Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2006

= June 1 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 1
 * 1) f-ing ipods
 * 2) .tga
 * 3) Prompt supercritical masses don't "explode" - why
 * 4) underwater
 * 5) is this true?
 * 6) science
 * 7) world wide web.
 * 8) GIF Compression
 * 9) Blend ratios in fabrics
 * 10) Second
 * 11) The Last Person on Earth who Used a Slide Rule to Design a Digital Computer
 * 12) Mother seagulls and their babies
 * 13) Where do seagulls sleep?
 * 14) Orbit Question
 * 15) Ph of Orange Juice before and after pasteurization?
 * 16) Night vision?
 * 17) signals
 * sds
 * 1) protease size
 * 2) Water loss in relation to leaf's surface area
 * 3) The moon and cheese
 * 4) abdominal/tummy fat reduction techniques
 * 5) GREENHOUSE GAS
 * 6) cancer treatment and research 1450-1750
 * 7) how to run a Monte Carlo simulation on a DEM using ArcGIS
 * 8) dental implant
 * 9) From Windows to Mac
 * 10) "Acess is denied"
 * USB
 * 1) Shut up Microsoft Windows

= June 2 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 2
 * 1) Levitation
 * 2) Some complex ions questions
 * 3) Computer repair questions
 * 4) Long-distance Music Sharing
 * 5) Kidney
 * 6) moon
 * 7) Epinephrine/Adrenaline
 * 8) Simulation of Outer Space
 * 9) Rockets
 * 10) Nazi experimentation
 * 11) Materal safety data sheet
 * 12) single phase pole mounted transformer
 * 13) men nipples
 * 14) Insect identification
 * 15) Diesel exhaust
 * 16) Universe expansion
 * 17) Taxonomy tables
 * 18) enriched uranium for peaceful purposes
 * 19) Perfect vacumn
 * 20) Radio Nerve Treatment
 * 21) lightning rod
 * 22) Pharmacist
 * 23) Chickens Without Heads

= June 3 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 3
 * 1) Xbox 360 hard drive
 * 2) Souring of Milk
 * 3) Are there free hard drive recovery options?
 * 4) Toes
 * 5) Ability to Self-Update to New Versions in Linux Distributions
 * 6) wearing heel shoes
 * 7) sleeping birds
 * 8) life on mars?
 * 9) Itching
 * 10) TV static
 * 11) Industrial Engineering
 * 12) Buckminster fullerine
 * 13) Online Streaming of english music
 * 14) le chatelier's principle
 * 15) carbon emissions
 * 16) BOTANY LIFESCIENCES
 * 17) Sciatic nerve damage?
 * 18) chemistry
 * 19) Hamsters

= June 4 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 4
 * 1) Mother seagull refusing to feed her baby
 * 2) Kinetic Energy Problem
 * 3) Windows
 * 4) Diamond
 * 5) Black holes
 * 6) How fast can an Alligator run?
 * 7) Couple of black hole questions
 * 8) Curing Snoring and Apnea
 * 9) training a shark to be a vegetarian
 * 10) Considering Half Life 2's headcrabs...
 * 11) Biology
 * 12) what is the RFM of RFM
 * 13) Typewriter font
 * 14) Lawnmowers and pollution
 * 15) Water distillation methods
 * 16) Colloidal Paritcles
 * 17) Save the Candiru?
 * 18) cure for cancer
 * 19) Microphone
 * 20) Qubits and quantum computing
 * 21) one-way capacitance?

= June 5 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 5
 * 1) bin in /bin stands for 'binaries'?
 * 2) Computer Terminals Under Linux
 * 3) Bird Species
 * 4) DVD/CD-ROM drives in Device Manager
 * 5) Internet Explorer Shortcut
 * 6) Natural hair strainghtener ?
 * 7) Browser home page problem
 * 8) Mouse Question
 * 9) Contact lens
 * 10) Good ole racsism
 * 11) which is heavier?
 * 12) Concerning heat in phase changes
 * 13) Fear of needles
 * 14) More Nucleation Sites than Mentos?
 * 15) Black Holes
 * 16) Weird fly identification
 * 17) Which freezes faster?
 * 18) oxbow lake
 * 19) Plate tectonics- where is is taking us?
 * 20) Question about a massive black hole
 * 21) The archives, science desk
 * 22) water flow
 * 23) Thermometers
 * 24) Gold!!
 * 25) Medicine (AIDS)
 * 26) Global warming controversy
 * 27) Computer science - Linux
 * 28) Another HIV/AIDS question.

