Recent content by Corkie2003

Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot - sometimes it's more important to win an argument than tell the truth you know!

Count me in. I sell I.R. kit for outdoor sports, and the only way I know the illuminators are turned off, is by pushing the offer/onner so the little LED goes out and THEN checking at the business end to make sure the lights are indeed turned off. This applies to I.R. lasers (which I don't...

Thanks very much for your input guys, even though I didn't start the thread with intention of teddies being fired out of prams at relativistic velocities! The latest images from Hubble show a Pooh bear traveling past Uranus. Where does the supposition that within the 'surface' of the sphere...

Well, as far as I can gather, the universe is only as big as we can see, and the rest (that we can't) is moving away from us faster than light, but the supposition is that the none-observable part must be the same as our observable universe. This being the case, we would/could not actually know...

The mathematics passes me by, so please be patient. I have an idea that may have been posited before, but I've not seen it. Could it be that the expansion of the universe as we see it is only a relatively minescule fraction of the whole expansion? I have a mental image of the gaseous...

Why stand up if you can sit down? Why sit down if . . . aaah f**k it, I can't be arsed.

Why can't they use maglev to fire projectiles? No contact, no friction!

I've been disappointed with an infrared night vision scope I bought. I turned it on, turned on the illuminator and though 'there's no way in hell the creatures out there can't see this' because I could not only see the dim red glow of the illuminator, but also the beam it projected. Even...

What I'd like to know is have they sorted out the problem of the heat generated by the friction of the projectile traveling up the barrel. The main concern and block to progress at this time seems to be this. Can they not tune the maglev part so that it steers the projectile up the barrel...

There are various articles in which it is stated that the rail gun has less recoil, but I can't see how this would be the case. Equal and opposite forces and all that. Over the length of the acceleration, whether it be the sharp explosion of conventional propellant or the continual...

It just points out the fact that politicians are generally either liars who say whatever they need to get the vote and sound good, or they are in opposition, not government. Pointless excercise this.

Nuff said, thanks for your help folks. I go away slightly less in the dark than when I arrived. :rolleyes: What about the effect of miniscule particles though, surely they cannot be calculated, and we observe their effect on white light on the horizon.

Is it possible that redshift, though correct in it's theory, is not what we are viewing in terms of expansion of the universe? Is it possible that what we think is redshift is actually the strength of the light/energy fading, being absorbed or blocked over hundreds of millions of light years...

Then those that would lead us, Hitler, Stalin, Bush, Clinton, Nixon, Kennedy, Blair et al. speak of that which they know nothing and don't abide by. Why am I bunching up our leaders with the likes of Hitler and Stalin - why, because they all spoke and speak at great length of high ideals and...

Excuse me ever so much, I am sure that this has been debated ad-nauseum, but a little sarcasm/satire can be of use too. Thoughtful and serious debate is no less idiotic than satire if the net result of such debate is nil. Thoughtful and serious debate hasn't stopped the process whereby...