Good to know it's not just me. I'm glad I checked here before going through the extra effort of uninstalling/reinstalling the plug in. Hopefully this gets sorted out soon!

V is for velocity: the derivative of position, and the integral of acceleration (both with respect to time). More commonly thought of as the rate at which something moves.

The best part about college? Without a doubt, I would have to say the people.

In high school, I never thought that I could have closer friends than I did then. I was wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. It's almost appalling just how far off the mark I was.

The friends I've made at college have shaped who I am radically. They constantly challenge me and make me strive to be a better person (some obviously more so than others). These folks have so much more depth they're willing to explore than anybody I've ever known. Maybe it's just my college. Maybe it's just the people I found to be friends with. I don't know. What I do know is that these are the most amazing people I have ever had the privilege of getting to know. They know how to be light, laid back, and fun yet also how to dig in and talk about deep issues in life. What's more is that they're not afraid to do it.

It's not just the friends, either; it's the faculty too. Bear in mind, I attend a private college where classes are small and teachers love getting to know their students. Because of this, my professors know me by name, and even have a decent idea of who I am - one even knows the kinds of jokes he can make about how rainy it is where I come from (140 inches a year, baby). The professors can be a real joy to listen to and learn from. (Some, of course are duller than a black towel but that can't be avoided.) It's quite a blessing to be at a place like this, where there's room to breathe; where there's room to grow; where there's room to - I don't know - be!

I'm currently attending university for my (Undergrad) degree in Mechanical Engineering. I really hope to take this and someday make it into the aeronautical/ aerospace industry.* About halfway to my degree and I've gotta say: I'm loving this whole "engineering" thing.

*"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care; I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me...."

Moshers (people who are participating in a "mosh pit") have been known to exhibit gas-like behavior. They have been observed bouncing off of each other in ways that can be described almost perfectly by the laws governing gases.

Gotta be Baba Yetu. Who doesn't love a little Swahili?

Water.
I would have Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, and Sheckle.
Why? Because I like Tuwtles.

Quite true, indeed.

The person below me has a sad disliking of math.

Brigand :
http://mars-one.com/en/
Is the link to the site planning a settlement there. There is also what you mentioned: the plan to send a married couple there and back again.

I agree with what has been said: I wouldn't want to be one of the ones going to Mars. But it's exciting to know that we're on the threshold of actually being able to send people there! I would love to be Earth-side helping to work on projects like this. Maybe (with any luck/blessing) in a few years, I will.

This news came out a while ago now, so I don't know if many of you know this already or not, but it would seem that we (mankind) are going to Mars. A program called Mars One is getting set up to send a colonization ship to Mars in a measly ten years! (Sure, that may sound long to some of you, but odds are it's still well within your lifetime, and as far as reality is concerned ten years is a pretty darn short amount of time!) There's somebody else who's currently looking for a couple of people to take the multi-year journey just to go to Mars and back again. That trip should be happening in the much nearer future.

I don't know about any of you, but when I heard this news I was ecstatic! I mean really, people are actually getting up and ready to go to MARS! This is the stuff that you read about in science fiction that's always been so far off from reality! Technology is racing along incredibly, and many things which we once thought impossible are becoming near realities! The future is now! (Cheesy line, I know )

Really, I just want your reactions to this. What do you folks think about the fact that people are finally setting up to actually go to the red planet?

... : This is honestly disappointing. I was really hoping that somebody here could give me an explanation. I want to understand both sides of the argument, and that means understanding why we enjoy music; why we naturally know the 'rules' of melody....

thenumberone : Yes, that is exactly my question! Thank you for helping clarify. And now I just really hope that somebody's got some clue, because I am genuinely curious of how this could be explained.

This is really a very simple question, but I would just like to understand the theory better:
How does evolution explain music? I mean, what possible evolutionary benefit is there to liking certain combinations of sound wave frequencies more than others? Why should our ears be attuned to that?
It has also been shown that most people have the pentatonic scale naturally ingrained in their minds. Such that given a series of three consecutive notes in a pentatonic scale, almost anybody can give the next note.
So why? Why (according to the theory of evolution) do people understand musical chords as chords? What purpose do certain frequencies -- heard together at once -- serve?

 Let's see who recognizes most of these (in no particular order):
1. Howard Shore
2. John Williams
3. Hans Zimmer
4. Frank Tichelli
5. Harry Gregson-Williams
6. The Real Group
7. Eric Whitacre
8. Klaus Badelt
9. Peter Shu
10. Christopher Tin

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64) -
I don't know if this problem is just my computer, but every time I load a saved game, I load back at Link's tree house back in the forest - where you start the game. All of my progress is saved, just not my location. A minor anomaly, really, but annoying still.

Your wish is my command.
But alas! The fast-loading Vizzed seems to crash your computer with every load!

I wish for a storm like none other.

My first job was as a lifeguard at the local pool. It was a perfect setup, since the pool was just up a flight of stairs from the high school (town on a hill) and I grew up as a swimmer, so I've come to know this pool well. The job lasted about 6 months; I began late December and worked until the end of summer, when I had to leave to head off to University Land! And now the remnants of that job are memories, dwindling money, and CPR/First Aid certification.

Yeah! The game works perfectly now!
Heck, I even wasted a good 2 hours playing it rather than doing my chemistry..

Big Bang or God's Creation?
Black or White, Left or Right; is this really the only way it can be? Most people seem to think that only one or the other could possibly be true. Isn't it possible that both could be right - or at least mostly so? The bible says that God created the world in six "days." This is an English translation, not the actual written Hebrew script. The word in Hebrew doesn't strictly mean a 24-hour period consisting of daylight and night time. It could also be translated to mean a period of time. So is it not possible that God created the universe by USING the Big Bang? Perhaps he found that the most practical way to set everything in motion was to fling it all from one central point, and then start from there?
What some call "random chance" I believe was more likely "divine direction." The 'accident' that life happened may have only happened because God himself wanted it to. Or perhaps life itself was only a mishap of molecules. But intelligent life? Not only that, but an intelligent life which has actively proved itself to seek God in some way or another since the dawn of civilization? Even those who did not seek the God of the bible still held some ingrained belief that there was a god out there somewhere, even if they didn't know who it was. It seems to me that all the signs point to God, and thus a creation. But who's to say that He didn't plan things out and let science keep its course through His work?

Surely we all know that the bible tells us that God created the world in six days, and rested on the seventh. It is very clear about that. But all of science suggests that the world was created over an incredibly vast amount of time. So are these two points completely against each other, or is there some understanding that might combine the two?
Does the bible mean a literal 24 hour period by each of the days, or does it mean another, unspecified period of time?
There are countless passages of scripture that can be taken either literally or figuratively, and I ask what is your understanding of each of these? And can you explain why you understand it the way you do?