<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>science : forum : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.comscience/f/</link><description>Plime's forums at a glance</description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>science : forum : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.comscience/f/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Folding@home]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I took the liberty of making a Plime group for  Folding@home .  The team # is 95655.  Read up on it  here  if you've never heard of it before.  If you have the bandwidth and enough processing power and aren't using them, please consider running this in the background.  I used to run this all the time on my computer but seem to have forgotten about it until just the other day.  Edit:  Here's the  team page....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2469/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2469/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mars landing live in the next 45 minutes]]></title><description><![CDATA[ If you have the Science Channel you can watch right now. Also here.   http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/4306/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/4306/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[An (un)scientific experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Over the last two weeks I've been conducting an experiment with very little regiment, discipline or control, but still I thing the result is interesting.  Given the way  this thread  is going, I think some of you might find this interesting too.  My daily journey to work is 26 miles each way.  Quite often I share a lift with another guy in the same office, but this is not always practical.  The last fortnight he has been on holiday and so I've been left to my own devices.  My car is a 1.8l Ford Escort.  It...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/4298/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/4298/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[ It took humans 4 billion years to evolve to this point.  Assuming we dont destroy ourselves in the near future... the sun has about 4 billion years left in it before it owns the earth. Any thoughts on where evolution will take us?  Mind and machine interface? us directing our own evolution?  weird thread to start but.... oh well im curious on opinions.and id rather leave out the people who don't believe in evolution and all that no offense but its not the purpose of this one....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3706/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3706/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Winter: PFO!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Dear Winter,    P  F  O!   Today is 21 April.  It's supposed to be springtime.  I'm not sure why you decided to visit us this week, but I'd really appreciate it if you could leave now.  Those 50cm of snow you left for me yesterday?  Not nice.  Did you know that I counted 12 vehicles in the ditch on my way to write my final exam this morning?  That doesn't count the 3 cars I saw wrapped around traffic posts, either.    It's -22 with the windchill, and the snowdrift in front of my door has now passed the doo...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3974/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3974/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Inventors Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Person above you gives you an object, you invent at least two things to enhance the object.   Personaboveyou:  Underwear   You:  1. Pre-skid markederwear, so you never have to be embarassed for crap stains. 2. Personal pocket, for boxers; a pocket on the front inside where you can rest your personals. (you can run again) 3. Flatulance fragrence enhancers, strips of scented fabric that slips into a sleeve along the middle of the back. These fragranted strips mask the smell of the flatulence and gives off mo...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3070/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3070/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New to plime!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just dropping by to say hi.  Sweet site, I'll be stopping by often.  Nice alternative to the Fark crowd....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3807/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3807/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[ What should sixth graders know about science?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I'm not sure if  this is exactly worthy of a news post, so I'm going to put it here. I'd also like to know everyone's opinion on the matter....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3543/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3543/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Predict the Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[ So I want to hear your thoughts on what the future will hold for us. I'm talking about the distant future.  I'll start it off.   There will be a technological collapse and we will have no electricity after a major World War. There won't be a world power, instead it will be a whole bunch of little communities or tribes due to the fact that half of the worlds population will die. Another Ice Age will happen after the polar ice caps melt and cover most of the world underwater. Let the Predictions begin....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3228/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/3228/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Organ Donor]]></title><description><![CDATA[ A  post  in the News section ispired this thread. I was curious aboot the views of this community on organ donation. Are you? Have you thought aboot it? Do you disagree? I myself  AM an organ donor and I am proud to say that I have converted 26 others to donate their organs. So plimate community, commence the discussion!...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2896/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2896/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Time Machine Question]]></title><description><![CDATA[ If you had a time machine that would only travel back in time three times (return trips are included in this figure), where/when would you go? It could travel to any geographic location too. I mean, what's the use of a time machine if you still have to travel to get to where you want to be?...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/865/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/865/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evolution Debate]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Well, I'm bored today and I'm looking for a good debate. State which side of the fence you're on and why, and let's see if we can get a good conversation started. Nothing is off-limits to say unless you just want to be a troll and flame someone. If you wish to do that, go  here....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2407/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2407/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Question about intolerance and taste]]></title><description><![CDATA[ My body is lactose intolerant; Zach's is not.  I find milk to be absolutely disgusting; Zach regularly drinks it plain.  I put minimal amounts of milk in my cereal, just to moisten it, and then I drain it; Zach drinks the milk that remains after the cereal is gone. This brought me to wonder if my being lactose intolerant has anything to do with my loathing of milk. Could it be that, since lactose makes me sick, my taste buds make me dislike lactose so that I won't consume it and thus, not get sick?...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2027/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/2027/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally figured it out]]></title><description><![CDATA[ A herd of buffalo can move only as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, the slowest and weakest ones at the back are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular culling of the weakest members.  In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slow...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1959/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1959/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Pregnancy and Smells]]></title><description><![CDATA[ This was inspired by this post:    http://www.plime.com/science/l/36540/1/#fast     I am just curious to know from my fellow (female of course) Plimemates what senses set them off or sent them running to the throne room.    Some of mine included(but are not limited to)  butter(when it is cooking) buttered popcorn pork raw hamburger vanilla  And an aversion to French Toast...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1836/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1836/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Comet: After The Impact]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did anyone else watch it? I thought it was brilliant....]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1346/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1346/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[BOOMBOOM!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[HERE COMES DA SHUTTLE!  I just heard the baBOOM of it coming down to Edwards!!!...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1240/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1240/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary's Weather Forecasting Stone]]></title><description><![CDATA[         http://www.amazingtom.com/images/stone.jpg     forumimage('http://www.amazingtom.com/images/stone.jpg','xhttpwwwamazingtomcomimagesstonejpg');...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1082/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/1082/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Click here to give Jax a 450 Volt electric shock RIGHT NOW!]]></title><description><![CDATA[         http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Milgram.jpg     forumimage('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Milgram.jpg','xhttpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenccemilgramjpg');   Thanks for participating in my Milgram experiment. You acted like 65% of participants would. Comment if you read this.  Sincerely,Stan...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/904/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/904/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Nukes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ As our fossil fuel dependant society moves into the twenty-first century, we are coming to realize a few facts about our planet - we are running out of non-renewable fossil fuels, and we are screwing up our planet in the process.  Nuclear energy seems to offer a bright solution (to some of us).  When maintained properly, it can provide trememdous amouts of power/energy with no emissions.    The only real problem with it is waste storage, but I think there are many safe places to store it (just not Yucca Mo...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/850/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/850/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Evolution, Baby]]></title><description><![CDATA[ What do you think the next step in evolution will be?   As a species we are constantly adapting to our surroundings, variations of skin tone due to climate, the shrinking of our little toes because of our use of shoes, the virtual uselessness of the appendix now that we cook our meat, etc&#8230; What do you think will happen in the future?   Things to consider are the increase in climate variations which is only going to become more frequent and more drastic as time goes on, our ever increasing dependency ...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/831/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/831/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Warming and Our Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[As we all know (and hoopefully no one is in denial about this), we've destroyed this wonderful planet. The polar ice caps are melting and most of the world will flood. I live in Ohio, and will be near the coast, should I live to see this occur.<br/><br/>When I first studied where the new shorline(s) will be I thought &quot;Whew, at least my family will be okay.&quot; But then I realised, everywhere will be come super over-populated. Anarchy will reign. I have my doubts that the current American government w...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/f/479/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/f/479/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>