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Good question, well the obvious answer is uninstall NetScape, ha. But otherwise you check the config menu of AppRocket but I think that is more like a system preference, it does your default browser. Do you know how to change what browser is your default?

It's available on Microsoft's site. Do you have a validated copy of Windows XP?

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On a side note warri0r, I do find it amusing that during the entire time I read your various posts disregarding prayer and saying it is not the answer my peripheral vision sees this: Lol, nice.

Realize that things often get out of hand in arguments, mentioned religious views even indirectly and they are fair ground for the next person to discuss. Although I am somewhat curious on what makes religion so special that it can't be debated. You completely bash evolutionist views by stating "my signature is very accurate. It is impossible for a cell to 'occur' by chance." Why isn't an atheist's view under the same protection from debate that you want for faith? I'm not an atheist but being a biology major I have spent hundreds, soon to be thousands of hours studying texts on biology for exams and to further my education on the subject. You can say I have "devoted my life" to biology. So what gives you the right to step in and say everything I believe in is false? Personally I believe you can since that is how we learn, but as to why you are offended when people discuss your faith... I am puzzled.

Why do you think I need this comfort? Do you think it makes me sleep better at night? Not fear death? Have a reason to live? No I need none of this. I just look outside and have an appreciation. And because of this appreciation I argue for his side. What do you gain by attacking my faith? You can't disprove God, you can't even disprove the Bible. You attempts are futile. First off I never said that, it was assassin_696, but regardless, what do I gain from posting? Well I just like debating, asking why I posted on this thread is like asking why I posted on the "what do you find most attractive in a women" thread. I post to see if people can find flaws in my argument and then I try my best to counter those, I find it fun and sometimes challenging. Oh and by the way, this is a off topic forum on a gaming site. We're all mostly gamers. Most gamers = "nerds". Mostly nerds = mostly people in the sciences = mostly people who are agnostic. I don't consider myself a gamer or a nerd, but this board speaks for itself. My point is you started a losing battle by posting religious stuff here, it's like trying to sell freezers to Eskimos.

---All this talk about probability and I double post. -.- ---

Not only is that false, but it's comical if you think about your path of logic. I should put this is my signature: At 3:21.32pm, March 10 of the year 2007 C.E, a 19 year old American going by the name of trapical will "post" on the "Internet" at a site known as the Tip.It forums; he will be using a Dell laptop and should have been doing a paper for his Genetics class but he got bored. Five billion years in the past, the chance of the above prediction coming true would be 1 in 10^4,478,296,292,402,399,323,135,237,469,741,579,753,235,908 Wow, its incredible that even with those odds it happened! "They calculate the probability of the formation of a "modern" protein, or even a complete bacterium with all "modern" proteins, by random events. This is not the abiogenesis theory at all." So my signature is very accurate. It is impossible for a cell to 'occur' by chance. I I did read it, but I really didn't need to since I am a Biology major and have discussed this topic throughly before. And I wouldn't say it's impossible for a cell to occur by chance, just very improbable. Just like in my example. And your expertise in evolutionary biology, microbiology and abiogenesis is what exactly? You're simply quoting some ridiculous figure or statistic calculated using poor science to comfort your notion that therefore there must be a god. Even if the chance of life occurring on any given planet with the right conditions for life is 1 in a billion (and it's probably not that much) then still over a billion planets will have life. He brings a good point. There are 400 billion stars in our galaxy . If each of them have the same number of planets (on average) as our own sun, then that's about 4 trillion planets in our own galaxy alone. Okay, so we have 4 trillion planets, now multiply that by the estimated 125 billion galaxies in the universe. Okay, we're up to ~5.0 ÃÆÃââââ‰â¬

I also believe science has the truth for any tangible/measurable thing. Not only is that false, but it's comical if you think about your path of logic. I should put this is my signature: At 3:21.32pm, March 10 of the year 2007 C.E, a 19 year old American going by the name of trapical will "post" on the "Internet" at a site known as the Tip.It forums; he will be using a Dell laptop and should have been doing a paper for his Genetics class but he got bored. Five billion years in the past, the chance of the above prediction coming true would be 1 in 10^4,478,296,292,402,399,323,135,237,469,741,579,753,235,908 Wow, its incredible that even with those odds it happened!

