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Yep, we should all read a book about it...

Was just about to post this but Stringy beat me to it:

The evidence would suggest it only happened once, or at least it was whittled down to one, much like the evolution of the internal combustion engine. In context, it's because they read a book about evolution (and we are here); you should try it.

I would like to take the time to present an idea I have come up with. Please note that I am a layman when it comes to the field of rocketry so please keep this in mind My idea is " The usage of a ferromagnetic fluid, such as ferrofluid, as a replacement of conventional rocket fuel in order to develop a rocket engine which would have the potential of recycling its fuel continuously through the usage of motor pump technology. All the while containing both the rocket along with the fuel and other components of the engine inside of a casing so that the different fluids do not escape from there respective housings. (Here is a general image of the idea that I am proposing) (I apologize for this being done in paint, I will try and improve upon the visuals of the design at a later point in time) I would like to now take the time to explain this systems functions for how it would complete the objective described in the beginning statement. I will be highlighting each section on how they work and how they interact with one another. Section(1) Section 1 Is the large fuel tank which would hold both a ferro fluid along with the highly compressible material. The highly compressible material would generate a pressure on the surface of the ferrofluid causing it to have a tendency toward the bottom of the container. Section 1 is also where the ferrofluid is recycled into along the highly compressible material. Section 2 Section 2 is the pressure controller and the ferrofluid outlet. Ferrofluid would be ejected at a controlled rate out of this nozzle using the pressure controller. This is what would cause the rocket engine to propel itself upward, that being the rocket nozzle, in a controllable manner. Section 3 Section 3 is the ferrofluid capture environment. This is where the ejected ferrofluid would be captured by a strong magnetic field generated by electromagnetic "plates". (Please note that I am using the term plates as a placeholder for a material that would capture the ferrofluid) Each "plate" would be charged by separate electronic sources. Any non captured ferro fluid would be let out into the next section. After the ferrofluid has been captured it would then "fall off" into section 4 due to the demagnetization of the electromagnetic plates. Section 4 Section 4 is a ferrofluid collection environment where the ferrofluid will drop off into after it has been demagnetized. After this it would then be drawn into up into section 5. Section 5 Section 5 is the ferro fluid recycler. Where the ferrofluid would be recycled back into section 1. Section 6 And finally section 6 is the back and forth highly compressible material storage and compressor. It interacts with section 1 by refilling it with highly compressible material. Problems I have run into when trying to flush out this idea > The magnetic field used to collect the ferrofluid would have to be strong enough in order to overcome the high velocities of the ejected ferrofluid. > The magnetic field used to collect the ferrofluid would have to be weak enough so that it does not impede the ejection process of the ferrofluid > Constant usage of the ferrofluid may cause nanoscale damage to the ejection nozzle and the motor pumps over time due to well metal scraping metal. > The compression rate of the highly compressible material would need to match the refill rate of the ferrofluid into the section 1. > The "falling off" rate of the ferro fluid would need to be fast enough that the ejected ferro fluid is constantly being attracted to the electromagnetic plates. > probably billions more problems Thank you for taking the time to read over this.

! Moderator Note ... aaaaaand good night, everybody!

Physics obviously works differently in the Star Wars universe (relativity seems to not be an issue, for example), so levitation may be easier, and/or power sources are much more prevalent. And, to the OP, the physics behind how you can jump to light speed — whatever is in place instead of relativity — would undoubtedly have won the equivalent of a Nobel, if it's something other than just "Galilean relativity works here"

There was actually a case of this a while ago: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562

Technological machines like trucks do not reproduce with variation. They do not descend from anything... You face it, the idea that life forms are machines is just an analogy and like all analogies it breaks down if you take it too far... The first life forms are gone, we have no examples of them, protists are not comparable to the first life forms. Protists are vastly more complex than bacteria and bacteria are extremely complex as well. I'm going to risk a neg vote here and post this for you. Watch it and get back to me when you have a minimal clue about how evolution and abiogenesis works.. #3 is the one about abiogenesis: I would like for you to show evolution is a mathematical impossibility, in fact recent calculations indicate that life is an inevitable result of the laws of physics. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

well, John hurt.

Now your just using magic; I can't take you seriously.

I 50:50 it with coconut oil to make a preshave

When I worked/seconded for a tissue company they used to put aloe vera into the baby wet wipes. I think it was for disinfecting purposes or something. They had to recall the project after too many complaints. I spoke to the mill manager about it and asked why it was canned... he replied in a very slow draw out SE English accent "well... too much aloe vera... [it was] burning the babies arses!" I am still not sure why I found the way he said it funny. I once broke a cactus and licked the sap - it was awful - very bitter. I can imagine that the sap would be unpleasant for a babies bum if too concentrated.

