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My Ex-Boyfriend has been found guilty of battery after he beat me up and then he went to get the police. He now has to complete 52 weeks of counselling and has been ordered to only have safe contact with me among other things. I'm doing a lot better lately...

By the way... if you're curious, he's latentimage on this suicide girls site and used...
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cogito:
/rant

I always get incredibly, irrationally angry when I hear about women being domestically assaulted... that anyone would have the audacity to believe that it is ok to ever lay your hands on another person....

Ach, it just makes my blood boil. And I have known quite a few"smart" people in my life that were complete and utter assholes, I don't care how many degrees a person has, abusing someone makes them scum in my book.
magedragon:
glad to hear some people actually get the comeuppance! Glad to hear your doing better.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html

Soooo eerie... reminds me of a Star Trek episode! Cassini has been monitoring Saturn's radio emissions. Sounds very cool...
digitaldavid:
The Foam Again grounds the shuttle program.
bepps:
That does seem pretty cool.

In response to what daviddpd mentioned, what do you think about how it's quite likely that the next people launched into space are gonna be people who just paid $200,000 to do so? biggrin
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Recently researchers have proposed that the presence of methane on Titan (around 5%) may be generated by hydrogen breathing lifeforms. They plan to validate this hypothesis by using gas chromotography data from Huygens'. Microbes should deplete the amount of hydrogen available in their immediate environment which could be potentially identified by GC. As cute and fanciful as it sounds -- and as hopeful that there...
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cogito:
A science geek!! love love love

Oh, and as for the hydrogen escaping due to the low gravity, that would be expected to be relatively uniform... but if there are pockets where the hydrogen is depleting at a statistically significant rate... well then, we just might have something!

Thatnk you for the welcome biggrin
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http://www.buzztone.com/batmanbegins/cryforhelp/

Send a cry for help from Batman!

You can send me one at eva_ryan77 @ yahoo.com smile
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Eeeeeeekkkkkk!! Reality is so scary sometimes...
dubpub:
everyday baby!
digitaldavid:
So you are one of my 'Recommended Members' in hookup section ... why are you so far way ? You quote Star Trek. You Rock ! I like DS9 the best. Enterprise ending did suck.
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Got a climbing partner on Craigslist... in Oakdale, Ca... Heading to Yosemite. Going to climb til the vibram on my shoes is gone. smile
bepps:
Too cool. Have fun. Be safe. biggrin
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I need to get out and escape this weekend... go someplace no one will find me for a while. I'm going crazy here.
dr_zoidberg:
Go to Wyoming. No one there will even recognize you.
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Watching cartoons... oh sooo bad... Love the diologue in Harlequinade though!

BATMAN: What's the attraction, Quinn? This sick attraction with the Joker?
HARLEY: Look, Bats. When I was a doctor I was always listening to other people's problems then I met Mister J who listened to me for a change and made everything fun.
BATMAN: You think it's funny when he hurts people?
HARLEY: It's...
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longwave:
I was going to write something pleasant about this nonsense, but actually, it's all stupid crap!

Here, my parting gifts to you, an otherwise intelligent woman who thinks films like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" are good:

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/acad/irony.htm

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indievision/pa1.shtml
http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indievision/pa2.shtml
http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indievision/pa3.shtml

Fare thee well!
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The Barnett Effect! That is the effect that I've been trying to remember for weeks now!! Basically if you have a rotating body of spins, the spins will be polarized due to the rotation -- hence by spinning a sample you get a magnetization that is parallel to the axis of the spin. I've heard about this effect only in the context of nuclear spins,...
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turnsoffpain:
the material has to be a ferromagnet i'm assuming....or a superconductor?
longwave:
I love it when you talk about rotating bodies.

And those were rhetorical questions, right? wink
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giddyiguana:
Hey, those boxes are Torani are expensive. Makes me wonder what that guy was up to... eeek
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This is a totally awesome paper...

How Protostellar Outflows Help Massive Stars Form by Krumholz et al. published in Astrophys J. (2004)

I always thought this guy was really annoying but... fun paper. I like the way this guy writes -- not too pendantic. The exciting result: outflows the drive gas from a protostar actually increase rather than decrease the size of the final star....
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bepps:
You remind me of myself 10 years ago. No ... longer, we wont divulge in exactly how long ago that was thoguh biggrin. When I think about myself back then I can't help but smile. Anyway, yea, for one reason (and)or another, I think of you and I smile. biggrin
giddyiguana:
Yes, most of the best writers tend to be kind of dicks in person.

Which means my writing career is doomed... wink
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Science is slowly going... but at least it's going!

Yesterday, I began training in the NMR facility. I have 20 free hours with which I'll be measuring the relaxation time of 1H and 13C and 31P in my nanosamples to determine if I can do 2D exchange experiments on any of those nuclei to look at diffusion through my spheres!

Today, I'm moving over a...
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bepps:
I thought that was a cool thought of you heating up your ramen with a 632nm laser. To heat up a cup of noodles at 632nm that would have to be a pretty beefy beam. It would be pretty impressive for sure. Probably make the noodles glow for some period of time after you shut the beam off. biggrin
turnsoffpain:
your lab sounds a lot like mine: half the shit is taped together with duct-tape and chicken wire. insect screening makes a great inexpensive light diffusor/neutral density filter.