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My cousin bought a crappy electric supercharger the other day, and I must say it looks like a piece of crap. There is no way these things can work, right?

I'm an connoisseur of beer. That may be surprising, as I come from the country that brought the world Budweiser, Miller, and Pabst. My home state of Colorado is the top beer producer in the nation, thanks in part to our massively successful regional brewery Coors. But they all taste like ass. So my taste turned elsewhere. I soon developed a strong taste for the nitrogen-infused beers of Great Britain and Ireland. Guinness, Boddington's, Murphy's, Belhaven, Tetley's, Old Speckled Hen, and Wexford soon topped the list of my favorite beers. From these beers I learned that what had always been described to me as a "pint glass", wasn't. All of the above beers com…

Will Someone Please Explain to me What is and is not Spamming? 48 years ago I wrote a book. Since then I've written, published, distributed and sold out ten small press editions of that book - about gravity. It is long ago sold out and no longer for sale. I have posted a condensation of the book at http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie. Problem: For example. Recently someone asked me 'WTF is gravity'? That is an excellent and enormous question. The book at issue here is an answer to that question. The question cannot be answered in three or four sentences, paragraphs or pages. It requires a (condensed) book length discussion to properly respond t…

Hi, as you will be able to tell from my question I am not a science mind but would appreciate some help from those of you who are. I am flying from Sydney, Australia to Santiago, Chile in December. I will be leaving Sydney at 10am, flying east across the Pacific Ocean and landing in Santiago at 1pm on the same date. The flight is 24 hours long. How many hours of darkness will I encounter?

I was looking at one of those corporate application tests that run about 40 questions/problems that are to be complete in 20 minutes time. I noticed some obvious and not so obvious patterns in the nature of the questions, which are meant to simultaneously evaluate your honesty with your qualifications. I am absolutely fascinated with the fact that in these times a person's first interviewer is a computer! I know these forums are populated with the people who design these systems. Hence, I would absolutely love to know the dynamics this system is built on. What patterns exactly are built into them? How are the scores generated? What do they mean for the person? …

I often dream of myself flying, which is very nice . Everything feels so real, and I can actually taste stuff! And I can control my actions and make decisions.

hi im in grade 9 and i am doing a project on electromagnetic induction and i would like if i could have some idears on the best desgins to help with my project if you do could you send them to james.andrews.00@hoymail.com thanks

Just thought you might be interested in seeing this, whatever your view is The Great Global Warming Swindle Although I'm sure most of your minds are made up already. Oh well

I'm am not in school. Took the semester off, and I have nothing to do. Also food storage is on sale this week (food storage is big in Utah). I want to see if I can live off of $60 for food for the month of April. Here's my plan so far (maybe I can use what I learn to help save money in the future): 25 lbs. of brown rice 25 lbs. of lentils 12 eggs 4 gallons of milk assorted fresh vegetables/fruits, mostly red cabbage and bananas I chose lentils instead of beans because they are a lost easier to cook. Are they as good as beans in nutritional value (beans and rice make a complete protein, do lentils and rice also?)? What vegetables and fruits are inexpensiv…

I have a recipe thats a soultech special [Chris Rivers alias chrisrivos from PhysOrg] I mean you guys were talking about free cookies so i thought i would give you my favorite `body and brain' building recipe! Loads of protien akin to a protein shake! Lightly fry 3 eggs with a cup of chopped onins and put them in a large bowl. Then open a large can 425gm of tuna, decant the springwater down the drain and add the tuna meat to the bowl. Then add about 150-200 grams of shreded tasty cheese to the bouwl and 500 gram can of quality whole peeled Italian tomatoes. Then toss the mixture thourghly untill the tuna and fried eggs and other ingrediens are of an even chunky te…

Einstein's presently abandoned Unified Field reinstated w'out mathematics. The joining of Field with Quantum Mechanics. The exclusion of politics from science. A scientific paradigm shift in alliance. The serene world of science panics, at the bogey of quantum mechanics. Democritus foresaw the invisible atom, but since then his discovery is found with substratrum. From antiquity, and in ubiquity the continuous wave was the rave, the lodestone magnet, the compass; and transparent field - all were known to be electrostatically real. Faraday found the cathode ray.. Thompson uncovered the electron one day. Then Rutherford discovered the neutron in a different wa…

