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Lol I know I saw it in maybe eighth grade science when the teacher was out sick lol I was just thinking about it and hadn't done any research yet.

Long-overdue was what I had gotten from a documentary several years ago

Rather than explain what I'm sure everyone here knows in depth, regarding the long-overdue Yellowstone super volcanic eruption, I will post my idea directly. What if we could somehow release the building pressure, possibly by drilling a hole with a pressure-release valve? I have done no research whatsoever on this concept and am by no means proficient in geology or engineering. All I as is if this is a feasible idea to prevent the potentially cataclysmic event that might happen? If anyone has any better ideas (besides "don't worry about it, it won't happen in our lifetimes") I would love to hear them.

Okay, thank you.

It's one of the first two options, as the teacher mentioned her email being messed with remotely.

A disruptive student is using a cell phone to mess with my teacher's smartboard, and access her computer through it. I need to know if there is some way to shut off outside connections to the smartboard and prevent the student from hijacking it again in the future. If anyone knows how this can be prevented short of every student surrendering their phones at the start of class please let me know so I can pass the information on to my school's tech support/ teacher.

Hey what about Neosapien United? Might that be an okay and catchy name? Anyone has anything let me know!

Lol wish I could.

I have a project in my entrapraneurship class and I could really use some creative assistance. I am "founding" a private research company in the Silicon Valley area, CA. Basically, like Portal's Aperture Science minus the mad science factor. All kinds of research will be performed depending on the contract the company is given. So here's the challenge... What in the heck do I name it?? I can't for the life of me come up with a clever, creative, cool-sounding name that is also original. So I am coming here for ideas. Aperture, ascendant, all sorts of companies in the real world and in worlds of fiction exist. I want a name that sounds cool and clever while having a futuristic sort of name that inspires a feeling of hope for the future of science. I realize this is not directly related to the science thread but I figured if anyone could provide me with some neat and original-sounding terms based on real science that it would be all of you fine ladies and gents. Thank you!

This was purely hypothetical. I decided on ejection from another galaxy for the reason that the body would have slowed substantially prior to reaching earth in the outer arms of our galaxy. Of course, we could simply assume that the specified velocity is the final velocity and nothing is lost as it escapes our galactic center. Either way, earth is in for a world of hurt (despite the- pardon the pun- astronomically low probability of an impact event between planets of different systems, before taking into account the likelihood of a body achieving such a velocity.

I'm hardly the first to refer to the earth as such, and if you think about it it's true. We are in the boonies of the universe- an unimportant speck of dust around an ordinary yellow dwarf in a sparse stellar neighborhood in the outer arm of an average spiral galaxy that is itself in a sparsely populated region of the universe that is part of a local superstructure that is part of something even bigger etc. really the earth isn't that special and the only evidence of us after this event is an alien astronomer checking his instruments and wondering what could possibly have caused a star to hiccup like that, and how a particle could ever move so fast... Anyway I showed my physics teacher this and he got a laugh out of it, so thanks all!

I had figured as much. Beat me to the calculations- hs makes it hard to find free time in class haha! Does this also take info account the differences in velocity between the object and earth though? While minuscule the earth still is whipping through space at- what- 8kph? Something like that. Anyways, couldn't that have an effect on the total energy output? And what's more, what might the escape velocity of the dwarf planet have been from it's parent star? How does that number affect the end result of the calculation? What's more, depending on how the body entered the solar system, Jupiter has a chance of flinging it off, I think, right? These are making it far more complicated of course, but I'm curious to see where things go from here.

This is the beginning of my work... Stars are sometimes ejected from their parent galaxy by the Supermassive black hole they orbit. This kicks the star out into intergalactic space at hyper-velocities, achieving significant fractions of the speed of light. Taking this one step further, let's imagine a Pluto-sized body got kicked out of this star system as it was flung off into oblivion, and this dwarf planet eventually impacted a small terrestrial planet in a backwater system on the ourirts of a spiral arm of a completely insignificant galaxy. Pluto has a mass of 1.3x10^22 Kg, and we will assign it a velocity of 1.6 million km/h The impact with earth will have what energy value and what might our poor planet look like after this impact? Surely it would be sterilized at the very least, right?

http://www.texscience.org/reports/tree.jpg This is a link to an image depicting a "tree of life" which appears to trace species back to our common single-celled ancestors. I want to know if this is the most accurate image available, and if not then where can I find an image that encompasses all life we have known to exist? This is to serve as a resource I'm future debates. Thank you.

Thank you everyone for your replies. I knew I wasn't considering anywhere near all the issues that would be involved with this sort of undertaking. It made sense at the time to an extent but there is a lot to consider... I don't know the first thing about mining or refining resources on earth, let alone in space. The reason why I was so optimistic is due to human ingenuity and the progressive leaps companies make when they smell profit in return for innovation. That is, since there is a large potential payout from mining in space, it makes sense to focus on research and development in order to make this a reality. The space economy for this will not exist until resource collection and orbital construction come into play, creating a market. That's the way I see it anyways.