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Does anyone else think it's funny that the long-discredited Bohr model of electron orbitals is the unofficial symbol of science?

Since I have an obsession with Combat, mostly unarmed I was wondering if anyone here also has the same interest. If you've taken martial arts or whatever I'd be very interested in hearing about it. If you dislike it you can talk about it tooo...I guesss... I want to keep this a general thread, but if you need direction, I will rephrase it later.

I love this little tune but do not know where it is from, do you know anything about it? Download MP3 (200kB) This is only a 20 second extract. Cheers!

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/3925/ Any idea how he does this?

Had no idea where to put this so here it is. I know languages evolve so to aid the question, how long has english existed in a form where I could carry out a conversation with these ancient fellows?

So; I was watching UKTV documentary last night; Have I Got News for you is on, with Elton John and Janet Street Porter. Anyway. At the bottom of the screen when the camera pulls out cmes this writing, in a font similar to Times NR (one after another); "For Eltons Taxis ring (077189) 343264." "They won't let you down." "Unlike Ray." "Bastard." Wierd. Now this came up twice during the show, when the camera pulled back, obviously not subtitles as they never said that, the font, and they wouldnt say something like that on the show. Finally at the end of the show, the camera pulls back and a message springs up; "Next week; Britney Spears and …

I'm new to this site - what does it offer?

Click on "Atomic clock for windows" if you have windows. http://www.physorg.com/news76951713.html Bee

There's going to be a couple of them who are going to be rather angry at me. After receiving an email from "Fifth Third Bank," which I do not have an account with, I filled in the following on the phisher's site: Full Name: Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy City: Dresden, Ohio Username: sommernachtrstraum (That's "Summer Night's Dream") Password: scherzo Pet's Name: Fanny Mother's Maiden Name: Bartholdy Email Address: felix@violinguru.org It's a pity they probably won't get it.

A few friends have started up a poker night, just for fun (we each put a £5 in the pot, divide out all the chips equally and last man standing takes the pot). The trouble is that I have never played poker before, so I could do with some training (Texas Hold'em rules). So, can anyone recommend online or offline free poker software that I could use to learn the game? I definitely do not want to play for real money. I tried a few rooms which google through up but even though they say 'free' all the games were for money.

What do you think of this guy.... http://www.compfused.com/directlink/3909/ Bee

I stumbled across this and quite liked it " A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one,"the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing....and," pausing to take another drink of…

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/death.irwin.greer/index.html?section=cnn_topstories No better time to wait until someone dies than to criticize them. Germaine Greer, best known for her feminist book "The Female Eunuch", said Wednesday Irwin was an "embarrassment" and a "self-deluded animal torturer". So... what do you think?

I thought that with a fair number of people on this site interested in science fiction it might be interesting to run a short story competition. Perhaps we could have a similar set up to the debate forum, with an area to vote and discuss the stories. I'm interested in the level of support, and any suggestions about how you'd like to work.

Hello Listening to radio news while on the way to work, when a report came up discussing the cost of education in America. Found it quite shocking to see projected current cost of a Bachelor Degree from an average size University. That being $40,000 American. I think that's around 16,000 Australian, 18,000 British Pounds, and 32,000 Euros. Futher they reported that most students upon graduation will spend the first ten years of their working lifes paying off student loans. And that some fifteen years ago a young first time home buyer from these recent graduates put and average of 15% down when buying their first home. That amount is now 0% with the a…

Middle Eastern associates. What associates do you have or once had that once live in the Middle East? I new a Pakistani in college. My tech graphic instructor Massud Hassan was from Iran. I worked for a Lebanese family in Hawaii I worked with a girl name Jaffari from Iran. The gas station around the corner is owned by a Pakistani family.

My wife left me. I am miserable and my life feels pointless. I just need to here that I add something to any one persons existence. O well I guess I will to sleep.

What classic movie are you? http://similarminds.com/movie.html

Defense Department proposes replacing ICBM nuclear war head with a conventional one. Conventional ICBM Is this wise? What does it say about the inability of US forces to stop scud missile launches the Iraq war and Israeli failure to stop Hezbollah rocket attacks?

I wrote an article about something and a person told me that Hitler wasn't actually christian. And he despised christianity. I searched about it and couldn't find any article about his religion. Most of htem give me about the crimes he committed and how he got to power. So could anyone help me, and please dont refer to wikipedia.. i really dont trust it. And apologies to the admin/mods if this is posted in wrong section Thanks.

I would like to hear about people of the Jewish faith that you have known.

just wondering...

How does one get a [whatever] expert title, and how do they prove that they really are an "expert" in whichever field? Why should I believe that someone really is a resident/physics expert or whatever?

We all know Steve Irwin from Crocodile Hunter. He was a great man who always loved to take risks and loved nature. he will be remembered "Crikey Mate!" -- Steve Irwin

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