Recent content by Jim1138

One could argue that the moon does fall down, it just keeps missing.

With solar roads, dragging your muffler could be real expensive... and much sparkier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything" is the holy grail, I believe. "Sentient computer" or "self-aware computer" AI is not necessarily that intelligent nor self-aware. Interstellar colonization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization" "Free energy" would be...

Stokes' law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_law_(sound_attenuation)" Sound traveling through a Newtonian fluid (i.e. water, air, metal, but not Jello) attenuates by the square of the frequency. 1000 Hz attenuates four time as much over a distance than 500 Hz. Which is why elephants...

Hydrocephalus Classified as hydrocephalus in the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus

Why so serious about a silly statement followed by a winky?

I seem to remember (but don't rely on this) that walking and running is mostly performed by ganglia. The story goes that if you chop a chickens head off, it can walk and run just fine (for awhile). I would imagine that collision avoidance is impaired a bit. Collision avoidance appears to...

The more I think, the more I walk into things. Maybe brains don't help with bipedalism? ;)

I wonder how many neuroscience/psychiatric/cognitive studies students and professors want him in their studies?

If one removes 10% of one's brain, you don't just take 10% longer to solve a problem. You would be totally non-responsive and die if that 10% is your brain stem. You might go blind, deaf, mute, be partially or fully paralysed, loose interest in sex, be unable to remember, etc. etc. There may...

Temporarily dumbed down my intelligence to properly contribute to the thread.

So the "mush-for-brains" means that he is not using part of his brainz?

Death by Cell Phone texting What evidence? Compared to what? Far more likely you die from texting then by cell phone "radiations". There is http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/02/us-usa-train-crash-idUSN0152835520081002" .

It depends on how strongly the protein is expressed. It can reduce the growth rate to zero in extreme cases. If one strain outgrows another by 1%, the first population will be about 2.7X the second in 100 generations (assuming none die).

Have you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon ? The problem with using Lawrence Livermore's petawatt laser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility (NIF) as a weapon is 1) it is huge. It wouldn't even fit on an aircraft carrier. 2) while the peak power is...