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"Hello Bitches!" on account of me shamelessly stealing the line from this guy.

Cool biology facts: You have 10 X the number of nonhuman cells in your body as you do human cells; most are bacteria that live in our intestines. They are around 1/100th the size of your human cells but are essential for processing food into energy. With out them we'd be unable to survive. The mass die off that occurs after you take antibiotics in your intestines are why you have to run to the restroom more often while taking them. We know remarkably little about ocean life. I spent every other day for a year scuba diving down to a shallow reef observing and documenting the number of cleaner shrimps on one species of sea anemone. Even many basic things are unknown. For example: What does that fish eat? How long do they live? How fast do they grow? What age do they reach sexual maturity? When, where, how and how often they have sex. How many babies are produced? etc. I regret not studying aquatic plant biology more. Though quite good at it, I found animals more interesting than plants. That has proved to be a major mistake on my part because the field has exploded in recent years on account of biofuel research. When --not if--- we run out of oil we'll start relying algae for pretty much everything we use oil for currently. From fuel to plastics, algae derived products will start becoming a major part of everyday life. A few other cool tidbits: There is a much larger number of species of freshwater fish than than species from the ocean. This is because fresh water has much more variability in habitat. If you're in a river if you go 100 miles up stream or down stream conditions are likely very different than where you are currently. The water may be much warmer or colder or have more silt or sand in it. In the ocean go 100 miles north or south things are going to be pretty similar to where you are now. In general cold sea water means big animals. Cold water can hold more dissolved nutrients than warmer water. The nutrients promote algae growth that provides the basis of the food chain. Small animals eat the algae and they get eaten by progressively larger animals. This is part of why you see whales year round at the polar regions. The high amount of available energy promotes species growth. Warm water regions are nutrient poor. In the tropics once you get away from the reef it's essentialy a dessert. Though densely packed the total number of species on a reef is smaller than what you'll find in temperate /sub polar regions. Reddit army checking in. Over.

My advice about biology (especially marine bio): Biology is an inherently messy science in several ways. It's complicated stuff and there are lots of variations. Be prepared for a lot of trials before you end up with a result. Prepared to go to unusual places and unusual lengths to collect data. The things that are easy to study generally already have been. It's literally messy or stinky in many cases. This goes 10X if it's mycology (fungi) 100X if you're in marine biology and 1000X forensic entomology. The calculus classes you'll need to take are generally useless unless you're involved computer modeling. If that's the case pay attention, you'll be using that every day. The statistics classes you'll take are MUCH more valuable. Seriously try and get an A in them if at all possible. You'll be using statistics pretty much every time you process data into information. Start becoming an excel spreadsheet master. If your school offers a basic excel class take it. You'll use it to quantify and process data into meaningful results. Latin is useful to know, you'll be encountering a lot of it, and knowing it will make your life easier especially at test/quiz time. Even a basic free online class or a few lectures from YouTube will be extremely helpful. We know that around 35% if what's in our bio textbooks is wrong, we just have no idea which 35% it is. If you like the sound of that then biology is for you, If you don't, then I recommend you find another science to learn. I've literally been in a class where a major scientific discovery mid semester had us going back to an earlier section and relearning about it correctly. Always cite your work, there is never an acceptable excuse not to. Learn how to do a good bibliography and notes section early, you have no concept of the huge number you'll do over your schooling. Good tools existed online at the time of my education (5 + years ago) to help out with it, I cant imagine they aren't significantly better now. Learn how to read a scientific paper. This is a much more challenging task than most people give it credit for because scientific papers are designed to cram as much information as they can in a concise space. You'll need to know how to unpack the contents in a way that is meaningful if you want to get the information out of them. This is just my advice, The cool bio facts will come latter today in a separate post.

Probably not very nice, the sewers look like an unpleasant place. 1. Black 2. Awesome! 3. I enjoy volunteering at the Exploratorium twice a week. The Exploratorium is quite literally the world's finest hands on science museum, they were the folks who changed science museums from a place where you went to see things to a place where you went to do things. A subtle but important difference. I'm an avid hiker and go on a minimum of one 3-7 mile hike every week in my city or surrounding area. Lately I've been enjoying exploring the Precidido, a huge former military base Next to the Golden Gate Bridge that was closed in the early 1990's and has been returned to the city as a park/neighborhood run in cooperation with the national parks service. Very very beautiful place with about 25 miles of trails through out it. I enjoy giving platelets. I donated a total of 16 times last calendar year. I'm a sucker for airshows. To this day one of the coolest things I've ever experienced was a B-1B bomber breaking the sound barrier 1000 feet above the crowd at the Miramar Airshow. You could feel the sound in your body in a very odd way, it felt like was literally shaking the organs around inside of your chest cavity. I also enjoy tinkering on various projects at home. Here is one that was blogged about. http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/2014/02/27/adams-light-sutro-tower 4. Depends on what I'm buying. I buy most video games online but buy most of my books in store. You can't crack open a video game and take a look through it the same way you can a book. 5. I live 2 blocks away from one, last time I was there I got 4 apple pies on my way to the museum for breakfast. 6. Pork is great if properly cooked. In general I avoid it though because it's frequently very dry and/or salty, however I love Love LOVE me some BBQ pork ribs. 7. When I was younger I had a very hard line/right wing 1 Israel undivided, no Palestinian statehood attitude. Today though I see that that's just not a realistic solution and have come to accept both the reality that the Palestinians were given a pretty raw deal by Israel and that their statehood is an inevitability. 8. My mom and I get coffee at Starbucks every Sunday morning before I leave for museum duty. 9. I've been playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Annihilation on and off for nearly 20 years. To this day it's my favorite game ever.

