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Infinity Ball, The: The Infinity Ball is a fearsome device used by the Hey Empire. It resembles a sideways 8 ball and doesn't look menacing at all. It is powerful though. The ball has telekinetic powers, is extremely fast, and squeaks when it moves. It even has hyperspace technology built in. The Whats are extremely afraid of the Infinity Ball. They were chased across the universe by the little engine of destruction. When The Tick destroyed the Hey's attempts of bringing forth a universe ending cataclysm, he was attacked by the Infinity Ball. The ball crashed into the heroes chest, falling to the ground after impact. The most devastating weapon in the Hey's arsenal proved to be less devastating then it was once believed to be. In fact, it was pretty lame.

Martian geological time is subdivided into a number of time periods based upon major geomorphological features seen from orbit -- major crater basins, the density of craters (generally speaking, crater frequency was higher in the deep past -- as on the Earth's Moon), canyons and channels such as Valles Marinaris, and volcanoes. While it isn't possible to determine their exact numerical age, it is possible to figure out their relative age (i.e. the order of the events that made them). For example, the overlapping shapes of craters tells you which impact formed first. If a volcano has a crater on it, then obviously the volcano formed first and then the crater. If a channel is eroded into a crater, then the channel came after. That kind of thing. So, there's a reasonably detailed relative chronology for events on Mars, and this is divided into eras known as (from oldest to youngest) the Noachian, the Hesperian, and the Amazonian.

Using crater densities and the fact that rocks were recovered and dated on the Moon, it is possible to link the better-known chronology of the Moon to that of Mars. There are significant uncertainties of course, but generally speaking that allows people to estimate that the Noachian was from about 4.6 billion to about 3.5 billion years ago, essentially the time when the cratering frequency started to drop off on the Moon. There is ample evidence that at this time on Mars there was freely-flowing water on the surface, hence, "Noachian".

The pages cited above has some really nice charts and descriptions, and the wikipedia page has a map showing the distribution of the deposits of different ages.

The orbit of Mars is very eccentric and Milankovitch wobbles much more pronounced then Earths. Quite a likely candidate.
Here's a quick overview of Martian seasons, http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/bauregger/seasons.html note how the seasons are not equal in length due to orbital eccentrics.

Lunacy, yes. But the root cause was that Chairface Chippendale had designed a giant heat ray designed by Professor Cromedome to carve his name into the face of the moon. http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/moon.jpg

I call it the catbird seat, Brian Pinhead.

Break it and you shall pay dearly valet person.

http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/9_tick.html

Uhh... you didn't mean this Milton Friedman, did you? The one who helped Pinochet double the poverty rate in Chile? Unlike Free/Open Source Software, which extends the purchasing power of government dollars, stimulates local industry, and builds local knowledgebases, Friedman's neoliberalism kills local industry and impoverishes local people. Cardoso's administration of Friedman's poison left his country a Switzerland inside an India, with the widest disparity between rich and poor in the world. I am equally excited that Lula is championing FOSS and calling for trade that is both free and reciprocal (as well as noting in his speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos that free and secure citizens are one of the main prerequisites for a free market). Friedman just doesn't relate.

25 years = 35 metric years is +3 Insightful? Hope it's a Funny w/karma style moderation.

I did, however, find this, which compares Julian years (365.25 days) in relation to different physical references of a year (time between two winter soltices is different than the time between two vernal equinoxes). Someone want to calculate the Internet's age in anomalistic years? My head's spinning from all the 1 decimal values.

Actually, if you had read any of the other five responses before posting yours, you would see that no, the leap year has nothing to do with it. Four minutes a day works out to about 24 hours per year. One revolution around the Sun produces the illusion of one rotation around the Earth's axis if you use the Sun as your reference.

The same thing happens on Mars, but because it's year is about twice as long, the effect is about two minutes a day. If you measure time relative to the position of the Sun, then a Martian day is 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35.24409 seconds.

Mars Time FAQ

This site has a description of a Mars clock built by Ralph B. Mentzer of the Hamilton Watch Company, ca. 1954.

