Speculations
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Isn't it interesting how Face "skeptics," in their simplistic yet smug way, magically transform into psychologists when dealing with the artificiality issue? Espousing the "seeing faces in the clouds" explanation for the Face's 98% symmetry, wholly non-fractal (non-random) nature, and exquisite "facial" detail, has become the norm ever since astronomer-cum-psychologist Carl Sagan made it chic to do so early in the game. The fact is, before the MGS imagery came in, the Artificiality Hypothesis made specific predictions--the hallmark of the scientific method--that finer facial details would appear in high resolution images. Not things like "nose hairs" or "pimples" or …
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Thought I'd give this pseudoscience thingy a try. "Based on a complete lack of evidence to the contrary, I believe that the Nasca lines were built by giant squid for no apparent reason, and that the current proliferation of squid in our seas is incontravertible PROOF that they are coming back to do more of whatever it was they did. I have calculations but they're in mindSpeak__™ And the dog stole my research notes. But I know the reason I can't be wrong, so don't worry about that."
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here`s an Idea I`ve been boucing around in my head for some time. "when it ALL ends" if you gather all the elctrons and put them into a pile and the same with neutron, protons, photons etc... all in their neat little piles and then try to make the most inert unreactive, non radioactive material you can think off and scatter it asunder throughout the space the universe ocupies, what can stop it being gravitationaly pulled back in again and blowing up? using the conservation of energy and matter theories, is it actualy possible that the "Universe" as we know it and all the particles within it will NEVER cease? the though reminded me a little from the "perpetual mo…
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The asteroid that supposedly killed the dinosaurs did not actually hit the earth - it passed within a few meters of the surface and was pulled around the earth in a gravity slingshot type motion. On its way the null-G field created by the lack of spin between the asteroid and the earth pulled the dinosaurs off the planet and they were carried off into space with it. The asteroid finally landed on Nibiru - the 10th planet, where the Dinosaurs and the Ancients have enjoyed a long and fruitful joint exisitence, frolicking and gambolling through the long cold nights. In 2003 Nibiru will swing by Earth, and the dinosaurs will return by space taxi at the point where…
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Point scoring table for Pseudo-scientists 1. A -5 point starting credit. 2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false. 3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous. 4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent. 5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction. 6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment. 7. 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards). 8. 5 points for each mention of "Einstein", "Hawking" or "Feynman". 9. 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is…
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I watched a PBS special that showed a lot of ancient South American pottery with dinosaur depictions and shapes. Then I saw a Science Channel program that showed a Diplodocus had a stomach that could carry 50 30gal wine barrels. The stomach was filled with highly effecient bacteria which could process tons of vegetation per day. That made me wonder if a dinosaur walked into a campsite and burped or God forbid farted near a campfire the results could be catastrophic. The start of a legend? Just aman
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You are fortunate. I give this knowledge to you for free. The earth is flat, all evidence that says otherwise is trash because it would contradict my hypothesis. Also, all peer-reviewed journals are wrong because it is just a meal ticket. I have been kicked out of school and professors don't like to talk to me because my evidences for a flat earth are so strong. Please visit my webpage and make intelligent comments. http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/FlatWhyFlat.htm
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Ok, this is NOT meant to be taken seriously at all, so I stuck it in here from the Micro to the macro, nature seems to replicate certain patterns, whether it`s the fractal patern in a snowflake or the leaves of some plants (a Fern). our own solar system is remarkably like the pattern shown in an Atom. (here`s the crazy part ) could it be possible that if we had a powerfull enough microscope and took a lokk at one of these electrons that we`de see Cities and people and cars and stuff? it also raises the question when in the bible it says quite clearly that man was created in God`s own image! now that can be taken many ways. here`s one way (the caps are impo…
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Is it really true that a person has 6th sense ??? Is the person able to know what is going to happen in the future ??? I have watched some movies involving 6th sense. One of them was "final destination" that had a guy who can predict what is going to happen next. I don't believe it, but I need your opinion of what you guys think. :feedback:
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http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/JUPFULLx.htm and http://www.yowusa.com/Archive/Sep2003/Jupiter_attack/jupiter_attack.htm
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What would Sir Isaac Newton, or, for that matter, Albert Einstein, have made of the recent disturbing cosmological discoveries that have required the introduction of the concepts of dark matter and dark energy into scientific nomenclature? They were both, after all, classical theorists and deeply religious men whom believed in a benign creator that had provided: for mankind, a chronographically ordered Universe that would exist forever. So how then, would their exquisitely ordered intellects have coped with the apocalyptic images: provided by the Hubble space telescope and other observational tools, of entire galaxies cart wheeling through one another or of jet galaxies…
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Consider a complicated system with a fault which cannot be located nor studied directly. How can the fault be located and corrected? The more complicated a system is, the more effects it often produces as a result of the fault. Also, the more effects there are, the more accurately the fault in the system can be targeted. So, ironically, the fault in a very complicated system can be better targeted than a fault in a less complicated system. Consider a sick person as being that complicated system with a fault (disease). If a substance can be found which produces effects (symptoms) in a healthy person which are identical to the symptoms produced by the sick …
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There is considerable criticism about Homeopathy not being able to explain its pharmacological mechanism, but this thread demonstrates some of Science's own shortcomings in this area, and some contradictions appearing in reputable Scientific texts. POINTS 1. The shaky evidence, or lack of evidence, for the mechanisms of many bacterial diseases, and how medicines actually act on these disease agents "in vivo". Scientific knowledge of "in vivo" activities in this area is lacking - as mysterious as a previous discussion asking about "how symptoms are constructed in the body". 2. There are many contradictions in modern textbooks about inflammatory and immune sy…
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http://www.antigravity.org/BigSpinModelOfGravity.html Sound familiar?
