Other - Science - March 2007

A watch that I've had for over a year now, one day ceased to function. Like any normal human being, you tap on the cover a few times with your finger, and if that doesn't work, we tend to take it off and bang it against a harder surface in hopes that it will start ticking again. Well, when that doesn't work we deduce that it must be the battery, so we get a new one.

Fine, now the watch starts working again, and life for us is all back to normal, birds start singing, the sun shines, flowers bloom, while an orchestra plays in the background, you know, you get that whole Disneyland kinda feeling going on.

At any rate, not long after I started my infinite journey down the road up ahead of me, into the backdrop of an oversized Sun, my watch stopped working again. I just couldn't believe it, a brand new battery and the watch stopped ticking. So, I once again, went through the routine taps and bangs, still nothing.

However, once the watch is off my hand, it works again???

Why is that?

2007-03-31 20:22:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If anyone saw this tonight, can anyone give me a link to the story or guy that did the crazy experiment with the chimp and the game. It was where the chimp learned to use just its mind to control the dot...

2007-03-31 18:37:03 · 2 answers · asked by Tommy 1

2007-03-31 17:43:56 · 2 answers · asked by Amanda W 1

Is there any type of element/material that will withstand the heat and pressure of a nuclear bomb? Like any type of alloy?

2007-03-31 17:21:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it something like radio signals propagating through gravity?

2007-03-31 16:26:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

So, is there such a thing as a perfect circle?
Can a computer generate, or a human hand draw, a perfect circle?
Do they appear in nature?
Or is a perfect circle just a myth of the mind?
A friend and I were discussing it today and have not been able to answer it.
DO IT FOR US!

2007-03-31 15:37:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-31 12:30:08 · 3 answers · asked by jach729 2

I think "apple" is just a symbolic object for Newton to provide his theory against the church.You know apple is about sin ,Adam and Eve ,hell...Apple=God is death ;science is our new God.I think that Newton was so genius ,SO HE USED APPLE iT cAN BE orANGe , TOO.

2007-03-31 11:40:42 · 5 answers · asked by arsesra6 1

Would a pandemic that kills off millions of people like the 1918 Spanish flu, would our emissions drop drastically as a result, or would the impact on the developed world, which is the bigger polluter, be too little to make a difference?

In other words, would poor carless peasants in far off lands die at a greater rate than people in polluting nations?

2007-03-31 09:51:06 · 3 answers · asked by Luis 6

i was told i shouldn't recharge my phone until there's only one or two bars left of power as it damages the battery. Is this true and if so, why is it true.?

2007-03-31 08:40:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

technically.....?

2007-03-31 06:26:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-31 06:13:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is sort of like an idea for a plasma gun.
you get a paintball gun, instead of co2, you refill the canister with a dense inert gas like xenon.
You get a high voltage source, like a car ignition coil or flyback transformer (if you dont know what these are, google and youll find answers immediately). Basically, these things take a small voltage (7-12volts) and output it at one terminal, using the ground as the other. The output is usually several hundred thousand volts, enough to arc over terminals and other metal objects.
At the tip of the barrel fit a end of a wire connecting to the transformer. Do not let the wire touch the barrel itself, just close to it.
My hypothesis is that when the xenon has rushes out of the barrel, the high electric output will excite the xenon into plasma, and the ouwards force will carry the plasma over some distance.

2007-03-31 05:22:37 · 4 answers · asked by some guy 1

2007-03-31 03:44:27 · 2 answers · asked by Youngboss 3

Why do I keep getting shocked everytime I close my car door (on the outside)? I am going crazy.

2007-03-31 03:18:50 · 8 answers · asked by HeartOfGlass 4

is it possible to create bubbles in a container that contains liquid only(i.e. no air) when u shake it?
thanks

2007-03-31 02:43:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am 10 and i want to be a science i have all As in anythings scenice i am going to collage after high school and i will stay there for 8 years people copy off me im so good at science and i good grades in math to i know mostly about evevrything related to science do you think im good enofe to be a scientist

2007-03-31 02:25:23 · 6 answers · asked by boogyht911 2

...where it got you out of trouble or fixed something that you needed working at that moment? One that you're so proud of, that you actually keep it in your arsenal of "interesting tales about myself."

2007-03-31 00:31:42 · 2 answers · asked by cpc26ca 1

I need to find out about 3 things:
-combined cycle gas turbine power station using fossil fuels
-a combined heat and power station using fossil fuels
a nuclear power station

I need to write a letter to a local mp (homework), and persuade him/her to change to one of these power stations - I have to choose the one I think is best. I've researched the top two and they seem quite similar - in efficiency (which I think what this letter is meant to focus on). Nuclear I've only heard a bit about it - but there are some drawbacks - is it dangerous - i.e. radiation? Please can you not make your answers too complicated, i.e. laods of atomic structure things etc... Which would you say is most efficient and releases the least amount of emissions?

2007-03-30 20:51:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that momentum is the mass x velocity of an object.
I only know how to calculate like a machine but I still don't know WHAT the term 'momentum' exactly is, just as I know force and energy. And when I asked my teacher he says that at my level we only need to know how to calculate so he refuses to go into the details!!!! Can someone please kindly explain the term 'momentum' to me? Thanks a lot!

2007-03-30 17:07:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-30 16:45:09 · 14 answers · asked by Better things to do 2

(the razor blades are stailess steel and carbon steel)

After 5 years in freezer....
would it have rusted? cracked? disintergrated? deteriorated beyond use? OR
would it still be in good useable condition?
Thank you for your answer.

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2007-03-30 16:40:36 · 9 answers · asked by Ellan M 3

2007-03-30 15:13:53 · 9 answers · asked by Justin M 1

2007-03-30 14:24:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Homo sapiens, our upright-walking species, first evolved in Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. My father is curious about how humans came to diverge into different skin colors once these humans spread out over onto the rest of the world, and how long did it take? Did homo sapiens start off black?

2007-03-30 14:00:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-30 12:57:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need to know if there is a device for measuring gas emissions from something. I need it to tell me the different gases in the mixture and its percentage, it needs to pick up CO2 gas. The gas I wish to measure is the gas that comes from a car exhaust, its for a project.

2007-03-30 08:37:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-30 07:22:20 · 4 answers · asked by jorey b 1

Pretend you won a National Geographic Society contest (or whatever!) and you got the chance to explore one place that relatively few people have had a chance to see.

Would you choose the chance to explore 1,000's of feet into the depths of the ocean in a submersible or would you want to visit the interior of the tropical rain forest as part of a research expedition?

Naturally, I also would like to know why. LOL

2007-03-30 05:58:15 · 33 answers · asked by apocalypso blues 5

What do you think about this mathematicians claims that mathematics and science are meaningless

you can download the theories free from

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/gamahucher_press_catalogue.htm

2007-03-30 05:24:52 · 6 answers · asked by ANN 1