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2013-Jun-15, 08:27 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Is there any chance that a good science fiction movie will soon be produced? in Small Media at Large

No one has mentioned 'Avatar'! Not "Star Trek, Star Wars, or monsters, vampires, and/or zombies taking over Earth. Or, apocalypse movies". Not at...

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2013-Jun-15, 08:13 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Burial vs Cremation in Science and Technology

The alternative to a gas-powered cremation would be a Hindu style cremation, in what must have been old-time style in Europena cultures that...

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2013-Jun-15, 03:55 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Alternative to vaccines, idea. in Science and Technology

Yes, Don, and the UK Government's solution to aproblem of TB among cattle and badgers is - kill all the badgers! Or, at least so many that they...

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2013-Jun-15, 12:42 PM

JohnD replied to a thread The Wasp Factory has been closed permanently in Small Media at Large

Before he died, Iain Banks gave an interview to his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, and it appears today. Article of appreciation (not an...

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2013-Jun-15, 09:19 AM

JohnD replied to a thread New sport invented on Mars! in Space Exploration

Even if my attempt at humour failed, is no one interested in this ingenious explanation for the otherwise mysterious gullies? And can anyone...

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2013-Jun-13, 11:01 PM

JohnD replied to a thread frozen used to be liquid in space in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Petrol freezes at -60C. No idea what its vapour pressure would be below that temperature, but it won't be zero. How long in time will your virtual...

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2013-Jun-13, 10:48 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Plastics for Radiation Protection in Space Exploration

Ara Pacis, And? Please expand your argument. JOhn

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2013-Jun-13, 10:44 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Alternative to vaccines, idea. in Science and Technology

Ah! Of course! I would have recognised you, had it not been for the - Ahem! - loss your hair! So sad, Mr.Gradgrind! JOhn

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2013-Jun-13, 11:27 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Do photons travel? Do photons actually exist? in Science and Technology

wiggy, You're challenging quantum theory if you say photons don't exist! That they had to exist to explain observed phenomena, such as black body...

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2013-Jun-13, 10:28 AM

JohnD started a thread New sport invented on Mars! in Space Exploration

A paper in the journal Icarus has proposed a "Hypothesis for the formation of martian linear gullies"...

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2013-Jun-13, 09:55 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Opportunity outshining Curiosity? in Space Exploration

Also, something I missed from Oppo. So far Curio, and until recently the Rovers, had found evidence of water in the past, but acidic water that...

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2013-Jun-13, 08:13 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Alternative to vaccines, idea. in Science and Technology

wiggy, You insist that taught courses must be practical, and lead directly to a real world product? Then what about astrophysics, history (of...

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2013-Jun-12, 11:25 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Re-reading in Off-Topic Babbling

The advent of the Kindle and its like, and ebooks that cost next to nothing, even less than a second hand book, must lead to much re-reading. I have...

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2013-Jun-12, 11:12 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Alternative to vaccines, idea. in Science and Technology

Not just evolutionary biologists (examples?). Clinical virologists. The oral polio vaccine is a harmless (usually) version of deadly wild polio,...

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2013-Jun-12, 10:56 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Walking from a Pole to the Equator in Science and Technology

profloater, "travel is a zero energy concept"? Really? What's all that nonsense with giant rockets about, then? Yes, Newton says first of all...

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2013-Jun-12, 10:19 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Plastics for Radiation Protection in Space Exploration

The point would be, not to have the plastic "take up a lot of room in the rocket", but to make the rocket out of plastic. And Nasa Science News made...

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2013-Jun-12, 10:09 PM

JohnD started a thread Opportunity outshining Curiosity? in Space Exploration

Just last week, the Opportunity team posted a series of plans and pictures of the next phase of their robot's remarkable story....

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2013-Jun-11, 11:01 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Alternative to vaccines, idea. in Science and Technology

The whole point is that valuable cows have to be killed, to prevent the infection spreading in the herd and to others including humans. Even when...

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2013-Jun-11, 10:53 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Hawking Radiation: in Science and Technology

Gawd! Do we really need transcript of previous conversations? When a link would do? The virtual particles are not positive or negative, but...

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2013-Jun-11, 10:46 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Walking from a Pole to the Equator in Science and Technology

I'm sure you are right, Ivan, but a Hadley cell converts a convective overturn into a transverse movement because of Coriolis. And in reply to...

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2013-Jun-08, 10:49 AM

JohnD replied to a thread A weird case of mistaken identity. in Off-Topic Babbling

I saw a UFO. A bright light in the night sky, moving slower than a satellite and faster than an aircraft. It moved towards the horizon - and then...

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2013-Jun-08, 10:44 AM

JohnD replied to a thread New roman numeral in Off-Topic Babbling

You forget that it is the Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC, that rules the Universe. And as E stands for English .... you get my drift? English John

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2013-Jun-08, 10:33 AM

JohnD replied to a thread string theory in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Are they not mathematical concepts rather than realities? Just because the maths works out, doesn't mean something is real. I use pharmacokinetic...

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2013-May-31, 09:09 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Metal cutting before oxyacetylene in Science and Technology

trebuchet. Idont know eniugh to contradict you. But aluminium is avery reactive metal that easily forms an oxide in just air. So is there another...

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2013-May-30, 12:36 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Acrophobia and Air travel... in Off-Topic Babbling

Lots of tretament sfor phobia, uaullsy involving gradual exposure toi the object of fear, so that you get 'used to it'. But no time for that. See...

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2013-May-30, 09:22 AM

JohnD replied to a thread How practical is beach soccer? in Off-Topic Babbling

Infinity watcher, A concrete rugby pitch might be very good for character building, the objective of most British public schools along with cold...

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2013-May-27, 04:53 PM

JohnD replied to a thread How practical is beach soccer? in Off-Topic Babbling

Beach football is, like its dry land brother, a game for gentlemen, played by ruffians. Whereas rugby is a game for ruffians, played by gentlemen....

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2013-May-27, 04:43 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Most Bourgeois Destination in the World? in Off-Topic Babbling

Anyone can go and spend a lot of money on hotels and so on. What really counts is how much it costs to go and live somewhere. if you want to go...

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2013-May-27, 12:04 PM

JohnD replied to a thread Is this Technology fair dinkum? Or is someone having a lend of us? in Science and Technology

The best and only quote I can recall from TMIAHM is "There;s no such thing as a free lunch". As to those pens - why? Why make and need five...

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2013-May-27, 11:51 AM

JohnD replied to a thread Speculation: Consequences breaking of physical laws in Science and Technology

Ah, Ara Pacis! You finger the great lack of a Unified Field Theory! Higgs explains subatomic mass or lack of it, but NOT gravity. Buit much to...

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