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A frank discussion of the reasons why particle physicists predict the existence of so many unfindable particles. I LOVE this lady!

British food gets a bad rap, but I discovered Yorkshire Pudding this season and think it's one of the great contributions to world cuisine. Question for folks from the UK: I don't know what the right flavor profile is for the sausages used in Toad in the Hole. I've used American breakfast...

One reason is that on my phone half of the screen is taken up by the poster info!

The Flat Earth model posits that 1. The earth is a flat disc with the north pole at the center of the disc. 2. The coast of Antarctica is distributed along the circumference of the edge of the disk. 3. The entire disk rotates about an axis that is perpendicular to the ground at the...

This morning, as I began my 12,288th day clean, I was reading the NA daily meditation for January 3: "When we first arrived in NA, we had all kinds of ideas of what we needed. Some of us set our sights on amassing personal possessions. We thought recovery equaled outward success. But recovery...

SUMMARY: What’s the connection between a dripping faucet, the Mandelbrot set, a population of rabbits, thermal convection in a fluid, and the firing of neurons in your brain? It’s this one simple formula: Xn+1=rXn(1-Xn). The logistic map connects all these and so much more!

11,688 days, more than one billion seconds ago, God moved me to attend my first Narcotics Anonymous meeting. By his grace I was able to work through the Twelve Steps with a sponsor and the friends I've made there. It was a process of admitting my problem, turning my will over to the care of...

Maybe George Carlin was right?

I picked up my first (and thus far only) white chip on Friday, May 15, 1987, which is 11,323 days ago. At the time I was so out of it that I didn't know what the date really was until just recently when for some reason I went back and looked at an old calendar! Reposting something from eleven...

I'm searching for a specific recipe he did a long time ago on one of his shows, and that appears nowhere in any of the Food Network indexes (or anywhere else I've been able to find). It was a stew that he described as being from Northern Italy, where the cuisine is influenced by that of Austria...

Prove that AV1611VET is not a chatbot.

Cryogenically treating (CT'ing) your gun will not improve its accuracy. It might increase barrel life, depending on the alloy and heat history of the gun. It can also increase brittleness, making the gun more likely to break if it's dropped (again, depending on alloy and heat history). When an...

Thank God for Narcotics Anonymous!

She's in a coma after a bad choking incident. Her prognosis is poor. Thanks.

9,498 days clean today. :cool: Thanks be to God.

I have 900 tiles. 197 of them are at a single hot temperature (the red ones), the rest are at a single cold temperature (the blue ones). They are otherwise identical in every way. Below you will find two pictures of them arranged in different manners. Question: which arrangement has a...

I often hear people say that the Second Law applies only to closed systems, which is false. Here's why: Think of an isolated system of two masses at different temperatures. Per the definition of an isolated system, neither mass nor energy can cross the system boundaries. Let the system...

Last Monday it was 8,766 days. Here's a thread I posted the week of my 20th anniversary. Still clean, life's good: http://www.christianforums.com/t5383728/

A thread over on OBOB gave me the incentive to revisit this site I discovered a while back, and I thought that the folks over here would enjoy it as well. I've seen a number of sundogs and 22degree circulars this winter, and maybe three pillars. Once I saw a Kern arc, didn't believe what I was...

I patrol at Mt. Brighton, a small hill in S.E. Michigan. I'm originally from S. Florida, have been skiing 7 seasons and now winter is my favorite season. Patrolling is great, and skiing is the best sport ever.