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How is reading the geologic record different from reading a book?

I'm going to answer your question with a list. I'm doing this for two reasons.

1) They look nice.
2) They break large chunks or boulders of information down into not as large chunks.
3) They allow for prioritizing of important information based on a vertical idiom, in which the most important information resides at the upper strata and as we dig deeper into the lower strata, the information becomes less and less relevant.
4) This shouldn't be confused with the way the geologic record works, because in the geologic record as you dig deeper into the strata, things tend to get older and more interesting.
5) Rocks can be pointy.
6) I own 3 pairs of socks.

The reasons that reading the geologic record are different from reading a book are as follows:

1) The pages of the geologic record are reeeeeaaaallly heavy. I'm not sure if you have ever tried to turn a mountain or even a foothill before, but I have and I herniated things that I didn't even know existed. Did the mountain and/or foothill even budge? No way. There are better ways of turning the "pages" of the geologic record, but I can't divulge them to you.
2) No Page Numbers (that was an easy one)
3) To bookmark your place you have to basically explode all of the layers above the ones you want to stop reading at. Most people / governments frown on this, but they can't stop you if you get Geological Library card. You can apply for this at your local branch of the GL.
4) Technically, you never take it off the shelf. If you think of the planet Earth abstractly and imagine that it is actually "on" the bookshelves that are "on" it (this is easy to do if you're smart enough to free your mind of the laws of gravity) then you never "take it off" the shelf. If you wanted to it would mean launching your bookshelf past the gravitational pull of the earth.
5) footnotes vs. foothills
6) cliff notes vs. actual cliffs.
7) Books are often read in schools.
8) I put rocks in my underpants.
9) Neil Diamond will live forever.
10) Milkshakes are yummy.

Hope that helps!

Source(s):

Molten Lava at the Earth's Core

Jules Verne loved milkshakes too

Do you know where I could find a discounting table that has inflation (Escalating rate) in it as well?

Discount rate 4% and under would prefer 3.5% discount rate.

Answer:

When looking for an inflatable discount table I usually start my search at local liquidation warehouses. I know that in name this sounds like a place where you would be looking for water filled discount tables but, trust me, this is a scheme developed by the inflatable table industry to try to fool you into paying a liquid or in some cases even a solid price for a gas filled table.

I think that it is completely abhorrent the way these table industries operate and really think there should be more government laws (liquid, gas or solid) placed on them to protect the consumer.

Ultimately it's not the government laws, but the very laws of nature that govern these tables. The government laws (as in Plato's allegory of the cave) are just the shadows cast on the walls by the true laws of Nature.

In nature, energy transfer is required to change any material from it's current state to any other physical state. Where does this energy come from when a gas filled table is purchased at the price of a solid or liquid filled table? Well, let me outline it for you...

Let's say you buy a table at a liquidation store that requires you to use air (gas) from your lungs to inflate. First off, you have wrongfully paid a liquid filled table cost for a table that is to be gas filled. Second, you are required to supply the gas to fill the table. They pay nothing for this energy exchange, and you aren't allowed to charge them for the energy you will have to supply. Seems like a solid racket to me.

To get around this, I find an inflatable table at a liquidation warehouse, I demand that they inflate the table for me at an escalating rate, so I can make sure they are filling it with air and not removing air from i.t (If they were to remove all of the air from the table this is governed by the vacuum laws, and is an entirely separate issue) I pay liquid price for an already inflated table and end up getting your desired 3.5% discount rate plus a second discount rate of 1.5% that I just made up. Because, let's face it, laws were made to be broken!

Source(s):

Mendeleev, mostly.

What's so noble about these gases?

Why is there a clicking in my jaw?

Hello, in the past half hour, I have noticed a "clicking" noise has been coming from my jaw. It doesn't hurt or anything, it just clicks. I tried to see what it was on google but it kept on saying things about TMJ/TMD. I've read some things about it, but it doesn't seem like I have any of the symptoms. Does anyone know what this is? Thanks in advance

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Sleep dentistry advice needed?

Ok i have a phobia of dentist as you have probably gathered from my other questions. I am strongly considering sleep dentistry as an option to have all my fillings done and teeth whitened etc. Has anyone had sleep dentistry? Was it good? and can you give me a rough cost in Pounds for the UK please?

