point to this and ill tell once a few people have chosen a number.

If the question were presented as... pick a number between 0 to 25....
 there is an integer that will fit from a list between the two values
But since the question is expessed as 0 and 25
Example rephrasing...
 pick a number between zero
and
pick a number between 25
which makes no sense...

zero exists between zero, while 25 exists between 25. no other values can exists within

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Just Chat! / can we learn the intelligence ?

« on: 17/10/2010 10:33:21 »

you are right tommya300 but what really made me thinking about the intelligence is  in fact when I saw the capability of some autistic people  with remarkable almost unbelievable savant mental abilities that seem to be far beyond the ken of others. take the example of kim peek , Stephen Wiltshire, Daniel Tammet .... with the malfunctioning of something in their brains, I wonder if we normal people can learn something from them, I can seem strange, silly maybe but Imagine what we can do if we have only the half of their stupendous capacities.
the question now is how, I have an idea about it but looking for your opinions first

Categories, pigeon hole placements, we, them, difference, same, bad, good, better, slow, fast...
to name a few, these items are used in everyday life!
Does everyone subconsciously express and gauge intelligence with the speed of problem solving?
Normal what is normal who has that monopoly?

I can not say what can be learned and what can be inherent. If a man went deaf, does his sight improve? Or visa verse?
Can a particular part of a belt driven machine work better, if the belt is slipping?

Some items can be learned through observation, some has to be experienced to know.
With Autism what is a common at a minimum amongst the character?
Hate, payback, greed, destructive acts, any negativity that standard life's experiences are missing, that walks hand in hand with Autism.

That would be a start of learning. This would give room for other more important items.
 Remember the phrase, "Having to many items in the fire".
 What I say here is not the do all end all, it is just and ideal start.
**********************
I am not smart enough to be Autistic, but I use to visualize the numeric values of years as a erratic, staircase,  path. The past and present was crisp, future years looked a bit foggy and far future went into a darker area.
 Means nothing to me, but just a day dream type feel.
It may sound dumb, but it is an experience that is triggered from any unusual event.
**********************

Problem solving of complex problems usually have the least complex and easiest solution.
Visualizing items differently, relating these visualization differently, can be learned, but defining what is visualized can not be tough, it just happens, at least that is what I think.

If you have any ideas that does not take extreme tactics to achieve, God Bless, and I hope for your success,  A-300, a perfect bowling score.
 
  

 
 

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New Theories / Can Gravity be considered an endless Super Electrostatic charge....?

« on: 17/10/2010 02:24:51 »

Accretion, I was corrected at an earlier date when I said it was by chance, gathering of mass to form a planet, for instance, is caused by the electrostatic attraction of material!
Is this static charge caused by the materials mass moving across a void type medium called the Fabric of Space?

Interesting................This fabric you talk about is the universal field. It has been stated by several capable physicists that:
"There is no space empty of field."

What you propose is interesting; By suggesting that gravity is an accumulation of static charge caused by matter moving thru this field is certainly imaginative. But it dosen't seem to explain all of the observed influences of gravity. From what I understand, the electrostatic charge doesn't bend space the way gravity does. That is unless you have information that I haven't had opportunity to view as yet. However, the idea that matter interacting with this universal field and imparting static charge to it's mass is quite interesting none the less.

..................Ethos

Thank Ethos... I was wondering what happens to the static charge as the mass grows.
How big matter has to be  before gravity is detected and the static charge attraction disapears?

Is this subject that extreme that it is ignored or is it me?

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New Theories / Is liquid methane an organic solvent?

« on: 17/10/2010 00:18:09 »

I've heard it said that liquid methane on Titan is what water is on Earth. One thing that water on Earth does is act as an organic solvent. Without a solvent life is not possible, So while liquid methane on Titan rains, forms lakes and rivers and erodes the landscape it would need to be an organic solvent to support life.

If intelligent life developed on Titan would they never believe that there is life on Earth? After all, they would look to our planet and see a world so hot as to be covered in melted rock, even having quite a lot of rock vapor in the air. They would be very surprised to learn that the creatures on Earth depend on the liquid rock for our own lives. They may even now be hotly debating the origin of the strange thing that fell from the sky not long ago.

From space the surface of Titan can not be seen. From the surface can stars, the sun and Saturn be seen?

The abundance of methane on Titan is equivlent to the abundance of water is on earth.
Water here on earth is an important substance that helps sustain life, more like a nutritional transporter of sorts.

I interpret that Eric asked, since Titan's environment being so hostel to earth type life, can some other form of life exist under those extreme conditions?

BC abruptly answered, "Well, that's easy. We sent a probe to Titan; no life.
The rest of the original question was hopelessly muddled up."

One probe one answer?
I have been reading some of your posts BC and have learned allot.
You are very intelligent, but lack social grace.
You are ready to set someone up just to shoot them down.
 It is a forum not a legal inquisition.