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Yep, that was the idea.

There have been many scholarly journals / respectable science magazines reporting on nano-scale data storage (non volatile). It is, in fact, possible to fit that much data into something that small! I'm not sure exactly which articles I'm referring to 'cause I don't remember exactly what it was, but IEEE Spectrum, Technology Review (MIT's Magazine of Innovation), Scientific American, and Popular Science are some good candidates. As far as this particular case goes, I don't know.

My point was the same as yours, vrus. Wikipedia never says that making one at home would be anywhere near possible.

Many exploseive gasses (such as propane) can be used as refrigerants. These also have the added effect of being highly combustible when diffused in air - meaning that you could freeze bomb something and then flash burn it. Very effective, if it were ever practical.

Before doing my research like a good little student, I was about to post this: "You would be highly surprised. It can be done at home, and not just a pulsejet." Then I did my research. (Emphasis added) I have seen pictures of those prototype testbed engines, and they are quite fascinating. My curiosity with these is also thanks to PopSci. Anyways, long story short, PDE's are a LOT more complex than pulsejets. Wikipedia article on PDE's

Kenel, about that: In the past three months, my situation with the site has been the following: 1.)Massive development spurt, almost finishing an entire site in less than a month; 2.)gone for a month; 3.) very little work while preparing for school to start. I've also hosted random images there that I call upon remotely, for pages that support remote image requests but not local hosting (like a forum). The entire time (except, of course, when I was on vacation) I was doing limited testing and debugging. So, long story short, I have no idea what my traffic will be like. It could be quite large or quite small. I just simply don't know. One more thing - I am currently hosting both a (sub)domain and a subdomain. The first subdomain is a subdomain of their site; this is my personal site. The subdomain of that is one that I run for some of the fine arts at my school. Either of these could generate large amounts of traffic, and if I go the pay route (which I know I will do sometime, and now is probably the time) then I will register these as seperate domains. Thanks loads for all the help. It's looking like I'll have a day or two of downtime on my site (not that it really matters all that much at this point ) while I decide what to do. P.S.: if anyone's wondering, I do all of my webpages by myself using source code, and I'm completely self-taught. I don't use any development app's (unless you count WordPad, or a souped-up version of it with syntax coloring). I write web code in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PERL, and do a bit with SQL/mySQL db's.

The issue with hosting it on my own machine is that it's not my just personal site, and I expect a chunk of bandwidth, and a lot of the people who will view it have dsl. My dsl isn't the best upstream, and I need something with a high data transfer. The two sites that have been given look great, keep posting stuff like that. I really appreciate the help. Molotov and Stusi were right on the dot. Thanks much. Calbit

I don't know how practical this is, but you might be able to use PHP to write each message to a file. Each file could be the category, perhaps? Password protecting stuff like that is pretty easy. I know exactly how one would go about doing it in PHP, and if I had the time I'd go about explaining it. For now, however, it is probably a better idea to ask people's ideas on the feasability of this. The basic synopsis is that you have a write page append to a file, and the file then reads it's contents (people's posts) onto the page. In order for a new post to be made, the username/password fields must be filled in, which PHP checks against a database or usernames and passwords. If it checks out, the file is appended; if not, it isn't. You could organize the files however you wanted - each file a category, etc. To save space and loading time, it is often a good idea to have a single index page, and then call upon the content pages. In other words, your entire layout goes on one page, which calls for the page that contains the text/content. This can be done by adding the category after "filename.php" - for example, mylayout.php?bootstraps would pull up a page about bootstraps. Anyways, that part is tried and true. The part I'm unsure about is the appending part. If you aren't worried about file size / load time then it's absolutely viable; otherwise, I couldn't tell you with absolute certainty. Despite all my mindless babbling, though, I think this would be a viable solution. Calbit P.S.: Sorry 'bout all the rambling...

