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Sep 1, 2007 12:05 pm
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If there are any Mad Scientists around Wisconsin, you ... ...
I seem to remember an episode from Mythbusters, where a geek-group came from 'way behind in the mirror-boat-burning challenge, making a parabolic solar heat...
... I've seen ads from a company which sells a Mylar relfector like that using a flat plastic backboard and a small hand pump to evacuate the air. My sons and...
Ok, this group did well in helping me bust a myst in another group about using high voltage to get free energy from salt water. Now I have another to put...
... The mythbusters tested acetone on both a carburetated and fuel inject engines and in both cases, acetone reduced mileage. Carburetor car: * Baseline: 17mpg...
We have a government con job in Australia where they are adding ethanol to petrol. At the moment it is only voluntary to sell this adulterated petrol but soon...
Sounds about like the commie ethanol scam here in the US, driving up prices for corn and cattle feed for no reason at all... ... -- Nick A "You know what I...
Steve Garnier once tried to re-jet a Kawasaki 750 GPz for higher performance and it didn't work. I watched as he tried dozens of different combinations of...
After the AC induction motor, we think that the greatest invention of Nikola was the electric car. This was no ordinary battery driven car because this car...
Hi all, I just picked up a Precision Scientific D150 lab vacuum pump for a song (not even a dance was required). But I need a manual to know how to add oil...
Should have been more specific: it's on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, so Oct 16th, 7pm to 10pm at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA 1117 Broadway, Tacoma,...
when i say make it to earth i mean make it to the surface of the earth. as in hit the ground. i say it will. reasons: the sphere first comes in contact with...
... I suspect there would be multiple possible outcomes to this scenario based on the velocity of the sphere and it's anti-mass. For example if the sphere...
... Fast would probably do it, but how fast is open to debate. Or calculation... :-) I doubt that it'd have to be "a significant fraction of lightspeed",...
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands buttered side down. It was proposed to strap giant slabs of hot...
In my studies, we discovered that the height of the drop actually affected whether the cat landed on its feet or not. If I remember correctly, at around 4 or...
The two opposing forces will vie for dominance to get to the underside, so maybe, by strapping in a pole between the buttered toast and cat, one might create a...
Hi, Can anyone give me a definitive answer to these questions? Specifically, how long does it take for an electron to move from one "shell" in an atom to...
Andrew, IIRC, it takes on the order of a few tens of attoseconds. This time scale is just now coming within the range of experiment. Of course, when you talk...
Drop them from high enough and they eat dirt! ... -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my...
I want to put together a density stacker, with yellow cooking oil, dyed water, and one or two other colored liquids. I'd use alcohol, but it's clear, and food...
... At least they talk in there about what factors give some of the stuff different densities and such... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most...
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