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I might as well post this considering it began in my former hometown... http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html The story began with the announcement that a 6-year-old boy had constructed a relatively large UFO-shaped helium balloon along with his father. Allegedly, one of his brothers reported that the boy had hopped aboard the balloon shortly before it broke free of the ground and floated up into the air. (Bonus points: calculate the volume of helium needed to lift your average 6-year-old into the air and see if it is even plausible for this much helium to fit in a 20' diameter 5' tall circular balloon) After an hour in the air,…

It is the most basic and fundamental science. Why Study Physics? http://www.aps.org/programs/education/whystudy.cfm do you agree with this ? which is most basic and fundamental science? physics or math?

A few favorites: How to Kiss A Woman ~ Captain Kirk 0VuIShM5kAQ I watch this next one when I'm sick to boost my immune system: Richard Simmons ~ 'Who's Line Is It Anyways?' 7POvKK3hXUs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7POvKK3hXUs

Corrupted is a great band. First of all they hail from Japan but they sing in Spanish, that by itself is way cool. Second the music is very heavy, something around electric wizard but heavier, which suits the music as its droner metal overall as far as classifications could be made I think. The music itself has a lot of lucid type psychological aspects to it along with philosophy that I am sure would not suit a great deal of people, but to me its simply awesome. In one song in towards the beginning you could almost make it out in English like he said "they honor DNA and call it their god". This goes along with lots of other interesting aspects that make the band to say th…

I am disgusted with mooeypoo`s continuing attempts at portraying me as a plagiarist. These latest accusations surround a posting of mine where I clearing stated my source of this quote attributed to Albert Einstein. My source was the Philosophy Science Forum and I said so in the original posting. For one thing how can you possibly be plagiarizing by refering to a quote attributed to Einstein in a forum. How can I possibly be guilty of plagiarism by doing that. How am I trying to claim credit for some idea or concept if I am quoting them. I recieved three different postings in that thread by her accusing me of plagiarism. When I attempted to find another source of this quo…

Hi everyone. I was just wondering why cats are strongly associated with females? I ask this because as a guy that loves cats, I was told by a woman once that I was "weird". I'm grateful I didn't tell her of my crossdressing! (just kidding). I've noticed in advertising too that cats are generally associated with girls/women. The majority of cat food commercials have women whilst dog food commericals have men. I was intrigued once when I saw a women once wearing stockings that had a cat motif around the ankles. I mean, you wouldn't put a German shepherd motif around the feet of stockings for a woman to wear, now would you? Think of superheroes. Only a w…

From a letter by Darwin... "I have been now ever since my return engaged in a very presumptuous work & which I know no one individual who wd not say a very foolish one." Pretty close to the way I feel (or perhaps how others will in due time). Been going it 5+ years. Just curious though, does anyone else here feel the same way, or has in the past? Do hope so (Credit Sisyphus for introducing that website previously)

...as in when making an extraordinary claim. Are there historical scientific examples?

Does anyone know when exactly the HAMP guide will launch? I just read an article that it is suppose to come out soon but when? People in my locality including me are frantically waiting for it :confused:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/to-top-scientist.html Today, he probably would have posted here. (Just a reminder not to be too much of a killjoy.)

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/oreilly_dawkins_or_what_happen.php I have some respect for Bill-O and I do at least consider him honest. It's just hard to believe he actually believes his arguments in this piece. It is also irritating how the 30 second exchanges will not allow someone like Dawkins to properly trash Bill.

I am learning to avoid direct gaze and use one eye looking across the nose bridge as a reference. I seek confirmatory, clarificatory feedback data. The Good Effects I Experience are : § The Seeing eye, rolled down to the nose corner, pulled in to the nose bridge reference comes alive, active § The other eye is relaxed completely. § The scalp stretches across the temples inside the skull. The Problems I Face are : § Sometimes I get muddled between 2 objects of the same thing. § What do I do for depth if the other eye is rendered inactive.

How's it done? I uploaded one but in the preview/edit it shows up as a link rather that the image. I've seen it where others have the image embedded into the post as well, and you click for a larger version. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedNevermind, found out by experimenting (not w drugs ) For those wishing to know... Upload the image. Close the pop-up window for it. Then click on Manage Attachments (the pull-down menu next to the Attachments icon). On that little pull-down menu you'll see the image name. Click on it and you're done. The attachment should be four digits (i.e. 1234, and nothing else) in between the "Attach" tags.

Hello. I'm new to the forums and I hope this is the correct place for my post. I have joined specifically to find someone (and others later hopefully) to help myself and my friends with a project we are working on. We have been developing the theoretical side of the project for the last year and have now reached the stage where we need skilled assistance in specific areas. Initially we need someone with practical skills in using scientific computer programs and if possible access to those programs on a day to day basis. We estimate that initially the help we require would one or two days to achieve to supply us with the data we require. Naturally, the person(s) …

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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…