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Bear with me, the info is from cnn.com, but i found what it had to say interesting...perhaps living nearly 100 years ago wasn't so bad? http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/02/pf/taxes/irs_birthday/index.htm?cnn=yes at this rate, in another 100 years the United States government will have the tax...

I (for lack of a better n more fitting term) suck at math, but I'm pretty ok at grasping physics concepts. So I'm wondering... If I were to minor in physics, how many years of the average college curriculum could I last before the topics become entirely too mathy? I should add that I have...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1048387,00.html NOTE: I couldn't think of a better place to post.

Someone asked me this today, and I couldn't think of one thing that was obviously more important than the rest. What's your opinion?

...what a disappointment, the terrorists are winning the war on terror, every day.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994136

I had nearly written off Roswell some years ago. In the last couple of years, some evidence has come to light that gets my interest a little. Here is one item for your consideration. Please see this handwritten entry by Hoover; page 45 of pdf#1 in the FBI UFO files...

http://www.mercola.com/2003/feb/22/petabyte.htm that's 1 million gigabytes, or 1,000 terabytes. Good lord what will we do with it? Ya I can picture going for a walk and listening to my MP3 player with- every song ever written in the palm of my hand. the 24 million texts in the library of...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3161695.stm

By whatever means that you may imagine, is this possible? I say yes.

What do you think technology will be like in 20 years time ?? I am always interested in upcoming computer and technology related things, and thought there may be people around here following certain things! the only real stuff i know about is new Organic monitors and computer storage things...

"I think we are knocking at the door of immortality," said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate." http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/19/aging/index.html

In my opinion, there is nothing to the famed "Philadelphia Experiment". I think this whole thing started by confusion about statements made by drunken sailors; about degaussing coils used to avoid detection by mines. There may have been some early work on RADAR "invisibility" as well...

"The ancient dates for the paintings cast little light on the mystery of who made them and why, but it suggests that whoever the painters were they came well before the Aztecs established their culture in central Mexico some 3,000 years ago."...

What's your age?

How is it that we are able to see galaxies that are billions of light years away considering that we are presumably traveling from the same origin? Would that somehow mean that the distance between the two galaxies was growing at a rate greater than the speed of light? If not, why not? The...

I've seen some pretty crazy things drivers have done. Just today I saw someone pull a U turn right in front of me going down a one way road! I say test drivers every 10 years. I'm willing to put my tax dollars towards that.

check this out...its funny A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimeters from a shop window. For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then...

Ok, I've just been reading this http://www.cem.msu.edu/%7Ecem181fp/antimatter/antimatter.html and it says that even if Fermilabs increases its production of antimatter to 5 times its current output then it would still take another 200,000 years to get 1 miligram of that stuff... I know this...