trapical

This isn't/won't always be the case you know. Put it off to long and she will consider you "just a friend" and move on to someone else. If you do love her, let her know before the time passes. Oh heck don't listen to me. You need to hear it from the Billy Joel song. Heh, the video is beyond cheesy, but it's a good song. I recommend minimizing the window and just listening to the words.

Yea, that's what I was going for. Altough come to think of it I almost want to withdraw my second idea "what...the...heck" for the time being. While it is a great theme it is slightly more complicated and perhaps best used after several months when people get more accustomed to the photo contests. Still though "far, far away" I think would be a good one.

Maybe a little bit. I would think the bigger factor is the face that most of the celebs on there are considered "attractive". Which is why you see people posting saying "it says my girlfriend looks like Penelope Cruz! Hot!!". It is simply the fact that the site's stock photos are of attractive people (and politicians)

trapical! I cant stop remembering that avatar :P I thought you quit posting, you posted at Off Topic alot. Were there other photo contests in the past? :anxious: Ha, yea it's been awhile since I left the domain of Off Topic. I still post occasionally there though. As for the avatar? Yea, I haven't changed it since like 2002. Figure most people know it and it makes my posts more recognizable (if anyone would care, lol) it also certainly helps me find my previous post when quickly scrolling though pages.

Oh man, I love photo contests! Totally joining in on this. New theme ideas? Cool ones I saw in the past were "far, far away" and "What...the...heck..." The first one leaves a lot up to interpretation (Egypt, mountains, skylines, stars?), and the second one is just fun to do. They can all be so random yet without question still in the theme.

LOL!. I love the Arabic guy and Anna Nicole being only 1% off :-k I got Josh Harnett, the guy from Pearl Harbor and Luckly Number Slevin I always liked that guy :wink:

Same as me, i'll be 17. You were born on the exact day as me then lol. But I was born on the Eastern hemisphere so I guess I'm a bit older :P Take that western hemisphere! :D /6-16-87

I feel old. 11 year old posts here? I'm almost twice their age :|

Wow, took me a while. =D>

Ha, you guys know facebook right? Their staff is screwing around with "minifeed" entering random bits every hour or so. "Harry and Voldemort have set their relationship status to "Mortal Enemies. 2:28am." "Two of your oxen drowned when you tried to ford the river. 3:39am." "Bracket Buster: Ohio State and Florida have mutually agreed on a tie and will not play the championship game. 4:24am."

I found the whole thing annoying for one reason or another. I don't know, makes everyone look like unprofessional.

Pfft BS :P No, not BS. Maybe someday you will find someone as special.

Speaking of nothing going faster than the speed of light, I could never really grasp that. I mean, what if you were in the back of a ship going the speed of light. Would you be stopped from walking forward? :-k

*shrug* Maybe it has the liver of a cat :wink:

I actually came across this one myself a long time ago and that Zeno paradox reminded me of it. Two electrons are emitted into a infinitely space one second apart, they have the same initial speed. For the sake of argument lets say that each electron is loosing speed the further it goes. You can say the electron that was emitted 1 second later will forever be going faster then the electron in front of it... yet it will never catch it. :-k

Personally I don't find that many interesting topics these days. Lately I seem to be only posting on Biology related topics offering my insight on arguments. Even that though I am tiring of, I mean how many times can I spend an hour typing a well written response to a hasilty made incorrect statement made by a freshmen in High School? I'm almost 20 years old for pete's sake! Lol. I suppose this is a time as good as any to make my announcement. On Midnight (central) of June 16th I will make a post. This will be my last post for quite some time, probably for the rest of the year for I will have a very busy summer. More importantly this will be my longest, most in depth, and most meaningful piece of text I have ever written in my life. I will post it here and on half a dozen other larger forums at the exact same time. I will not disclose the topic of this post until that time, but I guess you could say it's a revelation of sorts. Look forward to it :wink:

Chowdhury? I have a professor with that surname, one of my favorites. Wonder it there related. Anyway, *signed*

Simply spend the entire day with the girl that I currently love. Granted were not in a relationship or anything, just friends. So there's no sex involved, but I don't care, I just find myself happy whenever I am around her. /corny but true