I just got an email from my free server today. In short, it said that my host will no longer be offering free hosting. This is a true shame; this particular host was by far the best I have ever had. I have until the end of this week (the 28th) to find a new host. The majority of what I have now is listed below: Hosting package: Free; Subdomains: 1 / 20; Parked Domains: 0 / 3; Addon Domains: 0 / 3; Mysql databases: 0 / 10; PostgreSQL Databases: 0 / 10; Disk usage: 3.46 / 100.00 MB; SQL Disk usage: 0.00 MB; Disk space available: 96.54 MB; Bandwidth usage: 3.57 /5000 MB; Email accounts: 1 / 10; Email forwarders: 0 / unlimited; Autoresponders: 2 / unlimited; Email filters: 0 / unlimited; Mailing lists: 0 / 2; FTP accounts: 1 / 10; This is essentially what I need for a server. Is there any host that someone can recommend to me? I realize that it is extremely unlikely that I'll find another free host for free; as such, I am willing to pay up to about $5 monthly. Added DNS service would be a plus as well, although that cost does not need to be figured into the $5. I should add that the host must allow PHP, .htaccess/custom error pages, password protection, and index management, and must NOT have ads. It would also be a nice plus if I could add my own adds. Other than that, I'm open to suggestions. Any questions, feel free to ask. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance, Calbit P.S.: Yes, I had all that in a free host. Like I said, the best free hosting service I've ever seen.

At the very least, history definitely falls under the anthropology category, which is (IIRC) considered a science.

Doesn't matter. As long as the thing forms a closed loop (in other words, a closed circuit) when the ring touches the wall, it doesn't matter. Just make sure if your buzzer has polarity (+/- terminals) that you line it up correctly.

Make sure the end of the ring/handle thing is connected to the battery. On the pic by Kniteli, it's a little hard to tell where the handle connects (or if it does at all.) Just clarifying.

I thought bigelow's full-size station was going to be quite roomy -- at least, that's what the various articles I've read on it have pointed to.

Awesome. Exactly how I think it should be. I really wish I had the cash for some more advanced projects these days, but seeing as I don't have time for a job, either, that isn't looking like it's going to happen. So, it's back to the computer - or xbox - just like any other high schooler. I honestly don't know if my dad would have been overly-helpful or just guiding me along - part of the reason I never got much help was that my dad worked insane hours. Anyways... Good luck to your son.

Think of some american indian tribes. Now think of server software. Alternatively, we could play wheel of fortune. Category is "same name." There are 101 letters in the puzzle, and 4 contestants.

Lol. This is a lot like Neutonian's post.

Klay, it could be a lot worse. You could have hair like Einstein in his later days. Or you could wear neon yellow socks and neon pink pants. [Edit: completely forgot why I posted in the first place. Klay, you should protect your indexes. With the address you just handed out, you can view the contents of everything on your site in no time at all. Just FYI.]

Yeah, but I've known plenty of 9-year-olds (myself included, back when I was one) that could have handled this on their own. I guess it just bugs me when stuff like this happens because I was always the kid who did something on their own with very little/no help and, as a result, my display wasn't quite as pretty-looking than everyone else's. That reminded me of something we did back in.. 4th-grade-ish: we were 'sposed to "invent" something. So, after being called on my first idea as too outlandish (a miniature flying car), I settled for making a remote-control locator. You pressed a button, and the remote beeped. I did it by reassemling a walkie talkie with a beep button. I don't think I had more than five minutes worth of help on that project. Anyways, that's my rant. Ink, don't take it personally or anything, I understand what makes you do it... I just always remember that I had more fun doing things on my own than having a pretty display.

Lol. Or, he has AOL. [Edit: sad thing is, I (used to) know kids who fall under almost all of the above.]

So it is, in fact, a joke. Thank you, God.

That was my thought, too.

It was after reading this that my immediate response was, "I sure hope this is a joke." By the time I got down to the stuff about "lunix" I was pretty sure it was a joke. On that line, you ARE joking, right? Kinda weird sense of humor. But it was pretty funny. And that whole thing about video games creating violence is total bull and it drives me nuts to hear it! Which just makes it all the funnier - in retrospect, at least.

It's possible, I guess. It just means more competition - and more jobs. Somebody's got to be responsible for the mining of the asteroids, too - even if robots do the actual mining, there have to be human managers and technicians. We are definitely not to the point of having fully autonomous mining facilities (read:AI-controlled mines). Personally, I think there's plenty of money out there other than launching satellites to orbit. Tourism is a huge economy-booster throughout the world, and if it were fiscally viable for the average family to stay a week in space, we'd see a lot more "astronauts" out there.

Scaled is backed by one of the founders of Microsoft.

So is Scaled Composites. A lot of their operations go into R&D. I'm not very familiar with SpaceX, though, so I can't really talk. I was under the impression that if this launch takes place, it is purely a proof-of-concept / test of the design, and that the actual station will not be in place 'till around 2010, hence the deadline for Bigelow's competition. I absolutely and completely agree with you. There's BIG money to be made in space.