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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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 Levitating Mice with Electromagnets
I found this fascinating.
Mice Levitated in Lab
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... tatedinlab
I didn't even know that levitating water with electromagnets was possible. That's freakin' cool as hell. And apparently there were no adverse reactions from the strong magnetic field.
I would love to have a levitation room that could levitate my ass.  Imagine the sex!
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:54 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7737 Location: Centre of the sun
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Hehe, yeah i didnt think you could do that shit either.
Mmm, sex in space would be kinda crap. You dont have much to lean up against. It would just be a rather boring affair of hugging and holding on. Well, whatever floats your boat...
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:45 pm |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Derf just lacks the thrusting power of someone like Satis and me. Our powerful loins are not subject to the laws of gravity, they penetrate them with one mighty thrust. BANG!!
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:53 pm |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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Only Ox could cojure up such a sentence, i'm still laughing..
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:01 pm |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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heh....I think sex would be fun as hell... you could do all kinds of positions that would normally be impossible. Also all that thrusting would sending you careening all around the room, too, what with the laws of conservation of energy and all. i think it'd be fun as hell... and if it were really, really expensive, that's how you could make money off of it. Go to Vegas, open a legal brothel and sell the 'presidential levitation room' along with a staff trained to fully take advantage of microgravity. You could make a killing.
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Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:43 am |
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Rinox
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Vegas? I could install it right in my yard  Hell, Arathorn could probably open a brothel open as part of a child daycare centre, knowing Dutch open-mindedness a bit.
And I agree, it's really cool stuff (the levitating more than the sex but you know)! I knew it was a theoretical possibility, but not that they could already pull stuff like this.
Satis, you should really check out Kaku's"Physics of the Impossible". It deals exactly with stuff like this, you'll love it. Well-written, clear and exciting.
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Impossibl ... 495&sr=1-1
(and btw, Kaku isn't some third-rate quack. He's one of the most respected theoretical physicists in the world)
We must sound like such amateurs compared to J tho when it comes to physics. 
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:16 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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How so? J didn't secretly become a physics professor when I wasn't looking, did he?
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:12 am |
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Rinox
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He's got a master's degree in physics iirc. Pretty bad ass eh? Unfortunately it has even less practical applications than mine.  And that's saying something!
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:30 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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oh, damn, that's cool. Y'know, besides my computer science degree I'm actually thinking I'd like a degree in mathematics, just because math is hard to me. That'd be pretty worthless too.
I also don't understand why a programming degree requires calculus... not just 1 semester, but 3 semesters of it. And linear algebra. And statistics. I've been programming seriously for the web for like 5 years... I use a lot of algebra, and for games I use geometry and trigonometry, but the rest of that crap?
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:40 am |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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Because any degree requires basic knowledge from wide choice of disciplines while actual job requires indepth knowledge of very limited amount of disciplines.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:07 am |
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J
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Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:31 pm Posts: 3343 Location: Belgium
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Correction: I'm not a master in physics, i'm a master in chemistry.
I'm pretty sure that chemistry has a lot less practical applications than physics
I do teach both courses, mainly physics even (but that's probably a matter of time untill the old chemistry teachers retire).
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:38 am |
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Rinox
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Chemistry? That's like physics' little retarded brother!
I'm just kidding, still cool! Couldn't you technically speaking work in a laboratory with that degree? Or is that a different degree.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:31 am |
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J
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Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:31 pm Posts: 3343 Location: Belgium
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The real labrats are mostly 'graduaten', probably bachelors in the new system. But i could work in a laboratory in theory yes.
Are you thinking about starting up a drug lab?
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:56 am |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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Prozac and Viagra beg to differ 
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:29 pm |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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there's a tv show about a high school chemistry teacher that starts cooking up crystal meth.
Anyway, imo Chemistry is cooler, but I did well in Chemistry when I was in high school. I dunno. It's cool regardless.
I still want a levitation chamber.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:32 pm |
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