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Jesus!!!
Its not like they're gonna get to the bottom of this... Nonsense.
Welcome to Nigeria.

fruityjojo: Boys are just sum confused bunch! If she was calling u & texting u den she would hav been an ashaawoo or gold digger shebi! Wetin una want sef!

What on earth is this brat saying? I'm very sure when you get to SSS2, your teacher would tell you its bad to generalize. You're lucky you're even pretty(if your AVI is really you), else you would've been on the receiving end of my wrath this afternoon.
How do you let someone know you think about them, when you don't show it? We resemble God

marcjoe: AM HAPPY FOR YOU BRO

Thanks bro. I must commend you for your selfless humanitarian service on this thread. Just so you know, I got this phone because you brought to us, the limitless things this phone could do. Thanks once again bro. God bless you.

Okay I've been following this thread for weeks, finally got mine last week, and I must say MARCJOE actually made the transition seamless. This is really a beast I must say. One thing I'm very sure of though, is the fact that I won't root mine ooo. I like am like am like this, plus I no fit for wahala
God bless everyone of you putting selfless efforts into making us enjoy the phone to it's fullest.
But please I'm going to beg you guys to still help me post links for more wicked apps. Right now, I need GTA3 pls
Thanxx in advance peeps.

Somewhere in all of this, there must be a planet where the volcanoes spout chocolate.
Astronomers reported Monday that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, based on a new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

One of every five sun-like stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks zone – not too hot, not too cold – where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water, according to a herculean three-year calculation based on data from the Kepler spacecraft by Erik Petigura, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Petigura’s analysis represents a major step toward the main goal of the Kepler mission, which was to measure what fraction of sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size planets. Sometimes called eta-Earth, it is an important factor in the so-called Drake equation used to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe. Petigura’s paper, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, puts another smiley face on a cosmos that has gotten increasingly friendly and fecund-looking over the last 20 years.

“It seems that the universe produces plentiful real estate for life that somehow resembles life on Earth,” Petigura said.

Over the last two decades, astronomers have logged more than 1,000 planets around other stars, so-called exoplanets, and Kepler, in its four years of life before being derailed by a mechanical pointing malfunction last May, has compiled a list of some 3,500 more candidates. The new result could steer plans in the next few years and decades to find a twin of the Earth – Earth 2.0, in the argot – that is close enough to here to study.

The nearest such planet might be only 12 light-years away. “Such a star would be visible to the naked eye,” Petigura said.

His result builds on a report earlier this year by David Charbonneau and Courtney Dressing of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who found that about 15 percent of the smaller and more numerous stars known as red dwarfs have Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. Using slightly less conservative assumptions, Ravi Kopparapu from Pennsylvania State University found that half of all red dwarfs have such planets. Astronomers estimate that there are at least 200 billion stars of all types in the Milky Way galaxy, room for the imagination, and – who knows – perhaps for a few microbes or more complicated creatures to roam.

Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, who supervised Petigura’s research and was a co-author of the paper along with Andrew Howard of the University of Hawaii, said: “This is the most important work I’ve ever been involved with. This is it. Are there inhabitable Earths out there?”

“I’m feeling a little tingly,” he said.

At a news conference Friday discussing the results, astronomers erupted in praise of the Kepler mission and its team. Natalie Batalha, a Kepler leader from the NASA Ames Research Center, described the project and its members as “the best of humanity rising to the occasion.”

According to Petigura’s new calculation, the fraction of stars with Earth-like planets is 22 percent, plus or minus 8 percent, depending on exactly how you define the habitable zone.

There are several caveats. Although these planets are Earth-size, nobody knows what their masses are and thus whether they are rocky like the Earth, or balls of ice or gas, let alone whether anything can, or does – or ever will – live on them.

There is reason to believe, from recent observations of other worlds, however, that at least some Earth-size planets, if not all of them, are indeed rocky. Last week, two groups of astronomers announced that an Earth-size planet named Kepler 78b that orbits its sun in 8.5 hours has the same density as the Earth, though it is too hot to support life.

“Nature,” as Petigura put it, “knows how to make rocky Earth-size planets.”

Also, the number is more uncertain than it might have been because Kepler’s pointing system failed before it could complete its prime survey. As a result, Petigura and his colleagues had to extrapolate from planets slightly larger than Earth and with slightly smaller, tighter orbits. For the purposes of his analysis “Earth-size” was anything from one to two times the diameter of the Earth, and Earth-like orbits were between 400 and 200 days.

Batalha said, “We don’t yet have any planet candidates that are exact analogues of the Earth in terms of size, orbit or star type.”

Charbonneau said that raised “the terrifying question that haunts us exoplaneteers: Did the Kepler mission get enough data?”

