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  1. Trinity University in San Antonio on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know is this is the school mentioned, but if so, by the looks of their web page regarding network access, Trinity has a horrible set of computer access rules. Trinities rules would be more than sufficient reason to live off campus if one were compelled through some misfortune of life to be forced to attend such a school.
    http://www.trinity.edu/its/policies/tigernetusage. asp

  2. 12 thousand million dollars is chump change on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    I must point out that George Bush's government is spending at least 5.8 billion(US) dollars a month. I heard today that is currently at least 8 billion(US). We could have lots of whiz-bang science for that kind of money, to say nothing of world hunger or AIDS.

    United Press International
    November 18, 2004

    WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals.

    That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far.

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    United Press International
    November 18, 2004
    The Army alone is spending $4.7 million a month while the Air Force is spending $800 million a month transporting soldiers and flying combat missions. The Marine Corps is spending $300 million a month, the four service chiefs told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.

  3. Re:Shoot down a beer can in mid-air on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics · · Score: 1

    You're right. Beer cans used to be made of steel. Aluminum can got started in the early 70's

  4. Shoot down a beer can in mid-air on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First year physics - Lancaster, PA Sept 1967
    Takes place is a large lecture theater. At one end of the room an empty beer can is suspended from near the roof by an electromagnet. At the other end of the room there is a long iron pipe hooked up to a canister of compresses air. At the end of the pipe there is a electromagnetic relay. Place a ball bearing the the pipe and aim it at the beer can across the room. Push a charge of air into the pipe, the ball bearing flies out of the pipe and as it leaves the pipe triggers the relay which causes the electromagnet to release the beer can. Both the beer can and the ball bearing begin to fall and accelerate at the same rate as the ball bearing flies toward the beer can. BANG. Our very very large physics professor, Prof. Richard Hood (aka happy) is heard to exclaim: "Ain't science wonderful". A true red letter day in a four year foray into college physics.