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It's pretty expensive.. looks like just under 40 grand a year. Undergraduate Student Cost Per Year (As of Fall 2007) * Tuition o Science and Engineering: $29,940 o Other Disciplies: $27,280 * Room and Board: $8,790 * Books (estimate): $1,200

If you're looking for a good school, and seeing as how you live in Florida, you should really check out Florida Institute of Technology. It's the school I'm looking into, although I'm only a junior in high school. They're located right on the space coast and have internships with NASA aswell...

Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I didn't think of looking up informations about Saturn and it's rings. That's very interesesting.

Hah. Yes much more like Ringworld than a Dyson Sphere. How would a ring that encompasses the Earth orbit around the Earth? Would it simply start spinning? Or would it rotate such as the outer ring of a gyroscope does when its standing on its pin?

Alright, suppose you managed to build some type of massive ring around the Earth; concentric to the Earth, that is. I'm picturing a continuous metal pole-type object, bigger than Earth and its atmosphere, suspended around the Earth like a ring of a gyroscope. What would the effect of Earth's...

i was referring to the empty space between the electrons. when i picture empty space, i picture a vacuum. would the empty spaces be microscopic vacuums? sorry for the poorly worded question

How can nothing be in the space that could hold an electron, but doesnt? Space is quite literally just space. It's nothing. Because there is truly nothing in space, it is a vacuum. If nothing was inbetween the electrons, wouldn't they as well be a vacuum?