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artificial intelligence?

If you wrote a program for a computer which contained all the numbers from 1to 100 and instructed it to pick a random number , would it be able to, and if it did how did it decide which one to pick?

USB Microscope - for Mac any recommendations?

Hi everyone I'd like to buy my husband a USB microscope for Christmas. I've had a look around on ebay and elsewhere and there seems to be quite a wide selection, lots of Vehos for example. But I...

Sci Fi spaceships

Apologies for asking a really banal question, but how would the massive spaceships in the movies (like the Enterprise for example) actually be launched from the earth in the first place? Would it be...

Temperature

If the forecaster says tomorrow will be twice as cold as today, and today it reached minus 1c I assume tomorrow it will be -2c. But what if today it reached 0c? What will be the reading tomorrow?

leigh47

Thermo electric modules.

Can anyone tell me the most satisfactory/simple way of connecting / attaching the thermal heat-sink on the hot side and the thermal load on the cold side to the TEC module ?

shahbaz

bacterial pathogens in tuna

i did a microbiology test on two samples of tuna..one was fresh the other a couple of weeks old. The fresh sample tested positive for C.perfringens, Listeria and negative for Salmonella whilst the...

Magnetic north

I've always understood that the earth rotates on its own axis and that the point of the axis is the north pole. What I don't understand is why magnetic north should be any different. Where and what is...

Cathy21

Planets as bright stars early evening.

Before it goes dark I can see Venus very bright in the sky but also another tinier bright light. Is this Mercury?

amywy88

Surface analysis sensitivity

Which of these would be the most surface sensitive static SIMS AES SEM-EDX dynamic SIMS ESEM XPS? thanks

oxygen uptake and heart rate

If I were to do two experiments, were I will swim 30 minutes, but breathing in one a half more times than in the other (ratio 1:3/2), and after monitor my heart rate for the following ten minutes, how...

razman

lightbulbs

is there such a thing as a energy light bulb that can be used with a dimmer switch?

csking

electric motort

why can't you use an electric motor to power a generator that in turn creates electricity to run the electric motor?

cephalization

could i get a list of all phyla that show cephalization ?

phyla

1 Which phyla lack organs? What type of symmetry do they have?

Night sky

Can anyone name the two very large stars seen low in the southern sky in the early evening. Could one of them be Venus? Thanks!

Enzyme in respiratory gas exchange

What is the name of the enzyme that changes carbon dioxide and water to carbonic acid in respiratory gas exhange? Thanks-

dmc94

Hydrocholoric acid

If hydrocholoric acid is in the stomach lining, what is the result?

velocity

if a student drove 500 miles to college in 1hr and 40 min. what would the average velocity be?

The Palm Pistol - A medical device?????

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16207-co mpany-tries-to-get-gun-classed-as-medical-devi ce.htmlhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 6207-company-tries-to-get-gun-classed-as-medic...

Satellites

Which country has the most satellites orbiting the earth?

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