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(You didn't think I had only two pet peeves, did you?) We’ve all experienced it — going to work or coming home, the seemingly endless stop-and-go traffic along a major roadway because the traffic signals aren’t synchronized. Why not synchronize the flow of traffic in the direction that most people want to go? And once a driver “catches a wave”, it’s pretty much unimpeded driving on long stretches of roadway. I experienced synchronized traffic in my home town 40 years ago on two parallel streets used to bypass downtown traffic, and it worked like a charm. The “convention” of the synchronized traffic could be indicated on the traffic signals with small signs t…

You’re gonnabe a big help just by saying what you think! How do youthink of someone who want to get a term off and restudy the lessons that hadpassed before again (like classical physics and mathematical physics) just to havea better understanding of physics? Do you think it’s a good idea? May you possiblydo the same?

I heard a good quote today and thought I'd share. In all the years of evolution you would think that at least one buzzard would have said," Maybe we ought to drag it off the road." I don't know who it's by, but it struck me funny when I read it.

Well I've been here a couple of months now (longer?) don't know... I'd just like to give a thanks. This site is a brilliant site and it's postes have brilliant questions. It's been a pleasure

So I want to major in physics, but I don't care about the degree as much as the stuff I will learn. At least the degree will somewhat help me in finding some job. I am still young and I don't know what road to take, because apart from learning physics, I also want to write novels, become a painter, and hopefully have time to write or play music. I have played in a band before and I am pretty sufficient at drawing and painting. I have tried writing music, but have put it off since for school work and painting/drawing. I just don't know how much time I would have for these passions if I have a physics related job. On the other hand, I read that most physics graduates don't …

It's here, 11/11/11. This date is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down. Kind of quirky. It reminds me of 8/8/88, which has the same attributes. So, I did a comparison in my Namekagon Notebook blog at http://www.daveworld...y-james-bailey. I'd like to know what you all think of it. 11●11●11 and 8●8●88 Then and Now I'm not really into numerology. I placed no special significance on the event when we marked the change from the 1900s into the 2000s. But, I find it kind of neat when a date is the same whether viewed backwards, forwards or upside down. I'm using it herein as a premise for a flashback comparison that could be titled “that was the…

A steam engine worth sharing. Enjoy. ---> http://amazings.es/2011/11/04/una-maquina-de-vapor-hecha-de-cristal/

Draftsight is nice enough and so basic any beginner can figure his way around just tinkering with it an afternoon. http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/ Free CAD, CAM and CAE http://www.freecad.com/ I'd seen this person got help days ago but didn't look at the offered links and so I wondered if these, esp Draftsight would be any better help, since people on the thread were talking like the software in their links wasn't designed with arcs and ellipticals in mind, though it could be done. CAD software is built around everything-engineering, so ellipticals, arcs, fillets, rounds and radii, dashed and center lines, crosshatching and just everything 3…

We’ve all experienced it — stop lights activated for cross traffic (usually one car, maybe two) that, in the meantime, were able to make a right turn on red, resulting in the normal traffic flow needlessly interrupted. I’ve seen this happen a million times (at least ). Modern traffic signal algorithms delay several seconds before initiating the sequence to change the traffic flow. Why then, at the end of the delay and before initiating the change sequence, doesn’t the algorithm simply check the cross road one last time to see if the cross traffic is still there? I’ve programmed computers, and this is an extremely minor re-write of the algorithm. It would save ti…

My cousin sent me this link (because he knows that I love a good action flick as much as the next guy, but that science is everything) and it's a television show called This Vs That. It claims to be able to scientifically put to rest the common debates of the universe: Hybrid Car Vs. Gas Car (which is scientifically better for the environment), Propane Vs. Natural Gas (which will cost less, burn faster, etc.). This is the website he sent me: www.thisvsthatshow.com. I did see a blurb about the show on Rock Center with Bryan Williams, so it's not something so obscure that nobody's ever heard of it. Personally, I love when science and entertainment meet head on. The sho…

We've all seen it — traffic at an intersection stopped because someone pushed the pedestrian crossing button, and then without paying much attention and mostly without warning, a kid dashes from curb to curb on a crosswalk. Whether someone is driving legally or illegally, it's the *dashing* that suddenly puts the kid in front of an unsuspecting driver, especially with all these big SUVs that conceal what's on the other side of them. Crossing lights give pedestrians plenty of time to walk across the street, so these kids have plenty of time and don't need to run. Alarm bells go off every time I see this happen. I was a little kid once, and I know how intimidating…

Dude did you see that prime list they had . . . . . . 50 years before quantum processors . . . . . . must have been aliens! >:|

Every time I see a physics analogy since seeing this, I think of it. Thought I'd share.

