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anyone here play World of Warcraft? if so what server? what faction? Stonemaul: alliance kiljaeden: horde doomhammer: both

Who do you think would kick ass if there was a battle between various science fiction universes? The six choices are Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Asimov's Foundation Universe, Gundam's, or Babylon 5? Personally, I would say that Star Wars would win because, though their weapons are a bit clumsy, they are varied and pack a lot of power. Also, they do have speed and good defensive capability.

Free Will A. Free Will B. No Free Will C. Uncertain of Free Will This is somewhat targeted at Strong Atheists (believe in no Greater Power), but they are a tough bunch, so I think they can handle it. Basically I am asking if there is a "Master" (read God) of your brain, or is that part of the Universe just reacting like clockwork (hidden variables included), or perhaps "quantum uncertainly", but still with no Free Will. Personally, I believe I have Free Will, but cannot prove it even to myself.

I thought I would share this with everyone hear, I'm sure some of you may have heard about the recent progress of the Iraqi football team(or soccer, for the benefit of Americans). They recently trounced Australia, one of the favourites in their opening game(I think it was their opening game, the tournament's only just begun) of the Asia cup. I must say reading about the result made me feel elated. All the things this country, its people, and its team to have been through, it does bring water to my eyes thinking and reading about it. Football, I think, can make a real difference in these kinds of times, and could be a real source of unity and hope for the country if they s…

Can anybody else get into Wikipedia? I've been trying for two days. Just getting an error page. You know. "The page cannot be displayed. Blah blah blah." I thought I'd drop into an internet forum and ask if anybody else was having this problem. Maybe its a localised stuff up. Can't locate any news regarding a global collapse of wiki. Have tried everything but keep on getting nothing. No matter what page links I try. http://www.wikipedia.org I'm using a library computer and none of the other machines are cooperating either. Might go and try the internet cafe down the street later.

Dear members, I am new this forum. All these days I was posting questions in this forum. Forum is very good and informative. Still now I am having some doubts about the usage of this forum. Can any one clarify the following doubts: 1. Against each posits we see reply and view columns. What is this view column. How th use this. 2. Regarding private message. What is the usage of this. 3. If by chance we post in a wrong forum can we move it to the correct forum later on? Thanks in advance

According to scientists, this is what your PC could look like in the future:

I figure this would be the place to share it. We didnt actually build the table, I bought it from Ikea. Its green plastic top with clear legs. and this is what we did. green cold cathode tubs. the the circular ones came on a computer fan power supply we used first we tried the 12v 1amp, didnt work too well after a while. so we just used this computer one. haha we added in a remote the underside the underside turned on. I'll be taking it up to my dorm this Fall

How does this happen, why can't you possibly compare with me?

It is picturised in many movies snakes ( especially cobra) drinking milkand turning hood in reponse to a typical musical tone. Can cobras realy drink milk. They have split tongues and can cobras respnod to sound waves?

My girlfriend and I have now set a date for our wedding, October 26th 2007. We are now planning it all and so the stress begins...

Do we have an aura of electrical or magentic field around us? If so can it be measured or photographed?

Greetings! My name is Irene Yu and I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program at Loma Linda University. I am seeking participants for my dissertation study and need your help. I'm looking for Asians/Asian Americans (who know their current/last cummulative GPA) to participate in a study designed to examine cultural values and parent-child relationships If you are interested in participating, please copy & paste the following link for the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=72613227473 Kindly forward this to anyone you think might be interested in participating. Participation in this survey is completely voluntary and…

So I've done something incredibly stupid. I picked up this stray dog about a day and a half ago, and have been trying to find it a home ever since. Ten minutes ago, I noticed it has fleas I read some stuff about fleas on wikipedia and I'm totally freaking out. It says they lay eggs and get everywhere. How can I sanitize myself, my apartment, and the dog inexpensively? I dont have the money to buy it a collar right now but I just need to know how to clean it all up. Any help is appreciated.

I had this conversation with a friend of mine a while back. When something doesn't work on your computer it seems like for other people it always does. You can follow the exact same procedure that someone else reports worked for them yet it doesn't work for you. Just an example I'm trying to run Civilization 4 under wine*. According to the wine appdb I did everything correctly yet it seg faults. There's even a guy with the same distro and same version of wine whom says it's "running perfectly." Why it works for him and not me, I don't know. This is a recurrent thing, and it seems like it's not just me. I'm not complaining about it -- it's kind of amusing, ac…

What is the significane of using Red color for danger? is it the wavelength or any other factors Thanks, Murulidhara

Just watched 2001 A Space Odyssey last night. I've never seen this movie and after watching it, I really have no idea how this one stayed off of my radar - I loved it. I loved the emptiness, cold, sterile, realism. Why isn't more science fiction done this way? Particularly since it's touted as the best sci-fi film ever. Anyway, I got to wondering how you scientists view science fiction. The themes in "2001" were cool - to me, a non-scientist. The dawn of man scene was really neat - again, to me, a non-scientist. These concepts seem interesting to us, the non-scientist public, but do they seem the least bit interesting to you scientists? I wrote a short s…

Maybe it's a bit silly, but I absolutely loathe spoilers. I hear that some news sites are ruining the last Harry Potter novel by publishing early reviews with spoilers. And I suspect other news organizations will pick up the story and run with it, carrying the spoilers along for the ride. That really makes me mad. So for the next week, or however many days it takes me to plow through HP7, I'm boycotting all news services. Bah!

I have read that people with better memory do better in school. Riding that thought I was just wondering if anyone has any thought as to what memory improvement course to take. I have done some research and found a couple of sites but not sure which one to take. Theres the School of Phenomenal Memory and Theres dr. brunos course. There were plenty more but I just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with any of these memory improvement courses. Thanks

I noticed this... http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/member.php?u=12366 what is it exactly, a VB error, or somebody hacking the forums ?

It's annoying having to keep logging in.. is there any way I can change this? I know I don't contribute much as it is..

When a college considers GPA do they consider your GPA with or without weights from advanced classes?

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My home page for many years (over ten?): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Dunno if anybody else here follows APOD, but I've noticed that the site's been down for over a day now. Does anybody know anything about this? There's just a notice there saying that they're having technical difficulties. I was wondering if it maybe got hacked or defunded or something.

Yesterday I had to endure another chav episode whilst trying to study on the bus...with the usual taunts 'gonna stab this guy yeah, gonna spit in the drivers face yeah, got kicked outta school yeah, my mate stabbed this guy yeah...et.c' This got me wondering, and perhaps the problem applies throughout history, I'm not sure. But, is there some trick that could be applied, say, economically or politically that could stamp out chavs and asbos and remove them from our evolution. The problem is, smart and successful people are caught in lifestyles that warrant smaller families, due to more responsibility (I realize that's a slight generalization) but to be really suc…