michaeljhuman

I have read that the DNA in cells is part of the chromosones in the cells. I presume this DNA is used during protein synthesis. In humans, there's pairs of chromosones. Do both of the paired chromosones function in synthesizing protein?

I think it was Orphan Annie who said "Leaping Lizards."

I believe was Robin, Batman's boy wonder who said 'Holy <insert word here>'

In Guild Wars 2 forum, you could not swear. You just got the word 'kitten'

So, when I am playing an online roleplaying game, and want to avoid vulgarity, I want an expression using 'kittens' and it would have to be alliterative.

Bad example - 'Killler Kittens!'. I am SURE the yahoo answers community can help :)

I saw the hemi engine, on the Mecum auction, which was used in the Ronnie Sox driven '68 cuda. I have seen pictures of the 426 engine, and the air intake setup was quite different.

I can't even see the intake "plenum" if I use the word correctly. There's two carbs ontop of orange painted "boxes". Is this a purely custom made intake?

There's a picture online, if I am allowed to put in a link ( http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/techarticles/mo... )

From wikipedia -

For example, I don't follow "oppressed into complex synforms"

Does this imply batholiths were actually being pushed up through the crust?

Why was there hydrous partial melting in the lower crust?

"Very thick sections of mostly submarine mafic, and subordinate ultramafic, volcanic rocks, and mostly younger subaerial and submarine felsic volcanic rocks and sediments were oppressed into complex synforms between rising young domiform felsic batholiths mobilized by hydrous partial melting in the lower crust. Upper-crust granite-and-greenstone terrains underwent moderate regional shortening, decoupled from the lower crust, during compositional inversion accompanying doming, but cratonization soon followed. Tonalitic basement is preserved beneath some greenstone sections but supracrustal rocks commonly give way downward to correlative or younger plutonic rocks... Mantle plumes probably did not yet exist, and developing continents were concentrated in cool regions. Hot-region upper mantle was partly molten, and voluminous magmas, mostly ultramafic, erupted through many ephemeral submarine vents and rifts focussed at the thinnest crust.... Surviving Archean crust is from regions of cooler, and more depleted, mantle, wherein greater stability permitted uncommonly thick volcanic accumulations from which voluminous partial-melt, low-density felsic rocks could be generated.[6]"

I always thought of memory as a bunch of transistors. But reading about SDRAM, looks like it's a bunch of capacitors ( the cells may use a transistor, but the data is stored in a cap.)

On the other hand, looks like CPU cache, needing to be very fast is likely static or SRAM. Which I think does use transistors.

Can anyone offer correction or clarification of this topic?

It occurs to me, that the steam engine could have come into use sooner than the 1700s. In fact there had been steam engines before that point, but they seemed isolated. Was it perhaps due to a lack of perceived use for them?

My dad was asking me about variations in the moon's path through the sky. I can explain why the moon sets later every night. I can explain why the moon rises at different positions on the horizon, But I don't really understand what appears to be a large variation on how high it rises in the sky. According to charts I have looked at, the moon is very low in sky (comparatively) around Jan 16 (I am in Colorado,) compared to how high in the sky it was at full moon. I know it's orbit is on a different plan than the earth's rotational plane, which I guess explains some variation. But I according to the chart's I looked at, full moon would be approaching 80 degrees from horizon, and last quarter much lower, maybe less than 40.

Super continents make sense. The earth has been around a really long time, and over time, the plates moved around such that continental crust come up against continental crust. I have no issue with that.

But why did most/all of the continental crust join into one super continent? Was it pure random chance, or is there some explanation for why they would tend to come together?

If continental crust was created via hot spots, or at plate convergence zones where volcanic activity resulted in material for the creation of protocontinents, it would seem like the original continental crust would have been quite spread out.

I have played Formula D, Speed Circuit (the really old game,) and Bolide. Any other fun auto racing board games?

In movies and comic books, villains often have henchmen. Sometimes armies. Always wondered where they come from? Is it like Charles Manson? The villain hangs out at Haight-Ashbury looking for people with no self esteem, and then brainwashes them? Or is there some newspaper for freelance henchmen that only they get, that has want ads?