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Hi everyone, I am a new member. I ran across this website. I see a lot of invaluable scientific knowledge here, thus i decided to sign up right away. I'm an international student coming from Cambodia, a third country. Frankly speaking, I enjoy reading the posts from phi-for-all, mokele, martin, IMM, bascule, ecoli, servarian, and more...But i do need a guide. Anyone here mind you guide me through the forum?

Hi All, Thought I would let you know about a very interesting project that is going on at the moment on the Delmarva Peninsula in southeast Virginia. This is a joint venture between ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program) and USGS. The core well is being drilled very near the center of the crater in Eyreville, VA. Here is a site where you can keep up with current progress: http://www.icdp-online.de/sites/chesapeake/news/news1.html I have visited the site twice. The first time I was there, on Oct 7, the were around 2,900 feet. I spoke with Lucy Edwards, USGS palynologist, and David Powars, one of the discoverers of the crater ( the…

11 years of research well spent... http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html some good pics and a video can be found here... http://zubbles.com/gallery/zubblesPhotos.asp

Happy Birthday Firefox! As I write this, I know it's still early, but just a heads up: Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004! Come on everyone join the Firefox party! 100,000,000 downloads since version 1.0.0 and that must be a record! Cheers, Ryan Jones

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051031/nasacuts_spa.html Apparently all science experiments scheduled for the International Space Station have been cancelled by NASA. Ostensibly this is only until "the space station is completed". But NASA has already stated that the 2010 Shuttle retirement deadline, which was originally chosen because that was the prediction for how long it would take to complete ISS, will now be enforced regardless of the status of ISS. Meanwhile NASA is underfunded and USGov is backing away from new deals for Russian space launches. IMO this is just more evidence that we've *already* seen the last shuttle launch we'll ever see.

As the title says, what is your idea of a perfect humanity? How do you envision the human race at it's best? Since I'll be copying/pasting most of my ideas from another board, first I'll say a few relevant things I mentioned in other topics at that board: First off, I believe in the importance of the large-scale over the importance of the small scale. In terms of humanity as it relates to this topic, the success and/or prosperity of humanity as a whole is far more important than the success and/or prosperity of an individual or community. It is because of this that I am against religion. While religion may provide support for the individual or believing community,…

does anyone know its hotter near the sun? A good explanation plz

Hi, ive been thinking about signs, road signs / warning signs etc and how intuitive they are. Most signs afford some kind of meaning in the graphic they represent, for example a flammable sign is a flame, and irritant is a cross (implying, dont mess about with it). The picture has at least a partial meaning to the message it is trying to represent, i am stuck on why the "radioactive" sign is what it is, what is it meant to be and why? does anyone know? cheers Smommer

Not sure if this has already been covered (couldn't find anything) but how come Bio Hazard was banned...I've only just noticed, was it recent ?

A good friend of mine had a great pryo site all about the chemistry of explosives and pyro with good tutorials on why this stuff works and the like. Some insane guy found his site and, despite the disclaimers on ever page made some explosives (Quite a lot of it too). Like that was not enough he then went on to phone the local police station and threatended to detonate the device! The guy got a arrested and his computer confisgated, the forensics team found a like to my friends website and now hes in the hell for it too... his dreams of setting up a pyrotechnics company are all but useless now becuase hes being tried for assisted terrorism charges! When I find …

Has anyone else found that over the past few days/weeks that Yahoo! Mail service has slowed down considerably??? Just like browsing/loading messages/sending replies, each page (I use the web based version) takes a while to load and often fails, retrying it will often work... something's certainly not right!

Well, we all know that death will come one day.. yet we dont like to talk abt it.. we also know that we will do sex one day and we talk alot abt it... then y not death? maybe because we dont want to think that we will not be here.. but its the truth just like havin sax one day.. wat u say?

I've searched but I couldn't find this link already posted (apologies if it has) the next time you listen to the unintelligble mumblings of a stoner, listen carefully they may know more than you give them credit for... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8155 I didn't put this in the news forum as the article is over a month old now.

