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regarding details of seashells island —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.80.203 ( talk) 00:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
One of my father's cellphone battery seems to be bloated. It looked like a bag of potato chips rather than a sleek rectangular battery. Anyways, I threw it away just in case it would explode or something. Anyways, what caused its bloating and what could have happened if we have left it inside the phone. There was no marking in the battery itself, just 3.7 V and the company's name.-- 121.54.2.188 ( talk) 01:09, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Please give me a recent/updated reference. 123.3.110.165 ( talk) 12:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I just want to know on the one side govt of rajasthan want to improve its education status on the other hand some universities who have announced distance learning programme like M.A education and they have written in their prospectus that its a 2 years degree programme which is equivalent to M.ED course of rajasthan university then why IN 2010 B.ED colleges are not taking the candidates who have dome M.A in education from VMOU kota as a faculty? whats the reason we feel govt. has cheated us because they must know distance learning is for those who are already in job and want to get higher education in that condition they must get the eligibility criteria similar to m.ed regular course. just clear it or tell the sggestion i'm a highly qualified girl and as i felt there is no use of education in rajsthan . now please answer or raise my voice. please help me i'm a girl and i need a good job. i feel i have spoiled my 2 years honestly is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.240.218 ( talk) 14:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
In the UK i regularly buy drinks from local corner stores, often, for instance today I have a lucozade, and on the side it says NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL RESALE. Does any one ever get prosecuted for this. Is it a law of some sort or just drinks companies trying to make more money? and any other info. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 ( talk) 15:03, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions about a digital converter box. First is whether or not the goverment still offers coupons for purchasing a new box. Second and most importantly, without having any kind of cable service, can a digital converter box pick up any channels? (NBC, CBS, PBS, etc.) Thank you in advance. -- 67.134.239.205 ( talk) 15:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
According to the government's website the voucher program is over, so at this point you will have to pay full-price for a converter box. The converter box, when used with a regular antenna, will convert any over-the-air channels you could previously pick up. The main website has a well-written FAQ section to answer other questions, too. -- McDoobAU93 ( talk) 15:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
My understanding (will try find a reference) is that at the moment the 'digital' signal cannot be broadcast full-power whilst the analogue signals are still being sent out, once they turn these off (region by region) they'll be able to boost the digital signal output and everyone within the area should (ignoring personalising factors) receive a better signal. I agree though, digital noise is a different kind of annoying to analogue - though how much of that is just getting used to it i'm not sure. 21:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I have always, for the past 20 years or so listened to the radio while I sleep. Radio in the Uk has changed to digital. Or mine has at least. Now rather than getting crystal clearreception, I get a garbled sound, this fades out to clarity and back again to garbled, it sounds almost like they are half underwater. why is this, is there something I can do to fix it? I thought that the swicth to digital was supposed to give the consumer better reception, or am I mistaken? Does anyone else experience this. Will I have a similar problem when I change my TV to digital. Further more, I have a freeview box, and every 2 weeks or so I need to switch it off at the back and on again as the names and times of the programs are not displayed, is this a common problem? 1 of my friends has the same issue. My main concern is my radio though, BBC worldservice is just not the same underwater. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 ( talk) 16:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Fixed indenting - shantavira, you do not need to re-indent comments above yours. Or perhaps it was a system problem -- 203.202.43.53 ( talk) 04:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I found with a DAB radio that if you move the antenna away from the wall or other solid object it can stop the weird gargling noise you sometimes get. From my experiences DAB digital radio is tons better in sound quality that FM. Chevymontecarlo. 06:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Male circumcision is illegal in Germany with exception for "hygienic, religious or aesthetic reasons". [6] Presumably the influx of Muslim immigrants after World War II will have increased non-Jewish circumcision, but I guess that wasn't what you meant. Gabbe ( talk) 23:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
It seems this law would be completely unenforceable due to the "aesthetic" part. Beach drifter ( talk) 21:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I just want to point out that the page referenced by Gabbe actually says something completely different, rough translation: "Someone who performs without medical indication -- but for hygienic, religious or aesthetic reasons instead -- a circumcision on an underaged boy, commits battery (don't know if that is the correct legal word) according to §225 of the penal code." I can't vouch for the validity of this legal opinion. 93.129.103.164 ( talk) 09:05, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
House Crow and Asian Koel Combination…
A Live Case Study / Analysis?
