Drew

I was just wondering, since the Republican primary is going on here in the US. If Mitt Romney wins the primary does it guarantee him the nomination on the day of the Republican Convention in Florida? or they can nominate someone else to represent the party?

My contract with AT&T is done in May of 2012. I'm thinking of cancelling my data plan as soon as it's done, right now I still have the unlimited plan for $30. I'm thinking of cancelling it and use the $ to apply data plan for my iPad.

Hello, I've been trying to get back to school (accounting) for the past year now but having a full time work in the office and with two kids at home I literally have no time to go to school physically. I'm thinking of doing online school which i haven't done before, so I need help and some suggestion. I would really appreciate the inputs.

- What are a good and maybe inexpensive online school out there?

- How much does it cost?

- How much of my 24hr (time) do I need to put in?

- What do they require?

P.S.

I'm base in the US..

Than you in advance!

I see Earth in the future having a ring around it but it's not ice or rocks like Saturn..think more like Space Junks, so how much space junk will it take to have a visible ring around Earth?

I've been reading about this and it seems to be the most logical way to explore and specifically a way to find other life out there in our universe. What is your take on it and where are we right now in terms of this technology?

Is it natural selection?

I just received a Sony STRDH 520 7.1 as a gift but it didn't come with speakers. So i need some suggestions and help with the set up. What kind of speakers should I buy and should I just use HDMI or use the optic? This is my first receiver so I'm noob about this. I appreciate the help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

I'm not sure where the probe New Horizon is now, I know it'll get to Pluto on 2015 . Anyone know if there's a plan to pass by Uranus or Neptune? It's beena while since any probe got close to those two planet.

I know I should have posted this in "Music" category but I'm thinking I could get a better answer here. I love listening to music Coldplay, Muse, Metallica...etc. I was juts wondering if there are any Astronomy theme band out there you listen to? I would like to give them a shot and play them while observing.

S.E.T.I. has been operating now for the past 50+ years and you would think they should have come up with something to present the public, but so far the best one I can recall is the "wow" signal. Other than that it's been so eerily quiet, is it because of lack of funding? or lack of technology? I know that 50 years of sending and searching for signal is barely scratching the surface of the universe. Is there something fundamental they're missing? They had that SETI at home to help out crunching the numbers but it's still has no result whatsoever. It would be nice to know the answer to the question "are we alone?" in our life time.

I was just wondering if its possible for the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars use to be moons of the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. Ever since the Kepler telescope has been discovering Jupiter mass planets orbiting very close to their host star made me think that our own gas giants were once close to the sun and just migrated outward and in turn some of the moons pulled away and created its own orbit around the sun.

Who is the next Carl Sagan? I got in to Astronomy because of the Cosmos. Carl Sagan is just an inspiring person to me, I just don't see anyone out there right now that has the same impact to promote Astronomy like how Carl Sagan did even to the very last moment of his life.

I love The Big Bang Theory TV sitcom, I think it's the best show out there to date. I was just wondering the accuracy of the science they shoot there. It seems like in every scene there will be comments connected to Physics, Astronomy, Biology and Chemistry. Although it's a TV show I do hope they research their facts before putting it out there to at least in some ways maybe inform the uninformed properly. So how accurate are their lines.

Bazinga! =)

When I started getting into astronomy the famous Frank Drake equation is one of the thing that fascinated me. But as time goes by and with some more discoveries and research being done in and out of our galaxy, we tend to discover new things which I think affects the equation. Do you think there should be some changes needed to be done to it to maybe increase or decrease the probability?

what is Drake Equation? here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

Hello, I was trying to book a party for a banquet in San Francisco, CA and they asked me for a deposit and I told them i'll be paying with my credit card. They e-mailed me a credit card form where I have to put in my credit card # and personal information on it and I need to fax it back to them. I was just wondering if this is legal? I thought there's a law where merchants shouldn't be keeping documents with customer credit card information. I was trying to research some information about it but I can't find any, not sure if I have to put it to their attention or report them. thanks!

I have an HP G60-230US and it's connected through my wifi router but whenever I use my iPhone 3g that also connects to my wifi router my laptop lose it's connection. Is there a setup I should do on my laptop? Thanks!

The purpose to this is to clear out liabilities in the books. Thanks in advance!