Sorcerer

I know what you mean, the problem is Creationist think we claim to be, its funny how they argue its incomplete, but we never said it wasn't.

Its not like this hasn't been done before.

OMG!!!! I have that too, whenever I walk up to those big sliding doors at the mall they open infront of me, its like the KNOW I am coming, its amazing. Also whenever I walk in my front door the alarm goes so I have to enter my code, it really weird its like the alarm has eyes or something. But I think I am just superhuman and exert this weird effect on electrical devices. Like when I get pissed off and kick my comp it shutsdown, its like it knows I am angry with it..... AMAZING.

How many adult die of chickenpox each year then?? Back up those statements. I would guess that it would kill more infants than adults. Gonna search now. EDIT: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/events/niiw/pastPDF/SampleOpEdChickenpox.pdf ~100 deaths in 1995, 40% occur in children under 10, 55% in adults over 20, so that means 5% in 10-20 year olds. Considering that there is a larger age range, ie. 20-80 yrs say, thats 55% for a 60 year spread of the population, compared with 40% in a 10 year spread. Looking at it this way I'd say children are more likely to die from it, ie less population in a smaller age range but slightly less percentage of total deaths = higher chance of death. Hehe stats are great, you can prove almost anything if you just interpret them in the right way. I'm not so sure how reliable the source is though, its for the national immunisation program, but I bet a drug company has shares in it (I'm such a cynic), I wouldn't trust them, but I take them as fairly accurate.

Ok, nice idea, memory, its like space, but unless these things copy themselves constantly and are reasonably large they won't really have much to compete for, meaning there will always be an excess of memory. I guess they would be alive. I don't see why not, they would be by my definition of life anyway. Considering the possibilities of this, if someone developed a virus using a gentic algorithm and it spread it could defeat patch attempts and anti-viurs software by adapting. Reproduction would be done by spreading over networks and copying onto the same HD as other filenames/infecting new files. However unless it was malicious it wouldn't be too bad, and perhaps the genetic algorithm would discover that if it was less malicious it wouldn't be persecuted as much and hence have a better chance of survival. Maybe it could even go to the opposite extreme, it could actually add useful software to computers so that it wouldn't be deleted, this would be analogous to symbiosis, while the malicious virus would be analogous to parasitism. The whole terminator scenario seems to spring to mind, if the virus somehow took over computer based machines then it might be able to have an existence in the "real" world. I think alot more people would consider machines which had these programs inside them and could self assemble offspring as "alive", than just the program in a computer. However the distinction is much like the difference between self-replicating molecules in the pre-biotic soup and cellular life, it is a hazy line.

And bird evolved from theropods?? From the names I wouldve thought they evolved from ornithischians...... or does this just mean bird like? EDIT: nm found it...... they do come from theropods and ornithischians means bird necked. A little confused though, I only ever learnt Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species..... there seems to be several extra here and it doesn't even have the genus and species, what are the others?? Animalia Vertebrata Tetrapoda Sauropsida Archosauromorpha Ornithodira Dinosauria Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria Avialae from http://dinosauricon.com/genera/archaeopteryx.html

I guess, however there would be one crucial difference, there are no resources for the "life form" to compete for, and hence no competition between "life forms", so any evolution would be survival based, say with our antivirus systems being predators. Really I would just consider them digital parasites, or computer viruses to use another name .

Actually there have been some massive insects in the past, like the giant dragonflies of the Carboniferous for example, higher oxgen concentration in the air is one hypothesis as to how they evolved. http://studentwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~m_ulbrick/

Once I had a dream that I was in the Land of Pancakes I ate the most massive pancake you can imagine, then when I woke up my blanket was gone....... no wait, that was a Garfeild comic strip.

yes, but arent there small dinosaurs found in these beds with no feathers?? I actually think they look like proto-feathers though, makes sense, but then it begs the question, at what time did scales evolve into plumage, if it wasn't for streamlined flight, what was it for? Could you link me to a phylogenic tree for dinosaurs.... so I can see which branches the feathered specimen is under. I know there are two types of dinosaur, based on their hips, are the larger slower (whatever, long time since I did geo) hipped dinosaurs feathered too? Are their ancestors?