It's a fascinating timepiece, with a 16-inch diameter, a 24-hour face and almost 400 working parts. It could even keep track of the difference in calendar measurements between earth and Mars.

However, apparently only two of these clocks were ever built. One is at the Smithsonian Institution and the other resides at the National Watch and Clock Museum (and the clock seems to be visible on this page).

Yes, that's true. The martian year is much longer than Earth's. If you were to convert Mars' year, the global dust storms would start sometime around the "August" of Mars and end around "September". But that's local to Mars, and not synchronized to Earth-years in any way as far as I can see.

Here's a martian calendar.

OK, looking at the web page I cited in my post above, there have been other attempts to come up with a timekeeping system for the Martians, dating back to 1880.

More information can be found at http://pweb.jps.net/~tgangale/mars/index.htm.

In the appendix to his 1991 novel Martin Rainbow, Robert L. Forward devised a Martian calender. It is based on the standard second, and uses a regular system of leap seconds to keep the calander close to Earth's.

Rather than try to summarize the system, I was fortunate enough to find the relevant passage on the internet at http://pweb.jps.net/~tgangale/mars/other/forward.h tm.

Usually, most science fiction characters refer to something like "Earth Standard Time," or something like that. This is the first attempt I am aware of that deals with the issue of timekeeping for off-Earth colonies.

For some people, the construction of the equipment is the whole point. And while I'm sure some DIY hobbies are in decline, others have absolutely taken off in recent years.

I never got into building electronic stuff, but I'm interested in building guitars. Lately, I've been itching to build my own guitar amp. There is even a website devoted to it. Thanks to the numerous web resources out there, I can learn to build all sorts of crazy things that I never could have figured out on my own.

I suspect that the people that like soldering electronic gizmos together in their garage are still around, just doing different things. A surprising number of the amatuer guitar builders are techies, for instance. There's a whole lot of awesome stuff left to build, so I don't think that people are hanging up their soldering irons yet.

Steve

These guys disected the Gnutella protocol and used the Furi interface (which provides network status screens and gives users info about nodes they're connected to) for their project. I was looking over the source code briefly and it looks very tight. It's nice to see college students interested and working on projects like these. If you go to the website and read over their final paper it is very interesting. You'll find a lot of stuff about the guts of Gnutella and what is unique about this project. They toyed with interfaces for a long time and rejected a great deal of them. It seems they spent a lot of time making this a very easy to use tool. They even worked hard on getting the color scheme down (hence this rejected scheme). Seeing a few people that are this poetic in refining their tools so that the user can use them best is rare.

The final visualization was createed with Python and Tkinter ("Tk interface"-- the de-facto Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit). Tkinter is not the only GUI for Python. However, they chose it because it is commonly used and is easily portable between Unix and Windows (how thoughtful of them!)

Go read Courtney Love does the math. Musicians still make their living almost entirely from giving live performances, just as the bards, skalds, and street musicians have done for thousands of years. As for authors, check the post above by cprael.

Also go read History of Copyright. The original purpose of copyright is only to get new material published. With the Internet, publishing new material is now a trivial expense. The print publishers can wait and see what's got a strong demand, with that risk removed, we no longer need to give them a period of exclusive right to print any given material. In short, copyright is obsolete.

All serious users and hardcore geeks (PPC, etc.) will have a chance to get together on September 15 & 16, 2001 near O'Hare airport in Chicago. The event will be HHC 2001, the HP handheld users conference, and will be the last of its kind in the US until if and when HP brings out another new fancy handheld, which at the moment is very unlikely. All the details on the conference and preregistration for it are available on the official conference web page here.

How far back in the 70s? This article (gotten from another comment here) is an interview with the guys who started the first BBS, and they started on January 16, 1978. When did you start?

-Kraft

http://www.jps.net/foxnhare/cbbs.html

It's from the April 1980 issue of "Kilobaud Microcomputing" (love that name), and the subjects of the interview are Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, the founders of the first BBS ever. Interesting musings on networking ("nationwide netting might become complicated and expensive"), early modems ("We are running the Potomac Micro-Magic and are really happy with it"), starting new BBSs ("you could easily do it for $2000"), etc. Check it out, and marvel how things have changed in the last 20 years...