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Dear ALL, 1. Do the materials exist since everlasting? If we have a look at the radioactive materials like Uranium. We found the following: Uranium atomic weight is 238.03, And when it decay, it release 3 Helium atoms, each has the atomic weight of 4, That is mean 238.03 Ur – (3 X 4 He) = 226.03 this is the atomic weight of Radium. & if the radium continues the radioactive series, we will reach Lead. This process needs long periods. If we noticed that, the half-life of Uranium is 1590 years, and it is much longer for radium. Then radioactive materials did not yet past enough time to reach the end of its radioactive series. However, if these materials…
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What's your take on this site, & it's content? ' http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Alien_Writing.html
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Is there another you, right now watching TV somewhere on the other side of the Universe? Some sceintists think so. You see we can only see so far out into our own Universe. Or what we think are the limits of our Universe. It is possible that in a another Universe, your exact double (except with three arms because of a different evolutionary path) exists. This would be an Alternate Universe. An Identical Universe would produce an exact copy of you, history, everthing. You could meet yourself, and change some things....on that planet only of course. Finally, there is the Quantum Dice Universe. A universe where Germany won WWII, or Custe…
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I currently have been holding information regarding the face on mars. This information could change the way we think about the evolution of humans and the possibility of life elsewhere. I am looking for the best way to convey my information to the world. I was thinking of just sending it to Richard Hoagland, but unfortunatly I'm not willing to give this away for free. Any ideas? It is amazing, when I showed my friend "a sceptic" he almost had a heart attack. I was thinking about a one time e-mail/ mail out in six months. Sorry nothing's for free, I need donations for my flyfishing guide operation/ relax and enjoy life. Thanks for your time, Ran…
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http://www.cropcirclenews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=128 Thats a pretty interesting read. There was a show on TLC recently about something similar. US Military showed up and all as well. I must say, though, that is one UGLY crop circle.
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There is a magnetic ether "GRAVITY" PUSHES !!. Motion in this ether creates electric charge. Degrading rotating ether fields have a resultant towards the centre of rotation. In the case of a spinning system such as Earth, these lines of force are precessional. These helical vorticle field lines are photographed. Objects within this field are pushed to the ground. Clouds therefore are satellites to this Earth. Discuss
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I wish to announce that a new theory of gravity has been launced into the scientific arena. This theory is consistent with Newtonian mechanics, however mass is not part of the equation. I will tell you more in the very near future. Dr Hans Zarkov
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A notion "time" has been arised at everyday life of people for indication of occurring events and periodic changes in life and surrounding their world. We can observe the existence of time on occurring changes or at events only. For orientation at time, people are using the reiterative events, such as the orbiting of moon, a rising of sun or the sundown, tide of water on seeshore, and a clock, later. Thereby, the CYCLES this is an integral, main characteristic of time. Each object in universe (the universe also) has the inherent to him Time Cycle (TC). Indeed, time shows itself as TC of object. What starts all events? I claim - the time. Since the tim…
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I wonder if anyone intentionally ever posts in the psuedoscience section---- well today I am. By the way you should all read 'Psuedoscience for the responsible'---- I personally think that Adams first statement is great proof for the existence of the 10 commandments, if you want you can read my ideas about how everything is about faith anyway, which is currently on the front page. But I think may favorite is the theory that socks are clothes-hanger larvae----- just out of curiosity does anyone who lives alone experience the phenomenon of vanishing socks? If so then I think hogslayer should get that theory published and written into all new science books. ANYWAY ON WIT…
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Suppose we have turned on a clock. It have begun to account the time. What means the evidence of this instrument? The amount of conditional time lag has passed from event A before event B. The Direction of time - from a certain initial point (zero) to the endless future. Time is totalized. Time is counting forward up. In this nobody has doubt. This became as axiom. But my cogitations about time have brought me to the other conclusion. Let be a clock with battery. Let these clock has a timer i.e. it allows to totalize time. Let, the clock had stopped in 2400 hours (144000 sec) after start. The timer has fixed this numeral. What it means? The most prob…
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For years it has been believed that light bulbs give off light. Recently, scientists have proven just the opposite. Instead of a light bulb giving off light, they actually suck dark. From now on, light bulbs will be called "dark suckers". Scientists in the laboratory have proven that dark has a heavier mass than light and that dark is faster than light. The dark sucker theory that light bulbs suck dark is based on an example such as the lamp in your living room. There is less dark close to the lamp than there is farther away from the lamp. The larger the dark sucker, the lighter the living room. Like other things, dark suckers don't last forever. Once th…
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