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It is an honor to even be nominated. I'd like to thank the Academy for their kind consideration.

It was a little bit hyperbolic, but I don't think removing this family's lineage from the gene pool would be such a bad thing...

Seriously wtf dude? Who gives two shits whether or not they've personally driven drunk? The issue here is any of us that would have been caught doing what he did would be rotting in prison right now. You take risks you pay the price if those risks don't pan out in your favor. His consequence...

Babu Bhatt? Is that you?

A simple explanation is instantaneous gravity is equivalent to instantaneous information transfer, which violates the speed of light limitations. A more theoretical explanation is that all forces need a mediator. Electromagnetisms mediator is the photon, which we know moves at the speed of...

As I understand it, if you find waves you also find particles. Most if not everything that behaves like a wave also behaves like a particle simultaneously. Find gravitational waves, find evidence of gravitons. The graviton helps go a long way toward proving string theory in some form or...

There are some new experiments out there including a new ESA satellite mission that are looking for gravitational waves. String theorists will go ape shit if any of them find evidence of their existence.

Evolution doesn't 'choose'. It isn't intelligent. It is just the process. The traits that survive are the ones that are favored by the environment. Think about antibiotics on bacteria. The ones that survive have some trait that grants them resistance to the drug, maybe some genetic defect...

Tuco, read up on the anthropic principle. A lot of 'why' in science is simply because we are here to observe it. That doesn't make other possible universes with different manifestations of gravity impossible, but in this universe gravity is the way it is because we are here to observe it...

Unit derivation is burned into your memory if you've ever taken a serious emag course.

But but but volts! Amps! Ohms! Those are the units! Derp! Fuckin amateurs...

Some deprived/dumb EEs up in this bitch. Never once in your EE education did you ever learn the derivation of fundamental electrical engineering units????? What do you work on so I can stay far far away from it?

Um yes there are. The meter is pretty fundamental in a lot of electrical engineering units. How are you an electrical engineer and don't know the base units for volts involves the meter when talking SI units???

The only non-arbitrary units are those derived from Planck units.

Fahrenheit is the only imperial unit that makes sense, and only for a human comfort standpoint (which is what is thought of when considering temperature the vast majority of the time). Below 40s = fucking ice 40s = really cold 50s = cold 60s = cool 70s = nice 80s = warm 90s = hot 100s...

Blaster Master

"Open current voltage" This kid doesn't know what he's doing...

"Grenades" Someone's gotta jump on 'em for the good of the rest of the platoon...

People act like Spacex hasn't received hundreds of millions from govt to develop their technology, just like all the other contractors from decades past. Contract structure may be different (milestone payments vs up front development costs), but they are getting mega bucks from govt. On...

Quick, someone tell all the other rocket companies the world over that have been doing it for decades that some random South African figured out what they couldn't with decades of development and billions of dollars spent. Oh wait, they haven't figured out shit yet. Call me when they add...

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner. The extra fuel required for the delta-V needed to turn around a first stage that's heading down range away from the launch site at many thousands of mph, then have it do a powered decent like that would make it prohibitively heavy, or make it's payload...

Their uncle in Maryland upon hearing of the death of the older one, "Good. He got what he deserved." Fucking hardcore...

Ancient Warrior

How much do shrinks charge for this service? I feel like I am missing out on some coin. FML.

I clicked on this thread hoping for an awesome schadenfreude adventure, and it turned out to be meh. FML.

Also keep in mind even though individual intercept tests fail, we aren't likely to send only one interceptor at a target...

History of launches of one phase (midcourse) of missile defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-...course_Defense There's also boost phase and terminal phase interceptors.

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Germans did it already on an adult. Patient had a bone marrow transplant for cancer and the doner had a rare genetic mutation that makes their T-cells (I think) resistant to HIV. Some time after the transplant they couldn't find the virus in his blood.

Yes! HAHAHA!

Wow, we aren't over using that meme at all. Nope, not in the least...

This is the start of something special...

You see the Food, Inc. documentary? If not you should. It talks about how the US food industry has coalesced around 3 ingredients not found in any real abundance in nature: Salt, Fat, and Sugar. High blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. Discuss.

Then post something more interesting to talk about, you whiney bitch.

No I did not, touch?. If you run the integral of the plane's velocity and show me where it starts to generate lift I'll re-run my analysis...

Math in a science thread, fuckin hell...

I said if it is moving backwards, not necessarily at the speed of the treadmill. The wheel speed is key because that is what is contributing the rolling resistance force. But let's take your new example. Moving backwards at the treadmill speed, turn on the engine, wheel speed starts at 0...

Your tire pressure is wrong, you have to convert it to bar, not psi. And you first have to solve for c using the F=cW formula. Where F is thrust, and W is weight. You're stuck on thinking c doesn't change, and that formula shows that it does. It is a function of tire pressure and velocity.

It's different for every plane, as the weights and thrusts are different. The weight and thrust I used are in the post Tuco shared.