Yes you are.

Do you just come up with that Bubsa? I read Adam's response first and at first thought it was made in sarcasm but then I read what you posted and I literally just paused. For reasons I really can't get into that quote means a lot to me. I'm going to put this as my quote on Facebook to let others read it, very thought provoking...

As said before biologically speaking you can loose a lot of blood and still be fine. Oh and here's a quick med tip. If you get a cut that looks kinda deep first squeeze it for 5-10 seconds and wash/suck off the blood that comes out to prevent an infection. After you bleed out like 1/3 a teaspoon or about 5 seconds worth (depends on the cut) then just use your other hand and apply pressure by pinching that finger. After 5 minutes you can probably let go for up to 15 seconds before the cut reopens and starts to bleed. This is enough time to switch hands or apply a bandage. Anyway apply a bandage if you want and then just keep pressure for up to half an hour. If it's on your finger and you other hand is tired you can press the injured hand against a table or something. After half an hour your good to go, most of the time you don't even need a bandage. A month ago while sharpening my scalpel for anatomy it slipped and I had a deep cut on my thumb. Like halfway down to the other side :-X. I felt it, looked down and for a second could see it all opened up, split muscle and all. Then the blood came. A lot of blood, like pulsing out a teaspoon a second, soon my hand was covered in it. I sucked it for a second to clean it (it was a used scalpel after all) then just pinched the heck of the thing with my other thumb and pointer finger. The bleeding stopped immediately. As stated above, after five minutes I let go to wash the area and it didn't open back up until about 5-10 seconds, I pinched it for another five and then quickly smeared antibiotic gel and a band-aid over it and re-pinched it. 30 minutes later I had lab so I released the pressure and it was just fine. Healed in 10 days and now I don't even have a scar. Anyway, point of the story is this can potentially save your life. Remember it next time you get cut, it works.

Nobody else noticed that? :-s :-X Notice what? The grabbable hair or the fact that she mentioned both sexes?

Good thread. -Attractive: Eyes/face/smile. There is something about those girls with the mysterious eyes that show so much. Combine that with a sly smile and a nice complexion... I'm sold. -Unattractive Fat people. Not much to say here really, but if you're fat, sorry to say it, I'm not interested regardless of anything else they had going for them. Oh and I'm sick of fat girls emailing chain letters of anorexic models with messages "guys only want girls with eating disorders! These skinny girls are so unhealty!!" Well to all those girls with that train of thought, there is a pretty wide margin between anorexic models and 300lb cheeseburger downing obese people. I'm not asking much, but I don't want rolls covering the top part of your pants

Can someone please tell me what that equation is? The "poisonous gas" is probably chlorine, so the best I could do is (my school doesn't do much chemistry or physics until 10th and 11th (I'm in 9.7th)): 2HCl + C6H12O6 -> Cl2 + 4H2O + 6CH + O2 Trapical, can you please tell me if the equation is right or correct it if it's not? Sure. When I first read your original post I assumed it to be correct, but now that I look at it you made a common mistake: there is more then one kind of "sugar". C6-H12-O6 is glucose, the sugar energy of the human body. C12-H22-O11 is sucrose, table sugar, and the kind probably used in the aforementioned experiment. Actually, now that I look at it again... I'm not sure if anything would even happen. 99% of the time when HCl reacts with something you get hydrogen gas and a chloride of something in solution. For example if you add Mg to HCl you get Hydrogen gas and MgCl solid. I do actually have a bottle of 16 M Sulfuric acid in my room (it's a long story), so if anyone really wants to check this I can add it to some sugar and observe. Personally though, I doubt anything will happen. -The ICSC (international chemical safety card) for HCL says nothing of Cl2 gas unless it is anhydrous (a dry powder) and you heat it. -HCl is found in your digestive tract to help with digestion of proteins. If you consume sugar you don't produce chlorine, ;) *EDIT* I got curious and performed the experiment with a concentrated sulfuric acid. Granted, it's not hydrochloric acid, but I believe similar results would occur. I added three drops to a tablespoon of sugar. -No known gasses were produced (Chlorine gas has a very strong order, and I'v been around Hydrogen gas long enough to recognize it) -A little heat was given off -The area where the acid lay first turned yellow, then greenish, then orange, then black. At this point it began to smell like burnt sugar and upon probing with a knife the sugar in these areas was rock hard, much like sugar burned by temperature.

