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That only works if the strengths of the inner and outer tubes add up simply. I don't know if they do or not, but I seriously doubt it. Sure, I can find the strength of a round tube and the strength of a square tube that would fit inside it, but I really doubt the total strength of the 2 put...

On the topic of structural tubing... It is my understanding that round tubing is stronger than square tubing, or conversely that, that round tubing is lighter for a tube of the same strength. Does it necessarily follow that the best possible use of material when making a tube, is to use it all...

All motion is relative, therefore, moving a black hole is equivalent to moving yourself, so conduct an experiment... 1. Move. 2. Record your observations.

Don't know who, where, or when, but at some point, someone had to conduct an experiment to confirm the feasibility of transferring an idea from one person to another via artificial graphical representation. This would have been the genesis of writing.

Sounds like you're essentially talking about a jet engine designed to generate just enough thrust to cancel out it's own drag, rendering the latter effectively zero.

The air and the ground are moving relative to one another, therefore, they have kinetic energy relative to each other. It is possible to build an apparatus to harness that energy. Movement of the apparatus parallel to the air/ground movement necessitates certain design considerations, but does...

OK, I see what you're saying and I think we're on the same page. What you are describing is why random chunks of iron do not spontaneously self-magnetize. If you put a piece of iron in a magnetic field, though, now some of those tiny little magnetic particles find a lower energy state by...

This was not my experience playing with small magnets as a child.

I took this many years ago. I think it was pretty accurate, but with a couple of limitations. One limitation is that it condenses what is really a continuum, into digital designations. For example, the first letter is either an I for introverted or an E for extroverted, but there are no...

The light clock explanation may make time dilation look like an illusion that occurs in that particular circumstance, but if you stop and think about what time actually is, in every way that matters, it is the rate at which things happen. The rate a clock ticks, the rate of radioactive decay...

If you look at any 1 electron it is almost as likely to be going up-stream (against the applied voltage) as it is to be going down-stream. The next question could be "why does an electron ever go against the applied voltage?" My answer would be that on a scale that small, random interactions...

Most light and medium duty diesel trucks use 2 batteries in parallel in order to provide enough current to start the engine. Heavy trucks may use more, IDK. Batteries in parallel are fine as long as they're the same chemistry. 2 batteries in parallel is essentially the same as 1 battery with...

You could put them both on a skateboard, pointed in opposite directions, and see which way it moves.

Senty gun using a camera for target tracking would be cool. Many videos of DIY set-ups on youtube. Maybe you could adapt one of those designs to target mosquitos with a laser or something. Probably need a lot of careful fine tuning to prevent it from targeting you though.

May I ask for clarification? How do we discuss the 2016 election without discussing politics. What aspects are OK or taboo? Could you perhaps cite some post numbers where you consider the content in bounds and some where you consider the content out-of-bounds to give me a sense of what's what...

Pretty much. There may be rare exception. Later this weekend when I've got time I'll try to go through all the major stuff that the feds have done over the last 3 decades and explain how each one was a failure (or success). If someone else has more free time then I do and can beat me to it, go...

To be fair, GW didn't have much choice but to do something in Afghanistan. An act of war was committed against the US. The Afghan government was protecting the perpetrators. GW showed a lot more restraint than I probably would have.

Because every time the federal government does something, they screw it up and make things worse instead of better. This is due to the fact that the skills needed to get elected are not the same skills needed to perform the duties of public office. The solution to this problem would be for the...

Crazy scumbag will never get enough cooperation from congress to get any of his scumbagging done. Intelligent scumbag has some allies and will likely be able to coerce cooperation from others, hence, more scumbagging will get done. Best case scenario I think for the next 4 years is going to be...

Neither one of these candidates is fit for the presidency because neither one seems to have much respect for the Constitution. Both of their agendas I think are going to be harmful to the long term health of the country. All the vulgarity and accusations of cover-up are beside that main point...

Revive some of the original definitions of various units... 1 meter = 1/10000000 the distance from the north poll to the equator. 1000 Kg = weight of 1 cubic meter of water. 1 hour = 1/24 of a day etc... If you did go back with all the scientific knowledge, these original definitions should be...

That may be true of an engine that is designed and built to run at WOT all the time, but an automobile engine is not. Up to 70% - 80% throttle, the fuel system is designed to run at stoichiometric air/fuel ratio. If it continued to run at stoichiometric ratio near WOT, the combustion chamber...

The only way we know about dark matter is because of its gravity. If there were a massless particle (like a photon) that didn't interact with the stuff that we and our instruments are made of, it wouldn't be surprising if we didn't know about it. The only way we could would be if it were needed...

You beat me to it. The other thing that I was going to ask is, how do we know dark matter does not radiate? We know it doesn't radiate EM because we can't see it, but what's wrong with the idea of another force or type of radiation that interacts with dark matter and not normal matter. DM had...

It is generally expected that inertial and gravitational mass are equivalent. The reason people are looking for a difference is because that would be big news. It's human nature to want to set yourself apart from the crowd. What better way to do that then proving that physics is radically...

Nitinol?

The amount of power it takes to push something is equal to how hard you push times how fast you push. So far that's pretty intuitive right? Accelerating something that's moving fast requires me to push fast. Accelerating something that's moving slow requires that I push slow. If I push equally...

Wouldn't this rather be a lack of circular motion? Traveling with the earths surface would be circular motion, and i'd expect some centrifugal force to partially cancel out gravity, that's why the earth bulges at the equator. A plane flying against the rotation of the earth would not experience...

I'm going to have to disagree with that premise... If I put an apple on a table, then put another apple beside it, then there are 2 apples. Hence 1+1=2. I can empirically observe that there are not 3 or 4 or more apples, nor are there 0 or 1 apples unless I get hungry. Based on these...

I was thinking more along the lines of training the brain to perceive multiple colors at the same spot, at the same time. Normally, our brains construct a 3 dimensional model of our environment from a pair of 2 dimensional images. However, the brain is amazingly adaptable. I was trying to think...