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I hope you weren`t thinking "dirty" here, but, here`s the question... How big, in aperture, would a ground-based optical telescope have to be to able to 'just' glimpse a man-sized, let`s say, object, on the Moon. Let`s also say that the Moon is at its mean distance, assume 'perfect' optics, 'perfect' observing conditions, object is "lying down" on the Moon`s equator, etc.....I`m guessing around 300 feet of aperture. I think Dawe`s Limit might prove helpful. I don`t need to know HOW to make the calculations,,,as this is certainly NOT homework,,,,just curious. I hope you have fun with this,,,and Thank You. 152.163.100.74 00:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
(:)Boy! Thank you so much,,,,THAT was helpful. I thought this might have been interesting for OTHER readers. Was it easier to answer the "how" rather than give the real answer? Thanks again. 152.163.100.74 00:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
(:::) I hope I did this correctly. I`m just a newbie here. I guess my commas are for extended pauses, as one might do qhile simply talking with someone, a nuance, I guess. I offer total and complete apologies for any confusion. I think I need to go to the help desk to better understand how to ask and reply to information. Again, so sorry. Now,,,how big must that telescope be? 8) All jokes aside. Sorry, forgot to sign, but, really, how big must that telescope be? Dave 152.163.100.74 02:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I didn`t want to use interferometry but, the distance between 2 'lenses' would turn-out to be exactly what the diameter of a single lens would be anyway. As for 2 kms...that sounds WAY too big. Are you sure about that? Did you do any calculations? Here`s a start...Dawes Limit, in arc-seconds, is d/4.5..."d" being in inches of aperture of primary. Moon is approximately 30 minutes of arc. A 6 foot object at the equator is a tiny fraction of an arc-second. Do you need a 2 km-wide primary to resolve that? Dave 152.163.100.74 03:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC) Small correction, and more help....Dawes Limit d/4.6, Moon is approximately 2000 miles in diameter and subtends approximately 30 arc-minutes. Now divide 6 feet into 2000 'miles-worth' of feet, the quotient being THAT fraction of 30 arc-minutes. Plug that into the Dawes Limit equation, and the diameter of the primary should be the answer to my initial question. Now, as per my initial question, "Did you all have fun with that?" Dave 152.163.100.74 04:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Finally, "an" answer, and very close to my initial guess. Thank you very much! Dave 152.163.100.74 05:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for all your replies. Very interesting. Dave 205.188.116.74 15:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
...will the gulls survive? I was just watching them flying around today and musing to myself "you're smart, you're resoruceful, you're self-sufficent, you're adaptable, you've learned to live off us but have not come to rely on us, you still know how to survive, you do what you must in order to live, you just carry on with your life, unconcerned with all the bullshit that's happening below you - as long as you have a full belly, a safe place to sleep and occasional sex, you are content with your life". I started comparing the gulls to us and realized, in a slightly profound moment, that somewhere along the line, we've lost some of the things that they still have - to our detriment. So, when/if the bombs fall - what are the odds that more gulls than humans will make it through to see the daylight again? Sorry if this all sounds a bit off-the-wall, it's quite late here and I sometimes get a bit 'deep' at this time of night. -- Kurt Shaped Box 01:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I would think birds would be particularly susceptible to fallout, since they fly through it. Meat-eaters would also suffer from an accumulation of radioactivity that gets more severe the higher up the food chain you go. So, I would expect gulls in areas of fallout to be wiped out. Gulls in unaffected parts of the world should survive, assuming there isn't a "nuclear winter". StuRat 03:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the concept is in the orthodox theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (it may well be), but I'll just call it a folk medical concept. The concept I'm referring to is 熱氣 ("rè qì" in Pinyin romanization; Literally, 熱="heat" or "hot", 氣="gas"). As best I can describe it, it is a syndrome with (some or all of) these associated symptoms:
The syndrome is often attributed to over-consumption of certain kinds of food (e.g. deep fried foods (especially overcooked or burnt), spicy food), or under-consumption of the antagonistic kinds of food (described as "cooling"). According to (folk?) Chinese medicine, to stay healthy, one should consume food in antagonistic categories in balanced quantities.
