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!Things It Takes Most Of Us 50 years to learn! Originally created by Dave Barry Add your own experiences...starting with Number.17 , let's see till what number we can go. I'm unable to find a Dave Barry owned website to link, so in the interrim I've added quote tags. Please do not...

Well today is the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test. It was the bomb that ended arguably, the worst war in human history.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8474930/ NEW YORK - Weeping in court as he learned his fate, former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. It was the toughest sentence imposed on an executive since the...

Someone posted in another forum that "Evolution is the result of hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection." Is that true?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainmexico;_ylt=Aon0rXpox4dKJnDRC2lKF7Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ Somehow I'm not surprised at all. And then the rigidness and arrogance of the defence of the Clovis people and Beringia landbridge crossing 13,000 years ago, a.k.a. the Clovis mafia.

:smile: :-p :-p :biggrin: WOOOOOOO I just opened my post and got my exam results! I passed them all with a grade ave of 83%, probably not the best but I`m very happy with it since i`ve beeen out of education for nearly 10 years and really got stressed over the thought of having to sit...

Can you get a thing like that within the sol's closest space? I mean, if there was one somewhere between us and say alpha centauri or barnard's star, is it possible that you cannot feel it's gravity force?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432555/ Maybe spamming will stop? One can only hope!

Ron and Lynda are purchasing a new home. They will need to borrow $90 000 for the home. The amortization period which best fits their financial situation is 25 years, Discuss why this might be so? I have no idea why? They don't give enough information only what Ron and Lyda are borrowing...

Scientists complete the human genome code project, and figure out how to make artificially germinated fetuses. Congress passes laws intended to "safeguard" the sexual categories, and prevent "excessive manipulation" of genetic stereotypes, but a thriving black market underground develops to...

I don't know very much about cytology or molecular biology (high-school level, and a few supplementary bits of literature), so maybe this is a stupid question, but: How did any useful DNA manage to survive 65 million years? Apparently, we have some dino-DNA, and I'm just wondering how it...

If anyone is interested in seeing what a serious effort to catalog UFO sightings looks like, try here: http://www.larryhatch.net/ *U* is a serious 20 year UFO research effort to catalog, map, and do statistics on reports worldwide.... Discovered hoaxes and misidentified mundane events are...

What do you think the most important technological advancment will be in the next century or so?

hey, Dr. Hovind, an Evangelical minister is offering $250,000 for anyone who can disprove his claim that the Earth is 6,000 years old. I don't have the offer site but if you google something like "Hovnid offer 6000 years old earth" you should get a lot of results. His offer also goes for...

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance27.html

I've been intrigued by regular polyhedra for years, and have oft tinkered with them. Can someone provide the "textbook definition" of a regular polyhedron?

Come on guys, be serious. Tel me where do you want to see yourself after ten years. In ten years, I want to complete my PhD in engineering, establish an institute to teach master level courses in Physics and engineering plus to establish or atleast be a great contributer to establish power...

In honour of the 41st anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, I'm posting this simple poll: Who do you think killed JFK? Lee Harvey Oswald alone? Lee Harvey Oswald + conspiracy of others? Conspiracy of others not including Oswald? Another single individual? (my apologies...

Two years ago I had a vision in which a vine streched to the sky. It was thin and yet it went straight up much like the beanstalk. It should have not been able to be that high and that thin defying physics and yet it did. I stepped back and so did my in law who was also part of the dream...

Hey I'm really confused about these things above (well except for light years). How would you get a distance in parsecs and in light years if there was an annual parallax of say 0.2 arc seconds. I'm just revising for exams but am really confused now! Thanks.

How do you prove that 1 parsec = 3.26 light years? My physics bok have a really harsh explanation for this. :frown:

If Bush wins, will it be, as Kerry has put it "4 more years of the same", or will Bush and his administration finally admit some mistakes and take some measures opposite to previous actions to correct them? I'm really worried that the Bush administration is so ideological that they simply...

In the other thread we were discussing the http://www.unc.edu/~sstaff/images/hockeystick.jpg as valid proof for global warming due to anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gasses. However the purpose of that thread was more philosophycal, intended to identify the truly important. And it was...

If i had only was born 100 years ago... I wished i was born when physics was easy,perhaps i could have developed realtivity if i had born 100 years ago,i don,t think Einstein was a genius but only was lucky enogh to be born in a time and a country when physics was easy,the same case can be...

My mom works as a Physical Therapist at a children's hospital. The head pharmacist at the hospital was in the Army Reserves, and completed his required duty over 20 years ago, he's now in his early 50's. He just recently was called up for duty and sent an email to everyone at the hospital saying...

