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7 hours ago, Area54 said:
Why should it? In what possible way could that have any relevance, unless one had an unhealthy, anthropocentric obsession that saw the emergence of humans as central to evolutionary theory?
I though this discussion was about evolution along the lines of Darwinism.
“Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
Personally, I do not believe humans evolved from apes and finding some microbe does not prove otherwise.
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Recent evidence suggests that humans may have left Africa half a million years earlier than previously thought. A joint Franco-Indian team has found human artefacts in the Siwalk Hills north of New Delhi dating back at least 2.6 million years. This is earlier than the previous earliest finding of genus Homo at Dmanisi, in Georgia, dating to 1.85 million years. Although controversial, tools found at a Chinese cave strengthen the case that humans used tools as far back as 2.48 million years ago.[64] This suggests that the Asian "Chopper" tool tradition, found in Java and northern China may have left Africa before the appearance of the Acheulian hand axe.
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19 hours ago, joigus said:
A billion year old fossil, which provides a new link in the evolution of animals, has been discovered in Torridon, Scotland.
The main point in that article is posted below.
“The discovery of this new fossil suggests to us that the evolution of multicellular animals had occurred at least one billion years ago and that early events prior to the evolution of animals may have occurred in freshwater like lakes rather than the ocean.”
This finding does not in any way bridge the gap between monkeys and humans.
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2 hours ago, zapatos said:
Either we explode them all or leave some of them in their silos, and our planet will recover; with or without us.
There is a better way.
I propose that the United Nations collectively ask all nuclear countries to combine all the atomic bombs in the worlds inventory and through the United Nations convert these nuclear bombs into electric generation wherever possible.
Or so it seems to me
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9 hours ago, swansont said:
Relativity says it does. The temperature is related to the thermal energy content, and more thermal energy means more mass.
I respectfully disagree
I’m not sure what you two are debating. Matter can not be created nor destroyed. It only takes one form or another.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks, in advance
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22 minutes ago, zapatos said:
Everyone thinks it is inevitable. You seem to have not heard that there is concern that humans are impacting climate change and that as a result are due to suffer some self-inflicted harm.
I agree humans have had and still have an impact on the earth’s climate. But in the long run our involvement is short lived. Fossil fuels are finite. Either we consume it all or leave some in the ground it amounts to a phase that will pass, and our planet will recover; with or without us.
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Hijack from What If the Earth needed Global Warming in its Atmosphere.
I personally believe climate change is inevitable. Three times in earths past half of our planet was covered in ice. We just happen to be in the defrost stage.
The trick is adapting to whatever lays ahead of us.
As I see it
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My guess is some form of alcohol soluble in water,
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On 4/20/2021 at 2:58 AM, greeneye12 said:
We can mostly agree that stealing is wrong but it takes laws and enforcement to discourage it - and still stealing is widespread; relying on that in-principle agreement that it is wrong is insufficient.
Moral principle has been with us since before the written word. One of the basic principle's is do not steal.
It is the basic principle written in every religious text, historical accounts, Broadway plays and even in every sitcom from the first run to the Last
“Growing Pains“
“Seinfeld”
“Cheers”
“Simpsons”
“Wagon Train (1957–1965)”
“Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)”
Above is just a sample that didn’t include great sonnets & poems by Shakespeare and other great righters of old.
Morality in the theme of them all.
As I see it
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On 9/25/2020 at 5:24 AM, swansont said:
You should check out Poe's law, and ponder its application here.
Thanks, I was not aware of "Poe's law";
again thanks for introducing me to this concept
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On 9/20/2020 at 10:40 AM, farsideofourmoon said:
I can prove time travel is real and occurs all the time but that is for another discussion all together
Moderator Note
We require more rigor than you’ve been providing, so please, do not open a new thread if it’s going to be like this one: assertion with no science to back it up.Don’t open a new thread in this topic, either”
Swansont, you take things far too seriously. At one point in the past I was posting to another poster who was actually in Europe somewhere and at the time/date of our exchange was as follows
The European poster made the post @
3:45 on a Saturday
I received the post and responded back within minutes while my time was
5:15 Friday
That poster was posting to me on a day that had not yet arrived where I live.
Jokingly I refer to this as time travel.
chill out
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I can prove time travel is real and occurs all the time but that is for another discussion all together
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The distance between our solar system and the nearest one to ours is distance (X).
How far apart in a water molecule is the hydrogen atom to the oxygen atom in a water molecule in (X) amounts?
The point is, the further one is to the other the weaker the attractive force, Protons have no force beyond the shell of the atom.
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On 6/20/2020 at 7:54 PM, Mordred said:
Yeah unfortunately I haven't been able to reach the other contributors that owned the domain site. It's too bad it was a versatile calculator.
maybe this will help
The power of gravity holds planets in an orbit and that same power holds galaxy's as well
weak--- I think not
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StrangeSuperNerddapartypooper; you closed the following forum ---
“a possible new source of energy, flammable farts”
Before you stuck your but into this discussion a few posters were trying to honestly discuss the energy potential of converting sewage treatment plants into self-sustaining facilities. The plants would get their power from the sewage they treat. I believe this could qualify as the first perpetual motion machine in our history.
