Phi for All

lol, MRBEAST in this stie. Come wallow with us!

Welcome, welcome, to all the new members. I hope you've gone ahead and started posting and haven't been waiting for an acknowledgment here, not everyone reads this thread. We're all awfully glad you're here though, and we hope you have fun, learn lots and post often. Cheers!

The Entabulator description literally made my fillings hurt. I had to stop listening when my left eye developed a tic.

Rip:20 (Lepton) It's Rip:30 here from Colorado. Interested in getting better with math Welcome Rip:20, you are the winner of this week's Ferrous Patella Award for most ironic comment. It's the altitude, I know.

Welcome to everyone who has joined recently. You are encouraged to respond to existing threads. We have a great Search function that can search the whole site or individual areas. If you don't find the subject you need, feel free to open a thread about it. We're glad you're here and we thank you for your support.

I was in a restaurant yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to pass gas. The music was pretty loud, so I timed my farts with the beat of the music. After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, and noticed that everybody was staring at me.... Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.

Then take the hat off, the whole campus is wondering what's up with that.

Hi. You should start a new thread to discuss the definition of "alone".

Die your search lead you to this thread on the subject? If not, have a read and add to our knowledge if you like.

I thought bascule phrased his stance in a beautifully tactful way in Which Religion is Right?: He doesn't have to deride anyone to get his point across. He doesn't even have to put religion down to let you know why he prefers science. And based on our past P&R forum, we gave more infractions for religious people not being tactful than the other way around, so we'll definitely be watching for this. To be fair, they were usually in the minority position, but that's no reason to retaliate with discourtesy.

So good to see you back, Radical Edward! Your Intro thread has been a huge success. Your photovoltaic flashlight, not so much.

Gotta have this one from The Big Bang Theory posted here: A physicist goes to an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream for himself and offers an ice cream for the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner asks him what he is doing. The man says “Well, I’m a physicist and Quantum Mechanics teaches us that it's possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me.” The owner says, "There are a lot of single beautiful women who come in here every day, so why don’t you buy an ice cream for one of them and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says “Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?”

Welcome, and thanks for introducing yourself.

Thank you. It's very nice of you to introduce yourself with a wish like this.

Hi Spam!

Where did you get that from? Nobody I know remembers taking that poll. Do you have a source?

FACT: Thomas Edison was so adamant that the US should use direct current, supplied by smaller generators rather than rival Westinghouse's alternating current, that he endorsed the use of the electric chair for executions in order to prove how lethal AC current was, even though he was not in favor of capital punishment. http://www.snopes.com/science/edison.asp

I used to sell a radiant barrier for home attic insulation, and it was nothing more than reflective foil sandwiching a mylar center (the plastic kept the two sheets of foil from touching and conducting heat). We were told that (back then) this was how spacesuits were designed (but with several more layers). I wonder how the results of the experiment would be if you simply wrapped a plastic bottle with aluminum foil (try not to wrinkle it too much), then did a layer of clear plastic wrap (Glad wrap), then another of tinfoil, more clear wrap and so on, until you have 7-10 layers? This would probably be the easiest and cheapest method if it worked well. You'd need to pay close attention to the mouth and lid, making sure they had just as much insulation.

You're welcome, rockhead. The real reason, of course, is that there haven't been enough pure geology threads started in the General Sciences forum to warrant splitting Geology off into it's own sub-forum. Perhaps you can start enough interesting Geology threads to correct that?

Because geologists write in goofy fonts and formats.

You replied to this thread so you did that well. It would be great if you would type whole words, since text speak is not the easiest for our global membership to read. Just pick a sub-forum for the topic you want to discuss and there is a New Thread button at the top left that will start... well, a New Thread. Tell us what your doubts are about, perhaps in a New Thread, and we'll address them there. Welcome and have a good time.

Winner, Best Introduction of the Month Award! Welcome, Olivia, and all you new folks. Thanks for using your brains.

jsaldea12 has continued to post the same pet theory after having it debunked, against the requests of Staff, and so has been permanently banned due to repeated inconsistencies with the purpose of this forum.

We've missed you, welcome back! There'll be no leaving for you THIS TIME, squealy meat-sack! If you don't have 1000 posts before the year is up, Earth will be destroyed! But hey, no pressure....

Unless you have a PayPal account, right? You should write a story about a starship captain who wants to become a patent attorney. Do you have a PayPal account? Oooh, she's way past the glazed look in her eyes. Call some of her GFs, arrange for them to go to a chick flick, and then log on and geek out, dude! You crazy. Most high school freshmen's main aspirations are bongs and senior cheerleader's tonsils. Everyone says that *before* we start pouring the water. Welcome to the forum, have fun, get dirty, make mistakes.