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I'm thinking it's more about confidence then where one lies on some good/bad axis. I ride (Motorcycle) sporadically with the Bandidos and do not usually acquire the attention of very many girls, but if I ride into some random bar and sit in a corner and then take out the chess board or some...

Why do Karnaugh map work? I don't understand how they work. If I follow the rules I get a minimized expression easily enough...it just seems like magic.

settling/diffusion

Is there anywhere that lays out the decay constants for various particulate matter released in different regions?

http://www1.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm A little slanted, as it ignores Bush's extreme advantages growing up, bot otherwise okay. Also; eloquence != intelligence

Well, frequency is frame dependent, but you'd have to chunk that laser pretty fast though... Wow. I never snapped at how fast things must be moving away from us to produce such prominent redshifts.

I was once diagnosed with PDD-NOS when I was younger, not sure how seriously I take it, as two others didn't diagnose me with it. To be fair to the field though, I had a pretty weird childhood, so maybe that contributed to me being hard to pin down. Anywho, as it is one of the other "atypical...

Why is it always roads&bridges that get all the attention? There is all sorts of different sectors that fall under "US Infrastructure" that has nothing to do with automobiles.

Not sure if it should mean anything when talking about USA gun control policy; Mexico is having a tough time right now, in part, because of how easy it is to get deadly weapons from the USA. The Gulf cartel in particular is infamous for arming itself with deadly weapons (I'm not talking about...

I don't know about that, crude oil has some rather nasty volatile aromatics, like Benzene for instance. As for the toxicity comparisons between the dispersant and the oil itself, are these comparisons acute or chronic?

With crude oil being rather viscous stuff, wouldn't the pressure right at the wellhead be significantly lower then at the reservoir several miles below as long as it is uncapped? Once it's capped, what kind of time period will it take for the backpressure to maximize at the wellhead? Even if the...

I just finished Cal II with a low A or high B. What's helped me a lot is banging my head against problems more advanced then what will be on the tests. Once you get used to seeing problems you don't immediatly know how to solve it makes it a lot easier to not panic during tests. It's all about...

If nuclear power plants cannot compete with coal if one ignores external costs for CO2,NOx,SOx,etc., does nuclear have side benefits that may make it desirable anyways? For instance, I am told Generation IV plants will be able to be use High Temperature Electrolysis. How realistic is this...

It is my understanding that current nuclear plants are only good for being a base load power plant*. What % of natural gas power plants are used for base load power? Is it a signifigant %, or will nuclear power plants have to compete more against coal then natural gas? *With the exception...

If one is to ignore all external costs associated with CO2 emissions, how well does nuclear power stand up aainst more convential power sources such as coal and natural gas? I am trying to understand why there is such an overlap between AGW skeptics an pro-nuclear power people. What kind of...