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I am interested in travel from Aurangabad to Bangalore either by train or by plane. I do not know where to look to find the tickets for the trains and I don't believe that there is a direct flight. I will be traveling at the end of May of this year. Any help is kindly appreciated.

What is the name for the thing that you put underneath your plants when you're keeping them inside and you don't want the excess water from watering them to leak onto the carpet?

I'm talking about a piece of hard plastic shaped kinda like a plate that is raised in the middle (where the plant sits) and has gutters around the outside so water that leaks out of the plant drains into there instead of on the carpet.

bonus points if you can show me where i can get one online.

thanks

...... not pretending i know anything about this subject, but i've studied both flows a while ago in intro phys and i was wondering what is the behavior of a fluid at the interface between turbulent and laminar flows? i assume they can coexist, right?

is it better to charge a phone every night? i've heard that a battery will live longest if you only discharge it 20%. is that also applicable to a cell phone's LiMH battery?

also is it bad to stop the charging process before it's done?

i can read my manual. please don't respond if you don't know the technical details of the questions.

i have a few halogen desk lamps that i would like to convert to LED lights. I would like to use the same casing/sockets/wires as i have right now, and just replace the halogen bulb (because it feels like i'm sitting next to a space heater when i'm working near it). I have seen things at Target that convert halogen flashlights to LED with a small adapter. Is there something similar for desk lamps?

thanks

does the green leaf of a plant stay cooler in the sun than a similarly shaped/colored object? i.e. does the photosynthesis that happens in a plant's leaf noticeably reduce the amount of solar energy that gets converted to heat?

also, anyone know the quantum efficiency of a chloroplast cell/organelle/whatever the hell is it?

you know how when you hold your arms at your side, they naturally have a slight bend at the elbow?

i don't think it's because of the extra leverage you get from your biceps, although you'd be able to get your hands up quicker to protect your head with the bend...

i think it's because you can run faster and if you didn't have the natural bend, you'd extend your arms fully behind you which would convert forward momentum backwards (instead of converting forward momentum to upward momentum as the bend in your arm does).

any thoughts?

how much power does a typical elevator use?

i'm looking for i guess an average empty weight and the efficiency of the motor.

assume the elevator is empty and the car is perfectly counterbalanced... about how much energy would be used in a day by this elevator? maybe a top speed of 1 m/s and acceleration to that speed in 1 s?

i can do the above calc if you supply me with the avg weight and the avg efficiency of the engine.

i'm looking to add to my CD collection... what people/groups are good right now in hip hop. i really like the roots, blackalicious, tribe, and those kind of groups. i don't like the eminem/50 cent pop gangsta rap. any suggestions?

i routinely submit compute-intensive jobs to both my local computer and networked computers. i notice that immediately after i initiate a job on my local machine (under my desk), there is a noise of something mechanical moving. i assume this isn't my fan starting up in advance (i doubt it knows that the CPU will be hot in the future and is taking action against this), so that leaves the HD right?

so why is my job running from the HD?

I thought I had enough memory that this wouldn't be necessary, because my jobs index less than 1 GB of data (i think). is it just the initial transfer to the RAM?

are there any other moving parts in a computer? simple computer, 32 bit, PIV, 1GB RAM, 2.6 GHz clock.

nothing important ... just wondering

regarding thermoelectric devices:

http://www.rmcybernetics.com/science/high_voltage/...

Is there a reason it wouldn't work to have a very long rod that has one end exposed to the atmosphere and the other about 100 ft into the earth? Early in the summer, this would be quite a large difference between the two temperatures: in the north of the US the ground freezes and it takes a long time (months) to warm up, likewise in the winter, the opposite happens and the ground cools off. If you were to put the end of a rod into an underground lake and have a small fan in the water (circulation), you should be able to keep a fairly large heat gradient across the rod. this gradient gives electrical properties to the effect that a larger gradient gives a larger current.

Is this viable/reasonable?

The technologies for drilling such holes are readily available as well as those for finding the underground lakes.

thoughts?

.......for one that can't be picked with a bic pen?