The Lounge

High folks, this is from someone using this forum to con people out of money. Just what you to be on guard. Hello Dearest, Firstly I thank you for your response to my email. How are you today hope fine. Dear inline with the message I sent to you, Do not be surprise or get offended for receiving this message from me please, Its just that I have been obliged to lay a mere trust on you due to my situation here as a refugee and I will require the best of your honesty after your knowing about me, I will really like us to have a friendship in spite of anything because I have this feeling that you are not going to betray me at the end. I …

In my childhood days i used to watch a lot of lawn tennis and there were so many younster women players jennifer capriati, stefi graff, monica seles...etc. Nowdays if you see tennis one gets to see all middle aged tennis players like they first spent youth elsewhere, got married and even had children, and then came to play deliberately in international tennis. Earlier the young ladies tennis players used to play tennis first! As i remember lindsay davenport was the first such women who started such middle aged tennis matches!!!

In January my wife and I will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary. We live in the midwest portion of the US and plan to visit another country (or more) for two weeks sometime in 2013. At this time anywhere is a possibility and we are trying to narrow it down. We tend toward more simple things, such as eating where the locals eat rather than in high-end restaurants, or staying in a local lodge rather than in 5 star hotels. We spend a lot of time outdoors although we do like cities and museums. Our last few vacations were in the US and included hiking in Colorado, renting a cabin on Lake Superior, and exploring the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver, Canada. We've …

Hi, i have been reading about iraq wars since my childhood. And there have been also many hollywood movies made about gulf war. But i just came to know that iraq which gets mention as bethlehem is infact a population of white skin african race muslims. So on tv and in media they show iraqis as good english and urdu speaking country, but infact is a african language speaking country but white in color. So their habitual lifestyle living is very much similar to africans, algiers, tunisia, algeria..etc. So does americans have an affinity towards african like countries like nigeria, iraq etc???

hi, i came on the internet in the years 2000 till 2012. So as i wrote many a topics in years 2000 about various countries, many white countries even seclusive, dull or even modest behaviour societies read my readings. And in years to 2006, tried to do many changes in their societies, like new world order. So it seems that many foreign nations through their visionary knew about me and would had welcomed me without any hitch. So i think the world before 2000 year must had been different, carefree world, few restrictions,...etc. So in the coming years 2006, many countries became inwardly, tried to hush up their freedom pasts, obscure environment deliberately tense. Then…

Here's some Stompin' Tom Conners for you all.

Just came across this new Sci-Fi movie project, it looks pretty interesting: http://www.kickstart...8/space-command

http://tauday.com/

Hello everyone, i started this new topic because i belive this is the place to do so. I am 19 years old, and though I have a place to stay and a job right now. I am looking for what it is i truly want to do with myself. I ask this question here on scienceforums, cuz i think yahoo answers would have a lot of senseless answers from kids or someone stoned out of their mind. Let me tell you a little bit about my passions so you'll have a greater understanding of who I partially am, and what I want to do/be. To start, I love the ocean. I was raised in southern florida, I love the paradisey vibe that place gives off. I've been thinking about joing the coast guard lately, and h…

Indian education system as you might know is based on stages, primary education elementary. Then secondary education tenth board with covering most of principles of physics and mathematics. Then 12 th higher secondary a college styled syllabus for reaching medical and engineering education colleges. Then higher college studies of physics, mathematics etc for extremists. So my reasoning is that there is nothing wrong if someone wants to pursue further education as his likings. But the 12th higher studies education contains contents from einstein studies. So if more than 50% a year many indian pass out as rankers living in a developing nation. Then india must be a co…

Hi. Cannot remember the titles; One was athletic / skills / games / competition / contests, usually in stadiums, probably in Germany. By some reason I relate it to 'Shindig!', perhaps was a program of the same era. Other series was a photographer/detective, solving crimes. Unsure if it was 'Naked city' Any help ? Thanks. Edited: added- and a list of my favorites; may bring a smile to some of you... It takes a thief Tightrope The avengers The saint 77 Sunset strip Surf side 6 Combat Man from UNCLE Kojak Mission impossible Three's company The untouchables Columbo Get Smart Naked city The fugitive

I haven't posted a lot, but I noticed recently that somewhere along the line my profile page says Group: Senior Members. Where did that come from? What's a 'senior member, what the flying moose ears did I do to become one, and what other groups are there on SFN and what do they mean? Thanks..

Is there a thread on what people thought were some of the better science educational toys that they used in their lives? I'm thinking Lego, mechano, chemistry sets, electronic sets, seamonkey's etc? I know some marketing names will differ from nation to nation, but the internet should solve those names. cheers.

