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Lily Essence wrote:A suggestion from myself would be Michio Kaku.

I agree, he would be great!
Also, it would be awesome to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson as the keynote speaker.

We thought it was incredibly easy, and so did many of the people we talked to. We got 18th, which was a little worse than we expected, given that we'd known almost every answer. It seems like there were so many people who'd done well, that it went to whoever got the closest on the tiebreaker.

Unfortunately, we practiced using older versions of Microsoft Office, so we barely finished the graphical problem and left several things off. Over all, I thought we did okay (26th).

SpaceX has now set the target date for the Falcon 9 launch to May 19. That will be during nationals. It's at 4:55 a.m. You'll want to wake up for it. Just step out of your hotel and look east - night launches are spectacular to watch even from Orlando. Unfortunately, it was canceled just before the...

.|[img]https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTaL3P0kjxhzhqDhZOLWKYyr5uesXQc63l_ZctiJ1JkPye6cYHI[/img] 1. Name 3 minerals that have this arrangement of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra. 2. What type of cleavage is common in minerals with this structure? 3. What is the name for this group of ...

Next question: Click|[img]http://tinyurl.com/buswpw8[/img] Some facts about this mineral: [list][*]This mineral belongs to the class that constitutes around 90% of the Earth's crust. [*]The dimorph of this mineral can sometimes be associated with pyrophanite. [*]Parts of the mineral may appear brow...

Source:http://webmineral.com/data/Quartz.shtml
According to this, jasper is red or brown chalcedony.
Chalcedony is microcrystalline quartz. Also, other sources have said that it also contains moganite (a monoclinic silica mineral)
Chert is similar, only it is cryptocrystalline (smaller crystals).

There, there - see, patience is a virtue!|[img]http://i.imgur.com/JHTtu.jpg[/img] A is the pink specimen, B is the clear-ish specimen 1. What is the chemical formula for specimen A? How about B? 2. What is the term for the crystal habit of A? 3. What accounts for the pink color of specimen A? 4. Wh...

There, there - see, patience is a virtue!|[img]http://i.imgur.com/JHTtu.jpg[/img] A is the pink specimen, B is the clear-ish specimen 1. What is the chemical formula for specimen A? How about B? 2. What is the term for the crystal habit of A? 3. What accounts for the pink color of specimen A? 4. Wh...