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have humans always felt boredom or is it something thats developed as we have invented more things to stimulate us? And do animals get bored?

why does hail stones form instead of snowflakes?

what would happen if in nuclear fussion they used heavy elements instead of light ones and same with fission if they used light elements instead of heavy ones?

is there limit to the human body in what we can achive? E.g. How fast can we run 100 currently usain bolt is the fastest at approx 9.5 seconds. Lithuanian strong man big z last year dead lifted a world rocord of approx 350+ kg how far can we push our selfs? The trend would suggest that the world rocord for 100 metre must go past the 9 second barrier and then onto 8 seconds!!!

simply, why cant we just plug a power stations generators into its own supply

fiancee asked me the other day if it was possible that somewere in the universe there could b life that could have evolved without the presence of water? I'v said impossible because water as certain qualities that are essential to life, is this right or could it be possible that life somewere as evolved without water?

Bad news for anyone dreaming of war drives.

A loose connection between a timer and a computer led some of the world’s smartest particle physicists to conclude that certain tiny particles called neutrinos moved faster than the speed of light -- a declaration that shocked the science world and would have called into questions Einstein’s theories.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/ ... z1n9SwyCWA

Anyone else experienced this? I did this morning and it was very very strange. Why does it happen? I thought our brains wouldn't let us know we were in a dream in case we lost touch with reality.

silly question maybe. Do fish get thirsty :?:

How does someone do this?

Is there a register? Do I put it in my will?