Recent content by solar

I'm not necessarily saying that he doesn't believe what he says, but he has made a lot of money from saying this stuff.

Definately the lurker. Lurker does not participate in normal forum discourse, but he's out there...watching, reading every message. He is usually quite harmless, and more often than not his silence reflects a natural reticence rather than sinister motives. If a fight breaks out he...

I was under the impression that terminator genes were pretty much required by governements for fear of GMOs breeding in the wild.

Haha, yes!!!!! When I graduate with a degree in math it may not be completely useless.

That is a good proof if you are allowed to assume a priori that sqrt(2) is irrational. To prove that it actually is is a little more involved. Assume x=sqrt(2) is rational. Let x=a/b where a/b is a fraction in lowest terms. Square both sides 2=a^2/b^2 2*b^2=a^2 so a^2 is even (since b is an...

Okay, I admit, after reading the question my first response was Alpha Centuri, but on this show the READ all of the choices to the contestant. How can you possibly here the sun read out lound in a list of stars and NOT know that it is the closest?

507 WPM/100% comprehension

QFT 10 char

No problems with my Gateway laptop, unsure of model.

It works great, except when I try to zoom out for a full world view, at which point it slows down a lot. 2.13GHz Pentium M 256MB Graphics card (don't know what) 1 GB RAM

I'm just not convinced that a significant amount of people will actually want to choose the gender of their child. Anyway, if the balance gets too far away from 50/50 the government can always do something like giving tax breaks to people who decide to have a child of the minority gender, while...

Would the level of rivers really rise, assuming a rise in sea level? They aren't at sea level now, so I don't see why a change in sea level would necessarily affect them. Think about it if the level of every river would rise one meter, some really shallow rivers would double in depth, so I...

Are We the Waiting by Green Day

I got liberal as my number 2 trait, but my date's number 2 trait was conservative. How the hell does that happen?

Liberal Democrat Economic Left/Right: -1.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95