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    The most recent commercials I've seen state: "One of them will realize they are a cylon, another will die and another will find earth."

    Um.. if they find earth wouldn't that signify the end of the show? *panics*

    If someone does find earth, I have a feeling it'll be Helo and Boomer doing some massive long range random coordinate jump in a raptor.. or maybe that lucy lawless character will 'find earth' in a vision. that way the fleet still has a long journey ahead of them following the path to earth.. :\

    Heres the commercial:

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    Anyone else seen this? It has Christian Slater and that one girl that always wears a ton of makeup on her face (Tara Reid). This movie was horrible. >_<

    Everyone in this 713 group (the secret men in blackish paranormal department of the US) looks like they just graduated from high school and have too much testosterone. the plot of this movie didn't make much sense at all and after some random sex scene, which felt completely out of place, the writers must have decided to throw in a bunch of violence to wrap it up. O_O During this time I fell asleep off and on and I remember waking up once because Lady asked me if I knew what was going on in the movie. I thought she was picking on me because I was passed out, but she really didn't know what was going on in the story line because it involved nothing but machine gun fire. :lookup:

    Anyone else have an opinion on this movie? Did I miss out on something important while I was asleep? ^_^:

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    Well, it looks like SciFi is promoting the hell out of BSG with commercials, so thats a pretty good sign to me that the time/day switch wasn't for the negative. Their commercials are always so damn good too! Its like they hypnotize me everytime one comes one. I am a bit dissapointed that I can't come home on a friday with a 12 pack and watch the newest BSG with a buzz tho. :P

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    http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/29/canada.arctic.ap/index.html

    TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

    The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.

    Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. (Watch the satellite images that clued in ice watchers)

    Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.

    "This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.

    In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.

    The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometers (155 miles) away picked up tremors from it.

    The Ayles Ice Shelf, roughly 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) in area, was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.

    Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor.

    "It is consistent with climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 percent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906.

    "We aren't able to connect all of the dots ... but unusually warm temperatures definitely played a major role."

    Laurie Weir, who monitors ice conditions for the Canadian Ice Service, was poring over satellite images in 2005 when she noticed that the shelf had split and separated.

    Weir notified Luke Copland, head of the new global ice lab at the University of Ottawa, who initiated an effort to find out what happened.

    Using U.S. and Canadian satellite images, as well as data from seismic monitors, Copland discovered that the ice shelf collapsed in the early afternoon of August 13, 2005.

    "What surprised us was how quickly it happened," Copland said. "It's pretty alarming.

    "Even 10 years ago scientists assumed that when global warming changes occur that it would happen gradually so that perhaps we expected these ice shelves just to melt away quite slowly, but the big surprise is that for one they are going, but secondly that when they do go, they just go suddenly, it's all at once, in a span of an hour."

    Within days, the floating ice shelf had drifted a few miles (kilometers) offshore. It traveled west for 50 kilometers (31 miles) until it finally froze into the sea ice in the early winter.

    The Canadian ice shelves are packed with ancient ice that dates back over 3,000 years. They float on the sea but are connected to land.

    Derek Mueller, a polar researcher with Vincent's team, said the ice shelves get weaker and weaker as the temperature rises. He visited Ellesmere's Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in 2002 and noticed it had cracked in half.

    "We're losing our ice shelves, and this a feature of the landscape that is in danger of disappearing altogether from Canada," Mueller said. "In the global perspective Antarctica has many ice shelves bigger than this one, but then there is the idea that these are indicators of climate change."

    The spring thaw may bring another concern as the warming temperatures could release the ice shelf from its Arctic grip. Prevailing winds could then send the ice island southwards, deep into the Beaufort Sea.

    "Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said. "There's significant oil and gas development in this region as well, so we'll have to keep monitoring its location over the next few years."

    An ice island 11,000 football fields huge! O_O its going to float around.. I wonder where the thing will end up years from now..

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    That ship does look awesome. I didn't like it at first, but as soon as they lowered their mast and the strawhat logo was on there, it looked just right. It even looks like it has retracting paws/claws on the front like foxy's ship did for grappling ships and boarding. It must be powered with soda like franky if it can do the coop-de-burst moves. Talk about fuel effeciency! To hell with gas or charcoal, lets buy some 80 cent 2 liter bottles of generic soda! X'D

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    oh shit. I didn't even think about the possibilities of black hole moves. O_O damn.. that could be one of the most powerful DF abilities.. if that was the case, he'd be able to defeat Enel with ease.. but then again, when Enel was in his lightening god form, he was pure power and light. Maybe something like that could be a counter power to darkness?

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    Whenever you log on to a wireless network connection make sure you use a secure connection that requires a wireless network key (a 20+ alphanumeric number that the wireless router uses to encrypt your connection). If you jump on any random hotspot connection, like a mcdonalds or some other random hotspot near an office, etc., assume that anything you do through your browser or any other program that makes a connection to the internet is completely viewable to someone with the right programs.

    If you have a wireless router at your place soley for your own internet connection, then you'll have to reference your wireless router's instruction manual about setting up security. Usually you have to login to your router and click a couple tabs to enable the security key. Then you have to type in that security key into your laptop's wireless connection panel and you're done.

    If you do not have a secure wireless router, than anyone can see your wireless network as a hotspot and jump on and start browsing the internet, sucking up your bandwidth and that would slow down your overall connection. Btw, if you plan on downloading torrents with your laptop, take the blue network cable and plug your laptop directly into your router for the fastest possible connection. Wireless connections run usually around 54 mbps at max, but if you directly connect to the router you'll get about 100 mbps which will make your torrent downloads about twice as fast.

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    We've been playing FF12 and we finally got to the point where they mention Bahamut.. but the dialogue in this game is so messed up with their pronunciations, everyone is calling it Ba-HA-moot. -_- Is anyone else disappointed with everyone's speech? and I thought it was bad when they pronounced Marquis as Marqwiss... but Ba-HA-moot!?

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