Phi for All

Placing homework questions in the Homework Help section will probably get a quicker response.

Is this for school homework?

Unless you object strenuously, let's try moving this thread to Engineering and see if we can stir the pot, as it were. I can always move you back if our engineers find this question too... challenging.

A leak from a septic tank would stink wouldn't it?

Does your neighbor have a sprinkler system? He may have a leak somewhere. I was referring to having the hole dry. Sure concrete will set up in water but you don't want a post in a hole that keeps filling up with it. I'd want it dry before I committed to building anything with that as a foundation.

Click on your "buddy's" username on any post. The bottom choice is "Add X to your Buddy List". I do believe it lets you know somehow that your buddy has been profound again. I'm going to try it myself, using insane_alien and Snail as my Buddies. Don't get any grand ideas though; it doesn't mean I'll help you move or give you a ride to the airport or anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales I didn't know this. /me adds it to a very, very long list of things

Anyone else like to see it revived? This is your forum so speak up.

I call it suspicious, but then I'm not a big fan of people who join in order to start a thread that aims our membership elsewhere. It's happening a lot lately. plymwebed, prove me wrong and respond to this with some of your own thoughts rather than the "Read the full story here!" marketing you're probably being paid to do.

Is everybody looking for some funny? Welcome to the club! It's become a little tradition here at SFN to roast new Moderators with some good old-fashioned slander. Tonight's vict-, I mean guest, is Dak, that wunderfolly brillyunt Brit with a really twisted point of view. Dak isn’t really a bad speller, it’s just tough to type with a pencil in your teeth. He can’t use his hands because someone’s tied the arms of his jacket behind his back. He mostly sits around watching British children’s shows and thinking up ways to make interesting sounds with beer and a straw. When the foam starts coming out of his nose he boots up his computer, a Commodore PET 2001 Plus with an 800x600 monitor he rigged up from an old aquarium, parks his lo-rez arse on a padded cinder block and starts heckling the rest of us here at SFN. Dak truly puts the “e” in eccentricity, usually more times than is proper. For that and his promise to sign over his trust fund to blike, we have honored him with this promotion to the SFN Staff. Dak is truly an inspiration to everyone who thinks, “If *he* can make it, it’s way beneath me!”

Tough to do when people are going to lie about usage when it's illegal. Legalize it and there *will* be an increase in usage - at least when asked now that it's legal.

*ahem* *is this on?* Ladies and gentlemen of SFN, I recently clicked on the IRC Chatroom link and joined the wonderful people there in a stimulating conversation. The people in Chat are NOT evil, they are NOT demons and they are NOT spawns of Satan as we've been lead to believe. They are hard-working, industrious types who only have your best interests at heart. Sure, they can be funny at times, but mostly they are serious-minded individuals who just want to be your friend. They don't work for a foreign power and are absolutely NOT aliens trying to (sob) take over the world. Please click on the SFN Chatroom button at the top of your screen and be prepared to make a friend. Thank you. Well done, you cringing meat-puppet. Your family lives another day! Why is that red light still on?! I said WH-

No smell rules out septic rupture. No oil rules out Beverly Hillbillies scenario : ( Bail it out with a tin can and see if it rises without rain. You're right, until that hole is dry don't waste cement.

Are they continuing to fill or did it stop? You mention sludge, is it stinky, oily, watery, what?

I've always believed a positive outlook is preferable to a negative one. If prayer helps you stay positive, that's great. I think some people who pray are looking for very specific outcomes and are often disappointed. If the placebo works, use it. Let's be careful here, we're not debating supernatural reasoning but rather the efficacy of prayer in medicine. Let's not cross the line into religion and specific religious beliefs.

Finally some decent Moderators! It's about time! Those other $%@#*s really suck !#@& through a straw! Way to go... ... um, what were your names again?!

I still don't like using the broad term "drugs" when talking about legalization. As has been pointed out, some types of judgment loss are more tolerable than others. I don't hear too many good stories about PCP.

I think pot should be legal. Some might want something stronger but they'd probably space out how to contact their heroin dealer.

Good for you! I'm more than happy to be wrong in this case.

You LIE!!! I saw that photo of you and Fidel with those monster stogies!

You smoke cigarettes, don't you? It could be residual smoke from your lungs. When you fill your mouth with air you're using your lungs to compress the air in your mouth.

Welcome, you wonderful woman! We've been waiting to hear from the saner side of your household!

I'm from Colorado and in the old west "slapping thigh" meant you're going for your gun. Maybe it scares the sneeze out of you, Probably works for hiccups too. Seriously, I've never heard of this and I can't imagine the bodily mechanism. Would any sharp pain do the same thing or does it have to be your thigh? Perhaps this is a form of acupressure?

I think a Mars colony would need a very limited set of criteria to perform to be considered successful; they simply aren't going to be able to do a whole bunch of complicated tasks and also work towards self-sufficiency. But I agree that it could happen. I also agree that it wouldn't be in Mars' best interests to claim total independence from Earth. I'm a globalist so I share that belief. It just shouldn't be a chimp named Blair. Ever. I really hope we're thinking that way when the time comes. If it happened today the need for short-term ROI might outweigh propriety. I think Sayo tried to bring that up with disaster relief. It would almost certainly cause tension. Look at how nationalistic many people get when they hear about their own country sending aid offshore when there are so many problems in-country. No worries. It would be nice to live that long and see what problems they do have, and how many of our concerns they've dealt with.

A serum derived from a Martian source which cures the latest superflu on Earth? Some form of bacterial life which thrives in Mars' 95% CO2 atmosphere and can be used to destroy cancer cells? Why is it easy to imagine a totally self-sustained Mars colony and not a valuable commodity for it to export?