= June 6 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 6
 * 1) Electromagnetism
 * 2) Book of Tables
 * 3) mmm... fava beans
 * 4) why should i or should i not go with linux?
 * 5) Mind-body transfer organization?
 * 6) Expansion of Water by Freezing
 * 7) Ubuntu
 * 8) wierd colors and patterns
 * 9) Headache during flying
 * 10) Control Systems
 * 11) Fuel cell
 * 12) camphor
 * 13) Do birds have sensation in their beaks?
 * 14) balance disorder (vertigo Problem)
 * 15) Internet Explorer Script Error
 * IQ
 * 1) Plant watering Faux Pas
 * 2) My own DNA?
 * 3) OS 9 in school computer labs
 * 4) Writely invites?
 * 5) Hydrogen bonding
 * 6) Thanks
 * 7) wings
 * 8) Quantisation of Angular momentum
 * 9) Recycle Bin For Linux
 * 10) Vitamin A
 * 11) Humans and Raw Meat?

= June 7 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 7
 * 1) spinal meningitis: asprin? or not?
 * 2) If the sun turns off, when does the earth freeze?
 * 3) Chemistry - crystallisation
 * 4) Hydrogen supplement devices for gasoline engines
 * 5) Home-made infrared filters
 * 6) Nuclear weapon question
 * 7) Anti Magnetic Metal/Substance
 * 8) Blue Eyes
 * 9) Computer power-off
 * 10) Way forward for Struts/Stxx application.
 * 11) Visual "chemical noise" in the brain
 * 12) Medical Question: Disinfectant
 * 13) Windows Source Code
 * 14) Type of Wood (Picture of Veneer)
 * 15) Atomic radii exception
 * 16) Fear of witnessing eye injuries?
 * 17) N's in chemical nomiclature
 * 18) Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
 * 19) Product that creates a rubber coating on metal
 * 20) Vegetable People
 * 21) Sodium methoxide
 * 22) Wood
 * 23) Penicllin
 * 24) Hams at the desk
 * 25) Injecting heroin into the eyeball?
 * 26) Breathing from the freezer
 * 27) Boranes and regular polyhedra
 * 28) Fake tans?

= June 8 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 8
 * 1) Linux and SATA drives
 * 2) medical question on horses
 * 3) Water absorption in loose bowel movements
 * 4) Physics problem
 * 5) Theoretical question on time
 * 6) Nuclear Engineering
 * 7) Lightning Rod
 * 8) Combo Drive/Computer
 * 9) That's weird, my post to this page disappeared
 * 10) Mental calculation
 * 11) low vs. high pressure
 * 12) Games where the rules change
 * 13) NeuroNetworks
 * 14) kilograms = liters of h2o and vice versa
 * 15) Electrical resistance
 * 16) Active X controls and other internet security considerations
 * 17) humming in my head
 * 18) Where is the best place to live on Mars?
 * 19) Acetyl-CoA synthesis
 * 20) Virtual Machine Screensaver
 * 21) How does this edit conflict thing work?
 * 22) Distance Light Travels

= June 9 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 9
 * 1) One server, multiple domain names
 * 2) Plumbbob
 * 3) Possible damage from anal vibrator
 * 4) Special relativity
 * 5) gp120/41/160 stability
 * 6) Microkinesitherapy
 * 7) sea gull poo
 * 8) insect hair
 * 9) eyeglass while reading a computer
 * 10) Speculative CSS and/or Javascript question
 * 11) the largest tram network
 * 12) Low TSH-levels and hyperthyroidism

