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Enriched with Vitamin C.

Biodegradable quantum solar organic femto-crystal dots. edit: I need to create a new version of Crackpot Bingo called "pseudoscientific product bingo" with all these terms in it.

Try The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Not a textbook by any means, but it introduces you to concepts of quantum mechanics and relativity. Fascinating stuff.

If I understand you correctly, are you suggesting you want to go to graduate school after just getting an AS? Most graduate schools would much rather you have a bachelor's degree before applying. But as to your main question: I think what you'll find is that those degree programs have specific course requirements that are very similar for the first semester or two. That's the way most degrees are: you take the basics of chemistry, biology, etc. your first semester or two, then branch into major-specific things. Thus what you may be able to do is look up the course requirements for your possible degrees, verify this is true, and go the first semester taking classes to see what interests you the most. You see which classes you enjoy more and model what you'll do next based on that.

Organic femto-crystals.

But it's different for a wire vs. a point charge. You can't just assume a wire acts like a point charge.

What if the floor is made of mesh so the air can go through?

According to the born-again Christian evangelist I talked to a few weeks ago, most people do not in fact worship God but a false idol they create that is okay with their sins. So their "God" is created by them, hence its views are created by their mind. For the people who worship the "real" God, He's inside them.

On the other hand, one could take this to confirm the idea that "God is inside of us all."

With lots of crystals in it.

Black holes would bend light around them, but the light on a direct path through the hole would never make it through, so there would be a noticeable dark spot. There are simulated images of what you'd see looking at a black hole somewhere on the Internet...

Don't worry, it's not your fault, it's the spammers'. We've been getting more and more clever spam, so we're on high alert. People will post spam links in the same color as the background of posts, so they're invisible; people would register, post a "hi I'm new here" post, then two days later add spam links into their signature; people would make a post with links with the colors changed to look like ordinary text; and so on. It's really quite frustrating. None of them, however, have apologized for it

Newegg isn't a spam site (I've bought from it before), but of course you're right to be suspicious -- spam is getting to be more and more sneaky these days. The laptop you linked to seems to meet your needs just find, I think.

There is now, but I do not know how to make it public so SFNers can find it.

I have yet to have anyone to talk to on Wave, so it's not like I get to see how amazing it is when nothing happens. Everyone add me and start conversations: alexpoptastico@googlewave.com Whee.

I had a housecat that had cancer.

Indeed. The policy in that forum rules out any total pseudoscience surviving for very long.

Speaking of moderators... That's enough. I do see Severian's point, although we have instituted a moderation policy that tries to prevent personal biases coming in when possible. But of course we're not perfect. Well, except for mooeypoo.

It's a prefix to indicate the number is in hexadecimal rather than in some other base. The C programming language uses it to tell the compiler "this is hex, not some meaningless letters and numbers."

Bribery. Why do you ask?

A lot of these modern witches are in fact lighter -- they make them out of styrofoam these days.

Black magic.

Another reason we should look forward to the future.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/ibm-makes-supercomputer-significantly-smarter-than-cat.ars It appears IBM has constructed and programmed a supercomputer to simulate the neurons in the cerebral cortex the size of a cat's. It's not fully real-time yet, but it simulates 1.6 billion neurons, and has the ability to save its state at any time so you can rewind and see just what's happening inside. Freaking awesome. The article points out that with a supercomputer just two or three orders of magnitude bigger you could simulate a human's cerebral cortex -- and imagine what we could learn from that.

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