Nitroglycerin in a High school? That's a class 4 restricted chemical in Wisconsin. It's as explosive as TNT but goes off with the slightest bump. It's more like: Nitroglycerin + an elbow bump = Fiery death. :wink: I have never seen it explode but it was a byproduct of a reaction we did in Org-Chem. The prof was like "please label which container you put your waste in and bring it over to the vent hood when you're done. If you let it sit for more then an hour nitroglycerin can accumulate and then the next day when I walk over to pick some unlabeled beaker off a table it might explode. And that's why tomorrow is the day of the year my wife hates the most, ha ha"

It's called prioxima for a reason :P

Hydrochloric and sugar shouldn't produce enough poisonous fumes that would deem the evacuation of a school unless you're mixing like gallons of it. As for me? Well I was a Chem major and am in my fifth full year of Chemistry, but so far nothing too deadly. Although my Quantitative analysis professor set the lab on fire last semester. We were in lab and he was boiling 500 mils of a reagent in the vent hood. We left the room to take notes as it was warming up and we hear a muffled boom from next door. He looks over and says "ah crap it blew. Jon grab the fire extinguisher." There were a dozen of us or so and we jog over to see the vent hood ablaze and some broken glass on the floor. The vent hood was made of Plexiglases and was shatterproof but the container pretty much disintegrated all over the place. That wasn't my doing though. I'v done lots of minor things, now days when working with 18 Molar sulfuric acid I'll often notice my fingers get slippery and I just shrug and wash them off, no harm done. My personal favorite acid I ever used was a 23 Molar Nitric acid. Ask your chemistry teachers about something that strong. I used it once with my professor standing behind me in my time doing research with him. It came in a 20mL bottle and was over a hundred dollars, when first opened the bottle (we were wearing masks and working in a vent hood) a piece of litmus paper lying on the table 2 feet away turned red instantly from the fumes :-s. The stuff was thick like molasses and actually dissovled the pipet I was using the second I put it in the container. My prof laughed and went a got a this thick Pyrex one. Using that I had to put a drop on this amino acid sample but as soon as I did the think smoked like dry ice for a good 30 seconds. : / But yea, like I said, nowadays if my lab partner or I ever get a "measly" 18 molar sulfuric on our skin for a few seconds or something we don't even really feel the need to mention it. That being said, if you are scared of lab chemicals stay out of Biology! I mean jeez I even get worried sometimes. To stain our DNA gels for UV spectroscopy in Genetics we have to use Ethidium Bromide. Nasty stuff, as wikipedia says "Ethidium bromide is a very strong mutagen, and may possibly be a carcinogen ... even latex gloves offer little protection from ethidium bromide" Yea, it's not fun. We have to triple glove on the days that we use it and the head professor is the only one that hands out the premeasured samples. Simply having a drop touch your skin can cause cancer and inhalation and (god forbid) ingestion are fatal. It scares the bejesus out of us, after lab everyone washes their hands like 6 times and we all have separate pencils and notebooks that we just leave in the genetics lab. While all the other labs in the building are used for studying in or for lectures, no one goes in the genetics lab since there might be residual Ethidium bromide somewhere that you might touch by accident. Something to look foward to college bound science majors :D