= June 10 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 10
 * 1) Ubuntu #2
 * 2) Compounds
 * 3) First Springtime Flowers
 * 4) The Ultimate Speed Limit
 * 5) Antimatter
 * 6) Gravity
 * 7) Allergy
 * 8) Science -Mostly Already Discovered?
 * 9) Neural Networks and Parallel-Processing Computers
 * 10) The Reaction Between Silver Chloride and Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid
 * 11) Revision IDs
 * 12) What (human) bodily fluids can disslove gum?
 * 13) Light going though matter
 * 14) Neural network
 * 15) multiplexers
 * 16) Chemeleon Frog
 * 17) Biology vaccinations
 * 18) Crabs - what do they eat?
 * 19) What connector???

= June 11 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 11
 * 1) Spam
 * 2) Specific weight of Helium under pressure and different temperature.
 * 3) Why isn't water flammable?
 * HIV
 * 1) Suffocating sensation when tired
 * 2) Psychology Experiment
 * 3) SquirrelMail
 * 4) Question about plecostomus (a type of fish)
 * 5) Embedd flash into powerpoint.
 * 6) Maximum Heart Rate and Aerobic Threshold
 * 7) Salvia divinorum
 * 8) Baby seagulls have just hatched - what's the best food to give to the mother/father gull?
 * 9) Popular Mechanics
 * 10) Different colours of cigarette smoke?
 * 11) Food coma
 * 12) Black holes - yet again... :)
 * 13) Meaning of gull squawks/caws/cackles/etc. and body language?

= June 12 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 12
 * 1) Headset adapter question
 * 2) Seizures and blood pressure
 * 3) moon
 * 4) Insect question
 * Web
 * 1) Birds' sexual organs
 * 2) learning how to fix mobile phones
 * 3) Civilization of birds
 * dna
 * 1) difference b/w velocity and acceleration?
 * 2) Body Volume
 * 3) additives
 * 4) pop and pop3
 * 5) mobile phone as modem!
 * 6) IP address configuration
 * 7) Several Science Experiment Questions
 * 8) phd or research in Bioinformatics
 * 9) Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
 * 10) Balancing a chemical reaction =
 * 11) Using a second screen just to show a screensaver
 * 12) training as bodybuilder
 * 13) Genetics
 * 14) The Genesis of Life- Crocodiles
 * 15) GMA 950
 * 16) Odd Trait

= June 13 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 13
 * 1) Guarani Indians from Asia
 * 2) Half-life comprehension and computation...
 * 3) Frontbend
 * 4) ELECTRONEGATIVITY
 * 5) Accidentally consuming electrons
 * 6) Redox reactions in steel manufacture.
 * 7) Water Pressure
 * 8) PE string for making fish net
 * 9) keyboard shortcuts
 * 10) Rare neurological disorder...
 * 11) Covalent bonds in HCl
 * 12) Carbon-14 detection threshhold
 * 13) bios viruses
 * 14) Proportionality / Physics of a shiny black shoe
 * 15) Formula for heptyl rocket fuel

= June 14 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 14
 * 1) Adjusting Depth Of Feild On Regular Digital Camera
 * 2) Question
 * 3) Measuring mass
 * 4) Fibre Optics
 * 5) Tilt in the Earth's axis
 * 6) Flying Saucer
 * 7) Bacteria ...
 * 8) Television,Broadband&Media
 * 9) Background music in Blogger
 * 10) train noise
 * 11) world
 * 12) career in science
 * 13) The FDA has been tapping my phone calls
 * 14) ant .5 mm
 * 15) Young's two-slit experiment
 * 16) Opera Web Browser and Flash Blocking
 * 17) New body
 * 18) Self-aware
 * 19) "seven-year-itch"?
 * 20) Who invented the shag carpet?
 * 21) Two Questions
 * 22) Earth's Greenhouse
 * 23) The noise mosquitoes make
 * 24) The Sun

