Death Definition and 295 Threads

This is a cool riddle of logic that I heard recently. It is supposed to be drawn out so I'll try to describe it as best as I can. Four prisoners of war are sentenced to death by firing squad. They line them up from north to south, all of them facing north (so that they are in line facing...

What is the closest you have come to dying?

My question is what causes death wobble? Let me explain more... The vehicle I've experienced this on is a Jeep with a solid front axle, but it can happen on other vehicles. While driving down the road at say 50mph, I hit a small bump, and the steering wheel and tires shake side to side...

We all die eventually. Its a fact. However what is the mechanism for this? Is there an evolutionary aspect to it that was evolved early on in order to limit populations, or is it merely a chemical defect that has remained thus far or yet a unavoidable consequence of how our cells are made up?

I don't want to hijack another thread, so I'm moving the discussion here... A point about Archimedes Death Ray came up. The question is whether it failed for practical or theoretical reasons. I am of the opinion that it failed for practical reasons due to the inability of a bunch of...

Hi everyone, Firstly i want to say that I've watched some of the "The Universe" episodes on my computer, and i pretty much have basic knowledge about the cosmos. But there's only one thing in particular that I'm confused: the life of a star. I pretty much know the "core" of it, but i can't...

Let's say that there is no afterlife, no reincarnation, nothing but death. Can we imagine death? Every time you try to think about death, you end up having a thought. So what do you think about this?

Say there were a black hole near Earth (either recently found or created) that we could travel to. With similar technology available to us today, if we built a spaceship and came as close to the black hole as possible without the effects of gravity breaking the ship apart or ripping our bodies...

Do you believe in "fan death"? Basically, I stationary fan left on in a sealed room could cause death by either suffocation or hypothermia. I know several researchers in Korea and in California have came out to say that it is all a hoax, but does anyone here know whether it is possible to...

Discussing wheather to convict someone charged with murder and give them the death penalty, consider the variables "reality (defendant guilty, defendant innocent) and "decision" (convict, acquit) Jurors are asked to convict a defendant if they feel the defendant is "guilty beyond reasonable...

I have never actually seen somebody die in person. When I said my goodbyes to my parents, each had a few hours left. I felt that I could not endure the stress of seeing them actually pass. At their time, my father seemed to want to be alone - proud to die in a Navy nursing facility. My...

Homework Statement - FBD of description of forces - Mass of the rider ( is to decide ) = 70 kg - Dimensions of the Ride ( is to decide ) Height = 10 meters Radius = 10 meters Givens: gmax= 4 g Speed of bike = 80 Km/h Mass of Bike = 180 kg mu= vertical coefficient of friction = 1.00...

The following is a very interesting naturalistic thesis on death and the fate of subjectivity. The author is Thomas W. Clark, a secular humanist among the likes of Richard Dawkins and the late Carl Sagan. If you would like to skip ahead to the main points, begin reading from the second post...

I feel so shamed of myself. I don't know who to blame. The teacher gives the exact same lessons on the book, but never follow how you should answer your trig. problems. I studied all through the week and even late at night. I got a C in the class, but I really want to be a physicist because I...

Is there a way that the hypothetical heat death of the universe can be prevented, if the danger exists? The heat death is a possible final state of the universe, in which it has "run down" to a state of no thermodynamic free energy to sustain motion or life. In other words, It has reached...

Existence: Consciousness arises from a complex set of physical causes and effects. It is amazing to think that consciousness exists at all, it seems a very out-of-place phenomena within our universe. There are many unique arrangements of matter in the universe, the majority of these are...

If someone drank botulinum toxin, would they die? My friend and I have a bet. I say yes. (note we're not actually going to drink it, we are both chem and bio geeks though and I say yes and he says no.) I think you'd die almost instantly, right? He says you wouldn't because its the same...

The following link will direct you to a very well written essay of a naturalist's view on death: http://www.naturalism.org/death.htm It is entitled: Death, Nothingness and Subjectivity Author: Thomas W. Clark It is the (untestable) theory of "generic subjective continuity". It proposes the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090110/ap_on_re_us/death_row_eye I can't believe they're going to execute him at all. If this isn't proof enough that he's insane, what would be? Here's his offender info: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/thomasandre.htm

Listen to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, author of Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries. Tells the entertaining story of what it's like to be sucked into a black hole. http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole"

I started playing the game Spore today, but the game keeps crashing with the blue screen, something about ialmdev5.DLL error. Please help.

How does the temperature of a star relate to the radius of a star? How does the mass of a star affect the temperature of the star's core? How does the luminosity of a star relate to how long a star will live? How do the spectral lines of a star determine if the star is a first generation...

I've heard that black holes disappear when they are done. Doesn't it make sense to say it would end in a form like a neutron star?

If someone dies in a hospital a member of medical staff tries to brings their heart back to life, sometimes this works. Why if someone dies of nateral causes can't their heart be braught back to life after a while?

