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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Is it worth returning to college at 26 |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 7:00 pm
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| My advice is to go after your goal of an education in your field of study. No one will care how old you are. There was once a great grandmother in Kansas that graduated with her bachelors degree in business at the age of 92. She then went on to complete her masters degree a few years later. Most wou... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Edible computer and electronics |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2024, 9:48 am
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Replies: 23
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| Edible electronics, probably not. Biodegradable computer chips, very likely if they can be built non-toxic. We have so many chips that have built in obsolescence already. Many of them are not recycled. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 12:12 pm
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Replies: 50
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| Come to think of it ...he was the opposite of heroes of recent movies like Alan Turing and (to some extent) Oppenheimer, who served their respective countries, and then got f****d over BY their countries for their efforts! He was an enemy genius who...got pampered and ass-kissed by us! :lol: Yes, V... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 15 Mar 2024, 8:15 pm
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Replies: 50
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| interesting. Didnt realize that the US ended up as Japan's protector. Both of the two Chinas were beholden to post war Japan for aid and trade. So niether raised much of stink about it until recent years. Did see a news story on TV about an exhibit in Japan about that Japanese germ warfare program ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 15 Mar 2024, 8:42 am
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Replies: 50
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| The "sweet pea" people who live in modern China, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Phillipines, and Indonesia, have as many fond memories of their Japanese occupiers as the people of Europe have their German occupiers. And have no problem with the movie I would imagine. China has not forgotte... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: We will succeed or not in brining back the mammoth? |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2024, 5:56 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,192
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| I don't think it's possible. DNA) degrades too much over thousands of years (I assume) It depends greatly on the conditions that it experiences over that time. It would preserve better under very cold conditions than hot areas. That is why scientists are after those mammoths that had been trapped i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2024, 7:35 am
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Replies: 50
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| I did a calculation today on the shipment, assuming that it contained only UO3. The 550 kg. Of UO3 could produce approximately 467.7 kg of uranium metal. The isotope separation part is tricky, but can be done with cyclotrons that the Japanese had. It would yield enough U-235 to make at least a few ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2024, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 50
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| A little historical piece often lost to time: Germany did attempt to sent over their collection of processed uranium oxide (not enriched) to Japan right before the Nazi government fell. The captain of the submarine U-234 decided to surrender to US forces off the Eastern coast of the US. He had hear... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: We will succeed or not in brining back the mammoth? |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2024, 8:58 am
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Replies: 28
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| I love mammoths as much as the next guy but.......why? Where are they going to live? Siberia? Canada? Patagonia?? What about the animals already living in those ecosystems? What will happen to species that share food sources with hypothetical mammoths? Will their populations partially die off to ma... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Oppenheimer Oscar leaves bad taste |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2024, 7:54 am
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| Can't we just admit that the US really screwed the world over in the longrun by intoducing the atom bomb into the world and making us all less safe? I think the original plan was to use against the Nazis. You have to remember the Germans were on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb so technically... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: cost of spaceship |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2024, 8:46 am
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Replies: 44
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funeralxempire wrote: misha00 wrote: maybe some type of AI or a simple computer program could figure out how to make the technologies less expensive. So, your plan to save us from the AI threat is with more AI? 
Yes, keep trusting AI to do the thinking. Nothing bad can come from that. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: cost of spaceship |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2024, 8:46 am
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Replies: 44
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| How exactly would it provide a hedge against AI? :scratch: I imagine he thinks that boarding a mother-ship will be an escape from a scorched Earth where evil AI reigns supreme. I feel like assuming the AI wouldn't be on the spaceship as well isn't a very sound assumption to make. I agree with your ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A question for game console geeks |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2024, 10:43 am
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Replies: 2
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| My guess would be the Nintendo WII system. It had sensors that could react to players movements. I think they had a add on that was a bar placed under the tv screen. That is why I chose “other” in the poll. I do know it had programs for sports, dancing and even virtual bowling. WIIs are fairly commo... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Zombie Deer Disease |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2024, 10:33 am
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Replies: 8
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Misslizard wrote: They stagger around and look like they are dying( which they are) and are usually drooling.
This has been known to exist in Kansas for around a decade or so. The locals there are split between being concerned and indifferent about it. That still does not stop them from eating deer though. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Valentines Day |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2024, 11:10 pm
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Replies: 57
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| I don’t know why they say diamonds are the girl best friend, that not true for me. I don’t like diamonds now, they tooooo expensive. They say diamonds are a symbol for your love. However they don't directly say that buying diamonds is a sign that a guy is willing to spend a lot of money on his part... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Valentines Day |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2024, 8:32 pm
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Replies: 57
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| It is an excuse to sell chocolate, gift cards, and diamonds. Jewelry commercials like to push the thought that diamonds are forever. In my chemistry classes, I like to point out that diamonds are not forever based upon the thermodynamics of carbon. They are formed under high temperature and high pr... |
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