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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_humans_britain.html James Owen for National Geographic News, December 16, 2005 Thanks to Orstio (everything-science) for discovering this article.

What is the outlook for backwards compatability 10-20 years into the future? Right now I have a huge amount of articles, presentations, assignments, and excel spreadsheets stored on my computer. The information is frequently backed up to a portable hard drive. The primary file extensions are...

Is it possible to identify such an isotope? What are my choices if I wanted such a long half-life product. (Ultimately, I need it to activate a timing switch...!) :smile: Thanks, anyone for any pointers. AA

Please Evo will you scrub out the silly ones so i do not feel so ancient. i want to be teen age again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501857_pf.html

I have no doubts that the eye colors of infants can change during the first several months of life. I've got my own proof in my sibling's (and my own) baby pictures. But what about years later, like adolescence or even adulthood? I know people who say their eye colors change depending on...

I've just returned from a University Cosmology lecture that introduced a phenomenon called 'First Light'. It appears to be coming from Hubble observations over the last 5-10 years (so, very recent). I have never heard of such a theory. The theory says that the Big Bang created all the H and...

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A bit of light relief... http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berwick/berwickupontweed/ "When Queen Victoria signed the declaration of war on Russia in 1853, she did so in the name of "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea."...

Will you be in five years from now ?

A retired hockey star wants to set up a scholarship fund to assist an underprivileged child who would like to go to a post-secondary institution. He wants to ensure that the student will have $6000 per year for five years. How much should he give to the institution, now, to ensure that this can...

Is there any war which's happened during the last 150 years that you think it was worth to happen? What are your reasons? On the other hand, which war do you think was a horrible mistake and there was no reason for starting that?

!Things It Takes Most Of Us 50 years to learn! Originally created by Dave Barry Add your own experiences...starting with Number.17 , let's see till what number we can go. I'm unable to find a Dave Barry owned website to link, so in the interrim I've added quote tags. Please do not...

Well today is the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test. It was the bomb that ended arguably, the worst war in human history.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8474930/ NEW YORK - Weeping in court as he learned his fate, former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. It was the toughest sentence imposed on an executive since the...

Someone posted in another forum that "Evolution is the result of hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection." Is that true?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainmexico;_ylt=Aon0rXpox4dKJnDRC2lKF7Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ Somehow I'm not surprised at all. And then the rigidness and arrogance of the defence of the Clovis people and Beringia landbridge crossing 13,000 years ago, a.k.a. the Clovis mafia.

:smile: :-p :-p :biggrin: WOOOOOOO I just opened my post and got my exam results! I passed them all with a grade ave of 83%, probably not the best but I`m very happy with it since i`ve beeen out of education for nearly 10 years and really got stressed over the thought of having to sit...

Can you get a thing like that within the sol's closest space? I mean, if there was one somewhere between us and say alpha centauri or barnard's star, is it possible that you cannot feel it's gravity force?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432555/ Maybe spamming will stop? One can only hope!

Ron and Lynda are purchasing a new home. They will need to borrow $90 000 for the home. The amortization period which best fits their financial situation is 25 years, Discuss why this might be so? I have no idea why? They don't give enough information only what Ron and Lyda are borrowing...

Scientists complete the human genome code project, and figure out how to make artificially germinated fetuses. Congress passes laws intended to "safeguard" the sexual categories, and prevent "excessive manipulation" of genetic stereotypes, but a thriving black market underground develops to...

Two bodies are separated in space through 5 light years.Suppose if one body is destroyed by some explosion .How long will the gravitational force act on other body.Whether it will affect only after 5 years?

I don't know very much about cytology or molecular biology (high-school level, and a few supplementary bits of literature), so maybe this is a stupid question, but: How did any useful DNA manage to survive 65 million years? Apparently, we have some dino-DNA, and I'm just wondering how it...

If anyone is interested in seeing what a serious effort to catalog UFO sightings looks like, try here: http://www.larryhatch.net/ *U* is a serious 20 year UFO research effort to catalog, map, and do statistics on reports worldwide.... Discovered hoaxes and misidentified mundane events are...

What do you think the most important technological advancment will be in the next century or so?

hey, Dr. Hovind, an Evangelical minister is offering $250,000 for anyone who can disprove his claim that the Earth is 6,000 years old. I don't have the offer site but if you google something like "Hovnid offer 6000 years old earth" you should get a lot of results. His offer also goes for...

