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shout out it you are a nuke like me! unfortunately, i am not sure if i can post in the nuke threads, because the Navy doesn't let us talk about that stuff.

I just went to a forum off of infidels.com or .org, I don't know the exact address, but anyway - They have a section where their are formal debates grouped into rounds, with a moderator. Other memebers cannot post on the debate thread, but they can post onto a side thread making comments. I...

A small victory for whales (and a slightly positive sign for the 'humaneness' of humanity): However, Link to the International Whaling Commission's Homepage: http://www.iwcoffice.org/index.htm

"Testability" thread is great (keeping comment/discussion out works, too) I just noticed this neat thread Wolram started where if you have a cosmology model you can list its predictions, to be archived away to consult later and see if they agree with observation. quite understandably Wolram...

The thread killer's thread is dead... I say we need a new place to post all of our cr@p!

1. Most interesting? 2. Most valuable for you?

One time I voted on a thread, I don't know how I did it, but I did. Is it that only super-mentors and moderators can vote on a thread? And it was a strange techical mistake that one time?

The GREAT thread of riddleness! I've got an idea, not a good one, but here goes: I'll post a logic problem/riddle here. Whoever answers it correctly gets to post another logic problem/riddle, the person who answers that one gets to post the next and so on. The police found a dead body in...

So here is your chance to brag about your best qualities. I don't have any. Okay maybe one: Persistence. Once I make up my mind to do something, come hell or high water...

Let a floating thread span the distance between two galaxies fast receding from each other due to space expanding between them. Eventually the thread must break. Expanding space forces apart adjacent particles of the thread all along the thread. The thread breaks at an arbitrary spot. Then any...

As I mentioned in one of my Where am I threads, for the 50th aniversery, Disneyland has had a series of photomosaic images made and scattered them around the parks. Most of them are about 4'x8' (1.5m x 2.5m) and consist of about 7000 small images. I was particlarly impressed with this one which...

Post something you like here. We need something besides news and science. I'm posting Earth's Answer by William Blake. Earth raised up her head, From the darkness dread and drear, Her light fled: Stony dread! And her locks cover'd with grey despair, Prison'd on watry shore Starry...

Tell me please what is/are the difference/s between "genetic codes", "DNA", and "genes" ? :confused: Thank you

Normally i start these at 4 in the morning, but i was busy at 4, so i'll start it now. its 7:36 and i have yet to sleep since thursday night. And i just finished some morning coffee. Mmm, coffee. Any kindred spirits in the PF world this morning?

Why is there no Star Wars thread yet?! http://www.starwars.com/ May 19, 2005. You have all seen the full trailer, right...?

Another "Which School" Thread I've been accepted to Penn State Main, U of Maryland-CP, Lehigh University, and New York University and plan on majoring in either chemistry or mathematics. Though NYU probably has the best general reputation by name, a great appliead mathematics program, and was...

The song will appear here when I see the thread back.

Remember these books, Wizards and warriors. Great books, lots of memories. This series sparked my interest to read that hold strong to this day. You guys have any old books http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/wwy01.jpg http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/wwy02.jpg...

Improving Governance (Elevating the "There's Gotta Be Something Better..." Thread Here's a challenge. Public policy studies frequently concerns itself with four overriding societal interests--security, liberty, efficiency, and equity. Define these interests and devise or report on a model of...

I know there are several other "help, egg drop" threads in this forum, but my case if slightly different so here it is. I'm dropping an egg (free fall) from about twenty feet. The restrictions for the carrier are: (a) carrier must fit inside of the dimensions of a 2.5 inch cube, (b) together...

Since it comes up so often, would it be a good idea to sticky a thread on book recommendations? It seems to especially come up a lot in this forum... Just a thought.

Thread Killers? I did not want to post this in the "best all time thread killers" post cause I kinda felt that I would be interuppting. But could someone explain what a thread killer is?

notifying the reason?

This is a serious thread (in the GD forum...well, I couldn't think of where else it should go) dedicated to all of my Thrasymachuses out there (most recently, and most poignantly, Fliption). It has been said (throughout my long time here) that I am argumentative, not open to any agreement...

Franzbear Some people seem to be able to make the comment that just ruins a conversation. I've gone back to the last 100 or so really dead threads and counted up how many times each person was the one named as the last poster. Here's my list of PFs best thread killers: 1)with 21- franzneitzche...

Every once in a while thread titles line up in amusing ways on the main index. In the Astronomy and Cosmology subforums, these were the four thread titles listed, in the order they appeared on the main index just now: "Is it smart?" "Is it possible?" "Possible solution for dark..." "Angle...

Hey guys! I've got a new theory of everything! (TOE). Turns out Einstein was dead wrong! Relativity is all nonsense! :biggrin: My theory is based on crazy particle wave stringy things that I call "pf'ions". I derived their existence after revising the foundations of mathematics. My NEW...