I said in a previous thread in response to some nonsense by Klatu: I'd be careful - the government is secretly working on technology that will render tinfoil hats ineffective. Elvis is helping them, and so is Nessie. Well, it appears I'm right about being able to exploit them.

My Ipod shuffle when threw the washing machine... It has been a sad day... Is there anything I can do? Will it ever work again when it dries out?

If you havn't read any of my previous posts I own giant african land snails. I have a large tank with plenty of burrowing substrate, and have found the snails more 'happy' if cleaning is left to a minimum, and so providing plenty of nutrients for the snails to feed on...they're not fussy as long as there is no advanced (I'm not a biologist) fungi. Basically fluffy food is a no no. The problem is, over the last couple of weeks they've been breeding, I noticed the circular dance but, due to ignoring the maintenance of the tank (and also due to african snails burying their eggs) I now have over seventy...impossible to release, and not generally popular pets on my hands. …

I was reading over a entry on a website my friend sent me to and it said that quote " Fiction: in the movie, when they o'connor family tries to make a get away in their airship, they turn on the rocket attached to the basket they were on and gets away Fact: aside from the fact that it would be almost impossible to get rockets in the 1930s, if the rockets where actually turned on, since the ropes attached to the ballon is flexible, they would start to spin in a circle instead of moving foward." end quote. can this actually happen?? i'm abit skeptical the link is here http://www.merdz.com/comments.asp?v=0&id=71

I just registered in today, and I hope I really have a fun time chatting with you all. English is my second language, so sometimes you might find my words funny. But please tolerate my poor English, I will try my best to post English with you all Also that, if you are interested in knowing me throughly, you can check my signature site~~~ 希望跟你們好好討論

I wouldnt say that it's an MMORPG (Massively Mulitplayer Online Role Play Game) just yet, because it's still being developed, but to me, that's one of the greatest parts, because you have a chance to play a part in the development of the game, and help shape it into a better game for everyone. The name of the game is Galactic Horde (...not the best title if you ask me...) and it's developed primarily by Melodank Productions (who also produce at least one band: Coriander) On the Homepage (http://www.galactic-horde.com/) there are links pertaining to the backstory of GH and the manual, which is very useful to new members. There are forums along with the game, to gi…

It's George Washington Chraist as opposed to my usual scarab.

This puzzle is rather entertaining and really good for passing time. ive gotten to level 18http://addictinggames.com/rushhourroadrage.html

Well, I've managed to figure out why SFN is down, with a bit of WHOIS fun. I did a WHOIS search on SFN and found the original IP of it, after realizing the main problem was that the URL wasn't resolving to an IP. This brought me to a blank page. Knowing that most webhosts have the actual URL at http://ipaddress/~user, I tried a few usernames until I found the right one. Now I got the forums. Of course, there were no images (the images were all linked to scienceforums.net, which timed out) and I couldn't log in (the form action lead to the nonfunctional domain name as well). So I copied the login page source to my computer, modified the form action= statement, and …

My computer is getting kinda old, but look at the specs of this one. Is yours anywhere near as good? It has the logitech G5 mouse... http://www.eaplay.com/australia/promotions/mostwanted/?entry_id=34739

our refrigerator/freezer combo has a busted compressor unit. the fridge part is doing fine, the freezer is a lot warmer than it should be. still cold enough to make ice cubes, but just barely. keeping the freezer running is a huge energy drain because the broken compressor is working constantly to try to cool it off. we have a freezer in the garage we can move the stuff over to so my mom wants to know if there is some disadvantage to having the freezer portion turned off and the fridge still on. i think shes worried about it no being insulated enough between the two so the freezer will be leaching the cold out of the fridge or something like that. any problems you guy…

Good and Evil as POVs I'm Penumbra... And I need help. I'm out of evidence! He's even starting to make me believe his point of view! Apparently, he is a much better debater than I... I do not want this thread to turn into a debate; if you want to share your views, do it on the other forum. However, I am interested if you have any pointers about what I did wrong.