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Post by Sweet Eet on Aug 29, 2007 21:24:04 GMT -5
Static electricity is real electricity. ALL electricity is caused when electrons are not tightly held by the atomic nuclei they orbit, so they pass easily from molecule to molecule (or FLOW). Friction causes the moving item to gather electrons from the stationary item (think of your feet moving along carpet or clothes in the dryer). Once an item is "charged" with electrons the "charge" can be discharged - think of touching someone/something and giving off a "shock". Lightning is electricity... if you are in a car which is struck by lightning drive into a tree or something else which is solid - hard enough to crash a small bit - and the lightning "charge" will leave your car and "shock" the item you crashed into  |
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 22, 2007 10:20:15 GMT -5
Oh, cool. Interesting...
Did yo know that if you have too many crisscrossing wires, the electric signals get messed up and your machine malfunctions?
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 22, 2007 13:10:46 GMT -5
Do you know, if you have too many criss-crossing neurons in a brain the signals become confused and that is what mental retardation is?
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 22, 2007 20:57:08 GMT -5
What causes all the criss-crossing neurons?
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 22, 2007 23:03:50 GMT -5
A nerve cell has a cell body which is located somewere (such as the brain) and either has 1. One AXON and one DENDRITE 2. or many dendrites. If it is a motor neuron the cell body in the brain has an AXON which reaches all the way to its target; for example all the way to the little toe (to make it move). ONE axon - all that way... There are other cells (Schwann Cells) which live along side the neurons and wrap their processes around the axons of the neurons (like a plastic casing). There are gaps between these myelin processes and the nerve "signal" jumps from gap to gap (extremely fast). If these cells die, or fail to form, or are damaged the myelin casing does not provide the gaps for jumping and the insulation from other neurons, and electrical cross-talk (or no transmission of signals) happens.  |
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Post by Darkfire on Oct 23, 2007 8:11:01 GMT -5
wow i thought this thread was long forgotten!
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 23, 2007 15:00:37 GMT -5
Nope... It only used to be!
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 23, 2007 17:51:18 GMT -5
(Someone's turn to add something interesting here)
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 23, 2007 21:26:05 GMT -5
Terminator puts Eet in a washing machine and asks her to do his laundry. she does it and Terminator accidentally leans on the button and Eet is spun across the room.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 26, 2007 16:35:24 GMT -5
Eet thinks fast as she flies out of the machine and quickly teleports herself to the Cayman Islands, where she lands gracefully on the clean, white sand. Terminator's laundry also flies from the machine but no one teleports it - so it slams into the wall and becomes covered with dirt! Too bad Eet is in the Caribbean and Terminator has to do his own laundry now!
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 27, 2007 15:25:53 GMT -5
Terminator gets a coworker at Skynet Associates to do the laundry, and Terminator invites Megatron and Optimus to go hunting.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 27, 2007 19:01:46 GMT -5
Eet enjoys her time in the Caymans - riding around on a sailboat, drinking tutti-fruity drinks, eating fresh coconut...
The heck with hunting! it's too much work.
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 28, 2007 12:32:32 GMT -5
Where has Robocop been lately, anyway?
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Post by Sweet Eet on Oct 28, 2007 18:58:49 GMT -5
He is being held prisoner!
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Post by Kei-Lin on Oct 29, 2007 9:42:52 GMT -5
By ugly gargoyles... LOL
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