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t0mmyy @t0mmyy (8) • Netherlands 5 Jul 10

Hey guys! Do you believe in the Nibiru in the year 2012? I don`t think so,but i see lots of internet surfers talking about that,something like "I`m really scaried,i`m too young to die!" and similar comments. What`s your opinion?

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merlinsorca Yeah, the world is most likely not going to end in 2012. It's just that humans like to say things like this once in a while, to scare each other or to have fun. There were many other doomsday predictions in the past (Y2K for example, but the year 2000 came and...

23 Nov 10

dheerajlko @dheerajlko (470) • India 3 Nov 10

in the event of all the humen evolution we have reached from monkeys to man an intelligent creature who know all but do u know we only use 5% of owr total brain so how come we r evolved ?

humen

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merlinsorca Humans actually do use 100% of their brain. This myth that humans use less than 5% or 10% of their brain is just that - a myth. Here is a wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%25_of_brain_myth If we only use less than 5% of our brain,...

7 Nov 10

JackRoy @JackRoy (242) • United States 6 Nov 10

Is there any website that can substitute Wikipedia? What do you think? To me this very site is of immense help whatever the subject may be. It is really tough for me to consider any site instead of Wikipedia for gaining knowledge....

substitute of wikipedia

wikipedia

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merlinsorca Probably not, because Wikipedia is really the best when it comes to providing information. Wikipedia is definitely one of the most visited sites in the world, and they so many articles because everyone is allowed to edit. Wikipedia takes all the information...

7 Nov 10

savypat @savypat (20216) • United States 7 Nov 10

Each year we change our time one hour forward for Spring and one hour back for Autumn. I understand why this is done, but it certianly upsets my system for about a week. How well do you adjust to this custom?

changes

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merlinsorca We do that in our country too. It doesn't really make a difference to me, because most of my things automatically change the time one hour. And it happens when I'm asleep so by the time I wake up the time doesn't matter to me; since everyone and everything...

7 Nov 10

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SharingLove @SharingLove (76) • India 2 Sep 10

Have you ever think what CashGopher is doing in our systems ? As per FAQ I understood that :) CashGopher will performs various online tasks and sends results to main server Is this Grid computing ? I hope everyone...

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merlinsorca I haven't joined CashGopher, but I do use another type grid computing/distributed computing program. I use F@H which helps with medical research. The thing with CashGopher is that you don't really know what they're doing with your computer. It says at the...

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merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca There are people who do not trust Wikipedia; on myLot there are discussions that say you shouldn't trust Wikipedia and on other websites people write articles about why Wikipedia is so unreliable. Of course, there are also people who trust Wikipedia but it...

10 Aug 10

Valentin @wmraul (2552) • Bucharest, Romania 19 Jul 10

Motto: [i]Hey now, all you sinners Put your lights on, put your lights on Hey now, all you children Leave your lights on, you better leave your lights on Because there's a monster living under my bed Whispering in...

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merlinsorca I have a very, very scary monster under my bed. It's invisible and it doesn't make a sound, so I never know where it is or what it's doing. And no one believes me when I say there's a monster under my bed. That's right, the monster doesn't exist!...

19 Jul 10

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incus99 @incus99 (1083) • Philippines 15 Jul 10

the question that are we the only intelligent entity in the Universe, has baffled Man for centuries.. Man has invented different instruments to see beyond the stars, to answer this age old riddles. NASA launched and SETI (Search...

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merlinsorca Probably not. The universe is too big, there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, each having billions of stars. There are so many other planets out there, that there must be some life on them. There might even be intelligent life in our own galaxy. It's just...

15 Jul 10

Andyvil @Andyvil (793) • Philippines 14 Jul 10

I am just wondering if humanity will ever reach the point of interstellar space travelling. Its hard for me to believe that we will reach that point cause at the rate we are going right now we will never be able to reach that...

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merlinsorca Humans should eventually be able to become that advanced, but it will probably not be in our lifetimes. But it is very unpredictable because right now humans are advancing very quickly, and in the future we will advance even faster. I think that interstellar...

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prithuthehelp @prithuthehelp (7) • India 14 Jul 10

If past is history , future is mystery , then what is present ????

future

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merlinsorca The present is what's happening now. It is NOW, not a few minutes ago or tomorrow. You can't remember the present and you can't try to predict the present, but you can experience it. The present is the experience and your consciousness of the...

14 Jul 10

soundgarden_0303 @soundgarden_0303 (28) • Philippines 14 Jul 10

My Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 subscription is expiring soon and I'd like to know from you, myLotters, what security app your using right now and what security app is the best and why. Thanks in advance for helping me...

security apps

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merlinsorca I currently use Avast! Antivirus, and it is probably one of the best anti-virus software out there. It works very well and I got almost no viruses since I started using it. It scans all websites you visit and blocks any virus that it detects. And you can...

14 Jul 10

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Porcospino @Porcospino (31365) • Denmark 9 Jul 10

When you want to start a new discussion do you usually think about your topic for some time before you post it or are you more impulsive and do you tend to start discussions straight way if you get an idea? Did you ever regret...

impulsive

new discussion

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merlinsorca I think that I am the opposite of impulsive; most of the time I can think about a discussion for days before I actually start one. Sometimes, I just think of a discussion but never start it. It's like I plan some topics that I could start, and after a while I...

9 Jul 10

lacieice @lacieice (2060) • United States 6 Jul 10

Would you go to the future and see what is coming? Would it change your life today if you did that? Or would you go to the past? Would you try to change anything knowing that even the smallest change would change the future...

future

past

time travell

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merlinsorca Well, technically I can (and everyone can) travel through time into the future. Every minute you are traveling one minute in the future. But seriously, If I could travel through time, I would pick the future. In the past, we already know what...

6 Jul 10

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merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca Technically, if there was ever a bad article on Wikipedia then anybody viewing it should know it. So I never understood people who say "There are always mistakes." And, besides, whenever it is said that the information is not correct, it always asks the user...

6 Jul 10

merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca Sometimes I use Wikipedia for official things even when I'm asked not to lol, I do trust it that much. It's supposed to be neutral and offer many different opinions, so it can sometimes be better than most other resources.

4 Jul 10

merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca Yes, most vandalism is done by people who don't even use an account. Many of the editors wouldn't want to make an account and make bad edits on purpose, and those that do vandalize with an account can be blocked easily.

4 Jul 10

merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca It is very helpful to have all the information in one place, and articles should have the sources at the bottom as references. So basically Wikipedia brings all the information so you don't have to search for it later

4 Jul 10

merlinsorca @merlinsorca (1118) • United States 3 Jul 10

I am getting fed up with all the people who say that Wikipedia is terrible because of it's open-editing. If everyone can edit it, shouldn't all articles have wrong information and be vandalized all the time? But they aren't. If...

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merlinsorca Ah yes, I have heard of some companies that try to edit their own article on Wikipedia. That is true, but there is actually a way to deal with this. Wikipedia makes sure that all it's articles have a Neutral point of view. If anybody edits their own company...

4 Jul 10

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