atinymonkey

No IT'S A DRAGON! Grrrrrr, chomp chomp.

IT'S A PIGGY!

One of the main points of having that challenge is to enable you to demonstrate your ability to create your own original experiments, and garner interesting or enlightening results from it. It’s not a test of how well you can perform someone else’s experiment. I’d suggest looking at Faradays demonstrations, and finding a modern application or experiment that follows the same logic. Something that looks fun to work on. Don’t mimic, but create something new.

Crap. Turns out that the CIA like to use the term 'contractors' insted of 'employees' in an effort to sound like a cool spy branch. I should have expected that from the world’s least secret service.

Idiot.

Hello. It's still not what the point of the equasion is.

Given, but the equation starts on the principle life will evolve, and intelligent life from that. You can't use Drakes equation to indicate intelligent life will evolve, you can only use it to indicate the persistence and spread in the cosmos if you take the evolution of alien life as a absolute. I'm not saying that life can or cannot evolve, just that Drakes equation is not supposed to be used to show the chances aliens exist. It's to analyze the percentage chance to contact them, should they exist. Super.

There are too many variables in Drakes equasion to substitute analysis, it's designed to predict the expected results of listening projects rather than a direct theory that life exists. Basically, it works from the standpoint that life will evolve elsewere and works on the percentage chance from there of contact with said lifeforms.

Hi Gary! Nice to hear from you again. I might ask a dim question, but where the link with coal based fire is made with the amount of bone carbonisation; what bypasses both peat and charcoal as fuel sources? Is it based on the link with basic open cast mining in the low valleys, or is there a more direct connection between the two?

But he's a damn dirty liar if she isn't.

I don't not believe his story. I like his story. It's a good story.

Is that a comedy reply, coming from someone who's been infected?

What happened to http://www.bioit-magazine.com/ ? Did you kill it?

You and your 'rules'.

That would be one of those bugs microsoft hopes you'll report in the trial.

I hosted Benstock for my 21st. A house 3 miles from the nearest train station, no buses and car parking for up to 4 cars. 70 people, two barrels of ice with the beer stashed, £600 pound of food nobody could be arsed to cook and a kitchen rammed with every bottle of wine and spirits it's possible to buy. It took 8 of us 6 hours to clean up. It was a sunny day and warm night, most of the time was spent on the lawn rolling around. Random appearance of guitars, and so on, was kind of the mood. I’m not really sure if bad things happened or not really, it’s a bit blurry. I do remember being accused by a friend’s brother of having an affair with a girl I’ve never met during the 10 minutes it took to get to the kitchen and back. A very long discussion that, surprisingly. Oh, and using a Bradford city football player to prove my theory that professional football players were overrated. I think I hurt him by running into him over and over cartwheeling my arms and giggling.

No, some of them are just contractors. Careful with the interpretation of the media, the people out to 'expose' the real story often swing too far the opposite way. I know 3 people who are contractors out in Iraq, and they are far from being mercenaries. I work with a guy who used to be a ships engineer in Basra when the last conflict kicked up. Mercenaries, despite there reputation, are usually quite businesslike and tend to train rather than be paid to solder. Only dictatorships like Mugabe’s tend to need to pay for solders. Mind you, I haven’t seen the story crop up. I can’t verify much coming out of Iraq so I tend to let it stay as background noise.

I know, it's not accurate, it's just what springs into my head. Clinical psychology never even seems to be a dot on the radar, it's just *whooph* and I've got that image. Obviously, your right and I really should correct my perceptions. Sorry for the offence. I guessed someone would reply to my gibberings.

Well, I've gone and joined a Wing Chun Kung Fu class. It's, um, different. I'm having to relearn how to punch, block, stand, move and generally unlearn all the Japanese stuff. It doesn’t help that the guy teaching is a foot shorter, when he asks me to punch I'm worried I'll hit him in the face. He wouldn't like that. Plus, I keep lapsing into Aikido by mistake. It's a bit of a surprise to both of us if I grab a student’s hand in a lock instead of slapping it away. Dammit, if the opportunity crops up you’re supposed to take it. I’m not sure I can relearn how to fight. Incidentally, Kung Fu is not so much self-defence as bludgeon your opponent to the ground, as it turns out. That’s not what I’d expect from monks. It’s a bit violent, and unrelenting. Odd.

Geology rocks, petrology thinks it does.

Oh, I respect some psychology grads. A lot of them are interesting people with a unique outlook, I've met a couple who do very well working for global banking thanks to the skillsets they picked up. I just can't shake the idea of the beard and degree from http://www.worldwidelearn.com or suchlike. I've met more than a few that base the work on being able to say 'hmmm' in a convincing mannor. Self important know nothings who scraped a pass at the university of ditchwater. It's something you would probably notice more if you had a national health service gov funded like the UK. I just wouldn't trust them to provide help to anyone who seriously needed it. Anyhow, I just fancy the blend of academia and field work Paleontology provides. You get to mess around in mudpits and still be scholar like.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but whenever I hear the word psychology I tend to think 'mail order degree'. Growing a beard and learning to reverse questions is no way to eack out a living. Paleontology, digs in remote areas of Africa or examining fossil remains in the sun on a beach. It might not pay an awful lot, but the quality of life and increase in respect are worth the trade off. Well, they would be for me anyway.

How about I beat you with a dictionary?