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Okay, before anyone jumps the gun I have no idea what it was I observed. At first it moved across the sky like a human made satellite, but as I watched it such began to accelerate. In what was fractions of time really, maybe close to two seconds it, the dot, had become something of a line. This line did a few zig zags before it was gone, the trail did not seem to last very long either. So any input would be nice, as I have no idea what it is I observed.

Found this on another forum...

We've heard of favorite actors/actresses, favorite musicians, music etc etc. I guess its fair to ask about your favorite scientist my favorite scientist of all time is Nicola Tesla

Argue with that! I dare you.

I need to know if high schools normally have high voltage caps around that they're willing to give away for free and I need to know where they can be found like the art rooms, the wood shop room, etc.

What is your take on this issue, regarding the disparity of social and economic status (wealth) versus academic qualifications, knowledge and intelligence - in life, in general? In other words, is socialeconomic status, in general, inversely proportional to education? In particular of course, the sector of the academia relating to the sciences and technical sectors (e.g. scientists & engineering related jobs). For example, highly educated and quite possibly significantly more intelligent (dependent on personal definition thereof) PhDs dont earn nearly as much money, as compared to a much less educated and quite possibly less intelligent (in the scientific, literar…

Probably a lot of you have seen this before, but I thought it was cool. It's "content-aware image sizing," and it makes it ridiculously easy to edit images in all kinds of crazy ways. And the video is narrated by Kermit the Frog, apparently!

Ok, I'm straight up scared of wasps. I will knock women and children out of the way to get away from them. I really feel they come from hell. To make a long story shorter, I completely flipped out at the site of a wasp in my room...my music/computer room. I ran, obviously, and armored up with a long sleeved hoodie and wasp killer. So, here I am crouching in my ninja-wasp-killer stance, searching the room with my Hot Shot brand 27 foot jet spray wasp killer...and I can't find him. I'm in the throes of fight-or-flight creeping around the room, where every little noise or flicker of light, initially anyway, is a yellow jacket going straight for my jugular - and I …

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/how-to-make-hot-ice/ looks like fun, i need to try this.

Hi, Please brief me a little about the UK education system (except Scotland), e.g 6th form etc.

I've just been watching Enemies of Reason by Richard Dawkins. I want to talk about something that I have seen quite a bit of. There seems to be many people turning towards atheism and I suspect they are doing it not because of any deep thought about the topic but for the same reason that many people turn to religion, i.e. identity, image, belonging, and authority. In his documentary Enemies of Reason, Dawkins loves to go on about a war between reason and superstition. Creating in viewers' heads the idea of a war creates a distinction between good and evil. The next step is to characterize the good and the evil. Dawkins loves to talk to really bizarre psychics and peop…

Who's gonna watch CNN's Gods warriors? http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/ seems interresting.

Man, Gonzaga is just going to tear this guy apart. Any MMA fans?

I don't know if anyone will respond to this or not, but I've always been curious as to how many people have actually heard of Knoxville, Tennessee. "Heard of" would probably mean you know what state it's in, maybe broadly where it's located. More that just hearing the name somewhere. It's a medium sized city. A good 300,000 in the metro area. We've made a few famous people. James Agee, Admiral Farragut, Nikki Giovanni, Jack Hanna... Trace Atkins... Yes, Johny Knoxville... Mountain Dew came from Knoxville. There's Knoxville marble in the Pentagon. The Knoxville Zoo was the first in the world to breed African Elephants in captivity. We had the World's Fair in '82. UT's …

Caveat Before late '99, as can be confirmed by GOOGLE and other chronological archives, there were no (zero) discussions on 'gravity is the 4th dimension', or gravity, electricity & magnetism as the 4th, 5th & 6th dimensions. Or The Reinstatement of Einstein's Unified Field w'out Math: The Big Bang Theory is Wrong. All that has changed, since. In late '99 (under a bevy of witnesses, including his co workers at the time <in Santa Cruz, CA>), one Brian Kirk Parquette (bkparque) enthusiastically introduced himself to me and several of my friends and acquaintances; asked to buy a copy of the (condensed) 54 page, 5th edition of my (627 page) hard copy publ…

