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I just saw Richard Branson on TMZ say that Virgin Galactic will be shipping passengers into space in a couple of months. Can anybody corroborate this, their site is not specifying any details? I may simply have just misunderstood the statement. The volume was a little low! I think this is pretty cool, and at $200,000 it may be something I might be able to do within my lifetime. Something worth considering . . . . .

I am curious if anyone here takes cold showers and if so, do you feel you experience a sense of "hyper-awareness" during and immediately after? Many years ago I took cold showers religiously but for some reason or another stopped. I am now attempting to reinstate the daily habit and remembered what it feels like right after. Not to be confused with Cold Showers I found this link while searching http://www.thehackedmind.com/7-reasons-to-take-cold-showers-and-1-that-really-matters/. Might be a load of bull but most of it seems believable...

Hey There Scientists, Curious Individuals, and Science Fans, I think this is one of the best place to post this in. I don't think there are many other place on the internet that match this forum for the raw amount of passion for science. As the title says I would like to start a non-profit that is focused, initially, on scientific literacy for teenagers in the U.S.A. Science has always been a hobby, passion, and way of life for me. As a child I watched every episode of shows Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beekman's world. As an adult I live on science documentaries. I would like to help kindle that passion and interests in others. I think the best way to do that is throug…

Hey everyone, As I was reading through threads on the site tonight, I found myself asking why I am a member of this fantastic community. What brought me here, and why spend valuable time that could be spent elsewhere doing other things. My answer is this; I don't get the stimulation that I desire from my peers. Whether that be philosophy, biology, mathematics, or just about anything related to the sciences. It is very easy to find someone to talk to about trivial matters, or at least what I consider trivial, such as movies, eating preferences, yada yada yada, but not science. So, first off, interaction. Additionally, I find the learning and teaching others act…

The app idea goes off the lines of what a user Strange had described: Basically, the ideas there are two sections: The Official Mathematical section and the Unofficial mathematical section. In the Official Mathematical section, people can create whiteboard nodes, modify them, and have discussions about is commonly accepted in the mathematical community IF THEY ARE A CERTAIN RANK. In the Unofficial Mathematics section, users who are lower ranks can create their own whiteboard nodes, modify them, and discuss them related to mathematical concepts that they have in mind and discuss them. Here is how the Whiteboard node system works: When users create whiteboa…

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fear-ebola-outbreak-make-nation-turn-science gasp! (I thought it was funny...)

Everyone has ideas? Lets make that a challenge. We have here in order of appearance elfmotat CaptainPanic studiot StringJunky swansont hypervalent_iodine Ophiolite Strange Phi for All Arete Janus timo Cap'n Refsmmat mississippichem ajb physica s1eepI want from each one of them a scientific idea on monday morning on my desk.

The Trash Can ought to be named the Bit Bucket.

Music, some of us like to listen to dubstep, others classical. The question I am presenting here is which is the most motivating. We know that music causes, as everything else, chemical reactions in the brain. But using applied neuro-chemistry, and basic observation, not to mention listening to it yourself, which is most motivating (3 SA's due for school, I need some motivation because personally, when I have that much dull typing on book analysis SA's I need motivation or I feel like crap and reallly want to break out Kerbal space program).

To celebrate 50 years of a single TV series Dr Who was cellibrated by a Magnificent Music Performance in the Royal Albert Hall in London two days ago. Although I personally do not get on with the creatures, the 'take' on time is quite fascinating. The section given on Time 23:30 gives an enthralling musical display of the span of : Beginning to End of Universe , as a chunk. It is currently on BBC i Player probably for a week or two.. Enjoy these 2-3 minutes. link DO NOT FORGET TO SET TIME TO 23 :30 stop at 29:35 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0394dg0/BBC_Proms_2013_Season_Doctor_Who_at_the_Proms/ mike

This post is dedicated to Mr.Egdall and Dr. Tom Swanson but others can post or reply too. Mr.Egdall I bought your book Einstein`s Relatively Simple a few months ago. I enjoy reading your book at first. It is quite humorous and the examples given are quite compelling, rigid and vivid. My knowledge have increased much ever since I started to read your book. But soon it start to fall out of stage. The book is still very new. The datas are updated but the mathematics, to me are too simple. And the mathematics are not stated clearly in the end-the appendix section. Here is an example: In appendix A, your time dilation and length contraction formulae derived from Lo…

I recently graduated with a b.s. in biochemistry. My plans are to persue a masters degree and maybe go further from there. I'm not sure but I've been sending my resume to places here and there as I take a short break from school. The other day I got a phone call from a recruiter for a position at HoneyWell. I was pretty shocked considering they are a really great company and I just graduated. The recruiter asked me several questions about experience and asked if I knew anything about ICP-MS and Ion Exchange. I obviously know what Ion exchange is because my whole last year of biochem lab and recognized ICP-MS because a special topics course I took forced us to learn almost…

Can someone please assist me and tell me where I can find a science forum, that does not expect their members to know every single Phrase , word and meanings, be a literate genius and can discuss science, and not keep discussing current science that we already know? I have found on several forums that they expect seemingly you to know everything, and you are not aloud to make mistakes or have any of your own thoughts, I accuse all these forums of been the Johovah witnesses of science . I intend on finding an open forum, not a stereotypical forum.