Cheers,
-j.

That said, you have to start somewhere. And if it can be shown that those who are cryopreserved have a decent chance of good recovery, then I think offering cryonic suspension/recovery services will be a very lucrative business. After all, if it works, cryonics will vastly increase the one resource that's strictly limited for everyone, no matter how wealthy they are--time. How much would you pay for an extra 100 years of healthy life?

With such large amounts of money involved, it seems to me that cryonics organizations will have a strong incentive to come up with mechanisms for ensuring successful (very) long term care and recovery of their patients.

I saw a presentation by Stephen Valentine on the TimeShip idea. The $180 million price tag is the expected price for the final completed project. Although it is not mentioned in the article, the TimeShip is designed to be modular. Initially, the Timeship will be much smaller than its final dimensions--only the core services will be constructed (research facility, one storage module). As demand increases, more modules can be added until eventually it reaches its final dimensions.

However, in my opinion, cryonics will remain a small, financially precarious community of true believers until it has been demonstrated to work. It's going to take a lot of research to demonstrate that it will work.

Therefore, if you're interested in helping cryonics succeed (even if you're skeptical of the TimeShip project) here are some suggestions:

• Learn more about the practice of cryonics. You can find links to most of the available online information from the Cryonet home page.
• Donate money to the Life Extension Foundation (LEF), with the proviso that it be earmarked for cryonics research. Saul Kent is also the co-founder of the LEF.
• Join Alcor or the Cryonics Institute or the American Cryonics Society. All of these organizations are small, and a single activist can have a big influence. Help raise funds for scientific research.
• Write a polite letter to the president of the Society for Cryobiology, urging him to strike the blanket ban, barring individuals who support cryonics from membership in the society. (See Section 2.04 from their bylaws.

Seven whole years earlier, Flash Attack was doing multi-machine head-to-head competition (although it wasn't an FPS) on the Commodore PET. I was into Apple ][s at the time, but played the later port that ran via MajorBBS.

This looks like Gyration's Gyroscope mouse with a headband.

Went over to The CGI Resource Index and found a couple that might work:

Zone Coaster's Survey
Version: 2.50 - Released: 05/27/97

This versatile survey script allows you to administer a survey using any form you like. Results are stored in a text file and are retrieved, sorted, and presented to you how you want when you want. Tested under Windows and Unix.

FreeScripts: Vote Script

Version: 1.1 - Released: 06/23/96 - Free - Platform(s): Unix, Windows NT

This script allows people to rate anything on a scale of one to ten. It produces a graph of the cumulative results of the voting and the graph is updated every time the script is run.

Voting on My Site

Released: 02/03/98 - Free - Platform(s): Unix

Voting On My Site is a great add-on to any web page! It will allow you to have your visitors vote on your page! They can choose whether they think the site is excellent, average, poor, etc. It even includes a comment section. This script will email the webmaster whenever a new vote has been made. This script will even display the results in a very nice graphical format.

MultiPoll

Version: 2.1 - Released: 11/10/97 - $50 - Platform(s): Unix

Now run a number of online polls quicky, easily & hassle free. MultiPoll features Auto expiration of polls, online administrating, double vote blocking (cookies), email notification of expired polls, great display, & no time consuming tasks from the admin user.

Poll

Version: 1.0 - Released: 06/01/96 - $80 - Platform(s): Unix, Windows NT

With this script, you will easily create as many interactive polls on your Website as you can possibly handle. It's strange, but people do like to vote for their favorite rock-musician, best baby-formula, sexiest model, or predict results of the upcoming presidential/school board election.

Poll It Pro!
Version: 1.6 - Released: 08/26/96 - $20 - Platform(s): Unix

Tally, Archive, E-Mail results, stop multiple votes, and more! - Poll It Pro was designed for the High Tech sites who are looking to host Online Polls in a easy, manageble way.

