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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Do aliens exist in other galaxies? Have they come to visit earth?

« on: 18/11/2018 02:29:57 »

How many billions of years has the earth been around. And in all that time we only have evidence that life ,that initial event that has lead to every living thing on Earth today has occurred once. As everything living on earth from plant to animal is related it’s possible  the conditions required are so unique and special that we just got lucky and we are alone in the universe.

Maybe in billions of years time the universe will be full of life and an alien life form will look at the question of how did lit all begin and  determine that we on earth were the seed that spread life to all other planets and galaxies

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Prove that space itself is expanding, not just objects diverging within space?

« on: 31/01/2011 22:18:08 »

Im not a science guru but are not objects moving away from each other faster than C and as they are and matter cant travel faster than C it seems logical that the space itself must be expanding

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Geek Speak / Calling all win7/64 SP1 users

« on: 21/01/2011 00:16:49 »

Any snags found yet?

No i think it works quite well, quite surprised.

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Question of the Week / QotW - 11.01.23 - If light is massless, how does it bend due to gravity?

« on: 21/01/2011 00:12:21 »

Light can't escape from a black hole, but nor can it escape from its own domain

My gran used to say i was her ray of light.

I ESCAPED

Sorry

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New Theories / Is reality an illusion?

« on: 21/01/2011 00:07:33 »

We can't walk through other matter because of our charges.

Doesn't quantum physics say it possible,hopefully its not as i would probably be the person who would fall through and get stuck half way . 


And if fermi lab are building a space holometer to see if reality is nothing more than a hologram and the idea is being taken seriously enough for the possibility to exist, then who can argue with that even the absurd can one day be considered possible.

Illusion who knows.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How do you think the Earth will end?

« on: 23/12/2010 22:37:56 »

All the insides will come out through volcanic activity and the earth will implode.

Yeah, but we all know the zombie apocalypse happens first.

Yes new years eve is only a week away.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How do you think the Earth will end?

« on: 22/12/2010 21:55:43 »

All the insides will come out through volcanic activity and the earth will implode.







Ok only joking

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Just Chat! / A lesson in Applied Physics

« on: 21/12/2010 22:35:50 »

Yes impresive driving from the car coming down that steered around everything

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How powerful is a black hole?

« on: 20/12/2010 21:48:22 »

Matter, lots of matter , so much matter all squashed into such a small space that the  gravity it produces bends and contorts space so much that their is no path availiable leading out for any photons to escape and be seen .

 

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General Science / melting spoons made from gallium metal

« on: 18/12/2010 19:00:51 »

Kool.

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General Science / Why don't our own bums make us sick?

« on: 05/07/2010 21:44:22 »

When one tends to wipe their own rear end with rough toilet paper there is often blood.

Cant say that has ever happened to me.

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Geek Speak / Desktop Management Do's and Don'ts?

« on: 05/04/2010 14:38:34 »

Yes to the ZIPs on desktop but as for

although I did know that creating a folder called 'desktop' on your actual desktop will likely crash the machine in a few days and it will be irrecoverable

Cant see any issues with doing this and is something i have often done.

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Geek Speak / hard wire disconnect to turn off computer harmful?

« on: 05/04/2010 14:31:19 »

Your PC also writes a file every time you shut down basically telling it how to load up. The writing of a fresh version allows the PC to take into account software and hardware changes and as its a new copy it is less likely to contain corrupt data.

If you turn it off at the plug and don't allow it to write a fresh file it will need to start up using a previous version which will sooner or later become corrupt and your PC will not start except in safe mode.

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Just Chat! / Did you hear, The Sheepie is becoming well aged mutton today?

« on: 15/02/2010 22:02:03 »

Happy birtday Neil


Hows the pension fund coming.

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General Science / How high can a helicopter fly?

« on: 17/01/2010 17:07:29 »

You could go for a twin main rotor design

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Can mass bend light back on itself?

« on: 10/01/2010 02:18:21 »

Is that not what happens inside a blackhole?




Answers on a postcard

P.S Forget the post card as the snow is so bad it would probably not arrive.

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General Science / What would happen if you put hot volcanic lava into a bucket of liquid nitrogen?

« on: 30/12/2009 21:32:16 »

Dont know about Larva but thermite and  liquid nitrogen vid below

http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/Yex063_Fblk

Thermite won the battle

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How deep a moon hole would it take to provide livable air?

« on: 27/12/2009 17:36:38 »

Wouldnt the water freeze

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The Environment / Re: Why Was The First Few Minutes of snow..BIG Snow ?

« on: 22/12/2009 21:28:44 »

Neil

Were you out in the snow yesterday.

The big chunks looked fantastic as they dropped.

Unfortuatlly the traffic jam they caused and my 5 hour 5 mile  journey home wasnt as pleasing.

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The Environment / Why Has Global Warming Stopped?

« on: 12/12/2009 20:09:19 »

"In fact, we are now in a climate optimum. "
Would you like to explain the benfits of this warming to the people of, for example, Tuvalu or Bangladesh?

You cant blame people for living in these places as you live where you are born but Low lying land is subject to problems with flooding.


Bangladesh is a giant natural flood plain which has suffered from adverse weather and flooding all through its history.

Bangladesh gets what you would expect it to get and would still get it even if humans did not inhabit the earth.