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  1. Vitamin stability by sjbe · · Score: 2 · on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com)

    Most vitamins don'r degrade at all.

    Care to bet on that? Unless you can store them in a thermally stable environment with no exposure to light, humidity or oxygen there what you just said is demonstrably not true.

    Kid: "Hey mom! Look at this! This Himalaya salt has a 'best consume before 2022' date! It must be really good!"

    Salt is not a vitamin.

  2. Science of similar fibers - links by Steve+Hamlin · · Score: 3, Informative · on Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar

    As with anything, the devil's in the details. From a previous trip around the web in re: bodyarmor.

    It's not Tupperware, but 'Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene'.

    See also:
    Spectra
    Dyneema
    Aramids (from "aromatic polyamide")
    - Example: Twaron

    Kevlar, of course.
    Also Nomex - known for it's heat-resistant attributes, also strong. It's an "aromatic nylon, the meta variant of the para-aramid Kevlar."

  3. Re:melamine by cyfer2000 · · Score: 1 · on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks

    Yes, but there are many plastic parts that give you no chance of swallowing, inhaling, absorbing or chronic exposuring to the melamine inside them. Also, the melamine has been used to make dinnerware together with formaldehyde. Or in laminate flooring and Mr. Clean's magic eraser, with formaldehyde too. It also has small environment impact as itself.

    BTW, I don't get it why US, one of the biggest wheat exporter, imports wheat gluten from China, one of the biggest wheat importer?

  4. Re:LEGO Factory in Enfield, CT by pipingguy · · Score: 1 · on How They Make LEGO Bricks

    The plastic shrinks as is cools. Simple as that.

    There is also something called draft angle. I now forget how I knew this.

  5. Thank you for that by Degrees · · Score: 1 · on Energy from High-Altitude Kites
    I had not made the conceptual leap that each cable segment was essentially being lifted individually, by its host kite. Of course, they are all tied together, which is where the power comes from. The weight problem isn't a problem - it is just 'overhead' so to speak.

    Thank you too for the link. The cable will be made from Dyneema, the world's strongest fiber. It is apparently a superstrong polyethylene fibre, which I assume means it won't conduct electrical strikes.

  6. Online Brokers/Stock Exchanges by Erbo · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat IPO Rumors on news.com
    Related to your comment about online brokers...

    A coworker of mine is going to work for a company down in Santa Monica called Direct Stock Marketing, that intend to set up an online stock exchange that would be used for things like IPOs and private placements. Seems to me to be the next logical extension of the online investing trend. Check 'em out. (End of free plug to help out a friend :-) )

    Eric
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