It’s a long mail and I request your patience to go through this, because it’s important.
We have a live case, where a pair of House Crows built their nest on the branches of the mango tree in our backyard.
First pair of House Crow (House Crow I) had built their nest some time during November 2009. There were four eggs but only one egg hatched in December 2009. I have the videos covering that event, which I have uploaded on my channel “GeorgeCMaliakal” on YouTube with title ‘House Crow I – Mystery of Vanishing Eggs Part I and Part II’
Now, another pair of House Crows (We call them as House Crow II) had built their new nest on a different branch of the same mango tree in our backyard sometime during January 2010 and laid eggs sometime during first week of December 2010. there were three eggs of which one was bigger and the other two comparatively smaller but of the same size.
Because of the difficult location of the nest, we could cover the event by using a remote camera fixed at the tip of a 30 feet long pole and the event monitored with the help of it’s base unit connected to our TV monitor screen. And the live movements covered by the camera were recorded from the TV monitor using a HD handy cam fixed on to a tripod placed in front of the TV monitor.
Since the total distance between the remote camera and the base unit/ TV monitor was about 50 feet and due to the limitations of the camera we used, we could get only black n white signals and that too without audio.
However, we had also tried to cover the event in colour by using a digital camera placed at the tip of this log pole. But it had its own limitations of memory and battery life. So finally we had to resort to using remote camera and covered the live action from February 14, 2010 for over FORTY days. Even now we are covering whenever they visit the mango tree.
It is worthwhile mentioning the volume of videos taken and the time we spent observing the live events, about 250 edited files, amounting to about 55 GB memory taken over a period of about 40 days, from 7 am to 7 pm. Hope you can very well understand the effort that has gone into this.
Brief summery of events covered so far include,
• Nest with eggs lying • House crow incubating the eggs • Two small eggs hatched and the big egg found missing after a few days. • Apparently, the House Crows found not disturbed by the presence of remote camera and this gave them the freedom of action. • The mother crow used to incubate the nestlings very often. • And the parent crows found visiting the nest very often and found taking care of the nestlings. • Taking something from the nestling’s throat, later feeding them, cleaning them and cleaning the nest were all routine actions in the following days. • As the nestling grew, we noticed some white spots on the body and the wings of the nestlings. • We waited and after a few more days after searching the details from relevant sites from the internet we concluded that the nestlings were of Asian Koel and that too, one was male and the other was female. • We got excited. Though there is a saying ‘Asian Koels are brood parasites’ it was now confirmed and we were witnessing the events live. • As days passed, the nestlings grew bigger in size, became more active. • We were now anxiously watching as to ‘what will happen next?’ • We wonder, how a bird can count on number of days and decide when to fledge the nestlings away? Especially in this case where there are nestlings of Asian Koel’s only, in which case the fledging away period is comparatively less than of House Crow. • The bird’s calls – The nestlings haven’t heard anything from their parents and what they hear is the calls of House Crow’s. • The nestlings started moving out of their nest and began jumping on the branches near by. • Now we started covering their movements from below as that was the only way possible. • It is confirmed from their appearance that one is male and the other a female koel. • On the 29th day after hatching, they fledged away. Again for another few days, the young male Koel seen spending the night on the branches near the nest where as the young female Koel might have spent the night somewhere else. • For a couple of day we missed their presence on the mango tree. We thought they have now gone for ever. • But to our surprise, the young Koels, both male and female, now come and spent sometime on the branches near their nest and fly on the branches of the mango tree. • All these days we have seen, in a way, their foster parents, keep a very close watch on their movements, feed them and follow them wherever they go. • Whenever I come out to cover them in the video. The parent crows make their loud calls and try to dissuade me. • The parents are now busy teaching the young Koels ‘how to make calls? And we find the young ones quite confused. • At times we hear the young Koels making some short calls like that of the Koel’s, we presume.
