Science Fair Projects

We invented Japan. No, really. We did. We also invented the internet, and our patented "Redcoat Tail-Kicker", a farmer with a pitchfork and a craving for untaxed English tea.

 

Really? Well that's erally screwed up then. You should not be able to do that unless you had an insane twat running the Australian patent office, but I suppose it HAD to be a lawyer. Also, in case I offended Settler, I'd just like to point out that I meant the report must have been a lie or hoax - not Settler himself.

Oh you are sooo wrong. Photosynthesis doesn't split the carbon and oxygen - it fixes both elements into usable compounds for the plants, protista or protazoa that are photosysntesizing. The release of oxygen and carbon dioxode again are the result of other processes within the organism - such as respiration (yes, plants respire as well as animals) and is not the result of photosynthesis.

But you were right in saying that nature beat us to it - but then, nature has beaten us to virtually everything.

Nah - he's talking about the car in the new Harry Potter film of course. It's not reeeaaally magic - they just make it fly using fans and compressed air!

 

I thought photosynthesis DOES release oxygen, but from the breakdown of water? It releases the oxygen, then combines the freed hydrogen with the carbon and oxygen of carbon dioxide, to contribute to a lengthy process, which eventually yields glucose.

 

Well, that's what I was getting at. Been a while since I've done biology . Still, love it how plants give out oxygen during the day and carbon dioxide at night.

 

Um, I thought they gave out carbon dioxide 24/7.?.?

The Earl of Sandwich, to be more specific.

 

Effectively yes, but it's not photosynthesis that gives up the oxygen. Photosysnthesis is responsible for the hydrogen fixation that allows the formation of carbon fixation into glucose, and it's THAT that gives up the oxygen.

And plants respire constantly. They only give out oxygen during the day, because the sunlight gives the plant enough energy through photosysnthesis to fix so much carbon during the day, that the oxygen cannot be used up quick enough by respiration and thus the excess is vented.

That's why, when PS stops at night, plants give out carbon dioxide, because the respiration has a chance to out-do the PS.

 

Well, actually, Japan is not very innovative. We, in America, build all that stuff, but they buy/steal the patents/blueprints for what WE have created and build it cheaper and faster with their cheap labour. They may rule the market, be we have invented most of what they have, they have just made it, supplies themselves with it first, and then let us by our own products.

To all the rest, I don't think you understand, or are you just TRYING to be difficult? I haven't ever heard of a breathing mask that could be used for SCUBA DIVING. A SMALL CO2 splitting device implanted in a mask not much bigger then your mouth.

With the flying car thing, yes I meant hovercraft, and no, Ferret, I didn't mean something stupid like that. I know what I was talking about. They have been working on making useable flying cars since the mid 1960s. Most of their models don't work well, but a working model for two is said to be coming out for public sale in a year or two... I was wondering why they never tried to compress the air and jet it out so quickly that it would seem as one constant jet of air, to hold the hovercar upright.

 

nbrosz, a local science museum has the closest thing to hover technology they can get at the moment. It's a chair, and it moves by forcing air out the bottom and sides, like an air hockey puck.
It moves at a rate of about twenty feet a minute, and it has to recharge every five minutes.

That's how close to hovercars we are.

:roll:

 

Ahh, I beg to differ! The car I was referring to is here. It is, by the way, made by Americans.

 

I thought that was germany.

 

Not very innovative? I suppose you mean very very innovative. Right? You're not like, accusing a country of doing all that without any facts to back up your statements, are you? You're not suggesting that the US is stupid enough to let the Japanese do all that, are you? You're not suggesting that the Japanese are nothing but labourers and thieves stealing ideas from the poor, poor US inventor, are you?

ARE YOU? :evil:


They (the Japanese) invented the comic, by the way. You owe Garfield to them. They invented the .dat format too, I think. There go your VCDs.

Not to mention their innovativeness in torture techniques.

 

No as far as i understand the first comic was "the little yellow man" wich was published in a american newspaper.

 

Frank Whittle, an English guy, is credited with inventing the jet engine during WWII.

I think Qilikatal might be thinking of the rocket engine.

 

I think I might be thinking thoughts on thinking thoughts while thinking I think.

 

I'm not saying they are dumb, or that they have never invented anything, but that is where most of what they and China have come from.

 

I don't think English words can express your stupidity at the moment nbrosz. The Japanese language might be able to though. If they can't, I'm sure they can invent something to create words (in English and Japanese) to do so.

 

Nbrosz, I'm interested, do you really not see the scary biggotry here? You've taken a country of people you've probably never visited, you're talking about a subject on which you're almost certainly not privvy to any hard information, and yet you are stating - as fact - that those people are thieves, and of inferior creativity to people in your own country - most of whom you have also never met.

How do you know, for example, the USA have ever invented a single thing for themselves. For all you actually know, they may have just been stealing ideas from Africans.