WEAREBORG4102

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  1. A HUGE hard drive with a ton of stuff on it! (Okay, I'm kind of dodging the question, but not really)

    Ok I think you'll be taking all you DVDS and youcomputer and Travis and Shannon and Patrick and me...


  2. The speed of smell is limited to the sensitivity of you nose (the number of receptors and range of smell identified) and the speed of you nervous/respritory system.

    This reminds me of something I did a few years ago in college. A couple of friends and I did an experiment to measure neuron transmission speed. We connected mechanical stimulators to various body parts (hand, foot, neck, back, etc.) which remotely pricked the subject, after which the subject responded by pushing a button as soon as the pain was felt. By estimating the distance from the brain of the various receptor points, we were able to get a pretty good linear fit of the reaction time to distance from the brain, and thus subtract the offset of the response time. We all took turns to get averages. I can't remember what the transit speed was, but I think it exceeded the speed of sound in air. I'll have to see if I still have my notes on that. Of course, that's independent of the transmission of particles through air. It was a neat little test, however.

     

    This wasn't a class project, it was just for fun.

    I thought nerve transmission was around 200 kph not beyond speed of sound...

    Or am I wrong???

    I don't know...

    I'm not sure...

    Heck, I'm never sure...


  3. Remember in the Episode "phage", neelix's lungs were removed? Well recall in Star Trek IV that McCoy gave that woman a pill to regrow a new kidney. If that medical technology was a century before the EMH's time, howcome he didn't have a pill to replace lungs?