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You seem to have missed my post, #14 this thread, where I explicity addressed this, so if your post here was directed at me, you appear to be misrepresenting my actual position and arguing against that misrepresentation. Granted, I don't accept his comment about the engineering of AIDS as true, nor 9/11 being an inside job, but I do accept the root of those concerns as true (where black people have lacked similar care and benefits, and where we pissed off enough people in the world to generate the attacks, etc...). Either way, though, I hope that you will review what has actually been said in this thread before again choosing to rant like that.

Yes, if you are rotating and have no cues to air resistance then you need the balance system to sense direction. You should probably try to learn more about balance before asking such quesitons. It has more to do with fluid in the inner ear and how that fluid presses against tiny little hairs called cilia resulting in a neural cascade to our autonomic systems... It's much more than what allows us to walk across a narrow beam, it's also what gives us bed spins after drinking too much alcohol.

There isn't. There's no such thing as absolute time. The difficulty you are having accepting this seems to be at the heart of your confusion. There is no absolute time.

Riogho, This consistent pattern of yours on SFN where you post something as factual, something presented in the absolute, which then someone asks you to elaborate about or post a source to support, and you then respond by saying that they should google it or that you don't know where you read it... It's really getting rather tiresome. If you can't support it, don't say it in the first place. If you say it, be prepared to support your comments in the face of challenge and inquiry. Fair enough?

And for anyone curious to read the response of Dr. Dawkin's after being let in, he sums it up quite nicely here in an article he published yesterday: http://richarddawkins.net/article,2394,Lying-for-Jesus,Richard-Dawkins

Yes, but the concept of balance itself would be vastly different. The balance would develop, but would not be equipped at all to deal with Earth's gravity. This does not mean, however, that it's not balance in it's given context.

I think you have to pay $250 for those before Vanna will go turn/touch them on the board. I'd like to solve the puzzle.

This seems strangely self-referential and circular. Can you elaborate? Is time just the name you've given to your car?

That's definitely a matter of interpretation, Dak. I think a) they scared white people, and b) he suggested that 9/11 was an inside job which rattled a lot of hornet's nests on an already overly-emotional issue. I find it rather silly myself, but IMO, my two points are the primary areas of concern. Those then evolved into "What if Obama believes that too!" and now we find ourselves still discussing this ridiculous distraction from the issues.

Quite simply: Our freedom to have them, and not be forced to challenge a stupid ban which would be ineffective and unenforced anyway. You want to remove one of my freedoms? You want to prevent me from caring for a canine of the type I wish by legislating an outright ban? You'd damned well better make a better case than "they killed 66 people in 20 years."

Okay, it looks like we're back to disagreeing again. You seem to believe that there is a god judging each of us, and controlling the universe. I do not, but I'm strangely not limited in the manner you suggest when viewing the actions of others... I'm somewhat more complex and intelligent than "unable to view my actions as anything other than my trying to manipulate you in order that I might experience as much of the world as I can, and at your cost".

My own somewhat ignorant stance on the issue is that the entire concept of "hollow" is meaningless when taken at the scale of the particle. AFAIK, It's like asking if the space between the earth the sun is hollow.

I believe you've quite missed my point, sir. I asked specific questions with the intention of reviewing specific sources and claims, to which you decided to reply using unfounded speculation and unsupported premises. There's really no need to engage in the ad hominem attack suggesting that I am not an adult. I apologize that you dislike the nature of my challenges to your position, but the challenges are quite valid all the same. It appears again that you've presented a position which you are not able to support.

It appears that this approach is beginning to work, but his comments still disgust me. This post will be the first on a new page. Physia posted immediately prior to this on the last page. He really should learn the saying, "Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Unless, of course, that religion is Islam, eh? You are so internally inconsistent it's laughable.

Just so you know, it was exactly where I ended your quote above that I stopped reading.

No, they are both in the present, but their calendars say different things. Think about the time difference between the United States and Australia. It may be Monday in Australia while it's still Sunday in the United States, but that does not mean that they travelled into the future or the past, it just means that their clocks are set differently. The analogy doesn't fit completely, as the the twin who stays on earth actually has their calendar flip through the months and years more quickly than the twin in space, but when they meet, they are in the present. They just disagree on how long it took each of them to get there.

At what altitude will this precipitation fall? What percentage of the precipitation will land at high altitudes, and what percentage will not? What is the average temperature at those altitudes? Inquiring minds want to know.

It speaks to the slightly bigger issue of her authenticity and integrity, which are the two primary concerns I personally have with her presidential bid.

Hi Obelix, It was a television show. http://www.3rdrock.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lithgow Also, any chance you could start posting in regular forum font? Right now, it feels like you're yelling at me, and I get a headache reading your posts (and strangely, it has zero to do with the content of your posts and everything to do with the formatting). Thanks in advance!

Curvature? Warpage? Dimpling (not to be confused with dumpling)? Basically, any mathematical term which describes shapes and change in non-Euclidean geometry would be appropriate.

TDS, I think you have seriously underestimated lucaspa's understanding of the subject matter based on the tone of your response to him above, and I also completely agree with his point that the panspermia hypothesis only pushes the problem elsewhere. The thread title does not say "orgin on life on earth," it just says, "origin of life." Lucaspa's point is that, if life came from elsewhere (ala the panspermia hypothesis), then where and how did THAT life begin? Panspermia is not so much an "answer," but more a displacement of the original question.

No worries. Your intentions were clear and I'm not concerned. I can tell what you intended... It is most certainly because your post had an earlier date... Agreed. It's a bit strange, actually, that we've heard so little. Stupid conservative bias in the media! It is distressing, and I think it might show that McCain is becoming fatiqued by the whole process... even though he hasn't been "battling" with other candidates for quite a number of weeks now.

I think you've presented a false dichotomy, as was explained clearly by the links in my post immediately prior to yours. The very "cliff's notes" summary is that the ice will melt, but there will also be increased precipitation adding new ice to the upper altitudes.

I'm willing to give it a try though, if you're ever interested. The only way we get through such issues is to discuss them like mature adults. Sweeping such profound and chronic concerns under the rug only allows them them to perpetuate indefinitely. Cheers, mate.

What about McCain's gaff in Jordan this week? Not only is he running as the voice of experience, not only is the central tenet of his campaign his foreign policy knowledge and expertise, not only does it show that he is myopic as pertains to Al-Quada and that he can miss specifics, it also shows that he really is parallel in many ways with the current Bush/Cheney mindset which is so fundamentally disagreed with in the US and internationally. Further, it calls into question the state of his mind, and issues with aging. Not sure what I'm talking about? Check here: Let's be clear, I have a very profound respect for John McCain, his service to the US, and his abilities both as a man and as a leader, but had Obama made this same mis-step, it would have been a game ender for him. How's that for PC?