Displacement, people. Learn it, know it, love it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_(fluid)

Threw me for a minute when he described the venturi effect as effecting fluids like gas...

(here in Aus we refer to it as petrol or fuel, gas is LNG or any other substance that is, ya know, a gas)

That's straight up crazy talk.

You can't show any physical proof or tests to show that it works. Yet you say it does, because of what proof or evidence? If you say it happens, show the examples. Let them be put up for inspection and debate.

As for "spiritual elements" like love and fear, they aren't spiritual. They are a series of chemicals in our brain going off. I remember a joke a friend of mine said once, when someone once said: "You can't measure happiness." To which he replied, sure you can, just measure the amount of dopamine they've got going through their head.

We're a series of hormones, fluids and matter. All of it can be measure and calculated. If someone had their cancer or Type I diabetes cured by faith, why would that not make the news? Why would that not be the most promoted thing in the medical industry?

Faith can help your mental state and make you feel better. Feeling happier and better about yourself does have an effect on your general health, but it is not a cure for disease.

I wonder which muscles are at work there and how could you keep the fluid stuck in your butt in such a way... ingenious!

Ok, I sat through the mostly flat increase in funding (against a backdrop of exponential inflation, meaning a real world decrease in funding) and thought, is this going somewhere?

Then I thought... ok, how many more comedy scare tactics are they going to use.

Then... then I got to 'Floride is the main ingredient in sarin nerve gas'. Yeah. I'm done.

You know what else is in Sarin gas? Carbon! We must cleanse our bodies of carbon, to protect our precious bodily fluids!

It's kind of odd that Doom is remembered for being fast and gory. When it came out, what made it a hit was that it was dark (not the same as 'gory') and tactical (i.e. simple but very well thought out enemies/weapons balance).

Games like RoTT or MK were much more bloody, and back then 90% of the players were keyboarders playing on 386 or early 486, so the game as experienced by most people was hardly 'fast'. I was playing on a 486 DX33 (that's right, 33Mhz of gamin goodness. Suck on that Core i5!) and could not get full screen + full details to be fluid.

so maybe its easier to make a holodeck experience with a submerged user? using fluid dynamics and sensory feedback using water jets and other things

I prefer to fight Zoidberg-style: instinctual ejection of bodily fluids combined with a lot of whoop, whoop, whoop.

Works every time.

Trippy. Does quicksand count as a non-Newtonian fluid?

Nah. A vandal recently smashed in my mum's door, and she had the option of prosecuting the little bastard or accepting a written apology and money to cover the damages. She went for the apology option and got £60 to "cover" the £400 cost of replacing the door and a three-sentence apology covered in correction fluid because the tossbag who smashed her door in couldn't spell "sorry".

If it ever happens again, the little shit is getting a criminal record.

This is probably standard grease. WD40 doesn't work that great as a lubricant. It's a penetration fluid.

...which would seem to be what she mentioned last evening.

gah! It's really annoying when people say that we're 90% non-human, it's misleading and completely false. Yes, we do have 10 times more non-human cells than human cells, however those cells are typically orders of magnitude smaller than our cells, and that's not even accounting for the fact that a lot of what we are composed of is from stuff between cells, like minerals in bone, interstitial fluid etc. The bacteria inside a person tends to only weigh a few pounds, so in fact we're close to 97% human.

I'm thinking she is crisper and more fluid than her instructor! She is amazing!

The error is that there was never a "Super Oleg" character in MK, nor was their rotoscoping ever so fluid.

Yeah, let's give it one more stomp so we can investigate the physics of fluids under pressure.