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I put the real words there - if you look, you might be able to find them, but all I could find were sites I'd have to download. A singing group from the sixties or seventies called "The Doors" did Bettina's Ghost Song. Officer Blike-e was taken the Leonard Bernstein's musical "West Side Story" - have you ever seen the movie of that? It's an updated version of Romeo and Juliette featuring a gang of white guys against a gang of Peurto Ricans. You might actually be able to play off that one entirely - with the scientists versus the creationists, if everybody could accept a little chiding in the name of fun. http://www.westsidestory.com/ Click here for a bunch of info including all the lyrics. Sayonara's song was from an opera about the Valkyies - the ferocious women warriers. If you ever watched Bugs Bunny cartoons - there was one that did a take off on it, where Fud was wearing a hat with two horns and blonde braids and singing "Kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit." I gotta go take my cat to the vet - he is 18-1/2 years old and has suddenly gotten very sick. It's not looking good for him.

Check the website for Jefferson Lab - it used to be called "CEBAF" for the "continuous electron beam accelerator facility". Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but many students work there and perform experiments. http://education.jlab.org/

You wanted "the flaming sword" - how about Brunhilde, the Valkyrie The Original 'Go fire up your computer, warrior maid!' 2:58 Wotan 2 'You'll be banned, you'll be banned!' (Sayonra's Battle Cry) 2:33 3 'The usual storm, the usual flaming!' 2:02 Yt and Coquina 4 'Pretend that you don't understand!' 1:37 Toni 5 'Now it's come to pass!, The "Blue Screen of Death' 1:00 6 'So this is the end of their computers and programs' 3:36 The ghost of Bettina 7 'You never learn what I would teach you' 6:00 Ophiolite 8 'What must we do?' 2:21 All 9 'Reformat and try again' 3:45 Sayonara and Blike

He's got to be "Officer Krupke" here are the real lyrics from West Side Story: SFN Version ACTION Dear kindly Sergeant Blike-e, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are hackers, Our fathers all are nerds. Golly Moses, no wonder we're absurd! ACTION AND JETS Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset; We never had the RAM that ev'ry child oughta get. We're glued to our keyboards, With sodas and chips. Our world's made up of bytes and bits! Dear kindly Sayonara, You mustn't treat us rough. Between exams and A-levels Our life is really tough Meosis or mitosis The nth degree of x, Leapin' lizards! That's why we're a mess! Gee, Officer Blike-e, We're down on our knees, 'Cause no one wants 'puter with a viral disease. Why are we "forbidden" When we click on the thread? I give it up, I'm going to bed!

People learn in three ways, visual, auditory and tactile/kinesthetic - the visual learner would benefit most from the images. http://www.readingmaster.com/WebPages/Learning_Styles.htm

I have been out on the Chesapeake on a hot humid day and seen the brown smog hanging over the cities of Hampton and Norfolk, and extending high into the atmosphere. When you are in it, you don't notice the difference, but when you are out in the clear and looking into it, it is easy to see that the amount of light reaching the ground is impeded by it. As the air currents disperse the smog globally, it's less noticable, but surely a good part of very small particulate matter remains suspended in the air.

I guess this plays into it somehow. My dad told me about this when I was young - I haven't heard it discussed recently. When he would machine stainless, and then handle the finished part - it would corrode where he touched it. He was told that he had too much acid in his body - people who had this problem would take a very small amount of milk of magnesia daily - not enough to cause any severe gastrointestinal eruptions. Any chemists want to speculate on why that works?

So now you're a ghost that haunts the science forum. Maybe a potergiest who causes "forbidden" to pop up at the most unlikely times. The real lyrics by "The Doors" The Ghost Song Lyrics Awake. Shake dreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day The day's divinity First thing you see. A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon Couples naked race down by it's quiet side And we laugh like soft, mad children Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy The music and voices are all around us. Choose they croon the ancient ones The time has come again Choose now, they croon Beneath the moon Beside an ancient lake Enter again the sweet forest Enter the hot dream Come with us Everything is broken up and dances. The SFNM one's: Awake. Shake dreams from your hair My poltergeist, my mischievous one. As others boot up their computers The "blue screen of death" First thing they see. Never again to click on the bright blue "e" & Log on to SFN And laugh like soft, mad children Dreaming up the SFN musical Because they killed you too soon and you have come back to haunt - Your "forbidden" errors are all around us. Never again to bicker over the ancient ones The time - how many zeroes went after the 4 when debating the age of the universe What lies on the surface of the Titan moon Is that an ancient lake? Never again to discuss caboniferous forest Are those human bones, mixed in with tyranosaurus? They killed her off Now all their links are broken and Bettina dances.

