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Memmamal, you horribly missunderstood what I wrote. You falsy concluded that I implied that you are a "staunch theist" There is not a trace of anything in my writings that would imply that you are a staunch theist. In fact there is not a trace in my writings of any kind of implification towards you. Please read again what I wrote. Edit: Just to give you a hint of how horribly wrong you are in your line of thought of accusing me, consider that if were to use your aproach I would conclude that you imply that I am a millitant atheist...which is ofcourse preposterous. Take a deep breath, I am not your enemy and I am not implying anything towards you personally.

+1 on that tar. We also get "rewarded" when we agree on things. The search for agreement is as strong with many of us as the need to be right.

I would prefer discussing science ofcourse (or better put learning science) but it is crucial in my opinion to phrase sentences as simple as possible when dealing with complex concepts. As you were saying - no one realy knows...please continue, this is fascinating.

M-theory which is formulated in 10+1 dimensions has (as certain low energy limits) a supergravity theory in 10+1 dimensions, and then superstring theories in 9+1 dimensions It is certainly a lot easier to read for me. Would that be acceptable ?

Yes, yes, this is clear. In laymen terms M theory unified the 5 superstring theories adding an additional dimension on the way. But I want to understand that initial sentence of yours.

I'm serious ajb, can you at least put 1 little comma in there somewhere or rephrase this? : "M-theory which is formulated in 10+1 dimensions has as certain low energy limits a supergravity theory in 10+1 dimensions and then superstring theories in 9+1 dimensions. " It's a mind bender in its present state for me and Witten is my hero btw.

Dang ajb. I needed to read the above 3 times to grasp it, due to the lack of commas. Have mercy for us non natives

AngelicAlibis, my unprofessional diagnosis is that as to lying, you sound like a perfectly healthy human without any symptoms of dissorder. Sociopaths or trained professionals can have it differently but in general, most people give physical signs of lying and preffer not to lie. Unless we are talking about a life thretening situation which the OP might have had in mind. Hypotheticaly, if your life or the life of a dear person to you would be at stake, would you have second thoughts about giving a harmless lie? I think this is what the OP means, an extreme, hypothetical situation in which a man cant deny that he ate a cookie while his life is at stake.

It depends on many factors but I can tell you that you are very lucky to be built the way you are.

I'd like to share what I know about this subject as I've been a "flashaholic" for many years and batteries are the key part of flashlight building & modding. LiOn IMR (safe chemistry) is the "best" we have right now as far as delivering most current in the shortest time. Sony VTC5 18650 cells are capable of delivering 60 ampers in short bursts and 20 ampers constant. These 18650 cells are the size of cells that laptop batteries are built of. They are rechargable cells, 4.2V fully charged/3.7V discharge voltage. The "IMR" chemistry is safe as opposed to regular LiOn cells which can explode or burn with lithium fire when missused (when voltage goes lower than about 2.5V) The Sony and Panasonic LiOn IMR cells are the best we have right now and they are used in Teslas and Koenigsegg hyper cars.

Phi for all is right. I ment a gravitational singularity. A technological singularity concept is something completely different but it does sound like a cool idea to incorporate it into a story too

I wonder...who would you call a millitant atheist and what kind of agenda would you say they might have ? Edit: I will answer this question myself as it is a purely rhetorical question and it might be viewed as bad intension from my side if I continue this line of discussion. Firstly Memammal, I think you twisted the words around, it would be more accurate to ask about "staunch atheists" and "millitant theists" Secondly, the most staunch atheists I know of, are Richard Dawkins and deceased Christopher Hitchens. I do not know of any more "millitant" atheists out there. Both of them dedicated most of their lives to spread the word of science and actively "fight" against bigotry of both faith (any faith) and the church (any church) by giving speaches, writing books and doing scientific research. Both of them are decent people with families. On the other hand we have the "staunch" theists like you adress them, who for the past thousand years run around burning and killing the "millitant" atheists who spread the word of science.

Well in that case you gotta use a singularity to deflect the solar flare. Whats a good scifi story without a good old singularity

What genre book are you writing? If its SciFi then your assumption that "In this world all of the world's resources can be directed towards individual tasks at once if need be so thinking big is not a problem here, the planet is totally unified" could be correct but only then

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I have travelled to many arabic countries in my work for the past 15 years and my view on their culture and their people have changed as well as those countries which I visited have vastly changed over the period of the last 15 years. You talk about cutting clitorises and throwing gays off of buildings - I've seen a gay being beat up almost to death in London, I've seen a woman being shot for no reason in Johhanesburg and I've been treated with exemplary hospitality in Nigeria - the capitol of human trafficking, child prostitution and other unimaginably nasty things. I spent months in Riyadh/Saudi Arabia - the most conservative islamic place on the planet. Their religious laws are plain sick. I was invited to a public egzecution where they cutt of hands of thieves and ocasionally decapitate a repeted offender - I obviously refused. The next day I was invited by a Saudi family to spend a day with them. A bunch of family and friends there, they all talked about how they are scared of terrorism because in Riyadh mostly Saudis are killed in terror attacks (this was after 9/11) Have you travelled recently anywhere else than Atlanta? Are you familiar with the arabic culture? How many arabic collegues/friends do you have? Have you ever had any personal interactions with an educated, well raised arabic person? Are you capable of these things? Do you consider youreself a religious person? Please don't treat my questions as an attack, these are legitimate questions and they contain the answer to the questions in this thread on how we are supposed to fight terrorism.

Signed.

You do realize that in most civilized countries a citizen is obligated by law to inform the authoroties that a crime has been commited? Unless the person you are mentioning conceded to hitting and hair pulling you witnessed a crime.

Hey, that would render my initial post (humorous I stress again) true now wouldn't it.

Sense of humor is not very strong with the one who gave me a thumbs down for this one. Especialy that I think most women would agree with me. Peace

This is incorect because straights are less probable than two pairs, one pair, A high or K high.Somone here Im sure will be able to do the calculation for you (mind you, the suits matter too) or just google the starting hands in holdem.

Absolutely. I'm confident that Tyler understands that.

Hi Tyler. I think your idea is awesome. There will be many grumpy people telling you that it's not possible but none of them will be able to fully disproove it BTW...teleportation has been done. Not in a way you are proposing it but scientists last year actualy teleported information by using a very weird effect called "quantum entaglement" Check it out: http://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-quantum-teleportation-distance-record-has-been-set

Any perfectly normal woman when you apply a certain combination of words and/or actions to her is capable of the above.

Marco, I think you will need to first wrap your head around the difference between empty and lack of everything. The word "Empty" reffers to lack of contents but the concept of "empty" is rooted in the 3 geometrical dimentions we live with everyday and also rooted in time, foe example: My wallet is empty now but next week it will be full (hopefully) When we talk about what was before the big bang or what was outside of the particle during the big bang, these questions have no meaning. There were no dimentions and no time before the big bang or outside of that particle during the big bang. That is very different from empty.