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In a different, yet somewhat related article, I also came across this that I thought was pretty fascinating: Spider spins electrically charged silk In their quest to make ultrastrong yet ultrasmall fibers, the polymer industry may soon take a lesson from Uloborus spiders. Uloborids (pictured) are cr...

Their charged nets float in the electrostatic field of the Earth. Right, and if you remember in the article that they mimic their natural behavior in an artificially charged field. That's all well and good, but how? The surface of the earth is negatively charged; the atmosphere is positively charge...

So, I'm curious then.

Is the material that makes up the strands of web have a charge of its own in order to utilize an electrostatic field for, well...basically anti-gravity?

I know that isn't the right word...but it was fun to say. So sue me.

It took me 3 days to get through all 141 pages. Skimming over most of the verbiage on the geek out discussions for SW stuffs (i'm not THAT well versed in such topics). From one 3D Modeler to another...fractalsponge1, you are badass all the way. The evolution I have witnessed to your skills constantl...

I about spit coffee out my nose when I saw this: About Us

I was doing some research online about air ionization and plasma (as it relates to fusion) when I started wafting into reading about stars which inevitably led to the Big Bang Theory. Which I've read countless times already, but I love reading about all that stuff and had some time to kill in betwee...

So...How much will they hike up the price to cure cancer then? Assuming all human trials are more than adequate that is.

How long will insurance companies refuse to pay for this?

A day later than I planned. Without further adieu: Chapter Two [hr] "Stand." A loud voice called from the blackness. She slowly stood from the bed she was laying on. "Place your feet together and hold your arms out in front of you parallel to the floor." She complied exactly as t...

Update:

The second chapter is coming along. I should be able to have something posted by Wednesday. At least, that's my goal.

And I will just say that you may or may not have inspired me to do something a little more...twisted...with your initial comment. I'm glad at least one person on this board is desiring more. Thank you. I did find and correct some spelling and grammatical errors in my original stored on my computer. ...

Where did she get the baby, hmm? From those who took her husband? The detective's implication here when explaining to Baker what an illegal is, is that George had developed an extremely rare immunity (due to a genetic mutation) to the population control measure implanted in all males just prior to ...

Trying my hand at some original content that is a bit simpler than the Prime Mover project I started a few years ago where I had to take a break from it due to some unfortunate events that happened in my life. This story is set in the same universe as Prime Mover, however much later in the timeline....

I...honestly don't know what to say. Broomstick, you have opened my eyes to a lot here. Thank you once again. In that article I linked with the Saline Bag, why are Hospital admins so tight-lipped about costs then? It doesn't make sense. You have ignorant people like me thinking that a huge majority ...

Going back to burn patients, if you're going to survive a horrific burn... I know about burns and being a burn victim. When I was 11 or 12, I was caught in the attic of a house fire (my room was up there). I suffered 2nd & 3rd degree burns on 20% of my body. In addition my lungs suffered the mo...

Please excuse the formating. I didn't see a multi-quote function and did the best I could. So there will be some emphasis possibly by the original author that may have been left out...unintentionally. Ultimately the problem isn't getting health cover for a part of the population which is generally h...

I am wondering what the timeline of that is Broomstick. I'll have to do some research on that. I'm going to take a wild guess that it became non-viable once Hospitals became for-profit and then legislation allowing price gouging by pharma. It also depends on how much they were charging and how many ...

I am not sure if this topic belongs in SLAM or not, so if a mod deems it necessary to move, please do so. In the US, as most of you are already aware there is a great disconnect between those that can afford healthcare and those that can't. Even then, the loopholes and stipulations of these programs...

An outright lie regarding Turkana IV should've been at least caught by Riker or Deanna and challenged. But, everything else as you commented above Swindle1984 was as I expected it to be...biased with some historical revisionism. Again, all I can say is well done.

Oooooh...I really like this chapter. Very nicely done. I agree with LadyTevar...the way you called out the Federation's negative use of the Prime Directive was spot on.

Keep in coming!

Where are you talking about doing this? Can you provide a source regarding the efficiency of Geo-Thermal Heat Pumps? Apparently one acre of hardwood trees can absorb enough CO2 in one year to offset what 18 average Americans dump into the atmo. There are approximately (as of 2015) 321.4 million Amer...

President Donald Trump has floated the idea of building a "solar wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a speech to a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, Trump reaffirmed that the proposed wall would be built and then teased the idea that it could contain solar panels. "You know,...

Germany is negotiating or has negotiated those things with her former colonies and is already being sued for such a thing by hereros. There were also reperations payments for WWII. Maybe you just have not been following the news? Plenty of groups demand restitution. It is just that most nations ign...

No. I mean my father's family were slaughtered like cattle, the women's hair used to make felt, the gold fillings dug out of their teeth to fund the slaughter, and their bodies burned and their ashes dumped like garbage. But that's nothing compared to slavery I suppose. Except for the whole "w...

Bah...ghetto edit:

invested should've been infested

I confess I don't quite get it. I mean, sure, I'm curious about my own ethnic origins and how they relate to history but I don't get a special tingling because of what my ancestors did or didn't do. I'm going to assume that your ancestors didn't suffer 300 years of slavery? I think that is what it ...