Can someone think of one or a small number of body conditions, in physiological terms, that can explain the symptoms associated with 熱氣?
[Edited to add:] 熱氣 is a well-recognized phenomenon in Chinese (folk?) medicine but, as far as I can tell, is not recognized as a syndrome in western medicine. I suspect that the symptoms are not unrelated but manifestations of one (or perhaps a few) underlying conditions, which should be describable/explainable in scientific terms. I'm hoping to find a correct scientific explanation, or at least a testable theory, for the phenomenon. -- 71.246.5.19 04:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
there is another possible model to explain the "heat" phenomena.one example is the eruption of acne, which often is associated with "heat", because the acne is red and is believed to relate to congestion of hot greasy spicy food. physician use diane 35 to treat acne effectively, which is an oral contraceptive pill with significant anti-androgen effect.if androgen is "heat" prone, while oestrogen is having the opposite effect, ie "cold" prone, i wonder could "heat" and "cold" can be explained by ratio or balance of body hormones which have opposing effects. if the total sum of "heat" prone hormones are more than "cold" prone hormones, then the person will manifest an "heat" phenomena externally.another example is hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, too much thyroxine will give the "heat" picture (patient feels hot, thirsty etc) while lacking thyroxine will give a "cold" picture, (cold limbs, low evergy state). other possible explanation is the immune system, the degree of activation of various immune cells and inflammatory chemicals.
is there a way to tell if you have a six pack without removing the fat through excercises such as running but just by doing sit ups?
I would say that a "six pack" means having well defined abdominal muscles which are visible (not obscurred by fat). So, by definition, you don't have a six pack if you can't see it. Your question is something like "How can you tell if an 800 pound woman has a pretty figure under all that fat ?". StuRat 20:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
fine is there a way you can tell that you are ready to start running to show the six pack after lots of sit ups
When I look at the color red do I see the same thing as what other people see when they look at it? Is there a way to know for sure?
The latter has to do with the fact that lightbulbs do not emit all light wavelengths, where as the sun does. Under artificial light, the person's hair is black, and out in the sun the person's hair is brown. The hair can't reflect what isn't there. The former is an interesting point. I'm really not sure what to say about that. I don't know much about the brain itself, so I don't know how to address the initial perception. However, seeing as the experience carries over to everyone, that shows that the brains of healty, "normal" people are similar in many ways. T H L 14:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You see with your brain not yours eyes, your eye recieves information, your brain sorts this into a visual image which you interpret. Therefore I would say that the chances that you see the same thing are extremely slim, but as long as you can tell the difference between colours, light shades etc. it doesnt really matter. Philc T E C I 20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
There have to be some major similarities because we all view the same colors as being complementary. I also think that if people's interpretations of colors were at much variance we wouldn't have the relatively similar perceptions of art which are made up from mixes of many different colors. (There is a bit in Niven's [[[The Mote in God's Eye]] where the humans come across alien painting and find it incredibly unpleasant to look at since their perceptions of colors are so different.) I imagine if people were too off you'd get more of the "I don't see what you see" or "Why is this weird color placed here?" that you get when trying to talk about colors with someone who is colorblind. Without any compelling reason to think that humans have terribly different perceptions of color, I wouldn't assume it; color vision evolved long before humans were around, and while there are no doubt some slight variations in it, I don't see any reason to assume that amongst people there would be fantastically different views of it. I once took a class ages ago with a psychologist who had done a lifetime's worth of work in color vision who basically said the same thing — there is no indication that humans perceive colors with any great difference from one another (except colorblindness, which is a problem with the physical structure of the eye), so there's no good reason to assume there is much of a difference from person to person. -- Fastfission 20:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
How many calories (note lower-case c) does a gram of human fat have? T H L 07:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering (no, the following is not a joke. It is a half-baked idea that would never work) if human fat contains enough energy to be an alternative fuel source. I could have people eat until they are very fat, lipo the fat out, process it, and sell it for fuel. Tons of people would love getting paid to eat all day, and the fuel source would never run dry. T H L 10:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
<--Besides, if food runs out fuel is the least of our worries. T H L 11:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
1 gram of fat is 38 kilojoules of energy. Or 9 Calories (that's BIG CALORIE) or 9000 calories (that's small calories).