Keep seeing this image of a cross on mars taken by opportunity?, Maybe impression left by opportunity, Or Fake? http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/m/3720/1M458433044EFFCEQKP2955M2M1.HTML edit: opportunity rover

Question : Can you write in blue color using a red ink pen Answer is yes but how ?

Hello, I'm new to the forum and I hope I'm not posting out of place or otherwise inappropriately. I'm working on a bit of amatuer science fiction, and I need what is essentially a number representing something like a decade (13 years would be ideal), built symbolically from a mathmatical or scientific basis instead of using base terrestrial measurements like seconds/days/years/etc. The Voyager Record and it's play instructions in symbolic references is part of my inspiration for this. For the base measurement of time I'm using the Crab Pulsar rotation, but I need to multiply it by larger values to make it about a decade in length instead of 33 milliseconds. I'd like…

A Learned man cannot become a slave to the wealthy People!- Bhartrihari ( Neeti Slok 17) cheers all scientists , the learned people on earth.... what the ancients think about the learned people Ancient Sanskrit text : अधिगतपरमार्थान्पण्डितान्मावमंस्था - स्तृणमिव लघुलक्ष्मीर्नैव तान्संरुणद्धि । अभिनवमदलेखाश्यामगण्डस्थलानां न भवति बिसतन्तुवरिणं वारणानाम् ॥[17].

Ok mods, although I never strayed from gravity in my last thread, never speculated and asked questions, you still closed it down, so is there any point trying to discusss anything? This section according to your rules I can discuss anything? So here you go lets talk weapons technology and the design for an electro pulse rifle. Perhaps if the cultured society does not want listen, I should go find an extremest site to listen? Do i breach your rules in this section? anything (not comparable) In any way, any extent or any degree. That isn't anything like a car. ''''in philosophy, ideas are usually co…

Hi. Over twenty years ago, I was told that the cent coins (pennies) were made from zinc sheets with bonded copper foils above and under by a very high pressure explosive method, and then the blank rounds cut from the resulting layered sheet, to be later stamped at a mint. Is that true ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/disney-sued-for-250-million-by-woman-claiming-frozen-is-stolen-from-her-life-story-9754862.html Apparently Disney plagiarized off somebody. I'm sure they have probably never heard of this person in their lives.

So, one day during a lecture, a fellow student asked if I could help him with a particular concept. Since lectures go by fast and he didn't want to forget to ask the question, I decided to help. We were whispering of course and no one else seemed to find it distracting. However, another fellow student(to my knowledge) got angry that we were whispering. We stopped of course to respect his request, but I think it is dumb for such a request. For one thing, the professor has never called out on doing so because everyone could hear the professor and was distracted by us whispering to the point that we could barely each other and no one else has. Is it just that they finally go…

Hello. Always had this doubt about the expression being perfect English. - He is going to switch this on. - He will switch this on. (He is going nowhere to switch this on. The switch is right here) Understandable in this case: - We are going to eat at the restaurant tomorrow. - We will eat at the restaurant tomorrow. (Because the restaurant is not here, we have to go there) - There is going to be elections next week. - There will be elections next week. ( I believe 'going to' is not correct, or better said, 'not perfect') Yes, both ways are commonly used, perhaps the 'going to' more often. Even when there is no actual going anywhere/moving/travel…

Hello nice people! Some older or disabled persons can't reach the ground but would like to continue gardening. I imagine we could put at the proper height smaller plants (redcurrant, strawberry, raspberry, tomato, blueberry...), example: Have you already seen a similar item for sale? I think at it for my old mum. If it doesn't exist yet, someone should produce it. The soil would better be around hip height, so dumping it right on the ground would need an excessive amount. I'd like a mobile item to adapt the sunlight exposure to the plant, to move it when mowing the lawn, and to get rid of it without damage if the attempt ceases. The capacity of a wheelbarrow seems a …

Interesting presentation from the BBC . About Plutonium . LINK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29274491 MIKE

Im usually on this forum everday, but have been excpetionally busy the past 3-4 months with school. I plan to finish my BS in biotechnology in 1.5 yrs...and there is talk of some biotechs going to into research, and some going into sales. Does anyone know what "sales" in the biotech industry would be like....telemarketer? Do you have any experience with sales and science? What would be some marketable things I could do..i.e. minor in business... ~EE