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shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Circle the primary IFF interrogator antenna on an Arleigh Burke class destroyer.

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I should know that, but forgot.
 

eits

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Some more:

How does penicillin work?

How did the saying 'to drink the kool-aid' come about?

How does drinking alcohol give the effect of becoming warmer?

What do the H and N stand for in the influenza strain H1N1?

What order of magnitude is the SI 'femto' suffix?

What virus causes glandular fever?

What is the difference between a carcinoma and an adenoma?

In what arm of the Milky Way is the Solar System?

Which is the largest moon in the Solar System?

What is the 30th element in the periodic table?

Where in the body are the trochleae? (I know of three)

Are these too easy? Too hard?

1. fungus kills bacteria.

2. jonestown cult drank koolaid and killed themselves.

3. blood vessel dilation.

4. hemoglutinin and neuraminidase

5. no clue... not even a guess.

6. ebv

7. carcinoma - epithelial cancer, typically malignant... adenoma - cancer starting from a gland, typically benign

8. no clue.

9. orion arm? can't remember...

10. can't remember... i think it belongs to jupiter.

11. gonna wager a guess and say copper...

12. there are only two trochleae in the body... femoral and humeral... unless you're counting the trochlear process of the calcaneus or the trochlear nerve...

13. easy-ish. the periodic table one wasn't fair because i don't have it in front of me and i never memorized it or anything. don't know too many who have. also, astronomy isn't exactly my thing. the medical stuff, though, i'm all about :)
 
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Pia

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I believe this is the P/NP problem. No it's not possible.

Correct answer but not for the right reason. Polynomial and NonPolynomial refer to efficiency - how time and/or space needed to solve a problem increase as the size of the problem increases. But in this question we aren't concerned with efficiency at all. We just want to know if it's at all possible to write the testing program with infinite resources. We can't, and I personally find it a very unintuitive state of things.

We assume we have a working tester T. Then we write another program P which incorporates the code of T and uses it to test its own argument which is also a program. If T would say the program runs forever, P stops. If T would say the program stops, P goes into infinite loop. Having written P like this, we run P on itself to reveal the contradiction. If P now goes into infinite loop, then T must have said it stops, and if P stops then T must have said it runs forever. So the tester T cannot exist.
 

Locut0s

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Am pretty sure Titan is the largest moon.

I didnt know the milky way named its arms.

I was going to answer Titan. But he's right it's Ganymede, edges out Titan by a little. I know it was Jupiter that had the largest moon but I mistakenly picked Calisto.

Yes they have named the arms. The names of the arms are probably derived from the constellation they appear to be in in the sky.
 

Locut0s

Lifer
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that makes sense

and i know there are names for the arms of the milky way... don't know what they all are. i just thought i remember ours being in orion something... orion arm or spoke or something.

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eits

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Penicillin was the first of a class of drugs known as beta-lactams. They work by inserting themselves into the cell wall of bacteria when they want to divide (so they have to make more cell wall) or if it needs to be repaired. The shape of the beta-lactam ring inhibits the action of the enzyme used to join different components together, meaning no more cell wall.

Very good.

Vasodilation, actually.

Neuraminidase and haemagglutinin.

10^-15. Deca is 1. Centi is -2. Micro is -6. Nano is -9. Pico is -12. Next is femto, -15.

Glandular fever is infectious mononucleosis, and is caused by Epstein-Barr virus.

Basically an adenoma is not quite a carcinoma. Both are epithelial neoplasms. The road to formation of a cancerous growth is a long one, and it requires many different genetic changes in the same cell or cell lineage. Adenomas have some of the features (i.e. some of the mutations required) of a cancer, but do not invade other tissues (which is the defining characteristic of cancer).

Orion arm.

Ganymede. Beating Titan by just a little bit.

Zinc. Silicon is 14. Maybe you were thinking mass number (the most common silicon isotope has mass number of 28)?

Trochlea means pulley in Latin. One is in the eye socket, where it forms the pulley for the superior oblique muscle (which is innervated by the trochlear nerve, cranial nerve IV); that's where the nerve gets its name from. One is in the elbow joint and forms part of the humerus. The last one is in the calcaneus, the heel bone. It forms a groove where the tendon of the peroneus (or tibialis) longus muscle runs through.

gotta kinda correct you on this one. these aren't all called the trochlea. they're "trochlea of the ________", but not "the trochlea". there are only two anatomical structures called "the trochlea" without needing much specification... well, four, actually... and those are on both humeruses and femurs, where the elbow and knee joints are.
 

DaTT

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How much fun am I going to have at the cottage this weekend, sea doo'ing and snorkeling around sunken ships?
 

angminas

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Name the actor who was in Gremlins, The Golden Child, and Big Trouble In Little China.

Name something remarkable (for its time, if necessary) about the engine of a Ferrari F355.

Name the part of a CRT which shoots electrons at the viewer.

How did Kirk even the odds against Khan?

What did Ken Jennings say was the most important part of winning on Jeopardy?

Who said, or of whom was it said, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm"?

How much should I ask for this ~40 year old unopened box of Jello pudding? It's chocolate, and the box is in very good shape.

Why is it so hard to cover Pantera?

What would happen if all humans suddenly became completely and permantly immune to infectious diseases?

How can millions of parents expose their children for years to sex-drenched TV, radio, and print, yet be completely shocked when those same children get pregnant?

Explain the significance of the number .690.
 
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What detector has been providing evidence that we are in fact part of a multiverse?

What was Edwin Hubble's most significant discovery, and how did he come to discover it?

Outside of carbon based life, what other element has life formed from?

What routing protocol is the internet built upon? (Note this is *routing* protocol, which means TCP/IP is not the answer I'm looking for here)

What is the significance of the address 127.0.0.1?

What was the patent that the EU judge ruled was infringed upon by Samsung, and what was the specific issue that Samsung "copied"?

Who was the forum member that got to 10,000 posts in a few months time?

What is the Milliard reaction?

What is an ultramarthon defined as?

When was the Magna Carta signed, and why was it important?

Why does having a "blacker black" matter in home theater/TVs?

Why is IPS generally considered the "best" type of LCD panel?

What disease does Hawking suffer from?

What are the significant bodies in the local cluster our galaxy resides in?

What is the largest known star?
 

gorcorps

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WHO
IS
JAMES BOND?

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James Bond is not a man, but a code name given to multiple agents. Possibly at the same time, or possibly only one James Bond at a time. This is why you see such radical changes in personality, age, and time frames of each mission and agent.