Death Definition and 295 Threads

Would everyone be selfish? Would there be patriotism? What would happen? I believe right now athiest are nonselfish because they get love which was started by theistic so once the wheel gets rolling trust revolves around. However, from the beginning, if nobody believed in the concept of sin...

Death Cat?? Is this cat the grim reaper, or just a companion for those who need it most? http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/index.html

Hello, I really need help answering this question. I know when low mass stars die, they become white dwarfs (if their mass is less than 1.4M). But I don't know why the end points in the life of low mass stars help astromomers to understand the expansion history of the universe. How...

Hi everyone -- I'm brand new here and didn't really know where to post this question. It's just that some friends and I were drinking beer last night and we began to wonder about something. If you were on a stationary (non orbiting) platform 100,000 miles from Earth and you stepped off of it...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/meth.death.ap/index.html This film is being touted as deadly effective. I have watched or known people struggling with abuse or addiction to various drugs - alcohol, pot, lsd, cocaine, heroin, uppers and or downers, nicotine and caffeine, but I have never...

The human Pineal Gland holds DMT. I want to know how much it holds and how long of a trip it will cause. DMT is supposedly the catalyst to near death experiences. The Pineal releases lots of DMT before we die. WHile it might be a hallucination it might not be internally generated. Information...

And if as if that weren't harsh enough... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/kuwait_ruling_family

The high point of the year is drawing near, that is, it's end, however, it's pretty interesting that today's date may also coincide with Saddam's hanging; whether it was supposed to provide meaning to the event or the date was chosen to de-emphasize his death...probably both. Most individuals...

Build your own death star here: http://www.deathstardesigner.com/ Here's mine: http://www.deathstardesigner.com/station/5224

What definition is used to determine the moment of death for a plant as an organism?

I saw this in a locked topic: Who is right?

what is the scientifical (phycisistic) explanation of death? and what's the point in doing anything if we're just going to die? please, keep it short/simple, couse my head aches, and my english sucks..

If everyone else jumped off a bridge... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061021/ap_on_re_us/bridge_day_death :devil:

This is amazing! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/03road.html The Brazilian (GOL) airliner which crashed in the Amazon jungle with 155 people hit a private jet at 37,000 ft. The airliner went down quickly, the small private jet landed safely at a military airport hidden deep in...

Do you fear death? Post your reason. I was inspired to post this by the "Death is..." post.

I don't expect anyone to get this, but it's worth a shot. Maybe someone will impress me. Mathematically relate Planck's Quantum mechanical equation and Einstein's equation of the law of conservation of energy to the heat death of the universe (Remember that the head death of the universe...

So how ungodly hot is it where you live right now? MSN says to expect a high of 109 today. Currently it is 111. It wasn't until midnight last night that it went under 100 degrees. People's pools are probably evaporating as we speak. I know everytime i look outside my eyes start smoking.

Hi, I was wondering that what causes a man to die, naturally. If he is constantly being damaged then how do young kids get better day by day rather than getting more sick. If it is b/c after a certain age, our cells stop growing(not reproducing), then why is that? What causes it to?

Should capital punishment be abolished and replaced with life imprisonment ? Is death more humane as compared to almost 15 years of rigorous confinement ? Do you think some criminals actually deserve the ultimate punishment ? I feel death penalty should indeed be abolished .It doesn't make...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,1778038,00.html Yessss!

Religious people believe in NDEs but there's debate in Science. They say it's just a hallucination. What if you're hallucinating about something real? Blind people could help solve this. Habe any blind people with the visual part of their brain permanentlydamged ever had a near death experience?

Some people compare us to Diogenes, carrying his lantern in the dark, searching for the truth. Indeed, we sometimes feel that way, looking in the dark. But I think a more accurate metaphor is that of Sisyphus. Sisyphus was a character in Greek mythology. If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the...

I'm interested in hearing other peoples thoughts about the NDE and OBE. I shared my idea about it in another thread hoping to start a debate, but it got somewhat lost, so I think its a good idea to start a separate thread. What do you think about the reality of the NDE and what it (could)...

I'm curious in the processes used to date the age of a human fossil, not in terms of how many thousands of years ago the human died, but the age of the human when they died. Are there any special processes that are used to determine this, or are humans mearly matched up in terms of degeneration...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400860.html It's been two years why they just starting to lanuch a crimnal investegation? I don't watch football.But I'am kind of intersted to see what if it was propous what was the motive.

Note that the thread title is also the name of a series of six [or so] videos that were popular some years ago. They were nothing but videos of people and other animals being killed, and often in the most gruesome of cicumstances. Something that caught my attention is the idea that today...

