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I've just bought (second hand) one of those clocks which move lots of ball bearings around - one a minute, with a fascinating array of tilting troughs etc. The trouble is that the balls sometimes...
I was wondering if it is possible to warm a pool for free My idea starts with a lets say radiator painted black and in the water ,hoping the black will attract the warmth but then I get stuck on the...
Scientists have gone one step further in their project adding two new base letters to the DNA codes of life. They now have incorporated the new codes into the chromosomes of living bacteria. The extra...
This question was on my ACT practice test and I forgot to print out the answer key, so I don't know if this question is right or not. If you could please show the answer, as well as how you got that...
Trawling through the latest IPCC reports they refer to some warming going straight into the ocean without heating the air, and then being swept deep under the surface by the currents. When it finally...
I was wondering tonight while eating asparagus how did we find out that you can eat asparagus when it's shooting but not daffodils, that you eat carrot roots but not cabbage or rose roots, that egg...
For anyone interested there is supposedly going to be a meteor shower tonight as earth goes through the tail of a comet. I don't know if that's for definite or not so if anyone has any decent links...
http://i.imgur.com/DQGLLAQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DQGLLAQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6WuIj4W.jpg [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DQGLLAQ.jpg[/img] I* bought this coin from overseas and here are the results of the...
For those interesting in things ISS-y this NASA page gives the live view from the ISS as well as the map showing where it is over the Earth.
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/...
I have a small swelling in a kidney, discovered when I had a scan for kidney stones ( I haven't got any..)and my appointment to see the consultant is in 10 weeks......there is no pain and I assume...
We had an orange moon down here in the West Country this evening. Does anyone know why? As far as I can see there wasn't a lunar eclipse anywhere. It's back to white now.
I have found a small old glass bottle which has the remains of smelling salts in. They are " rock hard" can anyone tell me of a solution I could use to get these crystals out? Thank you. Memphisbelle...
I dont really know what I am talking about here but here goes. If you were to take a range of different alcoholic drinks and extract the pure alcohol element from them, would the pure alcohol be...
Is it the tilt of the Earth's axis that ensures that the poles are permanently frozen? If our planet was just a few thousand miles further away from the Sun could life have developed?...
Created this post so that you can ask any questions you like. Hopefully I'll be able to answer them to your satisfaction, and if not then there are plenty of other people on this site who might be...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background Ok I know it's the whole sky but what's what? there should be 2 hemispheres how is it laid out? I which is the bit where the pole star is for...