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I support the snake charmer answer, snakes have little to no hearing and are instead trying to focus on attacking this pipe that is being waved right in it's face. I am however, quite adamant on the nostril thing. I spent a good 15 minutes searching various sites and online dictionaries and every one said "one of the two openings" and the medical sites even stated that a nostril is the entire channel within the nose, connecting the outside to the throat. From: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie ... il&spell=1 -A nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. -Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling which may be called nostrils. Saying we have four nostils is like saying humans can fly using their arms. Let me explain: Humans have the ulna bone in their arms and use it for lifting things. Birds have an ulna but do not use their ulna for lifting objects ,but use it for flying. Just because a fish has a structure that is analogous to our nostril doesn't make the homologous openings in our noses nostirls as well.

Oh yes. You'll get off the plan with an hour to find the next terminal and in no time you'll find yourself running through the airport in search of the next terminal. But if you find your terminal fast, it will seem like you spend hours just sitting there waiting to board. You can't be my 4 1/2 hours in Newark right before a 6 hour flight to Seattle, followed by 2 hours of technical difficulties and a 12 hour flight. You just can't. I suppose you live in the USA. So no customs. If you don't, get ready. Those lines are boring. (Most of the time) I'm getting a little off-topic, so I'll get back to on-topic...Are you transferring? That'd increase the chance of having baggage being delayed, as well as boredom. Customs are such a pain.. When I went to Mexico I had to go through cutoms when we got there and when we got back. It was kind of funny though.. In Mexico, you pushed a button as you walked through (after all the waiting in line with your passport crap) and if the light turned red, they searched your luggage and if it was green they just let you pass. But when we got back to the US, the guy checking luggage simply asked us if we had anything illegal, we said no, and we never had to stop walking. We had such great security years ago :ohnoes: Uh they still do that. They are mainly concerned with drugs, and they can't hand search everyone's bag so they scatter some drug sniffing dogs and for agricultural reasons ask if you brought any fruits or vegetables. When I came back from San Juan in August there wasn't even a guy asking. There was just a sign right outside the baggage terminal that read "Please leave contraband here" and a sign pointing at a trash can. :)

In the States bags are rarly stolen or really "lost" especially if you make sure to keep your baggage claim tags. However two years ago I was in Costa Rica and landed on a small 30 person plane in a remote airport. At the baggage terminal the bags came... all of the cloth ones were slashed open and rummaged through, the hard plastic ones were simply not there. People got pretty pissed but they said "it happens around here" and thats why you don't put valuables (electronics, money, jewelery) in your luggage when you travel to 3rd world countries. You put it in your hand bag. But you should be fine in the States :wink:

No, you are right, except for the part where you said I am wrong. I never said that it was the United States before the Constitution. I said there were 16 presidents before the Constitution. There are actually only 13, but they served 16 terms. I just counted the terms without looking at the names. But anyways, the question wasn't "Who was the first President of the United States", the question was "Who was the first American president". Ah ha! You're all wrong!! The answer is there are none! The reasoning? Well when asked "Who was the first American president" the questioned never specified "president over america" it actually meant "Who was the first American president...of France" So sorry, you're all wrong, you interpretted the question differently than I :P :roll:

George Eyser won gold medals in rope climbing and the like, so I fail to see him having one leg is mind-boggling. Mind you the show leaves that part out. The show also says "these runners took poison to run faster!" and everyone is in awe of how that works. Well the "poison" they took to help them run isn't really a poison. It's type of aspirin. "Rat poison" is really just a blood thinner, exactly like the aspirin people take everyday to releave pain. Even now days in high school track runners often take high amounts of common 'drugs' like caffeine or Tylenol to help them run faster without feeling the pain. I know the show is meant to be a joke, but it still seems kind of kiddish to me. It reminds me of a episode of Animaniacs where they run around and make fun of people on a similar concept. Wacko: Hey how much does the moon weigh?! Man dressed as scholar: Why a bit over seven thousand billion billion... Wacko: NOPE! Because if it weighed anything, it would fall on us! *Smashes pie in man's face and runs off laughing idiotically* :roll: People's definitions vary from culture to culture and period of time to period of time. The Canadian institute of Science states: Four major continental glaciations are recorded in North America. The last (Wisconsin) began about 70,000 years ago, and ended 10,000 years ago. Oh and here is question that you sould find on QI: Q. How fast is the Earth orbiting the sun? A: It isn't. Scholars from the 900s declared that the earth is stationary. -.- I'm sadly not a fan of those kinds of shows, they seem to spit in the face of real educational television. :/

Lol, *rubs back of neck*, I have a pretty cool map hanging in my room with pins in all the cities I have been. Unfortunately Africa is pretty blank, my mom in scared of terrorists :roll:

