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Comment Re:Neon (Score 1) 138

1. There is a lot more of Hydrogen and Oxygen than Neon.
2. Water have a feezing point of 273.15 K, while neon is 24.56 K(Under standard pressure, but it doesn't change much). This means that water can form a solid closer to the sun, and crash into things like Earth instead of just get blown away by solarwind.

Comment Re:Mix it up! (Score 1) 276

The only good thing you can do with old horses is burgers and sausages, so why not do that? Ok, you can also use the hides/leather, hair(for paintbrushes and bows for string instruments) and I think there is some way to make glue out of them. But my point is that it's a waste of meat not to slaughter horses (even if it just end up as dog food).

and no, this is not a slippery slope towards soylent green.

Comment Re:Why don't I feel upside down when at the S. Pol (Score 1) 356

It's because of evolution. Animals falling towards earths center have the evolutionary advantage of not floating off into space.

There is even an xkcd comic that's slightly on topic:
http://xkcd.com/417/

and this video explains it very well (even if you don't understand swedish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SNZuOHnFDk

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