To write some of my own stuff with the article lol. Hmm not sure why you can't get page two use multiquote button.?
Okay - got a couple of new ones from the players over at debate politics First an oldie but a goodie! Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
This one will not give away on looking - it is VERY clever and I salute the makers of the website But the penny will drop the longer you look (ps write out the name in chemical symbols to really "get it")
This one is out of my field - looks like twaddle [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA"]How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal - YouTube[/ame]
I like this thread. I say no because I have had allot of electrical training and usually when a wire is wound around something it has to do with induction. I don't believe a radio signal can work the same way it has to do with frequency's not Inducing a current in something else. So I am going to say twaddle and wait for a few other people before checking out the answer. Thanks Bowerbird this is a good one.
Wifi antennas are crap and omnidirectional. You can just drill a hole into the end of a coffee can and stick the antenna on your wifi modem into it to make a directional antenna. A standard coffee can is close enough to a partial wavelength of wifi to give you some gain which will increase the range but also crappy enough that aim is not critical. Coffee can type antennas are not uncommon for point to point communication at those frequencies.
I'm saying truth to this one. It makes sense to me. You're using the cell phone's receiver (which uses the same bands as wi-fi) to boost the carrier enough for your ethernet card to read it. Nowadays a phone has to receive a lot of frequencies because cell signals are packet-switched AND frequency switched, depending on what towers are available. So a cell phone turned on and not actually being used for a call is still receiving.
Came across this while doing some reading: http://www.senseaboutscience.org I think it fits in rather well with the topic of this thread.
Bower is here dear!! Okay Bless the denialists they are such a rich source for this thread Now - Truth or Twaddle? This is supposed to be a theory that "disproves" the temperature divergence we have seen recently between global temperatures and solar activity But I particularly like this bit http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/my-simple-solar-planetary-energy-model/ Does anyone want to have some fun with this??
Lengthening day is an effect of global warming, not a cause. As polar ice melts, the mass gets distributed globally, which is on average closer to the equator than the poles (i.e., further from the Earth's axis). This causes the planet to slow in the same way that a skater slows her spin by stretching her arms out. The planetary stuff is just curve-fitting astrology, with no physical mechanism proposed (or even possible). Another example that shows doing statistics isn't the same thing as doing science.