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tally ho from across the pond.

i've been a practicing sleep dentist for about six lawsuits now, and i can probably give you a rough idea of how "enameled" (some dental humour [i used a "u" so you'd understand what i was saying]) you will be by the procedure.

fillings: i typically stay up for six-eight days before scheduling a filling... by the time i get you in the room, the cement mixer has backed up to the window and the ole concrete is halfway down the slide... i'll be out like a light but you would just need to hop in the chair and open your mouth... takes care of itself!

teeth whiting: the trick here is falling asleep without moving the belt sander, i've "shourtened" a few lip lines but after some practice it's definitely something i can do in my sleep. one note: you'll need to wake me up to change the paper grit! i'm not a light sleeper, sou you'll need to really hit me without bumping the sander off of your teeth. i typically stay awake for 17 days... this way, i'm almoust asleep before you even arrive... once the white noise of a belt sander starts up, i just make sure my weight (14 stone if you was woundering) is going to fall forward onto your front teeth and presto-chango I'm ASLEEP! it's tough to adjust pressure when you're one or two paces from absolute comatose, so i (and any good sleep dentist) has knocked out a few front teeth during this procedure... but trust me when i say that partials are a rich man's teeth.

the cost is usually less than a pound of enamel, often more than a pound of flesh and you'll lose two or three pounds in sweat... i call it the "sleep diet"!

Source(s):

"it's like someone took a tiny hammer and chiseled right through my tooth while using aluminum foil as an anesthetic." --that's a quote from a patient (i did the wourk in my SLEEP!)

What do the put on potatoes to prevent potatoes from growing eyes and going bad? ?

it is a type of gas or spray , and they last from october until july

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i will answer quickly to avoid returning to the past time of time. i just disappeared... here i am!

when rudolph said " don't go growing any eyes" i think he meant that as a fraction. as usual, jimmy and squiggy put the damage on. they went bad.

here i am!

once i was lasting back in time. today was the year before and i saw my mother eating a potato made out of yams. she was a gas and i was the universe exploding on my elbow (in a pan).

did you... here i am!

it's the spraying that got me... now i'm all eyes... gone idaho, and not a drop to drink.

who here likes chocolate? i'm lasting from the past... hopefully this year it's from december to january and i'm a gas again. big bang!

here i am!

Source(s):

you wouldn't hit a guy with 75 pairs of glasses, would you?

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Lazer tag? Im Alpharetta, Ga?

where is a place in ALpharetta, Ga that has Lazer Tag!?

Hello small city on the state of Georgia. I know this whole process must be quite foreign to you, as I believe you are the first city to ever successfully 1) connect to the internet as a single entity, and 2) successfully create a yahoo account!

Congratulations! the boys in Washington will be so proud of you, however, do not be surprised if they end up running some kind of painful tests on you to try and determine from where this sentient behavior stems. More than likely they will run the half a lemon test, which I can tell you is excruciating to humans and therefore we'll assume to entire cities as well (I mean you are what you eat, and just to make this clear I'll use an analogy, where you fill in the blank. Humans are to small ant cities what human cities are to _________ right... humans.)

O.K. so the problem here is that you are looking for some form of laser tagging system within your own self. A "place" that has one, to be specific.

I think to help you I may need to carry our Humans / Small Cities of Ants analogy a little further.

I named my ant city "Fargo, North Dacloset" because I think that's cute. Also, most of the ant sized costumes I had were for cold climates and I didn't want the ants to swelter in the Georgia heat. Also, the city is in my closet, I think even on the Northern side of it, but it's really skinny so it is hard to tell.

o.k. so, on a normal day in Fargo I will get up and walk into my closet and shake the ant "farm" case really hard, just to make sure they have something to do the rest of the day. I then spend the next few hours dressing them in new work uniforms and trying to glue them into place in the areas I think they will look the best for other ants that might decide to visit our fine city for a bout of tourism or a local festival (the spring catillion is nice).

There are no farmer costumes I repeat, NO FARMER costumes, and I resent the ones who name these apparatus. I scratch off the "farm" part, and break off the little silos (they are fake by the way, just warning you, just like everything else that they package in)

After getting the town set up for another day (it's exhausting, so I can see why you are turning to the internet for some kind of respite) I let the little ants try to survive, while pouring water all over them (you might think of it as your rain), scorching them with the sun (this is the actual sun, I couldn't find an analogy for that), and also unleash Mr. finger on them, which would probably be best likened to your Mayor.

I figured that to best help you with this question, that I would try finding the Laser Tag inside of the city of Fargo, and then it would probably be the same place that the one exists inside of you.

I started by gluing the ant "farm" to my own face. This was fine until by no small accident the lid was removed. I could see all of the costumed ants starting to wiggle free from their glue bonds, but my glue bonds had begun to set up completely.

I then felt that our analogy (you being a city that had eaten the humans inside of it, then contacting those humans by means of their technology, or your own brain waves) was close enough, and so I began trying to get an account to use the ant internet. however, after posting a question to the human internet about how I should best set up this analogy and finally getting an answer, I realized that I had sold myself short and needed to take it "all the way" so to speak.

