I was eager to leave Minnesota Why would you ever want to leave this wonderful place? I mean, it's not like we have snow in April or anything that drastic. :D Oh, obviously that would NEVER happen... :roll: Sorry, but I like wearing shorts. Sorry but wanting to wear shorts is not a valid reason to ...

I don't think competition is unhealthy. Personally, I consider myself a very competitive person, and I don't think I am a particularly unhealthy person. Competition is one of the most effective ways to drive people to improve. I do not view Science Olympiad or any other competition as perpetuating t...

I think that this theme is in general an improvement and I would like to make the proposal to make it permanent. However, there is one particularly egregious error that simply must be fixed. It seems that there is a line drawn for the orbit of each planet, however I can't help but notice that Pluto ...

You are not allowed to put it directly on the beaker. It must be at least 2.5 cm away from it. If you saw that, then that team was breaking regulations. That being said, how do you not know the rules yet? Do I need to go over the rules again with you guys before Regs? Whoa now. The top surface of t...

I blame the replacement officials. I lost the first three games of the year when the replacement officials were still officiating. As soon as the real officials came back, I won like, 5 consecutive games, and... I don't know what happened after that...

Assassinator wrote:I have killed Paradox21.

Really? You thought that wouldn't be a terrible idea?

Alright, suit yourself-- it'll be your funeral in the end.

I think that, since there might be a conflict of interest as to where new people should be placed in the ordering, the teams should be randomized. While some people may have been rigorously (and foolishly) planning out the perfect draft strategy tailored to their current draft position, new people d...

1st semester sophomore year of college: Principles of Computer Science Financial Economics Intro to Engineering Systems Chemical & Thermal Processes Electromagnetic Theory & Optics Orchestra This semester is supposed to be the most challenging semester at my college, so I am taking 1 or 2 fe...

Is it possible to change the links on the forum so that they open in a new tab by default? Currently, the link opens in the same tab and will often redirect you away from the forum.

Hmm, there are laser rangefinders. They can measure hundreds of meters with millimeters of error. I think you can get some for pretty cheap.

In plain sight wrote:The first letter of each line combine to spell Inuyashakusho.

You guys can get this one, I believe in you.

I always loved the Ecology event, and I can definitely see how this could be different from Ecology, although I think the current draft rules don't necessarily emphasize that as well as they could. My concern would be that at the national level, this event might lend advantage to certain states. For...

Maybe fix the TeX for the forums. This is supposed to be a somewhat scientific forum, math equations could be helpful.

Heh, somebody doesn't know how to use TeX. That wouldn't compile in any system... it has the wrong number of curly brackets, the infty has a forward slash instead of a backslash, and the term -infty should probably be {-\infty}. :roll: It looks to me like what it was supposed to be is a constant bei...

Sorry if someone has already asked this, but will there be a scioly.org table at the swap meet? Also, is anyone organizing an ultimate frisbee tournament like 2010? Seeing that Eastview HS won't be around this year to take charge of these things, I suppose I can give some insight on how we did thes...