Is is between the hours of 2am & 6am? Tell us what's keeping you awake. My excuse tonight- I've been out to a nightclub, and don't feel like being alone at the moment, so I've turned to MSN messenger for companionship.

Please read if you saw my thread "I need help pasting together this new gravity..." I'm sorry for any and all the calamety I may have caused with my thread "I need help pasting together this new gravity theory I've been trying" in which I listed to diff. sets of theories. I only posted them for...

I came across this "older" thread, (question was..."How old are you all?" ...) I am bringing it back up new, because it is worth the answer of a few of us older people here. As for me, getting older is FANTASTIC! I have gone further into the void of the geek fold, and enjoying who I really...

In one of my exuberant moods, I feel it's high time that we have a thread in honour of our favourite Indian-American (I'm actually part Indian myself) physicist: Gokul.

I just have some narrow questions and got a headache searching through the other threads to see if they have been answered. I just want to understand more specifically what is actually going on with the detectors at the slits. 99% of the explanations and descriptions I read about just talk...

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[FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]-Prefix .S Hey all, Kapton here. I found this thread, closed offcourse. What do people think about this.? Maybe we can get this thread going.? The fall of the NERVA program, and the eminent fate of all nuclear engines harnessing reactor based designs; The...

Soooooooooo, how about those families? Frankly, mine drives me nuts! A woman in her late forties I would guess, an English Professor once told us, "if you think that you need professional counseling I can save you a lot of time and money - its all your mothers fault!" :smile: :smile...

G'day I am a commie pinko as all my right wing mates call me but what about this. If u look at the average aussie yobbo the first thought that comes into ur mind is DUMBASS! But they are smart people, they know so much about footy it blows ur mind, so how about we make them rule the...

it seems that there are a lot of threads on which textbooks are best for varius subjects (mainly physics and calculus). so, i started this thread to see everyones view on the best textbooks for subjects related to physics. i'll try to make a list of the best ones for each subject. so, tell us...

Any fans of the West Wing here ? I had a near spiritual experience during the last episode I watched (an old one, on Bravo). This is the one where Bartlett has to decide whether or not to run for a second term (and his secretary Ms. Landingham dies in a car accident, and he goes ballistic on...

This is a thread to ask why. Here's one on my mind lately considering Arnolds threat to run as President. If conservatives hate liberal Hollywood types, then why do they keep making Presidents out of actors?

Feel free to post any pre-election polls, exit polls, opinion polls, market prices or counting results as they come in. Here are some links to get you going : Electoral Votes - a compilation from various sources The Iowa Electronic Market...

We should probably have a QG thread focused on the work of the Uruguayan physicist Rodolfo Gambini and his co-workers, such as Jorge Pullin (LSU) and Rafael Porto (Carnegie-Mellon) and others. I will get some links. I would like to understand better how Gambic QQ fits together with more...

Well, I'm pretty sure this is impossible. But anyone have this proven. I need to try n prove this for my class. Any help is apperaciated. By the way, killer whales top speed is 13.5 m/s, he jumps out of the water at abotu a 45 degree andgle and the pier he jumps is 15 feet high and 10 feet long.

Yet another "spaceship moving at .9c" thread What I'd like to see a thread about is what would happen if a spaceship, moving at .9c, were to impact a planet. Let's say the spaceship was 100,000 metric tons, roughly the size of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. It's not hard to figure out the...

Why was the thread about psychics closed? Ivan, are you an administrator here who closes threads to make sure you get the last word? I have a few comments about the things you said, but I would have preferred to post them in the thread where the discussion started. We're not going to do...

j/k.. everything has an opposite.

This one's for u, jimmy p. Whenever you visit after one of your bouts of workaholism, you'll always find this thread around, where you can tell us of your adventures. We'll meanwhile weep teary-eyed in longing for your return.

What u think of feminism? Is it a complete ideology? Can it be a solution to the female problems (if there are)? hope to have a cool discussion...

Suppose in a scenario a weight is hanging on a string from a rod. There is a second string at the end of the weight: ------rod--------- ______|___thread1 ------weight----- -------|---thread 2 Now suppose a person's hand pulls on the bottom string. How would the force diagram be...

I've got nothing to say, except to say that I'm curious and would like to know if armpit odor comes in a variety of smells. What purpose does this variance serve, if any? I did a search on the internet, and could not find anything relevant except for A LOT of articles on botox, which in...

Hello, all, I guess this must be a very shallow question to most of you guys as I am a new comer to this forum. As I found that the universe far far larger as I imagined, all the stars in the star chart must only belongs to our galaxy, so are all the constellations also belong to our...