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From what I hear the idf could make a 60 nuke 'strike hard and strike deep' and still have 40 or more in reserve for tactical purposes. aguy2 Ps. My dad's 'liberator' was named 'sooner'.

snail, maybe there should be separation between scienticfic inquiry and some senses of 'humor', too. aguy2

These are science forums. Why don't we have a forum on 'military science'? aguy2

Guess again. Check out the training manual written by Kikkuli the Mitannian, Horsemaster of Suppiliuma the Hittite 3,350 years ago. http://www.imh.org/imh/exh1.html Go to '56 million bce to 450 ce', then to 'The Wheel', then 'The cart before the horse horse'. aguy2

There are none that I know of. The historical record seems to indicate that they were used to pull carts long before men rode them for war, hunting, or transportation. I for one would sure like to know why. aguy2

If the pre-inflationary universe displayed a high degree of angular momentum (rapid rotation) the inflationary era might very well take the form of a matter and an anti-matter jet. If the matter jet (the observable universe) began to collapse (imagine the collapse of a column of water), to an observer within the matter sub-universe the initial stage of the collapse would appear as the observable universe does to us. Current evidence seems to indicate that the apparent expansion of the observable universe was slowing down up to 3.5 billion years ago, and then its apparent expansion began to accellerate. This model answers the questions: What is the source of conserved angular momentum? and Why isn't the observable universe half matter and half anti-matter? The model postulates oscillating sub-universes that are 3.5 billion years into their collapse cycle, and does so without any need for fudge factors like 'dark energy' or the reversal of graviational effects. aguy2

This would be a logical end to the observable (sub)universe if the pre-inflationary era displayed little or no angular momentum and if the inflationary era expanded isometricly from its previous condition. aguy2

You realize, of course, that if we could get even one legitimate eighteenth century -CLANG- there could be no end to grants studying the tendencies of resonances to perpetuate. Among other things. agoII aka aguy2

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The ludicrous 'war on molecules' is nothing more than pseudo-moral, man-made, dietary laws. This is particulary ludicrous seeing as this 'war' is oft times conducted by so called Christians whose messiah can be interperted as spending up to 25% of his ministry railing that "a man cannot be defiled by what he puts into his mouth" and warning of the hypocrites in the 'latter days' that disfigure their faces with a sad countenance when fasting, instead of popping a pill and enjoying it. Psychoactive drugs can certainly be dangerous, but so can alcohol. The moral solution in the past was to turn alcohol into a sacrament in order to mediate its possible harmful abuse. aguy2

my_serpentin, I think we may have began to go off on a tangent when we started to confuse the issue of eternity with the multiple issues concerning infinities. My dictionary gives two definitions of 'eternity' that are meaningful to our investigation: 1) infinite time; duration without beginning or end. I would contend that it might be possible for us to say that something was or has been eternal, if we can show that it had no beginning, but how could we possibly say that something will be eternal, when we can't even accurately predict who will win next weeks football games? The second definition of 'eternity' may hold more hope for a meaningful investigation: 2) the timeless state into which the soul is believed to pass at death. I think it is interesting to note that we all but universally agree to the unvoiced assumption (a meme?) that a possible 'timeless' state is somehow of a higher order than the 'timeful' state we find ourselves in. Wouldn't it be more logical to see the timeless state as being a primative precursor to the timeful state? Have we made this assumption because we seem to be so irrevocably embedded in the past-present-future arrow of a timeful state? This post is not directly addressing the issue of 'can eternity end?', but I think it would be helpful to first establish what we mean by the word 'eternity'. aguy2

The last art course I took, 'Miss Mary' gave me a 'C' for having the guts to show up every day. I don't know if I agree, but WOW - a new art form? aguy2 Ps. I have more than 1 reason to get conversant in 'chat', but 'old dogs and new tricks' isn't totally concerned with prostitution.

I must admit to some well bred organic imput. aguy2

A thought experiment: Time is a tube and you are in the tube. You feel motivated to get out of the tube and you don't want to retrace your steps or move in circles. As luck would have it you have a well chewed wad of gum and a good sized ball of string. You use the gum to "stick the string to the wall" and march on down the tube till it seems to split in two. Still wanting to get the hell out of there, you figure it might pay to be consistent instead of wandering aimlessly, so if you choose left, you keep on choosing left and if you don't "cross your own string" am I right in surmising that you are moving in an outward spiral, and chosen the most likely way to get out of there? aguy2

Are ther any metallurgists, or metallurgists in training out there? Wouldn't the resonances that occur when an iron mallet hits a steel carpace tend to be transmitted to and embedded in the steel as information? Might not it be possible that this information is recoverable? aguy2

Determinists might disagree, but you are probabily right. aguy2

Hairs like feathers are very versatile. In the case of armpits and genitals I think it is used for lubrication, while remaining an insulator on the head. aguy2

The critics of this thread are probabily right in that this thread is in the wrong forum, but nonetheless;

Just Thoughts: If one was to see time as endless as a 3d sphere is, and one traveled endlessly on this sphere, might one not traverse a point on that sphere from an infinite numbers of angles? Carried to an extreme might it not be possible that of the 150k+ participants at Gettysburgs, Pa. in 1863 one might be all of them? aguy2

To my mind words like 'eternity' and 'endless' are intrinsically bogus and self-undefining. 'Endless eternity' of necessity would be an ongoing process and by definition there is know way of knowing that the process will never end. Besides eternal existence would imply that something has existed for an infinite amount of time into past, plus an infinite amount of time into the future, which amounts to 2 x infinity which is by definition an impossibility. The surface of things like spheres might not have an end per se, but any process like traveling on that surface might stop at any time. To my mind the only definition of 'eternity' that could make any sense would be something like "existence without benefit of time" or "existence in a situation where time did not exist". aguy2

How about the thousands of anonymous, neolithic, priest/shamen observers who focused the collective resources of stone age societies toward our possible destiny among the stars? aguy2