Hi, I am doing some market research. I hope the moderators do not mind. Could you please take the time to answer the below questionaire? Thank You James Hardaker 1. Do you play computer games? 2. If not, why do you not play computer games? 3. What age range are you? under 11, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 40+ 4. Would you play a computer game which offered a story as good as a film? 5. Have you ever wanted to alter the outcome of a film? 6. If you could create a computer game what would it be about? 7. Do you feel games require too much time? 8. What would you be prepared to pay for a computer game which you knew you would like? 9. If you saw an advert for a c…

Hi, I posted here a few weeks ago. I am running a visual cognition experiment through my Web-based laboratory. I need large numbers of subjects (about 2000). So far I'm about 1/4 of the way there -- thanks to you who have participated -- which isn't bad for just one month. If you haven't yet participated, please do: vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu/VSTMTime The main page (vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu) also has other experiments and links to more information about Web-based experimenting. When results are known, they will be posted on the website, and you can also sign up for an email announcement when the results are posted. Thank you, Josh

A friend sent me this video, not sure if anybody has already seen it, but a warning... it 'is' very harrowing, and illustrates (very graphically) the inhumane treatment of dolphins in Japan. It's clear to see the distress of these mammals, with or without the narration. http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin There's also a petition, if anybody is interested in signing. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/golfinho/ Now, as much as I respect other cultures, and in some cases that entails the food they eat...but I can't see that this treatment is justified at all, I'm actually baffled that this is still allowed, especially to 'clearly' intelligent mammals.

sorry to start an indepth debate but what do you all think about animal testing? I personally are all for it

Hello, I am 25 years old and for the past week I have been experiencing dizzy spells and lightheadedness when I move my head and look around. I have also been getting sharp headaches behind my left eye and on the sides of my head. They are causing my anxiety issues to begin and I am getting very nervous. I am so terrified of getting an anwurysm or tumor especially now that I have a baby. I am frightened and wondering if I should go to outpatients. Can someone help me?

does SFN have a podcast? If not we should try and get one going....anyone agree?

hi, I had a project due a day before yesterday but I did not hand it is as I was not able to complete it. I thought I would do it yesterday but I could not do it. Now, I was going to do it today but still could not do it. The problem here is that I am not feeling like doing anything at all. All I am wanting to do is just go to sleep, and that's it. I am loading myself up with my tons of late homeworks/projects and it's really stressing me off. Any suggestions on what I can do to change what I want to do.? thx!

http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surviving/dp/0446526568/ref=pd_ts_b_10/002-1987816-1968818?ie=UTF8&s=books I just noticed that this book is #10 among all books that Amazon sells, that means it is up there with Harry Potter and the top diet and selfhelp books. The book is titled The No Asshole Rule Has anybody seen a copy? According to reviews, the book gives a number of case stories of different types of bully (aka "asshole") and studies the loss they cause in terms of productivity----and why assholes are tolerated much of the time despite the damage they do to the company. I thought it was remarkable that bullying should be see…

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this is the secret Lost tape that I found on youtube. It's very interesting stuff and involves how the show may progress, for those of you who are interested. Lots of secrets involving the island are discussed here.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrH4iiw-owM

I'm curious as to whether any of you play either Warhammer Fantasy Battle or Warhammer 40,000 (Games Workshop's LotR game doesn't count ). I've noticed large populations of the gamers on certain imageboards and other forums, so i'm wondering how widespread it is over here.

I thought I would put this up so that all members could craft their own story on this thread. Here are the rules: -This is a Sci-Fi story. -Use only 15-25 words to continue it. -No consecutive posts. If you make one, you have to wait until someone else puts up a post before you can do it again. -This story is not really intended to have an end, so don't expect one. -You are free to drastically change the plot if you wish. -NO SPAMMING ALLOWED!!! This is intended to be a fun thread and use of imagination is encouraged.

How long until the enormously wasteful incandescent light bulb is dead? http://www.physorg.com/news93198212.html According to this table this LED is approximately equivalent to a 67 watt incandescent bulb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb

The 2006-07 winter was the warmest worldwide since the advent of instrumental recording, according to the US atmospheric agency NOAA. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2819.htm Anyone else been feeling it? We've had one of the worst winters on record in terms of snowfall.