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Now it’s been established fact that UFO sighting since 1940s, now its over 70 years worldwide reporting of UFO sight seeing. Just wondering if they are really intelligent life forms from deep space, what taking them so long before them finally appear like regular visiting aliens before masses of people and on national TV? Why they just showing us glimpse of their flying machines some times beams of lights and then disappear in vastness of universe. I am not skeptic, but at same time i know its logical to believe on fact if we humans could evolve on earth, then there are millions of possible planets even in our milky way that could sustain intelligent life. …

The number of people who I come to see or fall upon us automatically inherit their shoes rancid when entering the house. I cause undivided attendant on who refuses to do it when she visits. Do you think we are unfair to ask her to deprecate her shoes off. She makes areall bother everytime and rain

Is it childish to use facebook? What does everyone think? Usually, is it considered normal for a fully-fledged adult to use this social networking site?

Do you think it's a good idea? Does it make you uncomfortable? Do you feel that it's a successful tactic when you have romantic intent? I myself have approached three random girls in the past month, and successfully gotten dates with each (I attribute it to random luck. And dashing good looks). I've also approached random people and made new friends. Is this how most people meet new friends and romantic interests? Until I went to university, I never did such a thing and was never particularly extroversive, so I'd like new viewpoints on the topic.

A renaissance soul is somebody who is so diverse that he gets into multiple and different areas and develops a variety of skill sets. Though, for the people on the outside it looks like they're wasting their time and are never able to settle down. Back in the renaissance era getting into multiple areas was a must (ala Leaonardo DaVinci), but nowadays society rather has the attitude of "choose something you like and stick to it" as in "specialize yourself and be an expert". Renaissance souls get labeled as "jack of all traits and a master of none", day dreamer, or a person with ADHD never able to focus on one thing. I recently turned 25 and I still really haven't fou…

When you look for new books how do you weed out the good ones from the bad ones? I've figured that I can not trust Amazon reviews anymore. I got disappointed with some books, which I bought based on good Amazon reviews. I'm trying to figure out a new way to research books before buying.

So while thinking about the oceans i had a wondrous idea on space. I though of a near impossible way to get unlimited free(ish) energy that could power everything on earth for the entirety of earths existence. Upon pondering the idea it also came to me to use a similar system as a way to travel or move materials between different celestial bodies. So hear i will discuss the first idea. >Using the Moon's motion as a conduit to change gravitational energy into electrical energy.< We know and can predict where the moon will be relative to the earth at any given point in time. we can model where it was and where it will be for many many years. This idea …

I think the best one I've found was the xkcd 3-D conversion. The rest seem to suck. Google has the fake GMail move or whatever they called it. Youtube has a video celebrating 100 years. SFN has probably the worst with Cap'n's lame sense of humor.

Spring is here, apparently... I was just thinking about some moments from my childhood across the vast sea of experience and sentimentality that separates my present self from my past self and was thinking about what spring meant for me. However, only descriptive and dramatic replies please, which read like Hemingway or Camus. I'll be happy with one reply if I get it. Waking sleepily from my bed, groggy, wiping sleep from my young eyes, I stumbled to the bathroom in my striped pyjamas, crumpled behind the knees due to sleeping in a foetal position. The frosted glass windows let the new sunlight through in crazy patterns as I gave myself a soldier's bath - crotch, ar…

The same joke as last year? Weak

I tried to get Legend of Zelda: Master Quest on eBay just now and had a bidding cushion of $5. I got outbid in the last 5 seconds. grrrrr

Hi! i just wanted to know why the inside of my right cheek is split.(the cheek on my face). at first it just looked like a "cold sore" or something like that,but after i brushed my teeth the "white stuff" did not go away,then the next morning i looked at it and i was like omg! anyway it looks like a knife was used to cut my cheek,but it's like a "crater". any thoughts? im also thinking that i probably just bit a " clod sore" in my sleep. please help if u can.

Im wondering if anyone could tell me the name of words which give an entirety description to similar or identical objects. Like 'lemon trees' for describing all tree which grow lemons as a whole ? just the english definition.. thanks.

I do have to *facepalm* a lot. When a fail is so big that oneface palm is not enough, my friends help me like this: http://lolpics.se/pics/482.jpg But what if I encounter another fail like "Sweden is in Asia" (that's my 17 year old friend's EPIC FAIL) ?

Hi , I need help making lab reports for college,since it's my first year dealing with reports. What I'm asking for , how should it look , it must contain a cover paper as usual as a front page , defining the problem and what are we dealing with , Procedure, apparatatus and some calculation and results. Since there is no samples in my book. I prefer using microsoft word for doing so. Can anyone please share some previous reports he've made. Thanks a lot ..

Hello Friends, This is Lay Berls & i am very newbie to this forum. I found this forum from Google's search and here very informative discussion are held , so i excited to take part here. I hope all are cooperative here...... Thanks Lay Berls

Devastating and scary, under the best conditions. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=c3rqPPJPwLg

I use Windows Internet Explorer which seems to do all that I need although it sometimes freezes. The general advice seems to be that there other much better web browsers. If you would advise a change which browser would you recommend and why?

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Do you think anarchism and it's principles are only an idea? Do you think government allow crime to exist? The anarchists consider that it would disappear in the atmosphere which is contrary to the one we have right now. Is that harmony which anarchism mean possble in society and our lifes? Is it possible in this times when the society is becoming more and more sterile?

No matter how you look at it, she demanded justice. DEPORT HER TO AMERICA! The Rambo Granny of Melbourne , Australia Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down.... And shot off their testicles. "This old lady spent a week hunting those perverts down. Finding them, she took revenge on them in her own special way," said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp. She then took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the Sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: "Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God." Cops say con…

Dear Group, While reading through some aspects of Machine Learning, I got two interpretations for the popular training algorithms, Maximum Likelihood estimation(MLE) and Expected Maximization Algorithm(EM). I am trying to post both the options here as under. If any one of the learned members may kindly help me out, I would be grateful enough. I. MLE AND EM VERSION I We have calculated the likelihood which is, L(f;p)=Πp(x)f(x), where x€X and : f is a non empty and finite corpus on a countable set of X of types. The maximum of Likelihood function is, argmax(L(f;p)). After taking the maximum likelihood, we are trying to take the Laplace smoothing…

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Have you guys checked out Wikipedia as a news source? They seem to me to cover major world events extremely thoroughly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution What with over 100 references, it seems like a source I can trust.

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