This anti-scientific nonsense spewing out of the mouths of right-wing fundamentalist Christians is bad for the state of Texas. Many well-educated, scientifically-minded people would rather drown in a puddle of sewage than live in an environment where sense and reason are ridiculed, and ancient misinformed, mistranslated, and misread stories become the basis for academic "fact" in the public schools. It is indicative of a larger-scale cultural rejection of the modern world by a faction of Texans that is too huge to be ignored. I would take less money to live in a place where people are not quite so ridiculous and ignorant in their beliefs and knowledge. What is it about people from Texas that allows them to deny the truth when it stares them in the face? Does the hand of God somehow touch them in a way that blinds them to the obvious? What an asshole if He is. And if He isn't, then what assholes those Texans are.

Well, if you are trying to accelerate them with the magnets, you are going to have a problem. That's like try to accelerate your car using just your steering wheel.

true that, www. but you all knew what i meant.

High energy physics has a rich history of spinoff technologies. Ever had an MRI? The superconducting magnets used in an MRI machine come out of particle accelerators. Massive amounts of data analysis? Talk to a high energy physicist. And as final tongue-in-cheek example, have you used the Internet lately? Invented at CERN.

Just like drinking ages are set by the States too. And all of them are 21. It is mere coincidence that the Feds threatened to withhold highway funds unless they got their way.

You can convert your AAC files to MP3 assuming they are iTunes Plus files.

I have used a lot of different stuff in my time as a physicist. Personally, the program that I prefer is not free. It is Igor Pro, which the parent post mentioned. While it is not free, a "student" license is only 90 bucks from Wavemetrics, its vendor. The student license gives you a full working copy of Igor for eternity. You are allowed to install it at work, at home, and on your laptop. It is a "makes sense" license, unlike other programs. If I had more time I would go into the details of why I like Igor so much, but I have a pressing meeting to attend to. Suffice to say that economics is a big motivator (and upgrades are very very reasonable).

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Well, I should hope not. If your BAC is 0.8, you are most likely dead. If not, you will have set a new world record for the highest level of alcohol intoxication. Unfortunately, you may not wake up from the alcohol-induced coma to revel in your achievement.

Given that the average earth-moon distance is 384403 km, 14.5 times this is about 5.57 million km. This translates into about 0.0373 AU, which differs from .41 AU by about a factor of 11. Can anyone explain this discrepancy?

Yes, and I am clear on their training. However, my opinion is that doctors come nowhere close to being scientists. Perhaps, yes, they are closer than a plumber, but that was hyperbole to lend to my point.

When I was in college, I had to take programming courses to demonstrate a basic competence in computer programming. I was tested repeatedly. That experience in no way qualifies me to say that I'm an expert at programming, or even that I am considerably more knowledgeable than a business person writing formulas in an Excel spreadsheet. In the same vein, IMO, doctors don't really qualify as scientists, or even being particularly knowledgeable about the subject. However, the belief among laypeople is that they are knowledgeable. This leads to false weighting of medical opinion versus scientific opinion. They are not one and the same, but many people do not distinguish between the two. I think they should do so.