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If I look at my speedometer and compare it to my satnav, there is a discrepancy in the displayed speeds. If I'm doing 70 on the speedo, the satnav will be showing somewhere around 63 MPH; at lower...
Would anyone agree when I fear that SETI is barking up the wrong tree? The search for other intelligences in the universe is limited exclusively to a radio search. I can't help feeling that modern...
Could we communucate with and/or meet aliens? I think most accept that the existence of aliens is statistically almost certain and that similarly, with current technology and understanding of physics,...
im not doing homework this time i just thinking about science since my mum is a teacher !! so dont have a go at me like some of you did last time cos im not doin homework !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://news.yahoo.com...ife/us_arkansas_birds What do thousands of birds plunging to their deaths have in common with the thousands of fish that died in Arkansas. A similar occurrence happened in...
Last week we had an earthquake in Britain measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale. Nearly 30 years ago there was an earthquake in North Wales measuring about 6 on that scale. Britain is far away from any...
hi all, here's a thought if evolution changes animals plants etc over hundreds/thousands of years by either adding or removing body parts to adapt to their surroundings how come we still have such a...
I've noticed that when I'm listening to music on my earphones, when I remove them, the pitch of the music I can still hear from the earphones changes downwards by about a semitone. When my earphones...
Hi squad suggested I put this in the science section. Is it possible that bioidentical hormones (from yams) are more helpful balancing hormones in older women. The older method was the premarin...
Hey does anybody have plans for - Bio-Generators - Magnetic Motors or Generators - Browns Gas Generators - GEET tech - or any other legitimate ways of making self generating power
1) roughly how many breaths worth of oxygen are in your body (lungs or blood etc) at once? 2) Is the helium used to fill baloons pure helium, if not, what else is in it? 3) How come people seem to be...
When working out the value of a number to the power of a fraction, I was always told to root by the bottom number then times it by itself by the numerator. But does it always work if you do it in the...
Did anyone see the Quadrandid meteor shower this week ? I spent several minutes outside on Wednesday clear night but now show. I know Monday was the best night for viewing but was cloudy here
According to my research the densest material in the universe is a collapsed star or neutron and from what I've read is that it's so compressed that a thimble full of it would weigh millions of tonnes...
I got hand warmers from boots for christmas, but me ( and 2 science teachers ) can't work out how they work and with what kind of chemicals (non are listed on the packaging). They have a clear gel in...
The pictures we can see through our telescopes of the Andromeda Galaxy are 2.5million years old. How do we know what has happened in since then? Could that galaxy move towards our own milky way. And...
How and where exactly is this done underwater as I'm sure the powers that be cannot set off a nuclear weapon anytime and anyplace and I was perplexed wondering whether these are maybe buried under the...
I have so much enjoyed this 3-night programme, it has been really interesting. The content varied from straight star-watching to interviews with the people on the Space Station. It was enhanced by...