The questions that are haunting us today are:
• What next? • How long will the foster parents continue their control over these Young Koels? • Where are the parents of these young Koels? • Or are these young Koels orphans? • Who will accept them? The crow community or the Koel community? Or will they be accepted by any of these two community? Then what? • What is the nature’s rule?
Does any one any answers to these?
So far I could find only very limited information from various websites.
I am willing to help and contribute enough materials supporting the above facts.
After all, anybody having had a chance of similar nature, will definitely think of making more information of this nature for public sharing.
Awaiting an early response,
Maj. George Maliakal (Retd.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by George C Maliakal ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
How come there are no articles about four wheelers or four wheeler parts? W0W 1'm Sm4RT ( talk) 18:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
What about
4x4s? There's loads of articles on them...
Chevymontecarlo.
06:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
My mother refused to allow me to buy expensive batteries for my Wii Remotes. As a result, the cheap batteries leaked. One remote now works fine (though it was a close call, and the metal bits still have a slight rust coating) but the other one is unusable.
Is there any way to fix it? And will it be worth my time? Vimescarrot ( talk) 19:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I would say in future if you were going to store the Wii remotes for a while take the batteries out and store them somewhere else. Chevymontecarlo. 06:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
The above mileages per gallon (UK) are given by Suzuki as the Urban - Extra Urban, and combined mileages per gallon of the 1600cc 2 wheel drive SX4 XZ4 (manual transmission)(Petrol engine)(latest 2010 model). I have just bought that car and love it. But having now driven it for 1 month from new, and having driven it locally, and also on the open motorway for several hundreds of miles, without ever having experienced any heavy driving conditions, and having now totalled 850 miles, my combined petrol consumption is sitting at 39.4 miles per gallon. No heavy driving, no racing, only 1 or at most 2 people in the cab, no heavy luggage or shopping, and no labouring in the wrong gear. So where am I going wrong I wonder. Oh, I am well pleased to be getting nearly 40 miles per gallon in a solid 1600 cc car, but how do car manufacturers calculate their published fuel economies? I understand that my query is not in isolation amongst new car owners. Thanks. 92.30.75.57 ( talk) 19:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
My understand is that new-cars take some time to 'bed in' in terms of their engines - perhaps it's not running as efficiently at present as it will be once it has a couple of thousand on the clock? The above about coasting makes sense - similarly you say you've done 850 miles in various conditions but how many journeys have you made? Again my understanding is that a car will get lower mpg in short-burst use (e.g. 20 x 5 miles drives to the shop) compared to in longer drives (e.g. 5 x 20 mile drives to the shop) as the engine needs to 'warm up' to run efficiently. Also what proportion of your 850 miles are in each of the 'urban' 'extra urban' bands (or what you expect?). That said i've found my car to be mostly (ball park) exactly what the manufacturer claimed it to be, and there was also a Top Gear episode where they did a big drive test with a Volkswagen Golf (or Polo?) and found it to be almost exactly what the manufacturers claimed (driving in an idealised way) but they also found it lost very little just driving it 'normally' too. ny156uk ( talk) 21:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
How many UAV does the US military operate? Googlemeister ( talk) 20:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Is there any ultrasoft material which can safely land me after a jump from any arbitrary tall building up till Burj Dubai? 213.154.8.70 ( talk) 21:30, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
If you can find The Worst-Case Scenario books, one of them (I think the first one) talks about how to maximize your chance of survival from a long fall. You'd have to look for it, but I think it recommends trying to land on your back, on something that will help distribute your momentum (i.e. "break your fall"), even cardboard boxes. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Imagine trying land in a target as small as a dumpster from hundreds or thousands of metres :-) Astronaut ( talk) 16:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
how and who determined the numbers to be used for the current procedure terminology manuals used in physician offices and hospitals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.3.97.186 ( talk) 22:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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regarding details of seashells island —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.80.203 ( talk) 00:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
