How many languages do you speak ?
1) How many language do you speak ? 2) What are they ? 3) Which one(s) do you speak fluently ? 4) Which one is your first language ? 5) Do you find usefull to speak more than one language ? 6) Which...
View Articlefood for teeth ?
Hello. I've heard that teeth were able to absorb some substances/molecules thanks to the porosity of the enamel. Unlike bones, as they are not self-regenerating from the outside, I was wondering what...
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(solved) Need a Volunteer : Science : How do they guess the chemical...
Hello :-) Here is one of my many unanswered questions ... I googled a lot about this one, but so far, I failed to find anything usefull, probably because I don't have the correct vocabulary. That's why...
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What is that thing ?
Hello ! So, here is a series of pictures that my brother took about two weeks ago (2007/08/29, at 23:00 french local time). He was going to sleep in his van when he saw a weird blinking/moving light at...
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Experiment : Double Slit
Hi !I tried to reproduce the Double-Slit experiment with a cheap red laser-diode (Below are various results obtained from some variations of the experiment ... (with a double slit, with a pinhole, with...
View Articlemicrosoft's 235 patents ...
Microsoft claims the opensource community (mainly Linux) violates up to 235 of their patents. Though, as Microsoft don't provide any list of these patents, some says it's just a campaign of fear and...
View Articleforked threads and linear threads
Hi. It's about how are organized threads into forums. Currently forum threads are forked : you can reply to a comment separately, and each of your reply will make a new fork if somebody reply to your...
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Group : Collection of Instructables for class-room and teaching purposes ...
Hi !I created a group that seems not to have been ever created here yet."Class-Room" group.The main purpose of this group is to make a collection of every instructables that may be useful for school...
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How to identify a metal ?
Hi ! Into a terrain near a very old volcano and a river, my brother found fragments of obsidian of various sizes and colors. Some of them are "glued" to metallic stones, and some others contain marbles...
View Article"Growing Earth" theory ...
Hi.I was wasting some time on Google Video, and I found this one.This man believe Earth (and others planets) are expanding ...According to Wikipedia, this theory is not new, and is serious. After all,...
View Article"speederman" explains how a steadicam device works ...
Hi.I saw this instructable : http://www.instructables.com/id/Staedicam/Then, I wanted to see a video using a steadicam, because it was the first time I heard about this device ... and I've found this...
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How many chance for ...
Hi !How many chance for :- life appear on a planet with a moon- AND, seen from the surface of this planet, the diameter of this moon is almost the same than the diameter of the sun???I don't know, but...
View ArticleLatest Cyriak's animation : Moo
Have you seen the latest Cyriak's animation ?The quality is more and more impressive ...http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Moo/By: chooseausernameContinue Reading »
View ArticleWhat would you take with you in case of catastrophe ...
Hi =o)Kiteman's story made me wonder that :If, in the middle of the night, you had to leave your home very quickly (in a matter of minutes) because of a coming great catastrophe (hurricane, flood,...
View Articlecandle's black smoke deposit seems not to be electrically conductive
(This is the first topic of the "failed experiments" group.)I was wondering if the black smoke of the candles could be electrically conductive (carbon) when deposited as a layer over a piece of...
View ArticleDon't keep rats as pet !
When my brother decided to travel around the country, he has been forced to leave the white rat he kept as pet ... and I've been forced to adopt this little animal.Rats as pets quickly become cute,...
View Articlerobotics : legs and wheels
Hi !Generally, wheeled robots sound limited, and legged robots too much complicated.So, wheels or legs ? Well, seems it's possible to take the best of the two worlds : Look at this robot...
View Articlecopper wire vaporization with a candle ?
Hi !This morning, I was wondering what was the maximum temperature of the flame of a simple candle.So, this evening, despite the answer is on the internet, I made some quick and various...
View ArticleSulfur and Tin did not mix ... (trying to make DIY phosphor)
Hi ...Here is an other "failed experiment" ...I tried to mix Sulfur and Tin with the hope to make a ZnS phosphor ... (Yes, I know ... I confused Sn and Zn)So, indeed, when I poured some Sulfur powder...
View ArticleA weird question about man anatomy ... (don't open if you don't like man...
I was just wondering how it comes that our testicles don't make knots into our scrotum ... Because, technically, if I put two balls attached to two strings in a same pocket, I should end up with knots...
View ArticleCloned animals for human consumption : what's the point ?