I now understand why most people will never take more than three major classes per quarter. I have five physics classes this quarter. I have one midterm tomorrow and 3 on monday. I've studying everynight until about 2 or 3. I was doing lab work and studying till 3 yesterday. On a side...

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/sedact.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11345744/ http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=100199563 1 Trotsky? Reminds me of this: This is from a speech by former CIA officer Jim Marcinkowski, now running for Congress in...

http://www.nbc30.com/news/6426207/detail.html sad...but it's hard to feel bad for someone so stupid (the uncle):rolleyes:

It looks like people can die from lack of sleep. How do they die?

Hey I need help from this as soon as possible. My teacher has given me 2 equations and I need to use them to estimate the time of death of a discovered corpse. 1. \frac {\Delta T_{1}}{\Delta t} = -k_{1}(T_{1} - T_{2}) 2. \frac {\Delta T_{2}}{\Delta t} = -k_{2}(T_{2} - T_{1}) I think...

Hugh Thompson Jr. died of cancer last Friday. His is a story worth knowing - he and a few others were the heroes of My Lai. And heroes they were... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/06/60minutes/main615997.shtml The Heroes of My Lai...

Hi. Yesterday, I was playing a game (Warcraft III) when suddenly system stops and I get a BoSD... It stated something like "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage blah blah blah blah, Technical information ***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC000005, 0XBF04DF7B...

I have a question about the hot death model of the end of the universe. If the current expansion of the universes was to slow down and eventually the universe started to contract ( I know very unlikely but…) would the matter in the universe coalesce into black holes, before the temperature...

Suppose u have a perfectly healthy individual. Is it possible for him to think himself to death? Some ideas i had: For example by meditating so intensively that one feels the ego dissolve and consciousness leave the body. Another example is this part in the matrix where they say: "if you...

nomenclature: vi = initial speed, z = height x,y are the 'ground', φ = elevation angle of the barrel, α. = α 'dot' = dα/dt, α: = double dot show that an artillery cannon can hit a target anywhere in the surface given by: g²r²=(vi²)²-2gz(vi²) ignore air resistance. no wind. note: this is...

When they turned on Murtha they killed themselves. I think that's it. Bush is dead and the Republicans are running for cover. It's time to clean house!

Motorcycle Wall of Death Some pointers would be greatly appreciated please. A motorcycle is slowing down, but maintaining its height on a 'wall of death' (a vertical cylinder where the motorcycle 'drives' around the inner circumference as a stunt). A spectator takes timings in...

According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pp-wave_spacetime "the wave of death is a gravitational plane wave exhibiting a strong nonscalar null curvature singularity, which propagates through an initially flat spacetime, progressively destroying the universe" I did a spires search...

First, there are no religion specifics here anywhere. It is simply a question by philosophical reasoning. To me and many others, this seems the most important question that one can make a decision on, in duration of their life. And I have not seen this type of question in here yet. And I...

What do you think of death penalty? Is it fair or unfair? And could help to decrease the crime rate?

I'm probably not the only one here that likes indie-rock. Having just been released, what do you think of Death Cab for Cutie's new album "Plans"? I think is a great follow up to "Transatlantiscism" which I enjoyed tremendously. As always this band has great lyrics, but their albums always feel...

I have been reading the archives of Physics Forums, some threads about the expansion of the universe and also the upcoming Heat Death that people keep talking about. However, there are a few things that keep bugging me: First of all, atoms have not so far shown any tendency not to cluster...

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What would you do if you knew when you'd die? Would it make any difference in your life? What would you do if you knew you would be alive less than 1 year(or 1 month, 1 week...)? :rolleyes:

What is the "cause" or meaning of the term natural death?

Many people believe that the Centre of Mass Theorem is a powerful and useful tool in Newtonian Mechanics. In fact it is a farce. (1) It is trivially true at distances in which the massive object is virtually a point-mass, such as between distant stars. (2) It is completely incoherent and...

Those who wants to live forever should be happy.Evo's killed death!You're a hero,Evo.Nobody hasn't done what you did.I'm proud of you. :!)

"innocent people on death row" I constantly hear that the greatest argument against capital punishment is "there are people on death row right now who are innocent". Now what is the proof/de-bunking proof to this statement and idea?

(Bullets + you) / e = death, but why? :) lol ok I am wondeirng something. When your hit with a bullet, what really kills you? Shock, loss of blood, what? Or well, I've been told its loss of blood but why would losing blood kill you? Whats the actual biological process/problem that arises that...