Human fat is a terrible fuel source because you have to make it by eating other things. Any time you move up a trophic level in the food chain, about 90% of the energy in the source is wasted. Its much more efficient to use the things we eat as fuel rather than processing them through the human body. pschemp | talk 12:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I did say the idea was half baked and would never work. I was just curious how much energy was in fat so I could compare it to fossil fuel. T H L 14:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Protein and carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram, and fat contains 9 calories per gram. Edison 20:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This page may help too: [1] But regarding your original idea, it's pretty much equivalent to meat farming, except in that case we have the luxury of actually killing the animal. And meat farming is notoriously inefficient. The article environmental vegetarianism has some stats regarding how the efficiency (output per input) of meat is much less than of crops; these measure output in terms of protein rather than calories but you get the idea. Biofuel is a very sensible idea, but you want to use the crops more directly. See also comment from pschemp above. Arbitrary username 12:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Much thanks everybody. I knew the idea would never work, and I wouldn't have the money to finance such an undertaking anyway. It was more of a curiousity than anything else. T H L 22:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
While I am sexually attracted to women, sometimes I have wet dreams about having sex with 'chicks with dicks' (not so much transsexuals but women who have both a penis and a vagina), which usually involve me sucking or playing with cock at some point. I've started looking at dickgirl hentai online and found it sexually arousing. Does this mean that I have a homosexual streak hidden within me somewhere? I'm confused and I'm not sure what to do. -- 84.65.109.37 10:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
How is your sex life? If this question is uncomfortable I understand. Remember, you are anonymous, none of us are going to know who you are. T H L 17:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Don't worry about it, we all have a few skeletons in the closet. StuRat 20:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You are homosexual if you are also a chick with a dick. If you are clearly male or female biologically, then you are having pansexual fantasies. (Not all people are clearly 100% male or female physically).
You can't control your dreams and fantasies or sexual attractions anyway, so you must learn to accept them. They may also change. - THB 08:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I was told once by someone who is usually knowledgable on such things that interest in transexuals who appear as women with penises is predominantly a fantasy of heterosexual males. Not sure why. Dragons flight 08:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I talked to a psychologist about it when I was having them; he said that I was having them because that was something I wanted done to myself. It was interesting. T H L 13:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I found a frog in a creek a few miles inland from the Connecticut shore, and took a picture of it. What kind of frog is it? grendel| khan 11:36, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Everybody knows about absolute zero. But I've been wondering, could there be such a thing as "absolute hot", in which all the particles are moving at c? Would this be a temperature that you could measure in Kelvin? -- The Lazar 15:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Negative temperatures are not an artificial concept; actual physical systems have been observed at negative temperatures for minutes at a time. To answer the original question, the hottest possible temperature is −0 K; it occurs when a system is in its unique highest energy state. But a gas does not have such a state, and there is no relativity involved. Melchoir 19:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
tthere r 8 identical balls each having same charge & energy E ,if they r united to form a sphere.wat is the energy of this new sphere/
I read with great interest here 1.11 "Triple Point of Water", and got to thinking/wondering: What if we were to think of the problem using a single molecule of water, or perhaps better 3, single molecules of water...Can each molecule be in a different state simultaniously, and separately? Can one actually "have" a single frozen molecule of water? I would think that no matter what the temperature/pressure, a single molecule of water would ALWAYS be in the gaseous state. Is this true? 205.188.116.74 17:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know if pornography can cause a decrease in sexual interest, desensitivity to sex, and callousness towards intimacy and sex? I'm a really young guy, and I think porn may have caused some disinterest towards sex and woman when previously I was all about them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Truthish ( talk • contribs)
I think it might raise your expectations to an unobtainable level so that only women who resemble porn stars would excite you: "Geez, I can't even see your ribs your so fat !". StuRat 19:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Pornography does have the potential to do as you are saying. The article is a bit lacking in quality, but have a look at pornography addiction; also sexual addiction. BenC7 01:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Alright, I may seem young and childish, but I'm an old fart and have been around the block a few times. It is temporary, just stop masturbating to the porn for a couple weeks whenever you feel this way, and you'll be fine. T H L 05:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It's not the porn itself, it's your frequent masturbating. Hands off. Or at least this would be my guess; I've never masturbated myself. - THB 08:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
what two genes are in a gene pair??
