Just something I found, don't know if it's all true but

Going to a Catholic school they teach evolution as the only theory for human existence as well, and growing up in a mainline protestant church that is also what they taught. It always annoys me when OT says that theories surrounding evolution and the fundemental properties of the universe somehow are denied by every religion, when most encourage the searching of these things.

35 on the ACT that I took this year.

The wonders of the cosmos. I can't get enough of it. Everyone should watch Through the Wormhole on the Science Channel.22Toothpicks

That show is what Morgan Freeman's voice was made for (and to be God of course).

Have you read the Fabric of the Cosmos: Space Time and the Texture of Reality? Also a great book by the same author as Elegant Universe.

1. It's reasonable to assume that he's referring to unconventional warfare---what NATO terrorists would hypocritically refer to as "terrorism".

2. Gaddafi would be entirely justified in launching such an attack after what has been done to his country and his family.

3. If there really is an attack against NATO civilians, it will probably come not from Gaddafi but from a NATO government. NATO lowlifes are not above murdering their own civilians with 9/11-style false flag operations just to win public support for a ground invasion of Libya.

Stesilaus

I think he's talking about a serious invasion too, I would seriously like to see him try.

If you go on a random Wikipedia article and click on the first link that's not in brackets or italics, you will eventually end up in "Philosophy".

nintendoman562

Thats actually pretty cool. Started at fruit loops, hit philosophy in 3 clicks.

I was just trying to figure out how many different possible usernames can be created on Gamespot. The way I figure it, usernames can be anywhere from 1-14 spaces long and can contain up to 38 possible different characters (A-Z, 0-9, hypen, and underscore).

Given these numbers, how could one calculate the total number of possible username combinations?

GAMESHARQ

Is 1 really the minimum. If so I think it's calculated as sumation notation

where i=1

upper limit is 14

and the typical element is 38^i

this yeilds approximately 13444734340000000000000 combinations.

I got a 2070:

Math 800

Reading 680

Writing 590

The ACT I get back in the next 2 weeks, I guess I'm sopposed to do better on it too.

Wow he could have just come outside and brandished the gun and problem solved right there.

Tokugawa77

He agrees.

[QUOTE="stanleycup98"][QUOTE="ImaPirate0202"] Chances are, any type of life in the universe will be microorganisms. hartsickdiscipl

How do you figure? The one planet that we KNOW has life is full of advanced life.. not just microorganisms.

Well a few reasons, "The number of prokaryotes on Earth is estimated to be around five million trillion trillion, or 5 × 1030, accounting for at least half the global biomass"From Wiki.

Thats just their biomass, chances are if you pick a random organism on Earth it is almost always a prokaryote. Archea are the only known domain that are able to survive in extremely salty, high temperature, and other extremely hostile enviroments. All eukaryotic organisms rely on cellular respiration to survive, they need O2, prokaryotes do not. Many micro organisms can form things like cysts to wheather very extreme conditions letting them remain dormant for thousands of years. Early life on Earth started microscopic, remaining that way for a billion years, meaning that if over half our history was only microbes then if we walk into another planet in their history they will likely have only microbes as well.

Of course you just said advanced life, which most prokaryotes fit into. They are the best adapted organisms on Earth with billions of years worth of time to perfect themselves, giving them the best chance at surviving any possible disaster we could face.

I would love multicellular organisms so much more though, and who knows really, we only base things off of Earth and we could be very different from how other life could form.

I guess the ill educated people never understood what I said. lol. How moons developed around Saturn or other various planets. This of course a theoretical theory. HT89488

It is probably much more stable now than it was in the days the rings were made, with no really large objects to cause serious turmoil through the miles of ice it has. The moons it still has after all these years are very strong from the early history and have remained in their orbits for as long as we have seen. Even the rings follow a very steady orbit despite being made of so much debris.

Of course we are going for any possibility of life, maybe even grasping for straws a little, in our solar system because traveling to others will be impracticle until ... well a long time.

Are they ever going to go to a moon they think might have life on it?

Alacoque72

They've been testing self controling robotic deep sea divers (Like This) for moons like this and Europa (Jupiter). Now there's the problem of the getting through all the ice.