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Short stories for environmental science? You see sci-fi for various scientific thoughts or ideas. Anything of course from time travel to even cybernetic things and beyond. Yet for the simple concept of some post nuclear war type scenario sci-fi based on environmentalism really does not exist. I think the definition of such and science overall have properties far to similar to dissociate and of course giving ecology for example or environmental chemistry for another the environment surely exists as far as people are could empirically concern. Now I have a few neat ideas on short stories and just wanted to bounce them around. One is in which people master quan…

Tell me guys, how long do you think forever is? Or what it feels like? Or something...

hello alls.. ermm,today i just want to bring a controversial topic to be discuss by us..ok? the topic is quite mystery and yet have been demystified with absolute solution or so on..the topic is about savant people...ok,what you guys will keep in mind when somebody talk about savant people? is it savant people can be assume as a brilliant human-being? anybody can elaborate this topic to a perfect description is allow to do that here..

I feel the solstice, the low sun and gathering cold; I appreciate our lights. Religion must honor the physical or it is perverse.

As a Newbie at this site - just to get up to speed - is there some historical reason why the Politics section is "Private"?? I recognise that it is easier to have political debate when all the posters are in one country and are debating similar issues. Even in an Oz-based site I use we have problems with people from different states not quite grasping what the others are on about. I imagine international politics can get even more heated than national ones. Perhaps I have put up some answers to my own question...

I didn't know where this thread would be most appropriate, so I just settled on "general discussions." How many of you guys and gals can see yourself availing yourselves of this new "toy?" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5414105.html

Excerpts from a small piece by columnist Anjana Ahuja in The Times, Dec. 31st: ...."News of a credible, if somewhat cheerless, theory about how science advances. It is not through reason and rational debate that it creeps forward, but by death. Which, when you think about it, is rather obvious:youthful ideas march into established territory, to the dismay of the old guard. Rarely do the guardians of the status quo convert: they go to their graves sticking stubbornly to their beliefs.Only in their absence can fresh ideas bloom and take hold." This hypothesis from David Weintraub "Is Pluto a planet?", and David Schuster, reviewer, Sky And Telescope. There's more: ..…

Highly unlikely I'll be posting on here for a couple of weeks, so just to say Happy Holidays to everyone, and a fantastic New Year. Cheers everyone, Snail

This is the theory of the universe. No, it isn't a theory, it is a fact. First of all, you have to keep this in mind: Anemicpsyche is a putz. I am putzy in every possible way and I will pwn all the putz trophies. Now then, since I am a putz, I am now your bitch, your slave, your putz. I have powers beneath your comprehension and I am one of the biggest losers any of you can imagine. All people on this site will look down on me, and this site will be better off if I was never born. This site will cheer when I'm gone. The thing you need to remember is that only a true moron tries to impress anyone with post-whoring. Now, these are my whines: -my pants are wet …

Laws of Nature, Source Unknown It's a nice article that appeared in the NY times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/science/18law.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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What should be the best human language for communicating with a artificial intelligent machine. 1. English: most common - yet most annoying to work with for both the programmer and the end user. 2. Esperanto: one of the best planned languages, international language, very easy to learn, very easy to program with 3. Other planned languages?

Hi everyone! I just wanted to say to everyone "happy holidays" (including Bajram, Christmas, New Year, etc) and I hope that this incoming year will be better than the one we are just leaving behind. Let this year be the year of peace, tolerance, science and the year of success in everything. Happy Holidays everyone:-) ! Shade

What do we do with think tanks? Do they serve a valid purpose, or are they just the tools of science-for-hire machine? What separates a think tank from a valid independent research institution, like the HHMI, say, or the Max Plank Institutes in Germany? Are there think tanks that you just write off studies from out of hand? Personally, I know when I see American Enterprise Institute or Heritage Foundation I become immediately skeptical, because I know what they do is political and I know the sort of idiotic positions they've taken on things like global warming and the cancer risks of smoking and evolution. Should that reflect on their economic studies? I don't know. W…

