mistermack

Oh, ok, I think you're confusing an ink pen with an inkjet printer. There's no such thing as an inkjet pen. (Yet) The pens you are talking about are fountain pens. They evolved from the feather quill pen, and ruled the roost till Biro came along. I would imagine that it's an ink that doesn't penetrate the paper, but sits on the surface. Like graphite from pencils did, although modern pencils use a substitute. I don't know how you could prevent ink from penetrating the paper. Probably, you would need a special paper. Or a special ink that could be bleached by a chemical eraser.

I have to say, I'm a fan of pens etc, but I've never heard of an inkjet pen. I have my doubts that such a thing exists. Any chance of a link? I do have a papermate replay ballpoint pen, that is supposed to be erasable. I've never tried that, I've always used a normal refill in it.

Something of the reverse happened to me. I never worried about lightning, I used to enjoy a good thunder storm. Then I started playing golf with a work colleague and whenever we heard even the most distant rumble of thunder, you could see the panic in his eyes, and he was usually suggesting we should go in, when nobody else was worried. And I sort of caught it off him. Now, I'm nowhere near so confident, I'm looking round at the sky and imagining getting hit, quite nervous now, although not as bad as him. And did you know, the safest thing to do, if lightning is about to strike, is to stand on one leg? It's not superstition, it's absolutely true.

I can't remember the details, but there's something in the giraffe's neck that is equally botched, just on a bigger scale. It's a nerve that is routed all the way down the neck and back up to the larynx, because in a normal neck, that's not excessive, but in a giraffe's neck, it's ludicrous. What it shows is that the nerve started out in normal necks, and had to elongate in increments as the longer neck evolved, because evolution works in increments, building on the previous version, and has no way to re-design. So no "intelligent" designer would route a nerve down the giraffe's neck and back up, but gradual evolution has no choice, it can only do it that way. Other arguments that have impressed me include one that Dawkins regularly quotes, about a parasitic worm that migrates to the eyes, causing agony and blindness. He asks what sort of sick-minded designer would create such a horrible creature, that tortures children in such a way and destroys their lives? Only a god that doesn't care one bit about humans could design all of the illnesses that affect us, but we are supposed to have been created "in his image".

Proof is a high bar. Evidence for and against, along with argument of interpretation, is the best you can ever go for. But that's fine. For example, the world is spending trillions, without proof, that the CO2 levels will cause damaging climate change. I haven't heard one politician provide that proof or even call for it. What you can do is show what is illogical and downright silly, about the notion of design, and illustrate what kind of odds are in place, for and against there being an intelligent designer. Religious people often use the way out that "god moves in mysterious ways". I believe it can be shown that if he exists, he moves in incredibly stupid ways.

What's the number of the parking space with the car ?

Some good stuff there.

What sort of particle could there be, that is itself unaffected by gravity? (or in this case, other gravitons)

Rather than just rebuttals of far-fetched "designer" claims, how about a thread that concentrates on the evidence that the universe is NOT designed? And in particular, that it's not designed by a god with humans as the object of the exercise. Of course, those opposed are invited to try to rebut the arguments, but it would make more sense if they kept arguments FOR a designer for the other thread, and just posted rebuttals on this one. Here's a few to start with. If a designer wanted to create a home for humans, why did he create a universe so mind-blowingly vast? The only bit that's relevant to humans is one tiny solar system, in a galaxy of 250,000,000,000 stars. And that galaxy is just one, of about 200,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe. And why make the rest of the Universe so mind-blowingly distant, that humans can never go there? And what designer would design something, and then wait 13,800,000,000 years for the object of his creation to appear. And then, even though his human creation is supposed to be in his image, he messed around with less intelligent versions for millions of years, before arriving at one that he was happy to inseminate and produce a son from. Of course, a lot of the design people claim that the entire universe is only 6,000 years old, so in their case, the evidence for no designer is the same scientific evidence for the age of the planet, solar system and universe. So those design theorists need to disprove an awful lot of science, if they want to prop up their version of design. I don't want to construct a huge OP, although there's loads more material. People can post their own take on it. But I think it's best to keep this thread for evidence and argument for NO design, and use the other one for proposal and rebuttal of design claims.

Maybe so, but they use the energy source that is most expensive to produce, supply and buy. Unless you have your own solar panels and wind turbine.

