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I'm a big astronomy buff. I love to learn everything about space, and I understand that there is a magazine called Astronomy Magazine, where it gives me the latest news at Nasa, but I can't afford to pay for a subscription (I work at a fast food place, so I need to save all the money I can). Can anyone suggest a website that is free to join where I can get just as good coverage as Astronomy Magazine in the form of a newsletter delivered to my inbox? It really bites that I have to wait until I get a day off from work to watch Cosmic Block on the Science Channel to get my astronomy news. I would go to Nasa's website, but when I type in http://www.nasa.com/, it just take…

Currently being a grade 12 chem student of Alberta, I have just written part A of my chemistry diploma, the written portion, and will be writing the second part multiple choice in about an hour. I must express my gratitude towards this site. I don't post often, I mostly read, which has proved extremely useful and deserving. Now, one of the written questions I just answered was an opinion on the best way to produce hydrogen. They gave you three options to choose from, using propane, coal, and the electrolysis of water. Seeing all of those, I pretty much verbally vomited all the information I had read from here and researched into. So, I smoked that portion of t…

nature, vol. 294:105, November 12, 1981. could someone maybe grab me a copy of the above article, or check something in it for me please? cheers muchly.

To your family or friends. For me it's Anime. I have a deep obsession with hand to hand combat (or hand weaponary) anime. I have a 8" DBZ figure at work, ssj 2 Gohan (if you know DBZ, if not I will explain or just google it) standing on my desk. Luckily no one has asked what it is. I was generally wondering since I find people interesting, what they keep hidden from most people, besides the sick and obvious ones

Does anybody here use Hotmail? You wouldn't believe how many messages are randomly deleted from Hotmail before arriving in my inbox. People who e-mail me on a regular basis will sometimes ask me if I received the e-mail they sent a few days ago, but I never received it. There are other times when e-mail will come into my inbox very slowly, sometimes over a day after it was originally sent. I have a form submission program on my web site that sends a message to my e-mail address whenever anyone fills out a form. I now have it send it to both my Hotmail e-mail address, and an e-mail address I setup with my web host. Usually, around 1 out of 10 messages do not arriv…

I have come across a variety of races and the most humble of them all are the Japanese. Is it because of their disciplined culture?

For months now I've been getting spammed by password notices in email that are telling me that someone ("probably me" it says) is trying to change my password. The email gives me a new password, and tells me that I can use it or keep using the old one. What do you guys think? Is someone trying to steal my user ID?

http://http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=201 gee, i love this one, what do you think?

I tried a search on the forums and didn't find anything. So what kind of jobs are there? Just as a brainstorm. I'm not particularly looking at math applications in physics or geology, but more math-focused. Also, when you find discover something in math, what do you do?

This is the fiirst of this type of email I've ever seen, has anyone seen any similar? Q. How many Forum users does it take to change a lightbulb?? A. 179 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs 1 to move it to the Lighting section 2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs 5 to flame the spell checkers 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames 6 to a…

So, apparently from the various sources (NY Times, Han's Deposition), it appears that some fairly serious crimes (assisting suicide, reckless endangerment - three felony counts) are being charged almost solely on the statements of the "perpetrator"- for those of you that are entirely unaware of the story, here's how the general understanding goes at the moment: 1. Victor Han, who was having an extramarital affair, drove to Bear Mountain with his wife and 2 children, ages 3 and 5. 2. Victor Han knew, and told the police a fact that nobody else seems to be aware of, that his wife was suicidal. 3. Victor's statements seem to indicate that he thought his wife was not …

Woo! Solstice! Finally we get to see what night-time looks like again!

New poll

I posted the same thing in the debate forum, perhaps it should have really went here, I'm not sure but tell me your thoughts on the following...thoughts...lol, Can any of this be true? What if the past, present, and future were all happening at the same time? What if the subconscious and conscious mind were separated not only in the thought but also time perception? Would it be possible to know your history from beginning to end but not be able to access it? If time was occurring at the past, present, and future, it would be possible to think at all three levels. Ones subconscious state of mind never really perceives time since everything is happening at onc…

I was watching a show on the history channel regarding this and all these religious types claim that there's a code in the bible describing every event in all time and that they've cracked the code using computers, particularily a method called ELS or Equidistant Letter Sequence. I missed all the details but basically a excerpt of text is taken as a matrix which each letter taken as a character with all spaces ignored. For example, the phase "The blonde boy walks the orange dog" would be written as: T H E B L O N D E B O Y W A L K S T H E O R A N G E D O G Then a word of interest is chosen and the computer attmpts to find other words which relate to it…

Revising for Biology exam tomorrow, im so convinced that the formats have changed in all edexcel exams and everythings gone terribly difficult.... Surely I'm not the only one in the country? Maths was evil, Chemistry was evil, god knows what biologys going to be like tomorrow...gd luck all..

It seems to me that in the last decade or more technical know how is no longer so important for companies. I have the impression that personality modes, human networks, who you know, AND ESPECIALLY HOW YOU BEHAVE is much more important. Now this may have always been true to some degree but it seems like companies today don't even know how to judge people or judge by quirks or gut feelings. They ask for alot of knowledge (at least in software, the field I think I know) but in the end it seems that what really counts is AGE, HOW MUCH OVERTIME YOU ARE WILLING TO DO, HOW MUCH YOU LICK ASS etc. I mean even the relationship between work and time at work or working hours is…

Which country(countries) do you suppourt in FIFA-2006 World Cup?Which country you think will win it this time? I suppourt Italy,Japan and Brazil and I think that Brazil will win.

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/ It's more serious than the other stuff on YTMND.

Personally I think the Wombles would whoop ass, they would just take apart all of the Clanger's weponary and recycle it to create jamming devices that would render the Teletubies superiour technology useless.

News reports are saying that as many as 32 billion people will watch the World Cup. Um... aren't there only 6.5 billion people in the whole world? This statistic was repeated on ABC News tonight and I thought the anchorperson had gone bonkers. But sure enough I did a quick Google and found this story: http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/02/spt15.htm What the heck is going on here? Do I need to run out and buy four more televisions in order to meet my obligation as a human being?!

Okay, is there anything we can do to get more kids interested in science? It's going to be a huge problem in the future if no kids want to go into science. I'm starting to see that most of my friends that used to be love it are no longer interested, and me trying to help them get back into it isn't working. In fact, I only know of 7 out of the 220 or so kids in my sixth grade class like science, and the number is dropping. So what can we, the people, do?

Gmail deleted a picture from one of my mails long ago, but the problem has not reoccured (as of lately). I'm somewhat uneasy about emailing pictures to my Gmail; however, the space/organization offered seems to appease my storage needs. Anyone ever have this picture problem?

Does anyone still play the original Halo on PC? I've started playing it again recently, just joined/accepted into the NR (Northern Rebels) clan. Just wondering if anyone here plays? (I now play as {NR}JMM - say hi if you see me!)

Anyone know the story behind this?