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OH!  That's a horse of a different color.

I really only read Astronomy and Discover, so I don't know how to help you.  Check out Space.com, and you'll get some good stories and updates.  I have a Space.com newsbar on my MyYahoo! homepage.

That really kills this board...

I don't know... it just seems that if we do anything in rebuilding the towers smaller than before, we've lost the fight.  Not to be stubborn or too proud, I'm just saying that I think a sacrifice in efficiency would in my mind be worth the symbolism we would re-establish in rebuilding the towers.

Anybody know about Nanotubes and how energy dissipates when wind hits them?  There were some posts about building structures out of nanotubes, and I was wondering about how the material would take building sway (if it swayed at all)

Sorry.  I don't have either.

If you play POGO.com games, my login is theladiesman3500

It's Science Fair time again...

I was wondering if any of you have some ideas about science fair projects.  Just to give you a rough run-down of my situation:

1.)  I live in the Rockies, with a summer high of around 75 F, and a winter low of about 10 F

2.)  I live inside of a forest fire burn area

3.)  I live around several nice-sized bodies of water

4.)  I recieve about 6' of snow yearly, with most sticking around until late March or early April

5.)  I can come up with a reasonable budget, so don't restrain yourselves (too much  ).

I would like to hear about ANY project ideas you have, whether it pertains to Mars, or something else.  I hope this information gives you a better base about what I can experiment with.  Thanks!

Would you want to have a permanent staff of writers, or independent cores of technical and creative writers working independently?  You could really get some gifted technical or space writers to do some great stories for free.

Does that mean that the Ietolla is worse than Saddam?  Speaking of which, if we're done with Iraq, we should try our hand at Iran, which has to my knowledge stayed out of the conversation...

I don't want to comment, for fear of having a brick thrown through my living room window. ???

This is one tough cookie.  I couldn't stand living in close quarters with a psycho-suicidal person.  I'd fear for my own life, but at the same time I couldn't kill another human being for no apparent reason.  I think it's easier to answer this question in a room with windows and stimuli, than if you were actually going insane in a cell.

I think there are some other questions that are more interesting.  If the person was the same sex as you, would you become homosexual after a while?  If the person was the opposite sex, would you resort to rape?  Would you try to steal food from your prison-mate?  Would you begin to fight with them over simple things, like becoming extremely territorial?

I had a similar question I though about for a long time:

You are stuck in an endless void, stretching out into blank whiteness for as far as you can see.  There are no landmarks in the void whatsoever.  Completely barren.  The ambient light that illuminates this void comes from somewhere that you can't exactly tell; the light just is.  You are never hungry, for some reason, and because this void is empty, you think that escape is impossible.

Personally, I think ANYONE would go crazy.  Imagine having no landmarks to judge movement by.  You could in theory just be trapped in an 8-foot cube and be running in place.  Even staring off into the distance would be horrible.  Nothing to occupy your thoughts...

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That's a cool idea.  Are you thinking of something like, "NASA Today", or more of a theoretical and drawing board mission type of magazine?  I don't think Astronomy does a good enough job of covering NASA missions, because they focus more on backyard observing than actual space ideas.

If you made it more like a newsletter, or maybe something a little bigger, you could send it out as an e-mail or put up a web page with that month's copy.  Let me know how this develops.  I'm interested...

My initial 9/11 reaction was that we should build the towers bigger, better, and more beautiful than before.  I favored two black glass towers, at 125 stories.  I stopped liking this idea because black buildings, in New York, in the summer, will be extremly hard to keep air conditioned.

I like the replica idea because it is rubbing the terrorists nose in their own mess.  It's like saying,"yes, you destroyed the first one, but you couldn't keep it down."

As for the "torque" (?) idea, I like that too.  It would be nice to see some non-utilitarian architecture on the Manhattan Skyline.

No, we shouldn't invade Cuba because they don't support terrorists and they don't have a nuclear bomb.

And I do know how WWI started, and that won't happen because everyone will know who assassinated Iraqi leaders, they'll just turn a blind eye.

And as for the trash talk?  It was you, PaganToris, who came in here telling me to keep my mouth shut for no good reason.  You started it, and I'll finish it.  I just wanted to talk politics with people I respect and I got slapped in the face by some kid I've never even met before and never want to talk to again.  And AltToWar, you just think he's funny because I'm a conseervative.  Nice call. ???

I won't be coming back to this message board for a while, so I'll leave you with my closing remarks:

1.)  We are sending UN inspectors to Baghdad to prove or disprove our reasonable theories that Iraq has nuclear weapons.

2.)  If we find weapons, we'll invade; if we don't, we'll move on to North Korea.  Iraq is different from North Korea because of the proximity to China, and their threat to South Korea, Japan, and troops in the DMZ.

3.)  The call to the UN by the President was a symbollic deed.  The US doesn't need the international community to fight this dicator, but it makes us feel like we've consulted someone on the matter.

4.)  I favor the use of assassinations, because they save our troops lives, they minimize Iraqi civilian loses, and they remove only the leaders that we and the Iraqi people hate.

5.)  The nuclear weapon was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.  How many times did the possession of 1weapon keep so many wars from starting?  How many times did it prevent the US and Russia from going into a war?

6.)  The movement of troops into the middle east was done to keep Saddam from interfering with inspectors and making our presence known in the region.

7.)  We must disarm Saddam to protect the Israelis from a SCUD nuclear missile, and to protect many western countries from having a nuclear weapons used by terrorists inside of their borders.  If Americans don't stop this threat, who will?

8.)  The US isn't in this for oil.  If any energy benefits come of this, they are just that: a side benefit.  We are in this to protect our borders and our interests overseas.

I have been harrassed, threatened, and degraded for holding these beliefs.  I was just a 14 year old kid trying to defend my point of view in front of the world, and I think I did a pretty good job.  However, I've grown tired of PaganToris' hate mail, and ecrasez_l_infame's assaults on Mr. Bush's personal life.  Thank you, Clark, for being, in my mind, the only gentleman in this debate.

You may have gotten rid of me for now, but I will return...

What kind of dork would challenge a COMPLETE STRANGER to come and try to anal rape them?  Not only that, but would give this COMPLETE STRANGER their High School AND location.

If I'm correct, this is a page for the discussion of the Bush Administration and the war on terror, not a forum for your school yard trash talk.

Save your kiddie crap and taunting for the youth chat room, and let the rest of us have an intelligent conversation.

So, you would let people willy-nilly "hop to it" just because you think it would be bad to deprive people of children?  I personally would find a method of castration involving only a sharp rock and a necktie from one of the male's washed up suitcases.  Speaking of which, have any of you guys ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?  YUM!

On the "Alternative Sex" point, you can only do it in the butt for so long.  I mean, its fun at first, but after a while it becomes like the moonshine to a fine bottle of champaigne.  And on these "other methods of hot sex", I really don't want to have a mental picture of what scientists do with their partners after dark.  Sorry.