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Hello. I am interested in 2012, notably - the Mayan prophecy about the end of the world 12.21.2012. Many people talk about it now, besides, the movie comes out soon. I'm interested to read something about it. Disclosing this theme. Advise me some articles please. Thank you

Hi gang! This is my first real post and I read the rules and T&C's and hope I'm not breaking them and hope this is the right section for this? Anyway... I have something weird to share with you all. It took me a long time to really make this public, but here it is and I hope you all try it for yourselve's and give me any feedback? ... I thought I'd share this very interesting graph I discovered in our times-table around 5 years ago (November 2004). I have aptly named it "OneEye" or "1i". There's an interesting story behind its discovery and, it's a result of graphing the times-table after using what is known as the "Rule Of 9", where each number is r…

...yeah, I know that's Pangloss's line, so God forgive me. The same as the other topic, only with videos. Here's my all time favorite depiction of the average (and oh so cute) person: FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY Yavx9yxTrsw PS.: Is there any way to embed videos on SF?

We recently did an experiment in class with Stirling engines, and my group recorded our engines in action in order to later determine the frequency of the cycles, as it was moving too fast in order for us to accurately measure the frequency to an acceptable degree of error. We stuck some green fluorescent tape on the flywheels connected to the engine shafts, so is there a program that could count how many times the bright green spot in the video passes a certain area (probably the upper "hemisphere" of the picture)? Or perhaps there is a program that could be slightly modified in order for this to work? I have some experience with computer programming (mainly C++) so …

Is it just me or has other people seen this too.Looking at alot of message boards and yahoo groups , yahoo answers there seems to be alot of lack of science.I mean there are some smart people :-)but than there is alot of people that lack science. Even the news ,media and government lack science.And there seems to be a big lack of science how the human body works and medicine. And there seems to be lack of facts given. One person ask quetion what is step cell and person lacks science say it is killing a baby for cloning .Than all other people read it and when next quetion comes up what is step cell the same thing happence and more people learn that fact that is not…

According to the experts at AccuWeather.com, whenever a US President is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize there's severe snow in the Northeast US: http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/10/obama_nobel_prize_snow.html The somewhat skeptical weatherman reporting this lulzy press release notes: Coincidence sounds about right.

3- Dimensional Sign Painting in One Page Flat. (Give me a sign : ) Copyright 1985 & 2009 by K. B. Robertson Oil portrait artists with many accomplishments in their history are natural sign painters. A deliberate scientific standard of the shapes, sizes, and impartations of various painting brushes - the hundreds of rote hand grips, positions and movements, is more the fort of a sign painter, than that of a portrait artist - the two otherwise having much in common. Each learns her/his mediums and vehicular techniques toward graphic, often colorful execution. Each brush stroke consciously aimed at publicly…

Notes by K. B. Robertson Charles Darwin’s VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (‘On The Origin Of The Species’), recently being read - in the great outdoors - by the record; interrupted by a boldly orbiting hornet (All Creatures Great And Small, The Lord God Made Them All), namely, a yellowjacket. He landed on the face of the open book in my lap and then disembarked and went back into orbiting my coordinates and keeping me in suspense, as they often indulge themselves... He finally landed again on the face of the afore titled and authored book. I closed the book - smartly - upon him (I forget what page). I reopened it and with a burst of air through pursed lips, blasted him of…

I really want to see it...... That is all.

I don't want to hijack the alt energy thread, and I can't figure out if this is bad science, or good science that just totally elludes me. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/08/urine-power.html That's a pretty hefty claim - though I have no idea what the actual amounts of electricity are that they are talking about. The first paragraph is facepalm-worthy since releasing hydrogen is not financially prohibitive but prohibited by the law of conservation of energy considering the result of using hydrogen to generate electricity is water. However, it appears based on those numbers you could expect to get a considerable amount of 'bang for you…

Alcor is a cryogenics organization, notably responsible for the idea of "freezing heads", hoping future generations will able to revive them with advanced technology. The core idea is a noble pursuit, in my mind. However, it would seem that the execution has failed horribly: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_book_reveals_chilling_details_of_how_cryonic_lab_thumped_remains_of_baseball_imm.html Not only were their facilities poorly maintained, but they apparently committed some gravely disrespectful acts with the remains, and ones which would certainly harm the viability of revival. But far worse, it seems they performed all sor…

