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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Cancer, since you didn't answer my last question, I'll give you a new one. I think I understand the physics behind this, the base imparts its momentum energy back to the metronomes, but I'm curious if I'm correct.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Words do not do its awesomeness justice. [ATTACH=CONFIG]44775[/ATTACH]

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, seeing as Cancer didn't answer the question, we might be able to conclude that he also exploded, or perhaps he was said janitor. I've watched it a couple times, and I think the cause of the can going upward when the explosion occurred is the water in the can. I think that when it explodes, it pushes the bottom of the plastic can downward because the mass of the water forces the explosion downward. Then the vacuum caused by the explosion sucks the water back in and then up sending the balls flying.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Okay, Cancer. I have a fun question for you. Why does the black bucket fly up into the air when the explosion occurs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9yn8vLdig

Re: A Thread for Random Videos WARNING: Turn your volume down. Yes, it is a screaming sheep. http://www.wimp.com/screamingsheep/

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's what she said. Planck's wife. Said. Oh never mind.

Re: Tae Kwon Do special abilities Yup. According to my TKD teachers, TKD was initially focused on fighting off Mongol invaders who were on horseback most of the time and carried wooden shields. So TKD fighters, were taught two important aspects: being able to jump up to attack the rider on horseback, and breaking the wooden shields with kicks and punches. That is why there is so much focus on jumping, and board breaking in TKD.

Re: "Neat" Pictures So much for the "roads are impassable" excuse.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Fear?! I fear No Man! Seriously, No Man is a scary dude.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Nor does a vacuum, unless it is a Dyson.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm surprised that they don't derive mass the same way. Like base it off of a liter of some element, or something.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Nah. That is his curry storage container.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Looks like Stitch to me.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Apparently Jupiter took another one for the team: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/10/13789057-flash-spotted-on-jupiter-is-it-a-hit?lite

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Does it have to be mass related? Would this be the reason to work on a magnetic force field of some kind?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, right! Almost forgot about the radiation shielding. Our ozone layer is what takes care of that for us, right?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, it is a definite "no, we don't currently have the technology/ability to colonize Mars."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Which brings me back to the original question. Does current technology have the ability to make that a possibility, or do we still need to perfect a few things before we do that?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So by all counts, it sounds like the only way to colonize Mars would be with self-contained buildings/ecologies that wouldn't rely on Mars' atmosphere?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Ah, Mars is ~half the size of the Earth and the Moon is ~half the size of Mars (mass not withstanding)? I always seem to switch the last two for some reason. That's actually kind of surprising regarding the asteroid belt. So, how are we going to increase the mass of Mars to get its gravity where it needs to be to hold on to its atmosphere?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Interesting factoid. Mars is smaller than our moon, correct?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I see. So it is all about gravity and chance. So, what if Mars was bombarded by thousands of asteroids from the asteroid belt? Would that possibly increase its mass enough, or would the bombardment simply displace a like amount of mass?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hey Cancer. Crazy thought exercise for today. I was thinking about Mars and how we could heat it up and make an atmosphere using today's technology. I started thinking about it when I was thinking about the Curiosity and its onboard computers, and the realization that computers need to stay cool and considering Mars' temps that isn't a problem. However, that heat, as minuscule as it is, is leaching into the atmosphere of Mars, and escaping into space. But that got me thinking about the aforementioned heating/terraforming. Do we have any methods currently that could be used to at least start the process on Mars? Even something crazy like a giant orbiting space magnifier that aimed the Sun's rays at the poles and melted them. I'm thinking from the perspective of cost wasn't an issue nor were things like nuclear energy, etc. Could we do it with today's technology?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That must have been one heck of a tape measure...