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"The Power of Shadows, ... which aired in 2012 ... recorded the highest ratings in the history of its network." Rape is very very very bad. If, like other countries, women are the majority of viewers of these Soaps, why do they tolerate it? I mean, if these soaps featured, constant shots of people doing motorcycle engine repairs, presumably, the women, would not watch the shows. But seemingly, put a rape in the show - strillions of women tune in to watch, why? ​Me, I'd sentence anyone found watching more than 1 hour of soaps per week, to hard labour.

There are also Khmer ruins in Laos

About 15" of copper water pipe, marbles and the stuff from the inside of firecrackers, we never hurt anyone, but we did break a window once for which I was punished... All part of growing up.

My understanding is that they were long gone, prior to the re-discovery of the Angkor complex, by various explorers several hundred years ago.

Well this is getting interesting...

No, the brain or the computer was the same, just it's content was different. i.e. 100 pages of a tabloid newspaper probably does not contain much useful information, whereas 100 pages of a journal such as 'Nature' or 'Lancet' probably contain a wealth of useful information. or: the brain of a typical guest on the Jerry Springer show, whilst the same size and structure as yours or mine, is likely to be full of absolute crap, dross and bullshit, whereas yours and mine, I can confidently say, are full of knowledge and of a high intellect. Tee hee...

The physical structure of the Human brain is analogous in computer terms to computer hard disks/memory - they all look the same, roughly, so it's not what they are, but the information that they contain that makes the difference.

If Ebola breaks out in Bangkok TOT will be selling tickets to go and see the victims...

Could you get me a souvenir? Perhaps a hat off one of those sexy marching girls?

Kong, you mean Penguin is a bird, I am sure. Dexi - what you said, sort of aligns with what I am talking about with the Mind and Soul. The idea that all a person knows and is - (a bit airy fairy that), is contained in information residing somewhere in the brain, is fairly well accepted. It may not be in there like data in a computer, 1s and 0s, but in there it is. I am not sure how far they have got, finding out what method is used for the storage of information, but once that has been ascertained, we would only need to write a translation algorithm to store said information in a computer. To then re-introduce that information into a "blank" human should theoretically be possible, assuming you can find a blank human, but that shouldn't be a problem, there's a few living down my street we can start with... I am still stuck on this idea that something else, other than the physical storage of data, is the key to the concept of Mind or Soul or that which makes us Human, If you think that, from the moment of conception, till the moment of death, each of us has a magnetic field surrounding us, due to the electrical activity going on inside us, then we start to see that there are things about us we don't yet fully understand. At the moment all we can do with magnetic fields is measure their relative strength and produce vague maps, a la the iron filings experiments, from school day science classes. What if there was understandable information contained in magnetic fields? We may not know how to access this at the moment, but in 50 years maybe we will, that is if there is anything to find. But I only use the magnetic field as an example. It could be that our individual magnetic fields affect the way light is refracted when being reflected from out physical persons. This would account for this of us whose vision is sufficiently different that they claim to see aurae surrounding people. But it may not be any of these, if could be as vague as radiation emitted or reflected by us, could be anything. These are things, that are encompassed by that greatest of all American sayings, "We don't know, what we don't know.." At once the typical idiocy of politicians and yet the most profound of intelligent inquiry. Have at it folks...

Ahhh, but.... I am not talking religion, I am talking about how to explain these things from a scientific point of view, remember, we used to think lightning was angry gods, now we know it's electricity. The Mind and Soul, in my view are the same kind of misunderstood thing, we just have to work out, how they work. And so we shall...

