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lol, i'm a nice young lad I was actually being goofy when I took that picture, thats why I'm posing like a tard. Brian is just jealous

the air is 90 some degrees and stagnent. the humidity is usually in the 90% as well, so it makes for some nasty fresh air. This is florida! Air conditioning never turns off!

My mom puts these scent things in the outlet to make the house smell good, but they reek!! Have you ever sat next to an old lady who has practically bathed in cheap perfume? That is what my entire house smells like at this moment.

From Guardian Interesting, but how credible? A notion that has influenced esoteric thought for centuries now forms the basis of a continuing, mind-boggling parapsychology experiment. Could our thoughts and intentions - before they become actions - alter the world? During an EEG (electroencephalogram), electrodes detect electrical signals transmitted between brain cells and record patterns of activity. This is not a measure of the mind itself, but of the electrical processes that somehow generate consciousness. Now, imagine the Earth as a brain; humans - perhaps all life - as brain cells; and a network of Random Event Generators (REGs, like high-speed, electronic coin tossers) as electrodes. This is the Global Consciousness Project and it appears to be measuring, well _ something. Begun in 1998, it now involves more than 75 networked computers known as Eggs ("electrogaiagrams") in about 30 countries, including the US, UK (two), Russia, Fiji, Cuba and Romania. The project grew from experiments by Dr Roger Nelson of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. For over 20 years, researchers at this leading parapsychology institute have been studying the effects of human consciousness on REGs, demonstrating to their satisfaction that individual minds can subtly influence random mechanical processes and create deviations from expected chance results. Nelson examined what happened to a REG when several people focused on a single event, at a theatre or sports stadium. The results were impressive but, perplexingly, the generator's location was irrelevant - the effects were present anywhere. REGs in America, for instance, were noticeably affected by Princess Diana's funeral in 1997. Nelson's team claims that periods of widespread attention or concentration correspond to notable fluctuations in the Egg network's data. For example, significant results were recorded after the Turkish earthquakes of August 1999, millennium eve, the 2000 US presidential elections, and September 11 2001, when the GCP network responded in a "powerful and evocative way". The GCP team remains cautious about interpreting its results. But the implications are startling and, as the Egg network grows, so too does the enigma surrounding its data.

My biology book has a small bit about errors accumulating as well. "Researchers spotlighted the importance of such proteins[mismatch-repair] when they found that a hereditary defect in one of them that is associated with a form of colon cancer. Apparently, this defect allows cancer-causing errors to accumulate in the DNA."

Thats a lot of stars!

lol, you should have known when you clickd a thread titled "Spider Bite" with an image attached Its not my hand, thank God. Florida is infested with those spiders though. Seriously, they're everywhere.

Day 10 of a Brown Recluse bite. YUM!!!!

ROFL ahahahahhah

Rooftop hopping has its drawbacks!

Vintage Web Hosting is DYN-O-MITE. and indeed, don't diss my medical condition.

I'm the man and you know it.

I think what happens is a lot of people take Intro to Psychology at either the highschool or college level course and think that all of psychology is fluffy and pretty like it is presented. Another factor is that people want to be in a scientific field, but don't want to bother with the traditional "hard" sciences. I guess they view psychology as a semi-science. Then they get into advanced pscyhology courses and realize that it is a real science and its much much harder than their slacking self realized. This happened to a friend my freshman year. She wanted to major in psychology because she loved the highschool course we took. The first semester psych class went really well (intro). However, the second semester focused more on clinical methods and she bombed out and changed her major.

whoops, sorry for that thread jack

I'm not sure, but the effect you're talking about is not limited to cameras.. Sometimes I notice rims on cars doing the same thing. Sometimes the blades on my fan appear to be spinning backwards as well. It has to be just at the right speed though.

if I had any idea what that was about I might have some input

m-catz, why don't you go ahead and tell them what happened last time WE met = pool master

If you just want to quote one person, just hit "quote" at the bottom of their post. If you would like to quote more than one person, check the "quote" box in the upper right-hand corner of their post. When you hit reply, it will be automatically quoted for you He's saying your girlfriend's failure is evidence that there are wrong answers in psychology.

I changed the javascript around a bit so that vbcode that you insert into a reply [using the buttons] will appear wherever your cursor is in the replybox, instead of at the end of the text. Mucho less annoying. Only works with IE.

Also, another note from their page: It has been mistakenly reported that we have observed a light pulse’s group velocity exceeding c by a factor of 300. This is erroneous. In the experiment, the light pulse emerges on the far side of the atomic cell sooner than if it had traveled through the same thickness in vacuum by a time difference that is 310 folds of the vacuum transit time. In our experiment, a smooth light pulse of about 3-microsecond duration propagates through a specially prepared cesium atomic chamber of 6-cm length. It takes 0.2 nanosecond for a light pulse to traverse a 6-cm length in vacuum. In our experiment, we measured that the light pulse traversing through the specially-prepared atomic cell emerges 62 nanosecond sooner than if it propagate through the same thickness in vacuum. In other words, the net effect can be viewed as that the time it takes a light pulse to traverse through the specially prepared atomic medium is a negative one. This negative delay, or a pulse advance, is 310 times the "vacuum transit time" (time it takes light to traverse the 6-cm length in vacuum).

The people who carried out the experiment have a webpage webpage located here One bit of information from their page that should be noted: "Our experiment is not at odds with Einstein’s special relativity. The experiment can be well explained using existing physics theories that are consistent with Relativity. In fact, the experiment was designed based on calculations using existing physics theories. However, our experiment does show that the generally held misconception "nothing can move faster than the speed of light" is wrong. The statement only applies to objects with a rest mass. Light can be viewed as waves and has no mass. Therefore, it is not limited by its speed inside a vacuum. Information coded using a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c using this effect. Hence, it is still true to say that "Information carried by a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c." The detailed reasons are very complex and are still under debate. " Here is the abstract of the experiment... Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation L. J. WANG, A. KUZMICH & A. DOGARIU NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to L.J.W. (e-mail: Lwan@research.nj.nec.com). Einstein's theory of special relativity and the principle of causality imply that the speed of any moving object cannot exceed that of light in a vacuum ©. Nevertheless, there exist various proposals for observing faster-than- c propagation of light pulses, using anomalous dispersion near an absorption line, nonlinear and linear gain lines, or tunnelling barriers. However, in all previous experimental demonstrations, the light pulses experienced either very large absorption or severe reshaping, resulting in controversies over the interpretation. Here we use gain-assisted linear anomalous dispersion to demonstrate superluminal light propagation in atomic caesium gas. The group velocity of a laser pulse in this region exceeds c and can even become negative, while the shape of the pulse is preserved. We measure a group-velocity index of ng = -310(5); in practice, this means that a light pulse propagating through the atomic vapour cell appears at the exit side so much earlier than if it had propagated the same distance in a vacuum that the peak of the pulse appears to leave the cell before entering it. The observed superluminal light pulse propagation is not at odds with causality, being a direct consequence of classical interference between its different frequency components in an anomalous dispersion region. Also, it was published in nature about 2 years ago.

I don't know if its of any real value other than organization to have all the Q&A in one forum. Basically a good majority of the posts are questions...lets see what others say.

Yea, supposedly thats what the discovery health documentary will cover on sat.

I always thought europe was a little more civilized, guess I was deceived!

bwahahahahah! everyone post your pictures