Do you have evidence or calculations to support that, or is it just something you believe.

Yes!!!

Wow. Not only were they denying qualified women, they were admitting unqualified, or marginally-qualified men. "The investigation found that in this year’s entrance exams the school reduced all applicants’ first-stage test scores by 20% and then added at least 20 points for male applicants, except those who had previously failed the test at least four times. ... The education ministry official’s son, who had failed the exam three times, was given a total of 20 additional points, which eventually elevated him to just above the cutoff line." So a double-whammy. Instead of being treated by a women who had earned her way into the program, you could be treated by a man who couldn't pass the entrance exam. Good luck with that operation!

Here is a link to the story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/tokyo-medical-school-admits-changing-results-to-exclude-women

thethinkertank has been suspended for rampant soapboxing and spamming the forums with nonsense. The mod queue did not have the desired effect on this behavior.

Yea - if it doesn't burn the hairs off of your tongue and leave you gasping for breath though then it has probably lost all of it's organic power and wont cure your cancer - you need to eat the leaves raw from the cactus to get the most organic power from it probably. such a heart warming post - beautiful witness for the love of the Lord.

Even if there is a heritable element of sexuality, it does not mean that "there is a gene for it". That is a hopelessly naive view of how genetics works. (Do you think there is a "gene for heterosexuality"?) Also, homosexuality doesn't make people sterile so your second point is equally silly.

Neither but both do at some point have a common ancestor, probably back in the triassic or jurassic

Yet lots of homosexual people - identifying as gay - do have children. Some may find it impossible to have hetero sex but I think the majority find, perhaps using some imagination, that they can want to have children and can perform the required act. No homosexual gene, perhaps, but they still have a lot more than zero chance of replicating and even if there were a 'gay' gene unless it has a much more reliable effect that prevents hetero sex it is not going to be selected out of the gene pool, and either way homosexuality will persist. I can envisage circumstances where there are a shortage of available mates - alpha males laying claim to multiple women for example is likely to have been commonplace. Outlets for sexual urges in such circumstance, that are not socially disruptive - avoiding fights and injuries - aid the reproductive success rate of the whole group, and more so when they are useful contributors to group survival. In 'selfish gene' style, the childless will share most of their genes with most of the group; aiding their nieces and nephews and cousins along the way will ensure the genes they share will continue.

Of course you would et pet, but again your pedant record speaks for itself. https://www.google.com/search?q=pedantic&oq=pedant&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.2327j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 pedantic. The definition of pedantic is someone who is very concerned with the details of a subject and tends to overly show off their knowledge. An example of someone who is pedantic is a person at a party who bores everyone while talking at length about the origin and details of a particular piece of pottery. And of course the accident could have been far worse then the near catastrophic accident and containment that did occur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant's_Foot_(Chernobyl) https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/there-radioactive-elephants-foot-slowly-burning-hole-ground The Elephant's Foot had penetrated through at least 2 m (6 ft 7 in) of concrete to reach its current location.[2] There were fears that it might continue to penetrate deeper into the ground and come into contact with groundwater, contaminating the area's drinking water and leading to illnesses and deaths;[10] however, as of 2016, the mass has not moved significantly since its discovery and is estimated to be only slightly warmer than its environment due to heat from the ongoing nuclear decay

Thank you for the clarification. I now understand why this would be an issues in terms of momentum conservation.

I'll clarify for him. For the reaction mass to produce an upward force on the rocket, it has to be accelerated downward relative to the rocket. In order to return that mass to the top of the rocket, any downward velocity the mass has relative to the rocket has to be stopped and reversed. This is an acceleration just as much as the one producing the upwards force on the rocket (acceleration is either change in speed, direction or both). This action will exert a force on the rocket opposite to that caused by accelerating the fuel downward. The end result of this force will be counter any upward movement by the rocket. This ends up with the net movement of the rocket as being zero. There is no way around this. There is no "clever" way to "fool" the rocket into having net movement by recirculating the fuel/reaction mass.