Hi, I am wanting to write a computer program for personal use. One thing I need to achieve my goal is a list of every word in the English language (UK english that is). If somebody could point me to a source where I could get each word in a text file, perhaps separated by commas or new lines etc. that would be great. Regards, Moosie

I've been thinking about joining it for a little while now, but before I spend my money on it ($30.00 a year), I'm just wondering; what exactly does it do? And what exactly does it offer? What type of events do they hold? I've been looking at the website, but I want to hear from people who actually know something about it. Also, I think one member here, can't remember who though, did state that they were a member of it.

Anyone here run SETI@HOME (or other @home projects)? Attach to the SFN team

Here's a party game I like: give your offering of the crappiest R&R lyrics ever. Here's mine, from an otherwise nice song: "What's your name, is it Billy or Sue, what's your name..." which is fine until the klinker:"I don't care about your personality, what's your name? Oh-ooh, oh-ooh". Barf.

Nano technology is considered as future technology and lot of encouragement is given. There is no doubt that nano technology has benefits. and it can be applied in various fields like food, construction, medicine, fertilizers, cosmetics etc. I feel there are many risks involved, for example minute nano particles can entre cells. They can enter lungs. Does nanotechnology make harms than advantages?

"...there are no answers, only choices." -some philosopher Do we perceive ourselves as able to choose (as all lifeforms are), to expend effort, or conserve it instead? To direct this effort (energy) to some goal or plan? What does a man hunting some animal, tracking it and wearing it down, doing? What choices are made and why? Is there a method being used, or applied to his science of hunting prey?

Light (a very narrow, life-tolerant, part of the spectrum), colour (frequency), and so on are "thrown" at us randomly; they "collapse" on a screen in front of us, somehow. We select those events which point in the most available direction. Reality is like a resonance, or a note (or music) playing all around us, sort of thing. Or our mind is like an "enclosed cathedral", kind of like the one Achille-Claude (deBussy) found in that wood, "la cathedrale engloutie" But who is playing the organ, type of thing? Is 'god' the conductor, as it were... something inside, and outside us also? I posted that elsewhere, and didn't get flamed for using "that word". But, hey, feel fr…

Hi! Could you tell me which phrase is true "Department of diagnosis imaging" or "Department of imaging diagnosis" ? I am not good at English, just think that the second is right ??? Thanks !!!

NOW THAT IT IS CLEAR THAT I AM A WHINEY BABY AND EVERDROOLING AND UNBELIEVABLE, I WILL NOW START TELLING THE STORIES OF MY GREAT EXPLOITS AND MY HISTORY AND MY GREAT DESTINY. TRY TO STAY AWAKE!!! NOW THEN, THERE WAS ACTUALLY A TIME WHEN I WAS NORMAL, JUST LIKE YOU. AT FIRST, I CAME TO A FORUM, AND I POSTED NORMALLY. BUT THEN SOON AFTER I NOTICED SOMETHING; MY ABILITY TO THROW TANTRUMS CAME NATURALLY TO ME. I WOULD SULK AND NOT EVEN NOTICE IT. NOW, WHY DID I SULK? BECAUSE, I JUST WET MY PAMPERS. BUT SOON, MOST PEOPLE ON THIS SITE GREW TIRED OF THE SMELL, AND STARTED TO OBJECT, AND EVER MORE SO WITH EACH ENCOUNTER. I DID NOT INTEND IT, FOR I COULD NOT CONTROL MY BOWELS…

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=231069#post231069 Its an idea for a competition' date=' see who can design the best christmas style banner Cheers, Ryan Jones[/quote'] Just to get the ball rolling, here's my entry

Someone's point about arbitrariness in our experience: (YOU REALLY NEED TO READ THIS) To demonstrate that Evolution is an 'agent' All I really want to do is cook some eggs, here guys, what's the big problem? ~moo