Recent content by Aphobis

Bricks, I can't imagine shards of silicon being good for my intestines.

No problem dude, maths can be a pain, but it is awesomely useful :)

Are you solving a differential equation, or is this this just a trigonometry problem? If it's a D.E. then I think your problem is having a general solution of similar form to your particular solution (N.B. if you have a D.E. of the form f(y'', y', y)=f(x), the general solution is when you set...

Depends if there is alcohol on board, if so, drink lots of it very fast (though not enough to kill me, just in case the whole wormhole idea turns out to be true), if not, sit down and hope their aren't any of those twats on-board who voted for the rape/murder option.

To all the people who seem to think maths is useless, here is a short list of the things people have achieved using it: Putting man on the moon (Newtonian mechanics) Putting communication satellites into orbit (more Newtonian mechanics) Computers (we wouldn't know how transistors worked if it...

I'm actually quite surprised no-one has picked up on this, their are genetically engineered microbes that actually digest the various hydrocarbons in oil and turn them in to compounds safe for marine life to eat. Are BP using these microbes? no... that's kind of odd. Taking into account that...

I do understand this, BUT surely if people were less trusting of big business then this would damage his ability to make money.

Rupert Murdoch is a very powerful man, he owns several, very large media groups (Fox news and the British tabloid "the Sun" to name but a few) and is a major player in today's economy. My opinion on Mr. Murdoch has declined somewhat of late, as I actually detest with a passion the pile of...

I don't think faster than light speed is possible, seeing as how it takes vast amounts of energy to get anything with a sizable mass close to the speed of light. There's always wormholes though, but unfortunately we need matter with negative mass to hold open the wormhole (otherwise the wormhole...

The antimatter gun would work like an explosive tipped bullet (except with antimatter instead of explosive), merely a milligram of antimatter would give off enough energy (google antimatter annihilation) to vaporise several people. The antimatter would have to be contained in a magnetic field...

The main problem with directed energy weapons is that the more concenrated you make the beam, the more it is scattered by molecules in the air, so to get enough energy to your target to do some damage you either need to be quite close (maybe you could have a kind of "energy shotgun" if you...