= June 15 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 15
 * 1) Composition of Matter
 * 2) Java Image Editing
 * 3) can fireflies overwinter in warmer climates?
 * 4) fever and bitterness?
 * IQ
 * 1) Carbon Dioxide
 * 2) Question about Marine and Ship Designing.
 * 3) Nuclear apocalypse
 * 4) Orgasm
 * 5) Speed of light changing?
 * 6) worms - destined for greatness?
 * 7) Excercise
 * 8) Outer Layer of Salmon Meat
 * 9) Unwanted shawdows behind icons
 * 10) Lobsters
 * 11) Jogging at the speed of sound
 * 12) New question
 * 13) The end of the world...
 * 14) Gull identification...
 * 15) tremors

= June 16 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 16
 * 1) Large-caliber guns
 * 2) If God exists
 * 3) Why does the last thing I ate effect my taste?
 * 4) ARTHROPOD APPENDAGES
 * 5) Physics
 * 6) Radiation therapy and Brachytherapy
 * 7) SVG Map problem
 * 8) Why do airplanes draw their wheels in ?
 * 9) shaving with acne
 * 10) Audio files on websites
 * 11) First Software written
 * 12) What happens if you fall into a aeration tank at a sewage treatment plant?
 * 13) Movement of the Earth's Crust
 * 14) Reductants for use in aldehydes/ketones
 * 15) How does the thickness of the metal affect the force needed to compress a spring?
 * 16) Weather Balloons
 * 17) Soccer balls and helium
 * 18) Summer Meteor Showers 2006
 * 19) Playing Windows games on a Core Duo Macintosh
 * 20) HTML .chm files in a program
 * 21) Glycol and Methanol Brines?
 * 22) Global Warming
 * 23) human genome company
 * 24) foreskin smells

= June 17 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 17
 * 1) Cancer Rates
 * 2) Is it possible to pull your own head off?
 * 3) Help
 * 4) Orange peelings and antibacterial benefits
 * 5) Optics glossy/matte colours
 * 6) Alcohols and Sodium Metal
 * 7) software testing
 * 8) Bios Virus
 * 9) Schrodingers Equation
 * 10) How hard would it be to write this software?
 * 11) Biological classification systems
 * 12) Sinking lifejackets?
 * IIS
 * 1) Use of cows milk vs. soya milk and toothpaste
 * 2) Stable beer
 * 3) Building a bomb
 * 4) e-mail address harvesting?
 * 5) Ergonomical Sleeping

= June 18 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 18
 * 1) Old Alcohol
 * 2) My budgerigar's eyelids
 * 3) How does my Electric toothbrush recharge itself?
 * 4) HIV Transfer
 * 5) PNG graphics transparency
 * 6) Can you explain me the types of sugar?
 * 7) Web based file sharing
 * 8) MILF!
 * 9) Diffusion and Osmosis
 * 10) Case in e-mail addresses
 * 11) Health
 * 12) drugs
 * 13) Turkish spider
 * 14) biology question.
 * 15) Non-microwavable security devices
 * 16) Firefox problem
 * 17) Scientific Reviews
 * 18) CSS DIV issue
 * 19) Blade Sharpening
 * 20) Static On My Person
 * 21) Please help me identify this insect

= June 19 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 19
 * 1) Arrowroot Flour
 * 2) Is the Wikipedia being censored by the academic guild?
 * 3) First patented form of life...
 * 4) Ridiculous Information from Wikipedia.
 * 5) Wavefunction, quantum mechanics, electrons etc
 * 6) Appropriate Waste Disposal
 * 7) Can medium format (120) film be developed by my local pharmacy?
 * 8) The Moon
 * 9) Fish question
 * 10) How much did Apollo 11 cost?
 * 11) Edibility of Cucumis melo leaves
 * 12) EMP nullification
 * 13) JPG image problem
 * 14) Orbit/gravity/weightlessness
 * 15) Symptoms of long-term oxygen deprivation
 * 16) Centrifigal Force and Gravity
 * 17) Why is AC current prefered over DC?

