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OMG.... This is RIDICULOUS! LOL!! :eek: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12247590/

Hello everyone... try to solve this. There is one hypothesis that has held up to every possible test. Two hints below if you feel you need them. This h. seems to be different in that we seem to have found a physical reality. It has not varied across many orders of magnitude from the attosecond to the age of the known universe.

Are you part of the noble gases, Alkali metals or something else from the periodic table? Take this quiz and find out which popular element you are! I got Neon http://www.kuizzer.com/quizzes/quiz.aspx?id=161

I know many people here are young like me (19) so I was wondering if you are concerned or excited to experience the world in the next 50 years. The electronic revolution we live will only grow exponentially. Thinking about the technology available 50 years from now stretches the imagination as far as it can go. Nanotechnology poses many exciting solutions, but can also cause problems. Global warming and overpopulation threaten the ecosystem. And what will our nations be like if there is no viable solution to the energy crisis? So in 50 years will we be living a peaceful society; our massive cities powered by cold fusion, having Honda robots cook us diner? Will be…

Have you ever been addicted to a game on a website? Or have you found a fun game? Well now you can post the link to it here! Mine: Chopper Challenge Escape Jedi Trainer I'll post more as I find more.

by jet of course. im not rowin'

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again in our lifetime. Bee

Liverpool FC is my favorite. how about you?

I'm in highschool. Junior year. However, i'd like you all to look at this list of vocabulary words that we have to define for the current chapter of the book we're reading. Chapter 1 1. [sycamores] 2. (Recumbent) 3. [Wearily] 4. (Bindle) 5. (Morosely) 6. [Droned] 7. [Triumphantly] 8. (Pantomime) 9. [Contemplated] 10. (Brusquely) 11. (Imperiously) 12. [Whimpering] 13. [Elaborate] 14. [stake] 15. [Yammered] Words in brackets are words i've learned in 4th grade, words in parentheses are words that i've learned in 6th grade. Also, those words are for Of Mice and Men, a book i've read several times already. But not in 11th grade. Not in 10th, not in 9th …

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have pulled off another amazing prank. Last year Caltech students went to MIT and handed out MIT-branded shirts to students visiting the campus with "MIT" on the front... on the back it said "because not everyone can go to Caltech"! This year MIT students got their revenge when 11 MIT students walked into Caltech and stole the 130 year old, 1.7 ton Fleming Cannon which normally sits in front of Caltech's Fleming undergrad house. The prank was perfectly timed as this is the week when prospective students visit college campuses across America. Security did initially stop…

So obviously this is a physical thing, but in science class I was always taught that matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes forms. So technically wouldn't everyone on earth be the same age?

http://www.helpwinmybet.com/ Haha! He's gonna win.

I read, that you can use Vegetable Oil (they suggest that you do something like go to a Chinese Restaurant and ask for used oil) then using that rather than gasoline... http://www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/environment/renewable_fuel.jhtml ...does this work with all cars? So, can I just go to a restaurant, get the Vegetable Oil, then put it in my car? What are your thoughts?

Something I've noticed on these forums is that a lot of the really intelligent types would endorse meditation. Honestly, I haven't experimented with different types of mediation that much. One that I really get a lot from is Quaker meetings for worship, and as far as I'm aware it's the only way of mediating that involves a shared experience. Would anyone care to say what types of meditation you enjoy, why and how you learnt it?

http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html I can't verify the authenticity of this, and the guy who wrote it may be biased. It's all his firsthand account with no corroboration, so whatever, reader beware, this may very well be BULLSHIT! But uhh, yeah, basically an anthropocentrism-hating biologist who thinks we're destroying the earth and the solution is to exterminate 90% of humanity via airbourne ebola. WTF?! The author claims he received a standing ovation after his speech. God bless Texas... Ed: Well, here's a little bit of 3rd party corroboration: http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio357/357evaluations.html

All you digg users have probably already seen this, but it's too funny to not post. This site is selling an at home laser eye surgery kit, advertising it as easy and safe. I found the "4 easy steps" image hillarious. But, once you buy it, would you use it again? Probably not, but it would certainly be fun to point at other things other than your eye.

when you can't see, you are blind. when you can't hear, you are deaf. what is it called when you can't smell? what is it called when you can't taste?

Has anyone seen this film? If you have then if you know what type of science they were talking about in the film can you tell me? Because I'm interested in it.

i was just listening to the new album by kate bush. it contains a track called Pi and here are the lyrics. can anyone come up with songs similar to this?

This is a feel-good-about-yourself thread, and maybe even a brag-and-gloat-and-be-better-than-everyone thread Share with everyone what you really like about yourself, and why its just the best thing in the world to be you. I'll go first: It probably comes to no surprise to anyone that I'm incredibly vain and feminine, but thats one of the thing I really like about myself. Theres nothing better than the feeling of being very girly and feminine, its the best! I mention this because I got a comment from someone today who said "I dont think I've ever seen you wear pants", which is true because I dont ever wear pants because they make me feel too masculine (and …

I've become addicted to science podcasts recently and I was here at my computer minding my own business when this weird little story came up on this podcast for Quirks and Quarks. It has to do with a dog-like animal found in, I think, Vietnam, that excretes calcium carbonate and has a gland that secretes calcium hydroxide. This story is so bizarre I don't know if it's an April Fools joke or what. I'd give you a summary but I don't know if it will ruin it for you or really if it matters because I have no idea whether this is for real or not. Please listen and tell me what you think. Here is the link to the podcast in segmenthttp://www.cbc.ca/quirks/quirks.xml whe…

Has anyone been to Africa (especially sub-saharan)?

I get this error on my TV. I think it's a v-chip thing but I don't know how it would have got set. I think it changed itself cause it was working like 3 hours ago. Maybe I sat on the remote or the TV got struck by lightning. I dont know. But now, it doesn't work. My parrents definitely did not put parrental blocking on it -- but this is a v-chip message, isn't it? How do you fix the TV?

If you're a right-handed person, is it possible to efficiently teach yourself to write with your left hand (or vice-versa), or is this hard-wired into our brains at birth? I'm curious about teaching myself writing with my left hand as a side-hobby.

any prizes up for grabs for being the 591st user on April Fools Day at 11pm?