Recent content by Kevin the Crackpot

I am currently a registered nurse and a former paramedic, and I disagree with this reasoning. Even if STIs are on the rise, the cancer rate from papilloma virus is still way down. There are over a hundred different strains of papilloma virus, and only some are considered as having a high risk...

I would have thought that the water level won't change at all. Ice is less dense than water (very few substances are less dense as a solid rather than a liquid). That's why an iceberg only shows ten percent or so above water, and the other 90% is under water. When the ice melts, the water...

I hate to bring this up, but it may be relevant to your math issues. How are your parents and family when it comes to homework and learning? I have Asperger's Syndrome (a kind of high-functioning autism), and schoolwork was difficult because my family made it difficult. There was a lot of...

The best martial art depends upon the physical and psychological makeup of the student who studies it. I, for example, have Asperger's . . . and this entails a certian amount of motor clumsiness, as I don't have the fine motor skills of, say, a talented dancer. So, I don't do well with Choy...

I imagine that you're correct. Also, it occurs to me that if there was a magnetic field strong enough to levitate a person, then his or her body might get ripped apart. Different substances have different degrees of diamagnetism, so adjacent substances with different degrees of diamagnetism...

I imagine that you're correct about an enourmously strong magnetic field interfering with the functions of the body, but I was confused about your point with the surface tension. The frogs I was discussing are levitated in thin air by the magnetic field . . . not supported on the surface of...

Asimov suggested that if you could somehow take a poll of every molecule in an object, and then remove them proportionately, you could shrink the object. This, however, runs into other problems. In a person, this would reduce the sophistication of the brain, and leave you with something...

Thank you.

Thank you.

Doubling the distance drops power to a quarter? I'm very familiar with the inverse square law of EM propagation, but I thought this rule was more relevant to a point source (or approximate point source) of light (or other EM radiation) like a light bulb. Was the parabolic dish at Arecibo a...

Thank you all very much for answering.

That seems reasonable, so thank you.

Thank you for clarifying.

Thank you for answering.

I get the idea of radio astronomers listening at certian wavelengths (around the quieter area associated with the H+ and OH- "water hole" in the EM spectrum) for signals--perhaps mathematical in nature, like successive prime numbers--but one problem occurs to me: How about the amount of time...