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Realitycheck

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  1. Gee, you'd think they would have some kind of safeguard against repeated guessing 5 times or more within a certain timeframe, or something like that. I don't know what to tell you.
  2. Oh well, yeah, you could always just hook up a good ole regulational transducer force field to your suit and if anything gets to close to it, it just eliminates all atomic bonds associated with its structure. Basically just turns everything into a little bit of neutronium that evaporates in about 15 minutes. Standard stuff, but you'd also have to have a nuclear power pack as well.
  3. Basically, the same effect of a bloody brains cocktail, shaken, not stirred. Happens all the time within the sanctuary of your vehicle. Skull hits steering wheel, brain hits skull at same speed, nighty nite.
  4. ... though it could have easily been metamorphasized by the atmosphere as well, and its starting to look more like that.
  5. Don't know for sure, but it looks like some kind of metamorphic rock.
  6. And what about WMAP? That satellite was sent up for the purpose of clarifying this issue, and you just dispense it on a whim? Where are you getting your information from? "Common sense"?
  7. If the universe was expanding outward in every direction, then all of the matter in it would have a tendency to be drawn outward in every direction, as well; it would have a tendency to follow the bread dough analogy. It's just a hard concept to accept that such a vast entity as the universe would continue expanding.
  8. If the plane was forced to land on unfinished terrain, that conceivably could have damaged the gear. If the plane thought it was at a different altitude, maybe it never extended its landing gear.
  9. COBE and WMAP satellites are 99 years old? Not quite. This is a case of someone emphasizing their own limited version of logic and reasoning over observation. Next. Also, I'm not necessarily promoting that the BB initiated from a singularity-like beginning, I'm just saying that we can only look back so far. What we can see with what we have to work with denotes a general tendency to agree with a general BB framework. Obviously, there's no way that we can look back past a certain point, but we can make general outlines which agree with what we see. If these two satellites agreed with the hypotheses or theory, then why should we be swayed by your "reasoning"?
  10. Aha, this sounds like the most plausible scenario, report of a Russian sale of an advanced jammer of sorts, named the Avtobaza.
  11. Energy is the thing which enables you to have some effect on something else. The sun heats the earth. Your car burns gas to get you to work. You push a car up a hill. The sun heats solar panels which store electricity. Your body burns ATP. Gatorade gives you a quick sugar rush. Nitrous oxide creates extra energy to help you beat the other car.
  12. If the local or observed universe is accelerating as it is expanding outward, yet the universe in its entirety (unseen and unobservable) is supposedly accelerating as it is falling inward, as you claim, then the burden of proof rests on you. It makes no sense that the universe could be expanding in one area, yet contracting on an overall basis. As matter has become more and more spread out, it has had less and less of a cohesive effect, therefore, the force of the vacuum at some point overcame the force of gravity and expansion has sped up, to a degree. And there is no "falling inward", the BB spread things outward. What led you to believe that at any point space was contracting inward?
  13. This is all very thorough and all, but I think much of the problems such as these in this day and age revolve around lack of communication throughout young adults' maturation process. Not only do girls tend to mature faster, they also tend to share secrets and learned values with fellow young women, as well. Contrasting, young men tend to be more aloof and less conscientious in their bravado, measuring themselves by their achievements at times, comparing themselves to their friends without really sharing values and such, and not necessarily in any hurry to settle down. Some girls are reluctant to come across as educating their partners, some are completely against the idea and want to be swept away by the all-knowing dashing knight, some aren't really capable of assuming this position effectively. On the flip-side, there are many young men which are hard to teach for any number of reasons, and without a constant, positive flow of information being traded, things can become quite imbalanced and relationships might not flourish or just fall apart. People might not develop as fast as everybody else. Men don't exactly huddle together and talk about relations with their friends to compare notes with like females might. This is why it is important for girls to assume the role of teacher when appropriate, rather than an aggressor or a rater, for lack of a better word. Maybe bizatch is the right word, but if they're not happy, then why are they still together? Convenience? Money? I guess the possibilities are endless, but the world is full of available people everwhere you look. Helping guys along isn't always easy and for many girls is taboo while unacceptable for some men, but communication is essential. As far as conditioning is concerned, anybody can change at any given point, regardless of the past. You just have to figure out which button to push.
