Moontanman

Rigney! I thought we were becoming fast friends but a pond with a waterfall full of chlorine! Blasphemy! This long time aquarium pond lover is properly disappointed by such a terrible misuse of water!

I have to go with zolar on this one, if time travel ls is possible then you could only travel between the times the time travel machine actually existed, wasn't that what you were saying zolar?

Who are you to say what is the correct interpretation of god, who are you to demand respect? DNKSFA

It seems i read it somewhere but i can't think of where at the moment but can't the speed of everything be measured in relation to the Cosmic back round radiation?

Thank you for your concern, if I want my eyes to be put out by religion I'll let the crazies in when they knock on my door.... here I think it's a science forum, even in the religion section

Unless they are of the YEC bent and think the Earth is the end all be all of creation I can't see how they would have any problem with it. Give them a whole new group of beings to proselytize (when I read that word I always think of prostitution for some reason ) of course if the aliens have their own Religion and God or Gods then things might bet a little weird

Very good point tom, there is always a hidden agenda when some one assets the power and majesty of God, it's always their idea of God and to me at least kind of condescending to anyone who believes differently as in my god is great, I feel sorry for those who worship some other less great God

Actually techetium-99m gives off gamma rays... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium-99m You are thinking of this reaction

The radiation given off is photons and the body does indeed react to photons, UV comes to mind as in a tan or sunburn.... but in this case I am sure it was all in my mind....

A couple of tons of magnesium on top of a mountain? Talk about "Fire on the Mountain" Lightning in the air! Way back in the day you could get mag rims for cars and motorcycles that were actually made of principally magnesium, a car with those rims that caught on fire was spectacular and almost impossible to put out with the then current technology....

Animals and bacteria are two completely different things as are surviving and living. The snail might survive freezing temps, creatures like water bears can survive total dessication and vacuum but they cannot live that way. Complex creatures are limited in their ability to live quite a bit more than simple creatures like bacteria. Taken from Rare Earth by Ward and Brownlee Multicelluar plants 45c to 50c Animals 50c Eukaryotic microbes 60c Cyanobacteria 70c to 73c (microbes) methanogens >100c (microbes) Extreme thermophiles > 100c (microbes) (some sources put this at >200c)

Lets be clear, how much would you consider a large quantity? An ounce? A pound? Half a ton? Several tons? You'd be famous for sure if its the latter.... quite possibly posthumously if you couldn't get far enough away fast enough

I am sorry dude, my intent was not to berate you in any way, there is no need for gasoline to start magnesium, it really don't take much and it takes off like gasoline. I would imagine that you would need all kinds of permits to burn any amount of magnesium greater than few ounces. Like I said several hundred pounds was an uncontrollable wild fire.... oh yeah, the UV from the big fire killed trees nearby and burnt the skin of people who tried to put it out, they were quite unsucessful... If you want to do something relatively cool and not likely to draw the authorities get a pile of beer cans to burn, I've kept a campfire going on the beach for several hours with nothing but empty beer cans and lots of drunk buddies, lol

I wasn't kidding, how do you find an unbiased source of information? You? Me? Who is truly objective? I don't trust anyone but me and you and lately I've began to wonder about you...

Well then, this whole discussion is moot because evidently there is no such thing as an unbiased or objective source of information

It's going to be rough on those solar goldfish when the giant star goes super nova in a million years or so!

I don't know IA, my left leg is 1.5 inches shorter than the right and I can't play the piano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium-99m http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/tc-99m.asp

A frog in a blender Oops i thought we were talking punch lines but that would be green and red and going one hundred mph.... I really have no idea rigney

I've had it done too and it does give you an odd feeling to know you are being injected with radioactive material but then you think about the fact you are already radioactive as is everything around you and it still feels odd, lol.....

I don't like mosquitoes either, over the years I've fed tons of their larvae to my fish to condition them for breeding. Sadly the fact that fish love to eat their larvae as well as the creatures that feed on th adult insects is staggering and some creature actually live almost all their lives off either the larvae or the adults or both, ridding the world of mosquitoes would result in far more damage than loosing a few frogs....

Well i see no reason to use gasoline, just pile up the ribbon and throw a road flare in the pile. If the sky is overcast it should light up the surrounding country side and get the police there a little faster.... When i was a little boy i lived near, about a quarter mile or so, an industrial plant called FMC, they were working on some sort of military parts and a pile of several hundred pounds of magnesium caught on fire from welding sparks. The fire lit up the sky for miles around, mountains 5 miles away were lit up, it was impressive. later on i got see a few ounces of it burn, it was still impressive. Don't do this at home kids

No one who even has a clue as to what science is would never say god did it is the same as saying science did it, science did not "do" anything. Science studies the evidence for it, and so far God has zip, NADA, none.... Of course that doesn't prove there is no God, there is just no evidence for god, so science just ignores the idea that god did it and looks for how it works and what makes it work.... Who knows maybe there will be evidence, science doesn't rule that out but so far no evidence so there is no reason to assume God in any situation....

I've seen that in so many old cowboy movies and shows but it's a pretty good idea anyway you look at it. Fire arrows would be a great way to spread confusion, burn buildings.

From the stand point of science there is no need to balance, why must there be some mysterious force behind it?

I agree, saving ecosystems is more important than the animals in them, if you save a whale and it has no where to live what have you gained?