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance27.html

I've been intrigued by regular polyhedra for years, and have oft tinkered with them. Can someone provide the "textbook definition" of a regular polyhedron?

Come on guys, be serious. Tel me where do you want to see yourself after ten years. In ten years, I want to complete my PhD in engineering, establish an institute to teach master level courses in Physics and engineering plus to establish or atleast be a great contributer to establish power...

In honour of the 41st anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, I'm posting this simple poll: Who do you think killed JFK? Lee Harvey Oswald alone? Lee Harvey Oswald + conspiracy of others? Conspiracy of others not including Oswald? Another single individual? (my apologies...

Two years ago I had a vision in which a vine streched to the sky. It was thin and yet it went straight up much like the beanstalk. It should have not been able to be that high and that thin defying physics and yet it did. I stepped back and so did my in law who was also part of the dream...

Hey I'm really confused about these things above (well except for light years). How would you get a distance in parsecs and in light years if there was an annual parallax of say 0.2 arc seconds. I'm just revising for exams but am really confused now! Thanks.

How do you prove that 1 parsec = 3.26 light years? My physics bok have a really harsh explanation for this. :frown:

If Bush wins, will it be, as Kerry has put it "4 more years of the same", or will Bush and his administration finally admit some mistakes and take some measures opposite to previous actions to correct them? I'm really worried that the Bush administration is so ideological that they simply...

In the other thread we were discussing the http://www.unc.edu/~sstaff/images/hockeystick.jpg as valid proof for global warming due to anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gasses. However the purpose of that thread was more philosophycal, intended to identify the truly important. And it was...

If i had only was born 100 years ago... I wished i was born when physics was easy,perhaps i could have developed realtivity if i had born 100 years ago,i don,t think Einstein was a genius but only was lucky enogh to be born in a time and a country when physics was easy,the same case can be...

My mom works as a Physical Therapist at a children's hospital. The head pharmacist at the hospital was in the Army Reserves, and completed his required duty over 20 years ago, he's now in his early 50's. He just recently was called up for duty and sent an email to everyone at the hospital saying...

It has been at least 5 years since my last math class and I am kinda struggling. The question is: Use the intermediate value theorem to show that there is a root of ln x = e^-x on the interval (1,2). Find the correct root to 3 decimal values What i have so far f(1) = ln 1...

hey guys, I'm new to physics .. and to be frank it seems scary. :-p anyways i was wondering if anyone could help me with this: The diameter of milky way is 1.0 *10^5 lightyears (ly). The distance to Andromeda is about 2.0 million ly. If a scale model represents the milky ways and andromeda...

What do you think the world will look like in ten years, what specific areas of science do you see taking off. I see massive intergration of computers resulting in huge amounts of data needing huge computers that all are connected for optinal effeincey AI should also grow hopefully dna...

Interesting stuff.

Put simply, I would like to know what some of you think the future will bring in five years. What do you think the world will be like in the year 2009? What will the population size be? What will the latest gadgets and electronics do? How much will we rely on oil, alternative sources of...

I was just thinking, nuclear fusion in the core of a star produces a gamma ray burst that takes about one million years to reach the surface of the star where it becomes visible light. Why does it take the gamma ray one million years to reach the surface if it is traveling at light speed? I...

Who knew water could age you millions of years?? There are many of you out there who don't believe that the world is millions of years old. But then how do u explain the fossils that archaeologists have been digging up? Of course there's the theory that days were much longer then. There are...

Homework puzzle from 15 years ago never solved - Please Help! :confused: I had this puzzle in one of my math classes in Jr. High - for 15 years I have been trying to solve it - no one would ever give me the answer, and I was sick on the day the teacher gave it. He has since retired, and no one...

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A year from now marks 100 years since Albert Einstein wrote his paper on electrodynamics of moving bodies and sent it to Annalen der Physik. I assume there will be some hoopla about it next year, including conferences, more books and magazine articles, and lots of debates. But I haven't...

Amazing Note to the moderators, please change the title of the thread to "young planet" This is not a planet formed 1 million years after BB, evidently i was completely stupid to think that http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995052 "An infant planet just a million years old...