Speculations
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I`m putting this in here as my idea belongs on a Toxic Cuteness dump, but an idea occurred to me after reading another thread, that Since Kittens are by far the "Cutest" of all pets. would it possible to make a "Drug" or something that could arrest their physical development in such a way that they remain as Kittens? (I don`t give a damn about the "Ethics" or PETA and that garbage so keep your rants to yourself!) is it Possible?
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I was just wondering what the exact influences are on the scale, and not the size, of living things on Earth. Plants and animals ranging in size from the smallest insect to the largest dinosaur or whale are all still relatively close in size. Why is it that there aren't creatures orders of magnitude larger scale? or smaller scale? On a planet with higher or lower gravity, would the overall scale of life change? Is a mile-wide living creature possible? Or is the scale of life inherently based on the size of the molecules we all start with?
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In the not so distant future, women may be "farmed" for the purposes of pleasing men, according to Angry Harry, a men's right activist.
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The classical skeptic hypothesis: You know nothing, I don't claim to know you know nothing only that knowledge itself is unattainable. To have knowledge you must be 100 percent certain of a justified True belief. I believe I am sitting typing a thread about brains in vats but I cannot be 100 percent certain because there is a small chance (Very small) that I am mistaken therefor I do not know I am sitting here typing. You can say, "Here there skeptic that is an unrealistic definition of knowledge, of course you can't be 100 percent certain." Then how can you say I know my name is X, but I am not certain... So tell me why do you think you are reading this and no…
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I have heard of that it is possible that there could be arsenic, sulphur, and iron based life. How could these, especially the two latter ones be possible? Just curious, need information on how this could occur.
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I couldn't decide where to put this, but I guess this would probably be best. But anyway, on to the question. I was pondering on what effects putting mirrors on the entire face of the visible moon would have on the environment. I frequently wonder about stuff like this. I've already come to some conclusions, but I'll post them later. Also, first post, so be kind if I goofed something up.
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I hear some people talking about the third eye associated with visions or clairvoyance, is there any basis to that?
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First off, hello everyone, I'm Clay, and I'm stoked to be a part of the community here! I have a fairly weird question, but hopefully you can help me out with it. I'm wondering about smoking cigarettes in a spacecraft. Great first post huh? I'm asking because I'm an illustrator, and I'm currently involved in developing a short story which follows an astronaut traveling through space on a long journey. It deals with the psychology of being utterly isolated, and just because it's visually representative of that sort of melancholia, one of the images I aim to create for the story is this spaceman passing the time having a smoke. I know there's quite a bit of physi…
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It is said that what killed the American Indians was not warring with the settlers but the alteration of their natural lifestyle, living off the land, as opposed to the agrarian lifestyle imposed upon them. For instance, the corn which they grew did not have enough calcium. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price That the problem of mass degeneration constitutes one of the most alarming problems of our modernized cultures is demonstrated by the urgency of appeals that are being made by students in national and international affairs. Weston A. Price studies, firsthand, the effects of "modernization". He draw links between nutrition of the…
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Parent star of our galaxy is died A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect would connect Physics, as well as Chemistry and Astronomy and Geology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about the universe but there are hidden forces too. The observational confirmations from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question. Although the scientific community's current view is that remnant core of exploded stars is pulsar (neutron star-ultra dense nucleus). It is supported by many researches. Each research where is supported Fe-rich and Ni-rich nucleus of a stars is wrong and unaccepta…
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Slowing of time can explain acclerating expansion as we look from our slower time into the past distant era of faster time. However there is no need to look for exotic phenomenon. First step is to understand what is time and what causes time, then we may progress towards understand why time may be slowing.
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I stumbled across this page, looking for something entirely different, and came across an entry for Anti-gravity suits... Go to the following link and scroll down. Its the first entry in the boxes http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2001/dot-e/accessories/01nonmjr.html What on Earth???? Is this proof that the military have been testing out such devices? Does this mean that anti-gravitonic technology does indeed exist? I mean why would the first thing you investigate be a suit? Surely this must have followed a successful craft? Thoughts please!
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letter 1 HH46/47 (EXPLANATION OF NASA) http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2003-06f This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope transforms a dark cloud into a silky translucent veil, revealing the molecular outflow from an otherwise hidden newborn star. Using near-infrared light, Spitzer pierces through the dark cloud to detect the embedded outflow in an object called HH 46/47. Herbig-Haro (HH) objects are bright, nebulous regions of gas and dust that are usually buried within dark clouds. They are formed when supersonic gas ejected from a forming protostar, or embryonic star, interacts with the surrounding interstellar medium. These …
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If we and all of our uniqueness just happen to be located at the approximate site of the big bang, then the universe would be expanding outward from all directions from here, and 12 billion light years in all directions would mean nothing.
