Dr.Evil

Do you really think genetic engineering is going to be that common in just a few hundred years?

Dam right! my code is unbreakable.

Lots of good points but a lot of crap aswell. Yes general intelligence is about even but there are a hell of a lot of diferences. I am going to make a slight apology the generalisation but as a whole it is true. Men and women are different it has built in to our DNA over millions of years it probably is 50% nature 50% nuture. Boys play with cars girls play with dolls. The boy will be imagine the movement of the car and how it works the girl will imagine all the socail interactions of the dolls character etc. It's not a bad thing it would be boring if we were all the same. Men are stronger physicaly because we needed to be. Thousands of years ago women were nearly always pregnant so men were the hunter gatherers. So naturally Men are beter with spatial awareness, judging distances maths, science etc. Women are much beter socially and the area of the brain to do with speach is over twice the size of the average mans. Mens brains weigh 150 grams more on average but we probably give ours selves more brain damage. Men are beter with shapes whereas women are beter with colour. Men are usually beter at doing single tasks very very well due to testosteron but women are beter at keeping an eye on many things at once. The gap is reducing though because society has changed and specalized gender specific tasks are becoming less important as more women are working and more men are looking after children. Men are simple: Eat, drink, shag, learn. women are complicated but in a good way. Most women seem to act like they have 2 minds when it comes to men. They say they want a nice caring guy who treats them well. But the emotional side wants a guy who tells them what to do and is a bit rough around the edges and the emotional side always wins hands down. Mabey in a few hundred years we will be mentally exactly the same. Unfortunately for men we have been demasculated over the last 200 years. Unforunately for women there are very few real men around these days.

I've heard this as well I think it involves other training on top to increase your memory and focus not the speed reading itself. Speed reading is something I've wanted to look in to but I'll proced with caution thanks to you guys

I spent a little bit of time yesterday looking at magic squares yesterday (something which I havent done since school) I noticed that sudoku puzzles are basicly magic squares but they reuse each number 9 times. Sudoku puzles are in essence very easy to make. Simple count up and loop back to 1 after 9. and offset each row so that it there is never the same number in each colum. 1 2 3 l 4 5 6 l 7 8 9 4 5 6 l 7 8 9 l 1 2 3 7 8 9 l 1 2 3 l 4 5 6 2 3 4 l 5 6 7 l 8 9 1 5 6 7 l 8 9 1 l 2 3 4 8 9 1 l 2 3 4 l 5 6 7 3 4 5 l 6 7 8 l 9 1 2 6 7 8 l 9 1 2 l 3 4 5 9 1 2 l 3 4 5 l 6 7 8 each number can be switched with any other and the order of the colums and rows can also be swiched in various manners. I think this method will produce every possible puzzle. I then realized that I could turn this in to a true magic square by adding 9 * (square - 1) to the sudoku numbers from a smaller 3 * 3 magic square. To make the smaller magic square I started with 159 in the midle making a total row of 15. then I worked on the end colum. 15 - 9 = 6. the only ways to make 6 are 1 and 5 or 2 and 4. 1 and 5 are already taken so I am left with 2 and 4 which that gives me ----2 1 5 9 ----4 then I takle the diagonals 4 + 5 is 9 so 6 goes top left and 2 + 5 is 7 so 8 goes bottom left. then the rest is simple. 6 7 2 1 5 9 8 3 4 so: 123 456 789 + 9 * (6-1) = 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 so the complete thing becomes: 46 47 48 58 59 60 16 17 18 49 50 51 61 62 63 10 11 12 52 53 54 55 56 57 13 14 15 02 03 04 41 42 43 80 81 73 05 06 07 44 45 37 74 75 76 08 09 01 38 39 40 77 78 79 66 67 68 24 25 26 36 28 29 69 70 71 27 19 20 30 31 32 72 64 65 21 22 23 33 34 35 unfortunately after completion I reallised the diagonals didn't add up because I didn't start with an x-sudoku but I was rather short of time. each row and colum adds up to 369, the formular relating the size of the magic square and the row total is row lengh = a. a^2 (a^2 +1) / 2a a (a+1) /2 being the formual for triange numbers (all numbers added together) then devided by the number of rows. This same method can be used to create a magic square of 27 * 27 total of 9855 per row or 81 * 81 with a total of 265761 which I might upload later in the week. I then tried to move on to magic cubes but the smallest possible is 5 * 5 * 5. because the formuar for the total per row doesn't give a whole number with anything smaller so I've admited defeat for now . the formular for the totals in cubes is a^3 (a^3+1) / 2a^2. If anyone have managed to make a magic cube I'd be interested to see. I've done a tiny bit of research and have found a 5 * 5 * 5magic cube. aparently no one have ever made one biger than 9 * 9 * 9. I can use my formular to create one of 25 * 25 * 25 which will smash the world record.

Not dihydrogen monoxide! We're all gonna die!!! Next we're gonna have upsideown clouds raining into space and rivers flowing backwards. And sodomized electrons flatening us all!.

I'll have a go later but

All good points but is everyone forgeting the simple fact that the sterio will heat up? Yes the sound waves will heat the room up by a fraction of a degree but the stereo itself is producing 100s of times more heat. Plus any dancing will produce also produce heat.

I agree with firesong. You are both right. If you suck on a straw you are removing the downwards force of the air preasure inside the straw drawing the liquid up. creating low preasure is creating a force. I like firesongs theory, it works mathematicly but could have been worded beter.

Common sense shows: Lack of sleep makes us over emotional

Good points guys. I think the main reason for the dissaperance of Neanderthals if due to interbreading. If anything I think we will eventually become one race but without interbreading we would definitely become seperate species. There is a tribe in afria with only 2 toes for example and Aborigines are very differnt from all the other races.