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  1. Miles Christie Because your queen will arrest you and draw and quarter you if you don't LOL! Liberty! "Merica, where we can spell words the way we want. Cesium. Not Caesium. Keep that Latin emperor toadying etymology to your despotically ruled selves. PS I'm being sarcastic about your despotism of your Queen. I know she has essentially no real power and you have a Parliament composed of the House of Lords (you damn feudal surfs anyways), and the house with most of the power, the house of commons you all elect along with the your Prime Minister. And "Merica is a hint that we understand our ruling elites tend to be the oligarchs or robber barons of our country. We might not have queens and lords, but we have oligarchs and robber barons. In fact, one is running for president. Say, I'll trade you one of our oligarchs for one of your Lords? Trump for say Lord Monckton? Bad hair for crazy eyes? (I know Lord Monckton isn't a voting member of the House of Lords, but I doubt that matters, hes as annoying as Bad Hair. So I think this would be a fair trade).
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  2. BLU Robot Soldier We do exist, nothing technical about it. I think what you mean our expectations about reality may not exist.  The nucleus of an atom from the proton-neutron to the electron mass doesn't cause structure and volume effect, rather the electromagnetic force is responsible for producing much of the structure and volume and other properties we interact with everyday. EM force provides us with structure, things to touch, feel, smell, and involves a majority of our interactions with molecules. It's not that we don't exist, not even technically; rather its the expectation one holds on reality that may not exist. It's that EM force interaction makes up most of what we think of as reality: liquid, solid, gas, plasma, etc. The particles themselves are extremely small, and in many cases have no defined size like the electron which can often be in many places at once, its more of a cloud, an orbital, orbitals are used to provide understanding of the emerging structure of elements and compounds. And protons and neutron centers are also smeared in several places at the same time in a proportional amount. It's the entire particle-wave duality phenomena. As they scale in amount of atoms emerge in chains and other geometric patterns emerging structures and properties of the structure; smooth, rough, hardness, softness, melting points, boiling points, freezing points, etc. But we as many chemical compounds exist.   It's may not be how everyone may have expected such things to be the basis of our existence, our expectations never existed.   What one expects exists, doesn't, but what really does, does exist. For instance, early Christians all the way to days of Zeus, deity of one form or others were thought to cause lightening, they expected reality of gods causing lightening. When it was discovered lightening is large scale static electricity, lightening didn't stop existing, lightening still exists, what didn't exist all along were their expectations that deities or one particular deity was causing lightening, it was their expectation of reality that didn't exist. Lightening though, it still exists.
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  3. FonVegen I've always found it interesting how various elements on their own in bonded pairs like Cl or Na are actually caustic and very poisonous, but in the right compound mix like NaCl table salt, they're essential to sustain life.   I get a chuckle when people say a particular food may have lots of chemicals in it. I have to remind them every piece of matter is a chemical, you need to be specific, what chemicals exactly, and/or how are the particular chemicals interact? Are they poisonous and how?
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  4. bennemann With the exception of Cesium 133, all other isotopes of cesium are radioactive coming from either trace isotopes or the synthetic isotope created in fission reactor fuels Cs 134.
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  5. Robo Batman There are some concepts of a black hole that are essentially verified in many of the theories (proofs are for mathematics only), such things as bending space-time when we observe gravitational lensing around extremely massive objects especially black holes. We understand the mass volume to radius and density that would produce them called the Schwarzschild radius. And it appears most galaxies including our own have super massive black holes at their center. So we have some inferences and knowledge. What it does exactly inside is likely bend space-time extremely in on its self continuously, all the energy of the matter that had fallen in goes into a single point and probably causes space in the initial implosion direction to continue to collapse in on itself. It just keeps going. All that's left is energy from the matter smacked into space. And Hawking is likely correct about Hawking radiation. Over extremely long periods it loses that energy via virtual particles breaking symmetry, one paired particle goes out into space and the other remains behind; both become stable particles and the energy mass causing the black hole an extremely tiny bit is transitioned away into the lonely once paired particle leaving the edge of the event horizon. Hawking radiation there hasn't been a clear cut inferred observation yet; it'd have to an experiment that infers the amount of Hawking radiation because it'd be incredibly small amount to be observed directly. There's many other phenomena that behave similarly that could be used to test the hypothesis. As well as strong understanding of how virtual particles behave via other tests. It's very likely correct.
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  6. Quite a few sulfur compounds in farts.  http://chemistry.about.com/od/medicalhealth/f/What-Is-The-Chemical-Composition-Of-Farts.htm
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  7. Geordie Just to add they found sulfur based bacteria and arsenic based bacteria. So non-carbon life forms just on earth exist. http://www.coml.org/discoveries/discoveries/new_species/sulphurbacteria.htm http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/02dec_monolake/
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