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Quote: Originally Posted by maomao Wouldn't the pre fart gasses effectively act as a tiny balloon within my body? Oh, I see what you mean I think. Well, methane is lighter than air, but farts also contain all sorts of other stuff in particulate form, so I couldn't say that any buoyancy from the tiny amount of methane inside you would not be counteracted by that. And it will be under some pressure when it's inside you, otherwise...

These two images were taken two days apart. What appears to be happening is that the normally stable old ice north of greenland is begining to disintegrate and what appear to be cracks are forming north of Canada. Although the ice cap is not a contiguous mass, where it is dense it usualy is pretty close to one. This is a very very interesting and worrying development. I dont really know the consaquencies but dont they will be all that much in...

Quote: Originally Posted by toblerone3 But Nitrogen, which is the primary consitutuent of farts is not the same as helium. It is not lighter than air. If you filled up a balloon with flatulence would it rise in the same way as a helium balloon or would it fall? Its a mystery!! Farts also contain methane and helium.

now all they need to do is overthrow their queen.

The Herschel IR Space telescope has sent back a series of test images of M51, the 'whirlpool galaxy' in a pretty awesome demonstration of how good it's potentially going to be... http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Herschel/SEM76A0P0WF_0.html Couple this with APEX and several others, the next generation of space pics should be even more dramatic, amazing and beautiful than those the Hubble/Spitzer etc have provided...

Quote: Originally Posted by xes http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp or not Quote: What to make of all this? MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul...

Quote: Originally Posted by xes I think it's possible that we're taking advantage of space that we don't know alot about. I mean, what if these signals actually effect the physical well being of life in other dimensions? It's not that a crazy thought ( in my standards) Frankly if they can't cope with abit of crap teevee, they won't stand a chance in the noisy gales of the interstella day-to-day, and have no place...

Quote: Originally Posted by newbie Maybe they have been, but according to the thing I linked, up to 50kW costs £30,000-£300,000 and up to 100kW anything up to half a million. I imagine that assumes you already own the mill but presumably has some element for modernising weirs and sluices. That's a lot of investment for a 7 year payback, even at current low interest rates. You can get a 50KVA generator brand new for £8,500. How much...

100ish times the diameter -> 10000ish times the area. 100 times the area would be 1% so 60-80 looks reasonable for the size of the whole active region. Unless I still need more coffee.