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Friday I get my crow, and I go on leave. I will probably be incommunicado until then, though.

Hey everyone. I've run into a little conundrum recently, relating to my applications for financial aid and college and such. It's a rather complex situation, so i'll try to describe it to my best ability if anyone's willing to help. There are two people involved in this: me, and my estranged biological father. I have not seen my father in twelve years, and in fact am very hesitant to want anything to do with him again, since he's not exactly a very rational person (in fact, he's insane). He pays child support, however, and also happens to be a Vietnam War veteran. His Vietnam War veteran status is what i'm considering to use to get certain scholarships, since i'm…

and i hit a sheet of ice at 50 miles an hour, will my car accelerate once gliding along the ice?

I went to my cousins house yesterday to find he had bought a crappy electric supercharger. I made fun of him so much. The thing is truly riduculous, you have to see this piece of sh*t! http://www.electricchargers.com

As recently I’ve been getting slightly bored of where I live/England in general, a few months ago I decided to defer my entry to Uni and take a gap year to go travelling. I’m currently working stupid amount of hours to save up for this but I still need to work out where I’m gonna go. I may travel with a friend but I’d rather have the freedom to go where and do what I want so I will most likely travel by myself. Anyway I’m in desperate need of some inspiration and or tips on travelling so I thought to be great to hear about the places you've travelled to before. What it was like, what was good, what was bad etc?. I'll start. For me, so far Russia was probabl…

I'm having trouble accessing your site from my home computer for some unknown reason. Everytime I try to go on, it says that there is some error, or that it cannot find the site. I don't know what to do!

Hi. Will it be possible to play with real robots in the future by controling them over the Internet? Man against machine from your computer? http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=magi55 Regards Magi

I found this site and it really helps! It explains how all those drugs on tv work http://whatisthatdrug.com

In 1992, the state board of Texas Education discussed raising performance standards and levels of expectations for all students. One of the obstacles to this goal was the existence of the below level courses in English language arts, mathematics, and science. These courses tended to isolate low-performing students and to minimize expectations of them. Accordingly, the board adopted the schedule for phasing out below level courses. Correlated Language Arts I, Fundamentals of Mathematics, Consumer Mathematics, and Introductory Physical Science did not satisfy graduation requirements after the 1991-92 school year. After the 1992-93 school year, Correlated Language Arts …

Anyone here know how to separate out acapella and the instrumental from an audio track? Is it possible?

is it just me or has the SFN server been crashing alot lately? in the past couple of months I've had alot of trouble connecting.

Ok, this is my first proper post. If you could pick a new seven wonders of the world what would they be ? I know that we understand how the pyramids were built now but what would be tantamount to the pyramids today, what would deserve the title of a wonder of the world.?

Australia South Africa Scotland Netherlands Sri Lanka India Bangladesh New Zealand England Kenya Canada Pakistan West Indies Zimbabwe Ireland

Hey all, I remember reading one of Richard Dawkins books a long time ago. He was describing animals which are too grotesque to be designed by an omni-benevolent God. One of the organisms he described was a creature which, usually, gives birth to three daughters and one son. Firstly the brother impregnated the sisters. Than, the four of them eat the mother from inside. Once the male breathes in oxygen, he dies. The sisters live on to repeat the cycle. As I recall it was some specie of mice, but I am not convinced it is . Anyone have any ideas?

Hey guys, I am a former scientist that wants to help out new grad students and post-docs find the perfect advisor for their needs. Personally, I had a great Ph.D. advisor but then I had an awful post-doc advisor. In fact it pushed me out of science and into a new career. I found out too late that primary investigator prestige shouldn't be your only criteria when looking for an advisor. I should have also considered personality match, mentoring style, expectations, etc. I've created a website where current and former students/post-docs can rate their mentors and prospective students/post-docs can read reviews. It's a brand new site and I'm trying to build …

Surfing on a river using dynamite? Is this real or fake? I was hoping someone here could give me the actual math. http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=2nip17r

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum// Just curious.

Hello. Does anyone know where I could find a professional measure of aggression that shows a situation and asks the taker to pick the response he would do, and his response is measured on a scale such as 1-5? Something like: A man steps on your toe, do you A: Do nothing B: Tell him off C: Hit him that type of thing. I've been searching for so long all I could find was aggression scales like http://www.prenhall.com/divisions/hss/app/social/addchap6.html

I request a favour from all the people who are pregnant or have been pregnant in the past, to do a survey which is meant for a biology assignment on the eating habits of pregnant ladies. Just post your replies on the forum, thankyou:D Questions 1: do you snack more or do you eat bigger meals (or both)? 2: do you get food “urges”? 3: if so, what do you yearn to eat the most? 4: has your intake of foods like bread, cereal, rice and pasta gone up? 5: has your intake of vegetables and fruit gone up? 6: has your intake of dairy products gone up? 7: has your intake of foods like meat, poultry, nuts, eggs, fish and beans gone up? 8: has your intake of foods …

You know, it seems to me that many modern sci-fi books, and sci-fi TV shows and movies and videogames, feature a lot of silly science. Most of what I read in the books are either very inaccurate or not possible scientifically. Other times, I find that some books, especially in the Dune series, find some excuse to put some sort of medieval hocus-pocus magic crap in it. Another thing that really bothers me, especially in modern science fiction, is that they tend to use a lot of big words to explain how their stuff works, without actually explaining it in a way that makes any sense. (e.g. reversing the polarity). Also, I tend to see a lot of societies ruled by ki…

What is a good history forum on the net that is free?

Yes, you heard me correctly guys, the end is near. Since we cannot stop the inevitable, sides must be chosen and lives will be lost. When the end comes, which forces of the apocalypse will you side with? The choices are: -Anti-Christ -Tech-Comm -The Matrix -Brotherhood of Nod -Predators -Pan-Asian Coalition -Borg -Big Brother and the forces of Ingsoc -Zion Resistance -Skynet

For all of you who love getting into debates and I know lots of you do. I found a site that works hand in hand with this one. I found that topics like Farsight's Time explained and such sparked some debates and I saw some great debaters. I don't mean to sound like a spammer or to detract value from this awesome source for knowledge I just thought if you wanted to get into a heated debate without having to wait days for a reply you guys could check out http://www.duelcup.com It is a new site and relatively small so you guys with superior linguistic skills please don't take advantage. (but that is half the fun) If this is spam or misconduct please delete as seen f…

I realize I'm a bit late...but I saw an old posting here about strange smell cravings. I was hoping someone could answer my question in that regard. For about the last 6 months I have physically craved the smell of the little white toilet bowl fresheners. The ones that smell a little like moth balls. I go to them anytime I'm in the store to smell them, I have 3 in my toilet at home. I'm considering putting one in my purse for when I need a quick fix! Can anyone tell me what chemical(s) are used to make these things, if it's harmful to sniff them, and why someone may be predisposed to the smell? I am certainly not a science knowledgable person, and anything anyone…

Does any bidy know any good science search engine?