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dinotheorist
Born: 10/13/71 See my web site at: http://www.dinotheorist.com There is an upcoming novel by debut author DC Agar which incorporates my paleogravity hypothesis into its later chapters. I've read it, and it's quite good! Taking advance orders!
What makes/models/year of auto have alternators with magnetized rotor, internal regulators?
I would like to make an electric exercise bike that produces 12 volts and allows me to adjust the resistance simply by increasing/decreasing the electical load. Driving the right alternator via a belt from a back bicycle rim should be the simplest way to make that.
3 AnswersMaintenance & Repairs8 years agoShouldn't a fishing hook bend straight before any other component stress failure of fishing tackle?
I'm not advocating that this be made into law necessarily, but I'm making my own leaders because I don't like tackle breaking off for both sporting reasons AND I care about the fish. I want them to live so they can spawn or perhaps be caught another day.
I saw on a fishing show like 20 years ago a man who was fishing in Florida and used small hooks with the barbs mashed down and said the hook should bend straight before there is any separation of the hook, leader, swivels or line. That sounds right to me. Anybody know who that guy is/was and whether this school of thought has a name?
5 AnswersFishing8 years agoSo nurse sharks are unfit for consumption in FL?
I fish in the Keys a few times per month. I'm hooking an awful lot of sharks and I only tried cooking them once. But it seems that on page 34 of this mercury advisory...
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/floridafishadvice/2012-...
ALL species of shark from ALL FL waters over 43 inches are in the DO NOT EAT category.
Ironically, the regulations on sharks in FL are rather restrictive as if these are some kind of desirable fish to eat. On the FWC web site, nurse and all other non-prohibited sharks must be 54."
http://www.eregulations.com/florida/fishing/saltwa...
Nurse sharks are supposedly the best-tasting shark, and I see no reason why such a lower-food-chain species would have as much mercury as a mako or bull. I've hooked three of these which I have let go or have escaped, and I could eat the meat for months. Does anyone have more detailed info?
2 AnswersDiet & Fitness8 years agoWhat breed of chicken do poultry farms in Egypt typically keep?
2 AnswersEgypt9 years agoIs there a plant database where I can use search commands to list by hardiness RANGE (e.g. zone 4 - 9)?
There must be a university database that can do that.
1 AnswerBotany9 years agoClimate preparedness tree selection -- what species are warming-tolerant?
For instance, bald cypress are zone 4-10, thornless honey locust is zone 3-9. Is there a listing or guide of selections like these somewhere?
2 AnswersBotany9 years agoThe sticker on my computer says 64X2 dual core processor, my OS says it's 32-bit. Mistake?
Do I really have to re-install windows to get my laptop up to full speed? What becomes of my files?
3 AnswersOther - Computers9 years agoHow could I create a clay mineral lick for wildlife in a backyard?
It was featured on various nature documentaries that animals are attracted to certain mineral-rich clays and muds to help them digest toxic plant seeds. Can something like this stuff be purchased just like bird seed or a bird bath? Seems like it would be better than setting up a bird feeder which attracts rats.
1 AnswerConservation9 years agoI found a green and white jasper stone (genuine, glassy smooth fracture) in NY state. How valuable are they?
I notice that on ebay virtually any piece of quartz that somebody threw into a rock tumbler is apparently allowed to be called jasper, even though they are clearly referred to in the literature as having glassy smooth surfaces at their fracture sites. I have found several of these amongst a sea of glacially deposited, ordinary quartz river stone type rocks and they even have copper, silver and gold particles under 30X magnification. What is the market for these?
2 AnswersEarth Sciences & Geology10 years agoIn metamorphic rocks, do rare metals effuse into quartz and feldspar and produce interesting colors?
If so, do these minerals have names?
2 AnswersEarth Sciences & Geology10 years agoWould a national aqueduct system for the US be a good idea to move water from flood to drought regions?
Instead of these constant floods and droughts in alternating regions, what if we had big water channels to send Mississipi floodwater to Texas or even the Southwest?
8 AnswersEngineering10 years agoWhat geology guide will help a beginning rock collector identify pegmatites of the NE US?
A have a relative in the Mid-Hudson Valley with many glacially deposited pegmatites with green crystals sticking out of them. I can't find much info on them and I'm getting the impression that this has something to do with copper-burner type people flushing nasty chemicals, burning things they shouldn't burn to try and get certain metals out.
1 AnswerEarth Sciences & Geology10 years agoWhat are these rocks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjzH6tJVEQ
This is the best my video camera can do. These stones were sampled from a dumpload of bankrun for our driveway in the Adirondacks. I know they're all igneous and metamorphic. I see a lot of pyrite, and flourite or flourapatite -- that jade green stuff. There's a purpley one close to the front left with little amethyst crystals that I was pleased to find only one of so far. The little glints of fool's gold don't really show up.
1 AnswerEarth Sciences & Geology10 years agoWhat do car manufacturers call that annoying feature that seems to be an "automatic teenager brake?"?
I drove a friend's car and the lightest touch on the break would cause the car to automatically slow down as rapidly as possible without losing traction -- perhaps a dream feature for somebody who likes to get hit from behind and sue other drivers for a living. It had to be shut off each and every time the car was started. I'd like a feature that automatically causes these engineers' necks to be choked wherever they are every time a car annoys me like that. What do they call that braking feature??
2 AnswersOther - Car Makes1 decade agoIf the absence of polar ice shuts down the ocean's conveyor currents and fouls the ocean, what about..?
...during the age of dinosaurs the ocean was what, in a perpetual state of toxic algae bloom? There has been no glaciation for much of Earth's history. I'm not dismissive of what I heard about this periodic extinction event that causes oceans to foul, but a healthy ocean doesn't absolutely need to have polar ice, does it? Perhaps thawed ice plus more heating besides.
2 AnswersEarth Sciences & Geology1 decade agoWhat did America's classical liberal founders derive from Greek philosophy regarding freedom/liberty?
By freedom/liberty, I specifically mean the relationship of the individual to the state. I know democracy came from the ancient Greeks, but I can't remember which of the philosophers said what regarding freedom and liberty. America's founders seem to have regarded individual freedom as a gift of the divine for the purpose of rendering service back (by choosing to embrace morality rather than having a government attempt to impose it). Did the Greeks have this view, with their gods as the gifters in place of the God of Judeo-Christianity? Or was the concept invented by Enlightenment Christians?
1 AnswerPhilosophy1 decade ago