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  1. No where on earth is cold enough for known superconductors to operate in open air, ever. This effect could work in space, say, in the shadow of something perhaps?
  2. Oh, and it's different from normal magnetic levitation because this method doesn't require contant current flow to maintain the repeling effect, so you could travel at very high speeds with very little energy input, well, if it wasn't for all known superconductors to require super cold temperatures like I mentioned above.
  3. It's not a new discovery really, and it isn't really practical until a room temperature superconductor is found, or you happen to be on a very very cold planet... I suppose you could have floating cars, trains, very low resistance electric motors. There probably hasn't been much thought put into it due to the limitations of most superconducting materials, namely, they require very cold temperatures, even very "warm" temperature superconductors still need to be at like, -200 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. It's hard to be surprised by anything Obama does really these days...
  5. I've always wanted to own one and ride it, but they seem waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too dangerous. I don't like the idea of a vehicle that can fall over (and doesn't have active stability control or traction control or airbags or more than two wheels or anti-lock breaks, etc...) for so many, many, reasons. If I wreck in my car I might get hurt. I might break a leg. Statistically, if a motorcyclist gets in a wreck, they die. Not a good story.
  6. I hate to say it, but this is normally how important stars, voice actors or otherwise, normally negotiate their pay. Tell me, does anyone think that the voices of Homer, Bart, etc., are important to the SIMPSONS? So, they ask for slightly more money every season, because, I hate to say it, actors don't get work all the time, so they have to get money when they can.(voice actors or otherwise) Compared to say, what Charlie Sheen (or however you spell his name) got for being on Two and Half Men, they aren't even paid all that much. He was paid many millions for every SHOW. FOX could be saying this to simply get leverage in negotiations, or maybe the Simpsons aren't drawing as many viewers anymore, which seems more likely. There are many shows that are similar that are much better now anyway. Like South Park.
  7. If anything were to do something this strange it would be a neutrino. Damned things are very very strange. They basically interact with matter at a very low rate, almost not at all. This is because they are very low in mass and are neutral in electrical charge. One time a friend and I calculated for fun its 1/10 thickness in lead (the thickness at which a given amount of a specific type of radiation will be reduced to 1/10 of its original energy) and it came out (roughly this is by memory) 600,000 miles of solid lead, or, roughly, from the earth to the moon in lead. We laughed about this for a good ten minutes. The usual tenth thickness for any other radiation is measured in inches or feet. So, if any radiation were to go faster than the speed of light by accident, it would be a neutrino. I'm not going to think much about this finding until it is verified by being replicated. It does make you wonder... if neutrinos can exceed the speed of light maybe a spacecraft could be induced to go fasted than light... :-) (but it was, I think, probably, some sort of mistake.)
  8. Ayn Rand vs. Immanuael Kant -Epic Rap Battles of History #23 Hey it could happen...

  9. Looking at the distribution of Objectivists by state, the most populous states have the most Objectivists. This just makes sense. There is nothing special about CA and TX. By the 2010 census, the top five states by population in order are: CA, TX, NY, FL, and IL. I haven't looked, but I bet those are also the top 5 Objectivist states? If I had total numbers of Objectivists, it might be amusing to figure out a nationwide average chance to become one, lol.
  10. New York, the former capital of the world is having similar problems: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Mercury-Rising-Heat-Wave-Stretches-Into-Day-6-125943488.html How long can these United States last half parasitic states and half producers? (If even that!) If the Federal government becomes merely a means through which wealth is poured into worthless beggar states, how long till permanent "emergency powers" will be "required" to preserve the Union?
  11. Detroit is beginning rolling blackouts despite having a greatly reduced population and industrial usage of power. Make no mistake! For all the same reasons New York's power goes out in A.S. One once great city is being reduced to powerless dirty ruins as fast as only a few years. It is filled with empty decaying factories. Behold the immorality of our age! http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/07/21/dte-rolling-blackouts-possible/
  12. Murders are murders. Thoughts about murder are thoughts about murder. "Would it be ok to prosecute thought crime?" NO. It appears to be 100% accurate? How many times would it have to be wrong to be invalid? (The whole point of Minority Report....) To predict the actions of such a complex system would require predicting every movement of every atom in the system, Which would require a transistor (or equivalent) for every single one. In addition, you have Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to deal with, making your imaginary prediction method impossible. No, I'm afraid you cannot predict the future. This is a non-sense thought experiment. Here's another: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
  13. Wow some user named "daviddelosangeles" has replied to very nearly every single comment agreeing with article in a stance against it. (Hardly surprised he may be from LA) Anyway, his arguments are tripe. Would some forum frequenters like to go shut this guy down with well constructed eloquent counter-arguments? I may join the carnage myself but for now it is workout time!
  14. Are we being baited by the FBI or something? What a strange question that any member of the forum would say no to...
  15. Can't hear enough about SpaceX and their amazing achievements! http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20110405 This could be in Atlas Shrugged, no? I wonder what it would be like if made of Rearden Metal?
  16. I always figured it was enough to simply ask "Why do deities never know more than their priests/pastors/ministers?" It quickly leads to more questions, like why wasn't the 11th commandment to the jews "Avoid Europe?" I mean even a last second warning in 1939 would have been good enough... Why is nothing in the bible something that anyone around at the time could have just decided? You would think an all powerful and all knowing being would have let slip some valuable piece of physics or math theorem accidentally? I mean, hell, the Pythagorean theorem isn't even in the bible. It would appear a ignorant, dirt poor, camel herder could have written it.... a camel herder who hated foreigners, women, and gays apparently. Evidentially, the universal truths of the bible are mainly parables about how easily a crusty, creative old con-man (moses) can use lies to control an entire nation of people. Makes me wonder what really caused Egypt to kick out the Israelites.
  17. Great video about the double slit experiment; Double Slit Experiment
  18. This is the only physics discussion on ObjectivismOnline that I have ever seen go right! Light does weird things in some experiments as well as any particle, it doesn't mean that the whole wave/particle thing is all wrong, it just means that neither is completely correct, and that we don't know exactly what is going on! I've read that this phenomenon has been observed in molecules as large as buckey balls! (soccer ball of carbon atoms)
  19. 1.48 urem per dose eh? In my entire career on a nuclear powered submarine working in the engine room and doing watches that required walking into the "above the reactor compartment tunnel" to read gages and a "visual check" though leaded glass into the compartment itself, my dose was "< 1 urem." (although this says more about the Navy than the TSA's scanning machine, the point is that this is not a completely insignificant amount.)
  20. th3ranger

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    OK I see one glaring error in this article: it assumes Obama is a vertebrate, when he is in fact a invertebrate. How could anyone make such a mistake??!?! Well I guess the writer is from the UK, the land of Invertebrate Subjectivists so Obama probably does have a spine in comparison. Easy mistake I guess.
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