Recent content by Leeboy

But that is the really cool thing about it, all the same, is that we managed to get something working that far out and still obtain useful data concerning what things are like out there! My take on what was presented in the article is that Voyager might now be passing through the true bow shock...

That appears to be a case of evolution taking a feature useful for one thing (flying) and successfully adapting it into an alternative use (swimming). Penguins indeed look like they are flying when underwater and they are very accomplished swimmers too. This adaptation makes sense when one...

By their position in the food chain, farm raised fish have the propensity to accumulate heavy metals and any other non soluble contaminates. It all depends upon up how clean their environment was that they lived in if they do or do not. If the fish were literally raised in a pond of some sort...

Yea, try reading Chaucer in its original old English. While written very correctly in all aspects of the English language, it is barely intelligible to the common modern English user. Even colonial period American documents can be difficult to read (and it is modern English), as spelling and...

"Groupthink" happens everywhere... big or small groups... regardless of their professional or educational backgrounds. This is because groups naturally build a culture and the group's culture has developed preconceived notions as to what is fact or right/wrong. These preconceived notions are...

Pretty simple. It is because I liked being able to create things that don't fall down, bend when it is not supposed to, burn up via overload... and any number of other reasons why constructed things 'break' or, otherwise, do not work.

I quick looked on line for a convenient link and found a dearth of material on the topic in general. There's a bunch of material about how autistic people have a much lower threshold concerning this across their sensory spectrum as a pathology of this response mechanism though. My principle...

You don't actually feel pain when this happens, as the rear of the eye contains relatively few pain neurons. The pain felt is a psychosomatic response. What you sense as pain from a bright flash is the flood of signals sent from over excited rods and cones in one big rush of information...

There really isn't anything to say that it is not possible. It would seem that such an element would likely fall within the middle of the periodic table (like carbon is), as such elements have great flexibility towards donating, accepting or sharing electrons to achieve a very wide variety of...

While piercing in a single stroke is indeed easier than a steady push, whatever is piercing skin still requires the same static pressure for the skin tissue to shear & then fail (allowing entry). The difference being is that a stroke has kinetic energy (e.g. the piercing object is moving) and...

Just as you posted earlier, it is all about calories in verses calories expended. Herbivores are walking proof that weight gain & fat can be put on just by eating plants alone. Most leafy plant matter is relatively low calorie with the bulk of its caloric potential stored as cellulose...

The wing example is actually a pretty example related to your question. Say, you have a bipedal dinosaur that independently evolved feathers as a body coating. Feathers primary purpose is to insulate the creature & protect it from the elements (won't get as cold drying out after late fall...