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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The brain has an awful lot more functions than mere 'thinking', with various parts dedicated to a wide range of administration and regulation tasks - background services that operate in significantly more than 10% of the brain's mass. On top of that, we use as much of the higher functions of the brain as is required for a given application, and on a daily basis, that is significantly and necessarily less than 100%. If your CPU was running at 100% all the time, not only would it be at risk of overheating (or producing a hell of a lot of fan noise :) ), it would also demonstrate either that you require a more powerful processor, or that you have a serious hardware/software issue. Your brain has neurons numbered in the hundreds of [i]billions[/i] whereas CPUs generally number transistors in the hundreds of [i]millions[/i]. Even the most powerful GPUs (generally, due their specialist nature, denser than CPUs) have no more than a billion-or-so transistors. Unlike transistors, neurons work analogically, producing varied strengths and patterns of pulse to relate information in different ways. This essentially means that a far greater amount of data can be encoded by a single neuron than by a single transistor (which more than makes up for the obviously greater latency of the electro-chemical process compared to the electronic). Basically, your brain manages to process [b]vast[/b] volumes of data without breaking a sweat or requiring exotic cooling methods. It is so complex (mechanically and functionally) that even after generations of intensive study and extraordinary advances in technology, the brain (human or otherwise) is still barely understood by scientists. Anybody claiming to be a scientist who makes any kind of estimation of typical brain usage is either not a very good scientist, or has made a breakthrough worthy of a Nobel nomination. That's a fact! :p ;) _____ EDIT: By the way, iron does float! You can make iron float in one of two ways; shape it so that it displaces a greater mass of water than its own mass, or use a floatation medium with a greater specific gravity! Mercury is so dense even as a liquid than it bouys iron quite effectively. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4663]White Hawk[/url] on 06-12-2009 14:46)[/small] Loading...
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