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Scientists crack chicken/egg conundrum

"It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," said Dr Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University.

"The protein had been identified before and it was linked to egg formation but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process."

Tax money at work

Yahoo!!

Finally I can stop tossin' and turnin' in my sleep and for free.. someone else paid those taxes. Hahaaa.. erm, Yahoo.. Suckers!!

Extraterrestial Grudge?

His place has been hit by six meteorites so far.

Everyone in town used to throw rocks at me and tell me I was annoying. I once knew this guy named Dilby. He threw rocks at me too. Are you gonna throw rocks at me? What about now?

"I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials," he said. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense."

"The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate."

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Mr Lajic has reinforced his roof with steel for fear that a meteor may hit his house.

He paid for the steel girder by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands.

So much for good things come from above

In shattering news, European scientist have declared that the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) isn't large enough, they need a Much Larger Collider.

Big Bang Investigators Want New Smasher

Not happy with just creating "Tiny Bangs", they want to create bigger bangs. Scientist under the condition of anonymity: "Smash Good... Need more Smash!"

Instead of going around in circles and colliding photons, they want to go all linear (so many game developers can't wrong, right?), with a 50 km long linear accelerator.

"Instead of crashing protons together, the new international collider will accelerate electrons and positrons, their antimatter equivalent, he said".

Funny trivia: Currently, the place below the mountains in central Europe is the coldest place in the universe

"CERN, or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, used powerful superconducting magnets to force the two beams to cross; two of the protons collided, producing 7 trillion electron volts.

The latest results of those experiments will be presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, which is bringing 1,000 physicists to Paris from July 22 to 28."

Oh, and they want Russia and China in on the program too. Even India. Actually, anybody with a wallet

/\ Finally, the age of scientific cathedrals has finally begun, how many years will it take for every big western city to have one ?

I'm surprised none of you have mentioned the 19 deaths at the Love Parade or whatever it's called in Germany.

It's times like that, when people are trampled to death by a crowd of idiots, that I'm reminded of, and very much agree with, Douglas Adam's bit in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that humans are NOT the most intelligent species on the planet.

Only when they are acting as herds. Herds of humans have a collective IQ of 100/no. of people in the herd.

Maybe techno music isn't good for your brain. Wouldn't mention that around Dousi though

Hmm, i usually stay away from these kinds of disasters and tragedies because there is little else to say then that what has occurred is awful. (Often too because they are far from your bed)
Not so with this one, it came very close to be honest, partially to the imagery shown of course. I have been to quite a few of those techno parties, even a few street ones, and can imagine something like this happening much more lively than say a metro-bombing, tsunami or a santa dressed killer.
I can almost recognize the people shown in that tunnel with their sunglasses and colorful outfits, it must have been hell in there. Nothing to see, getting pushed forward by people behind you not seeing the festival terrain and wanting in, while getting pushed back by guards because the terrain is full. Your only way out is up, which probably means those that got out with their lives are the ones who killed the twenty others. It is so strange though, trámpled to death, twenty of them...

Another old man is being charged with Nazi war crimes.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/2 ... tment.html

I don't know how the rest of you feel, particularly since most of the remaining forum members are European and the war affected you far more directly than it did us but...

In my opinion, it's really rather pointless. The war ended 65 years ago. And no American has ever really been charged with war crimes. The My Lai massacre in Vietnam was a glaring example of a lack of justice. Bush and cohorts should definitely be facing charges over their fabricated war on terror and the idiocy of false pretences leading to the invasion of Iraq.

Why is it that once or twice a year, some 90 year old man is charged with Nazi war crimes for being a camp guard? Other than purely symbolic, what's the bloody point? It's not justice so much as feel-good publicity and petty revenge in my view. And beyond that, really, how much choice did low ranking guards have? "I'm sorry Mein Fuhrer. I realise that you will kill me and my entire family but I really strongly disagree with the Final Solution and don't want to be in the German military at all." It's not as if you could have been a conscientious objector in Nazi Germany.

