Problem is you gotta put a fat fuck in a tank of water to do it properly, most doctors surgeries don't have a fat fuck underwater tank weighin scle in thier office.
Whats needed is to have a nice easy to do measurement that gives a 'might be a chub-chub' reading, then you can send suspected fatties to the fatso tank for a more accurate fat fuck score.
It doesn't take 40 years to bend a sheet of glass, pick up a full length mirror in the middle and you will see an obviously bending sheet of glass, you can bend glass back and forward easily if its a big sheet and you are carefully.
to elaborate, after consulting a very small and badly draw pressure temperature phase diagram, it seems about 4 or 5 bar of pressure is needed for CO2 to be solid at 216.5 K. given 1 bar is 100 kPa and the atmospheric pressure on mars is about 0.6-1 kPa, then the remaining 99 kPa would need to be exerted by the dust on top, so, each square metre of dirt on top, (with a depth of about 8cm gives 8 litres) would exert ~99000 newtons, so with weight on mars being 0.107 times earth, then the mass of dirt would need to be 925 233.645 kg.
So on Earth, that would be about 1000 yank tons for 8 litres of dust. So even considering the roughness of my calculations, the soil simply could not weigh enough to keep CO2 solid, even if dry dust somehow managed to be airtight.
Apparently he's never heard of James Bond either, he cites Iron Man as a film with a budget too high for a UK studio, but with a budget of $135 million it is easily outdone by Die Another Day by the British EON Productions at $142 million, and Quantum of Solace makes it look cheap with a budget of $224 million.
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No, I would always build the intended set first, that sets the kind of baseline for coolness that you have to outdo.
ummm, Meccano already did it. Like 50 years earlier too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OljGZapv4
works ok in contemporary settings, but in a fantasy or medieval setting?
No no no, I don't want no median, or the mean, I wanna see the mode, the MODE!!!!!
Problem is you gotta put a fat fuck in a tank of water to do it properly, most doctors surgeries don't have a fat fuck underwater tank weighin scle in thier office.
Whats needed is to have a nice easy to do measurement that gives a 'might be a chub-chub' reading, then you can send suspected fatties to the fatso tank for a more accurate fat fuck score.
But now that public indoor smoking has been banned all over, that's not an issue.
I'm a perfectly adapted vitamin D producing machine.
I think for every generation the mortality rate turns out to be about 100%...
Oh if only, I've been wanting Google to make an Ermany application for ages.
My intent is that the GP's experiment is a bunch of bull crap that doesn't prove anything at all, and whoever set it up has wasted 40 years.
For a real experiment on something that actually is a liquid so viscous it appears solid, check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
It doesn't take 40 years to bend a sheet of glass, pick up a full length mirror in the middle and you will see an obviously bending sheet of glass, you can bend glass back and forward easily if its a big sheet and you are carefully.
to elaborate, after consulting a very small and badly draw pressure temperature phase diagram, it seems about 4 or 5 bar of pressure is needed for CO2 to be solid at 216.5 K. given 1 bar is 100 kPa and the atmospheric pressure on mars is about 0.6-1 kPa, then the remaining 99 kPa would need to be exerted by the dust on top, so, each square metre of dirt on top, (with a depth of about 8cm gives 8 litres) would exert ~99000 newtons, so with weight on mars being 0.107 times earth, then the mass of dirt would need to be 925 233.645 kg.
So on Earth, that would be about 1000 yank tons for 8 litres of dust. So even considering the roughness of my calculations, the soil simply could not weigh enough to keep CO2 solid, even if dry dust somehow managed to be airtight.
If you had paid attention in chemistry class you would know.
Why are you using Celsius? This is science, use Kelvin, and your pressure should be in Pascals.
Yea but no one likes Data.
Such a suggestion is outrageous! These robots are LADYtrons. They are classy.
And don't forget, most importantly, he's been on the simpsons!
MS is MS, they are the collective, resistance is futile.
woah its this a long billion or a short billion?
Obviously never played Max Payne 2 then.
And the grown ups say computer games never teach us anything...
Fembot sounds cooler, either that or Ladytron.
Apparently he's never heard of James Bond either, he cites Iron Man as a film with a budget too high for a UK studio, but with a budget of $135 million it is easily outdone by Die Another Day by the British EON Productions at $142 million, and Quantum of Solace makes it look cheap with a budget of $224 million.
So he's made a double fool of himself.
Yes, they love to drive hand made supercars which are built at the rate of 1 a week.
Jaguar - Indian
Landrover - Indian
Aston Martin - American
Bentley - German
The foreigners own almost all of them now.