Death Definition and 327 Threads

So the Easter celebrations in the Vatican, in Afghanistan, Iraq etc have been in the news all weekend; meanwhile... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7310924.stm

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...

Do you guys consider the "research" for consciousness after death 100% bogus? http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=98447&page=1 http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2002/10/55826 http://www.iands.org/research/important_studies/dr._pim_van_lommel_m.d._continuity_of_consciousness.html

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...

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.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=455400&in_page_id=1879 So, we were going to make this place a democractic society? Did the men throwing the stones and filming with their cell phones vote? Thanks to the internet, once it gets out, news like this...

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?

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006110800212324 just crazy...

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:

...and i don't mean in the long run, the second you die, what do you feel?, see? or does everything just stop and your just gone spiritually and mentally because you need your brain to think? i mean, what would be of you? would you just be reborn? go to heaven? and this brings me to my next...

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.

Option 11: I'd rather not think about it Option 12: _________ (fill in the blank) The options above influence our expectations of everlasting life in this world; those options that presume to hold any promise of life beyond death weaken the motivation to seek effective solutions to (1)...

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...