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Im pretty sure hes got that part, but if you read in context to docbills post you'll see what he's asking.

Well, not quite as it sounded. I was more toward implying that the people who are there and claim to have a long history of the land are pretty much lying (even Yasser Araft who claimed to have been born there, when in reality he was born in Cairo). If you want to be technical, the earliest records indicate the Israelis had this land first. "Outside the gates of Jerusalem we saw no living object, heard no living sound…." In 1882 there were only 141 thousand muslims (arab and non-arab) in the entire land of israel (and 25% of those came after 1831). In the next 56 years, the land experienced an 7-800% increase in arab population. All accounts from the time report that the majority of this increase was from neighboring countries. Tell me, in what year was the palestinian state established?

I used to have similar experiences when I was younger, but I was sleep walking. The thing is, I'd be semi-conscious, but still semi-dreaming. I would often see myself walking in third person and doing things in the third person. I was really walking, it wasn't just a dream. When I was sleep walking, everything I was doing made perfect sense (brushing my teeth with a comb was once instance). Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of it all and it would no longer make sense why I was in the kitchen brushing my teeth with a comb. Oddly, I remembered getting out of bed, grabbing the comb, and brushing my teeth with it, but I couldn't remember "why" i was doing it. Being on the border between conscious and unconscious is quite interesting, though I prefer peaceful sleep.

If you look at the earlier postings in this thread you can see there was a heated debate about whether it was genetic or not. I think we came to the conclusion that it was at least partially genetic, or due to the chemical environment the fetus were in, given the correlation of homosexuality between twins seperated at birth. The likelihood of a homosexual's twin (seperated at birth) also being homosexual is stronger than two randomly assigned males. This indicates at least a fetal connection, if not genetic. Homosexuality has also been reported in populations of monkeys studied in the wild, which indicates that at least some individuals in a population can exhibit homosexual tendencies, regardless of natural selection.

All you need? Sounds like a lot to me

nights would probably be best for us all. between 7 and 9 is best for me.

http://www.scienceforums.net/chat.php try that edit: or #scienceforums on sorcery.net with your favorite client

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I think my earliest dabblings in science came from my fascination with space and flight. My parents bought me a book on the solar system when I was quite young, and this sparked my interest in astronomy. I was big into astronomy for years, but during my highschool years I started reading about the physics of the universe. My junior year(4 years ago) I picked up a copy of "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, and this really interested me. In college my interests turned to biology and medicine, my future career (anyone know how to properly clean telescope mirrors without damaging them? I'd like to use the scope again, but the mirror is horrendously dusty) Picture of me with my telescope when I was around 10 or 11:

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Thank you so much!!!

Docbill, how did you get the word out about the chat??

What ELSE is there to test it in?

Briane Green?! He wrote The Elegant Universe didn't he?? I loved that book. Anyhow, the chat idea is great, but right now we don't have that many members, you think it would work with what we have right now?

I did not know that aquisition of land during war was illegal. The palestinians on that land now aren't the same ones. They come from surrounding muslim countries. What about the early israelite tribes on the land?