''Well all good things must come to a musical.'' ''All roads lead to a musical'' ''There is Music in the spacing of spheres, there is Mathematics in the vibrating of a string'' Enough said, who wants to be in it? (tough nuts if you dont). Sayo will be the bad guy, naturally. I will play the part of the daft one that smokes cigars and says, ahhhh Mr Bond. I figure YT could be the main good guy. Blike can be the police officer whos 'seen it all before' 5614 can be the computer wizz who gets lots of sex Martin Can be the philisophical one that spends half an hour explaining something nobody understands (like the white haired guy in the Matrix 2) Dave can be …

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Did anyone here watch the premier of Stargate Universe? If so, was it any good?

I just started a new website. http://www.InternationalDiscussionForums.net. It's a site for people of all sorts to talk of things of all sorts. I'm looking for the best forum software available, commercial anyhow. Because from the looks of it, free software does not give me the functionability of a commercial message board like IPB or Vbulletin. Please tell me which one you think is the best one, why, and why the latter isn't. Thanks, your help is really appreciated.

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So in the second semester of this year at uni i'll either be on an industrial placement or a research project. i'm hoping(and expecting) that i'll get an industrial placement. one of the two options i selected, i commute to from home. the other is in newcastle upon tyne(what the hell is it with the english and these weird names). so, anyone know what its like down there? only time i ever see it mentioned is when there's been a spate of murders or something.

As I was thinking about going for a greasy kebab I started wondering how healthily do SFN users live? Since this is a very broad topic I was thinking of having the main focus on dietary habits with a touch of recreational... substances. Personally, I probably drink less alcohol than I literally burn (ethanol and boric acid makes for a neat green flame). I think I last had a drink like 3 months ago. I don't smoke, and have never done any recreational drugs. I do eat quite a bit of fast food (burgers, pizza or such usually around three times a week) and drink around a liter of soft drinks a day. And as mentioned in another thread I should really exercise more. So, …

http://gizmodo.com/5370752/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind-persistence-jury+rigging-and-ingenuity-against-all-odds It's a story about a Malawian kid that was kicked out of school because he couldn't afford the $80/yr, but found a book at the library covering windmills, and at 14 not only did he decided to build one (as his village had no electricity) but he pulled it off with junkyard parts and successfully was able to run lights, radios and pumps etc that greatly impacted his life. The video in there is well worth the watch, it's a very inspirational story. Man I love science! When we have all sorts of books so accessible on every topic and especially the intern…

Post your favorite one-liners. I know we already have a joke thread, but I think one-liners deserve one of their own. So here it goes: No+Rohypnol = Yes. My girlfriend is a porn star. She'll be so p*ssed off when she finds out. Your turn.

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I ran across this and found it rather fascinating: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=1 It details an amazing doomsday mechanism created in the USSR designed to automatically detect a full nuclear attack on Russia and transfer launch authorization directly to whomever was stationed at the underground bunkers with minimal safeguards to ensure a counter attack. It is called "Perimeter" or aka "Dead Hand" to ensure a full scale counter strike even if a successful preemptive strike took the USSR completely by surprise. Unlike most "doomsday mechanisms" it was not publicized and made part of the MAD (we want you to know y…

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As a regular patron of some dire PowerPoint presentations, I'm looking to avoid the same mistakes. It's rare that I've ever witnessed a presentation that was genuinely enjoyable and fun to listen to. Even ones with promising beginnings usually 'sink' in the middle with bogged-down details. In a few weeks I have to do a 10-15 minute PowerPoint presentation to a panel, and I really want to make it excellent. Aside from the problems which dog every presentation (keeping the audience interested, making it understandable, etc.) it has the added difficulty of being presented to some non-scientists. So it'll be a mixed audience of scientists, businessmen and others. None…

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974014/ I wasn't aware of this until I saw a trailer this morning. It's looks visually pretty impressive - what do you guys think?