There could be many Genes found in a pair of jeans (hopefully not all at once), for example, Gene Simmons. :-) StuRat 18:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Identical alleles are found in what type of gene?? Thanks
I am doing a science fair project for my school. The title of my project is: What foods attract ants? I need help on finding an If and Then hypothesis and a problem for my project. The project is very simple. I put differnt kinds of food, in different containers. I study which containers have the most ants around it, how long it takes for the ants to get to the food,and how long the ants will stay there. I know that the ants will probably go to the sugary foods. Bu I still need to write a If and Then hypothesis and a problem. If you could give me a suggestion, or any help with the project I would be very thankfuland very glad. -Sarah Baker
I can think of much better ideas than what food attract ants. How about the relative attraction of fatty food versus fruits and vegetables for obese humans. You offer to pay for 1 days of fatty food or X days of fruits and vegetables. Find the variable X where it is in equilibrium with 1 day of fatty food by interviewing lots of obese people. Find the mean and standard deviation.
Why stop at fruit and vegetables? You can build up a hierarchy of food attractiveness for obese people. 202.168.50.40 01:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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I hope you weren`t thinking "dirty" here, but, here`s the question... How big, in aperture, would a ground-based optical telescope have to be to able to 'just' glimpse a man-sized, let`s say, object, on the Moon. Let`s also say that the Moon is at its mean distance, assume 'perfect' optics, 'perfect' observing conditions, object is "lying down" on the Moon`s equator, etc.....I`m guessing around 300 feet of aperture. I think Dawe`s Limit might prove helpful. I don`t need to know HOW to make the calculations,,,as this is certainly NOT homework,,,,just curious. I hope you have fun with this,,,and Thank You. 152.163.100.74 00:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
(:)Boy! Thank you so much,,,,THAT was helpful. I thought this might have been interesting for OTHER readers. Was it easier to answer the "how" rather than give the real answer? Thanks again. 152.163.100.74 00:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
(:::) I hope I did this correctly. I`m just a newbie here. I guess my commas are for extended pauses, as one might do qhile simply talking with someone, a nuance, I guess. I offer total and complete apologies for any confusion. I think I need to go to the help desk to better understand how to ask and reply to information. Again, so sorry. Now,,,how big must that telescope be? 8) All jokes aside. Sorry, forgot to sign, but, really, how big must that telescope be? Dave 152.163.100.74 02:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I didn`t want to use interferometry but, the distance between 2 'lenses' would turn-out to be exactly what the diameter of a single lens would be anyway. As for 2 kms...that sounds WAY too big. Are you sure about that? Did you do any calculations? Here`s a start...Dawes Limit, in arc-seconds, is d/4.5..."d" being in inches of aperture of primary. Moon is approximately 30 minutes of arc. A 6 foot object at the equator is a tiny fraction of an arc-second. Do you need a 2 km-wide primary to resolve that? Dave 152.163.100.74 03:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC) Small correction, and more help....Dawes Limit d/4.6, Moon is approximately 2000 miles in diameter and subtends approximately 30 arc-minutes. Now divide 6 feet into 2000 'miles-worth' of feet, the quotient being THAT fraction of 30 arc-minutes. Plug that into the Dawes Limit equation, and the diameter of the primary should be the answer to my initial question. Now, as per my initial question, "Did you all have fun with that?" Dave 152.163.100.74 04:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Finally, "an" answer, and very close to my initial guess. Thank you very much! Dave 152.163.100.74 05:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for all your replies. Very interesting. Dave 205.188.116.74 15:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
