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Seems kind of like an odd question, sacreligious even, for someone like the Pope to be asking of God, of all beings. Why now, why this Pope? Don't they all have a direct line to God? Is this what is called a political scewup in the heat of a human moment?

Hi, I'm new in this forum and I will like to know if the homeopathy challenge consists in poving that there is something in a dilution over the Avogadro limit, or poving that homeopathy cures, or both. Thanks

I broke my leg in March, and now have the all clear to walk on it. I was prescribed PT, but they did some weird things. One included a vibrator that was supposed to release endorphins or something...actually, what it did was knock one of the "buttons" used in the surgery loose. Now it is...

So the basic idea is point radio telescopes at stars systematically and listen for responses, right? How does the Earth's movements around the sun and the "wobble" of our revolutions daily affect the reception? Is it reasonable to think that we could listen to the same star over and over and...

I'm looking for a type of software which would allow me to map out and calculate relative differences between stars and constellations. Sorta like a Google Earth with a star chart instead of satellite pictures of the earth. I found something called Sky Charts but it's not quite what I need...

If the only way you could convert people to your religion was by using the threat of hell, would you think that is morally good?

I hope this question doesn't get me laughed out of the club... I have a biologist's grasp of physics; in other words, if I can't picture it in my mind I have difficulty understanding it. Obviously I have big problems with quantum mechanics, then. Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle seems (to...

How is it that one can easily stay balanced on a bicycle even at very slow speeds, but once the bike comes to a full stop one usually falls to one side or the other? Even when coming to a stop, one can usually remain balanced until the very end of motion -- but then that's it, once the bike...

hiya....i'm doing a bit of teach-yourself stock market research from http://www.investopedia.com Arbitrage is the exploitation of an observable price inefficiency and, as such, pure arbitrage is considered riskless. Consider a very simple example. Say Acme stock currently trades at $10 and a...

Okay, I want to change a position on some mutual funds. Well, more to the point, I want to buy a fund, but don't have enough liquid assets on hand, but am willing to sell some of another fund to pay for it (ideally I'd just hold all the shares in the existing fund). So: what are the tax...

Hello, I was debating evolution with a friend, and mentioned the nylon bug. He pointed me to AiG's rebuttal, found at answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i3/bacteria.asp He tells me he emailed AiG to ask them if it was peer-reviewed (I think he actually used the term peer-edited, if that makes any...

It's just, I was thinking back to when I was a christian, albeit, a protestant one, when I read the bible it was clear by the writing what was and what was not supposed to be taken as a parable. Anyway, what I ( ali-g quote ) is asking is what reason people have to presume something something...

Is there a setting on IE 6.0 (with SP1) to toggle whether a new window opens maximized or "restored"? I prefer to keep my browsers maximized. There are many times when I need to open a link in a new tab or a new window because the page I'm linking from is "live" and will have expired if I...

Has anyone ever heard of anything called "laser concepts" or something similar? I heard a commercial advertising it, I think its a company's name, but I wasn't really paying attention. The only bits I heard were "lasers" and "acupuncture" and my woo detection meter spiked immediately. If...

...that I thought I'd ask here, rather than in the Religion forum, 'cause this strikes me as a saner place. Anyway, there are a lot of threads about the Afghan man condemned to death for apostasy. For some reason, the thought struck me that Islam is about 600 to 700 years younger than...

Ever have on of those questions that you know has a simple answer, yet for some stupid reason you just can't visualise it in your mind... The Microwave background radiation of the universe has been mapped, and forms a picture of the early universe relatively soon after the big bang when...

Just out of curiosity,what's your position on problems with the fetus/baby? People often talk about exceptions being made for the health of the mother, or for the circumstances under which conception occurred, but what about the baby itself? What would be your position on abortion for a baby...

Is there a SQL utility that can show me the actiivty against a database over a certain period of time? I thought something like this would be fairly common but I haven't found anything like it. I am, admittedly, very new at the SQL game.

I work at Walgreens as a pharmacy technician, and the other day a man came in and had to pay $2,200 (yes, that's twenty-two hundred dollars) for an injection of "Protocrit" for his wife (it wasn't covered by his insurance). Googling it isn't helping me; anybody know what it is, and what it's...

Ok, I'm merely a humble history major, and so this isn't my field. Nonetheless, I've been mulling over a physics thought experiment that's been bothering me, and hopefully someone can explain where I'm going wrong. Picture the following, if you would: A metal bar with two pencils attached...

I've just had a circular from the local branch of the party of my local MP, who is apparently campaigning against phone masts. Slap bang in the middle of the constituency is a bloody great TV transmitter which has been broadcasting to a large area since the 1930s. This made me wonder: when...

Okay I will admit this is probably a really simple obvious question but I will ask anyway. While listening to Coast to Coast am a week or two ago I heard some guy from the 9/11 scholars for truth. He repeatedly said that the towers could not have been brought down by an aircraft because the...

In a closed cooling system will running refrigerant through the system at faster speeds after it goes through the compressor cause it loose more heat than if it was traveling at slower speeds? Much like running cooler air over the pipe causes it to loose heat. Assume that in both cases the only...

http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060225/NEWS02/602250341/1007 Your question: Why would it be difficult to hook a golfball in space? Time allowed: 10 microseconds :oldroll:

Something has been bothering me. I live in the Northern Hemisphere, and here lately it has been frosting my car windows when I leave work(at about 0530), but it only frosts the front and rear windows, not the side windows. THe direction the car faces doesn't seem to have impact on this. Why...

Is it possible to submit an application and still remain publicly anonymous for safety reasons?

Yesterday my uncle was admitted to the hospital. He was having intense headaches for a couple days, then yesterday it got so bad they called 911. When the ambulance arrived he had already started going into seizures. All the info I have is what I got from my mother, so I was hoping I could spill...

A friend of mine found this picture on his hard drive. He knows that he must have downloaded from somewhere, but he has no idea from where. He's looking to know the artist, cause he likes the style. Anyone ever see this before?

Can anyone explain to me the training and appeal behind Olympic Curling? Not caring much about the Winter Olympics, I can't understand why Curling is even considered a sport, much less an Olympic event. From my untrained (and unappreciative) eye it seems to be at least as strenous a sport as...

(I'm not sure whether this is properly Science or History, so if a moderator happens to read this and finds it's in the wrong place, please move it accordingly!) I have a guy at work who has a vague recollection of seeing a documentary on Egypt's pyramids where the guy giving the documentary...