The Scripts Home: Voting Booth

Version: 1.0 - Released: 01/12/96 - Free/$30>

"The Voting Booth allows your visitors to cast their vote in an unlimited number of topics and updates the info immediately, giving them percentages and number of votes cast for each choice." Commercial sites are charged $30 for this script.

The Poll Master
Version: 1.3 - Released: 03/17/98 - $99 - Platform(s): Unix, Windows

Handles all of your polling needs: display questions, get input, and calculate results A simple question's file allows you to group certain questions that you wish to appear together or you can access each question individually. Only allows one answer per visitor even with your cookies turned off. Price includes free setup on any server!

Dave Bewley's survey.pl

Version: 1.1 - Released: 04/06/96 - Free

Bewley says, "Survey gathers comments on any number of pages using one standard survey or a unique survey for each page if you like. Designed to be inobtrusive, it knows the page a user referenced it from and will return them to that page once they submit the form."

It:s written in Java and compatible with the Gnutella protocol, so it's impervious to windoze viruses : http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/

Try FURI, it's Java-based and works very well. Has a nice GUI, too.

For anyone with prejudices against Java, please try the program, don't just whine about how bad / slow / whatever Java is. Having a newer Java Runtime Environment helps, too.

If you're mildy familiar with motorola assembly, grab the Onboard Resource Editor. It's great fun. You can examine all the databases of every app you have installed and alter anything you want. Dead easy to disable nagware.

Top Secret. For storing your passwords etc. (protected my TinyDES encryption).

Planetarium. The best astronomy palm companion.

MindSpiral. Just to get freaked out.

Invert. Invert your screen (because some grayscale apps, when backlit, look dodgy)

Convert. The best conversion table app.

An interesting paper about this can be found here. While it doesn't address the what-ifs asked about, it's an interesting look at at least the english side of it. Not surprisingly, Smalltalk is a big example throughout.

Granted, it isn't quite as straightforward as Objective-C, since you are forced to define interfaces. I, too, would have preferred these features to be as straightforward in Java as in Objective-C. But you lose some and you win some: on balance, Java has runtime safety and Java's reflection API is more complete and better specified; on balance, I think that's not a bad tradeoff.

Incidentally, there are more dynamic distributed object systems for Java, including Sun's own JavaSpaces, as well as some of the XMLRPC implementations.

Incidentally, both JPython and Bistro give you a very Smalltalk/Objective-C like object model on top of the Java runtime. Bistro just uses reflection, which has significant overhead. JPython actually does a lot of analysis to make some method invocatinos faster. I believe it's possible to do even better and essentially support Smalltalk/Objective-C object semantics completely and portably in Java.

The other thing to keep in mind is that Sun, unlike Apple/NeXT, has publically stated that independent reimplementations of their software and APIs are fine with them (their battle with Microsoft is over trademarks and licensing terms, not the right to clone Java).

[ObFCC]
The FCC is just itching to regulate some more. The idea of a government agency (especially in the US) that would rather not regulate, except those mean nasty corporations leave us no choice would be laughable if people's thoughts didn't actually work that way.
[/ObFCC]

BTW, that's hardly the world's largest palindrome (and in fact, it's not a palindrome at all since technically, palindromes cannot contain proper nouns such as Panama). For a 540 word version of the Panama one, try here. And if you're adventurous and count foreign languages (French) there's this one which is 1247 words long. There's also a really long German one kicking around, but I can't dredge up a url.

The original wording was

"Pone seram, cohibe." Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.

"Bolt her in, keep her indoors." But who is to guard the guards themselves? Your wife arranges accordingly and begins with them.

Then again, Juvenal was discussing women here, not spooks, and one presumes (or hopes) that these are slightly different concerns. :-)

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

It's weird. I had a crush on her for a while, before ever talking to her. Then while I was talking to her we didn't talk about a whole lot, etc. Then, as school was ending, she asked me to sign her yearbook... and I put my email address in there too. Pretty much the nerdiest thing that average people would know how to do :)

Well, anyway, as I'd been to shy to ask her phone number, I had pretty much given up all hope of talking to her over the summer, and going out with her at all. However, on the first night of our vacation, she emailed me. Believe me, I was leaping about the room (literally). I got to know her over IMs (she has AOL 'cause of parents...), and emails, and I got her phone number, and well... now she's my best friend, and it looks like she's gonna be my girlfriend at some point in time. I love her :)

I'm sure you all care about this; but it's how I got the nicest girl in the world, for whatever reason. I'm not smooth or anything (I wrote my email in her yearbook, for chrissakes), but somehow, for some reason she likes me.

