Have you ever heard of liquid breathing? Its under development for preemie infants. This is where you inhale a liquid type of CFC that contains a large amount of dissolved oxygen. This can replace air.
In addition to helping preemies, if you breath this stuff instead of air, and are immersed by water, you would be able to handle 1000's of gees.
Don't flame me. Linux is not ready for prime time as a desktop OS. It is just way to hard for an average user. Even though a few years down the road, it may become as user-friendly as Windows, I don't think it will make inroads into the desktop market. Microsoft always wins. Most likely, windows will always be the dominant one. However, Linux may surpass Windows as the dominant server OS.
Methanol is only poisonous if you chug a few ounces of it. That's why they put it in denatured rubbing alcohol. You can't suffer any harm from inhaling a few milliliters of the stuff.
Also, its not explosive. Alcohol WILL NOT EXPLODE. It just burns. It's not as volatile as gasoline. The fire danger is much less than if you carry a lighter in your pocket.
If you built yourself 2 nitrogen lasers (produce UVA light) and you pumped high voltage electricity into them, you will have an electric beam that will shoot a few hundred yards.
It works because the intense UV light from the laser ionizes the oxygen in the air. Ionized air is more conductive of electricity. The high voltage electricity shoots down the path of the laser beams.
You have to have two laser beams to have a complete circuit. If you shot this at a deer or somthing, the electricity would travel down one beam, pass through the deer's central nervous system, and pass back out on the other beam.
BTW, you could set it from "stun" to "kill"
Also there is quite a few people who build nitrogen lasers. Its not hard.
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A jet engine wouldn't work. There is not very much O2 on mars. What would work is a device called an ionocraft.
It works by having a few negatively charged spikes above a positively charted wire grid. The high-voltage current flows from the spikes to the wire grid, ionizing some of the air along the way. The negatively ionized air is attracted to the +charged grid. This causes air to flow out of the bottom of the craft, propelling it forward. It would work well to 300,000 feet on earth. At that altitude the air is much thinner that on mars.
great idea, but it would be even better on titan
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On mars, a plane is doable. It would have to have a large wingspan because of the thin atmosphere. What would really be great is a plane on titan.
Titan's atmosphere (correct me if im wrong)is mostly nitrogen, with some methane and ethane. It's atmosphere is about 1.5 times as thick as our atmosphere. Also, it has 1/6 the gravity of earth.
Titan's very thick atmosphere and low gravity would make it ideal for flight. Helicopters would work very well on titan.In fact, if we ever send a manned mission, we could even have human powered choppers!
Nanotechnology will revolutionize medicine and make manufacturing products cheaper. One of the biggest possibilities is having nanobots living in our brain. The powerful computers inside each nanite could make us much smarter. They can also assemble products, like super-strong diamond for tall buildings, just from raw materials.
It has been known for a long time that there is water near the surface. That Mars meteorite with the microfossils more or less proves that mars at least had life at some point.
I think the most important thing on mars is CO2, not H2O, however. A huge amount of dry ice is locked in Mar's polar ice caps and underneath its crust. If mars could somehow be warmed enough to gasify just some of this dry ice, it would create a runaway greenhouse effect and warm Mars enough for liquid water and plant life. The plants would in turn produce oxygen, which we can breath.
The hard part is kicking of the runaway greenhouse effect by melting the dry ice. This could be practically accomplished by one of 2 ways:
1. You could build a large gossamer mirror near mars to reflect more sunlight onto it, warming Mars up. This isn't as hard as it sounds, for very advanced humans. The mirror would *only* weigh a few thousand tons.
2. Or, you could put CFC-generating self-replicating machines (like nanobots) on its surface that which can also warm the Mars though the greenhouse effect.
Yes. The microfossils on that mars meteorite they found a couple of years ago have been more or less proven to be truly life. The microfossils of the bacteria had many complex organic chemicals in which the rock surrounding them did not. Also, they really look like bacteria.
There very well could be life on Europa. Now they are fairly sure the microfossils on that Mars meteorite were bacteria, due to chemical evidence. So that gives us at least two planets in the solar system in which life is thought to have developed.
Europa has a very good chance of having life, also. If it indeed does have a liquid ocean, archaebacteria-like organisms may be found around the warm and chemical-rich deep sea vents in it's ocean. I doubt the color is due to bacteria, though. Its probably just salt.
