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Baby Astronaut

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  1. Peter Gozinia Adolf Oliver Nippulz Sheeza Horr
  2. It does not address their point of missing/weird distress signals. Not that I believe the stories anyway
  3. Ok, if the question isn't between determinism and free will, then maybe someone can tell us what the actual question is?
  4. And once a dispute arises (murder, theft, proving guilt), separations occur as people naturally take sides. Instead of an objective government court system being entrusted to handle justice, it could easily result in a more unfair way of consequences dealt out. I agree that people might live in harmony without national laws too, but you can't have much growth without a system in place. And that means government. It all depends on the kind of government. We do need to make leaders more accountable, not get rid of laws. Not quite anarchy then, huh?
  5. Not that I'm disagreeing with the need for general/communal rules of some type, but many nations are like that precisely because of external governments. Think of past or modern colonialism, stripping the nation of raw goods/materials. And still it continues by organized trade stipulations on nations mired in debt to world institutions. (Ethiopia didn't become poverty stricken because its people were "lazy" ) Case in point. England didn't rape their base materials/livelihoods.
  6. And before you post something that long, you must preface it with a quick "my proposal in a nutshell" statement.
  7. Well, due to you I'm checking it out anyway. Even before the spice mention Fixed. Not me. Of course you do A think tank's material is spread far and wide, especially if they're of high stature. Likely you've encountered it without recognizing its source? I was making a general statement. At work, or in a bar/ restaurant, at events, many places, it's just common enough for a person to interject with their "own" view of best market practices, when in reality it sounds just like any other joe before/after them,* which happens to sound just like the mantra of its political originators. And yet they claim individualism as a strength. Now that's irony. However, I will apologize though for the indirect swipe at you, wasn't my intention but it did come across that way. My own eyes. Plus, reasonably questioning all that I believe or come across, then re-questioning it. And to help solidify its validity, running it through every culture and time in history I'm able to think of, to see if flaws in reasoning spring up. Then asking lots of questions and getting input/views from others. I'm not subscribed to any party nor ever will be, thus can't vote in primaries -- but it's worth that cost. Spending a fortune on a crappy actor is not practical to the business, it's not practical for the story writer's vision becoming fulfilled, it's not practical to the movie-goer, and it's not practical for the industry to make it standard habit. It's really only practical for the actor, but only if they're interested just in the money, and not in gaining recognition for quality talent/performances. But, it's any business's right to pay whatever fortune they decide. However, it might not be practical in some cases. *(Their numbers-increase and method of approach reminds me somewhat of bible messengers or gospel spreaders of a new religion, which isn't surprising considering how an unhealthy portion of their leaders approach government recently)
  8. Yeah, it's like they're micro-evangelists sent to preach their free market solutions out to everyone in the world, and butt into everyday conversations with a lecture of memorized dogma supplied by Cato Institute, other think tanks, and political media. By the way, I voted yes. It's right, but not practical.
  9. You owe me 2:58 of my time. I'm collecting in the next life (as my own science experiment)
  10. Wow, a movie with Powermad in the soundtrack? Awesome!
  11. Likely just an event who's time has come And lead tainted
  12. Hey, will anyone help me fix this problem?
  13. Would you mind giving a source for that, which I can look into further?
  14. Or no plug-ins for the transatlantic cable along the way? It might be dial-up, but likely you can still find AOL beer coasters laying around.
  15. o o o O O O * the ideas * Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedDerechos. Pretty much: a long wall of thunderstorms. http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13319103&ch=4226713 Another rare phenomenon: heat bursts. A very quick rise in temperature, gusty winds, and drop in air moisture.
  16. It takes a lot of power for rockets to leave Earth, so wouldn't it take more power for a spacecraft to leave the galaxy? I ask because in our solar system, it's puzzling that we'd be able to escape a star whose gravity holds in large planets. Along that reasoning, how can we escape a galaxy that holds in ? Unrelated, but...I'm also thinking, if the ride into our solar system's edge has a nasty bump near the heliosheath, then perhaps the Milky Way has its own analogous "galaxy wind" that ends up in a galaxial-sheath with a devastating bumpiness.
  17. Adding to that... Scientific measurements are usually never wrong. So even if the universe turned out to be a chaotic/wild show initiated by phantoms lurking in the outskirts, it still doesn't change that our measurements about reality so far were indeed correct. We just didn't (or couldn't) get to information about that other unforeseen part yet. Scientific variables can be wrongly labeled and/or calculated incompletely. For example, at one time mass and energy were treated as different and measured separately....which limited calculations about reality.
  18. In a hydrogen atom, the distance between a proton and its electron is about 11 miles using a scale of pixels. It's all just empty space, presumably. The 11 miles of scrolling doesn't function in all web browsers. Normally you're able to scroll from the left (where the proton is) all the way to the right, a distance of eleven virtual miles until you reach the electron -- a tiny dot at the end. here's a good link Nice! There are slideshow vids on YouTube too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34FNr_peUk The first vid progresses from smallest to largest, one at a time. And the second vid has them grouped (at the end our sun is placed directly next to the largest star for comparison), but with a noticeable discrepancy: Sirius is much larger than portrayed in your link and other vids. So it might not be to proper scale.
  19. Like if a black hole captured it. Mostly lurking here, yet I've been posting around in other sections. Thanks for asking.
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