Should I study biological engineering or mechanical engineering?

No generic answers please (ie: choose what you like hurr durr..I like them both)

I picked this up in the $5 bin at B&N years ago, Asimov's nonfiction is a great read for the layman.

>>8165

Sounds like you're a fucking commie. Sounds like I'm not gonna do work for the vast majority of people because they're stupid.

>>8167
Everyone knows how badly banks screw the public. Everyone knows royalty gets all of the advantages of the public's wealth. Unfortunately it is nowhere near bad enough to require an overthrow of the government. When you actually move out of your parent's house and start supporting yourself, you will appreciate the blessings of a first world country.
The reason capitalism works is because you get to keep a lot of what you earn, and the rest goes to the country(I disagree with how america spends its tax money, but that isn't relevant).

Communism doesn't work because nobody tries hard when they don't see the benefits of their effort.

TL;DR get a job, hippie.

Stop stealing, get a job!

>>8151
This is already done. People can do it with the regular card readers at their work. You can even install keyloggers in the computerized ones.

>>8162
another reason I gave up the project...

a lot of how the immune system works is chemical binding. maybe it doesn't have receptors to lymphocytes?

Maybe the biggest hurdle is the jump from single cell to multicell as someone stated. And by intelligence do you mean the ability to use radio to communicate? Our billion's of years of lifes history is cut to 100 years.
Other world's would probably have the same issues. It's not inevitable that an animal would evolve to use brain power over really big teeth.
Besides, the distances involved in finding someone to talk to are mind blowing. It could take a 1000 years for your message to get to someone and a 1000 years for a reply. In other words we'll probably never know if ET is out there.

As humanity continues to live, the probability of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe approaches 1.

If there is any intelligent life it definitely isn't anywhere in our own galaxy. The odds of 2 intelligent species developing with 100 million years of each other is ridiculously small, and in 100 million years, if our descendants we will have colonized the entire galaxy. Even IF we developed civilizations within that time period, we would detect massive anomalous EM radiation emanating from a certain region of space (I don't give a shit about what people say about alternative communications, an intelligent species will generate EM radiation). Thus, you can safely assume there is no intelligent life in the galaxy, and therefore it's a pretty moot point discussing it since we'll never know anyway.

>>7752

It needs moar cowbell.

My goals:

[x] Reach at least mach 0.8.
[x] Fly at an altitude of at least 30,000 feet.
[ ] Get the ticket prices down to $700 or below.

I DARE you to try and do it. There is no possible way you can make it to Melborne and have it cost less than $703.3.

Note the mission range and maximum range. Hopefully they won't have to circle the airport. lol.

Oddly enough, adding more passengers to a flight doesn't bring the cost per fare down.

>>6534

FFFFUUUU

I believe the NVPs will have leaf and root precursors, and the algae wont. Also, the NVPs gametophyte phase will be dominant, so you may be able to look for sporophytes if you know what kind of NVP you are comparing to the algae.

Forget about living in bodies of water, NVPs do that too.

>>8153
shit! I forgot all about looking for roots or leaves.

wait, another plant question. do all land plants (aka higher plants) have roots, stems and leaves?

Now as far as ethics is involved, the answer to these questions goes far, far deeper than the situation between these men. Already in the design of the economical/monetary system we find ethical errors such as increasing the separation of wealthy and poor, encouraging monopoly and a strong foundation for crime. One can not guarantee a correct answer without considering the ethical issues of everything from the core: our social system to the situation expained.

>>8005

What is wrong with psychology?

>>8148
Ignore them, there is a bias against psychology as it is often believed to be the regurgitation of commonly held truisms. Psychology applies the scientific method to social and cognitive constructs. These construct are extremely complex, I would say the most complex constructs in human reality. However, it is difficult to control the wide range variability amongst people, the conditions, and even how material is presented, even when you use random assignment. Though it does not matter much, as our scales and measures are not very sensitive or refined; psychology is an infant science.

One also must account for the term psychology itself, more often than not, individuals who hold such a bias are thinking of clinical psychology alone. Clinical psychology has well been recognized for ignoring science and using unsupported methods to treat people. People also confuse psychiatry and clinical psychology. Ultimately, bodies of knowledge often suffer from elitist bias or are merely ignored. Who here really knows how large of an impact the ideas of psychologists like Skinner, Watson, Pavlov, Milgrim, Neisser, Hull and Tolman?

>> are antioxidants (in a food and drink sense) legit

Antioxidants are vitamins. Receiving them in food is fine. Taking high dose supplements is not really legit.

You may be interested in this:
http://www.livescience.com/health/life-extending-cocktail-100216.html

>>8139
Not all antioxidants are vitamins.

They are legit, though, but - of course - some people make more of them then they actually are.