...will the gulls survive? I was just watching them flying around today and musing to myself "you're smart, you're resoruceful, you're self-sufficent, you're adaptable, you've learned to live off us but have not come to rely on us, you still know how to survive, you do what you must in order to live, you just carry on with your life, unconcerned with all the bullshit that's happening below you - as long as you have a full belly, a safe place to sleep and occasional sex, you are content with your life". I started comparing the gulls to us and realized, in a slightly profound moment, that somewhere along the line, we've lost some of the things that they still have - to our detriment. So, when/if the bombs fall - what are the odds that more gulls than humans will make it through to see the daylight again? Sorry if this all sounds a bit off-the-wall, it's quite late here and I sometimes get a bit 'deep' at this time of night. -- Kurt Shaped Box 01:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I would think birds would be particularly susceptible to fallout, since they fly through it. Meat-eaters would also suffer from an accumulation of radioactivity that gets more severe the higher up the food chain you go. So, I would expect gulls in areas of fallout to be wiped out. Gulls in unaffected parts of the world should survive, assuming there isn't a "nuclear winter". StuRat 03:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the concept is in the orthodox theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (it may well be), but I'll just call it a folk medical concept. The concept I'm referring to is 熱氣 ("rè qì" in Pinyin romanization; Literally, 熱="heat" or "hot", 氣="gas"). As best I can describe it, it is a syndrome with (some or all of) these associated symptoms:
The syndrome is often attributed to over-consumption of certain kinds of food (e.g. deep fried foods (especially overcooked or burnt), spicy food), or under-consumption of the antagonistic kinds of food (described as "cooling"). According to (folk?) Chinese medicine, to stay healthy, one should consume food in antagonistic categories in balanced quantities.
Can someone think of one or a small number of body conditions, in physiological terms, that can explain the symptoms associated with 熱氣?
[Edited to add:] 熱氣 is a well-recognized phenomenon in Chinese (folk?) medicine but, as far as I can tell, is not recognized as a syndrome in western medicine. I suspect that the symptoms are not unrelated but manifestations of one (or perhaps a few) underlying conditions, which should be describable/explainable in scientific terms. I'm hoping to find a correct scientific explanation, or at least a testable theory, for the phenomenon. -- 71.246.5.19 04:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
there is another possible model to explain the "heat" phenomena.one example is the eruption of acne, which often is associated with "heat", because the acne is red and is believed to relate to congestion of hot greasy spicy food. physician use diane 35 to treat acne effectively, which is an oral contraceptive pill with significant anti-androgen effect.if androgen is "heat" prone, while oestrogen is having the opposite effect, ie "cold" prone, i wonder could "heat" and "cold" can be explained by ratio or balance of body hormones which have opposing effects. if the total sum of "heat" prone hormones are more than "cold" prone hormones, then the person will manifest an "heat" phenomena externally.another example is hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, too much thyroxine will give the "heat" picture (patient feels hot, thirsty etc) while lacking thyroxine will give a "cold" picture, (cold limbs, low evergy state). other possible explanation is the immune system, the degree of activation of various immune cells and inflammatory chemicals.
is there a way to tell if you have a six pack without removing the fat through excercises such as running but just by doing sit ups?
I would say that a "six pack" means having well defined abdominal muscles which are visible (not obscurred by fat). So, by definition, you don't have a six pack if you can't see it. Your question is something like "How can you tell if an 800 pound woman has a pretty figure under all that fat ?". StuRat 20:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
fine is there a way you can tell that you are ready to start running to show the six pack after lots of sit ups
When I look at the color red do I see the same thing as what other people see when they look at it? Is there a way to know for sure?