Though Kepler itself is sidelined while astronomers devise a new program it can accomplish with less flexible pointing ability, it has sent back so much data that there is still a whole year’s worth of results left to analyze, Batalha said, and more improvements to make to the data already obtained. “Scientists,” she said, “are going to work on Kepler data for decades.” She said it would be about three years before they would be able to arrive at a viable rate for the occurrence of habitable Earths.

Kepler was launched in 2009 to perform a kind of cosmic census, monitoring the brightness of 150,000 far-off stars in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations, looking for dips in brightness when planets pass in front of them.

Petigura and his colleagues restricted themselves to a subset of some 42,000 brighter and well-behaved stars. They found 603 planets, of which 10 were between one Earth and two Earths in diameter, and circled in what Petigura defined as the habitable zone, where they would receive between a quarter of the light the Earth gets, and four times as much. In the solar system, that zone would spread from inside the orbit of Venus to just outside the orbit of Mars.
Source:
New York Times Service

How much are you selling, and why are you selling what you just bought?
Just sent you a request on bbm though.

And so?

bukatyne: It seems the definition of a 'happy' marriage is changing daily!

@OP: Pray very well about it and if you can't tell her, you can leave the house when your rent is due...

Whatever you do, do not confront either of them so that they do not misinterpret your actions and try to hurt you in future.

What point were you trying to make by my reply you made bold and quoted?
I didn't say happy family, but a complete family. I wasn't drunk when I was typing.
Don't you know a house can be complete without happiness in it(where you have the father still doing his duties, the mother, hers, and so forth)?

You're about to be in the crossfire...
If you should decide to damn the consequences and tell her, the ripple effect or chain reaction it will cause might be more than you anticipated.
Firstly, you have your roomie to deal with. There must be some benefit she's getting from the ordeal, and she wouldn't take it lightly.
Then you have your Landlady. You might think you're helping her marriage, but in the long run, you might have just deprived her kids the privilege to grow up with a complete family(as it may lead to divorce). If she's as good as you say, then leave her be. She might know already, and you stating the obvious might not go down well.
Then finally, you have the villain of the day to deal with, your LandLord. B4 it got to the point where he's now doing it in the same roof with his family, it means he's been doing it. He won't take it lightly with you at all. And remember you're in his turf(as you're a student, off campus in his land). Plus I know that Karma is still the only sister that Life has(they're both mean b*tches). He's gonna meet his waterloo soon enough.
LASTBULLET: You can't be held responsible for things you never said!!!

If you're still young, I'd advice you go.
My few reasons are:
You stand a chance of getting good grades, because you already understands the system.
You get beat a lot of competition, coming with a degree from the UK.
If you're on the older side though, then start building a career for yourself.

Wetin person no go hear now

Ghen ghen... Its about to go down, like the wall of Jericho.

U don fall my hand

I'm sorry!!!
I really wished I knew who this is, I'd tender my sincere apology.

dasparrow: So, let me get this straight. Just because your mother and grandmother were gold diggers, you now think every lady is a potential gold digger? okay, I see. I know gold digging runs deep among the females in your family but that does not mean that you should stereotype all females. And this response to your post is coming from a male who has his head on his shoulder and who was brought up to respect the female gender too.

See this dirty pig ooh!!!
Oboy you wanna use your filthy hands to invite a plague that would annihilate your entire generation

blink182: it doesn't change the fact that op is a kid and really can't connect with ever green songs from the good old 70's and 80's. When people procreated without caution because times were good.

I've been looking for a human that fits the description of a very big Ram with twisted horns, that missed being slaughtered in the just concluded sallah, and I can't believe you've eluded me all these while.

Abbey2sam: How old are you kid?

Just a year younger than your father sir.

Sattors: it means what we have on Nairaland are children.

If been a graduate and working in a firm is how you describe been a child, then you must have great-grand children by now... If not, then something is wrong with you.

airclipse: This one pass Miss na Missted....(if that's even a word)

How can you say this is missted Are you ok

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This is MISSTEDED!!!

pc guru: I used to think "not keeping up with the kardashians" was dumb but this is dumber, allow me to carefully elaborate, potential hints on having the ability and capability to do something. E.g all humans are potential criminals yes, all guys are potential cheaters yes, all girls are potential gold diggers yes, all Nigerians are potential liars and scammers yea, that's because they can perform the action if they want to it all depends on the mental capacity to , even all guys can be potential gold digger. anyway this solves your level of cognition not surprised its NL anything dumb goes. Damn brain drain shit is serious yo

All these doctors would never listen to me!!!
You let this amoral juvenile out, or to lay his hands on any internet-accessible gadget, the 1st thing he'll do is to run down to NL to get involved in juvenile delinquency.
Boy go grow some brains, get matured, then come back so I can school you on the real-time events happening around.
Continue like this, and trust me, you're on a crash course.

