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...to make this more user-friendly? We were thinking about merging forums, but how far should we take this? Should all physics forums be under just "physics"? And all mathematical forums just be under "math"? Or leave some seperate.. We were also going to change the main page. I was thinking about taking off the active topics and replacing it with links to the general forums (chem, math, physics, etc..). Active topics make it easy to follow a thread, but there are other ways. Also thinking about adding a philosophy forum, since a lot of posts would fit under this catagory. Give us your suggestions...

From what is happening right now and what has happened in history competition seems to be everywhere.! To what extent is competition necessary for humankind?? Is it possible for everyone to be equal? Do you guys believe that it is feasible to live in a world without competition??

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What would you guys do if you were given ultimate athority over everything on this planet? I would have an instant world reform and since I would want to see it happen during my life, I would kill (maybe not kill. more like send to brainwash reform camps)anyone who was against me joining all countries into one huge world-wide nation. Kinda like Corosant in Star Wars. On huge planetary city. What would you guys do?........:feedback: :scratch:

what is goin to happen in iraq.... think about it! hippokrates

What is everyone reading right now? I just got started on a few I got for x-mas. Here they are: Idiot's Guide to Calculus 100 Simple Secrets of Sucessful People Influence: Science and Practice The way things are: The changing perspective on human existance You can negociate anything

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i'm working on a science project and need help? can light traveling in a straight line reflect into a "V" groove all the way till it hits the bottom,i've tried but it doesn't reflect all the way to the bottom,is there a precise degree that the "V" groove must be?and what is the mathimatical solutions on how to find this out?any help would be much apprieciated. oh..i forgot to mention the "V" groove is made of shiny aluminum so light can reflect off of it.this is very important to me and i will keep post on it if i can get it to work.

Does anyone still get forum errors? I still get three or four error mails a day [the server sends me mail everytime mySQL has an error]. ---- Database error in vBulletin : Link-ID == false, connect failed mysql error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'IPADDRESS*' (111) mysql error number: 2003 Date: Tuesday 10th of December 2002 10:10:42 PM

Ever watch The Matrix? Ever wondered if t is really real? What if it is? I'm here to present a proposition to you for everyone to chew on and think about, since our future is in the hands of robots. The Matrix do exist. Do you know how I know? I wont tell you everything but I'll give you the short story. Geromne B. Heuws was a scientist working for the U.S. CIA. He was studying parallel dimmensions when he came upon something odd. He had discovered a break in space. What he had actually stumbled upon was the real world outside of this Matrix. So the government killed him. To cover up for this, they made a movie called The Matrix to cover up any questions that the …

Man, I am soooo bored...I have nothing to do... Anyone want help??? Anyone? bored bored bored bored bored bored bored....did I mention I was bored?

Once upon a time their was a perverted killer whale actor named Willie. He lived happily in Hollywood. He even made 5 continuous Free Willie episodes! Everybody from the ages of 1-3 loved his movies. He was a hit. That is when all the punks out there got together and decided to pollute the ocean in an attempt to kill Willie and stop his box office productions. So he died. Please don't pollute the ocean. All we have nowadays is Barney and he pisses me off

Please forgive me is this isn't in the proper place....(like general disc. or biochem, or something like astro phys.). I have recently read about this super computer (when I say super, I mean super) called the Earth Simulator...I'll have more details on monday, when I am able type at leisure.....(time limit over here). But, anyway, It's capable of 70 something trillion calcs. per (either second or minute). It's called the Earth Simulator and is able to predict the climate conditions of Earth up to 1000 years. Originally, they wanted to make something that could predict the economical and ecological status of Earth in the future, so far, they only accomplished the Eco …

I just came up with a new four year plan for myself that's basically a triple major. Neuroscience (which is really like psych/bio) and physics. What does everyone who's in/has been through college think? CHM111 3 Principles of Chemistry I CHM113 1 LAB PSY110 3 Introduction to Psychology ENG105 3 English Composition I FEX101 1 Freshmen Advising Contact Team for Neuroscience BIL255 3 Cellular and Molecular Biology 14 PHY205 3 University Physics I MTH111 4 Calculus I ENG107 3 Writing About Science PSY120 1 Research Mentoring CHM112 3 Principles of Chemistry II CHM114 1 LAB FRE211 3 Intermediate …

Not quite James Bonds' Car (for those of you who have seen the new one), but kind of cool nontheless. It works by projecting an image of whats behind the object onto the object itself. The interesting part is that the projected image only reflects off certain material. Since it doesn't reflect off skin, it tricks the eye into thinking the obect is almost see-through. Setup: Videos here: Mirror.mpg (915k) oc-s.mpg (1.26M) oc-phantom.mpg (1.66M) ------------------------------------ I'm still waiting for the army to show off their research into the real stuff. I read about a suit being developed that projects whats behi…

Anyone heard of this? Sounds really interesting.. http://www.nanozine.com/u-fog.htm http://popularmechanics.com/science/research/1997/11/shrinking_micromachines/ One day I'll have my very own holideck [whatever that star trek thing is]!

Awhile back my friend showed me something I could do in my microwave to produce artificial "ball lightning". I'm not sure thats what this is, but its pretty neat. Anyhow, I captured the thing on video. I modified the original experiment by putting a jar over the toothpick in order to capture the ball lightning so its lifespan is longer (and because i was afraid of what it was doing to the microwave). Without the jar, the ball is instantly sucked into the vent and disappears with a crackling sound. I only let it run for maybe 2 or 3 seconds because it heats the jar extremely quickly. I don't want to have to deal with shattered glass in the microwave. Anyhow, heres a th…

i need to do an essay on tuesday of wheater one ruler can govern a nation or state by himself? what i think is that it is impossible to govern by yourself, because u need to know what the people want. (democracy) and governing by yourself will pretty cause greedy in the ruler and will start breaking the rules these are my ideas (i.e King Louis, monarchy) is that good what else should i think of?

Just had to share my horrendous experience so others may be forewarned: To: feedback@amazon.com When shopping from a merchant with as good a reputation as Amazon, I expected a certain level of service. When I ordered my cell phone, I mis-entered the address. So I can change it right? No. There was no way to change it. I e-mailed help, guess what they told me? To change it the same way the help file said to. Am I an idiot!? Would I send an e-mail explicitly saying that was not working if it was? I e-mailed them back, and was told I could send them the address and they would do it manually. Except support was too incompetent to even see the change I wanted made, …

From http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/index.html Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps: 87 percent cannot find Iraq 83 percent cannot find Afghanistan 76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia 70 percent cannot find New Jersey 49 percent cannot find New York 11 percent cannot find the United States This is disgusting. And people wonder why I hate ignorance so much.

I want to hear your opinon of him, i mean we watch a video on him in French class and it just amazes me predicting all those things like the Jfk assasination, hitler, gulf war, first man on moon, napoleon, and other stuff even the 9/11 incident. Man this freaks me out especially the anti-christ in his writings he states that there will be three anti christ Napoleon Hitler and code named "mabus" pretty weird stuff ehh?

What type of music do you usually listen to and what song are you currently listening to? I like rock from the 60's and 70's (Doors, Beatles, Bob Dylan) as well as alternative music from the mid nineties. I also include occasionally some classical music and often Bob Marley (my favorite group/preformer). I am currently listening to Push by Matchbox 20.

If I'm currently at college aren't I safe from any draft for the rest of the semester?