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Can anybody tell me if there is any fact supporting them or are they just an idea?

Dear Sir, I wonder if this method is viable. If a space ship beams enough electrons to a near by body, the positive charged space ship will be accelerating to the negative changed body. Or maybe we can etectrify the space around a space ship to propulsion in some way. Thank you for help! Sincerely, Joe

Been working 2 jobs and too busy to post for awhile. Had back surgery Thursday and am home recuperating. I think the surgery went well - sciatica is gone but incision is sore. Doc says no driving for 2 weeks - what's so bad about driving?

hi all! i have to write a college paper on the title "Lamarckian-v-Darwinian evolution" and i want to quirk the title, kind of put a new slant on it. anyone have any good subheading ideas?

Im doing this physics project for a competiotion and i working on several formulas and i would need some information would you be able to tell me what is the averege amount of steam per second needed to turn a turbine in an electric powerstation? thanx

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Hi! i'm Fiend, and by request of a friend of mine, i have come here to ask why he was recently banned. he claims that he was banned for no reason and can't even log in to check his private messages to find out why. um, if you guys can, explain this to me so i can get back to him and i'll get out of your hair as quick as possible. the member i am referring to is CD27.

If you are like most of the world, you believe that oil and gas are in neat little caves buried deep in the earth, just like the drawing in your 6th grade science textbook. Being rather sensible, you guess that oil companies drill and sink a pipe into the cave to suck out the black gold. It’s quite probable in your mind that when each well “comes in”, it spews oil all across the countryside; like James Dean in ‘Giant” or Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies. The average oil or gas well is drilled so deep that if we did not use thick drilling fluid to hold back the earth’s pressure, it would easily collapse and crush our drilling pipe. The typical well today has bet…

I though I'd start a thread to show how greatful I am too the people who have helped me here at SFN in the hope that others will do the same. Firstly I'd like to say thank you to the staff who do their jobs with a great deal of enthusiasm and show a remarkable ammount of ability, everything you learn something they know something that is beond what you know - brilliant! Also thanks for the understanding you have shown and remarkable patience with me Secondly to the members who have helped me, there are too many to post here and seeing as I can't list them all I will not post any and you know who you are so thanks! I'd also like to post a special thanks to th…

Does someone know if a GPS system also include an electronic compas or is the compas software based (2 know positions in a street one after the other) Simple test: If you are standing somewhere with your GPS system and you turn around (on the same position) does your system notice it?

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Hi Guys, Ocular Networks is now officially launched, and its address have been migrated to http://www.ocularsci.com/ If you are interested in experiments and other aspects of applied science, please give it a try. We have finished most part of the forums and galleries, etc, and are at the moment writing experiment directions. Please take a look at it, and give me as much feedbacks as possible. Regards.

I have just completed my website, and it will be launched on December 1st, 2005. It is sort of like a experiments community where people can share ideas about scientific experiments. Please give me some suggestions as to what sort of thing I should have on it, what types of topics, etc. The site is during its testing stage. I would like to create a scientific site that is fun, and can benefit everyone. And of course it would just be a waste of time to recreate another scienceforums.net. So guys, please give me some creative ideas.

A friend of mine wants to build or buy a seismograph and I said I would help him. He wants to detect earth tremors and display them on a computer in real time. So, some questions. 1. Is there an internet site that you could use someone elses sensor to produce charts on your computer? Similar to how you can hook yourself up to webcams all over the US. 2. Where can we get some inexpensive sensors. 3. Is there a link to a build your own sensor that is reliable? I have some links, but I would like some more input.... Thanks Bettina

This is just an awkward fascination of mine, but I almost always find people let the most strange things pile up in an around their desk. I know for a fact my dad keeps a framed picture of R2D2 next to baby photos, and someone I work with loves to drip candle wax in colorful patterns all over his desk for reasons only the divine goddess could know. Heres some things I have: - a pink stegosaurus beanie-baby on my monitor, his special power is proofreading spreadsheet formulas and being adorable - a really odd book on how Jesus will rapture the earth in the year 2012 that my mom gave to me as (I hope) a joke - a sketch of Hello Kitty that is obviously in my ha…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4461888.stm YAY!

man, ive been walkin around for the last few days feeling like hell. ive had static electricity all over me. i dont think its originating from my clothes either. i take a shower, put on my clothes in the morning and there it is all day. at night, i take another shower and hop in to bed and there it is again, in my sheets. i wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and i feel it on my arms and legs. i havent used any new laundry methods and the linen and clothing. same stuff i had from the previous weeks laundry. i dont live near power line or anything. it sucks! anyone have experience with this? anyone know how to get rid of it?

hi i was in a meeting where a man presented a system ( called Promotron ) for write data "on any surface" in an "invisible" , "in-adulterable", "impossible to copy" way and then read it......... he never showed, by the way, HOW HE WRITES THE DATA and he said that the way of writing is a secret is it possible ??? his intention is to replace clasics magnetic stripe cards by any object ( plastic card, cardboard, etc ) using this system he said that this is a revolutionary technology...... but i don't rely much in him i have looked for some system already invented, and i found "LSA - laser surface autenthication" by russell cowburn LSA method simply …

Damn this price of education!! What happened to American socialism?!?!

I'm 15 and interested in Science, I'm slowly learning one or two things within my fields of interest (Mainly Cosmology, and Physics in general); but when I come to this forum I look around and I'm overwhelmed with some of the knowledge you guys have. What I want to know is were you very smart all of your life or did you just persevere and learn? I want to know this because I'm interested in Science but I don't know if I could have a future in it.

Does anyone have a list of websites that have educational science videos? I've discovered Nova and learner.org, but I'm wondering about other websites people have come across in their educational journey.

In encarta 2005 reference library, i 've successfully extracted videos which are available as movie files but i didnt find animation files (like animation showing working of heart,relativity explanation). Plez someone help me how to get it

Keeping up with the need for a "super hero" type in the world now-a-days is tough. Our sports heroes are as close as we get, but is mother nature keeping up with public demands? Should we ban, or simply regulate steriod use as an enchancement drug?

On another forum, I was challenged that Wiki is not a good source for material which I think it is. Does anyone else feel this way or is there a better place. Bettina

A game I think you'll like: http://www.conquerorgame.com/ It's a turn based strategy a lot like risk but with a few new dimensions. In addition to placing troops, you also have farms, castles, taxes, culture and diplomats. It's more confusing at first, but if you play a few games and read the rules, you get the hang of it pretty fast.