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I Believe God Maintains The Universe

erathoniel — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 7:25:13 AM -0500

Did you know that 90%-95% of mass in the universe is unaccounted for? I believe that there is no mass (or else God is the mass), and God is holding the universe together with his wonderful salvation giving hand. Prove me wrong, I dare ya'.

iPhone Jailbreak Instructions

breakingguy0071 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:23:48 PM -0500

When you are jail breaking the phone, your iPhone will still be powered and there is no need to have computer assistance for the same. The jail breaking of the iPhone is however not illegal in the US and so you can confidently go ahead with it. Sources: iPhone Jailbreak Apps iPhone Jailbreak Instructions iPhone Jailbreak 4.3.2

Quantum dot mixture takes LED lighting to a new level

RockinMike — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 6:01:08 AM -0400

A mistake leads to a whole new lighting expierence, here's a link to the article. Link

No E-Training for MS 70-515 ARGH

Shalkto — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 9:37:39 AM -0500

So i figure it's time to look at getting some certification now that I have a steady job and some cash rolling in. After 15 years as a developer I wouldn't mind having a piece of paper to back up my credentials. Although I've always managed to secure some emplyment without the paper I know for a fact it would have helped me in one or two candidate selection processes. So I'm looking through Microsoft Learning's site since I'm primarily a Visual Basic developer, having used jsut about ever...

ArcSDE,Shape File,GML. Oh My!

Shalkto — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 5:10:23 PM -0500

I work for a company called Canadian Forest Products or Canfor for short. One of the projects I am working on is a program that will take the information about Canfor's Forest Stweardship Plans (FSP) and the related Forest Development Units (FDUs) and translate their geospatial information into GML. This export of data is required to report out to the Ministry on Canfor's silviculture activities and maintain the province wide Spatial Database on all major licensees (Forest Companies). ...

Batch Insert w/Exclusion Join

Shalkto — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 2:57:35 PM -0500

I work for a company that has offices spread out in various locations throughout North America, the team I work on is called the Woodlands Information Management Team or WIM. Our role is to be the stewards for data management throughout the company and oversee the standards and implementation of day to day applications and reports that the company needs to run and meet it's obligations. The other day i was looking through the list of outstanding tickets and I seen this one that required me to...

Science & Lay(Lame) Media

Daiwa — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:09:15 AM -0400

Big MSN Headline today: Search: Scientists find cause of honeybee decline Follow the link, however, and you learn this . This may turn out to be the cause of colony collapse disorder, might not. But, mainstream press just can't get their arms around the fact that association is not causation. That it takes a lot more than that to establish cause-and-effect relationships. But they do us this disservice all the time - construing association to mean cause - espec...

Hawking believes there's no need for God in world comprehending

HaitherG — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 9:09:12 PM -0400

Stephen Hawking feels like God is unnecessary when it comes to the understanding of the whole world. Hawking has his own opinion on God which is shown in his book "The Grand Design" which was authored also be Leonard Mlodinow, Caltech physicist. He thinks that God is just something for humans that they need. There have always been controversies between scientific research and religion. The Grand Design talks about some of these. The law of gravity, not God, is what made the creation of t...

Need help in finding mathematical and Physics books for games development

mentor07825 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 9:32:26 PM -0400

Hello everyone. I've currently finished my second year in a games development course and I'm looking for book(s) on mathematical and physics centred around game development for programmers. The books don't even have to contain C++ code or the like. The reason why I'm asking you all this because I've spent the day looking on the internet for the right books with no luck. I did find one book but it was more of a reference book then teaching it. Also it's because my Applied Physics lecture...

Outsourcing Biodiversity

jeremyfranks — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 8:21:29 AM -0400

The concept of offsetting environmentally damaging practices, like emitting carbon dioxide, has met with mixed reviews. But the success of the voluntary offset market in the United States, coupled with the strong compliance market overseas, demonstrates that many believe in the positive effects of carbon offsets . Fueled by offset dollars, projects that reduce or avoid CO2 emissions have been popping up steadily. However, an even more controversial form of offsetting...

X-51 hypersonic jet ready for flights...

ShadowWar — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 4:38:08 PM -0400

Video of testing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ANuMV0ybQ Hypersonic proponents worldwide will eagerly watch two long-awaited technology demonstrations starting with the imminent first flight attempt for the X-51 Waverider, to be followed within a month by the first flight of the Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic test vehicle. Successful flights for both are seen as critical to proving the practicality of hypersonic technology for high-speed weapon, reconnaissance and space-access ...

The end of the world - or not

utemia — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 9:23:43 AM -0400

A german woman living in Zurich filed a suit with the german Supreme Court in Karlsruhe against the end of the world. The court denied hearing the case.. The lady in question wanted to commit Germany to actively do something about the CERN because the scientific experiments there threatened the destruction of the world (the Cern might create tiny black holes). Germany had the obligation to intervene at least until the warning of the impeding doom could be empirically confuted. But...

