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  1. bommy261

    Theory of relativity

    For one of my graduate classes I am investigating the properties of light travel within a fiber optic cable. The speed of light is completely constant no matter your frame of reference. So.... if I was traveling at half the speed of light and decided to get my trusty ole Maglight out and shine...
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    Fighting citations?

    Got pulled over today for making an extremely convenient left turn in a spot that didn't allow left turns. Cops are not stupid and as soon as I did, I saw the flashing lights. I had no idea where he even came from. Lol. The fine ended up being 110$ and some change. Do you guys usually fight...
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    Anyone else sick of jewerly commercials?

    /rant Seriously. Every commercial break there is at least one advertisement that basically says "Make your girl feel loved by buying her jewerly." Heres a novel idea, how about, i save that money that would be used to buy retardedly expensive jewerly, and go on a trip somewhere to have...
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    Not all Gyms are created equal

    This is more of a rant than anything. My gym membership to LA Fitness is expiring this month so i thought since Planet Fitness is offering 10$/month memberships (the offer ended Oct 14, @ midnight) so i signed up online without even touring the place. A great thing about this gym is that it...
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    Working visual simulation of a 6502 chip

    http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html Having had many courses in transistors, i found this pretty cool.
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    This has bad idea written all over it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuhVfqB9qOE&feature=player_embedded Scooter Power
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    Ladies and Gentlemen i give you the Rocket Jump (NSFW?)

    http://www.clipupload.com/clip/showphoto.php/photo/26338/Real_Life_Rocket_Jump/ i lol'd
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    How to get laid (NSFW)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbb_O0Q1kk 60% of the time, it works everytime ;)
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    Passed my FE exam, horray!

    Damn glad I don't have to take that stupid test again. Not looking forward to the professional one in a couple years ;(
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    How much do u guys sweat?

    Maybe it is in my head, but ever since i've started eating alot healthier and drinking more water these last few years i have started sweating a whole lot more. this has bothered me to the point of getting blood tests for hyperthyroidism, which came out negative. for example, i just did 30...
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    Wow! Airbags deploy with alot of force. omg.

    http://videosift.com/video/Massive-2-Airbag-Explosion-in-a-Clothes-Drier hopefully not a repost.
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    Hilarious!!! (NSFW)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zdP_g5c00 i laughed for a solid 5 minutes. awesome.
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    Am I getting ripped off?

    The timing assembly broke on my car a Toyota Celica 2002 GT a few weeks back, and i figured while the repair shop has the car apart to replace the water pump as well. So far, the bill is around 1700$. Which is a little high imo. Before the timing assembly broke, i noticed my car was using a...
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    Very cool golf ball deformation at 70000 fps

    http://videosift.com/video/Golf-ball-deformation-at-70-000-fps hopefully not a repost
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    The future of computing

    http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/toys-tools/graphene-next Looks very promising
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    My car burns a crapton of oil.....

    I have a 2002 Toyota Celica GT @ 134k miles. I've had the car since 75k miles and at around 100k it has started to burn oil. At first it wasn't too bad, but its getting ridiculous now. I'm averaging about 1 qt every 500 or so miles, if not more. I check the oil about 2-3 times a week to see...
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    Question about oil pumps

    I was chatting with my cousin like 2 weeks ago who is a mechanic on diesel engines. We started talking about cars and shit. We got into a discussion about how startup is the worst time for your engine. Because oil sinks to the bottom of the engine when its off, the engine probably cycles 5-10...
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    Help!! I'm addicted to....

    http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/03/10/help-im-obsessed-with-breasts/2#comments At least there are other people in the world suffering from a similar addiction as myself
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    Bob Barker is the friggen man!!!

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35788458/ns/entertainment-celebrities/ Man that guy is awesome, hes gotta be like 200 years old by now. hes probably a robot.
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    Any conductivitity in double sided tape?

    I am switching motherboards on my computer but I want to use the same thermaltake cpu cooler in the new one. The problem is that the cooler is so big that it requires support on the bottom of the motherboard with an I bracket. This bracket has like a rubberized double sized take on the bottom...
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    Difficulty multi-tasking

    I recently bought a built a new rig to replace my aging four year old computer and i've run into a couple issues. My other computer was alot slower than this one, but it seems to bog down less when multi-tasking. My newer computer slows to a crawl whenever i'm just burning a dvd. I have the...
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    older ram and cpus for sale.

    I have an Athlon XP 1400+ i'm selling for 40 dollars. I also have an Athlon XP 2600+ i'm selling for 65 dollars. I haven't had any problems with either of them, but i'm finally upgrading and have no use for them anymore. I'm also selling 1GB of pc 2400 ram for 65 dollars. The ram and the...