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Comment Re:Video (Score 1) 1671

Honest question: why suppress a video displaying proper conduct? Like most people who will watch the video, I have no experience in military conduct or law and it is difficult for me to evaluate its contents in a complete context. Although knowing that the video was suppressed and only available due to wikileaks makes me naively suspect that laws of conduct were broken.

Comment Carbon dating... (Score 1) 336

ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_datingrel=url2html-21275http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating> only works for things up to ~50,000 years old, so it wasn't used for those old rocks. For things older than ~100,000 years folks use ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-argon_datingrel=url2html-21275http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-argon_dating>. The applicable time period is based on the half-life of the isotope. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years while Potassium-40's is 1.248e9 years.

Comment Re:Take that china (Score 1) 183

Copernicium is named after Copernicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium#Naming; regarded as the father of modern astronomy and whose heliocentric model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution is considered as a crucial starting point of the Scientific Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution

Copper is apparently from the Latin cuprum, which is from the word cyprian, a more general word for copper and bronze alloys, itself derived from the name of the island Cyprus where the metal was mined. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=copper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#Antiquity_and_Middle_Ages

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