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I doubt you would say the same after walking down the streets of Iraq, maybe you won't be looking at faces you will kill, but faces that might kill you. I'd be real surprised if you didn't think about all those families around you all the time while you hold your riffle at them, and your family is so far away. Maybe your right, but being in the military hasn't given me those feelings you speak off, it's made me think more about family then ever. It makes being back home all the sweeter and lets you cherish it better. You have to experience the feelings, you can't describe it, but it is nowhere near people at consoles.

Sorry about the mistake, I don't know how to edit tittle, but it's Boinc. I didn't even notice until now, I always called it bonic, it makes me feel dumb. It's pretty big so you can search on google to find information on it easily. You download packets usually about half a megabyte big, then let your computer run algorithms to help whatever project you do and then your computer sends those packets back. All it does is run in the background when you don't use your computer, helping out others with no effort on your part.

I used to have the same problem with my external hard drive. First it worked fine every time. But then one day I had a problem with "I/O error" and ever since then it kept having errors, but then I just reconnected it a dozen times turning it's power off, restarting my computer, unplugging and plunging the usb connection and it somehow fixed itself after many many tries. It still does the "I/O error" when I try moving large amounts of data, in the 100 megabyte range. Probably a device failure on windows, you can try reinstalling the drivers from internet as the ones on the hard drive plug and play might be corrupted.

I leave my computer on all the time and it just sits there useless. I figured it could be used for something good and found boinc, where you can have your cpu calculate for different science projects when you're not doing anything on it. It can search for extraterrestrial intelligence, help decode genomes, help map out the most efficient way to prevent malaria or many others. Try it out and help the world without any effort, what easier way to give yourself that warm fuzzy feeling. I've already gotten 881 blocks processed for Seti and still working at finding aliens. You can start helping the world here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Finally a eclipse in the Eastern US in over 3 years. I've never seen one before, so I already plan to take some warm clothes and settle in for a cold night in the freezing snow for some two to three hours with my digital camera and small telescope. My camera takes good pictures of the moon through my telescope, so I hope to get plenty of pretty pictures. There is also another eclipse that can be seen from the US on August 28, plenty of fun for astronomy lovers this year!

I'd easily pick getting hanged. All the other options either straight out bloody kill you or shut your body down. Hanging is supposed to make your body release a ton of endorphins while you are dying. Hence why there are many cases of autoerotic asphyxiation. I figure I want to be happy and high and full of emotion(even if it's pain, hate, and anguish)when I die, no point going down subtly. Plus I could yell obscene threats that my ghost is gonna haunt my executer forever and fun stuff like that. But I can also understand people wanting to go quietly, peaceful in their last moments of living, it's just not for me. I hope they let me play some heavy metal in the background to get my adrenaline up also.

For a AI to try to conquer the Earth it would need AI coding for philosophizing, but then an AI specific in that would have no capabilities other then that. An AI can't just expand it's code to give it AI code for anything else, since that would be creativity and computers can't have that. I'm more afraid of some virueses or trojans taking over possible future cleaning, working, babysitting robots and possibly killing someone through that. Now that's scary.

I myself was horrible in other languages, but had to take two years of Spanish in high school. Barely passed, not because I was lazy, I'd get calculus and statistics fine, language just wasn't my thing. That's why I believe high school required language is fine to get someone acquainted with a different set of mechanics, but college should be more specific with what you are studying. And when someone is just no good at language, they shouldn't be forced to become proficient in it.

In my opinion not only is there no answer to this question but the question itself has no validity.For example, take two separate spheres of energy. Since energy makes space, we now have two totally exclusive spheres of space, and since interaction of space makes time, each sphere has it's own time. Now presuming the balls of space-time have no connection, how can we try to ask will the two spheres are at the same point on the time-line when their time has nothing at all to do with each matter and would have no difference where in the time line they were for the answer. On top of that, connect the two spheres with a tunnel, then cut the tunnel, and reconnect it. Since there was no interaction after separating the spheres, you could technically reconnect before you attached the first tunnel.So therefore I think the question of who created god has no merit since it has no physical connection with us mortals, or our time.

