Damage Definition and 126 Threads

Does your teeth feel slightly hurt after eating fried bacon and eggs? If it's not because they were too hot when you consumed them then what reasons could it be?

I know this doesn't pertain so much to engineering but I figured you guys would know best. If you set the magnet next to a cell phone or TV, what kind of damage would be expected?

Do germ line cells accumulate DNA Damage like the rest of the body? I've heard things about them that make them seem to have very different characteristics to the rest of the body. Ie could germ line cells, or anything, contain your original DNA when you're like 50 or 100, or would the only DNA...

I have a general question concerning the affect of surface treatments or imperfections in the painted surface of the vehicle in relationship to the Drag Coefficient for an automobile. I own a 2006 Hyundai Sonata which has a drag coefficient of 0.32. Over the last six months I have noticed a...

Homework Statement What is more important in determining the amount of damage an object sustains in a collision? A. Total momentum Change B. Total momentum change per unit time C. None of these D. Both of these Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I think...

Any opthalmologists or other occular medical experts out there? For decades, I've been making my own (usually elaborate) Hallowe'en outfits, including latex appliances. My avatar is one example of that. One thing that I've never been able to justify buying is costume contact lenses such as...

Does anyone have pictures or reference to damage caused by BL? The only major damage report i can find is in this Wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning Look under Esoteric. damage done to a peat bog, is there a better article on this? I would be most interested in...

Can two loudspeakers one next to other, damage them self? I think the question is very clear, and if you know please answer. Thank you.

Does a loud noise that is beyond my range of hearing still do damage to my ears?

Homework Statement Plants when exposed to frost can be badly damaged as the frost melts. Why? Explain how the damage can be minimised by spraying the plants with water. Homework Equations none The Attempt at a Solution It could be due to frost expand when in cells (i.e. from liquid...

In what ways has the Bush administration damaged the US image abroad; potentially having made the world a more dangerous place? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec06/turkey_11-27.html

We had a thunderstorm Thursday evening and I think my house got zapped by lightening. I lost two TV's, a VCR, and my cable modem. Of course, the good news is that the cheaper the TV, the less damage it sustained. The best TV doesn't turn on at all, while the picture only fills half the screen...

Did anyone happen to catch the 60mins TV spot of Hans S. Keirstead last night? His research showing reversing spinal cord damage in rats using human embryo stem cells is compelling. Brings this approach to humans paralyzed by spinal cord damage, closer to reality. Human clinical trials may...

Lets say there is a small firecracker that emits 1200 of peak power. What is the peak intensity B in decibels at a distance of 1 m from the firecracker? This is what i have tried: B = 10log(I/Io) I = 1200/pi Since I = power/area and the area is pir^2, pi(1m)^2 Io=( 10^-12...

Everyone knows onions make you cry :cry: , but do they actually do any damage to your eyes? How can one stop their eyes from getting sore when cutting up these cruel vegetables?

Why is Katrina damage Bush's fault? Well who else is there to blame but Bush and FEMA?

I accidently put the black probe in the "A" port instead of the "COM" port and mistakingly measured resistence. The resistence measured seemed to be correct, but did I do damage to the multimeter?

HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) -- Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources. Her comments came as NASA pondered whether to send astronauts out...

There was a fire upstairs and the sprinklers went off. FD was here pronto and got them shut off and all the water squeegeed out of that apartment. I had some leakage but mostly water stains on drywall seams, around light fixtures, and ac vents. The abatement (?) guy has cut holes the size of...

What's the score if your upstairs neighbour has a leak in the kitchen and it damages your property? Is it a case of tough luck and sort out the cost yourself? Or is it up to the tenant/landlord of the other property to foot the bill? let me explain... We own our property (freehold) the...

The parents insisted an autopsy be performed on their daughter and the results show that the husband was right all along. Even with the results showing she was blind and in a permanent vegetative state with no chance to improve, her parents remain in denial of the truth. "An autopsy on...

Seems like an epidemic lately of "demagnetized" credit cards, transit cards, etc. - apparently due to the card's proximity to cell phones and/or those magnetic closures on briefcases and purses... If I were to attempt to protect my cards from any such damage, what material could I use which...

Do errors in chromsome replication increase as the temperature of a cell increases? Also can a cell regulate its temperature and keep it different to the extracellular medium surrounding it?

How's this for the most pathetic way to spend new years. About 2 hours ago I heard someone scream. I opened my door and saw my neighbor throw something out her door. She went back inside and i went to see what she had thrown. It is a pink box, Fing'rs Liquid/Powder Acrylic Nail Maker and Repair...

My dad gets that error on every exe he tries to open. He was infected with a virus, actually several. Is there any way to fix the damage? As far as we can tell, we got rid of all the infected files. If we can't, how would we format the hard drive? It's an XP system.

Was going to put this up a couple of days ago but was a bit preoccupied. So here goes. Imagine that you take a single crystal of Iron, a whisker, and bend it around to make a circle. How could you find out if the crystal was magnetized? Remember, all the magnetic field is contained inside the...