Would it be illegal to make and operate a rail gun at home?
Here's some instructions, have at it!How to make a RAILGUN! Homemade Railgun Experiment
What is the best last name you heard or personally know?
I think names that sound old and well-established, and sound as if they have a lineage or history, sound cool. Also names that sound unique or intriguing such as "Pierce" or "Shivers". MaverickQuinnNolanEastonPierceHunterBixbyDevereauxDooleyEverhartFairchildFitzpatrickHolidayRaceShiversSourced from List of Popular Cool Last NamesAlliteration in names can also sound attractive:Isabelle SandersJordan JonesDaniel DeanAmy MooreLucy SinclairMarley TempleOr names that rhyme:Alan WagnerJack CadwellAmy JamesJames Kade
Is Pardot pronounced "Par-Dot" or "Par-Dough"?
I've been led to understand that proper French pronunciation by a foreign speaking individual should include all letter sounds, so as not to sound pretentiously regional or colloquial. An example of this is Paul McCartney’s pronounciation of “ensemble” in the Beatles’ song Michelle: the “ble” is pronounced, very softly, yet not silent. Hearing the French may sound like “ahn-sahm” but listening to McCartney, closely, reveals an almost imperceptible inclusion of the ending syllable. Using this rule, “pardot” would sound more like “par doot”, with a clipping of the “t” at the end.
Is it okay to drink ice-cold water right after drinking hot coffee?
In terms of ordinary views of health and medicine, it’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with it.At the same time, for those seeking optimal health, the desire to do this is an indicator of an imbalance, and that imbalance, plus the hot coffee and cold water, could, over time, lead to a greater imbalance. It is easiest to understand this if we look at it from the perspective of oriental medicine. Hot coffee and caffeine shock the body in one way. (And if the coffee has real sugar, more shock, and if artificial sweetener, a whole other pair of imbalances.) The ice-cold water produces an opposite shock.The desire to shock the body - that is, whatever is driving this behavior - indicates that something is out of whack. Drinking hot then cold is, for your body, like whacking an air conditioner because it is rattling. It may stop the noise for now, but it won’t fix the loose part.Those who care about this subtle level can do one of three things:Slowly moderate the habit. Switch to decaf (or even half regular/half decaf) plus cool, but not cold water. See what the body needs. Find some healthy dietary, herbal, or exercise item that is more balancing.Go cold turkey. Switch to warm green tea and room temperature water. See what comes up, physically and emotionally.Tell an acupuncturist or other specialist in Chinese medical diagnosis about the habit.As this is a subtle issue, it is best to address it after any more serious imbalances or illnesses are resolved.
How would we tackle an alien invasion?
We'd lose. Horribly horribly badly. There's ZERO chance of us winning or even posting a threat. We'd likely not even know we were invaded. Stop for a moment to consider the technology needed to traverse the stars. They would be orders of magnitude more advanced than us. They'd be more advanced than us than we are of the Sentinelese people. If we sought to invade those islands with our full military force, all at once, every nation on planet earth . . . that MIGHT compare to the degrees of technological disparity I'm talking about.We wouldn't even know we were invaded. Stop thinking "Independence Day" and/or "V" and/or "Skyline" or any other fictional account. Just like the Sentinelese people have no ability to imagine our technology and prepare for or predict or counter such an invasion, we too would have no ability to imagine, predict or counter an alien invasion from such an advanced species.I've already stated this, by any point in time that an alien race would traverse the stars and invade us, they'd have long since learned with 100% accuracy how to create micro (or nano) contagions. They'd simply be able to release a probe with a few hundred different strains of whatever, that target us, or all animals or all biology and begin wiping us out. We'd simply think some horrible plague had happened and would be gone within short order. We'd be extinct before any detectible ship came within 100 million kilometers of Earth. A small, capsule-sized probe, dropped over any part of the planet and winds to carry the contagion to the biosphere.Aliens capable of traversing the stars would be patient and not in any rush. They'd not need be. They'd simply annihilate us with biology. And then wait for us to die.
Why is FOX News calling Osama Usama?
That is the way it is correctly pronounced. There is no universally accepted standard in the West for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English, so bin Laden's name is spelled in many different ways. The version translation most often used by English-language mass media is Osama bin Laden. Most American government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin", both of which are often abbreviated to UBL. Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama Ben Laden" (French-language mass media). The last two words of the name can also be found as "Binladen" or (as used by his family in the West) "Binladin". The spelling with "o" and "e" comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time