I'm guessing that it goes back to early embryonic development, the blastula forms a sphere, then the gastrula is formed by one side of the sphere "caving in", look here: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/test_site/moore/images/p20007713g237002vpp.png&imgrefurl=http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/test_site/moore/chap10.html&h=263&w=381&sz=29&tbnid=SkSWPO9iehMJ:&tbnh=82&tbnw=118&start=25&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dneurula%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN I'm betting that gastrulation is the key. Does anyone know whether the crossover occurs in all vertebrates?

It is true, and easily proven. When people have a stroke on the left side of their head, detectable by MRI or CT scan, it is the right side of their body that is affected.

Thank you kind sir (Blush)

Most everything I use are alloys - beryllium copper boron nitride uhmw (ultra high molecular weight polyethylene) teflon nylon 6061 Aluminum brass Do you know that most metals used to be "leaded" - there was a percentage of lead added to the alloy to make it easier to machine. When I first started working in the shop, in elementary school, we used to use a very nasty black oil as a coolant. You painted it on the metal with a paint brush as the tool cut the metal, it smoked. You breathed in fumes of oil and leaded material. I wonder how many machinists got lead poisoning?

But I probably ought to be the Grandma, since I think I'm the oldest. Ya got anything in your production that would suit an "Aunty Mame" kinda gal? You coax the blues right out of the horn, Mame, You charm the husk right off of the corn, Mame, You've got that banjoes strummin' And plunkin' out a tune to beat the band, The whole plantation's hummin' Since you brought Dixie back to Dixie land. You make the cotton easy to pick, Mame, You give my old mint julep a kick, Mame, Who ever thought a Yankee would put A little Dixie mouse to shame. You've made us feel alive again, You've given us the drive again, To make the South revive again, Mame.

until I was about 6, then my hair started to darken. By the time I was in high school, it was "paper bag brown" . It was also really oily and always looked dirty. I started "frosting it" to improve the color and also to dry it out some. I was ever so glad when foiling was invented. It was torture to have long hair pulled through a cap with crochet hooks. Cut to the chase - I was born blonde with hazel eyes.

Ecoli - I am sorry for him. Before I was dx'd with thyroid problems, I had just given up on trying to lose weight, nothing worked. The fatter I got, the more sedentary I became, and it was a downward spiral. I am only about 5'4, and I weighed 270#. He is at an age now, where very little can be done, unless perhaps his health was good enough for him to have the option of gastic bypass surgery. Undoubtedly, aside from his heart and lung problems, his joints are about slam worn out.

You might want to contact someone here and ask your question: http://education.jlab.org/ There is an email address at the bottom of the page. I do machine shop work for these people - it is a continuous beam electron facility. They use extremely powerful magnets there. One of there scientists brought me one of their magnets in which he wanted a hole drilled. Magnets are manufactured by "sintering" the iron powder is pressed into shape. When we tried to drill the hole, the magnet's strength would not allow the chips to come out, so it didn't work. Anyway - here is another site where you can buy small very powerful magnets. http://www.amazingmagnets.com/products.asp?ID=1000-10&GAWNRE Maybe you could use two radio operated model cars and install a magnet on each one and test your theory. The magnetic field might well mess up the radio waves that control the cars, I would also think that super magnets might damage a full size car's engine or its electrical source. However - I do know that a similar technology is used in "Maglev" trains. Read about them here. http://travel.howstuffworks.com/maglev-train.htm

