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Brain&Force
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What if?
Post your what-if questions (that may never be answerable) here.
Mine:
What if all radioactive decay was caused by neutrinos and antineutrinos, and outside the presence of them, no nucleus could decay?
What if tantalum-180m wasn't the only "stable" metastable isomer, and there were more of them, just not abundant enough for us to detect? What if they
were isomers of rare, unstable isotopes, like actinium and americium?
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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What if countries didn't focus all of their energy on making new technology for war, but for fixing HUGE PROBLEMS such as global warming, or energy
production.
Solar Frickin Roadways (stay with it, the intro is a bit painful)
When the police come
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You wont be solving any frickin problems with "solar fricken roadways".
Youtube user thunderf00t has a few videos highlighting the fricken infeasibility of the idea.
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I know, I've seen the videos. My point was that more ideas like this could end up making feasible ideas.
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http://www.thelocal.de/20140619/germany-produces-half-of-ele...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEpAZ4AqSQ
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Texium
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What if a ton of people were amateur chemists, and it was the most common hobby in the world?
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Well, then we would have retail chemistry stores, and maybe Aldrich would give up trying to stop private persons from ordering.
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What if our bodies were silicon based?
[Edited on 6-29-2014 by Pinkhippo11]
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What if our Sense of Time was disproportionally influencing our senses ?
It is but One of the Dimensions in which we exist, but all is pegged to it.
Rate of Change. Why is it pegged to Time ?
'Rate' is a term invented to peg calculations to Time only.
Re-evaluate taking XYZT, plus E and M all into account.
I feel that modern math can handle it.
T=time
XYZ=position as we understand it
E=electronic charge
M=magnetic 'effect'
[Edited on 29-6-2014 by aga]
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The Volatile Chemist
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Sorry, one of the few things I don't believe in is the ozone hole. I know you'll all laugh, but...
If someone offered me $100,000 to get on board with the ozone hole gig, I'd do it.
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Zephyr
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Quote: Originally posted by The Volatile Chemist  | Sorry, one of the few things I don't believe in is the ozone hole. I know you'll all laugh, but...
If someone offered me $100,000 to get on board with the ozone hole gig, I'd do it. |
Really?! I would stop believing in global warming for $20,000, just think of all the glassware and reagents...
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Hmm. CO2 is gaseous at STP, but SiO2 most definitely is not. Such life forms would have to literally shit a brick just to exhale. Unless they live in
a more exotic atmosphere of, I dunno, silanes? It'd be a pretty weird geochemical cycle involved, that's for sure.
-Bobby
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What if the truth about Global warming was told? such as the hidden agendas behind it, the fact that man can not produce enough carbon to affect a
warming of the world, the fact that it is proven beyond question, that the carbon levels Follow the cooling and the warming of the planet, not the
other way around and this by between 50 to 150 years. That the earth has been warming and cooling since the dawn of time, historically and
geologically proven, this list is endless....
‘Calcination… is such a Separation of Bodies by Fire, as makes ‘em easily reducible into Powder; and for that reason ‘tis call’d by some
Chymical Pulverization.’ (John Friend, Chymical Lectures London, 1712)
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. (William Penn 1644-1718)
The very nature of Random, Chance development precludes the existence of Order - strange that our organic and inorganic world is so well defined by
precision and law. (me)
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IKR guys! Global warming and the ozone hole could happen, but we couldn't bring about them. Actually..... Those theoretical problems could be the
basis for a great sci-fi alien or human weapon... 
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Texium
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Alright alright, we can't have this turning into another global warming debate thread! There's more than enough already. Arguing about it again here
is just asking for it to be detritus'd. This thread's supposed to just be fun.
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Bringing up global warming or political "what-ifs" is the fastest way to get this thread trashed. Stick to science, and maybe move over to Whimsy.
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| Quote: Originally posted by zts16 | | Alright alright, we can't have this turning into another global warming debate thread! There's more than enough already. Arguing about it again here
is just asking for it to be detritus'd. This thread's supposed to just be fun.
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*emphasis ^^^ mine*
What if.........one of you bright young "kids" figured out a cheap home-rolled PV cell that doesn't need iodine?
"We believe the knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind should be accessible to all people around the world, regardless of their wealth, social
status, nationality, citizenship, etc" z-lib
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SOWWY...
What if communism worked.... (Does that fit the bill?)
What if elements like Ubh (Unbihexum, 126) just got more stable, it's just that they never initially existed?
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That would be awesome. The world could have eternal peace and be happy.
That would also be awesome, because element collectors would have a lot of unfinished business!
Also, they might have ridiculously strange properties that have never been seen before.
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One outside possibility on that front is strangelets; effectively atoms where the nucleus has up down and strange quarks instead of just up and down.
If stable strangelets exist it may be possible to have elements of atomic number of a thousand or so; though even if they do, it's likely going to be
pretty hard to make them in bulk, as they'd require very improbable collisions. So it's possible that there exist a whole bunch of stable elements out
there, but it would take thousands of years just to make a single atom.
Never accept that which can be changed.
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That would suck, I hate the idea of communism. Although its a nice thought (everyone is equal, everything is shared), but life would freaking suck.
I don't want to be equal, being equal is lame. I want to be on top, a "1%er".
And it would obviously never work, cause there will always be people like me to screw things up by not being content with sharing all belongings and
will find ways to capitalize and make more money then the average person.
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Off to the gulag with you!
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But this is a what if... post 
Yea, I actually prefer fascism, but that's just another form of communism
You should know, zyklonb 
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How is fascism in anyway related to communism, ideologically speaking?
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It's not (fascists hated communists), except that they are similar in practice.
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