These biology topics are always awkward for me since I'm a Bio major, and hard to discuss these things without sounding like "Ha ha, you all know nothing, listen to me!" I am actually ironically in the middle of my Genetics year right now, really ironically in the middle of doing a research project with my Genetics prof, in which we are genetically engineering the "perfect parasite". Interesting stuff if anyone's interested. Anyway, Genetics is pretty complex stuff. Just because we have mapped the human genome doesn't mean we can go in and make everything all better all of a sudden. Do you know the man-hours and cost to do unique sequencing polymerase chain reaction, just to map a host's genome? Were talking years of work here and an immense amount of funds. Anyway, thats hard enough but tangible. The real fun part is manipulating the nucleic acids to form what you want, but to do that you need to know what you want. Just because you found a the 500 genes that are responsible for inheritance facial design doesn't mean you know how to make the genes that grant a perfect complexion. This will take many decades and trillions of dollars. The easiest way would be to produce mRNA that expresses those genes and then extract a retro virus's reverse DNA polymerase and make it into DNA which you could use to replace the host's DNA. Yea not easy stuff, trust me. The project my professor and I have been working on is 1/4 done and were not even making unique sequenced DNA, we're just doing selective breeding and then DNA analysis to find the ones with the best genes and logging them down. I suppose you could do that with humans, do a DNA analysis on all the embryos and find the one with the least mutations, but that wouldn't make any "super humans" that are really smart/attractive. That would just reduce the number of babies with down's syndrome and the like. Mind you this would still cost the couple several thousand dollars and it would destroy lots of embryos (the Church would not be pleased). My point is it would have little impact on the global population. All that would happen is celebrities would never have [developmentally delayed]ed kids. Those super smart, super attractive humans you guys are mentioning are literally, centuries away, trust me. People will be booking flights to Alpha Proxima before these superhumans will excist, and if they do come, it's going to cost a lot more then a flight to Alpha Proxima. Lol.

Not a typical bond film, but a great movie regardless.

Because our government could be telling us flat-out lies on such a thing. Why does it matter.... First off, who is to say they can't keep it hidden? I mean they found it, they can keep it. If you discover a genie that grants 3 wishes to everyone, would you make it public? No you would keep him in your house and deny it. How would you feel if a bunch of elementary school kids keep trying to take pictures of your house through your windows? Would you post a no trespassing sign, or would you just say "Ha, good job kids. Your rumors are true, here have my genie." :roll: There is a big difference in your GENIE example and these aliens...... One is not harmful another might be harmful. :shock: NOw, what if they just come tomorrow and starts attacking our planet, what would happen?? :-k I'd say a genie is by definition the most dangerous thing to have lying around. Someone could wish they were a god and enslave the human race. And how would dead aliens harmful to earth? I'm assuming there dead since if they were alive how would they have been caught? If they were alive and caught then they must not be very strong so if they were to escape they could just as easily be caught again by the world's joint militarys. Now let's assume they died in the crash. A ship crashed there and they dissected the bodies. Okay, now how is that a problem? Are they going to come back to life and kill us? And if you mean "since we disected them, more ships will come to get revenge!"... what difference would it make if the public knew or not? Ships crashed, end of story. The aliens don't care who ownes the bodies. My point is, where is the danger? And if there is some danger, what difference does it make if the public knows or not?

Because our government could be telling us flat-out lies on such a thing. Why does it matter.... First off, who is to say they can't keep it hidden? I mean they found it, they can keep it. If you discover a genie that grants 3 wishes to everyone, would you make it public? No you would keep him in your house and deny it. How would you feel if a bunch of elementary school kids keep trying to take pictures of your house through your windows? Would you post a no trespassing sign, or would you just say "Ha, good job kids. Your rumors are true, here have my genie." :roll:

Kind of like, you can't rely on humans but you can rely on humans to be humans. right, one uf us is confused, and i think its me. (13, puny mind) Government counts on human nature too label people who beleive in aliens as wacko's. Therefore they use the majoritys power to silence and judge the credibility of those who speak out about aliens. So in actual fact, we are doing the Governments job by making all the people who see aliens out to be weird and therefore uncredible. I always found that funny, people make fun of UFO believers while beliving in religion is everyday common stuff. George Carlin did a skit on that.

On the contrary I believe. The famous question is called is the mind-body problem, not the soul-body problem. The soul and the conscious mind are generally conceived to be the same thing, at least in the Philosophy classes that I have taken.

Good question, I think it in part excists. I know how a cell works and how interactions between molecules can let cells divide and communicateÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ but what intermolecular action is responsible for me thinking of a random number... say 5,621? I just said that aloud, and without any purpose. What let me do that, it had no evolutionary purpose. Interesting question. On a more definitive note, I don't believe in Seoul. No way can a city have 10,297,004 people and be in South Korea.