This is a bad contest and you should feel bad.

Superb job. Very door shaped with a door knob in the correct place, something no other submission has. A sure winner!

Yes they do get in line... For this dick. No, I don't lift, but I go on a 3+ mile hike once a week so my legs look amazing. CARBON this rev of PVE was at best a disappointment for me. It was kind of like communism, a terrific idea in concept that started to get seriously mucked up when those damn humans got involved. Waldo There is no other gods who can compare, not Talos, not Xenu and certianly not the damn lever.

5 less than your mother can.

Both, spice variety is the spice of life The most annoyingly good natured people in the worth with the most annoyingly lethal wildlife in the world. Magnyus for a burger and beer. WayneByNumbers to talk science with. Austo to give a sedative to. Vortex Just to hear what his voice sounds like. (seriously get a fucking mic alread)

Yup, SOMA Streatfood is the one next to costco. Great place to grab a burger, beer and watch a game. I'm in general drawn towards the unknown/unfamiliar because that's where the most interesting things tend to be at. So it was antural then when visiting the Caribbean for a few weeks I'd learn how to scuba dive. Now that Vortex is back I intend on doing a true sequel to mini empire. This rev's version was mainly killed by my lack of motivation and ideas on how to improve. Also, you really think I'm going to stop building planes? I'll happily build planes for your carrier, just make it a decent looking one or they won't be on it, they'll be attacking it.

Favorite hot sauce? Favorite beer/cocktail/adult beverage? Have any pets? Bonus points for pictures. Favorite place traveled? Place you haven't been yet but want to go to? Best friends on the server? Favorite builds? Are you willing to accept Waldo as your Lord and Savior?

Another factor that considerably alters the math involved is that Iron in our server is much easier to acquire on account of every major city/town PVE having it's own iron grinder. While it doesn't make it any less useful it does make it worth significantly less valuable as a trade commodity. TL;DR Iron is cheep on PVE

I have, great burgers. Also Goat Hill Pizza is nearby with their AMAZING SF sourdough crust, expensive but so worth it. I eat at SOMA Streatfood park around once a month, my favorite truck is Adam's Grub Truck That last question is the easiest for me to answer, It's Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin. The piece tells the story of a European immigrant coming to the USA, having success and folly along the way before falling in love and eventually living happily ever after all with out a single word being spoken.

Together Rose and the ghost of Manta Empire will do great things. On my agenda for the new rev are canals linking the server, a bigger temple to our Lord an savior Waldo and an authentic Manta Island.

I keep my house clean so I'd say a 9.5 Verros to be admin again. He was more fun than a barrel of monkeys with flamethrowers.

I had an old AMA from when the forums started but since it's been close to a year since there has been a reply I figured I'd give it another go. First off I'll answer a few of the questions I ask frequently to others in their AMA's My favorite hot sauce is Sirracha My favorite alcoholic beverage is Anchor Steam beer, brewed a few blocks away from my house. My favorite soda was Surge until they discontinued it in the USA but Monster is an acceptable substitute. I have a cat named Kitty (my brother named her) that also responds to the name Cat.` Best friends on the server, in no particular order: Dumbo52 Difficult1 Letsbefehr buzzin Tacodude, who looks enough like me that it's creepy. Eehee buzzie marting Kennya Kevo Char Magnyus Shanty Verros Rockonn Mastercomathe and many many others. The very very few people I dislike know who they are and are welcome to identify themselves by down voting me.

Well played.

Still going to join the military? If so what branch and when do you leave? Why haven't you been modded? Pets? post pics if so.

What's the strongest animal from your country you could pick a fight with and win? Also the game.

I'm really looking forward to this. I won't speak for others but for me CARBON has been a great disappointment this rev. I probably have only a 40% success rate at being correctly routed as of the present, low enough that If I want to go from Seneca (NW Quad) to Praha (SW quad) I take Karts system to Rose City (SE Quad) first then to Praha. Canals make that issue irreverent by putting the routing back into the hands of the player. Simple dyed wool blocks with colors / patterns assigned to each city placed every 20-50 blocks would be all that's needed to signal where to go.

Favorite hot sauce? Favorite beer/cocktail/adult beverage? Have any pets? Bonus points for pictures. Favorite place traveled? Place you haven't been yet but want to go to? Best friends on the server? Favorite builds?