Simple...It won't. Show me your degree in genetic engineering from an accredited university, or give some shred of reasonable proof, and I might believe you. Wait, your sarcastic right? I mean, "What happens when the sheep that we inject with human genetic material gains our intelligence and level on sentience?" Lol, I'm sorry but that is pretty far-fetched. I'm going to come across as a prick saying this, but honestly, for someone in my major and year to come across a question like that is akin to you finding a someone in Runescape that says "What if, by dropping this party hat, I become an administrator? And then... what it I suddenly become corrupted and then ban all my friends?!? OMG!" :uhh: Right, anyway to put it shortly, there are a million reasons why this is impossible. Heck we can start out with the fact that the sheep's phylogeny can't support a skull of our dimensions, and thus a brain of our capacity. Okay, but now you might ask, well what if they inherit parts of our body type as well? Well first off, they won't because the geneticists who do these sorts of experiments know exactly what genes they are putting into the egg. It's not like they just pull out the DNA out of their nucleus and then go "Hey, lets inject some pieces of this into that sheep fetus and watch it mutate!!" Which also brings up the point that living things' biochemical pathways are pretty smart... they want to further their race and spread their DNA. If an egg suspects ANYTHING amiss it kills itself. Spontaneous abortion. A miscarriage. Missing a chromosome, not growing at the correct speed, showing irregularities, larger than normal, different shape than normal... and bam, it kills itself. Fact: for every person born with some kind of mental retardation or birth defect, over thirty five fetuses were miscarried.

I love how ignorant animal rights activists are. I mean many vegetarians won't eat meat, but they eat fish, which they claim isn't meat... right, whatever helps you sleep better at night. As for cloning? Personally, I love how whenever you mention cloning to any layperson most say "It's immoral! Were playing god on living creatures!". Okay, let me stop you there. Cloning is old news, and it's being done everywhere. Heck I cloned a living being 5 hours ago during Genetics lab. Granted, it was E.Coli but still, it was a living thing I and clonned it. Woo-hoo, big deal. Ever hear of cloning vectors? You know, when we take our mRNA and essentially make it into a virus? We take some human mRNA and modify it so it injects itself into a prokayote like E.Coli which turns that living cell into a slave, forcing it to produce mass amounts of whatever protein you desire. After a few days of forcing it to make these proteins for which it has no use for, the cell simply starves itself to death to end it's suffering. Don't believe me? Were do we get insulin from? We do we get collagen? Simple, we have vats of these single celled organisms and infect them all with our gene that encodes say, insulin. After a few days we gather up up the cells, rip them to shreds, and then centerfuge off and collect the insulin. So... how is a sheep different from a prokayote? Why does no one even care the slightest about what's been going on? Is it because sheep are cute, and cuddly, and seem more "human" to us so they for some reason get more rights then prokayotes? :roll: *EDIT* Sorry for the double post, but I believe the two topics discussed are significantly diverse enough to warrant a separate posting.

Nuclear power is safer and releases less radiation then coal plants. My physics professor is a nuclear physicists from MIT and a day never passes in which he doesn't mention that nuclear power needs to be adopted like now!!. Lol, he has some good points though. For example in Chernobyl not only were the technicians uneducated but they were running criminally stupid tests to see "what would happen". Additionally, the Soviet military set up was "question your orders and you get shot". When they finally did stop the experiment, they started winding the control rods down by a winch, which took quite a bit of time, during which the reaction as going not according to plan. When the control rods did make it to the core, it had expanded from heat and the rods no longer fit the design since they engineers didn't think about core expansion :wall: Okay, not days things are a bit different. 1) Idiots don't run reactors nowadays. PhD grads do. 2) Dangerous experiments aren't conducted in civilian reactors 3) There are so many fail safe systems, redundancies, and educated people working there that the reactor's levels are never off by more then a fraction of a percent (whereas Chernobyl's was operating at twice the designed temperature) 4) Core expansion is taken into account, so as long as the control rods can fall, there can't be a meltdown. 5) Ha, get this: Regarding the descent of the control rods. Instead of a wimpy winch lowering them slowly downwards, they are raised up against massive springs and then a fail-safe manual pull lever releases the lock that holds them in case of an emergency. If something goes wrong the control rods don't only just free fall into the core, massive springs literally shoot them downwards with a muzzle velocity faster then some pistols \ Control rods in = safer then a kitten.

Pfft, I'm not trying to impregnate anyone at the moment. Besides a jacuzzi is a hundred times way worse and I rarely use those.

IMO, Control W is a little better then Alt F4, it's more precise closing just one tab or one window without closing the whole program.

Best: 5. Final Fantasy 7 4. Mafia (PC) - if it was a movie, it would have won best picture/screenplay/music 3. Command and Conquer series (PC) - I love RTS games, and I love it when they use modern military units. 2. Ocarina of Time 1. Goldeneye/PerfectDark Worst? Bomberman for 360. They ditched the cool cartoony nintendo characters and made it all dark and serious. There was no multiplayer, just 100 nearly identical levels, 1 life, and no save points. :wall:

Perhaps, but this one was mentioned off to the side in a Popular Science I just read, and for me it's first come first serve. ;) Meh, I just like to spice up my posts to avoid the mundane