Fluent in English and Spanish. Can get by with my Polish Like GSW said, my parents like to travel. In fact as some of you know I just got back from Christmas in Hawaii ^_^ Jeez, do you really want me to list them all? -.- Europe * Belgium * Czech Republic * Denmark * France * Germany * Greece * Italy * Luxembourg * Netherlands * Poland * Portugal * Spain * United Kingdom Asia * Thailand * HongKong American Cities of Note * Anchorage * Jueno * Chicago * Atlanta * Miami * Dallas * Houston * L.A. * San Fran * Seattle * New York * Philly * Honolulu Australian Cities *Sydney *Cairns South of the U.S. * Mexico * Argentina * Brazil * Colombia * Venezuela * Costa Rica * Panama * Antigua & Barbuda * Aruba * Bahamas * Barbados * Dominican Republic * Grenada * Jamaica * Puerto Rico * Virgin Islands meh, I'm done. I fail to see how typing more will get me anywhere

Sim Ant ROM - - http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/42464 ... 37113.html SNES 9xW Emulator to play roms - - http://www.consoleuniverse.co.uk/module ... le=SNES9XW

You're an IGN mod? *whistle* Impressive, thats a massive forum with a lot of resources. Anyway, Off Topic is where it's at for Tip.it Other sites? Laser Community - Green laser pointer forums. You, know, the lasers that can burn through stuff? Found the site when I bought mine, the whole place is full of physicists and such so it's a nice place to read topics about galaxies and the like (or talk about the laser's themselves!)

T... tw... two... GIG? Oh wow, i'm stuck on 256. :P Got a few slots as well. :( I got 2gig as well. Not to much difference than when I had 512mb in there, except when loading games. Goes much quicker. My desktop has had 256 for ages. Finally bought a lappy and I was sure to pay for the upgrade to 1 Gig. This thing runs pretty nice, could use a faster processor though, only 1.86 Pent M. It's only 1 year old and it already can't run the newer games on Max Quality :? Oh, and Wii hands down: Ps3 = meh... 360 = lookin' good Wii = 5 minites of Wii Sports sold me :D

For those H20 and Alkali fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bJxHgm1sk I'm a fan of Thermite as someone mentioned above (its a power that when lit burns at 4500ÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâðF, used to melt through safes and locks) But my favorite is Lycopodium powder(an inert powder that, if airborn, suddenly becomes explosive). It was awesome, we had to travel to a elementary school and do a sceince demo. Everyone else did the experiements like making foam, or goo, or changing colors. I go up there and put a candle on a desk then wave my hand past it, releasing a Hershey's kiss sized ball of the powder that instantly spreads into a cloud and a millisecond later ignites into a fireball as big as a fireplace. \ My teacher gave me half a pound or so of the stuff so I did the experiment like 5 times. The kids coudln't see the powder from where they were sitting, and they were all like 5 so they didn't get chemistry. Afterwards I had like 30 kids following me around calling me various Japenesse names (presumably off some cartoon show) and all asking me things like "Teach me how to cast fire!!!" "Can you ride dragons?!" "How much power does it take to cast?!" "What is you're dragons name?! Can we see him!!?" "Take us with you to " :shock: I bet quite a few parents were confused when the kids got home

Um, okay... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search or more specific: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search Is that what you wanted?

f=ma is newton's second law. What do the letters stand for? What smiley is better? :wink: or :-s

Ha, you're funny :P No seriously, the Wii is the very definition of multiplayer. You get so into it when you play with friends. And if you own the system you're house automatically becomes a hot spot for parties :D the future is online multiplayer, multiplayer on a single unit is becoming obsolete. Partly because MS is trying to phase it out so more people need to pay for Live if they want to play. I for one despise this trend. I don't care about having to paying for Live. But I try not to be that kind of gamer that sits in a basement, alone, with a headset playing online. I love games that you play with others around you, people you know and interact with in real life. Observe: or

Quite a bit really. For starters Typhoid is a bacteria (treatable) and has a 20% mortality rate and Ebola is a virus (no cure) and has a 90% mortality rate. Wikipedia them if you're interested :wink: I really hope your joking Nope. If we (humans) evolved from gorillas it logically follows that gorillas will continue evolving. It's probably happening right now. Still, they're nearly extinct anyway... Evolution happens on hundreds of thousands of years. It's not like one day gorillas will have evolved. It is such a slow and gradual change that humans won't even notice unless in the year 852006 someone looked at a photograph of a present day gorilla. Ha, that could be a theological argument in people's eyes. I'm assuming you mean we evolved from chimps, not gorillas.

Can time end? No. If everything is destroyed into nothingness there will still be time going on and on. No one will be counting but it will soon be "1 year after everything was destroyed" and so on. Time will continue for eternity. Space and time are related. You can get rid of space, and it goes on and on, for eternity, like time. Personally I think past the edge of our universe is just empty space. Blackness. Nothing. Endless nothing. They say you can never go there, our universe's boundaries are like a soap bubble (be it one expanding at the speed of light). Particles on the inside can't leave the bubble, if they try they would just get curved around.