There needs to be more girls like that.

I haven't had a girlfriend in 2.5 years. 'Course, I don't really get to complain; I know people 10 years older than me who've never had a girlfriend. I'm about to get a girlfriend soon, though. I can't tell you why; I wasn't particularly smooth or anything, and I'm terminally shy, and quite hard to get to know. I'm secretive about a lot of things, especially to people I just met. However, by some coincidence (which is kinda funny, she was trying to avoid this guy that she doesn't like) she started talking to me. She had the patience to talk to me for a while, put up with my not-talking-ness, tell me about herself, and wait to find out about me. She really likes me for who I am now, especially since she found out I'm highly honest with people I'm very close to.

While we're not technically a couple (she's just now allowed to date, she wants to try several guys first... and there's nothing I can do about that.), I have total trust and confidence in her... and I'm pretty sure that we'll end up going out fairly soon. Heh, we're probably gonna go see Princess Mononoke on the 6th, after it comes out in Sacramento :)

But I haven't told you all about her. She's absolutely beautiful (though she'd say she's not, and she thinks that no one else thinks that). She's one of the nicest people I've ever known. She's very cute in her mannerisms. She sorta likes computers... not with the same passion I do, but she can understand how I feel. I really love her, and I hope to be with her for a very long time.

Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough here... there's just one more thing, you can see pictures of her here and here

I hope you've enjoyed my nonsensical sappy corny loving ranting :)

I haven't had a girlfriend in 2.5 years. 'Course, I don't really get to complain; I know people 10 years older than me who've never had a girlfriend. I'm about to get a girlfriend soon, though. I can't tell you why; I wasn't particularly smooth or anything, and I'm terminally shy, and quite hard to get to know. I'm secretive about a lot of things, especially to people I just met. However, by some coincidence (which is kinda funny, she was trying to avoid this guy that she doesn't like) she started talking to me. She had the patience to talk to me for a while, put up with my not-talking-ness, tell me about herself, and wait to find out about me. She really likes me for who I am now, especially since she found out I'm highly honest with people I'm very close to.

While we're not technically a couple (she's just now allowed to date, she wants to try several guys first... and there's nothing I can do about that.), I have total trust and confidence in her... and I'm pretty sure that we'll end up going out fairly soon. Heh, we're probably gonna go see Princess Mononoke on the 6th, after it comes out in Sacramento :)

But I haven't told you all about her. She's absolutely beautiful (though she'd say she's not, and she thinks that no one else thinks that). She's one of the nicest people I've ever known. She's very cute in her mannerisms. She sorta likes computers... not with the same passion I do, but she can understand how I feel. I really love her, and I hope to be with her for a very long time.

Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough here... there's just one more thing, you can see pictures of her here and here

I hope you've enjoyed my nonsensical sappy corny loving ranting :)

You probably read something like this misinterpretation of the evidence.

If you actually go and read the articles you will find that what they found evidence for is that all humans have mitochondria that trace back to a single individual several hundred thousand years ago. That means that if you trace us all back on direct matrilineal descent (mother to mother to mother to...) you will eventually arrive at a single person.

What they don't mention is that the scientists expected to find that. Think of direct matrilineal descent as being a bush that constantly branches (women have daughters) and gets pruned (some women have no daughters). Starting from a specific point in time, all that that says is that all of the other branches existing at that point have since been completely pruned. This could happen pretty easily by chance, particularly if you started with a small population that was successful and spread out and replaced other groups.

If this really contradicted evolution, then you would think that courses discussing it might be a little more worried than they are, wouldn't you...

Cheers,
Ben

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