Recent content by rkkane

i think he meant why doesn't it hurt your body when electricity passes through it from a 9 volt battery. the electricity doesn't pass through anything important in your body, it passes through one part of your tongue to another part of your tongue and back out of your body into the battery again.

stick whatever you want to protect from EMP in a metal box with insulation on the inside so the electronics aren't touching the metal. i can't see another world war happening just lots of smaller wars.

i prefer weapons that have negative effects on the aggressor as well as the victim. i don't trust people's humanity to stop them from destroying each other but their fear of hurting themselves is a decent deterrant(though not exactly fool proof)

perhaps the question should be why does western civilization adapt many new technologies which could have peaceful uses to war? this whole discussion really depends on what you would define as genius, if einstein or motzart were locked in a room without windows or any books inside would they...

i didn't once mention proportional, i simply stated that having more people and more people being born made it more likely. which is nothing like saying that national income is proportional to area but more like saying that having a larger land area makes it more probable that you will have a...

then how does it work?

it's just probability, I'm not saying that will definitely be the case.

But if your population is 5 times larger your 5 times more likely to have an einstein in your population. or you will have more of them than everywhere else.

75% to 80% of technical revolutions from a country a few hundred years old? Obviosuly until that time the rest of the world was still puzzling over how to make fire. i would like to see where you get your figures apart from your own warped imagination.

Isn't the brain like a muscle? use it often and your IQ will increase, sit around watching paint dry and it will decrease? Are Mensa IQ tests reliable?

brazil seem to de very well on ethanol seeing as they have no natural oil resources and are not rich enough to import a lot of it. using coal is fine but it's not renewable like ethanol can be. hydrogen is fairly difficult to store and accidents would be bad if it got near a naked flame as I'm...

i think some people are entitled to a greater share than others

morals are relative

get lead pants and turn your hand held nuclear reactor off and on quickly and you have binary, then bury your phone underground to try to receive the signal... if we can use neutrinos to send signals we can send messages back in time can't we?

i have seen no proof of this idea, which is why quite often bad things happen to good people. i just don't see what i owe this society, i didn't choose to be born at this place and this point in time so why should i be grateful? what about all the other people born into the same benefits i...