  14. If it was in its own Goldilocks zone, it could conceivably work, but I'm skeptical of anything happening on a fullblown water world. There's too many things that need to happen away from the deep water. You would need an area where nucleosides could amass together into complex nucleic acids. You would need an area where lipids could form and congregate rather than dissipate and dissolve into oblivion. I just don't see this happening in pure deep water, but rather on land, where you have lots of other minerals and elements contributing in sufficient amounts.
  15. The sun, stars, supernovae, galaxies, gravity, expansion, water, fire, radioactivity. These are my heaven and hell is something that somebody devised to scare the masses into submission. Yet I propose that when educated, man or woman has no need to break the law. For it is utopia which calls out to those who see the sense in harmony as long as they dispel with senseless, lawless greed and rise above their misery, breaking the flimsy chains of sloth. Why do you keep beating this dead horse about the Bible being obsolete? Are you just content with being SFE's perennial Bible beater?
  16. Do you have a source on that? I thought we could resolve maybe the shape of a car, but license plates? I wouldn't be surprised though. From license plates to what Google Earth is cable of is probably just a difference to within 10x, though the dust and vapor in the air could be the problem. Correction, I see what you are talking about now with the stealthy ability, as well. Can you point me to some satellite pictures equivalent to a face or license plate though?
  17. Pride is a feeling of glory that one holds to that which is associated with himself, whether it is towards his family, or business(es), or his accomplishments, such as the accumulation of wealth, or it can be applied to the accomplishments of others, like his children. A person can also feel pride for other, less tangible things, as well, such as a person can feel proud that his son has the values to help disabled children or the homeless or whatever. It is basically just a status of feeling good about something associated with himself.
  18. No, this is Europe we're talking about. (Sorry, it was too hard to pass it up. I actually live very close to where the Superconductor Supercollider was supposed to be constructed. I wonder why they never finished it. My guess is that they didn't see fit to duplicate the efforts.)
  19. The methods used for teaching kindergarten advanced maths is probably infinitely more optimized than most of what we have experienced. The level of understanding that the teacher has over it probably makes a huge difference in their ability to convey it, though I suppose the child's drive and willingness to learn it is a factor, as well. Some people have a way of chaining their children down in lala land forever, in comparison, it's really odd to witness.
  20. You can see that we are falling into a black hole when the COBE and WMAP satellites detect that the universe is expanding outward? Where do you observe that the universe is falling inward? It would really make sense in terms of a Big Crunch, but that's not what we observe.
  21. Correction: Einstein initially used a cosmological constant but gave up on it before Schwartzchild revived the idea and got credit for it. I'm not sure why so many people bash on gravity as being weak, when you consider how dense the matter in stars actually are and the immense size of them. The density in the core of stars is around 160,000 kg per cubic meter, easily showing how a star full of that could have effects hundreds, thousands of AU away. As far as the universe and expansion is concerned, everything really adds up quite nicely. Of course, you have the Big Bang which distributed matter and while everything was still grouped up together enough, gravity was sufficient enough to rein in the force of expansion to an extent. However, once expansion exceeded a certain level and matter was sufficiently spread out, gravity was no longer enough to hold down expansion at the same rate, and it sped up. It shouldn't be too hard to see how the force of the vacuum can be greater than that of gravity if you experiment with a vacuum pump. Of course, demonstrating how the force of the vacuum could account for inflation is a completely different matter.
  22. Strings are supposed to be about the Planck length, which is reeaaaalllly small.
  23. Not my own, but here is a classic. The Dhammapada, Verse 1, Buddha
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