How to login when you forget your password in Windows Vista

Barika23 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 9:00:36 PM -0500

You will have to first login back to Windows Vista in case you forget your login password. Follow the steps as mentioned in this article and solve the problem. One of the major problems in Windows is logging onto your PC when you have forgotten your password. Vista allows us to create a “password reset” disk if you forget your login password. You can just press Ctrl + Alt + Delete > Change a Password > Create a Password Reset Disk. Follow the step-by-step wizard and yo...

How to make a Christmas 3D flash photo gallery?

jonespring — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 9:15:35 PM -0500

It's the perfect day for a Christmas parade, and our area community just held one parade "Candy Canes and Christmas Carols" this past weekend. Thousands attended this annual Christmas parade and we have got lots of excellent photos. One of the best way to share the joy with others is to make a photo gallery to show these Christmas photos. After spending couples of hours researching the photo gallery software, I finally picked up an 3D flash gallery software which displays digital photos in an...

Population of the dead

Draginol — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 1:08:17 PM -0500

106 billion people are thought to have lived on this planet so far. Here’s a graph with some interesting stats on that. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/4108672641/sizes/l/

AntiScience: My (and your) Worthless Opinion

OMGYouRule — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 8:47:30 AM -0500

I'm very curious why 99% of the people that frequent this forum are decidedly anti-science. That seems to be all I ever see: "just a theory" this or some scientific topic is a "religion", etc. I know there is rampant scientific ignorance in the US and luckily the only people that hear the worthless opinions that come out of this forum are the people that have those worthless opinions. As someone who actually does research I'm saddened whenever I see how ignorant people actually ar...

The Singularity is near? I guess we’ll see…

Draginol — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 2:04:06 PM -0400

I’m reading a recent book called The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Written by Ray Kurzweil who is a fairly known futurist having predicted things from the Internet as we know it (Back in the early 80s), iPhones (well, basically the iPhone) as well as having developed a number of interesting technologies himself, Kurzweil makes a pretty interesting case that by 2045 (his predictions are very specific to invite comparison when the time comes) humans will have become esse...

At last, victory in Iraq...

Spc Nobody Special — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 5:58:53 PM -0400

I was listening to NPR this morning, and I once again heard the inevitable discussion of the withdrawal of combat troops in Iraq. Surprisingly enough (did you know that sarcasm comes from the greek, sarkasmos, the biting of ones lips in anger?) the interviewer suggested that the best we could do in the war was to withdraw our troops with a modicum of dignity. However, having listened to a former Great talk about "peace with honor", (and no, really, he is not a crook!), I know that i...

Tension Help?

SplitPeaSoup — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 5:23:53 PM -0400

I am trying to figure out how tension works. It is not intuitive to me. I know tension means the stretch on a string that opposes some force. But what happens when forces pull on either side? -20N <--------------string-------------------> 20N Is the total tension 20N, 40N, or 80N, and why? I would think it is 0N of tension so that there's no net force on the string, but that's just ridiculus.

The Science of Pus Farming and Mucology

redbeardtwo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 1:01:07 PM -0400

Throughout history the endeavor of scientific discovery evolves from the most arcane of pursuits to an eventual acceptance and standard.A prime example of this are the tworelated sciences ofmpus farming and mucology.Pus farming is the science and mechanical applications as it relates to entrained fluids within facial and dermotological blemishes.Mucology a distinct but related branch of the pusological sciences is the study of entrained fluids and their effect on human tissue;related to ...

New Link in Evolution: Grape sized single cell organism!

grokTheSystem — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 8:24:04 PM -0400

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/20/gromia-cambrian.html

Mystery Roar Detected in Space!

foreverserenity — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 9:42:32 AM -0500

I picked up my son to run an errand for him, he was bursting with news. He told me that he just read that a mystery sound was heard in space! I was surprised! We looked at each other, "Wow, what does that mean?" I asked him. Then I told him to repeat what he read. He told me that scientists have heard some kind of loud noise in space on the other side of somewhere out there. I'm like, wow! So we started chatting and guessing at the possibilities a...

Eco-friendly Dry Cleaning?

jeremyfranks — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 1:50:19 PM -0500

Dry cleaning is known to use harsh chemicals, lots of water, and produce waste in the form of disposable bags and hangers. So what is the industry doing to go green? The National Cleaners Association recently debuted their Green Cleaning Council , which created a rating system for environmentally friendly dry cleaning businesses. Cleaners can earn ratings of 1 to 5 leaves for taking actions like recycling hangers, using non-toxic or biodegradable cleaning che...

Global Warming Prediction Tracker

Frogboy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 4:25:02 PM -0500

Someone should really keep an archive of the various global warming prediction graphs and then match them with actual data. I remember back in college when global warming was just getting..warmed up with predictions of doom and gloom. I managed to find one: So here we are, 20 years later and the temperature is about the same. Possibly an increase of 0.2 degrees. Now I'm not saying there isn't global warming nor am I saying that humans aren't the cause. But I think people need ...

Putting Robots on the Battlefield

grokTheSystem — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 7:22:07 PM -0500

Interesting article investigating both the placement of robot soldiers and the ability of robots to behave "ethically": http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/25/america/robot.php