It appears that some of the Posters in this Thread might benefit from the following Links : https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/background/items/3145.php " Kyoto Protocol - Targets for the first commitment period Countries included in Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol for the first commitment period and their emissions targets Country Target (1990** - 2008/2012) EU-15*, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia,Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Monaco, Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia, Switzerland -8% US*** -7% Canada,**** Hungary, Japan, Poland -6% Croatia -5% New Zealand, Russian Federation, Ukraine 0 Norway +1% Australia +8% Iceland +10% * The 15 States who were EU members in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, took on that 8% target that will be redistributed among themselves, taking advantage of a scheme under the Protocol known as a “bubble”, whereby countries have different individual targets, but which combined make an overall target for that group of countries. The EU has already reached agreement on how its targets will be redistributed. ** Some EITs have a baseline other than 1990. *** The US has indicated its intention not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. **** On 15 December 2011, the Depositary received written notification of Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. This action became effective for Canada on 15 December 2012. " https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/background/items/3145.php The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change published "The Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual" : https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/08_unfccc_kp_ref_manual.pdf " FOREWORD Climate change is increasingly recognized as one of the most critical challenges ever to face humankind. With the release of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international scientific community has significantly advanced public understanding of climate change and its impacts. In this report, the IPCC concluded that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in average global air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising average global sea level”. The conclusions of the IPCC report made the case for action against climate change stronger than ever before. Climate change is a global problem that requires a global response embracing the needs and interests of all countries. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which came into effect in 1994, and its Kyoto Protocol that came into effect in 2005 – sharing the objective of the Convention to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases – enable such a global response to climate change. The Protocol sets binding targets for developed countries, known as “Annex I Parties”, to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It has established innovative mechanisms to assist these Parties in meeting their emissions commitments. Both the Convention and its Protocol created a framework for the implementation of an array of national climate policies, and stimulated the creation of the carbon market and new institutional mechanisms that could provide the foundation for future mitigation efforts. " https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/08_unfccc_kp_ref_manual.pdf

thethinkertank has been placed in the queue for spamming the forum with an impressive amount of nonsense.

What have you done so far to solve this?

As Strange said earlier, with a dash of humour:

No, when has history ever happened twice? It's like trying to walk over the same river twice; at some point it didn't/doesn't have a bridge... Or water.

The day they develop religion and start sacrificing calculators.

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs. The condition occurs in many animals and some plants. Differences may include secondary sex characteristics, size, weight, color, markings, and may also include behavioral and cognitive differences. Several species marine invertebrates and fishes change sexes in their lifetimes. Although some species exhibit sequential hermaphroditism, it's not necessarily observed observed in humans (no less homosexual humans), but that's not to say there isn't at least some factor(s) which affect behavior. For example, some would attest being gay since birth, while others may discover it later in life, subsequent to an otherwise heterosexual lifestyle. It was cooked up by homophobes, particularly one's "of faith" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/queer-notions-how-christian-homophobes-misuse-my-gay-gene-report/ Here's a spoof on the topic.

Absolutely, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the source of islam . And if you are going to compensatae slaves, why are you discriminating against none US slaves? Were the ones in the US just lucky ?

You have to account for length contraction by finding variable(sub(2-n)) and how their coordinates evolve based on t=n that's 4d calc Since t=n+1 always in 4d (as opposed to negative time in higher dimensional analyses) time dilates because length gets into a lower +/-(x)/n for the (x) value each time .. At least until it gets too small. Issue is standard model does that for larger volumes like cubes in flat space when Darron Arronfsky's Pi: Faith Chaos Novelization clearly shows nature as a sphere. Cone centered, the concentric curve for the in-between variables

Well that is mighty interesting, however humans and dogs share 84 percent of the same dna, so did humans decend from dogs or did dogs decend from humans.

Manta rays have wings in the water, with zero aerodynamics and sharks and rays are among the longest surviving best suited organisms on the planet

Edgar? Is that you? I take that as a yes. Anyhow what I mean is mathematically when you take Gauss' arithmetic you end up with 2 dimensions and then you cross it with a third being time. Skipping the true geometry. That's why we get these TVs and computers instead of it being material.

How come a peterbilt 18 wheel semi has cylinders just like a smart car. Are they decended from a common ancestor or did their creators just use the most logical best working parts. Face it mammals are machines just like cars, only they were designed to reproduce and better themselves without further help from the builder. There is zero possibility of hundreds of thousands of dna lines happening in the mud randomely to form the simplest protozoan Why do people believe in mathematical impossibility

Lol so now you know that dna does not use genes to code. You need to publish this

It did not and there is no homosexual gene since it has a zero chance of replicating. However if you are Elton John you can buy a kid and pretend

you all are thieves , since you dont love your Father. but you are in love with your fear , like pigs satysfied with their lives.if you want to serve devil, serve simona medic, since she prince of lies. you dont have strenght to love your god as much as i do, and you walking around his kingdom like thieves.