I came across some interesting thoughts regarding extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe. Bottleneck No. 1 The host star must be of the right variety in order to provide temperatures for a planet for billions of years. It must not belong to a binary or multiple star system (which eliminates two-thirds of stars), since planets with circuluar orbits cannot form there. Also, it must be of the right size. A star much smaller than the sun would require the planet to orbit closer in order to be in the habitable zone where water could exist as a liquid, but this would create tidal forces that would slow its rotation, causing it to cook on one side (as with Mercury). A star much larger than the sun would burn itself out before an intelligence civilization could arise. Even without the tidal effect problem, a star must fall in the range between 0.83 and 1.2 solar masses in order for an orbiting planet to avoid either a runaway greenhouse effect, as on Venus, or a permanent ice age, as Mars would experience if it had more water. (Michael h. Hart, "Atmospheric Evolution, the Drake Equation and DNA: Sparse life in an Infinite Universe," Cambridge, England 1995) Bottleneck No. 2 The host star must begin its life surrounded by a protoplanetary disk (perhaps half of single stars do), and this disk must be the sort that is short-lived and small. Planets with medium or massive disks are doomed to spiral their way into their host stars. (Jeffery Winters, "Planets by the Dozen," Discover 1997) Bottleneck No. 3 The system must be devoid of large planets with elliptical orbits (of the sort recently discovered), which would eject or destroy smaller planets. Bottleneck No. 4 On the other hand, large planets with circular orbits are needed--at the right distance--to sweep the way clear from those pesky killer astroids (or comets) that would otherwise strike inner planets with regularity, cuasing mass extinctions every 100 thousand years instead of every 100 million Bottleneck No. 5 To be habitable, a planet must not only maintain a circuluar orbit within the "Goldilocks zone", but must take the right-sized orbit within this zone. According to NASA astronomer Michael Hart's computer simulations: "If the Earth's orbit were only 5% smaller than it actually is, during the Early stages of Earth's history there would have been a 'runaway greenhouse effect', and the temperatures would have gone up untli the oceans boiled away entirely" On the other hand, he found that "if the Earth-sun distance were as little as 1% larger, there would have been runaway glaciation on Earth about 2 billion years ago. The Earth's oceans would have frozen over entirely and would have remained so ever since, with a mean global temperature of less than -50'F" Similar conclusions were reached by two other astronomers using different computer models. Bottleneck No. 6 A habitable planet must be large enough to hold an atmosphere and small enough so that its gravity doesn't cursh everything on its surface. Also, it must be the right size in order to hold onto the right kind of atmosphere: too small and it won't hold water vapor; too large and it will hold onto hydrogen, methand, and ammonia, like Jupiter. A third requirement, moderate temperature, is also dependant upon planet size. Astronomers calculate that unless a planet has a mass at least .85 of Earth's mass, but no larger than 1.33 of Earth's mass, temperature variations would make the planet unihabitable within 2 billion years. There are about 6 more bottlenecks listed, but I'm tired of typing right now. What do you guys think about these? The problem I see with all of these is that they are assuming life would develop like life on earth. This is another important issue: how many ways could life develop? Would life work in any other arrangement?

Yes, your punishment is on its way I thought I had it set to 80x80, but its 100x100, thx for reminding

"Illegally occupying territory"....The territory Israel took over when it was attacked by arab states? Its not fair to attack Israel, then complain when Israel defeats you and takes some of your land. This is Israel's land, there is no Palestine.

Israel's aggression? The whole thing is a viscious circle, but Israel is hardly the sole perpetraitor. Israel has tons of Arab citizens, and they have the same rights as any Israeli and are treated the exact same way. Are you scared of gas attacks from Israel? It wasn't Israeli's who flew the planes into the WTC. The terrorists are the threat.

Its believable, but I doubt anyone knows the name of a compound that will do exactly as you described. Why don't you say it was some unknown agent, or give it a fake name that sounds malicious like amnethrex

I've never heard of an abnormal amount of lightning accompanying snow. Down here in florida it never snows, but the lightning is horrible!

I've noticed a lot of you use the default icons I uploaded, here's how to make your own if you want: Find an image you like! Remember, the subject of the image should be pretty large, since the whole picture needs to be scaled down. Open your image in an image processor (besides MS Paint) Scale it down to 100 x 100 or less. The dimensions do not have to be equal, but they both have to be less than 80 pixels Click on "usercp" then click edit options and scroll down to "Avatar", click 'change avatar' Scroll down to "You can upload an avatar from your computer:" and click browse. Find your scaled down image and press "Submit modifications" If you need help scaling an image down, PM me and I'll help you.

My psych prof. mentioned a couple of studies that had been performed on this. I don't remember any details, but students who the teacher expected to perform better based on iq results (i think), did perform better, even when they were randomly assigned.

Victims of Gulf War Syndrom report memory loss, so I suppose its feasable. "neurological symptoms -- fatigue, memory loss, difficulty concentrating and sleep disturbances, and physical symptoms -- digestive problems, joint pain, and heart and circulatory difficulties"

4.0 - This player has dependable strokes on both forehand and backhand sides; has the ability to use a variety of shots including lobs, overheads, approach shots and volleys; can place the first serve and force some errors; is seldom out of position in a doubles game. This is me