I dumped all of the ant people and sand out onto a plate and began licking them up. I removed some of the construction workers helmets first as I thought they might be tough to choke down, and I figured there would be stores inside of me for them to buy new helmets from.

All in all everything went down well, and I was really starting to feel how you must feel. I became the ant city!!!

I started to concentrate on my own brain waves and after a few weeks of meditation was able to get onto the ant internet and even sign up for ant yahoo. I posted the question about Laser Tag, and then things started to get really weird...

You may have actually noticed yourself, and I'm sure Georgia, has noticed one level up on the Georgian cities internet, and then North America has noticed on the States internet etc. etc.

But the ants ended up doing the same thing the other way on the spectrum eating a city of molecules and posting the Laser Tag question on their internet, and so on and so forth.

We've created an infinite posting of this question that stretches to the the internet that exists where absolutely nothing exists, and also to the internet of the Creator of all things. We must somehow transcend what we have created, to find the answer, but then will we really need it?

Source(s):

The source of all things, and also of nothing.

an advise pliz.is piglet a weired nickname? i think it's not.?

By all means, call your weir Piglet. Some call their weir Matt or Crump but they are just being common and predictable.

But I have to ask.. How did you acquire your weir?

Are you a hydrologist by chance?

How fascinating. Flood risk assessment and damming must make you feel quite god-like.

So, just a few questions for the budding hydrologist…

Do I need to build that boat?
If so, I only have one cat, should I find it a mate?
And, I’m allergic to doves, how will I know when to dock my boat?

Not a hydrologist?

Do you just have a passing interest in rivers?
I know discussions of ‘rate of flow’ and ‘lock availability’ have been known to turn a head or two.

Or do you just hate fish? I mean, who doesn’t know that weirs can halt migrating fish?
And I know you must find it as amusing as I do to watch the fish try and climb those ladders.

No matter how you became interested in weirs, you should know, name choice is not a concern. Sharp crested, proportional, piglet… It’s all the same in the weired world.

Source(s)

'Weir'ed universe

Question about after 35 pregnancies...?

So, they say that the risks of pregnancy (especially for Down Syndrome) are much greater after the age of 35.

My question is this... Is that only for first-time moms, or does the research support the same findings for people who already have kids?

First off, I just want to commend you. Your first Question was labeled "Question", wasn't a question at all and ended in ellipses points. This is the kind of thing that keeps people guessing.

Second, you wait until after making another statement attributed to the ever-elusive "them" before finally asking your actual question. I can see how you have had the patients (pashenz?) to raise 35 children. Some of us however have lives to get back to so let's talk about this and move on.

I don't really think it matters what age you actually are, I did the math and figured out that if you have 35 children you have to be at least 315 years old, so... let's just assume that you are and leave it at that. I would imagine you are probably a little older, but you know what "they" say after 300; who's counting?

O.k. so now that we have that all important fact out of the way, let's move on to answering your question. You stated that your question was this:

"Is that only for first-time moms, or does the research support the same findings for people who already have kids?"

My answer is this:

That is a pronoun, used to indicate a person, thing, idea, state, event, time, remark, etc., as pointed out or present, mentioned before, supposed to be understood, or by way of emphasis.

Does that help at all? They seem to think it does.

Source(s): I have been re-born around 35 times.

push em out, push em out, way out.

My ipod got a little wet?

Here's what happened... I was watering some flowers in above 90 degree weather listening to my ipod. I sprayed some water on myself (not a lot) and then figured I shouldn't let my ipod get wet. It worked for about 1 minute then turned off. What do I do now?

There are a couple of things to do.

First… Go dry off. Right now. You’ll catch a chill and with your Ipod not working you don’t want to be laid up in bed with no tunes. And if you have no tunes you’ll be stuck watching daytime soap operas or children’s shows. If that happens, keep an eye out for the pool boy on that one show. He’s his sister’s nephew’s best friend’s uncles ex butler. And he has a candlestick in the parlour.

Once you recover from your chill episode… Quit watering the flowers. They get dependant on this ‘water’ and next thing you know, it’s a full blown habit. Trust me, stop now. They’ll thank you for it in the long run.

And as for this accidental watering of yourself... Tsk tsk. That’s how that water gets you hooked. First a sip, then an ‘accidental’ spray, then full fledged frolicking in the garden. Soon you’ll be wallowing in Jacuzzi’s and sipping designer water from some place in France. Break the cycle. You can do it. I have every faith in you.

Third. Well. What do you do now? I’d have to suggest, turning the Ipod back on.

You’ll never know if it works unless you do this. Go on. Try it. Just make sure it’s not in sleep mode. Nothing likes to be disturbed while it’s in sleep mode. It could be dreaming of the pool boy… In that one show.

Source(s):

That one show