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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?

What is everyones opinion on which level of physics you should take? College Physics is algebra based and alot simpler, University Physics is calculus based and alot harder, but gives you a better understanding. Obviously if you're a physics major you should take calc based, but what about if you're in another major?

Three months ago today, on July 4th 2002, ScienceForums.net went online. Here's some statistics so far: We have had 3002 total posts in 275 threads from 87 members, making the average posts per member at 34.5 and the posts per day average at 31.2. However, the Top 5 Posters account for 2009 (66.9%) of all posts, with aman being the #1 poster with 484 posts (16%). The most posts occured on July 27th, with 208, the same day we had the most new users (11). We had 1625 posts in July, 744 in August, 553 in September, and 56 so far in October, this obviously isn't a good trend;) The most users ever online was 72, on July 7th, thanks to jinx spamming and impersonating me. …

Hey guys, i've started thinking seriously about where i want to go to school and how to get there. Im looking to go into engineering, anyone know of any good scholarships out there for that? Im in Nebraska, and i'm looking to go out of state if possible, but not too far from home. I was looking at Iowa State. Since there's a lot of people on here that are currently in college, thought i'd ask. What are some good tips to do in high school to help out with college/scholarship acceptance? I've taken the ACT once, last june, got a 29 on it. broke down to: eng: 22, reading: 28, math:32, sci: 34. Since that was after my Sophmore year, im looking for a few higher points, …

HOw could a teen ajust his sleeping patterns from late night (like now) to daytime hrs even if he was a night person? My mom is mad cause I get up at 1:00PM, but you can't blame me I stayed up till 3 AM, Right? how can I ajust my sleep quickly?

What are your thoughts on this guy? I think he saw the movie red dragon, and that inspired him to leave the note "I am God". For those that havn't seen it, a reference is made to serial killers feeling like "god", though I'm not sure they consider him a serial killer. I thought serial killers usually had a break between each murder. I don't know if he'll be caught though, there are lots of murderers that go uncaught. Maybe if he makes a stupid mistake. The more they kill the more invincible they feel, and the more prone to being caught they are. I say if we catch him, we should lock him in a room with a loop of Celine Dion playing, that'll teach him

I'm tired of the front page already. I dunno, I was thinking about revamping it to be more news oriented on the front page, keeping the active discussion box, but changing the overall look and feel. any comments on this?

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My English teacher in high school got so frustrated with the class she said she "might as well be teaching a classroom full of carrots". I aced the class but found that personally offensive. I think I'd rather be a bacteria. Maybe a venereal disease. Anythings better than a carrot. please please please please. Where'd you get those catagories anyway? Just aman

Fixed Haha, thanks for pointing that out aman. leidenfrost_essay.pdf

We had a guy in our school today who has his PhD in psycology (sp?). Anywayz the guy was saying, remember you can do anything you put your mind to. Telling us the story of the Russian who broke the record thinking that he was pulling his normal amount (im sure u heard it before) Anywayz, the guy starts his "magic" crap. I was the volunteer. He told me to pick a pack of gum, pick a color pick a direction, and pick a country. Right it down on a peice of paper. And then keep it, and orally read it. Well he had his wallet on the floor. And said to pick it up, and take the paper out of it. It had all the stuff i picked on it. How the hell is this scie…