= June 20 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 20
 * 1) Currency
 * 2) Stupid question
 * 3) Do you suffer from short-term memory loss? - I don't remember
 * 4) Medicine
 * 5) electricity in sea water
 * 6) Another quantum mechanics question
 * 7) Cutting animals in half?
 * 8) how does biology affects our life?
 * 9) Jumping from a height?
 * 10) Falling in an elevator
 * 11) Hairyness and evolution
 * 12) Circumcision
 * 13) Texas Instruments subfamily abbreviations
 * 14) Ethanol
 * 15) Microsoft Outlook Problem

= June 21 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 21
 * 1) Bismuth Tellurium Transistors used in water heating/cooling
 * 2) Science
 * 3) Color and black body radiation
 * 4) Cockroaches
 * 5) Diluting sulfuric acid
 * 6) Train Vs Fly
 * 7) Mobile phones radiation
 * 8) Aircraft Safety
 * 9) Electromagnetic Question
 * 10) Better Solar Panels
 * 11) Sunglasses
 * 12) Osmosis in potatoes
 * 13) Processor Architecture
 * 14) I forget where I buried my threads...
 * 15) THREE CLASIIFICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
 * 16) Lowering cholesterol levels through exercise
 * 17) Paleocollapse
 * 18) Shortest & longest day
 * 19) Larva
 * 20) Java SDK
 * 21) Propane....
 * 22) how phenolphthalein was invented/discovered?
 * 23) Death
 * 24) DVD decoder?
 * 25) Metal Plate in Head Questions
 * 26) 'Good' cholestrol

= June 22 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 22
 * 1) Bomb detection
 * 2) Need help in physics
 * 3) Leg length
 * 4) Biological Evolution versus Intelligent Design
 * 5) Equation out of the Middle East
 * 6) Most effecient device
 * 7) Amount of water in dew
 * 8) Meaning of "MMgy"
 * 9) Binoculars
 * 10) Environmental Question
 * 11) The Ultimate Speed Limit
 * 12) Food
 * 13) Define "temperature equilibration"
 * 14) Buffalo Coin Value
 * 15) Why does insulin stimulate glycolysis
 * 16) Data Flow Diagram
 * 17) jvc video tape
 * 18) US Experimental High Speed Recon Crafts
 * 19) Browsing v Downloading
 * 20) Untitled Windows XP Install Issue
 * 21) Teaching myself anatomy
 * 22) human diagram - showings measurements of age groups

= June 23 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 23
 * 1) Name of a Phobia?
 * 2) percolated coffee
 * 3) mesh-ups
 * 4) breaking down .rar file into little parts
 * 5) Memory
 * 6) Why don't ships sink?
 * 7) A QUESTION ABOUT C PROGRAMMING.
 * 8) Human genetic variation by continent
 * 9) Dream
 * 10) Referrence
 * 11) ocean currents
 * 12) Glycol-modified PET
 * 13) IAU and the naming of satellites
 * 14) entomogamy
 * 15) Sugar Granule Size - Does It Really Matter?
 * 16) photosynthesis and cellular respiration
 * 17) Macbook Pro // Bootcamp
 * 18) Types of melting
 * 19) Optical propreties of the human eye
 * 20) steriliziing an Ace bandage
 * 21) Solquid
 * 22) Yellow Water-lily

= June 24 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 24
 * 1) Help Me Identify This Butterfly
 * 2) Ice cubes
 * 3) Neuroprosthetics or Neuro cybernetics
 * 4) Magnetic fields
 * 5) Solid eggs
 * 6) Part 15 of the FCC rules.
 * 7) Has anyone ever disproven this idea?
 * 8) technology
 * 9) Cure for a phobia
 * 10) Seagulls
 * 11) Glasses
 * 12) Application Error
 * 13) remove coating
 * 14) PC's Parellel Port Programming in C++
 * 15) Bios problems?
 * 16) Levorotary sugars?
 * 17) Info Needed about Arrow International
 * 18) Hand swelling
 * 19) While on the subject of gulls again...