I seem to be getting more & more frustrated by trying to get involved in discussions , and bumping into more opinion/belief [ not based in any fact { one of the best example lately was a quote " I'm not a chemist I do not know & I do not want to know "} ] , This was talking about two types of alternative diesel fuels , bio-diesel vs. waste vegi oil . The point being that I seem to be noticing that the world around me is devolving from moder thinking / more knowledge . Oh ya , that theory , is a work in progress , or not !!! My 1st post , hope to find a lot of theorys/info . Thanks John

I hear in many threads in the physics section in regards to views I shall call them that its the math/calculations that makes something true. IS such an actual or viable position that professionals in such a field hold, even if something has not been tested or for that matter directly observed? It seems to me that with reality as a whole, that simply does not equate into truth, no pun intended.

There was a thread a while back where we were asked to share 'our stupidest moment.' In a similar vein, this is to share those situations where somebody else has displayed a moment of profound stupidity, they could be a work colleague, friend or family member, or anyone really...that warrant a Please no quotes from here, this is for situations outside of SFN. To start off, this happend when I was much younger, and it had been snowing heavily, which is quite rare where I live. So naturally we wanted to make the most of it. So we found a steep hill on a housing estate, near a friends house, and were sledging down on tea trays, sometimes ending up in a heap at the bott…

I just wondered as Religion and Science see to be in a constant tussle to provide answers. So which side of the fence does everyone sit on? Can anyone truly sit in the middle? I am Atheist. I just trust in science .. it seems completely alien to me that people can take the Bible as true or believe in a supernatural being. Edit: I have added a poll to this thread. Please bear in mind that Elassarina is not asking you "please tell me your religious beliefs". There is an 'Other' option as a safety net, but I don't expect that anyone should really need it. Sayo.

I'm currently trying to translate my sister's resume in english. So far I've done my best but being nor fluent neither a scientific, I'll be happy if someone could have a look and correct mistakes in it... because that's pretty sure there are some Thank you very much! Laure And here it is : AXXXX BXXXXX 118 avenue XXXXXX 31300 Toulouse (FRANCE) 00 33 6 83 XX XX XX XXXXXXXXX_at_yahoo.fr Single, 29 years old, French nationality EDUCATION 2004 Master’s degree in Agriculture Engineering School of Purpan, Toulouse § Related Coursework : Vegetal Improvement and Genetics of the Populations 2002 Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Enviro…

heh random thought...probably on the wrong forum to write abt this...why i say this is cause you need infinite energy to freeze time since you need to freeze the whole universe...anyone agree with me? and even if you could freeze time,you wouldnt be able to do anything cause you wouldnt be able to see a thing since light photons stop moving... there.i said it.pls reply so i can laugh at my friend for saying im wrong.

Has anyone else grabbed a copy of the new DVD, "Babylon 5:The Lost Tales"? It's the first in a new series of direct-to-DVD stories. If it sells well then Warners will front the cash for more. If anyone's interested it's available from Amazon. I won't post a direct link as I don't want this to come across as an ad for the show.

Jay Leno cracked a joke not long ago - What do you call an American tourist in Iran? Answer: A kidnap victim...... Kiana? Mike Dubbeld

Last friday night I was at a bar that happened to be in front of a bookstore. This girl came up and asked my friend to borrow a cigarette. We were talking about Harry Potter. As someone who reads what I would consider to be literature, I was arguing that an adult is wasting their time by reading Harry Potter. There are so many good books that I want to read that children's books like Harry Potter certainly don't make it on my list. I've never read any of the Harry Potter books, so I'm judging them from ignorance. For some odd reason I've never felt the urge to read the books, nor do I feel like my time would be well spent doing so. Anyway, this girl and her t…

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