Phi for All

Where's "here"?

ashleycory, do you plan on discussing any of the threads you've started? Because cutting and pasting the work of others is plagiarism. If this is your work and you're spreading it around the web, then that is not the purpose of this science discussion forum. Please respond or your threads will be removed.

Peron has been auto-suspended for a combination of plagiarism and trolling infractions. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedtsolkas has been suspended for 1 year for repeatedly posting extraordinary claims and then not responding when asked to back them up. This type of drive-by trolling is not conducive to healthy discussion, which is really what we're all about.

Moved from General Discussion to Ecology and the Environment.

You can live in a foreign country without knowing the language and still make yourself understood adequately. But to insist that the natives stop using their language because *you* don't see the necessity is a bit egoistic, don't you think?

Can you share why you would want to delete the whole account? Perhaps there are some options we can explore.

Yes, but the First Law of Thermodynamics tells us you can't create new energy with the magnets, just change it into electricity via the generator. Then the Second Law tells us you're going to lose a lot of that energy through heat loss to entropy. Friction, wind resistance, all these will stop your magnetic motion generator pretty quickly. I don't know which guy you saw with a car hooked up to diagnostics, but it's all a scam. Believe me, if it could be done with magnets, you'd have science geeks on homemade perpetual Razors scootering all over college campuses everywhere. I saw a guy many moons ago on the Tonight Show (Johnny Carson was host, not Leno), and he had a great sounding machine. It intrigued me because he claimed that setting up his magnets within a gyroscope increased the normal size of its magnetic field, so his claims of getting out more energy than he put in made sense (because he was trying something nobody else had ever tried, according to him). And he was on with Carson, for God's sake! He could never show anyone else how to make one of his generators, and he would never let anyone examine his. He was a big fake, just like all the something-for-nothing scammers.

Well gosh, why didn't some smart scientist come up with this before? Can you explain why this would be called "perpetual"? Otherwise this thread will have to move over to Speculations. "Pretty sure" and "a guy that worked on it" aren't good citations. Can you provide a link to the guy with the perpetual car?

This just in....

I disagree with this part. I think the average person simply resents the billions of dollars being given out for poor performance. They might see it as inevitable that the big guys will be untouchable and never have to take the kind of abuse the average person would have to take if they messed up as badly. Now they're just wondering, like some of the foreign car makers, what you have to do in this country to get ahead. Being honest and hard-working individuals isn't working as well as it used to.

That's worthy of The Daily Show or the Colbert Report. You should phone that joke in. Props for Mrs. Pangloss!

30 posts in the science sections (General Discussion doesn't count). It keeps away political trolls who aren't really joining for the science.

The main problem with discussing religion here is that it's a supernatural subject being examined with methodology suited for natural subjects. Most religious claims can be debunked this way, but the core "belief" is in a deity that can't be observed. The religious blur the line by attempting to extend their faith outside the core belief, and the non-religious blur the line by attempting to extend their methodology into the core. The core belief is outside of science, until such time as God decides to become directly observable. When that happens, we'll start discussing Him. Until then, it's pointless in a science forum. We can allow a thread like "Do you believe in God", with a poll, but the answers can't be argued scientifically. It doesn't work.

nitric, can you please be more specific? Dangerous how? What is it you object to?

Plagiarism is a bad thing, walkeroukor.

We're OK for now. We just don't want to get into, "Ur stoopid fer bleeving dat!" or "Really? I think you're wrong because...." That way lies madness. Madness, I say!

I don't know, I've never been able to afford one. Between the added velocity of the drop and the mother sitting on the nest, it's tough to get them with the shell intact.

As noted in post #2, this is not a religious discussion, since such are not allowed under our present rules. This thread is merely for polling in a general way and expressing your own opinion. Any more criticism of another's views in this matter will cause the thread to be closed.

In case you ever have any computer problems again, you should pre-write some posts and save them to disk. Just some non-specific things like, "Good point, I'll have to think about that and get back to you", and, "That's not the way I learned it, but your way makes more sense", and of course, "iNow, you really piss me off sometimes, but at least you're being honest". Then, at regular intervals, have a friend log on to your account and post them for you. Then we won't have to sit around wondering where the hell you've been. Good to have you back.

I know we don't have all the answers. I am quite certain that if a higher power exists, it's powers will be explainable through the physical laws of the universe. I am also certain we don't know everything about the physical universe. I am also certain that I have never heard a definition of "God" I could have faith in.

I wouldn't think kangaroos would have much meat on them, but I've heard that some hoppy creatures have legs that taste like chicken.

I found at least one Control agent using a shoe phone. Chaos has once again been thwarted. Really awesome photo, btw.

I'm guessing the Mounties don't want to have to chase down anything bigger than a buffalo already is. And buffalo *are* scary big. Like moose, you don't think about them much until you're really close, and then you wish you were much further away.

These are the Canadian regulations from Alberta? That *is* interesting. Almost an admission that the stimulants are a bad thing. Either that or they don't want downtown Calgary ravaged by Buffzilla. I wonder if the US has similar attitudes towards buffalo husbandry.

This thread has obviously run its course. For the future, this is a good example of how not to post to threads in General Medicine. Thread Closed.