Well according to some studies I once read, during sleep the neurons in our brain all fire at the same time and then go quiet about a thousands times during a sleeping episode. This supposedly weakens all connections so only more stronger memories survive and we forget the pointless ones. Sleeping in Polyphasic Sleep could possibly improve your memory also since they can't possibly go through so many neuron decays as a normal sleeping person.Also if this pattern of sleep decreases hours required for sleep wouldn't evolution lean towards such a method if it didn't have more negative side effects?I have to agree I could never do such a thing, contrary I wish I could sleep for twice as long. Every time I wake up I wish I could just go back to sleep it feels that good!

Any life we find on Mars wouldn't be harmfully to humans in any way. Humans are complex structures, and viruses seldom mutate between species even with the uncountable types. A virus from Mars(if it does exist), would most likely die, I might give it a small chance in a single celled bacteria, but even then struggling until it mutates so much it'll practically be identical to viruses on Earth.Also even though life could evolve from different compounds then life on Earth, each compound has different efficiency in energy production, storage, and usage. Abnormal life types would be less efficient and stay at the bacteria and virus magnitude just like life on earth was barely multi-celled and plant until the prevalence of oxygen.

I've been with a women of another race and my sister is engaged to a men of another race, so I might have insight. Emotionally and socially there really isn't any different then a normal couple. The same problems and the same love. Physically, ages of seperate breeding has led to slightly more differences in genetics then just color. The scent, habbits, slight changes in behavior, it's noticable, but I loved them and I see no reason anyone wouldn't. It's a personal choice, and if those differences don't work for you, it's fine too. However I wish people in America would be more tolerant(don't really know how it is in other countries), because lots of strangers notice you alot more and some look at you weird and disgusted.

The study implies either that eating a vegetarian diet makes you more intelligent, or that a more intelligent person is more inclined to eat a vegetarian diet. Since I believe the latter makes more sense, I doubt it will spur any conversion of meat eaters. Especially since a higher risk of coronary heart disease dosen't seem to phase meat lovers.

The best thing about democracy is always changes, it is never perfect but sways from one side to the other. If something catastrophic happens like the world trade center towers, naturally security will become enourmous and privacy will vanish. But when that reaches it's limit, we will sway the other way. Privacy will be paramount and security nill. USA"s democracy is probobly the most free every in history, so you can't really compare it with anything else. As long as the people have freedom in their mind, they won't let anything to kill it happen. I think democracy will not die, but change into something better, it'll be resisted, and slow, but the swaying is good and keeps the country near good so it dosen't matter if it's not perfect, because perfect only happens in a dictatorship when a leader who is good controls everything.

I prefer classics with some spunk, like A Flew over the Cukoo's Next, Catch 22, and Catcher in the Rye. They all deal with insanity, redundant laws, maturing, all back in the days where this stuff was alot more taboo.

I remember somewhere that galaxies are moving away from each other, one side of the milky way faster then the other, therefore wouldn't that sugest we could figure out the direction of the explosion by reversing the direction galaxies are moving away from the center. Can't we just look there and see if a giant black hole exists.On another note, black hole jets aren't particles escaping from inside the black hole but in fact are particles carying energy from the enormously energetic particles colliding into the black hole. Also in a black hole gravity breaks down everything into quarks. Those make up protons and nucleus so you won't even have hydrogen.But there could be something galaxy size black hole likish, because right now no one can explain the amount of matter needed to hold the universe's curve near it's current mathematical level of almost 1, where less then one is the universe curving like a sphere, colapsing in the future. And above 1, the universe is like a saddle, expanding forever.Something uneveplainable, dubbed "dark energy", is holding it at almsot 1(too close to see which way but definatly not 1). That dark energy could be anything.