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hello, i would like to be an aerospace engineer but am wondering how the life is to be one. Is anyone here an aerospace engineer or work in that field? If yes then please tell me where you work(company), what is your job, do you like your job, do you like the people that work with you, and if you dont mind what is your approximate salary. would you recomand someone to be an aerospace engineer? what colleges are good in us? thanks

Just a couple of links to pics of my White Trumpet pitcher plants that I took earlier in the season. Now all the traps are so stuffed full of dead bugs they're almost falling over, the gluttonous tings. Two pitchers With my hand for scale The pitchers themselves stand about 18" above the soil surface. Exceptional individuals of the species can reach 3 feet tall. Mokele

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any postgrad interactive learning packages are available? Thanks

I haven't posted anyhting on here in a long time, but I am getting to the point where I have to seriously start thinking about my career. I am interested in the animal sciences andmaybe some psychiatry. I also very much enjoy writing. I was just wondering how some other people stumbled upon their jobs and whether or not they are where they wish to be at the moment. What would be the best way to deciding on what to do? Thanks Fellowes

I tried posting this in news yesterday, but it will be too late before it comes out. Anyway.....Watch this show tonight. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/ Bettina

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Does anyone else here play Everquest II? I was thinking we could form a SFN guild.

So, yeah, I've come out of the woodwork just like all the "I have a theory of the universe!" people pitching my crazy ideas which are totally disconnected random thoughts of my own which really have nothing to do with reality, just the patterns I put together as I see them. Of course, this is all a house of cards built on assumptions, and in pitching them to people with experience in the field, I see they quickly fall apart. And when I ask for explanations, people are reluctant to give them to me, most likely because I lack the background to understand them and therefore such explanations would fill a novel. As I read these forums more it has become painfully cle…

Let me start off by saying that i am a person that must have things proven to him before he can belive them. with that said i want to discuss some of those things that the scientific community would opp. to just say that "it is just not possible", and for referencce i have asked this on a little more err "mystic" forum to get some results as well i want feedback from both sides. So here is what i want to know peoples views on, and if you can't prove anything just go ahead and submit it and let everyone pick aprt, especially me, well here it goes: Telepathy, Telekinesis, Time-Travel, aliens etc:. please don't think i am some weirdo and that this is all i think about I just…

So how do I know if im good at math...I think calculus is really easy...what else is there to learn after this?

Could you figure out how this origami pattern works? How does one do it correctly? Can you help describe it? http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/chess.pdf

How can I burn some of my .mpg's to a DVD? I can only do it as a data DVD through nero, I want to be able to play them on a DVD player connected to a TV. Do I need to download some special software? or can it be done through windows? I'm pretty new to burning so appreciate the help.

Interesting video of a WWII pilot found frozen. Click 4th video from the left on the fan http://www.comcast.net/providers/fan/popup.html?v=43197906&pl=43211451.xml&config=%2Fconfig%2Fcommon%2Ffan%2Fhome%2Exml

In Our Time is an awsome radio programme on Radio 4 (in the UK) on thursdays at 09:00 and 21:00. Bragg gets a few experts into the studio and they talk through all kinds of cool subjects. He makes sure they clearly explain the ideas, and don't overrun into esoterica. What's extra exciting is that all the programmes are online, in Real player* format or podcast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_archive_home.shtml Enjoy * If you're on windows, you might wanna get Realplayer Alternative, which is windows media player classic with a RM codec.

Have you ever wanted to go to space? What do you think about space travel for the common person?

Yes yes I know. This has been posted too many times, but after doing a search of the forums I still haven't found a satisfactory experiment for a science fair. I am a 10th grade student. I'm mostly interested in chemistry and physics experiments, as well as engineering. Financial-wise, I can spend about $500. The project has to be an experiment, and I'd like to do a particularly difficult one, if possible (but not TOO dangerous). Any ideas? Thanx a lot!

if you are left at South pole and wherever u move your steps u would be going toward North ,no East,West or South. Virtually there exists only 1 direction(N) kinda weird. Am i right?

Google Earth, Eastern Libya or Western Egypt. My best guess is some sort of artificial ponds, but they are nearly 1 km wide, and in the middle of a desert. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.148633,23.426285&spn=0.161307,0.288322&t=k&hl=en Whatever it's for, it's one hell of a complex.

I'll start with a message I have e-mailed and posted on several sites: Hello- Don't know if this question is even applicable but: found your studies and explaination of frequency generators on the web and that's why I'm asking. I'm nearly at the end of my rope and have tried everything to keep my neighbors' unbelievably loud and outrageously annoying GEESE away from my home for about 6 years. At first, a cd playing sounds with dogs and geese predators worked but they've (the geese) been so conditioned by the neighbor that they've even shied (or actually, not shied) away from that approach. I've even been to therapists for this problem (constant audio bombardment) and …

it's the most insane 5hit on the web. Yatta! I don't really remember when I saw something this insane actually. I mean I've been on the web a long time.. I really can't remember anything this insane.

NASA's 2003 budget was approx. $15 billion. Do you think the space agency is making proper use of its funding? Should NASAs priorities be reconsidered? A survey of Americans showed that the majority think that NASA is a waste of taxpayers money. Speaking of NASA funding...The Voyager mission might get cut from the team too. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23500-2005Apr3.html

There was a project on for making a Russian space shuttle during the final soviet years. It was called the Buran. Wikipedia has a good load on it, but I'd like to know more about it. Did they have to cancel it ? Couldn't they have suspended it and resumed it when their economy was not crumbling ? Maybe now ? Because, I think if it was operational, the ISS would have been finished for a while now as it can carry a larger payload than its american counterpart.

Hello Everyone, I require some assistance in the matter of science fair experiments. I am entering these science fairs for the second year now, last year I won first place in engineering. This year, I need new material, but I have no idea what to select as a project. I am not coming up with anything and I figured this is the best place to turn to. So if anyone has some science fair experiments (must be experiments not projects) please tell me, its really important! Even if someone could give me a theory or hypothesis I could most likely make it into an experiment. I could get my hands on almost any materials and I have until lets say somewhere around Jan. - Feb. 2006 to …

This has been making the rounds of various aircraft/spaceflight discussion forums lately, but I don't have a good news link for the story, I'm afraid. If I run across something direct I'll pass it along. As I said back when Discovery flew in August, I believe we've already seen the last shuttle flight. A lot of observers have noted what appears to be further confirmation that NASA has no intention of flying another mission, in spite of this this week's announcement of a May launch window. Recent news that leans in the direction of "the fat lady's already back in the dressing room" include a plethora of candid-but-off-the-record comments to reporters, complaints abo…

can anyone tell me where i can buy one of these? i cant find them anywhere and i need to get one for my guitar