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Submission + - PlentyOfFish Owner Has Perfect Bait for Success

Submitted by

WSJdpatton

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @09:51AM

WSJdpatton writes: "Lots of people run Web sites by themselves, writes Lee Gomes, but it's likely that no other solo venture runs at the scale of PlentyOfFish, a free dating site that has 1.2 million members and is a model for the next generation of Web entrepreneurship. On a per-capita basis, PlentyOfFish may be the busiest, most profitable site on the Web — generating between $5 million and $10 million a year in revenue."

Submission + - How to survive in a black hole

Submitted by wiredog on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @09:16AM

wiredog writes: From Nature Magazine, an article on how to maximize your survival time should you accidentally steer your star cruiser into a black hole.

Submission + - "Did God create man or did man create God?"

Submitted by

surinp3

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @09:04AM

surinp3 writes: "Once, when I was in a debate over religion, the question "Did God create man or did man create God?" was raised.

The same person then asked, "Wasn't man the one who needed a God?" He held the view that one would only create that which he needed; According to him, God had no real need for humans, and the Bible itself has example after example that shows man as a failed creation. He said that if an all-powerful God had created man, he would have been so disappointed that he would have permanently removed him from the earth. He would have made another man, one that was perfect. Man, being imperfect, was the one who needed a Supreme Being to look out for him. Therefore, he manufactured God within his own mind, in the image of what he considered an almighty being.

I must admit that I was puzzled by his comments then, and I have yet to find answers to his questions. On another occasion, I was challenged by the question of where Cain got his wife. Considering that the Bible describes Adam and Eve as the sole man and only woman, who bore Cain's wife? Did she come from outside the garden? Wasn't the garden the only place where a man and woman existed?

Who has answers to these questions? I'm certain that there are many out there who love to take on such topics just for the sake of argument. Let me know what you think. Shed some light on this issue."

Submission + - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

Submitted by

pile0nades

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @06:58AM

pile0nades writes: "Orbiter is a Free As In Beer space flight sim. Ever wanted a game where you can fly to LEO, the Moon, Mars or whereever else you want? This is it, and it's done with realistic physics too. You can rendezvous and dock with ISS, reenter and land at Cape Canaveral. You can plot a course for Mars or any other planet using the TransX display. And there's no load screen between planets either. What's cool about this though, is if you go to Mars, you don't have to sit there for 6 months. There's a time acceleration feature that speeds up time by up to 100,000 x realtime (1 day goes by in less than a second), reducing the trip time to just a few minutes. It includes the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the futuristic DeltaGlider space plane, and the powerful cargo ship Shuttle-A (no relation to the Space Shuttle) as flyable ships, plus the tiny ShuttlePB (small personal ship) and the Dragonfly (for moving cargo and space station parts). Orbiter also has a huge number of addon ships and mods. Popular addons include the DeltaGliderIV, an advanced version of the stock DeltaGlider; OrbiterSound, which provides background and engine sounds; the Firefly from the movie Serenity; OuterPlanets, which adds many small moons of the outer planets not included in the base install. And yes, there's a Pluto addon too. For managing addon installs, I use the simple JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler."

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