Fri 18 Mar, 2005 07:06 am - Gotcha. Cheers. Like the 'how long will a piece of chocolate last if you eat half every day' gag.
The only problem will be in the measurement of the time. (view)
Fri 18 Mar, 2005 05:50 am - The black stone obsidian (arrow heads, hand axes etc) is described as volcanic glass. Also the nasty little sharp bits in pyroclastic flows (Mt St Helens) are described as glass. The geologists... (view)
Fri 18 Mar, 2005 02:02 am - Re: fastest 100 metres
Craven. Would you mind explaining that a little more? I still don't see how you could break the record (shorten the time taken to run the race) without approaching... (view)
Thu 17 Mar, 2005 05:07 am - Where am I going wrong in thinking that unless I accept that the 100 metres record will NEVER EVER be broken again that it will, someday, be run in nearly no time at all? (view)
Tue 15 Mar, 2005 10:29 am - Numbers from
http://paulburney.com/thoughts/caesars_breath.html
and
http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir2/breath.html
and
http://www.hk-phy.org/articles/caesar/caesar_e.html
and... (view)
Tue 15 Mar, 2005 07:43 am - Excellent. Thank you. As I suspected. When you say 'during his death' and using the number 5 can we say that we are breathing in one molecule from any one of his last 5 breaths?... (view)
Tue 15 Mar, 2005 06:42 am - engineer. The number of molecules in the atmosphere is put at 10^44. That is the scary number.
You would need a duck AND some wood, connected to a tree (the wood, not the duck). (view)
Mon 14 Mar, 2005 02:27 pm - That was great in that I must really print it out and get a pencil to draw some pictures. I'm not convinced about the 'if molecules are taken out of the system they will be going back... (view)
Sat 12 Mar, 2005 07:34 am - Thanks for that farmerman. From what you have suggested it seems that as time goes on there is less and less chance of breathing one of His molecules in again as they are increasingly being taken... (view)