Seems I always tell my life's stories here, but if someone can shed some light, I'd really appreciate it. My problem with obesity started before I was a year old. My mother used to state with pride, that I doubled my weight within 6 weeks after I was born. I went to doctor after doctor. I asked them to check my thyroid - they checked T4 and it was always borderline "low-normal". For years I was told that my weight problem arose from me not being able to push myself away from the table. In early 2002 my husband was dx'd with diabetes, and was referred to an endocrinologist. Since we were both overweight, I decided to move to his endocrinologist, in the hope that their dietary nutritionist could suggest a diet that would work for both of us. I had a full physical and lab work done. My new doctor called and said my thyroid seemed to be out of whack. He had the test run twice more to be sure. My TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) should have been in a range of .5 to 5, and it was 35. I was put on synthroid and as a result (drum roll please) I lost 110#. I am a size "medium" for the first time in my life. When I think about the years that my doctor scoffed and told me that my only problem was that "I needed to push myself away from the table", I would like to throttle him. Of course, in conjunction with the synthroid, I modified my diet and commenced exercising. I had tried that before, and it never worked. My endocrinologist told me that as a result of the thyroid problems, I was carrying at least 40 pounds of extra water. I tried to exercise, I literally sloshed when I walked. When I got up in the morning and put my feet on the floor, I had serious pain from the soles of my feet to my neck. I weighed 270#, and walking from the car to the store made me get out of breath. I did eat too much - but I had gone on diets with no success. Nothing worked so I gave up. (Besides, my husband's theme song was "I don't believe in cholesterol", and he wanted steak, bread and potatoes with real butter every night.) Anyway, for the first 3 months after being started on synthroid, I daren't be more than 10 feet from a bathroom. I pee'd away 40 pounds or more. I would get on the scale and see that I had lost 2 pounds in a day. In the middle of all this, my husband died, so yeah, part of it was "the grief diet" and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I changed my eating choices - I always preferred fish to meat, and veggies to potatoes. At any rate, I now eat right, and I walk 3 or 4 miles a day, and the weight stays off. I know I am terrible about telling my life stories here, but I wonder if anyone else has had (or has) a serious weight problem and has been denigrated by your family GP. Everytime I think of the way they treated me over the course of the 30 years they saw me, without ever finding out what was wrong, I'd like to throttle the SOB's.

Congrats to all who participated and made this one a success. I cannot imagine waiting 17 years to see whether a project would succeed or fail. This is just so cool. It brings back memories of when I made parts in my dad's shop that landed on the moon. (OK, ok, I didn't make them, but I filed the burrs off the damned things.)

It's coming on live on the Science Channel at 9pm EST - is anyone else gonna be watching?

Suppose you shocked the rat if it waited too long and fed it if it didn't? Not particularly pleasant for the rat, I admit. How many times does a rat have to have a negative reinforcement forfore it learns anything from it?

1. Age? 55 2. Gender? Female 3. State? Virginia 4. Natural hair color? Not sure - it was muddy brown the last time I saw it, it probably has a fair amount of grey now. 5. Natural eye color? Hazel 6. Do you dye your hair(what color)? Or what do you want your hair color to be?(you don't have to pick a different color) I have it highlighted with foils so it appears to be light brown/blonde. (Look at the avatar - that's me) 7. Do you have colored contacts? Or what color would you prefer your eyes to be?(you don't have to pick a different color) I don't wear contacts at all, I would like them to be greener. 8. Heritage? ex. Swedish, German, etc. English - both sides. My mother came here from England, my 8th grandfather back on my father's side was a Mayflower passenger.

I have always recycled metal. We generate literally tons of metal turnings and drops. I make money off brass, copper and aluminum. I break even on steel - you only get pennies per hundredweight for it, but if I put it in the dumpster I would have to pay to have it hauled away. The problem I have is recycling plastic. I fill dumpsters with turnings of the same kind of plastic that households can recycle, but I can't get anyone to take it. The closest place to recycle it is somewhere in the northeast where they make plastic lumber - the problem is that I have to ship it up there by rail or truck and the freight would cost double or triple the money I would get paid for it. I don't mind breaking even, but I'm not going to lose money on it.

the scenery never changes.