You are truly a party-pooper
what say you-?
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Someone in another forum made a comment about farts and how you could light one with a match & it would burn. This got me thinking so I looked into it and found some interesting things.
Chemical Composition of Farts
The exact chemical composition of human flatulence varies from one person to another, based on his or her biochemistry, the bacteria inhabiting the colon, and the foods that were eaten. If the gas results from ingesting air, the chemical composition will approximate that of air. If the fart arises from digestion or bacterial production, the chemistry may be more exotic. Farts consist primarily of nitrogen, the principal gas in air, along with a significant amount of carbon dioxide. A typical breakdown of the chemical composition of farts is:
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Nitrogen: 20-90%
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Hydrogen: 0-50% (flammable)
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Carbon dioxide: 10-30%
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Oxygen: 0-10%
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Methane: 0-10% (flammable)
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Human flatus may contain hydrogen gas and/or methane, which are flammable. If sufficient amounts of these gases are present, it's possible to light the fart on fire.
EXXON Mobile is spending millions to improve the yeast output of alcohol. I wish them the best in their ind-ever but I think they would have better results using the hundreds of thousands of sewer treatment plants, converting this waste into useful energy.
Anybody care to comment, pro or con--?
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11 minutes ago, swansont said:
What evidence do you have to support your hypothesis?
I showed the evidence. Considering the heat of the sun how could earth be covered in ice and now it isn't
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I have a new theory about the origin of earth. I believe our planet came from someplace else and when it passed our sun it was caught up in the gravity pull of our sun and now circles our sun like the other planets.
Our planet began totally covered in ice. The frozen state could not have occurred in its current orbit because of the heat of our suns radiation.
The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that during one or more of earth's icehouse climates, Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen, sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago) during the Cryogenian period.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybzpbae7
Snowball Earth: The times our planet was covered in ice
Ancient rocks suggest that ice entirely covered our planet on at least two occasions. This theory may help explain the rise of complex life that followed.
https://astronomy.com/news/2019/04/the-story-of-snowball-earth
Once our planet began circling our sun the ice covering our earth began to slowly melt, creating the oceans we see today and even today this ice continues to melt.
Anyone agree/disagree-?
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On 6/18/2020 at 8:56 PM, Mordred said:
Sorry to disappoint you but the speed limit c applies to all forms of information exchange regardless of what you believe.
Below are your links
http://www.einsteins-theory-of-relativity-4engineers.com/LightCone7/LightCone.html
The above link wants you to buy something and has nothing to do with the speed of light
http://cosmology101.wikidot.com/main
Again, the above link has nothing to do with the speed of light
next
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On 6/6/2020 at 7:02 PM, Mordred said:
We know the limitations of space travel. We also know the consequences of near c velocities.
I believe you are misunderstanding the term, “speed of light”. If you begin your speed at “0” zero and then jump to 670,616,629 mph your body would be flatten to a thickness of 0.0000001+/- inches.
On the other hand; our solar system is traveling through space at some speed not as of yet calculated because to quantify this speed you have to have a stationary object to compare against the object you are trying to calculate the speed of.
At the same time our solar system is also traveling at some unknown speed because of the same reasons stated above.
I don’t believe there is a limitation to the speed an object can travel because speed relative to the observer
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On 6/8/2020 at 9:02 PM, MigL said:
The whole planet Earth is pulling down on that rock at your feet, yet you can pick it up with only one hand.
( the example I always like to use )You can pick it up only so far.,.,.,.,.,.,.,\ and no further
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On 5/13/2020 at 6:37 PM, Janus said:
The gravitational attraction between masses would exist even in a situation where no gravitational waves were present.
We want to use the term “wave” because this best describes this energy in visual terms. In the real world this energy is not a wave that you see crashing into the front of your ship, and then passes along your side fading off behind you.
The only reason we even know these particles exist is the ability to see how they react to the local environment.
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19 minutes ago, zapatos said:
That kind of fantasizing is certainly enjoyable which is why science fiction is so popular. But this is a science site and you are in the physics section. More is required to maintain a discussion.
I know when I don't belong so I will be on my way
wish you and yours a great day and beyond
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1 hour ago, zapatos said:
Is this belief based in science or in emotion?
It’s based-on inevitability
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1 hour ago, Janus said:As pleased as I would be if it turned out that the universe was populated with advanced civilizations and that FTL travel between star systems was practical, I can't bring myself to believe it to be true given the lack of any credible evidence for it.
During our lifetime we will not find an answer that we all would agree on so the debate will continue long after you and I are gone.
Now back to the here and now that can be understood, and changes that can be made made
so i am off the the realm of reality once again
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Billion-year-old fossil reveals missing link in the evolution of animals
in Science News
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Oh wise one, since you speak for everybody, let me tell you and yours, everybody thinks you speak for nobody.
This is a digression from the OP. Humans are humans, apes are apes. But since you refuse to accept this I suggest you mate with a female ape and the offspring will end this debate once and for all.
agree?
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I do not belong here, you know it, I know it so away I go
enjoy
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