herpguy

I'm still all for Geneck's idea of a language board.

Huh? I'm confused. I like the idea in the OP, also.

Bascule, save some debating for me! I might use the following in my next reply in the debate that SkepticLance and I are in. SkepticLance, you continue to ask this question, but you have shown no evidence against it. Bascule continues to supply evidence, and he shows you why it's worth something. Maybe you just don't understand it (see signiture). SkepticLance. Have you any such evidence against the theory that AGGs are the dominent driver of global warming?

I really don't see a reason not to try it out. But as Cap'n Refsmmat said, we should try to show some interest in it by posting new topics.

Well, what we are trying to say is that more than just humans will go to the extreme of killing themselves from depression. Yeah, basically. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's all about survival of the fittest. An animal's goal is to live long enough to reproduce. So if a mutation happens, and it is good enough to allow the animal to reproduce, the species will most likely keep it. If it is bad, the organism will most likely die before it can reproduce. Thus, it will not continue. So yeah, as I said, basically all evolution does is shape us around our lifestyle and adapting to the environment.

And I just thought of something. I used to have a collared lizard that had a mate. Now collared lizards are usually solitary animals, but this one, Joan, was different. She would always be next to the other one, Walter, in its cage. They would do everything togerther, even share food. Then, one day, Walter died for unkown reasons. Joan went into what I think is severe depression. She stopped eating. About a month after she stopped, she finally buried her head into the ground and sufficated. Could this be animal suicide from depression?

http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=0#r

I read somewhere that some dolphins could beach themselves as suicide because they feel depressed. If I find a link I'll post it.

I don't know, it just sounds fun. Edit: Wow, that's going in my list of stupid things I've said on SFN.

I'm for a language board now. I say we should have it.

The fuel saver plans one might work. On Mythbusters, it showed that the jetpack goes about an inch off the ground.

So if a meteorite of that size somehow slid through the atmosophere without burning up would the fireball last longer?

Why did the fireball dissapear in just 4/10 of a second? Shouldn't it last a few seconds, even if it was only 10 inches wide?

What would go in it?

Oh, well never mind.

Kermit the frog. He's awesome.

The only one of those I've heard of is the Teletubbies.

An hour after the first few times I listened to it, I listened to it again. I now have a headache. So much for harmless.

That isn't annoying at all. After I listened to it a few times it actually started to become a catchy tune. I am completely against this, though. In a different palce I've read about it in, the article said that many storekeepers use the device.One of these days my mom is going to make me go to the store with her. As I'm walking, I will hear that noise, so I will tell my mom. She won't believe me, and we'll get in a huge, pointless argument. Also, it doesn't make any sense to me. If a store isn't allowing teens near there, then wouldn't a large portion of the store's business be lost? Edit: I have a headache now. I'll do some testing when my headache goes away to see if the noise is causing it, then I'll report back here.

I really want to see this movie, but it just stopped playing in the only theatre near me. I agree that we are the most adaptable of mammals simply because we are great problem solvers. I also disagree that global warming will drive the human race to extinction as a whole. However, humans will definetly be driven out of many of the Pacific Ocean islands, parts of Africa, and other very vulnerable places.

Maybe websites like this should be made to feature kids more. But that might ruin how professionalism (if that's a word). I think I'm going to make my own forum about science just for kids. It might help a little. Edit: In fact http://youthscientists.smfforfree.com/index.php?board=1.0 Heh, this won't work out. Edit again: Darn it, I was reading something that said United States of America so I called the forum Youth Scientists of America and I can't change it.

See also (provided by Martin): http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9268&feedId=space_rss20 http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/erthboompix.htm http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/erthboom.htm

What caused the largest extinction ever on Earth, and what created the continent of Australia? Scientists say Australia may be the result of a large meteor that crashed into Antarctica. Gravity measures show that the crater, which is 483 kilometers wide and hidden 1.6 kilometers below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, dates back to about 250 million years ago. That's also around the time of one of Earth's several mass extinctions. "Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia -- also suggest that it could have begun the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent by creating the tectonic rift that pushed Australia northward," the scientists say. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060602/sc_afp/ussciencemeteor;_ylt=AgJ_ZVBMSx_plllx3o5uMj0PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

But when kids get to middle and high school, they are dependant more on eachother. So they decide science isn't cool. For example, a zoologist brought animals from South America to school so we could see them. Pretty much the same thing happened in elementary school. The difference is that only about 5% of the kids actually enjoyed it. After that, peer pressure would go into affect and now far less than five percent thought it was cool.

I think the problem is also peer pressure. Most kids only do what other people think is cool. Apparently, someone who's "everyone" doesn't like science. Maybe we should look at other small things instead of the direct problem.