The lightning has a better chance of hitting the car than hitting the ground next to the car. This is because the metal in the car is a better conductor than the air, so having the big chunk of metal there effectively reduces the distance the lightning has to travel, thus reducing the...
High heat=high pressure. Lowering the pressure causes liquids to turn to gas at a lower temperature, because it takes less energy for the molecules to move around (since the pressure "keeps them in their place").
Look at how air conditioners work. Compress the gas, it can't hold as much...
Agent11, science is about proving things false. However, evidence CAN support theories. For instance, all evidence supports the theory of General Relativity being the way that gravity behaves. Evidence supports the theory of Natural Selection being one of the ways that living things evolve...
Actually all it would take to send the moon flying into us would be to slow it down a bit.
I recommend putting all of the world's refrigerator magnets on the moon, and then wrapping the earth with wire. That way, not only would we be slowing down the moon, we'd have a free source of...
The problem with just bringing a boat would be that you're crushed way before you get to the liquid surface... All of that gas weighs a lot, especially on a planet as massive as Jupiter.
As for the burning: I don't think you would need a spark or anything for ignition, since 3600 degrees is...
I don't think it's a power supply issue, as the system works fine unless I shut it down from inside an OS. Just to check, I tried disconnecting everything except the mobo and hard drive from the power supply, and still no dice. The voltage readouts in the BIOS all look fine, btw.
I just got a new athlon X2 4400+, and I didn't have this problem with my old 3500+ cpu.
I have the newest bios for the Sn95G5 v 1.0, which is what I have and yes, it officially supports the CPU. I tried going back to the previous bios, but no deal.
If I shutdown from within an OS (windows...
The "The 1908 meteor didn't even hit the earth, and look how much damage it did!" argument is completely bogus. As was mentioned above, explosions on earth do a vast majority of their through the pressure wave they create in the atmosphere. When the 1908 meteor/comet exploded over the earth...
Obviously, the problem with trying to make a stable orbit is that: you can't be too far out or you hit a wall and lose all momentum, and the masses move around each other.
Is it just me or is the size of the mass not indicitive of its pull at all? I guess they have random densities. That...
I'm having an argument with this guy at work...
This is one of those "never possible in reality" things...
Given an analog waveform, and an infinite number of sampling points, can't you choose your sampling points so that there are no gaps between them- IE, produce a sampled function that...
I'm pretty sure I get what Concillian is saying...
Obviously if you get a max of 120 FPS but a minimum of 15 then yes you can definately tell, but even the most advanced gamer can't tell the difference between a minimum framerate (not average or maximum) of 100FPS to a minimum framerate of...
I'm pretty well versed in computer hardware, and I have my own opinions/suspicions about these questions (almost typed: questinos), but I just wanted to get some others' opinions on this.
Back in the day, I had an Audigy A3D card. Loved it. Then the company went under, before making any...
Well, because of the refraction index, Red light will move through the air faster than blue, but blue has a higher energy.
So technically riding up over a hill in the road the red motorcycle would come into view first, but the blue motorcycle is more likely to be noticed since the light from...
This thread isn't limited to SFF users- it's just what I happen to be using.
Most of the things I've read about the E6 stepping deal with the models that have 512kb*2 of cache- on those models the E6s really have 1mb*2, but half is disabled. For a while, however, I've been looking to see...
I'm not an astronomer either, but here is my opinion: Satellites orbit at different altitudes. A Satellite in a geosynchronous orbit wouldn't move at all relative to the ground, so not all satellites would leave a trail. Pretty much all objects in space are spinning (including space junk)...
Well heat is transmitted directly through matter because if the matter is dense enough and has "thermal conductivity" then the fast moving molecules will hit the slow moving molecules (or affect them through electromagnetic interaction), causing the slow ones to speed up and the fast ones to...
I'm looking into buying a 16-port gigabit switch. I've actually been looking at the Dell 2000 series right now. It doesn't need to be managed or anything. Any suggestions for or against different brands?
Actually in a vacuum there would be only two ways for the heat of the supernova to reach you- when you're hit by the hot matter from the explosion itself, or the radiation (light) from the supernova. Based on your question you're not worried about what happens after the matter from the...
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