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it's time to play: Tell Me Something I Don't Know
#11
I'm not wearing any underpants!
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#12
Guinness names aerogel world's lightest solid



NASA/JPL NEWS RELEASE
Posted: May 8, 2002
A new version of aerogel, the particle-collecting substance on NASA's Stardust spacecraft, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the solid with the lowest density.

Dr. Steven Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a materials scientist who created the aerogel used by Stardust, also created a lighter version that weighs only 3 milligrams per cubic centimeter (.00011 pounds per cubic inch.) The team received the official certificate Monday.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0205/08aerogel/

Dennis R

I bought some aerogel from ebay a year or so ago, pretty neat stuff!
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#13
- How hard it is to clone a human

- More about Titan

- What it's like inside a comet

- How someone looks after a face transplant

- Whether the world's oceans are becoming more acidic and what it means for wildlife

- Whether carbon trading works

- How effective biometric ID data is (and whether it prevents terrorism)

- Whether RNAi is hype or hope

- Whether artificial life is a flash in the pan or a new industry

- Who will be the big beasts of science

Answers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/s...04,00.html
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#14
From the What we still dont know.

The biological purpose of a female orgasm
If an orgasm is not necessary to conception, what is the point of it?

Uhmmmm, yeah okay. Big Grin


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#15
From karsen's link:

"The biological purpose of a female orgasm

If an orgasm is not necessary to conception, what is the point of it?"
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#16
Beat ya Tongue
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#17
propagative mechanism.

It is necessary.

Edit: Just not specifically.
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#18
Carm Wrote:
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> From the What we still dont know.
>
> The biological purpose of a female orgasm
> If an orgasm is not necessary to conception, what
> is the point of it?
>



So you might (big MIGHT) get to do her again . . . Big Grin

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#19
> The biological purpose of a female orgasm
> If an orgasm is not necessary to conception, what is the
> point of it?

'Could as easily ask why women have big breasts. Gorillas seem to get along fine without them.
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#20
MacMagus Wrote:
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> 'Could as easily ask why women have big breasts.
> Gorillas seem to get along fine without them.

At least one expert doesn't think so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4300803.stm

As further refutation of your statement:





And what is this woman doing?

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