If you find coincidences persuasive, you should read up on the "Lost tomb of Jesus", a burial cave in Talpiot, Israel. It's full of "coincidences" that indicate that it's the family tomb of Jesus, and that he didn't rise from the dead, he's been dead and buried for 2,000 years in the suburbs of Jerusalem. Experts say 'Jesus tomb' is a fantasy › Analysis (ABC Science) "Five of the 10 boxes in the tomb are inscribed with names that they say refer to key biblical figures: Jesus, Mary, Matthew, Joseph and Mary Magdalene. A sixth inscription, written in Aramaic, translates to 'Judah son of Jesus'. Another limestone burial box is labelled in Aramaic with 'Jesus son of Joseph'; another bears the Hebrew inscription 'Maria', a Latin version of 'Miriam', or in English 'Mary'. Yet another ossuary inscription, written in Hebrew, reads 'Matia', the original Hebrew word for 'Matthew'. Only one of the inscriptions is written in Greek. It reads, 'Mariamene e Mara', which can be translated as 'Mary known as the master', the documentary says."

I use a ruler, or a tape measure. Normally, they round up the actual screen size to the next whole number.

It's easy to dismiss the rambling OP, but I've seen real scientists fooled by the argument-from-coincidence. For example, the whole "aquatic ape" idea has been pushed using that method, and put across by a skilful writer, it convinced a lot of people who should really have known better. And it's still going on. In talk about the climate today, you constantly hear media people treating any drought as confirmation, as well as floods etc. Even when the flood disaster is clearly caused by breaking dams. If you can clearly establish cause and effect in a scientific way, subjecting every unproven claim to extreme scepticism, then there's no harm in pointing to where the predictions are not contradicted by real life evidence. So long as you're not selective in collecting and presenting the evidence. Because selective evidence-gathering and stretching of dubious links can be used to argue practically anything, as shown in the OP.

In my version of backerupper, when you click the clone button, it offers a system clone, a disk clone, or a partition clone. However, the system clone is only available on the "pro" version, which means the paid version. I find the best and easiest cloning is to a spare disk. Disks are cheap and reliable S/H on ebay these days, I've never had a dud, and you get a refund for dud items anyway. If you use partition assistant, you could create a separate partition on the existing disk, and clone the OS partition to that. I think you can do that in backerupper too.

Red and green make yellow. It's red blue and green that make brown.

Is it "better red than dead" or "better dead than red" ? People say both. Well, I can reveal the true answer. You're better off red than dead. A billion Chinese would tell you that, as would 200 million Russians before they dumped communism. So the people who have lived it, know the right answer. Of course, that doesn't make red the best thing that's out there. Just definitely better than death.

There are online instructions on how to use AOMEI that should cover your question. I don't know if you can do a restore to the disk that's active at the time, I suspect not, but just search google for using AOMEI restore feature.

I don't think they would imagine a scene, but a situation. If I'd been blind from birth, I think I'd be recreating the room in steps for distance, and objects as the feel of something solid, with size related to the distance between the hands etc. In other words, I'd relate it to what I'm familiar with.

But a person blind from birth will have no idea what a scene looks like, nor a boat. Nor light and shade or water. You can use words, but you can't really paint them a scene. It's a scene to you but not to them.

I've used AOMEI lots of times, I was putting in a new solid state disk in place of the existing hard disk system disk, in a PC I had just bought. I used the "clone" option, rather than backup image, but it worked perfectly every time, and the new disk performed identically to the old one. (just faster) AOMEI also do AOMEI Partition Assistant, which is also excellent for all your partitioning needs, and it will also clone a disk, system, or partition, whichever you choose. In cloning, I just attached the new disk to the PC via a usb SATA docking gizmo, and cloned straight to it.

I know nil about black holes colliding or Gravitational Waves, but when two collide, I'm picturing that a vast amount of kinetic energy has to go somewhere, and would that add to the total mass of the system?

Where's my neg?? You owe me a neg. 🤨

At 35,000 feet, the air is thin, friction is low and a plane is pushing very little air out of the way. Down on the ocean, sea is dense and very heavy, drag is great, and a ship has to move thousands of tons of water, both to get through it, and to provide drive. And a trip that a plane can do in hours takes days, so you need electrical power for heating, cooling, cooking, cleaning, ventilation, and lighting. For days. And cruising is bloody boring. I have no idea why people like it.

And not up the arsehole? I owe you an apology then.