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I had in mind to start up a sister site to this one. The backbone would be the forums, but the site would be more focused on news and science articles. Just too busy to mess with it right now.

My fall schedule isn't worked out yet Hopefully: Organic/Lab Physics/Lab Genetics/Lab Issues in Sports (liberal arts elective)

organic chem isn't feeling the love

Sorry to agree, but it was found to be a whale It was just messy, and blobby, and decomposed.

ROFL.

Teh CUBE OWNS U ALL :D

My friend is taking AP stats this semester. He posts here occasionally. I took stats over the summer at USF. I absolutely hated it, but it was an easy A.

Personally, I prefer The ES for all my pocket-computing needs. Its pretty fast. 5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs 8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total) 2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total) shared memory inside the node 640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes 16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth 20 kVA power consumption per node

Yet another worm is on the loose and its taking advantage of the MS03-026 vulnerability. Intentions of the worm This worm tries spreads by exploiting a hole in Microsoft Windows. It instructs a remote target system to download and execute the worm from the infected host. Once running, the worm terminates and deletes the W32/Lovsan.worm.a process and applies the Microsoft patch to prevent other threats from infecting the system through the same hole. When the system clock reaches Jan 1, 2004, the worm will delete itself upon execution. You can find more information here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100559.htm

I almost posted some pictures from an automobile accident from my EMT cd-rom, but I decided this wasn't really the place Just imagine a body ejected from a vehicle and subsequently crushed when the vehicle rolled over him.

We need an autobahn in the US for people like faf.

loki, greene states, "On ultramicroscopic scales, the central feature of QM--the uncertainty principle--is in direct conflic with the central feature of GR--the smooth gemoetrical model of space (and of spacetime)." (page 129) If you check the notes section he talks of equations yielding infinite when GR and QM are merged. He also talks about (in the notes section) how some infinities (in physics) could be done away with a tool known as 'renormalization', but the infinities that arise when GR and QM are merged are "far more severe and are not amenable to the renormalization cure".

lol, thats fafalone alright ROFL. somehow driving brings out the worst display of rage.

Go where your passion is. It is wise to have a backup plan though, or at least something else to fall back on. I'd assume that a student with a BSc only in Astronomy would end up an assistant somewhere at best (could be wrong). I assume you plan on going to graduate school as well. What part of astronomy do you enjoy?...astrophysics or more just general astronomy..

Couldn't you just move the strips closer together?

ahh yes, you are correct. I didn't realize that till just now..

From what I've been reading it seems that its probably partially genetic, and partially social factors.

OMG THE ATTACK HAS BEGUN!!!!!! (ROFL, thats great!)

Oops, I see sayo already described how to find your first post.. disregard my repeat explanation.

My first non-test post is located here: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=9#post9 You can find people's first posts easily by clicking their username (to go to their profile), then hitting "Search for all posts by this user" in the upper right corner. They're ordered from newest to oldest, so just go to the last page.

NewScientist 11:54 15 August 03 NewScientist.com news service "Human" embryonic stem cells have been harvested from cloned embryos created by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs, claims a soon-to-be published report by Chinese scientists. The goal of the experiments by Hui Zhen Sheng of Shanghai Second Medical University was to create a new source of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). These have the ability to transform into any tissue, making them potential sources of replacement cells for the treatment of many diseases. However, at present, these can only be derived from fertilised human embryos, resulting in widespread controversy. The embryos must be destroyed to harvest ESCs, which some see as ending a potential human life. In contrast, few experts think the rabbit-human hybrid embryos could be develop beyond the earliest stages. Also, cells from the hybrid contain only a tiny amount of rabbit DNA in mitochondria, structures that supply chemical power to the cell, suggesting the cells might be useful for human therapies.

Yea, I got completely owned by it earlier this week

lol, ignore the star trek fanatic

New York, New Jersey, Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, Toledo. People are wandering around on the street because the subways are shut down, no traffic lights to control traffic, ferries, trams and trains are all shut down. Sucks for them

Excerpts From NewScientist 19:00 13 August 03 An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race. The explosive works by stimulating the release of energy from the nuclei of certain elements but does not involve nuclear fission or fusion. The energy, emitted as gamma radiation, is thousands of times greater than that from conventional chemical explosives. The technology has already been included in the Department of Defense's Militarily Critical Technologies List, which says: "Such extraordinary energy density has the potential to revolutionise all aspects of warfare." ---- Scientists have known for many years that the nuclei of some elements, such as hafnium, can exist in a high-energy state, or nuclear isomer, that slowly decays to a low-energy state by emitting gamma rays. For example, hafnium-178m2, the excited, isomeric form of hafnium-178, has a half-life of 31 years. The possibility that this process could be explosive was discovered when Carl Collins and colleagues at the University of Texas at Dallas demonstrated that they could artificially trigger the decay of the hafnium isomer by bombarding it with low-energy X-rays (New Scientist print edition, 3 July 1999). The experiment released 60 times as much energy as was put in, and in theory a much greater energy release could be achieved.