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OK, then. At least I'm not the only one who doesn't like playing an instrument properly...
Just wondering here -- where should I post stuff on, say, quantum physics?
Do you want to buy our CD ... when it gets 'fully' published?
That offer.
quantum physics is studying stuff like photons and their behavior, whether they're particle or waves (they're both...). for an example, well, I'll write one up later.
Luckily, we get Wednesday afternoons off. Also, since it's close to end of the year, we haven't been given much homework; there's also the fact that we only have some of these classes once a week, so I get to do the homework over the weekend. The month of May over here was quite peaceful, there being 5 or 6 holidays in the middle of it (lots of three- or four-day weekends).
Still, I can't say that I always had time to do all of my homework.
The sense of humor is hard to describe, but one of the many philosophies is "if it isn't funny the first time, do it again and again until it is". We love playing practical jokes, but puns (or word play) are just as good (or is it bad).
I play guitar, too, as well as piano, and percussion. I write most of my music with a program that lets me hear all the instruments (with the effects that I choose) as I write the notes in. I recently wrote an interesting song for instruments such as piano, electric guitar, synth strings, electric bass, and a large percussion section.
The offer sounds temping, by the way.
I study stuff like quantum physics, organic chemistry, and cryptography in my spare time (which may not seem like much, but we also get Wednesday afternoons off), so I'm not surprised that I'm the only one in the general area...
I recently possibly entered history by being the first American kid to win a French poem contest. the teachers are going to (apparently) publish the poem in the local newspaper. For someone like me, who doesn't like too much direct attention all the time, this could be not all good... Oh well.
I have probably got the weirdest family around: at the family reunion last summer, the head count on my mother's side was estimated at around 100, many people not having been able to come. Most of the people in that family are named John, and have the "family sense of humor", as well as a tendency to be pyromaniacs (the event started with our 3rd of July fireworks display, launched from copper tubes and lit by the youngest, and ended with a gigantic kerosene-fueled fire that no one could get within 10 feet of). My dad's side is somewhat saner, but both families seem to have started in the same area, Northern Europe, then Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Well, enough about me, somebody tell me about themselves here. Please, I'm tired of talking to myself.
Yes, I noticed.
I'm not sure how I could share my compositions, so I'm welcome to suggestions for that.
Over here, they call the grade "quatrieme" (fourth), but it's equivalent to eighth grade in the US. The grades are numbered oddly: CP: first; CE1: second; CE2: third; CM1: fourth; CM2: fifth; sixieme: sixth; cinquieme: seventh; quatrieme: eighth; troisieme: ninth; seconde: tenth; premiere: eleventh; terminale: twelfth. The classes are grouped in the following way: [CP, CE1, CE2], [CM1, CM2], [sixieme, cinquieme, quatrieme, troisieme], [seconde, premiere, terminale]. If you think this is crazy, try putting the words of the above group (sixieme, cinquieme, quatrieme, troisieme) into a French-to-English translator!
Fine, I admit that the word "Genius" is pretty strong, but do you know any other 13-year-olds who understand the Uncertainty Principle, RSA, and organic chemistry?
My classes for this year were English, Spanish, French, Math, History, Geography, Civics, Physics, Chemistry, Technology, Art, Latin, Biology, Geology, and Sports. The days here start at 8:30AM and end at 5:00PM. There is , luckily, a lunch break from 12:30 to 2:00. Each class lasts about 1 hour, so it's 7 hours of class a day.
I'm pretty sure that if I listed everything I like, it would take several hours to write them out, so I'll keep it relatively short. I like Programming in VB 5, 3D modeling, sliding down the nearby 60-degree slope with friends, solving logic puzzles, coming up with codes (often combined with the programming), writing various forms of music, quantum physics, chemistry, and, of course, math...
I forgot, there's also a chemistry class here.
I'm pretty sure that if I listed all my hobbies, it would take several hours to write them out, so I'll keep it relatively short. I like Programming in VB 5, 3D modeling, sliding down the nearby 60-degree slope with friends, solving logic puzzles, coming up with codes (often combined with the programming), writing various forms of music, quantum physics, chemistry, and, of course, math...
Kinda like any subject.
My classes for this year were English, Spanish, French, Math, History, Geography, Civics, Physics, Technology, Art, Latin, Biology, Geology, and Sports. The days here start at 8:30AM and end at 5:00PM. There is , luckily, a lunch break from 12:30 to 2:00. Each class lasts about 1 hour, so it's 7 hours of class a day.
It isn't really a code if millions of people have to know it, but it's a good way to get a message past someone who doesn't know it, which most people don't.
The CO2 level on the "graph" I posted is estimated to reach somewhere around Devantè's post above that by the end of the decade (3 years from now).
The two words posted at the beginning are chemical names, so I'm not sure whether they really can be counted as English words. Of course, if you do count chemical names, then the chemical name for human DNA or RNA has got to be the longest (I think that's what the very first on is).
I could probably invent some chemical with an even longer name, but it probably wouldn't have any use, so there's no point in spending all that time.
Take a look at the "graph" I posted a while ago. Just about the only solution to this imbalance is the one that's coming: a massive, climate-stabilizing ice age, that will remove huge amounts of CO2 and other pollutants from the planet (sort of). Like it is said in The Day After Tomorrow: massive storms occur when there's an imbalance in the climate, atmosphere, or other. If it gets too hot, the planet'll freeze a couple years later (this is EXACTLY what's happening today, it's just never happened on such a huge scale as far back as we can tell).
Three men, Alf, Bert and Con, decide to fight an unusual duel. They will stand at the corners of an equilateral triangle and take it in turns to shoot. When it is a person's turn to shoot, he can shoot at whoever he wants. They will keep taking turns until only one man survives. Now it is known that Alf is the best shot and hits his target 90% of the time; Bert is second and hits his target 75% of the time; Con only hits his target 50% of the time. Lots are drawn and it is decided that Con will shoot first, then Bert (if he is still alive), then Alf (if he is still alive).
A woman is less than a hundred years old.When her age is divides by seven, the remainder is two; when her age is divided by five, the remainder is four; when her age is divided by three, the remainder is two.
By the way, no need to call me "sir". I'm 13.
I'm having plenty of fun.
I came up with an interesting one just now:
Find a keyword (try to keep it small) and write it out in BIG block letters on a piece of graph paper (each letter should take up 18*18 squares or 9*9). Now write out your message (encoded if you want) vertically inside the large block letters. now fill in the rest of the paper with relatively random stuff and erase the traces of the keyword letters.
This may take awhile, but it's fun to see if anyone can figure it out, even if the stuff isn't actually encoded.
Probably, like you said, most of humanity will not survive. Ice ages ARE there to regulate things, in a way... I guess that's what'll happen, though I don't intend to be of the non-survivors myself!
Releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will make it deadly to breathe. It will also do nothing but delay the freeze, as well as augment the size of it when it comes.
Releasing the amount of iron necessary to change anything into the ocean will kill all marine life. That means less food for humans, and we're already running out.
The best solution is to move to somewhere hot, like near the equator, though this is hardly a good solution for the current population of the planet.
I think I wanna find a way to leave the planet... soon!