And the greater criminals on the Nazi side already had their trials at Nuremberg. Those that weren't executed, and didn't commit suicide, were given nice cushy jobs in America. Justice is often self-serving and the self being served rarely, if ever, involves the victims. Prosecuting the aged for being a camp guard 65 years ago is meaningless and absurd in my opinion.

At this point in time, it is probably pointless. It might have made sense if they had prosecuted him 30 years ago...

The "notorious" camp guards were usually member of Waffen SS though (Totenkopf springs to mind), which were volunteers. You couldn't avoid getting drafted to the Wehrmacht, but the SS, while often subject to OKH (the army high command) when deployed at the front, they ultimately reported to Heinrich Himler, not the OKW (the armed forces high command).

Even though I am from Europe the war didn't affect me and the people that can remember it are getting fewer and much fewer than anywhere else in Europe, because Denmark wasn't having such a hard time during the war. That being said, I almost think it's a crime to stalk and prosecute people for so long after. I think it's quite likely that anyone of these so-called war criminals have had their share of bad dreams and personal guilt and as long as they don't continue in those foot steps or brag about how they killed the jews during WW2 I think they should get off the hook after such a long time, because they are no longer the people they were after such a long time, obviously. Getting caught in your youth with your balls in Hitlers democratically elected fascistoid-propaganda-blitz-krieging-war-machine.. and sentenced 65 years later, that's just evil.

And the nation that was later created and justified as a kind of penance for the transgression vs. the jews is by no means a rolemodel.. How about the war-crimes of the Israelis vs. the native population of the palaestinians? Okay, It's a different time, but the victims are now the culprits.

Meh, it seems like we're moving into your governments direction Joseph... For the first time ever it looks to become a minority government formed by the liberals and christians with 'toleration support' (?) from the rightwingers, they're even saying its working perfectly fine over at yours...



Oh and im unsure of my stance on former nazi's, usually i believe in the idea that crimes can become outdated, but when the crime goes further than say murder, im not so sure. Guess my feeling says if the sentence would be life in prison for a crime it shouldnt go out of date. Still not sure if thats a great idea though, especially considering the WW2, things should come to an end, lest we keep digging up old stereotypes and hold on to grudges the new people have nothing to do with.

I think we have more freaking problems then 70 year old geezer today, like big ass problems with a angry muslim population that gets annoyed over paintings or missunderstood if they just are your random citizen. Terrorism, hospital bacteria who is impossible to remove cause America with others give antibiotics to people like candy to a child. Lets not forget the wonky weather, Sweden is not supposed to have tropical heat of 30 celsius for longer then maybe a day. But now? 1,5 week of super hot sun and after it its been warm for freaking weeks even if it rains and the wind blows.

Yeah, the hospital infection thing is a bad development. Can't really blame any single country for it though, as it was a worldwide practice after WWII to issue antibiotics routinely. Not just to humans, but on a very large scale to farm animals and livestock too, which helped breeding a new generation of resistant germs. It was the DDT story all over again. Works very well for a while until organisms with a short lifespan/high procreation rate starts developing counter measures. I.e. evolution happens at a pace that science has trouble keeping up with.

USA can be blamed for it, giving it to everyone, for everything. Also countries like India, China and Russia I am pretty sure uses it.

Also, rape ratings in a UN study puts Sweden on the second position as most rapes reported, after Lesotho in Africa. This could not be written on any other forum where they would whine but I do not really think the swedish majority got frisky and wanted some ass a saturday night or that more people report a rape...no Im pretty certain a people who lack respect for women and others of diffrent thinking is behind this. Also pretty sure their little backwater nations comes low on the list cause in their little backwater cities the women is worth less then a donkey and is of course not at all getting raped but they get to do what they are to do, please the male.

Scum, making the swedish reputation low as shit and will make us look like chauvnistic rapists internationally! Scums! Bloody damn scums!