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Does your school have a football team? Are they any good? After beating the Buckeyes, my team sits atop the Big 10! please share

to start off: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/comics.php <-Ph. D comic strip http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript <- D&D comic strip

only a month and a half! :rolleyes: I'll tell a haloween story for last year: Me and my friends were out getting candy (for probably the last time) and The lady who answers the door thinks that one of myt friends is a girl. so the lady gave my friend candy and said 'there you go, little...

J must count acceleration of each weight and the force of strain thread. Here is a picture:

This is from a left-y site, but it was an astounding timeline. Have a look. I'd be curious if a similar right-y timeline existed. http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

Complete the sentence three times, once, then post your own sentance: [edit: HELL!] greets me with young warm ____________ . :devil:

Absolutely no insults are allowed, every one has to be nice to each other. I posted my photo ,oh what the heck be cruel if you like. :-p

I know that my question is going to be misunderstood, but I am hoping that someone will read it for what it is and answer it directly: Is there a thread in this forum that discusses the idea that the speed of light may be slowing down. If yes, can you direct me to that thread?

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345678910 \Alpha \Beta \Gamma \Delta \Epsilon\Zeta \Eta\Theta \Iota\Kappa\Lambda\Mu\Nu\Xi\Omicron\Pi\Rho \Sigma\Tau\Upsilon\Phi\Chi\Psi\Omega I'm Bored

A spinoff of the what is it thread, to ask historical questions! Isidore of Seville is the Patron Saint of the Internet. Which of the following works did he write?

We all take drugs. Some are legal, some are illegal, and all of them are awesome. Let's share some stories about which ones we like and why we like them; purely from a scientific view of course :biggrin:. Feel free to throw in background information as well, not just "well I took meth, liked...

http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/1/02/bubbook.pdf As you may or may not know cavitation is when the pressure of a liquid drops causing it to vaporize then the pressure returns and the vapor bubble implodes producing several interesting effects. There are a few things I could not...

Hello! As a side hobby I make these zany photo-comics and i thought i'd show you one, by way of introduction to my mad mind :D ;) http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/9395/sillysink27bq.jpg

Started another thread, but no one seems to be reading it: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=86320 So, simply put, here's what I've done so far and just need someone to glance over it and check for the most glaring (I already know I messed some things up) mistakes...

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread161585/pg1 :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: reply after reply after reply all are completely stupid :smile: :smile:

This thread will remain open until the Eagles win the Super Bowl. No, that isn't a prediction, just a statement of fact... ...So how 'bout that T.O.?

The "Let's talk about what you do" thread Ok, We spend large amounts of time here (unfortunately I do that!), and I know little about every you post usually here. Some of you usually talks about what he does in his work. I am interested in knowing what you do (which might produce an increasing...

A new solar system object past Pluto and Neptune's object with a moon, which is smaller than Pluto has been discovered. (This is also very delicate wording. The sensational way to word it would be: "New Planet Discovered Past Pluto!", but given that Pluto just barely qualifies to be a planet...

Hai friends I am aravind,doing post graduate in computer science .In this thread I explain about the maths behind RSA algorithm in a simple way.I think this thread is useful for beginners who are interested in learning RSA algorithm.If anyone interested in this thread give reply.

"My favorite jokes" thread I decided to break the monotony installed with the latest wave of stupid threads occurring in our beloved GD and post my favorite jokes in (American) English. I know some of them are lame. :-p A little girl is in line to see Santa. When it's her turn, she...

what are you seeking, ivan?

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.

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!

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.

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...

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...

[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...