admiral_ju00

don't know. but probably that's an overstatement. it's not age specific or confined, rather.

that's a shame. i used to like programming in pascal.

what is that thing called that looks like a satellite receiver/dish but is made up of many mirror pieces? could he have used one of those?

yep, i know. but i didn't say you got to buy what's in the Santiago theory, i merely threw it down on the table

REM = Rapid Eye Momement cycle. a typical sleep is in cycles(forgot the fine details) but more or less it goes in stages. Rem sleep is where most dreams occur - and as my above post said, it has some kind of correlation to the overall function of the brain. when you hit rem stage, when you wake up, you feel refreshed and had a dream, and in sleep, your brain is just as active when you're awake, maybe more so. that's why if you've ever had one of those occasions where you've only slept for 20 minutes and feel so much better/refreshed then say last night when you slept 12 hours and woke up feeling tired and moody. etc. more than likely, in the above example, you've bypassed all the other stages of sleep and went directly into rem...

no, but the idea is that you need the non-rem sleep to take you into the rem sleep. if i recall correctly, there have been several experiments where people were simply not allowed to have rem sleep and as a result they had behavioral/concentration problems when awake.

i've been out of touch in programming for a little while now, but, my question is: do people still program in Pascal? there has been a thread or 2 recently implying that in HS they still teach Basic as a programming language to start with, but how about more complex languages such as Pascal? since Pascal is stuctured more like C or Perl, then if learning Basic just to get the basic idea, then moving on to Pascale and then a transition to C or C++ will be much easier then in going from the Basic(very archaic imo language) to C.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/marijuana.html so the direct answer to the question is: NO however it does screws with the receptors and ionic regulation/passages.

aka - symbiosis

that brings a question like: do i get to wear a dead guy's/girl's face or do i buy a neat little face mask and wear it for the rest of my life......... absolutely.

because in evolution, one does not get to pick anything. one may not even get the desirable or needed traits or abilities but that's when natural selection steps in. i think just for once i'll play Sayonara and say: you suggest that evolution has a purpose or that there is something guiding it along to a desired outcome. not the case.

you mean bio-diesel? it can be made and is purely organic so it's not as harmful to the environment. http://www.veggievan.org/biodiesel/index.php

only if limiting the term to humanity. like Maturana said, a baterium while does not have cognition as you and i know it, but it can sense if there's acid nearby and swim away from or food and swim to, etc. basically, the idea is to think outside the box. here's a brief excerpt http://www.geocities.com/combusem/CAPRA4.HTM

this is just like Seti@home but it 1) does show you the DNA molecule and 2) you may help find cancer cure, just as in Seti@home you might find alien,err, extraterrestrial signals. http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

to a certain degree, perhaps yes and that may be only for a while. i'd say this may be impossible. the only think i can think of by that is after you've spent enough time and being there constantly, not making any new or drastic moves, etc, after a while you blend in and no longer be the cause of fear or uncertainty, the animals will not mind and go about their business. you're just there, as part of the jungle/environment. for example: if i need to drive to certain point(A) and historically speaking it takes me (X) amount of time, then my memory will start when i enter the car and when i leave the car or about too, because everything stayed the same. but if when i'm driving to point(A) but it takes me (Z) amount of time, either due to road construction, accident, someone runs me off the road, etc, then i become aware of the situation and can remember it, may not be in full detail but at least the part that caused a deviation in my trip. same thing for environment, if i drive every day for X amount of years to a certain location and the environment stays the same(considering the elemental changes) then after a certain time i make that same trip, my memory becomes blurred as to what really happened on my way. but if one day i take that route and there is a construction of a new building, then i become aware of it. etc. but there is a difference in running active experiments and merely being an observer. if you're working with rats and you want them to do a certain thing, then surely the contact of visibility between the 2 parties must be minimal. otherwise one party may give off certain cues that can and will modify the behavior/action of the other party. but if one does not need to modify animals behavior, only observe, then the more visible the better. provided that one's behavior and appearance does not change drastically enough.

yub yub commander. i'm interested in how this goes. by the way, i agree with you about the life in the deep-sea.

good one

Six days of Biblical creation story by David Brower. edit: i don't know why i posted this here, but out of all creationist nonsense ideas, i kind of like that. not in terms of contents, but the idea of squeezing 4.6 billion years of earth's history into 6 days and doing it scientifically is neat.

yeah, as long as it doesn't rely on pure darwinism - that being random mutations and natural selection. natural selection is fine so leave that alone, but the random mutations thing is a problem.

writting your own book under the age of 20? geez, what's the world comming to g'luck in your venture.

just be glad she hasn't caught one of those antibiotic-resistant germs

not if they accept her or someone else as part of their clan or at least as part of their environment. and she has spent years in the jungles trying to reach such confidence and trust