Unfortunatly both Outbreak and The Hot Zone are quite ficticious. Executive Order, is a decent bit more accurate but still a fabrication. You do get the general idea though. :)

oh yeah fosho :roll: :wall: Cockroaches can live through nukes! :shock: Lots can live through nukes. I'm impressed that they can live a week off the greese left by a finger print :-s

Oh yea, Hyperthermia. Fun stuff. Once you pass 107 you literally go insane as your neuro-transmitters start getting messed up. And yea, past 110 and your organs start destroying themselves. It actually really helps Ebola along, the hot temperatures make the organ membranes weaker and easier for the Ebola to rip in to. And what the heck, I'm posting my favorite page from my research paper. It's a good read: ...the next major outbreak took place in 1995 in the city of Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly the country of Zaire until 1997). This was the largest ever Ebola outbreak to take place in a densely populated urban region. The outbreak was caused by an Ebola- Zaire strain similar to the original outbreak in the DRC in 1976 and the number infected is also comparable, with 315 and 318 cases reported in 1997 and 1976 respectively (Alan, 2004). The fact that it was an urban city was frightening, as this gave the disease much more potential to spread to tens of thousands of hosts rapidly. At the time Kikwit was a crowded city of half a million inhabitants, with poor medical care and abysmal sanitation (Sandas, 2005). On May 9, 1995, hospitals began admitting patients with malarial like symptoms. When petechiae (red blotches under the skin) began to form on many of the patients, a British nurse decided to send a blood sample to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. It was received May 10th and after an antibody test it was immediately red flagged as Bio Level 4 Ebola Zaire. There are only half a dozen or so Bio Zone Level four diseases, and with that label comes mass panic to those that know about it. After Kikwit received the news, news spread from hospital to hospital and 90% of the cityÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s physicians and nursing staff fled the city (Johnson, 2003). They were the only ones who fully understood the dangers of Ebola, which explains why they left. Nevertheless, this action put the entire city in greater danger due to the fact that the poorly maintained healthcare system was now almost void of medical staff. Word of the situation soon got out and the CDC and Red Cross immediately flew thousands of their staff and hundreds of tons protective equipment to the city, quarantining the virus that ended up killing 256 people before it disappeared (Johnson, 2003). It is said that if it werenÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t for the CDCÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s accurate and rapid response to the outbreak the entire city would have been overrun with the disease within a few weeks. It is interesting to note that in the years since that episode it is said that all African countries, regardless of some of their views of hatred towards the United States, refer to the CDC with the utmost respect and praise (Smith, 2005).

I'm still worrying about our own galaxy. - http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/1/4/ ... a2a468.gif - http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ : / As for the universe? Popular Science stated that new theories think that space actually contains 10^500 universes, each with their own laws of physics. Fun stuff. Edit: Ha, I originally had a typo and said "space actually contains 10^500 UNIVERSITIES, each with their own laws of physics. Lol!

Ebola is pretty nasty. Oddly enough I actually did my 18 page dictation for my Infectious Diseases class I had last year on one of the strains. Wow, I hated that assignment. I think I put over 100 hours into researching my, like, 24 sources. Well at least now I can post about it Thankfully Ebola is not airborne, simple wearing gloves and a standard mask will stop you from getting it if you handle a patient. However if you do get it, it's mortality rate is ~96% so good luck. (When dealing with these numbers realize that babies and children have the best immune systems, so about half will survive and then pretty much everyone over 30 will fall to it.) Also thankfully it dies out quickly. A week or so after the outbreak the new cases will have such mutated forms that they are as deadly as the common cold. It isn't a doomsday virus just a scary one. Symptoms, listed as they develop: - Feels like stomach flu at first - Really high fever, 104+ - Petachie form... (Red blotches under the skin). Once you see these, you know you have Ebola, and its the 3rd day. You have 36 hours to live. - People pass out pretty soon afterwards, you won't wake up unless injected with stimulant. - Doctors will notice internal hemorrhaging as the virus just rips your internal membranes to pieces. ...right. Back to studying for my Genetics final :(

My roommate just started the 3rd temple and is 18 hours in. :/

okay, first off it's launch time. Usually systems only have between half a dozen and twenty games at launch; the Wii has 62. Secondly, there are several good games out right now: Zelda, WiiSports, MonkeyBall, RedSteel, DragonballZ, NFL '07, heck even Trauma Center is a kick. And soon to come? NFS, Metroid Prime 3, and let's not forget Super Smash Brothers Brawl :D

Wow, I just played it. As my roommate loaded it up and we sat on the couch we watched the intro... I literally got goosebumps from anticipation and he turned to me and said "You do realize how freaking sweet this game is going to be... 4 years of programming went into this... I've been waiting for this game since I finished Ocarina of Time... I'm too nervous to hit start" :D Anyway it's awesome so far. Just finished the 1st dungeon after an impressively long 5 hours. Oh and the boomerang is sweet :wink:

Ahhh, maybe I should ask next time at circuit city :P (Just went in and out of there... they didn't even have boxes this time) Check online if you can.