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Right, so I was roaming the net, answering comments on my vids on YouTube, doing some homework etc, when I got a suggestion (quite .. uhm.. "convincing"..) to "LEARN THE TRUTH! VISIT truthism.com " So, out of curiousity, I did.. I scrolled down three quarters of the page, trying to skip from "why not to believe anyone other than us" crap to the actual THING they BELIEVE IN. So. When I finally regained control over my bladder and breathing after laughing myself to madness, I started thinking. Here's an excerpt of the website: Obviously, I stopped laughing as soon as I realised this is something people actually believe. Now, here's an important point (s…
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Recently I noticed that both McCaine & Obama were left handed . I also have noted that MANY Presidents are left handed too -- far out of proportion to the general population . Has any study been made of this & any speculation as to why ?
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Yes it does. What make you think it does not?
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NEW THEORY OF UNIVERSE CREATION When I was a lad (aged about 8 or 9) I would look up into the night sky and wonder what the devil it all was about! What were all these stars doing there? Did they go on forever? What caused them to exist - would they exist forever? Adults couldn't answer any of these questions satisfactorily and I was to find out later on in life that formal science hadn't a clue either. • Debunking and abandonment of most current theory. • New Creation of the Universe theory. • New Formation of the Planets theory. • Where planetary/interplanetary water came from. • Where the Earths deserts came from. DEBUNKING AND ABANDONMENT …
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Possible Solution to Energy Problem Reducing Global Warming I had mentioned a bit earlier that I have a concept for an energy source that I have already proven in principle. We need ideas desperately for stationary energy sources that don’t overly energize our atmosphere with emf or a runaway greenhouse effect. I encourage people to stop making meat eating babies and half the cure is there. Every meat eating person requires about 100,000 cubic feet of methane and other greenhouse gases to be generated during the livestock production it takes to feed them EVERY YEAR. That’s about 600,000,000,000 cubic feet of methane every year. Other key emission areas are automotive …
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First and formost i have NO clue what iam talking about so just dont bash me for throwing out a random thought on the essence of matter. I know that Subatomic particles are made up of quarks, the question is what are quarks made up of, what are those made up, and on down the line. What if down the step-latter say, ~{99999999x10 to the -(999999x10 to the 9999th power) power}~*, (or some really small number like that.) that at the bases of the smallest particle theres just energy (wave) with the same degree* of small number frequency and Wavelength spinning in a loop. I was just thinking of electricity (the power went out here in California) and know that if u get…
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I know, the thread got closed. However, I noticed no one talked about the Bayesian statistics themselves. Bayesian statistics were very popular in the 1980s and 1990s. So popular that a number of clinical medical journals, such as Archives of Internal Medicine, required all clinical studies to use Bayesian statistics to give a probability of the efficacy and safety of a drug. Bayes formula is P(H/E) = [P(E/H) x P (H)]/P(E), where: H = hypothesis E = evidence P(H/E) = the probability of the hypothesis being true given the current evidence P(E/H) = the probability of the evidence being present if the hypothesis is true P(H) = the prior probability of the…
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The primordial energy is called as Mula Maya or Mula Prakruti 77) Mulaakaasharupatrayam mahaamaayaa . (The root space appears in three forms and these three forms are called as Maha Maya). The primordial energy is called as Mula Maya or Mula Prakruti, which is in the form of space. When this is condensed, it appears in the form of light etc. When this is further condensed, it appears in the form of matter through illusion as explained above. When the primordial energy or its form works in a special technology, such work is called as awareness. Therefore, awareness as work form, light etc., as condensed form and matter as intensively condensed form are the thr…
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This is just a rough sketch just to paint an outline in your mind. Soon to come with illustrations and more detail. This is a very simple and understandable way of wording my theory, leaving out internal details that are included in my book. The theory of evolution is a continuous circle of events that grow and break down as time goes on. Most people begin to think of evolution on a small scale. When I say this, I mean that people are not looking at the big picture. Before I begin, I would like to throw a few things out there that we all know happen. Exploding stars; Gravitational pull; The theory of Pangaea; The unexplainable time table of Dinosaurs; Mete…
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Of Time, Gravity and Tithonicity The Actinides are products or by-products of the molten layer of the Earth's core where exist far higher energy forces than anything we can recreate on a major scale short of using that tithonic product of this planet's volcanic activity to initiate it. In the future we may be able to produce energies high enough to equal the energies of the sun's molten core areas, but as of now we are still guessing. We know temperatures exceed a hundred million degrees in the deeper molten areas and that gravity increases in these core areas for more than one theorized cause and this means greater velocities and warpage of time at hundreds of …
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