I like IE better than Netscape. IE tends to be a little bit faster than Netscape. Netscape tends to be unable to load many web pages that IE loads with ease. Netscape also freezes up all the time. I run both on my computer.IE may have huge security gaps, but I just don't really care.
I am losing my @home service. I'm screwed. What the hell went wrong! Their business was booming!
I dont think I can handle living w/o high speed internet. I hope my cable company gets its Charter Pipeline going in fast!
You must not understand genetics. These dna computers are just DNA. They have none of the machinery necessary to make proteins. Proteins are needed for a cell or virus to do anything. Proteins can only be made in an extremely complicated process involving DNA. There is no way that a clump of dna will destroy the world.
Thats like saying your piss will self-assemble and kill you.
1. Many flying cars will agravate pollution problem. Aircraft need bigger engines than cars do. That would be a major problem in L.A. or Seattle.
2. Flying cars will always be more expensive than regular cars. They need bigger engines, radios, wings, etc.
3. This is friggin'dangerous! A lot of drivers can't drive a regular car very well, so how will they manage flying a plane.Also, when one crashes over a populated area, the flying car will slam into buildings and catch fire just like at the WTC. There would be collisions all the time. Inexperienced pilots would be killed in storms, from stalling, and from running out of gas all the time.
4. Our air traffic control system can barely handle the planes buzzing around today. It could never direct millions of losers in their flying cars.
5. How the hell would it be able to safely land, say in downtown Manhattan.
Jeez, this guy was downloading MP3's and movies with his broadband connection in Kabul a few years ago?
I only got my broadband a few months ago. What a gyp!
We should not be allies with countries that ignore human rights like Saudi Arabia. They show a blatant disregard for human rights with their ban on Christianity, censorship, and torture. The Saudis are an Islamic Fundamentalist state just like the Iatollah. We shouldn't support them just because they have all that oil.
This internet firewall is just another example of their disregard for free speech.
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Have you ever heard of liquid breathing? Its under development for preemie infants. This is where you inhale a liquid type of CFC that contains a large amount of dissolved oxygen. This can replace air. In addition to helping preemies, if you breath this stuff instead of air, and are immersed by water, you would be able to handle 1000's of gees.
Don't flame me. Linux is not ready for prime time as a desktop OS. It is just way to hard for an average user. Even though a few years down the road, it may become as user-friendly as Windows, I don't think it will make inroads into the desktop market. Microsoft always wins. Most likely, windows will always be the dominant one. However, Linux may surpass Windows as the dominant server OS.
Oh my god!!! You're one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Methanol is only poisonous if you chug a few ounces of it. That's why they put it in denatured rubbing alcohol. You can't suffer any harm from inhaling a few milliliters of the stuff.
Also, its not explosive. Alcohol WILL NOT EXPLODE. It just burns. It's not as volatile as gasoline. The fire danger is much less than if you carry a lighter in your pocket.
I guess the moderator doesn't have a very good sense of humor.
2001 is over. 2002 has begun. Lets hope its a lot better than last year
My website has a URL. I decided to replace the URL with a uniform resource locator. It's better.
If you built yourself 2 nitrogen lasers (produce UVA light) and you pumped high voltage electricity into them, you will have an electric beam that will shoot a few hundred yards.
It works because the intense UV light from the laser ionizes the oxygen in the air. Ionized air is more conductive of electricity. The high voltage electricity shoots down the path of the laser beams.
You have to have two laser beams to have a complete circuit. If you shot this at a deer or somthing, the electricity would travel down one beam, pass through the deer's central nervous system, and pass back out on the other beam.
BTW, you could set it from "stun" to "kill"
Also there is quite a few people who build nitrogen lasers. Its not hard.
A jet engine wouldn't work. There is not very much O2 on mars. What would work is a device called an ionocraft.
It works by having a few negatively charged spikes above a positively charted wire grid. The high-voltage current flows from the spikes to the wire grid, ionizing some of the air along the way. The negatively ionized air is attracted to the +charged grid. This causes air to flow out of the bottom of the craft, propelling it forward. It would work well to 300,000 feet on earth. At that altitude the air is much thinner that on mars.
On mars, a plane is doable. It would have to have a large wingspan because of the thin atmosphere. What would really be great is a plane on titan.
Titan's atmosphere (correct me if im wrong)is mostly nitrogen, with some methane and ethane. It's atmosphere is about 1.5 times as thick as our atmosphere. Also, it has 1/6 the gravity of earth.