I don't have a grudge against rich people, I have a grudge against people wasting resources, devaluing resources and making money from this devaluation. Well, why can't they do what they want with it?? Why can't they buy child sex slaves?? Why can't they fund rebel militias? Why can't they develop new and deadly bioweapons with their money?? Somethings should be prevented. I'm not saying this is as bad as those, but I am saying that by spending their money on an extravagant thing like this they are wasting resources, its a product of the consumer society, even I do it alot without even thinking about it, it is something the future generations will have to pay for, not with money, but with quality of life. Do those interesting statistics again, this time use as a percentage of total income, not as a percentage of total tax, also show how big the gap between the income groups is, I think you will find those statistics a little less convincing to your argument. Its not what the wealthy are doing to me, its what the wealthy are doing to the world.

So, this would produce Ammonium Nitrate and Potassium metal??? All I can think of is be sure to do it anhydrous or..... BOOM.

Actually the probability of a particle being in any one place is proportionate to its last measured location, this means that there still is an infintesimal chance of a particle being an infinite distance away, meaning the universe would be infinite. However this needs to somehow be resolved with relativity, since things cannot travel faster than the speed of light we can draw a radius of probability which expands at the speed of light as time progresses. Thus, unless space itself has expanded faster than the speed of light (which it has, so it kinda throws this out the window), all matter/energy in the universe has a radius of probability of ~14 billion light years. The universe is everything. If the universe ended and something else began then the original thing you called the universe wouldn't truly be the universe.

Erm, again try learning punctation...... However yes sounds are intergrated into dreams, I have had similar experiences, I was dreaming about being chased through a forest by a gang who were hunting me. Anyway I found an old homestead in which to hide, I was huddling in the side of an old fireplace and the wind was howling down the chimney, something hairy reached down from the chimney and grabbed me, I woke up with fright. The point is the wind was howling outside, one of those highpitched resonation howls that gives u the sh*ts..... we me anyway. Ive also heard about masks that monitor the speed of your eye movement, they can tell when you are in REM sleep, perhaps if you could combine this with the sound it would work, at the moment they use a flashing red light.... I think this would just wake me up. Alot of sleepless nights training might be necessary.

Try using sentences. Also try using IF/THEN premises, perhaps then you could have a coherent, however highly speculative idea.

Yeah, I meant sodium salt... but I was just paraphrasing it, shhhh don't tell him about the sulphuric acid he probably wants to make a bomb.

fat = tri-glyceride Caustic soad (NaOH) + Fat ---> Na(fattyacid) + glycerol glycerol + HNO3 (Nitric acid) ----> Nitroglycerin (dynamite)

I can just picture that soap-on-a-rope being used as a weapon in prison showers.

Perhaps in flightless birds, if the theory is correct. However, wouldn't you expect smaller dinosaurs from the time to have feathers if this was the case? I think there are plenty of smaller dinosaur (impression) fossils that dont have feathers. The fossilised archaeopteryx (sp?) did though.

I do, but I bike almost everywhere....... oh and I wear a helmet, cause there no adrenalin associated with not wearing one.... downhill through pines over roots and rocks however, fun

I don't think we should try to do anything for something that doesn't deserve it. You'd have to prove that ruining planets is a bad thing, objectively.... hard to do since "bad" isn't objective. Sub-orbital actually..... but, fair enough point I guess, although I still think its an extravagant waste of resources.

Weight is what I assumed you were talking about, since he did add words to the thread, I assumed you meant he added no meaning and no weight to any arguments. Sounds like this means it added no weight to the argument that space tourism is a bad idea. Maybe I put a slight half turn in there, no full twists. Yes, but they don't seek death, they seek a safe adrenalin rush, I'm thinking it will take a while for space tourism to take off, I mean look at NASA, how many people have died there???? And how much of a comparable budget do they have.....They couldn't pay me to be their ginnea(sp?) pig, why do you think they took ballast instead of humans when they did the x-prize..... what kind of insurance company would insure that????

I wasnt saying that you saying "your argument is subjective" is subjective, I was saying that your argument, which is basically "some people would like to go into space", is subjective. So you saying his argument doesnt add any weight to the overall argument because it is subjective is a hypocritical statement, because your argument adds no weight if your comment that subjective arguments add no weight is true. I think subjective arguments are all we have sometimes. I think you were being arrogant because you were being hypocritcal and overly harsh, since you dont see how you were being hypocritical, and since you aren't harsh on yourself, this is arrogance. The danger is fake in adventure tourism, try bungy jumping without a bungy if you want a good example.