It has been at least 5 years since my last math class and I am kinda struggling. The question is: Use the intermediate value theorem to show that there is a root of ln x = e^-x on the interval (1,2). Find the correct root to 3 decimal values What i have so far f(1) = ln 1...

hey guys, I'm new to physics .. and to be frank it seems scary. :-p anyways i was wondering if anyone could help me with this: The diameter of milky way is 1.0 *10^5 lightyears (ly). The distance to Andromeda is about 2.0 million ly. If a scale model represents the milky ways and andromeda...

What do you think the world will look like in ten years, what specific areas of science do you see taking off. I see massive intergration of computers resulting in huge amounts of data needing huge computers that all are connected for optinal effeincey AI should also grow hopefully dna...

Interesting stuff.

Put simply, I would like to know what some of you think the future will bring in five years. What do you think the world will be like in the year 2009? What will the population size be? What will the latest gadgets and electronics do? How much will we rely on oil, alternative sources of...

I was just thinking, nuclear fusion in the core of a star produces a gamma ray burst that takes about one million years to reach the surface of the star where it becomes visible light. Why does it take the gamma ray one million years to reach the surface if it is traveling at light speed? I...

Who knew water could age you millions of years?? There are many of you out there who don't believe that the world is millions of years old. But then how do u explain the fossils that archaeologists have been digging up? Of course there's the theory that days were much longer then. There are...

Homework puzzle from 15 years ago never solved - Please Help! :confused: I had this puzzle in one of my math classes in Jr. High - for 15 years I have been trying to solve it - no one would ever give me the answer, and I was sick on the day the teacher gave it. He has since retired, and no one...

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A year from now marks 100 years since Albert Einstein wrote his paper on electrodynamics of moving bodies and sent it to Annalen der Physik. I assume there will be some hoopla about it next year, including conferences, more books and magazine articles, and lots of debates. But I haven't...

Someone now says that the penguins can fly because they will have developed to a level that their wings are larger than now, they have many feathers, and so, flying is possible... Would you please tell me if that guy is correct or just crazie ? Thank you, >>> This should sound like a...

What are your thoughts on how this world will be different 20 years from now? Here are my thoughts. 1. Virtual reality will be as widespread as the internet allowing you to escape the human world. 2. Robots are your friends. Every household will have one. Just like the Jetsons :smile...

Time Travel isn't really TIME Travel, but, more so, "World" Travel, because "Time" is non-existent. A Black Hole or a Wormhole is a gaping hole into another "world", and a "Time" Machine just let's you physically pass through one of those. Since I don't know ANY Physics(well, except Thermal...

einstein died. apparently he was cremated on the same day? it should be an international holiday.

I read that the determining factor of a Black Hole being created is when the mass of an object divided by its radius exceeds a critical point. If the number is more then this critical point then it is a Black Hole; if the number is less then this critical point then it is not a Black Hole...

I can't believe this guy is still around. http://www.liddyshow.us/ Tonight Tsu and I were watching a documentary about Watergate -Watergate: Legacy of Secrets - on Discovery Times. I saw this show once before but I had missed something that Liddy says during his interview. While head of...

I would like to start this forum and encourage people to add to the dates below regarding how they think dicoveries and 'firsts' will unfold in the future. The timeline below is nothing more than a vague idea at how I think things might occur... :) also...I've puposely not included things...

yes, we'll all be dead, but hey, it's fun to speculate. I remember reading 3001 by Arthur C. Clark, and in the book they're laughin at all the futuristic references from this time period, like star trek. Because in actuality they haven't even left the solar system. So what do you guys think...

A friend told me that if a galaxy is 13 billion light years away, it means the universise is at least 13 billion years old. I don't get it? So, light years does measure time? Or is it because this new "galaxy" found is the oldest galaxy in existence? He explained it to me that it took...

Fossil fuels are going to become extremely expensive, a depression will set in which we will never leave. Unless we start building acres and acres of solar, hydroelectric dams, geothermal and well stocked nuclear power plants now, we will be unable to support all but the most essential of...

omg help! ok ppl I am having trouble with this problem... A glacier moves with a speed of 41 nm/s. How many years would it take for the glacier to move .74km? answer in units of yr. ok and this is what I've done... i changed 41 nm to km which i got as 41*10^-6 ... and then i divided...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3361925.stm

How many Earth years is Jupiter's orbit around the sun? is it 162 years?

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031028.html