Titan's very thick atmosphere and low gravity would make it ideal for flight. Helicopters would work very well on titan.In fact, if we ever send a manned mission, we could even have human powered choppers!
I personally knew someone who hacked a nasa site to get a server # for somebody. Just in for a second, but they tracked him down.
Nanotechnology will revolutionize medicine and make manufacturing products cheaper. One of the biggest possibilities is having nanobots living in our brain. The powerful computers inside each nanite could make us much smarter. They can also assemble products, like super-strong diamond for tall buildings, just from raw materials.
It has been known for a long time that there is water near the surface. That Mars meteorite with the microfossils more or less proves that mars at least had life at some point.
I think the most important thing on mars is CO2, not H2O, however. A huge amount of dry ice is locked in Mar's polar ice caps and underneath its crust. If mars could somehow be warmed enough to gasify just some of this dry ice, it would create a runaway greenhouse effect and warm Mars enough for liquid water and plant life. The plants would in turn produce oxygen, which we can breath.
The hard part is kicking of the runaway greenhouse effect by melting the dry ice. This could be practically accomplished by one of 2 ways:
1. You could build a large gossamer mirror near mars to reflect more sunlight onto it, warming Mars up. This isn't as hard as it sounds, for very advanced humans. The mirror would *only* weigh a few thousand tons.
2. Or, you could put CFC-generating self-replicating machines (like nanobots) on its surface that which can also warm the Mars though the greenhouse effect.
Yes. The microfossils on that mars meteorite they found a couple of years ago have been more or less proven to be truly life. The microfossils of the bacteria had many complex organic chemicals in which the rock surrounding them did not. Also, they really look like bacteria.
There very well could be life on Europa. Now they are fairly sure the microfossils on that Mars meteorite were bacteria, due to chemical evidence. So that gives us at least two planets in the solar system in which life is thought to have developed.
Europa has a very good chance of having life, also. If it indeed does have a liquid ocean, archaebacteria-like organisms may be found around the warm and chemical-rich deep sea vents in it's ocean. I doubt the color is due to bacteria, though. Its probably just salt.
I like IE better than Netscape. IE tends to be a little bit faster than Netscape. Netscape tends to be unable to load many web pages that IE loads with ease. Netscape also freezes up all the time. I run both on my computer.IE may have huge security gaps, but I just don't really care.
I am losing my @home service. I'm screwed. What the hell went wrong! Their business was booming!
I dont think I can handle living w/o high speed internet. I hope my cable company gets its Charter Pipeline going in fast!
I got @home. I can never go back to modem. My cable comes in at 1.2 Mbps, while dial-up where i live is around 10-20 Kbps.
What if I accidentally reformatted my brain with one of these computers?
Thats a damn good idea.
You must not understand genetics. These dna computers are just DNA. They have none of the machinery necessary to make proteins. Proteins are needed for a cell or virus to do anything. Proteins can only be made in an extremely complicated process involving DNA. There is no way that a clump of dna will destroy the world.
Thats like saying your piss will self-assemble and kill you.
This is a very bad idea doomed to failure.
1. Many flying cars will agravate pollution problem. Aircraft need bigger engines than cars do. That would be a major problem in L.A. or Seattle.
2. Flying cars will always be more expensive than regular cars. They need bigger engines, radios, wings, etc.
3. This is friggin'dangerous! A lot of drivers can't drive a regular car very well, so how will they manage flying a plane.Also, when one crashes over a populated area, the flying car will slam into buildings and catch fire just like at the WTC. There would be collisions all the time. Inexperienced pilots would be killed in storms, from stalling, and from running out of gas all the time.
4. Our air traffic control system can barely handle the planes buzzing around today. It could never direct millions of losers in their flying cars.
5. How the hell would it be able to safely land, say in downtown Manhattan.
Yeah. A whole bunch of their Ospreys have crashed, too. That tilt-wing design is just not safe.
Jeez, this guy was downloading MP3's and movies with his broadband connection in Kabul a few years ago? I only got my broadband a few months ago. What a gyp!
We should not be allies with countries that ignore human rights like Saudi Arabia. They show a blatant disregard for human rights with their ban on Christianity, censorship, and torture. The Saudis are an Islamic Fundamentalist state just like the Iatollah. We shouldn't support them just because they have all that oil. This internet firewall is just another example of their disregard for free speech.