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With diseases being cured, new life-extending treatments, nanotechnology, stem cell research, etc, virtual immortality is right around the corner. Would you want to take advantage of this? Let us know how you weigh in.

Hello, I was wondering if it's at all possible to change your User ID name on these forums, or if it would be worth me just creating a new profile with my desired ID name? Which brings me to my second question: I forget how the user titles thingy works, are you able to create a custom title after a certain amount of time being registered on the forums - or do you have to have contributed a certain number of posts before custom status becomes "unlocked"?

Does anyone have any idea of what ethnicity Isaac Newton was?

the time was about 2:05 AM central time and the first was in the southern sky, the second was in the east northeast, and the third was straight east. The second and third were close to simultaneous. Has anyone heard of a meteor shower or anything like that? I hadn't seen any more before, and I didn't see any after. It seemed like an isolated event.

Err...you might know the answer but I don't. Why does a child have a hgher metabolic rate than an old man? Thanks

Hello Does anyone know the answer to this question: Outline the journey a piece of apple peel (something you cant digest into the blood) takes through the body, starting with the mouth.

I'm looking for some RSS feeds to stick in Firefox. Anything sciency or just plain news would work. I have: Scientific American ScienceDaily New Scientist ScienceNOW BBC Reuters Anybody have any they use?

what is that word that means something like love, but non sexual/romantic? I'm thinking plutonic, but at dictionary.com thats not the definition i get.

Hi guys i am a new member here, just wondering if their were any other ecnomics buffs on here like me. Also, very quick question but if anyone can help me, i am doing a paper on: International trade and tariff-rate quotas if anyone reckons they have any knowledge of this subject please reply or PM me. Thank you very much

I've been loosing a lot of hair lately.. any suggestions?!

The period of invention has past.During the period of invention ,inventors and scirentists invented many kinds of things like cars ,spaceships,planes,telephones etc. IN the 21st century , the time for improvement and make changes. WE should stop inventing things and start to make the foundation of science stronger!

Question: If I fell 100 feet into a large, deep pool, which of the following would take LONGER to touch the bottom of the pool. 1. Plastic balls (like a kid's playroom) 2. Polystyrene balls (in beanbags) Thanks!

Just doin' a little research based on curiosity. Do you actually believe IQ correlates with intelligence? Or do you think it's all crap. Also, how do you think you'd score on one to ten in regards to social prowess?

http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html Are they actually suggesting to get rid of open source? What about companies like Novell or IBM? Wouldn't the bill be specifically designed to remove these companies from France? This truly amazes me. How can anybody be so stupid? And wouldn't this be unenforceable? Frech developers could just distribute their software on servers outside of France.

Hi there everyone! I was bored today so I threw together a little script that calculates the Mr of any compound, it can be found here: http://www.allscience.spiralmindsinc.com/Testing/ChemCalc.php It works with compound formats: H2O 2H2O Hg(NO3)2 Hg(NO3)2.2H2O The last one is still 50/50 - I'm not shure if it works correctly yet. Or any combination of the above, please try it out and any feedback is welcome (Note, I threw this together in about half an hour so it probably has bugs ) Cheers, Ryan Jones

got any ideas?

Hello all, I am looking for some advice as to which I should Major and Minor in between Physics and Engineering. My dream is to be able to work on new space technologies for satelites, probes, space shuttles ect. Basically anything that advances the space program. Do you think I am better off majoring in Physics and minoring in Engineering or vice versa?

Hi, Why some people get angry when are faced with difficulty,and try to put blame on others even if it is there own mistake? From: Mab

Has anyone else seen this article? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6940417 How cool, $25,000 to tell the USAF that a Star Trek style transporter "The concept of transporting any large amount of matter is highly impractical and looks to be highly impractical well into the future." Heck, I could have told them that. I like the blokes style in his recommendations though. For a mere say 75,000 of that, I'll keep track of the Aussie research.

I read in a book once, einstein when he was youNg had a question,''IF WE HAD A SMALL MIRROR IN OUR HAND AND WERE TRAVELLING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, WE LOOKED AT THE MIRROR HOPING FOR A REFLECTION, WHAT WOULD WE SEE?'' As reflection itself is light travelling at 3,00,000 kms/sec, is it possible for a reflection.

Situation: You're confused, fustrated and sad. You think that you did badly for an exam and your future is ruined. You are completely devastated? What can you do??? To prevent yourself from entering into a state of depression?

Hi, I'm looking for an exceptionally precise definition of sound so i can go an kick some philosophers butt tommorow night.. i've got so far planning my argument.. and just realised if i dont define sound i have a slight problem... How is sound created? Just air particles vibrating? Or will any particles vibrating create sound? Also exactly what is sound (strict definition) Thanks :D

Creation doesn't cut it, dudes.The universe evolved!!! Around 1836---judging from his notebooks---Darwin figured out an evolutionary process capable of explaining why all these species, and thus he saved God the trouble of having to create them one at a time. The analogous puzzle in our day is why the universe has all these numbers which seem to be "just right" in a certain vague sense. The most familiar example is the strength of electromagnetic interaction which is 1/137 in natural units. Longlived stars, the chemical elements, life chemistry, all depend on this being just what it is and not a percent off. An evolutionary mechanism has been discovere…

Hey, I just finished the Ender's series, and I decided to read one of Asimov books because I thought it would be interesting, so I picked one "the positronic man", and it was way cool! I want to read more books like that, does anyone have any suggestions??

I've been thinking about supposed IQ tests that are used to test "intelligence". What do they really test? My point is this: intelligence, as I see it, is the ability to solve a problem in an unknown situation using the tools and knowledge one has. IQ tests have all these questions which, to a large extent, are composed of maths (or math for the Americans) and language questions. But these things are a matter of education. One can be taught to do well in an IQ test. But what if someone off the street, who has had no education, takes an IQ test, and can't answer 2+2, merely because he or she has never been taught maths. That person's results would be awful, and…