The latter has to do with the fact that lightbulbs do not emit all light wavelengths, where as the sun does. Under artificial light, the person's hair is black, and out in the sun the person's hair is brown. The hair can't reflect what isn't there. The former is an interesting point. I'm really not sure what to say about that. I don't know much about the brain itself, so I don't know how to address the initial perception. However, seeing as the experience carries over to everyone, that shows that the brains of healty, "normal" people are similar in many ways. T H L 14:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You see with your brain not yours eyes, your eye recieves information, your brain sorts this into a visual image which you interpret. Therefore I would say that the chances that you see the same thing are extremely slim, but as long as you can tell the difference between colours, light shades etc. it doesnt really matter. Philc T E C I 20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
There have to be some major similarities because we all view the same colors as being complementary. I also think that if people's interpretations of colors were at much variance we wouldn't have the relatively similar perceptions of art which are made up from mixes of many different colors. (There is a bit in Niven's [[[The Mote in God's Eye]] where the humans come across alien painting and find it incredibly unpleasant to look at since their perceptions of colors are so different.) I imagine if people were too off you'd get more of the "I don't see what you see" or "Why is this weird color placed here?" that you get when trying to talk about colors with someone who is colorblind. Without any compelling reason to think that humans have terribly different perceptions of color, I wouldn't assume it; color vision evolved long before humans were around, and while there are no doubt some slight variations in it, I don't see any reason to assume that amongst people there would be fantastically different views of it. I once took a class ages ago with a psychologist who had done a lifetime's worth of work in color vision who basically said the same thing — there is no indication that humans perceive colors with any great difference from one another (except colorblindness, which is a problem with the physical structure of the eye), so there's no good reason to assume there is much of a difference from person to person. -- Fastfission 20:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
How many calories (note lower-case c) does a gram of human fat have? T H L 07:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering (no, the following is not a joke. It is a half-baked idea that would never work) if human fat contains enough energy to be an alternative fuel source. I could have people eat until they are very fat, lipo the fat out, process it, and sell it for fuel. Tons of people would love getting paid to eat all day, and the fuel source would never run dry. T H L 10:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
<--Besides, if food runs out fuel is the least of our worries. T H L 11:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
1 gram of fat is 38 kilojoules of energy. Or 9 Calories (that's BIG CALORIE) or 9000 calories (that's small calories).
Human fat is a terrible fuel source because you have to make it by eating other things. Any time you move up a trophic level in the food chain, about 90% of the energy in the source is wasted. Its much more efficient to use the things we eat as fuel rather than processing them through the human body. pschemp | talk 12:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I did say the idea was half baked and would never work. I was just curious how much energy was in fat so I could compare it to fossil fuel. T H L 14:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Protein and carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram, and fat contains 9 calories per gram. Edison 20:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This page may help too: [1] But regarding your original idea, it's pretty much equivalent to meat farming, except in that case we have the luxury of actually killing the animal. And meat farming is notoriously inefficient. The article environmental vegetarianism has some stats regarding how the efficiency (output per input) of meat is much less than of crops; these measure output in terms of protein rather than calories but you get the idea. Biofuel is a very sensible idea, but you want to use the crops more directly. See also comment from pschemp above. Arbitrary username 12:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Much thanks everybody. I knew the idea would never work, and I wouldn't have the money to finance such an undertaking anyway. It was more of a curiousity than anything else. T H L 22:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
While I am sexually attracted to women, sometimes I have wet dreams about having sex with 'chicks with dicks' (not so much transsexuals but women who have both a penis and a vagina), which usually involve me sucking or playing with cock at some point. I've started looking at dickgirl hentai online and found it sexually arousing. Does this mean that I have a homosexual streak hidden within me somewhere? I'm confused and I'm not sure what to do. -- 84.65.109.37 10:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
How is your sex life? If this question is uncomfortable I understand. Remember, you are anonymous, none of us are going to know who you are. T H L 17:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Don't worry about it, we all have a few skeletons in the closet. StuRat 20:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You are homosexual if you are also a chick with a dick. If you are clearly male or female biologically, then you are having pansexual fantasies. (Not all people are clearly 100% male or female physically).