Here in Australia we're seeing increasing support for the legalisation of gay/lesbian marriages. I believe one day it will be legalised world wide. But if it does so too would polygamous marriages and perhaps even other forms of marriages between different peoples (as the only thing stopping it now is our Christian roots). My question, even though polygamous marriages have a bad reputation in the developing world (particularly Islamic countries), could it serve a useful purpose in the future (e.g. political ones - to strengthen relationships between different countries) or serve as a better lifestyle choice for certain kinds of people (i.e. consensing adults) in the …

I found this video and the associated project on kickstarter and I wondered what everyone thought about the intersection of research and crowdfunding? Oh, and dinosaurs are always cool! link removed. although they do not have many pledges.

Any good TV shows, documentaries, or movies you know of. I have seen the universe, NOVA, many good universe type shows on the science, history, and discovery channel, how it's made, modern marvels, stephen hawking shows, a show on the history of chemistry, some interesting chemistry shows, many black hole shows, shows on CERN, social sciences(History, anthropology, psychology, autism, antisocial personality disorder, human geography(good one is guns, germs, and steel), dissociative personality disorder, Schizoid personality disorder, Borderline personality disorder, Histrionic personality disorder, neuroscience, sexuality(I have seen movies about that guy whose name star…

Lets guess, what if in 1980 world economies tried investing their monies in india. Then many things changed in india way back then, imported cars, bikes, modern rich lifestyle, walmarts etc etc. Then suddenly there was a indian economic breakdown, many foreign companies which once were lenient in indian markets took away their investments making indian banking system to liquify. Then indian bank accounts were hardly left only a thousand in number. So people with no money started riots on streets and pour their angers on communal reasoning. Then after five years of bankruptcy, indian pm rajeev gandhi took a billion dollars financial loan aid from usa. So things stabiliz…

Does anyone know if the WISE telescope can detect temperature anomalies inside the solar system out to the Ort cloud? I was under the impression it could but lately I've heard that WISE is only good for objects far outside the solar system.

This is something which is struggling me for a while now. If you look in the business world you'll see a lot of people simply playing their position and not revealing too much about them and just trying to play it safe. Though, if somebody comes a long who does not play by their rules they'll all try to isolate him out. Often they'll even bribe other people behind the scenes and try altogether to isolate that newcomer out of the industry. What I mean are those people who are often a bit eccentric, in a way they wear their emotions out, they are independent thinkers and are not afraid to disagree, they often also go against authorities. They are described as troublema…

So, I was just thinking of some chemical terminologies the other day and then it appears to me that some could make great pet names! If I ever get a chinchilla, I'll name it Buckyball. Milimo (mmol) is good too Post some names if you come across any ok? Have fun.

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/east-west-wire/declining-birth-rates-raising-concerns-in-asia http://chronicle.com/article/After-Decades-of-Expansion/129896/ http://www.prb.org/Articles/2010/koreafertility.aspx http://www.voanews.com/content/taiwan-birth-rate-falls-to-worlds-lowest-challenging-productivity-127933153/167887.html http://www.ipsnews.net/2009/12/south-korea-low-birth-rate-blamed-on-women/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/brooks-the-fertility-implosion.html What does everyone think about the population implosion? Will we humans cease to exist as living standards rise and as we receive higher quality education than ever before?

Is it true that showering longer and more often increases the aging process? I know that being immersed in water for long periods of time can wrinkle your skin but after a while your skin naturally unwrinkles back again when you leave the water. My question, if you told yourself that you would never shower again or restrict the amount of time in the shower, would you theoretically have less wrinkles when you get older? ...so yeah, not necessarily aging but would you have less wrinkles when you get older if you showered less?

I again had a wonderful dream portal in which i travelled back forth in time to a unknown place. It was like a historic science field museum perhaps pertaining to nazis race. Apart from what we know from history about ressurgence of nazis in 1930s. But my dream seemed of a time like as of 18th century world, at that time there were so many inventions unknown accomplished by nazis. I moved across the museum and there were many robotics, generators like things kept. In a corner, there was a short bike which was very heavy and a nazi german commander said something about it in german. On its right side was a motor attached and the tyres seemed like small airliner jets' wheel…

I have often struggled to define love. For example sometimes I do not know why I do certain things that most people would consider an act of love (I'm sure many people are also find it difficult to define love). This morning whilst driving to work I got a new revelation of what love is. I know that it is a feeling/emotion, but it has never been revealed to me this way: love is a very deeply entrenched, powerful and long lasting mostly desired emotion / feeling which outlasts all other emotions/feelings and overpowers any reasoning. Hatred has the same force as love, but it is mostly undesirable. Most feelings / emotions are well capable of overpowering reasoning, …