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General Science / Re: What are ghosts?

« on: 29/06/2011 08:47:12 »

I do not really want to comment, but i'd like to tell story.

A professor once asked his students if any of them believe in ghost and if any have sexual experience with a ghost.

Incredibly, one student at the back raised his hand. So the professor asked him to come to the center of the stage to tell his story about having sexual encounters with ghosts.

The student turned red in the face and said, "did you say ghosts? I thought you said goats! crap"

 

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 08:38:28 »

shouldn't you add an increment to now to make the equation as current as possible? for if we leave the increment to now, the answer to your equation would be a bit of a past.

You need to be more specific with me. I'm hard-wired but often slow

By increment, you mean by what exactly? I assume you mean a time as increasing number which is evaluated? An incremental step in time, is a change in time, so denote that as ▲t = t₂-t₁.

''for if we leave the increment to now, the answer to your equation would be a bit of a past.''

True. All measurements, are again, measured in the present, but that measurement is part of the past.

''how do you phrase an infinite incrementation to a certain value. that would probably be the key to calculating now if we are to put it into an equation or a formula.''

What did you have in mind? I am not entirely sure if I understand you correctly, but any infinity minus a finite number

t₁ - ∞ = ∞

keep in mind, infinity is not a number.

Is this what you had in mind, or something else?

This is the one I am looking for. I'm sorry Mr. Data, I do not know how to type "8" sideways.

Thank you very much..

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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Is the sperm or an egg a living organism?

« on: 29/06/2011 08:25:55 »

Can the sperm or the egg be defined as a living organism? Or they become an organism only after they fuse? [B)]

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 08:18:04 »

how do you phrase an infinite incrementation to a certain value. that would probably be the key to calculating now if we are to put it into an equation or a formula.

thanks Mr. Data for bearing with me..

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 08:14:03 »

shouldn't you add an increment to now to make the equation as current as possible? for if we leave the increment to now, the answer to your equation would be a bit of a past.

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Guest Book / Hello

« on: 29/06/2011 07:53:10 »

Sorry Mr. Data, I didn't know Sentient Machine could be programmed to joke. LOL..

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 07:51:42 »

or should i put "now" as a fraction, since now is only a fraction of time?

how about:

future = future - now, where future is an infinite number.
past = past + now, where past is an unknown number.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 07:48:34 »

so if we would force it into an equation, should it look like this?

(past + now) * (future - now)

for the "past" is being added by every "now" that passed, while the "future" is being subtracted by the "now" which is a constant.

Please correct my equation.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 07:26:01 »

Mr. Data, you cannot really put NOW in an equation, for now cannot be put into a time frame, or if you put it in a timeframe, that frame would be moving at a constant speed. For example when I say "NOW" it will be past.

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Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors / Who am I?

« on: 29/06/2011 07:16:44 »

as you put it Mr. damocles, I am also unfamiliar with the answer which still leaves me stumped.
for all I could think when you say the word "silkworm killer" is Jeanette Sliwinski...

And pardon my asking if Benjamin Franklin is under the category of "Scientist", for all I know he may have been the one who invented lightning on a kite strung on a keychain.

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New Theories / Human constructions/buildings are affecting the earth's rotation..

« on: 29/06/2011 07:12:19 »

also normally when engineers are building structures underwater they are taking into account in their calculation specific measures for compensating the weight of the water, unlike building on land which they do not worry about the effect of air's mass on the structure, except of course the horizontal force of the wind velocity.

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New Theories / Human constructions/buildings are affecting the earth's rotation..

« on: 29/06/2011 07:08:47 »

hmmm maybe but airs density and mass does not affect land or rock mass as much as water does. You can not make the air to concentrate on a specific region of Land mass unlike water which would affect the land when you enclose it and make it concentrate on a specific place like a dam. you cannot build dams for air. right?

So therefore your argument that all mankind's work is happening at the bottom of an ocean of air is invalid. take for example a tin can. If you put that tin can at the bottom of the ocean it will collapse into itself. But on land, while it is as you say under the bottom of ocean air, that ocean of air you mention doesn't even make a dent on the tin can.

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Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors / Who am I?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:54:25 »

Is Benjamin Franklin under the category of "Scientist"?

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Geek Speak / Can anyone suggest to me a very good lock timer for windows 7 (free/opensource)?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:42:41 »

Can anyone suggest to me a very good lock timer for windows 7 (free/opensource)?
I want to limit the use of other users on my PC. I would like to lock them for a certain amount of time before they can login and use the computer again.

And once it is locked the have no choice but to shutdown and wait for time they are allowed to login again.

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Guest Book / Re: A blacksmith has joined the forum

« on: 29/06/2011 05:38:31 »

Do you make miniature armours?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / ?What now?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:32:27 »

My brain was damaged by your statement Soul Surfer..

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Just Chat! / Alcohol in Solid Form?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:28:31 »

It should be safe enough as there is nothing toxic in it, assuming you neutralize the acids/bases.

You would want to check the pH when you mix it with water, and adjust your proportions to get a neutral solution.

Pure sodium (or Potassium) ethoxide would be very alkaline, but mix it with an acid and you should be able to neutralize it quite effectively.

Of course make sure you aren't buying "denatured alcohol".

If you look up the ingredients in Alka Seltzer, they are supposed to be: aspirin, citric acid, and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda).  Proportions are supposed to be: Aspirin 324 mg, Sodium Bicarbonate 1916 mg, Citric Acid 1000 mg.

The sodium ethoxide is a very strong base...
So it may be very hygroscopic, and may not store well, especially if mixed with acetic acid.

we'll at lest the idea is there. Storage may not be a problem. as alcoholic substances tend to be consumed immediately by my targeted audiences.

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New Theories / Could the Universe be an organisim?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:26:11 »

I would have posted this in the Space bit of the forum but I feel it might to far off the cuff!  []

Someone famous, is recorded for stating that when he looked at a grain of sand, he could see an entire universe! Many have speculated the possibility that the universe is a much larger peice of an organism. It is most likely that it is not, however. The universe seems like the playground in which we observers like to speculate on such wild matters and speculations.

But sometimes those wild speculations are the truth. Because we sometimes does not wish to see the truth. For each one of us has been programmed to be right in our own eyes on our own terms. 

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Guest Book / Hello

« on: 29/06/2011 05:23:35 »

Wait a minute! If it's Mr Data, there must be more than one of them.

Did you not know... we where created from a line of different data's. I have a brother called Lore.

No, well er look see, it's a sort of science joke. Data is plural, so if there is only one of you, you would have to be Mr Datum unless you were Mrs Data of course - no, wait a minute - that would have to be Messers Data.

Oh, never mind!

Ah. We synthetic sentient beings tend to get the ability to understand and even state jokes terribly  wrong.

And speaking of terrible jokes, it must be also a joke.

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Guest Book / Oh! Hi there, forgive me for being rude?

« on: 29/06/2011 05:21:46 »

@Mr. Data, yes you are right. For as lnog as the brian itnerperts the wrod croreclty we cuold udnesrtnad it atlogehter. Taht is claled ecnrypoitn.