You can't control your dreams and fantasies or sexual attractions anyway, so you must learn to accept them. They may also change. - THB 08:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I was told once by someone who is usually knowledgable on such things that interest in transexuals who appear as women with penises is predominantly a fantasy of heterosexual males. Not sure why. Dragons flight 08:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I talked to a psychologist about it when I was having them; he said that I was having them because that was something I wanted done to myself. It was interesting. T H L 13:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I found a frog in a creek a few miles inland from the Connecticut shore, and took a picture of it. What kind of frog is it? grendel| khan 11:36, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Everybody knows about absolute zero. But I've been wondering, could there be such a thing as "absolute hot", in which all the particles are moving at c? Would this be a temperature that you could measure in Kelvin? -- The Lazar 15:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Negative temperatures are not an artificial concept; actual physical systems have been observed at negative temperatures for minutes at a time. To answer the original question, the hottest possible temperature is −0 K; it occurs when a system is in its unique highest energy state. But a gas does not have such a state, and there is no relativity involved. Melchoir 19:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
tthere r 8 identical balls each having same charge & energy E ,if they r united to form a sphere.wat is the energy of this new sphere/
I read with great interest here 1.11 "Triple Point of Water", and got to thinking/wondering: What if we were to think of the problem using a single molecule of water, or perhaps better 3, single molecules of water...Can each molecule be in a different state simultaniously, and separately? Can one actually "have" a single frozen molecule of water? I would think that no matter what the temperature/pressure, a single molecule of water would ALWAYS be in the gaseous state. Is this true? 205.188.116.74 17:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know if pornography can cause a decrease in sexual interest, desensitivity to sex, and callousness towards intimacy and sex? I'm a really young guy, and I think porn may have caused some disinterest towards sex and woman when previously I was all about them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Truthish ( talk • contribs)
I think it might raise your expectations to an unobtainable level so that only women who resemble porn stars would excite you: "Geez, I can't even see your ribs your so fat !". StuRat 19:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Pornography does have the potential to do as you are saying. The article is a bit lacking in quality, but have a look at pornography addiction; also sexual addiction. BenC7 01:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Alright, I may seem young and childish, but I'm an old fart and have been around the block a few times. It is temporary, just stop masturbating to the porn for a couple weeks whenever you feel this way, and you'll be fine. T H L 05:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It's not the porn itself, it's your frequent masturbating. Hands off. Or at least this would be my guess; I've never masturbated myself. - THB 08:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
what two genes are in a gene pair??
There could be many Genes found in a pair of jeans (hopefully not all at once), for example, Gene Simmons. :-) StuRat 18:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Identical alleles are found in what type of gene?? Thanks
I am doing a science fair project for my school. The title of my project is: What foods attract ants? I need help on finding an If and Then hypothesis and a problem for my project. The project is very simple. I put differnt kinds of food, in different containers. I study which containers have the most ants around it, how long it takes for the ants to get to the food,and how long the ants will stay there. I know that the ants will probably go to the sugary foods. Bu I still need to write a If and Then hypothesis and a problem. If you could give me a suggestion, or any help with the project I would be very thankfuland very glad. -Sarah Baker
I can think of much better ideas than what food attract ants. How about the relative attraction of fatty food versus fruits and vegetables for obese humans. You offer to pay for 1 days of fatty food or X days of fruits and vegetables. Find the variable X where it is in equilibrium with 1 day of fatty food by interviewing lots of obese people. Find the mean and standard deviation.
Why stop at fruit and vegetables? You can build up a hierarchy of food attractiveness for obese people. 202.168.50.40 01:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)