Boy, 8, shoots himself to death at Mass. gun show http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/boy_shoots_himself

You are a prisoner in the king's dungeon. You just learned that the food you ate was poisoned. The king has given you a chance to escape death and to be released from prison. You have been given a balance (which you can use no more than three times) and 12 pills with no perceptible...

Hi. I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 running Window's Vista with a 2.0 GHz processor and 3 GB RAM. For some reason, whenever I have a video or voice chat on Skype (version 3.8), my computer gives me a Blue Screen of Death. As you may guess, this is very annoying when trying to have formal...

Assuming the eventual heat death of the universe, would there be a time when all matter becomes superconducting, or manifests as quantum condensates?

I wrote something which I believe gets to the origin of fashion and gossip in a simple and logical way. I would be happy with any comment on whether it makes sense to you or not. Why do women find it important to be in on the latest fashion trends and gossip? Fashion's use couldn't be just...

Please correct me if i am wrong. As per MWI,when an observer open the box,Schrödinger cat will be alive in one world and the same cat will be dead in other world. If we replace the cat with human,then the dead human and alive human will be different worlds.so,my curious question is does this...

I just heard a scientist say that when frozen, frogs have NO brain activity, but that they can still be revived. Is this true? I knew that frogs could be frozen and revived, but I had never heard the claim about brain activity. If this is true, then when is a frog brain dead, and what is the...

I used to be an extremely good student in grade 8, top in my grade in the sciences, and pretty darn good at math. I won every single academic award available to my grade. Grade 9 was similar...but I was already beginning to burn out. Grade 10, I got a new "kickstart", because I had this...

hey, I've been having BSOD problems lately, when trying to play a game I keep getting them: ialmdev5.dll stop errors, non page fault (or something of the like), I tried installing new video drivers from dell.com but it didn't help at all. I attached my dxdiag, any help is great, thanks!

Alright, I'll need some help formulating this, since my writing tends to be... well... just not very eloquent and representative of my thoughts. I don't believe in soul, afterlife, or other nonsense. I think our self, our consciousness, is a function of our complex brains. For what...

Hi. Yesterday I was playing a game (Morrowind Tribunal) and when doing certain actions (resting, equipping things) I got the blue screen of death with a file ialmdev5.dll I wouldn't be so mad if it would only happen once, but it happens all the time. Here are my system spec: System...

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Homework Statement Total mass = 260 kg Coefficient of Friction = 1.00 r = 4 m gmax = 4 g a) Find the minimum speed to keep the rider on the wall of death. b) Find the maximum speed inside the wall of death of the motorcycle based on gmax Homework Equations \mu x...

The laser is able to vaporize an Earth sized planet in about a second.

Hi. A while ago I got a new, fully loaded, great speced computer, and for the past few weeks, I have been getting the BSoD. However, what is confusing me no-end, is that I always get it once a week, on a wednesday, at around the same exact time during the day +/- 10 minutes. Any...

By luck I happened to be reminded today that Feynman died 20 yeays ago, on February 15th, 1988. A sad day for the physics community.

Here is the question: The Wall of Death in an amusement park is comprised of a vertical cylinder that can spin around the vertical axis. The radius of the cylinder is 3.5 m and the coefficient of static friction between the rider and the wall is 0.32. Find the minimum number of revolutions per...

hi i was wondering about the russian helicopter death ray and if it was based on the russian multi beam klystrons and all in one technology. does it use tesla multi beam technology? thanks

Say that you were swapped back to the past, be it yesterday or 10 years ago, without having any memory of having lived in the future. Would you consider this some sort of death? After all, your current self would fall out of existence. Whatever is your stance on this, it brings an interesting...

Hi, I'm writing to you as a graduate applied math student who has taken a recent interest in biology and the modeling of all kinds of microbiological systems, something I plan on continuing with in my PhD. As such, I'm modeling biology without knowing as much about it as I should :P My...

Reading some trivia trash us humans are carrying our own death with us, unless we die through accident, we also live in a bug infested environment, we all swallow several spiders, sleep with bugs and eat bugs, makes joyful reading not, oh and it is no good having a bath we can not drown the...

what is heat death of universe?

A man is found in an empty room hanged by a noose hanging from the ceiling, which is the only thing in the room other than himself at the time of discovery. How did he do it?

[Solved] Limit problem of death \lim_{x\rightarrow{\pi/2}} (x*tan(x) - \frac{\pi}{2*cos(x)}) OK. I'm not sure how to begin this problem because: 1) tan(pi/2) is undefined and 2) pi/2cos(pi/2) is undefined also! Any hint would be great! Thanks

I'm not in the medical field and it has been a long time since my college physics courses so I turn to you folks for a possible answer and further explanation. It has been brought up on another forum concerning naval battles in the age of sail about the phenomena of sailors being killed or...

Every now and then I think about how someday I'll be dead and I'll never experience life as a human again. I just can't picture my eyes closing for the final time and never awaking again. It's actually rather depressing to think about. I kind of wish the universe gave us everlasting life. But...