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<p>Hello all</p><p>Just thought Id write a quick intro - Im 15 (16 next month...), live in the UK, and I know Im a huge geek. I mess around with Linux, take apart computers etc, and want to work in IT in a couple of years. I sit in science (not biology - I sleep through that, only Physics and occasionally Chemistry) questioning what the teachers tell us (I hate dumbed down GCSE science) - I pipe up with things like "A wave CANT just be a disturbance in matter - how do we get light from the sun, through space - essentially a big vacume if it has to go through matter" or "Can you have a negative number of electrons in an atom". Anyway, as my teachers always come up with "Its not important, "Do A-level Physics"or "You dont need to know that" I generally learn things from wikipedia. Anyway, recently, Ive been getting more and more interested theories behind extra-terrestrial life, as well as composition of planets and phenomenon like Black holes etc. I don't really care about stars or constilations - "ooh look its nuclear fusion - a big ball of burning hydrogen and helium" but Ive been reading up on Titan recently, and thinking about the possibility of colonolisation - the huge deposits of hydrocarbons look like a great source of energy, the nitrogen would help with plant - life - It looks like earth a couple of billion years ago - the -180 degree temperatures are only a small problem XD. Ive been reading the SETI website, and I run SETI@home, and I really do think Extra-terrestrial is possible, and probable, although thinking like that probabally makes me "crazy".</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I'm considering uying a telescope at some point this summer, but I dont know If I'll be able to afford one which will let me look at Jupiter and Saturns moons - I have no idea how powerful It would have to be for that. ut Ill worry about that when I get some money. In the meantime, I was wondering if anyone can reccomend some magazines on sale here in the UK which might be of interest to me.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p> </p><p>The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.</p> </div>