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metal conducter current is carried by what type?
I have been told that littleport, and ely are under sea level. If that is the case then all of cambridgeshire would be below sea level right? Please help as I have not been able to find out.
In Australia does the compass point North or South?
If it were possible to drill a hole right through the Earth, (in one side, through the centre, and out the other side), or any other planet / object with it's own gravity, and you were to drop a ball...
Metal conducter current is carried by what type?
I am going to purchase a Sony A350 DSLR camera.
There is a choice of lens available.....either 18-55 or 18-70. as a beginner Im not sure which to go for. any advice would be good.
People often say things like "If the number of Universes is infinite, there must be some where I've won the lottery". Can someone with a good understanding of Aleph-null, Aleph-one, etc. tell me if...
In a room at, say 20?c. why does a lump of solid steel feel colder to the touch than a lump of wood? Is it because the actual temp of the lump is different or does it have something to do with the...
Has anyone done a feasibility study on the cost effectiveness and usefulness of a small wind turbine attached to your home? Rather than have them ruining the countryside we could incorporate them into...
For you epidemiology buffs: A recent practice question puzzled me: If a physician were to design a study to determine if accupuncture can be used to induce labor, would he choose a case control or...
where are all bees going and why
(Question) What is the easiest job in the world? (Answer) theoretical physicist, like Stephen Hawking. These people say things like there are multiple universes trillions of miles away, There are...
Many years ago I was working near Mow Cop in Staffordshire and a local small drift mine was referred to as a 'fewtral' (Exact spelling not known). I cannot find any reference to such a mine in...
Greetings each. I am looking to source a digital manometer to ascertain the wind pressures in various parts of a Wurlitzer theatre organ. Wind pressures in pipe organs tend to be measured on WG...
So I've got this little squeezy bottle of Sainsburys runny honey. When I last used it 2 days ago, it was the viscosity of normal runny honey. You know, slow pouring, like honey should be. Then today,...
We're all into renewable energy these days. So could a pogo stick - or a spacehooper - be used to power an iPod?
In the Fifties it was preducited that in the future we would have robots to do all the work, would fly around with jetpacks and drive nuclear-powered cars. Would it be feasible to make a nuclear...
Are microwaves dangerous,especially when reheating?
Did the solar eclipse really started from India?I saw an animated map on NASA's website and on it,it seemed to start from even beyond Islamabad(Pakistan).
Here we go again: Is there a multiplicity of universes ? In series or in parallel or both ? All at different stages of development ? How many is a multiplicity ? If there was an infinite number of...