One of my father's cellphone battery seems to be bloated. It looked like a bag of potato chips rather than a sleek rectangular battery. Anyways, I threw it away just in case it would explode or something. Anyways, what caused its bloating and what could have happened if we have left it inside the phone. There was no marking in the battery itself, just 3.7 V and the company's name.-- 121.54.2.188 ( talk) 01:09, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Please give me a recent/updated reference. 123.3.110.165 ( talk) 12:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I just want to know on the one side govt of rajasthan want to improve its education status on the other hand some universities who have announced distance learning programme like M.A education and they have written in their prospectus that its a 2 years degree programme which is equivalent to M.ED course of rajasthan university then why IN 2010 B.ED colleges are not taking the candidates who have dome M.A in education from VMOU kota as a faculty? whats the reason we feel govt. has cheated us because they must know distance learning is for those who are already in job and want to get higher education in that condition they must get the eligibility criteria similar to m.ed regular course. just clear it or tell the sggestion i'm a highly qualified girl and as i felt there is no use of education in rajsthan . now please answer or raise my voice. please help me i'm a girl and i need a good job. i feel i have spoiled my 2 years honestly is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.240.218 ( talk) 14:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
In the UK i regularly buy drinks from local corner stores, often, for instance today I have a lucozade, and on the side it says NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL RESALE. Does any one ever get prosecuted for this. Is it a law of some sort or just drinks companies trying to make more money? and any other info. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 ( talk) 15:03, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions about a digital converter box. First is whether or not the goverment still offers coupons for purchasing a new box. Second and most importantly, without having any kind of cable service, can a digital converter box pick up any channels? (NBC, CBS, PBS, etc.) Thank you in advance. -- 67.134.239.205 ( talk) 15:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
According to the government's website the voucher program is over, so at this point you will have to pay full-price for a converter box. The converter box, when used with a regular antenna, will convert any over-the-air channels you could previously pick up. The main website has a well-written FAQ section to answer other questions, too. -- McDoobAU93 ( talk) 15:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
My understanding (will try find a reference) is that at the moment the 'digital' signal cannot be broadcast full-power whilst the analogue signals are still being sent out, once they turn these off (region by region) they'll be able to boost the digital signal output and everyone within the area should (ignoring personalising factors) receive a better signal. I agree though, digital noise is a different kind of annoying to analogue - though how much of that is just getting used to it i'm not sure. 21:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I have always, for the past 20 years or so listened to the radio while I sleep. Radio in the Uk has changed to digital. Or mine has at least. Now rather than getting crystal clearreception, I get a garbled sound, this fades out to clarity and back again to garbled, it sounds almost like they are half underwater. why is this, is there something I can do to fix it? I thought that the swicth to digital was supposed to give the consumer better reception, or am I mistaken? Does anyone else experience this. Will I have a similar problem when I change my TV to digital. Further more, I have a freeview box, and every 2 weeks or so I need to switch it off at the back and on again as the names and times of the programs are not displayed, is this a common problem? 1 of my friends has the same issue. My main concern is my radio though, BBC worldservice is just not the same underwater. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 ( talk) 16:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Fixed indenting - shantavira, you do not need to re-indent comments above yours. Or perhaps it was a system problem -- 203.202.43.53 ( talk) 04:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I found with a DAB radio that if you move the antenna away from the wall or other solid object it can stop the weird gargling noise you sometimes get. From my experiences DAB digital radio is tons better in sound quality that FM. Chevymontecarlo. 06:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Male circumcision is illegal in Germany with exception for "hygienic, religious or aesthetic reasons". [6] Presumably the influx of Muslim immigrants after World War II will have increased non-Jewish circumcision, but I guess that wasn't what you meant. Gabbe ( talk) 23:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
It seems this law would be completely unenforceable due to the "aesthetic" part. Beach drifter ( talk) 21:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I just want to point out that the page referenced by Gabbe actually says something completely different, rough translation: "Someone who performs without medical indication -- but for hygienic, religious or aesthetic reasons instead -- a circumcision on an underaged boy, commits battery (don't know if that is the correct legal word) according to §225 of the penal code." I can't vouch for the validity of this legal opinion. 93.129.103.164 ( talk) 09:05, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
House Crow and Asian Koel Combination…
A Live Case Study / Analysis?
