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L00fah100

Will we ever be able to live forever?

Apart from accidents, murder and suicide could the human body go on and on if we were able to find a way to constantly regenerate cells all over the body? I can remember reading an interesting article...
10:29 Tue 03rd Jul 201213 answers, last by Matheous-2 18:34 Wed 18th Jul 2012
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SlickRick023

Hair follicle drug screen

I've taken a half of a 30mg adderall once a week or every other week recreationally for a few months now. I have a hair follicle test tomorrow and I've been using the baking soda, vinegar, astringent,...
14:03 Fri 06th Jul 20129 answers, last by theprof 23:49 Sun 08th Jul 2012
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RATTER15

So, just how excited are you about the discovery of the Higgs Boson?

Im really trying but........ ...
23:29 Wed 04th Jul 201258 answers, last by MoonRocker 11:34 Sun 08th Jul 2012
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rowenj

On open sea how far away is the visible horizon?

Or from the coast at ground level how far away is the horizon when looking out to sea?
19:08 Thu 05th Jul 201218 answers, last by HowardKennitby 23:02 Fri 06th Jul 2012
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L00fah100

The God Particle has been discovered

http://uk.news.yahoo....rticle-073025008.html "Scientists believe they have captured the elusive "God particle" that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe...
10:52 Wed 04th Jul 201223 answers, last by jomifl 21:16 Thu 05th Jul 2012
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harley_Husky

Google Earth Capture - any ideas ?

Hi All As per the title - screen capture from the Baja desert. Round marks on the floor. I'm curious as to what they might be. Cheers all. Eddie http://i192.photobuck...captureBajadesert.png...
22:01 Mon 02nd Jul 201231 answers, last by heathfield 16:04 Wed 04th Jul 2012
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Ignoblius

Acceleration vs. Time in inverse-square force field

Suppose a fixed particle A attracts movable particle B by an inverse-square force field ( as in the case of gravitation or electrostatic attraction) so that the acceleration of B toward A is a=K/(r^2)...
00:36 Fri 29th Jun 201225 answers, last by vascop 08:55 Wed 04th Jul 2012
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david7

Calculus

Hello Can someone please help with my final maths question, It is Intergration and am struggling. A current i=25sin 100Pi mA flows in an electrical circuit. Determine using intergral calculate, its...
16:38 Tue 03rd Jul 20124 answers, last by HowardKennitby 22:05 Tue 03rd Jul 2012
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sunny-dave

Astonishingly Beautiful Microscope Photographs

Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition winners : http://www.boston.com...microscope_photo.html...
13:22 Tue 03rd Jul 20127 answers, last by boxtops 20:12 Tue 03rd Jul 2012
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modeller

What is the purpose of the universe ?

I have entered this question in the religion section but I thought that it might be more appropriate here. Is it allowed ? Let us accept the the fact that there are trillions and trillions of stars ,...
22:48 Fri 29th Jun 201237 answers, last by modeller 13:40 Tue 03rd Jul 2012
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Nottingham89

Returning astronauts from the ISS/Soyuz

When the ISS crew return on the Soyuz Rockets, they are obviously not able to walk due to being up there for 130+ days with no gravity...I was wondering how long it will take them to be able to work...
10:18 Mon 02nd Jul 20123 answers, last by Nottingham89 13:16 Tue 03rd Jul 2012
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splashsk

Reducing the noise from neighbors dog by constructing wall?

Hi, My house and neighbor's share a open space divided equally by single wall which is of 4 feet height.We stay in the first floor of our house. My neighbor keeps his dog in the open space and will...
08:25 Fri 29th Jun 201228 answers, last by splashsk 04:46 Tue 03rd Jul 2012
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pdq1

Is Climate Change responsible for the shift in the Jet Stream?

Or can this change be put down to variable change that would have occurred naturally. The atrocious weather in the US has also occurred with such awful weather in the UK. We believe its because the...
18:41 Mon 02nd Jul 20124 answers, last by douglas9401 23:29 Mon 02nd Jul 2012
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ludwig

Did you know this?

News just in from researchers at the university of the bleedin' obvious. ..Pot-bound plants don't grow as big as they might otherwise do. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18612661...
11:05 Sun 01st Jul 201230 answers, last by ChuckFickens 23:09 Sun 01st Jul 2012
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modeller

What part of the universe is expanding ?

We believe the universe is expanding but what does that mean ? Our solar system is not expanding . Our sun and all the planets are all the same distance from each other as they have been for thousands...
21:11 Fri 29th Jun 201213 answers, last by modeller 21:42 Sun 01st Jul 2012
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Bert

Open sockets (switched on) waste electricity - Alistair Campbell

On "The Wright Stuff" (Channel 5) this morning (26 June 2012), Alistair Campbell said that open sockets (i.e. with no plug in them) use electricity if they are switched on. Could this be...
14:27 Tue 26th Jun 201232 answers, last by Bert 11:09 Sat 30th Jun 2012
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MoonRocker

Fire proof plant......

As the forest fires rage in Colorado etc I was reminded of a Sunday suppliment article some time ago maybe over 10 years, can't really remember but in the magazine there was a picture of a house...
12:06 Fri 29th Jun 20124 answers, last by modeller 20:50 Fri 29th Jun 2012
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wolf63

terminal velocity and moggies

Geniuses - there is a question in Animal and Nature about falling cats and terminal velocity. Is there a kind soul here who would be willing to explain it in a way that non-science people (like me)...
21:51 Thu 28th Jun 20129 answers, last by wolf63 16:14 Fri 29th Jun 2012
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Bazile

Space

Following on from the question below about stars and the universe . As stated , when we look at a star ( apart from our sun ) , what we are seeing is the star as it was way back in the past ; because...
17:55 Thu 28th Jun 20128 answers, last by jake-the-peg 11:51 Fri 29th Jun 2012
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Sarkoz

People eating each other recently

I know many are due to bathsalts and hallucinations but something i read on the web regarding the so called future zombie invasion made me think. Would it be possible for a scientist to find a part of...
11:10 Tue 26th Jun 201214 answers, last by humbersloop 23:08 Tue 26th Jun 2012

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