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Haha, thats natalie portman, from Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2. aka my girlfriend.

No, it was 124 or 125, honest. He even said. Upon returning home from Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm, [he] looked up his I.Q. It was 125. Feynman was ecstatic. "To win a Nobel Prize," he said, "is no big deal, but to win it with an I.Q. of 125, now that's something."

IQ is lame. Feynman's IQ was something like 123-125; and he'd laugh at your understanding of physics. Just like I laugh at your tennis game. After a tennis match: faf -> :worship: <- blike

HAHA, where did this misconception that I'm a girl come off from? I think zarkov started it. Maybe it was when I had the Natalie Portman icon. Besides, I'd hate for faf to have to admit he could get slapped around in tennis by a girl. LOL Hahaha. brb gagging

I dunno, I kinda come more natural at chem. General biology was harder for me, since it combined elements of gen chem and biology. I've yet to take chem2 or organic yet, so we'll see

I'm tired of the front page already. I dunno, I was thinking about revamping it to be more news oriented on the front page, keeping the active discussion box, but changing the overall look and feel. any comments on this?

"Most users ever online was 72 on 07-08-2002 at 10:51 PM." ^ was the result of persistant unwanted spamming by a certain cretin named jinx.

Probably not, that would mean NO energy right?

thanks for the heads up.

(I decided to change the title of the series of posts because not all deal directly with evolutionary theory) However improbably we regard this event [the start of all life], or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it...once may be enough. Time is in fact the hero of the plot. The time with which we have to deal is of the order of two billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless here. Given so much time the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probably, and the probably virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. -Nobel laureate and Harvard University professor of Biology George Wald. ["The Origin of Life," Scientific American, August 1954] Wald's statement rested firmly on research done in the previous year by Stanly Miller, then a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Miller had mixed a flask with gases thought to have been present in the Earth's atmosphere 3.8 billion years ago. He then discharged sparks, simulating lightning into the gasses. Their energy induced random chemical reactions among the gases. After a few days, a reddish slime appeared on the inner walls. The slime was found to contain amino acids. The importance of Miller's experiment was enormous. Given enough time, it is possible that life would emerge on its own. As Wald had pointed out, two billion years had passed between the appearance of water on earth and the appearance of life. Wald's article was replubished 25 years later in a 1979 special edition Scientific American. However, this time the article appeared with a retraction. Although stimulating, this article probably represents one of the very few times in his professional life when Wald has been wrong. Examine his main thesis and see. Can we really form a biological cell by waiting for chance combinations of organic compounds? Harold Morowitz, in his book "Energy Flow and Biology" computed that merely to create a bacterium would require more time than the Universe might ever see if chance combinations of its molecules were the only driving force". Articles authored by Nobel laureates are not lightly retracted. The statistical computations by Morowitz may have cast a shadow of doubt on Wald's claims for the power of chance, but I doubt Scientific American would have actually retracted the article based on statistical calculations alone. The article was withdrawn because research performed by another Harvard professor proved Wald wrong. In the 1970s, Elso Barghoorn, a paleontology professor, discovered micro-fossiles of bacteria and algae in rocks close to 3.5 billion years old. That is also when the first liquid water appeared on earth, and hence the first time that life could survive. There were no "billions of years" for the amino acids to combine randomly in life, as Wald as suggested. Life formed suddenly with the appearance of water. So suddenly did life arise on Earth that the theoretical biologist Francis Crick wrote, "Given the weaknesses of all theories of terrestrial genesis, directed panspermia [deliberate planting of life on earth] should still be considered a serious possibility." ["Profile: Francis H. C. Crick," Scientific American, February 1992] Crick certainly understands the complexity of life. He shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the shape and functioning of DNA. Science has no agreed-upon explanation for the cause of life. Whatever theories are put forth, the fact remains: as soon as the conditions on Earth arose for life to exist, life appeared. There were no 'billions of years' for chance reactions to take place.

The Houston Chronicle is carrying an article that claims possible signs of life may have been found on venus. A team from the university of Texas noticed a "mysterious patch swirling around, which may be communities of bacteria." "The team's theory is that microbes could be living in clouds 30 miles up in the Venusian atmosphere, where conditions are relatively balmy -- water droplets are present, the temperature is 158 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmosphere is similar to what it is on Earth. " You can find the research in the summer 2002 issue of the journal Astrobiology

NewScientist is reporting on modified stem cells that produce a cancer-killing chemical that can find and destroy brain tumors. The standard procedure for dealing with brain tumors is surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. The mice injected with the special stem cells lived significantly longer than mice left untreated. One third even developed long term immunity to brain tumors. "Three months after the first tumours were implanted in the surviving mice, the team injected fresh cancerous cells into their brains. All mice remained healthy 120 days later, indicating they had long-term immunity to glioma. Five controls injected simultaneously with the cancerous cells died within 30 days." Journal reference: Cancer Research (vol 62, p 5657)

I hate reality shows. They're getting rediculous. Personally, I wouldn't trust my life to a russian spacecraft

Sounds good, but it would take years waiting for the light to get there and return.

What did you do?

I've thought about that before. But what if there is nothing that prompts you to go back in time, you just go for the ride? As long as you only observe there should be no problem? Right? Hehe, you should add a "Maybe" or "Somtimes" answer.

What are your thoughts on this guy? I think he saw the movie red dragon, and that inspired him to leave the note "I am God". For those that havn't seen it, a reference is made to serial killers feeling like "god", though I'm not sure they consider him a serial killer. I thought serial killers usually had a break between each murder. I don't know if he'll be caught though, there are lots of murderers that go uncaught. Maybe if he makes a stupid mistake. The more they kill the more invincible they feel, and the more prone to being caught they are. I say if we catch him, we should lock him in a room with a loop of Celine Dion playing, that'll teach him

So other than science, what are your other interests? What kind of hobbies do you guys have? What do you do for fun? Besides school I play tennis, guitar, work out, akido club, fish, work on my car. I'm also into photography and video producing; mostly skateboard related. Oh, and I insult faf's school for fun. How about you guys?

Fixed Haha, thanks for pointing that out aman. leidenfrost_essay.pdf

You'd come to a point where time is nearly stopped, not sure if it would ever completely stop. You could watch stars be born and die in the blink of an eye.

rofl. miami will pay. one day.

Yes, its called Deja Vu!

Very nice. btw ignore my rocket post, radical edward's is the same concept, but better explained. Also, what happens if the doors ARE faster than light.

but "what it really is" is relative.