chiboy1928: Most ladies dis days don't want to hussle some of them are lazy have u ever ask urself while dose gold digger ladies get married to a rich guy and the relationship neva last as a sensible guy those guys knw dat d lady is just afta is money so they threat them like thrash,sometimes break they heart dump them or rather keep playing they games outside wit anoda lady,every responsible guy knows a potential lady who will make a beta wife and a lady who will also make a potential gold digger and the guy then decide to play along with them.so wen dose gold ladies come crying at the end dat my guy is a cheat dis and dat I laff because the guys themself know they aint gonna marry u as a wife because u re nt resourceful u are just they for the money neither will they let u knw all dat but they jst had to lie low and play along with u cos of they got the cash and no dat afta much they will finally dump ur silly ass in a wrong way as the saying goes u got the money u got the power
Lol.so girls try and be industrious and stop waiting for an already made man or else u lose ur sanity,respect and pride as a woman tanks.dnt mind me cos of my sentence tanks!!!

Well said bro!!!
You sef dey vex ooh!!!

ayando: @ poster, you are on point. I really don't comment on issues that bother on ladies being gold digger or not because they see it as if we guys hate them. i like the fact u brought in the type of gold they want to dig.

I also like d example of a miner who wants to start digging. that truly explains the mind of a lady or how do u explain a lady that marries a man she just met few months after graduation other than the one she dated. The crux of matter is we cant do anything abt it than we guys step up our game.

Thank you very much bro, I'm really humbled.
Let them keep digging for the gold, and as long as we're smart and keep up our game, we'll always be deeper they ever anticipated.

Abu Mikey: Ermm, Mr. Versatile, e don do

You should know me better... I only had to show her where she belongs, and replying her again will be like a king going into a dungeon, just because he wants to punish a slave. You think I've not been seeing her bitter replies As a psychologist, I gave her something to stew on, and everything is going as planned.
Next time she wouldn't hunt what she can't kill.

adconline: On point! Most women are looking for 3Ps Provider,Productive,Protector.. This how I see it.

Thank you.

[quote author=I_am_strata]a substantial amount is but definitely not everyone of them.[/quote]Widen your perimeter, increase your sample size, and interact with a lot of woman, and it will shock you to know that a lady must see you as a prospect b4 giving in to your request.
Now tell me, b4 miners starts digging, do they just choose sites randomly, or they try to be sure something is there b4 exploring?
Now what do you say to this?
Have you ever seen a girl that says, "he has nothing, he's a loser, and I'm not sure he's gonna make it in the future, so out of pity I'm dating him, and I'll go down the drain with him as well" have you

austushi1: Extom, na now ur head want to dey correct abi? Wetin happen before, for d other thread?

Well, of course they are Gold diggers now! In fact, 90% often go for the money, then 10% for d brain.

Oh sorry, my bad! The fact is: 99% often go for the money, then 1% for d brain

That's the good thing about guys; we fight during a football match(supporting our various clubs), then share the same bottle of wine after then... Girls being the Gold diggers they're, would fight for eternity.
You're welcome bro.

zenopee: Lolz. Am stl quite young, not 2 far 4rm 30 though, but I happen to just lyk old skool songs. And I guess I was influenced by my parents who played most of d tunes back then, though I was very little den, but d tunes left a visible impact in me, and I was lyk one day when I grow up, I will collect all the tunes 2geda. Listening 2 them turns me up, it makes feel rilly gud. Those songs have got a g8t deal of meaning, d compositions and instrumentations are very natural and are quite classic and consistent, not lyk most of the songs sung this days which lack all these sterling qualities. I just get damn crazy listening 2 such songs, and one of my most treasured hobby I̶̲̥̅̊s̶̲̥̅̊ collecting old school songs and kipn dem in my archives.

Wow that's a really good thing(archiving epic songs)its more like locking time in a jar...
Keep it up bro.

lynpetra: Abi o.Gold pass gold.

Now,tell me.Why did u open the threadwho is digging you??

I opened the thread because of a colleague in my office... He said some girls were gold diggers, always aiming for his pocket, so I was telling him how every girl is a gold digger, only that they have different definition for a guy's gold.
He was very impressed by my sermon, that it struck me that I could post my thought here, and get rave reviews.

spicyonu: go and get yourself a JOB It's lack of employment that has deranged your thinking AWU...

Now listen to me you slutty, cheap and spoilt gold digger, for your information, I work with a firm here in Abuja. Your profile shows you're in abuja, so you can come to Commerce Plaza, and I'll show you around my office(that's if you even have transport to come).
I was expecting banters from your types, so I'm not surprised.
Fine you nor fine, brain you nor get(couldn't spell simple EWU).
Brat.

Harbosede02: Nt again!!!

What happened before??