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So, it turns out that the prosecution lied to the grand jury about what the law actually was: http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/shocking-mistake-in-darren-wilson-grand-jury-364273731666 Basically, telling them that it was legal for a police officer to shoot a suspect to prevent them from flee...

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Grop wrote:Then rage because newb is newb.

So, your typical escort quest then?

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Most exoplanets are discovered not because the planet blocks the light from its sun, but because its gravity causes the sun to "wobble" in place, affecting the light that comes from it - often causing its redshift and hence its colour to oscillate. It's most notable if the sun is a pulsar...

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SecondTalon wrote:Sure, but that's.. displaced..quite frequently, especially during the teenage years when Mr. Random Erection pays a visit (roughly once every 82.7 minutes).

If you're not circumcised, there's enough skin available that it can remain covered while erect.

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There's Muonium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium Which is a pairing of an anti-Muon and an electron, which apparently won't annihilate each other. Muons decay after a couple of microseconds, but other than that, it acts sort of like an atom, and you can make chemical compounds out of it and oth...

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From now on, they themselves will have to generate the demand to justify the further development of their cells, without sharing that cost with a far larger laptop market. Or instead of waiting for someone else to do it, they could just just go ahead and build a $5B battery "Gigafactory" ...

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Also, if you get hacked in a bad spot on the end boss, and can't deal with it through other means, you can jump away from the fight and come back again.

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Yeah, if a metal rod is heated up enough at one end to have any real effect on water at the other end, it's no longer going to be cool enough for much steam to condense on it. Even if we did have a way to magically get the heat engine working, all you're doing is moving water from one place to anot...

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so being "passively" means that storing the energy is not allowed? what if you first focus the sunlight into a distance a few light-seconds away, then rotate the mirror and make them converge with a newly-focused sunlight? Sending them far away makes them more parallel, but dimmer. Focusi...

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Ah, so if we wanted to avoid leap days, we'd need to change the length of every day? That still wouldn't help you with where noon ended up. One year it might be in the middle of the year, and on successive years it might be at sunrise or sunset or the middle of the night. Having it spread out acros...

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Maybe it would be considered discrimination though if you told the person they could not speak because they wanted the audience segregated (in a way that is not discriminatory) and that this segregation was due to a sincerely held religious belief, since religious belief is one of their protected c...

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Earth is in Space. Therefore everything on Earth is in Space. Fallacy of division All atoms heavier than helium were at some point, formed by supernovae. The matter ejected ended up in the vast emptiness of space until it became part of the relatively small clump of matter that is dominated by the ...

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Or, if we want to set the bar lower, we should at least be able to conceptualize why a 3D projection of a 4D object "rotates" in the way that it does. For example, this means nothing to me: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/8-cell-simple.gif I can certainly conceptualize ...

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Don't know about a planet, but I'll take the opportunity to post this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma...

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He was awarded the prize for the accomplishment of not being George Bush. An impressive accomplishment, considering 2 of the previous 3 presidents were George Bush. But in all seriousness, Obama's peace prize was supposed to commemorate that the US has moved on from its racist past and was making s...

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There's an excellent-looking black hole calculator here . But its figures disagree with yours... For a 2000000 metric ton BH it gives a radius of 2.969703e-18 m, a Hawking temperature of 6.136016e+13 kelvin, luminosity of 8.908604e+13 watts, and a lifetime of 21313.06 years. For 1814369 metric tons...

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To be stable in vacuum with a background radiation of 2.7K, not to be stable in warm solid matter. The rate of mass accretion will of course be much higher inside warm solid matter, but the warm solid matter is not going to be sucked into the black hole very easily. Plus, there's going to be a lot ...

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bigglesworth wrote:
SlyReaper wrote:Antimatter weapons are fine though, right? Or weapons that open a wormhole between the target and the core of a nearby star?
No, all weapons of mass destruction are banned.

Go with grey goo - weapon of mass construction.

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LaserGuy wrote:
davidstarlingm wrote:
LaserGuy wrote:The Odinani faith is monotheistic, and predates Judaism AFAIK. Some variations of Hinduism are also monotheistic.

Not sure why Odinani is considered monotheistic; they're polytheists with a transcendent head deity.

So are Catholics.

Or Christians in general (angels, with a head deity).

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learsfool wrote:Seriously, nature is all kinds of awesomely screwed up.

Cordyceps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

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Don't forget compression. Ask all of the world's religious people to write of their love of god for 75 years, and I have a feeling you're going to end up with a lot of repetition. A good compression algorithm could reduce the amount of data needed dramatically. The song's implication is that "...