It’s a long mail and I request your patience to go through this, because it’s important.
We have a live case, where a pair of House Crows built their nest on the branches of the mango tree in our backyard.
First pair of House Crow (House Crow I) had built their nest some time during November 2009. There were four eggs but only one egg hatched in December 2009. I have the videos covering that event, which I have uploaded on my channel “GeorgeCMaliakal” on YouTube with title ‘House Crow I – Mystery of Vanishing Eggs Part I and Part II’
Now, another pair of House Crows (We call them as House Crow II) had built their new nest on a different branch of the same mango tree in our backyard sometime during January 2010 and laid eggs sometime during first week of December 2010. there were three eggs of which one was bigger and the other two comparatively smaller but of the same size.
Because of the difficult location of the nest, we could cover the event by using a remote camera fixed at the tip of a 30 feet long pole and the event monitored with the help of it’s base unit connected to our TV monitor screen. And the live movements covered by the camera were recorded from the TV monitor using a HD handy cam fixed on to a tripod placed in front of the TV monitor.
Since the total distance between the remote camera and the base unit/ TV monitor was about 50 feet and due to the limitations of the camera we used, we could get only black n white signals and that too without audio.
However, we had also tried to cover the event in colour by using a digital camera placed at the tip of this log pole. But it had its own limitations of memory and battery life. So finally we had to resort to using remote camera and covered the live action from February 14, 2010 for over FORTY days. Even now we are covering whenever they visit the mango tree.
It is worthwhile mentioning the volume of videos taken and the time we spent observing the live events, about 250 edited files, amounting to about 55 GB memory taken over a period of about 40 days, from 7 am to 7 pm. Hope you can very well understand the effort that has gone into this.
Brief summery of events covered so far include,
• Nest with eggs lying • House crow incubating the eggs • Two small eggs hatched and the big egg found missing after a few days. • Apparently, the House Crows found not disturbed by the presence of remote camera and this gave them the freedom of action. • The mother crow used to incubate the nestlings very often. • And the parent crows found visiting the nest very often and found taking care of the nestlings. • Taking something from the nestling’s throat, later feeding them, cleaning them and cleaning the nest were all routine actions in the following days. • As the nestling grew, we noticed some white spots on the body and the wings of the nestlings. • We waited and after a few more days after searching the details from relevant sites from the internet we concluded that the nestlings were of Asian Koel and that too, one was male and the other was female. • We got excited. Though there is a saying ‘Asian Koels are brood parasites’ it was now confirmed and we were witnessing the events live. • As days passed, the nestlings grew bigger in size, became more active. • We were now anxiously watching as to ‘what will happen next?’ • We wonder, how a bird can count on number of days and decide when to fledge the nestlings away? Especially in this case where there are nestlings of Asian Koel’s only, in which case the fledging away period is comparatively less than of House Crow. • The bird’s calls – The nestlings haven’t heard anything from their parents and what they hear is the calls of House Crow’s. • The nestlings started moving out of their nest and began jumping on the branches near by. • Now we started covering their movements from below as that was the only way possible. • It is confirmed from their appearance that one is male and the other a female koel. • On the 29th day after hatching, they fledged away. Again for another few days, the young male Koel seen spending the night on the branches near the nest where as the young female Koel might have spent the night somewhere else. • For a couple of day we missed their presence on the mango tree. We thought they have now gone for ever. • But to our surprise, the young Koels, both male and female, now come and spent sometime on the branches near their nest and fly on the branches of the mango tree. • All these days we have seen, in a way, their foster parents, keep a very close watch on their movements, feed them and follow them wherever they go. • Whenever I come out to cover them in the video. The parent crows make their loud calls and try to dissuade me. • The parents are now busy teaching the young Koels ‘how to make calls? And we find the young ones quite confused. • At times we hear the young Koels making some short calls like that of the Koel’s, we presume.