This evening, at the TV News, they announced that cloned animals are going to be authorized for human consumption in USA, and that the EU may also authorize that since they did not find any difference...
View ArticleUSA : Real recession or exaggeration ?
Because the world's economy is highly tied to the USA's economy, we're currently very worried about the current smoldering economical crisis in USA. While some specialists say this crisis will be...
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French paramilitary forces break the Windows ...
.The French administration is slowly replacing Microsoft's products by open sources solutions.It started few years ago, 2005, with OpenOffice, then with Mozilla.And now, the French Gendarmerie...
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A "Greener, cleaner, quieter, smarter" giant in the sky.
.An Airbus A380 flew this Friday from Filton, near Bristol, UK, experimenting a new synthetic fuel : a GTL (Gas To Liquid) based fuel.This new synthetic fuel, which emits less pollutants, is intended...
View Articlehow to unpublish an instructable ? (solved)
Hi.I'm sure someone asked it before, but I can't find the forum or the answer ...Please.I would like to unpublish an instructable about which I'm not really happy (someone posted a better and more...
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3D interpretation of the Instructable Robot
Here is available for download a 3D interpretation of the Instructable Robot.It's available for free and it's "open-source".(Update : I also added a 360 video, and several other...
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Tell me more about nuclear power as source of electricity.
Hi !Fishes can't see the water they are in ! That's why I need your personal and external opinions and view.The first source of electricity in my country (France) is nuclear.In a previous forum, I've...
View ArticleVolunteer : Need Help : English language : Past and Present tenses
Hi !The use of English past and present tenses are not that intuitive ......... and I find them quite limiting and rigid ........Let's say I need to write a story. Traditionally, that's the past tense...
View ArticleMy cat's favorite pianist ...
The other day, my cat, Comedy, discovered the cursor on my screen ... She found it quite amusing.Today, as she wanted to sit on my keyboard to have a better view of this moving white thing, I got the...
View ArticleHow could I improve this instructable ? (solved)
Hi !I need some of your help again ...........I've wrote a tiny instructable which have been rejected. As it is about writing french poetry in english, I have no clue about how I could improve it...
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Finally, Javascript & DOM more powerfull than what I thought ...
.Hi ...I needed to quickly code a tiny tool-application, but I did not want to spend days and nights learning the API of a new GUI (under linux), neither I wanted to fight with usual C/C++ bugs, memory...
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I hate April Fool .......
.I just wanted to say it : I hate April Fool ...............I'm perfectly aware that when it's about humour and jokes, I can be a real retarded kid or a real little rascal (sometimes both at the same...
View ArticleProtection against EMP ...
Hi !Data :Let's say that I want to protect some important electronics devices against EMP.Let's say that they need to work 24/7 and that they are, thus, connected to an external source of power...
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Nose deforestation ......
.Hi !As you probably noticed, the older we become, and the hairier becomes our nose .......Unibrow or not, ugly or not, male or female, young or old, some people really seems not to care about how...
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the International-English language guide (v0.4a)
International-English Grammary rules :Rule #1 : "-ize" versus "-ise" In International-English language, we don't speak American-English or British-English. So, we are free to choose whichever ending we...
View ArticleForum's publication date after a postponed publication
Hi !Forum's preview and postponed publication is cool. Thanks for those two features. =o)However, I've noticed something weird :- when you don't publish your forum immediately after creation, and if...
View Article« 502 Bad Gateway » when loging in.
Hi !Each time I visit Instructables.com, I'm forced to log in. And once I submit my password and nickname, comes a white page with :502 Bad GatewayThe server returned an invalid or incomplete response....
View ArticleFailed Experimentation : AI : My new creature is alive !
.It's alive !Alive, yes, but not as much intelligent than expected ..........Instead of watching a stupid movie at TV, I decided to write a tiny AI programme all in PHP.My goal was to get some...
View ArticleFailed Experimentation : Trash bags solar balloon
.Solar balloon made with 20 litres trash bags don't take flight.It's too small and too heavy ...Don't even try : it does not work =o)(go here instead)By: chooseausernameContinue Reading »
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Database of facts project : Teaching Good and Bad to a machine ...
.Let's imagine that you successfully created an intelligent machine, capable of thinking.The purpose of this machine would be to replace all of our governments and judges, so the world become a better...
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Expriment : Lucid Dreaming #1
.Hi there.For those of you who don't know what's "Lucid dreaming", it's the ability to take the control of a dream by becoming fully aware in it, and to "visit" this alternate reality. (Note :...
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