A New Zealand woman accused of destroying a Buddha statue at the ancient Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia has admitted doing it because it "didn't belong in the temple". Willemijn Vermaat, 40, of Wellington, was detained by authorities early on Friday morning but was later released. Cambodian authorities earlier said there was no direct evidence that Ms Vermaat was responsible for destroying the statue but she confirmed to APNZ today that she had. The woman reportedly destroyed a Buddha statue at the Bayon temple - an intricately decorated Khmer shrine, believed to have been built in the late 12th century. Ms Vermaat told APNZ today: "I did push over Buddha." "I had been travelling in Laos and Cambodia for three and-a-half, four weeks, so I visited many of the temples and met a lot of beautiful Laos people who are Buddhist so it's not [like] me to discredit somebody else's religion. "That night some strange things happened and I don't know, maybe I can just bring it down to being possessed by something and although I still remember everything as well....I was aware but I wasn't completely the person in charge so to say. "Walking through it, I was drawing to go towards the centre of the temple, so I put down my bag at the entrance where I would meet my tuk-tuk driver and I went in and from that moment on I felt really strange. "The temple is not a Buddhist temple, it belongs to a goddess called Inanna - and this is not something I knew, this is something they told me - one of the things that she hates...is rubbish and she feels that her temple has been used for the wrong things." Ms Vermaat, who returned to Wellington last night, said she apologised to Unesco for damaging the site. The site is described by Unesco as "one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia". Cambodian authorities alleged Ms Vermaat destroyed the statue after she went missing inside the Bayon temple last Thursday night. A statement from the Apsara Authority said her tuk-tuk driver had asked the local tourist police service for help finding her. She was found early on Friday morning. Ms Vermaat was detained by police for questioning but was later released, the Cambodia Daily reported. Shortly afterwards, authorities found the 1m-high Buddha statue had been broken into four pieces at the Bayon temple. The Apsara Authority then sought to take her back into custody, but she had already left the country. The Cambodia Daily said the statue dated back to the reign of Jayavarman VII, in the 12th century. It was already broken into several pieces when it was discovered, and was restored in 1988 to be displayed at Bayon. However, the Phnom Penh Post reported the statue was a replica dating back to 1988. The paper said the temples at Angkor Wat were filled with replicas due to widespread looting and war. Ms Vermaat said she spent her night in the temple cleaning it by candlelight. "One of the last things I had to do is - I had to sit and meditate...I first tried to sit on Buddha's lap which was really uncomfortable and so they said 'no, no, no, you have to sit where Buddha sits'. "So then I basically had to push him over because he's a big statue...so that I could sit there. "Really, I felt so bad...I apologised to Buddha and then I pushed him over and then I sat there [and meditated]." Ms Vermaat said she had been travelling alone and spoke local police after leaving the temple, who later let her go because after explaining her story they didn't believe what she had done was wrong, she said. "I apologised that I pushed Buddha over and broke the Buddha. I told them, 'this is a really strange story, nobody will believe what happened'." Ms Vermaat said she believed that the statue should be replaced, but not in that temple. "It doesn't belong in that temple." I am amazed what women of a certain age, can do and justify as being right and appropriate... "I first tried to sit on Buddha's lap" really? what was the first thing that came up?

All right then, what about this one: Assuming there is a Soul, or a Mind, in a human being and these two things need not be mutually exclusive, what would they look like and where and how would they reside? It may help to define some things first. And or think about possibilities. I'll start I reckon that the Soul is the Minds way of describing feelings we have, like guilt and love. So the Soul could be a subset of the Mind. So what is the Mind. It's not the storage of information, otherwise my iPad would have a Mind. Consider the following scenario: Imagine that the Polar icecaps with all their frozen molecules of water represented stored information, and the Aurorae Borealis and Australis by their nature, effected subtle changes in the way we perceive the information contained in the icecaps. If we were solely focussed on the reading and wiring of data at the ice cap level, and we could not imagine the existence the Aurorae, the subtle changes in the way we view the information in the ice caps are inexplicable. And therefore, we are thinking about the information in different ways, based on no knowable influence. This, if transposed to our Mind concept, could be a working hypothesis. What do you think? How am I going so far?

Yes sorry, I meant Exo. And duck quacks, like all sound will echo if there's a surface for them to echo off, of.

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Though you could argue that the energy stored by the spring being compressed, has not been addressed. i.e. an uncompressed spring in an identical jar of acid would produce the same heat and hydrogen etc. We need Mythbusters to test this. My gut feeling is that there would be more heat/hydrogen produced by the compressed spring because the bonds holding the metal together would be under stress. A bit like cutting a rubber band at rest, or when stretched, bigger reaction in the latter...

Acid dissolving metal is an Endothermic reaction, thereto it produces heat, or energy. Also breaking chemical bonds producing hydrogen and a salt which takes energy as Kong has said. Is right answer?

Well perhaps I should rephrase the wording, rather than 'getting wet' I should have said - how much rain hits the motorcyclist? Initial thoughts of mine are that: by travelling twice as fast, there should be half as much rain falling on the motorcyclist from above. But he/she is also exposing him/herself to twice as many "vertical panes" of rain, per second, albeit for half the time. So I reckon same rain falling on the motorcyclist from above. But am I right?

The fat ones think by emulating thin ones, some bloke somewhere will want to bang them, why? I would prefer a great happy Flossie, a la the wife from "Daring Buds of May" than a fat girl crammed into a thin girls clothes any day.

OK then what about this? You are riding on a motor bike in the rain at 20 km/h. The rain is falling in constant sized drops and at a steady rate of 1,000 drops per horizontal square metre, per second. If you increase your speed to say 40km/h, over a set distance, say 10 km, will you get more or less wet?

"but the mass balance remains the same." There y'are then.

You underestimate the power of vanity, to sport a shortened belt would indicate a thicker waist, ideally they'd want a long as possible belt, to accentuate the tiny waist...