= June 25 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 25
 * 1) Insomnia side-effects
 * 2) Lightening in my eye
 * 3) How closely are seagulls and fulmars related?
 * 4) Hissing soft drink
 * 5) History of AIDS epidemc in Dallas, Texas
 * 6) Spider identification
 * 7) Officially Respected IQ Test
 * 8) brazilian essential oils
 * 9) Rate of diffusion
 * 10) Man made lakes
 * 11) Aircraft safety
 * 12) major revisions complete
 * 13) Alternative to internal combustion engine
 * 14) 5th state of matter?
 * 15) Clinical depression
 * 16) Stinging and Biting pests
 * 17) Rehydrating drinks
 * 18) Engineering Software
 * 19) Condoms
 * 20) Reading faces, liver lines etc.

= June 26 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 26
 * 1) Evolutionary question
 * 2) Does facial structure change during puberty?
 * 3) Mars Meteorites
 * 4) Fire
 * 5) Fermi's Hypothesis
 * 6) How the hell!?
 * 7) Tired eyes
 * 8) browser/URL
 * 9) Musky odor of certain woman
 * 10) Has anyone ever posted themselves in the mail?
 * 11) Possible solution to rising sea levels (copied from Talk:Global warming)
 * 12) Thunderstorm
 * 13) Spotted humans
 * 14) Methylated spirits?
 * 15) Rapid strep test
 * 16) HIV Transmission
 * 17) Gull vs. Fulmar
 * 18) Jammed Thumb
 * 19) Lightbulb
 * 20) Unknown tiny animals
 * 21) Grandpaternity testing
 * 22) vaccinations
 * 23) Weight of US Quarters

= June 27 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 27
 * 1) Human fear/revulsion/hatred towards 'minibeasts'?
 * 2) Light, tough metal alloys... Which is best?
 * 3) Long term costs of wind farms
 * 4) Global warming - solution?
 * 5) What Is the Absolute Temperature... in Heat?
 * 6) Homework help needed, thanks
 * 7) Cheat/trainer programs
 * 8) Vegetation vs Urbanisation
 * 9) Can you catch AIDS from a tick bite?
 * 10) I/O current booster
 * 11) same chance of getting the HIV as dying within the next year
 * 12) Age progression software
 * 13) Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy
 * 14) AIDS/HIV infection
 * 15) Chemistry
 * 16) What do I have to do to work in Intel/AMD?
 * 17) tramadol

= June 28 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 28
 * 1) Identifying an insect species
 * 2) Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
 * 3) which school of thought am i closest to?
 * 4) Image Processing
 * 5) Calculating rate of osmosis
 * 6) Looking for the Right Material
 * 7) Cooking query
 * 8) SLAX problem
 * 9) consuming about 5 to 10 liters of water a day
 * 10) Timeline from death to skeletal
 * 11) would putting a powerful magnet on your head alter your thoughts?
 * 12) Snapping neck
 * 13) Why can a black hole not explode
 * 14) chemistry

= June 29 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 29
 * 1) Looking for the Right Material #2
 * 2) physics problem
 * 3) Isomers of Pentanol
 * 4) Computer-aborted space shuttle launch
 * 5) Ancient creatures of the deep
 * 6) BSD licensed X Server in Java
 * 7) Mosquitos
 * 8) Why two different carrier systems... E1/T1???
 * 9) chemistry
 * 10) Faulty MPG
 * 11) Electronics - Wah pedal adapter
 * 12) Definition of Time
 * 13) Icelanders
 * 14) Arbidol question
 * 15) Mercury shape in water
 * 16) Question about days and nights
 * 17) What's the name of this chemical?
 * 18) Criss Angel
 * 1) Criss Angel

= June 30 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 30
 * 1) Energy
 * 2) Waveguide modes
 * 3) History of locks
 * 4) Peeing into bleach-filled toilet...
 * 5) toxic exposure
 * 6) Counseling vs. Therapy
 * 7) Blood Donation
 * 8) destroying the reference desk?
 * 9) enlight me with a light......
 * 10) Yin & Yang + 5 Elements Theory
 * 11) Corn cob
 * 12) Medication Methods
 * 13) Females taking Viagra
 * 14) Ship's bridge - round windows?
 * 15) Regex help
 * 16) JustSnipe.com Looks Dodgy...