Recent content by kirkmcloren

Well, I was pretty sure we weren't vegetable or mineral.

Is the test of sentience learning? Also extrapolating that concept of danger to dissimilar situations? I have seen animals exhibit more cognizance of danger than many humans. Actually humans are animals -- and like all animals a huge spread exists in their mental acuity. Just because...

When there is no benefit from malingering such behavior is not indulged in. 2 examples come immediately to mind. 1. Prisoner behavior in "Gulag Archipelago" 2. My own physical therapy. I remembered cows getting up in 24 hours or never getting up. So I applied myself to physical therapy. Other...

I found http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Oaks/3538/elephants.html very touching In Memory of Damini

We can observe them. Humans share speech and communicate an experience. Without language we have to observe. I offer the following story Roy Chapman Andrews was the fellow who discovered the first dinosaur eggs. He was in the Gobi desert at the time. Roy and his dog, a Samoyed, were...

It is a slow disease like scrapies or visna. Takes a 1/4 to 1/3 of an animals lifetime in most cases to show pathology. Ain't over till the fat lady sings.

What you are trying to perceive is the affect. If the distance is short, as in a lab, the field's effect has to be large enough to be measureable. If the field is quite weak and it's effect quite small it would still be easy to see as intergalactic distance is many times the distance in the lab...

Sorry, I take nothing on faith especially when it is contrary to the established body of science. Only alpha and beta are deflected by a magnetic field. Gamma is not. You don't have to find papers and articles. Just tell me where you got the misinformation you already have. What papers were...

You had it right when you said: Gamma rays are stopped only by direct collision with an atom and are therefore dangerously penetrating. Plasma has no enhanced gamma interception. Stipping electron(s) from a nucleus reduces the capture area, not enhances it. Someone yanked your crank when...

We may not have craft that can visit other planets but we do know enough chemistry and physics to have intelligent speculation. Also there is a lack of any electromagnetic emissions as evidence of other intelligent life (SETI). Hardly teeming. For example---...

If you like electron emitters try cesium. BTW you aren't going to shield a backpack gamma emitter with a magnetic field.

The odds of not having a favorable environment are -- (pardon the pun) astronomical. Not only must oxygen be in a range high enough to support life -- and that means pressure as well as percentage. There must be adequate water and it must be liquid. We also see that chemical reactions are...

You know the mass, the unknown is the height. If the hypotenuse of a triangle is 2860 meters long and the angle is 14.8 degrees what is h? Then mass x height = potential energy. :) Kirk

If a mile is 5280 feet and sound takes 5 seconds to travel that far then it travels about 1000 feet per second. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second so for all intents it is instantaneous. The actual speed of sound is a function of temperature and pressure (altitude) but it...