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Using 10 pt font with a 3/5 width to height ratio; 10pts x (1 inch/72 pts) x (25.4mm /1 inch) x (1m/1000mm) x (1km/1000m) = 3.53e-6km font height Area of each character = (3/5)*height 2 =7.48e-12km 2 ; The sky could be covered with 7e19 characters; Using 4 byte Unicode, I get 2.8e20 bytes. Around 2...

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With reference to the "edge of the moon's gravity", traditional physics suggests there isn't one, but I'm guessing that the accelerating expansion of spacetime means there's a "horizon" where a dropped object would never hit the surface even as time tends toward infinity? Or am ...

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i) A binary object b is an object that has precisely two states. All binary objects are equivalent. (this can be taken as an axiom - although it can also be derived from set theory) ii) The set {b, b, b} is equivalent to all other sets {b, b, b} iii) C, P and T are each observed to have two possibl...

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In that case, the back of my envelope suggests you'd hit at 4,000mps, or about 9,000mph. That's crater material. That seems...very wrong. A quick google search lists Baumgartner's top speed as 843.6 mph (1,357.64 km/h) during his jump. I don't know much about moon physics, but I would expect a smal...

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True, one can be a "robber baron" either using private or public means or...as is very common historically, some mix of both to obtain every advantage possible. I'd go further - without using State Power to trample the competition, offload the costs of negative externalities, and profit f...

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Sure, you can tax the rich, but who invests when they know their returns will be redistributed? Everyone who invests now: namely, anyone who has money, and wants more of it. Remember, taxes only apply to profits, not returns, and not just profits on any individual investment, a loss on one investme...

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The Children of the Night animation is finally complete.

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So, just to clarify. When you said 'The Bible clearly states that slavery is not part of a morally perfect path', what you actually meant was 'The Bible does not clearly state that slavery is not part of a morally perfect path'? Here, I'll make this easy for you: Quote me one piece of scripture in ...

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I am not a scientist but I have made a number of physical and thought experiments involving permanent magnets. I think of a permanent magnet‘s magnetic field as an active force as opposed to a stable, inactive force This is where you go wrong. A magnetic field, like a gravitational field, is, in yo...

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As a practical concern, if they're going to be on another continent, airport security may potentially have a problem with a sealed package with contents unknown by the person carrying it. Especially if it happens to be ticking and counting down.

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roband wrote:Not sure where to ask this, so here will do:

Is it possible that I could see Saturn in the sky, on Sunday night from England?

As far as I could tell, with Google's Sky Map app, it couldn't have been anything else, but I'm skeptical.

Cheers.

Yes:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar

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Part of that seems to be from mpg ratings that include a charged battery, The XL1 has a 27-hp electric battery, which can propel it about 31 miles on its own, up to 62 mph. It can fully recharge, Volkswagen says, in an hour and a half. The maximum speed overall, using the full hybrid drivetrain, is ...

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Why would spinning them help? it would mean there is artificial gravity around it, without relying on unobtanium or making the sphere so massive that it has a strong enough gravity. Being massive won't help you, as far as gravity on the inside goes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem In cla...

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If everyone followed the 10 commandments, this planet would actually be a pretty nice place. That's not bad for a 3000 year old text. Not necessarily. A totalitarian theocracy that imposed horrible arbitrary rules on everyone, and did horrible things to them, where people died all the time from dis...

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Acceleration might be a bit of a problem. Orbital speed for low Earth orbit is about 7.8km/s, about mach 23 or so. 0 to 7.8 km/s over a distance of 50km, given constant acceleration, is about 62g's over 12.8s That seems like it would be rather lethal for any human cargo. Not to mention the air resis...

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Personally I believe all bills should require support from the opposition to pass. In Canada when we elect a minority government, meaning that they have the most seats in parliament but do not control enough votes to pass bills without support from other parties it requires a certain amount of cons...

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Au Contraire. There is plenty of reasons to send probes to other locations. Mars is a big place. This is the very reason why Spirit and Opportunity took such long journeys over the surface of Mars, as it gave them a greater range of places to study. There will always be more of Mars to explore. And...

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Seems the creator of Syndicate Wars is making a spiritual successor with Satellite Reign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-reign Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game. You control a team of four agents, each with distinct and unique abilities, collectiv...

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TheGrammarBolshevik wrote:Here is the actual opinion.

And the dissent

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