The questions that are haunting us today are:
• What next? • How long will the foster parents continue their control over these Young Koels? • Where are the parents of these young Koels? • Or are these young Koels orphans? • Who will accept them? The crow community or the Koel community? Or will they be accepted by any of these two community? Then what? • What is the nature’s rule?
Does any one any answers to these?
So far I could find only very limited information from various websites.
I am willing to help and contribute enough materials supporting the above facts.
After all, anybody having had a chance of similar nature, will definitely think of making more information of this nature for public sharing.
Awaiting an early response,
Maj. George Maliakal (Retd.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by George C Maliakal ( talk • contribs) 18:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
How come there are no articles about four wheelers or four wheeler parts? W0W 1'm Sm4RT ( talk) 18:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
What about
4x4s? There's loads of articles on them...
Chevymontecarlo.
06:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
My mother refused to allow me to buy expensive batteries for my Wii Remotes. As a result, the cheap batteries leaked. One remote now works fine (though it was a close call, and the metal bits still have a slight rust coating) but the other one is unusable.
Is there any way to fix it? And will it be worth my time? Vimescarrot ( talk) 19:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I would say in future if you were going to store the Wii remotes for a while take the batteries out and store them somewhere else. Chevymontecarlo. 06:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
The above mileages per gallon (UK) are given by Suzuki as the Urban - Extra Urban, and combined mileages per gallon of the 1600cc 2 wheel drive SX4 XZ4 (manual transmission)(Petrol engine)(latest 2010 model). I have just bought that car and love it. But having now driven it for 1 month from new, and having driven it locally, and also on the open motorway for several hundreds of miles, without ever having experienced any heavy driving conditions, and having now totalled 850 miles, my combined petrol consumption is sitting at 39.4 miles per gallon. No heavy driving, no racing, only 1 or at most 2 people in the cab, no heavy luggage or shopping, and no labouring in the wrong gear. So where am I going wrong I wonder. Oh, I am well pleased to be getting nearly 40 miles per gallon in a solid 1600 cc car, but how do car manufacturers calculate their published fuel economies? I understand that my query is not in isolation amongst new car owners. Thanks. 92.30.75.57 ( talk) 19:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
My understand is that new-cars take some time to 'bed in' in terms of their engines - perhaps it's not running as efficiently at present as it will be once it has a couple of thousand on the clock? The above about coasting makes sense - similarly you say you've done 850 miles in various conditions but how many journeys have you made? Again my understanding is that a car will get lower mpg in short-burst use (e.g. 20 x 5 miles drives to the shop) compared to in longer drives (e.g. 5 x 20 mile drives to the shop) as the engine needs to 'warm up' to run efficiently. Also what proportion of your 850 miles are in each of the 'urban' 'extra urban' bands (or what you expect?). That said i've found my car to be mostly (ball park) exactly what the manufacturer claimed it to be, and there was also a Top Gear episode where they did a big drive test with a Volkswagen Golf (or Polo?) and found it to be almost exactly what the manufacturers claimed (driving in an idealised way) but they also found it lost very little just driving it 'normally' too. ny156uk ( talk) 21:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
How many UAV does the US military operate? Googlemeister ( talk) 20:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Is there any ultrasoft material which can safely land me after a jump from any arbitrary tall building up till Burj Dubai? 213.154.8.70 ( talk) 21:30, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
If you can find The Worst-Case Scenario books, one of them (I think the first one) talks about how to maximize your chance of survival from a long fall. You'd have to look for it, but I think it recommends trying to land on your back, on something that will help distribute your momentum (i.e. "break your fall"), even cardboard boxes. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Imagine trying land in a target as small as a dumpster from hundreds or thousands of metres :-) Astronaut ( talk) 16:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
how and who determined the numbers to be used for the current procedure terminology manuals used in physician offices and hospitals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.3.97.186 ( talk) 22:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)