Hi , i'm new to this site and i need a favor please ! I'm a Teaching Assistant in a primary school and we've been given a task to design and create something that flies unaided, i suggested a chinese lantern but thought it was a bit of a rubbish idea, if you could please could you pass on any idea's, thanks Natalie. P.S we can use small motors and various other things. Thanks again

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaP3gzee1cps%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&feature=player_embedded&v=aP3gzee1cps&gl=US That crazy or what?*lol!, too weird!*

Due to the high price of copper and increasingly punishing economic climate, the railway and electricity companies are experiencing extensive levels of copper theft according to the British Transport Police to the tune of £770m per annum or £2 million pounds a day! I hear news quite frequently in my locality that the railway line has had a load of its signal cable nicked that runs alongside the track and my friend who lays cables himself quite often comes back to work in the morning to find the cable he has laid the day before has been pulled out necessitating replacement. This all-to-frequent phenomenon had me mulling on ideas that could be implemented to make t…

Professor Julius Sumner Miller was a physicist, a student of the great Albert Einstein and an inspiration to more than a generation of Australian children. His program "Why is it so?" ran from 1963 to 1986 on the ABC explaining in easy to understand terms the way physics effects things in our daily lives. I'm very pleased to say that the ABC are dredging up some of the old clips and making them available for download and watching at their website. These are snippets and some more can be found on youtube. Hopefully the ABC will eventually place all of the programs online. I hope that these, like Mooeypoos "Smarter than that" videos will encourage more younger p…

Fuel price advertised as $ 3.199 as telling the public is stupid, they won't notice it is $3.20 Airline fares; meant to wring wallets instead of honestly charging for a service. Laziness in writing and talking; where the correct wording fades by lack of use, as in Gasoline, Identification, Laboratory, becoming clipped as Zoo, Hippo, Math, and no institution cares nor does anything about. Referring to night as anything after ~2 in the afternoon. Night starts at sunset. The abuse of acronyms. Seeing a $14.99 item at the fancy store when you bought it yesterday at the 99cent store. I suppose the reverse would be worse; but you could return the merchand…

I once flew a duck to Australia. Ducks are best because they'll never fail ya. Fly you quick as a fox to a post office box, and from there, just get someone to mail ya. Creationist posts are all junky. Their arguments get kind of funky. "Science sucks! You're all pimps! WE are better than chimps!" Which is really a slight to a monkey.

Is it true that washing/bathing regularly can reduce the amoung of pimples you have? What's the best way of reducing pimple growth?

Azumanga Daioh is the best. *points to avatar*

I am really struggling to save time in examinations where we have to fill an OMR sheet by darkening the bubble corresponding to the chosen option. Well, I sometimes do all questions and then fill the bubbles and sometimes after 10 questions or a page. How you tackle this situation?

From time to time I receive a message that says ******* has successfully added me to their friends list. The word "successful" has me puzzled because it implies failure was possible. A reasonable assumption is that failure would be because I had declined their offer of friendship. However, since I have never been asked, I have never been able to influence this and so my assumption must be false. So, what is the procedure that should be followed as a matter of courtesy when you receive such a message? Do you have a choice when such a message arrives? I am not implying that I wish to lose any of my "friends" - in fact I feel flattered that anyone would want to list me amon…

I love cards. I just enjoy everything about them... the significance of a small piece of paper... the value it can hold (such as rare cards, with high collector's value)... I find that it could be the perfect metaphor of me... A small physical form that could possibly change the world... that could be me! Of course, a card that could change the world is a slight exaggeration... but either way, I enjoy creating cards... I know my way around cards better than... the Minotaur knew his Labyrinth, or you know your back hand... Along with that, I need a way to advertise myself... for all of you to brace yourselves for my impending world takeover... SO, I have deduce…