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Thanks guys, ill check some of those out.

Oh.. and fav sci fi novel aswell.

Just curious to everyone's. Mines by far Stephen Baxter, although A.C Clarke is of course up there.

Coquina, i have to say it is refreshing to read your post, you are obviously a intelligent women who can see things from all different perspectives and i repect that, credit where credit is due. Ophiolite, after reading your response to my post, i must admit you make a fair point, and of course i was speaking 'tongue and cheek'. The way i see it, the person who should get a job is the person who is the better qualified regardless of sex or race etc.., which of course stands to reason. However because in the past women were discriminated against, a lot of companies (in uk) are forced to employ a certain percentage of women and minorites even if they are not the most qualified. I realise its a touchy subject but i just say what i think.

I must admit i did expect a backlash to my comments. The post by coquina was clearly well thought through and completley fair and impartial, and i fully apprietiate the womens important role in WW2. However in response to Ophilite's comment i am a little suprised. These days there is so much pressure to hire a certain percentage of females,ethnics,disabled (mabey not so outside the uk) that women would be the first appointed IF they chose such careers (which they dont because at the collage recruitment centres the vast vast majority of applicants are male). The reason i am suprised is because you are also from the uk, so i can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about and/or you feel the need to send sarcastic responses to try and get a rise out of people.

First of all, this as turned into a ridiculous thread and yet i feel compelled to add a reponse. It is ludicris to even think of the world wide eradication of all males (speaking theoretically or not) because it just will never happen. At the risk of sounding hypocritical, If anything it would be the other way around, even if you feminist females don't like it, females have approx only 60% a males physical strength and at the most equal intelligence (i say at the most because in history all the 'geniuses' have been male-einstein,hawking,newton, even shakesphere). However, i think both sexes play an important role in society and a world without either would be a dull place i am sure. As a final point it would be amusing to see how females would cope with the manual work (construction etc..), i have worked in construction for years, my father even longer and have never once seen a female on site, and only an handfull behind the scenes.

I know that, however you have done over 200 posts so i wanted you to do the hard work for me! lol Guess i'll just have to do some reasearch of my own.

If you can refer me to your points of reference and/or your previous posts on this subject, i would be interested. Thanks

oh yeah YT2095, you crack me up, lol on two accounts.

Im suprised nobody has pointed out that you can have an interest in science and not be a geek! Im 21, work in construction, get drunk quite often, cheat on my girlfriend and do some boxing. Sound like a geek?

Nobody?

I can do 10 001, so i guess that makes me the champion. The really challenging press up's are those damn no handed one's

Sorcerer, i had a little chuckle to your post and then another one at Vicious101 serious reply to it. Sayonara, i totally agree civalisation as we know it would be eradicated. Surviving the impact would be one thing but then how would we pick our mutated backsides back up?

Dannydrunk, i know a lot as been posted since your inital post, but i must say, your ideas are very similar my own thoughts. I know its a very basic notion and said all the time but time really is a man made concept. Even though the idea of time travel is very exiting, i must admit my overwelming pessimism on the subject. Before it is mentioned i know time travel forward is theoritically possible (travel at light speed, return to earth blah blah), however i don't see how it is even possible to travel back in time. Anyone with theories on this, please post.

Can anybody expalin what the greater implications of frame shifting/dragging are? I understand that any rotating body effects space time, with the larger bodies creating the greater disturbance, but what i really would like to know is, what (if any) are the reasons to be exited about this?

Is it fair to say that the universe is not expanding, that only the properties that reside there are? Or is the known universe described as the furthest point in which energy exist?

Firstly, let me start by saying if a comet was to strike the Earth i would fancy mankinds chances of surviving. I of course accept there could (depending on the size of the comet) be devastating effects on a global scale. With our current technology, there would be ways in which we could survive the impact and the resulting nuclear winter (type of thing) which would follow. Dont worry about the sun destroying the earth in such small time scales, the sun will only start to engulf Earth's atmosphere in roughly three billion years. I would think a near by supernova, warfare or bioweapons would be a more worrying thought to mankinds survival. Hope that is along the same lines you were on.

Obviously they are referring to the center of the particular body of which gravity is effecting (gravity effects every body, some of these bodies gravatational pulls are almost unditectable).

Just a quick point. Why should anyone "cite" when they find information, it is so easy to find such basic info like that posted about the outer most planets. Within ten minutes of searching on a search engine you could find all the ifo posted and much more!