Not General Relativity Not walking One cubic Chuck And not peanuts. we already answered that one - transistors! Funny thing about Einstein, he never got a Nobel Prize for Relativity. His was for the photoelectric effect - the core principle behind solar cells. And he had to give the money to his ex wife. She is rumored to have helped develop Relativity. No one knows for sure. Also rumored: Einstein slept with Marilyn Monroe - a man after my own heart in more ways than one!
Another Question: If you hold a coffee cup out in in front of you and drop it, there is a very slight chance that for a fleeting moment - a small fraction of a second - the cup will not fall. What effect or "force" makes this possible?
Well, you don't want wind speeds of 100-200 mph for a wind turbine. It's too damaging (because of the high amount of power involved).
None are designed for such high winds. The extra engineering/weight, etc. to get them to work at that velocity would take away any. Ok, then, intercity train. https://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10311
Wind turbines can be designed for wind that high. And with as much as 100 times the yield as compared to a standard turbine. That would actually make wind power practical. People have been working on this application for some time now. Not trains.
Question: What common household product or substance would you want to mix in similar proportions with Muriatic Acid [driveway cleaner], if you had a sore throat and were going to gargle with it?
Haha, bingo! The Jet Stream. They are called Flying Electric Generators - FEGs. Interestingly, in one of the sequences in the 1936 HG Well's movie, Things to Come, they show flying electric generators. Part of what makes this practical are very high voltage electric generators, which allow for lightweight parts and a relatively small and light transmission wire to carry the power back to earth. A bunch of engineers and I did the calculations for this and it certainly appears to be feasible using today's technology. And by using ideal locations like the top of the pacific coast mountain range, you can launch from 10,000 feet or more, meaning a 15,000 foot tether puts you right in the heart of the jet stream. While the long-term potential of very high altitude generators excites me, engineers are working on more immediate and smaller, low-altitude technologies, as shown in the first video. The second video show one high-altitude concept. http://www.123seminarsonly.com/EE/Flying-Electric-Generator-Feg-Technology.html
Questions and answers so far: What genetically-inherited disorder [in humans] can prevent death from a common disease? - Sickle Cell Anemia [by perdidochas] Where are you if a dimension of space, and the dimension of time, have reversed roles? - No Answer What didn't exist in the early 1900s, but now almost everyone [in the developed world] has millions and even billions of them? - Transistors [by WillReadmore] Name at least one time machine in common use. - Satellites, cars, bicycles, skateboards... Any machine that allows motion. Motion slows down time. [by WillReadmore] What scientific theory has correctly predicted more than all other theories combined? - NA What common form of transportation gets the equivalent of 300-600 miles per gallon of gas, for one person? - NA Where would you have to locate a wind turbine for generating electrical power, if you want typical wind speeds of 100 - 200 mph? - The Jet Stream [by Truth and Justice] If you hold a coffee cup out in in front of you and drop it, there is a very slight chance that for a fleeting moment, for a small fraction of a second, the cup will not fall. What effect or "force" makes this possible? - NA What common household product or substance would you want to mix in similar proportions with Muriatic Acid [driveway cleaner], if you had a sore throat and were going to gargle with it? - NA
I'll give this one away since it's rather unfair and one of my favorite bits of science trivia. I've stumped dozens of Physicists with this one. It's a subtlety of the math that a lot of people don't catch. But I had a professor who made a point of it. The answer is, you're inside of a black hole [actually a specific kind of black hole]. When you traverse the event horizon, using the Schwarzschild Metric, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_metric we find that the roles of the dimensions have changed. So for example, if you hit your thrusters [assuming you haven't been spaghettified] you change your position in time, and not space. A couple of other favorites: If the earth was compressed into a black hole, it would have a radius of about 9 millimeters. According to Michio Kaku, if you want to know what it looks like inside of a black hole, look around your room. We could be in one. The universe meets all of the criteria for being a black hole.
Muriatic acid is just another name for hydrochloric acid - HCl. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate - NaHCO3 HCl + NaHCO3 --> NaCl + H2O + CO2 - Salt water and carbon dioxide. My favorite answer is lye - Sodium Hydroxide, NaOH - which is the active chemical in most products like Drano and other drain openers. HCl + NaOH --> NaCl + H2O Mix lye [Drano] in the proper proportions with driveway cleaner and you have pure salt water. [not to be done at home! You have to know what you're doing]
Question 10: On what moon is it possible, in principle, to run and jump off, and escape the gravity of that moon? It might be tough to do running but you could certainly do it on a bicycle. You could take a jump and land on the nearest planet. What a ride that would be!
Question 11: Where might it one day be possible for a tourist to put on a set of wings, and fly like a bird?
Deimos has an escape velocity of about 12 mph, so that might qualify. That's the best known small moon. There are also many small moons around Jupiter and Saturn that might also qualify. Though running and biking would be difficult, as friction is required for traction, and some gravity is needed for the friction. A special bike tied to some kind of rail would work. Titan is a good guess. Low gravity, a thick calm atmosphere. You just have to keep from freezing solid. Or, like in the Heinlein Story "The Menace from Earth", an air-filled lunar cavern might work.