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Oldsmoboat's. That's just disturbing...

Actually, the main result of the war was the near complete demolition of all infrastructure in the South, the razing of every major southern city, the wholescale death of a whole ton of southerners and the near complete annihilation of the economy and political rights of most southern states for...

I'm nipping this in the bud: Consider the number 0.1. This is equivalent to 10^(-1). Then 0.01 = 10^(-2), 0.001=10^(-3), etc. Then if there are n 0s between the decimal and the one, the number is 10^(-(n-1)), clearly. Now we increase n arbitrarily, to 0.000...1: lim (n->infinity)...

Um... Yes? Why would you not?

Explain to me how history benefits a cop, fireman, nurse, teacher (calculus), etc in their day to day lives and you can call it even. Truth is, every medical profession requires a good amount of calculus and statistics in order to do their job to its fullest potential, alongside a careful...

r = 2^(n-1) Total = 2^n - 1

Not in any predictable fashion. Remember, the mantle is liquid, and the currents and eddies in it are dictated by the spinning of the core, not the fact that the core is half liquid. Whether the force of the mantle expanding as such would have major effects on the earth is debatable, but I'd...

Pretty sure freezing the core would just kill the magnetic field, and pretty sure that the effects of this, while unpredictable, would not amount to a catastropic world destroying event. Best case, all the migratory birds in the world die off and we lose all our auroras. Worst case, weather...

Those models also tell us that leaving it where it is makes it into a clone of Venus. :-P It is a pretty complex question - as more water evaporates, cloud cover and albedo will similarly increase, reducing the amount of heat trapped by the earth. Increased efficiency of carbon burnoff...

EDIT: Had stuff backwards at first Right, so Guy-Lussac's law has little to do with this, I was misinterpreting it. As you heat air, it rises due to the differential density of the atmosphere (due to gravity pulling it tighter lower and looser higher). If this were the only effect, it would...

Fractional is same as normal power. f(x) = (x-2)^(-1), f'(x) = -1 * (x-2)' * (x-2)^(-2) = -(x-2)^(-2) = -1/(x-2)^2.

Somebody didn't pay attention in Calculus. Only in the case of a fractal surface would you get an infinite surface area - since atoms are ultimatley round, you would come out with a large but finite surface area, the point being that since as you get down to smaller scales the areas involved...

A really fast endothermic reaction? Photosynthesis.

Karl Popper. Father of modern scientific philosophy.

Watch the movie, End of Evangelion. They ran out of money on the last two eps and had to rush them... The last two are traditionally thought of as Shinji's introspective during the events of that movie.