Moontanman

I noticed several discrepancies in the article as well, they did a pretty good job of hiding the discrepancies but they are there. I had just skimmed it when I posted, sorry... I kept feeling like Noah's Ark was gonna come up at any time while I read it...

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I ran across this the other day while surfing, it would seem that there is a Hypothesis/theory that the moon was captured by the Earth at the Permian/Triassic boundary. any thoughts? http://lunarorigin.com/ Probably should have gone into speculations...

No need to forsake your creator, but I'd be on guard for the creators spokesmen....

Very scary to think of my thoughts being read, I'm screwed when that comes about, lol Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged That is true but they tortured you into admitting it no matter if it was true or not... Then there was the TV set with the camera that watched you all the time I keep mine turned off unless I'm actually watching it Hmmm, maybe I should unplug it and cover it with a blanket Kill your television

I have no problem with God in my life, it's his fan club that pisses me off... No order emerges from chaos, it's magnificent to see how much can happen when chaos is left to evolve into complex patterns of splendor, of course our association with the result is why we think it's magnificent to begin with. If we had evolved in a liquid metallic hydrogen sea we might think the helium rain was fantastic....

For this to make sense you'll have to provide the correct religious belief or say that these things cause people to go against their best interests due fear of death or some wort of torture. So bad thing do not happen to good people or good things do not happen to bad people? bullshit.... Listening to who? Your Pastor? Cleric? Mulla? Preacher? Cult leader? Parents seldom teach their kids they will die if they don't do as they are told much less burn in hell unless of course the parents are already victims of religious Stockholm syndrom... Makes no sense what so ever. yes, that would be the point Good to hear you understand, religion is mans interpretation of Gods will, even if god is perfect humans are far from it and always use religion to serve themselves.

I never said it was the same as a ball of gas... I agree all things are not equal between a neutron star and a planet but a neutron star does follow the cube square law none the less... Large objects cool slower than small ones, that cannot be denied, a small object has more surface are per unit of volume than a large object does....

I know why the floating stuff moves to the center in a whirlpool... It's called gravity... the whirlpool effect causes the center to drop while the edges climb up the sides of the container this results in a down hill situation where anything on the surface falls to the center due to gravity. If you swirled a liquid in a container in zero G you would not see this effect, everything would cling to the outer walls of the container, gravity is responsible for the cone shape of the whirlpools as well as surface floaters sliding down to the center....

My point exactly, all things being equal a large object will cool slower than a small object...

So if you had a neutron star that was as big as the earth (diameter, i know this is not possible) it would cool faster than a neutron star 10 miles in diameter? This would violate the cube square law, a small object has more surface area per unit of volume than a large object.

I think that religion is the basis for the idea of a thought crime. where else in human society do thoughts become a crime, no one can know your thoughts but god....

I like Zolar's idea, i know that the way a tree grows and it grows to fit it's environment, has alot to do with how its' structured. Different trees are so different from each other in some cases it's almost difficult to see how they are all the same type of organism. The pines grown here on tree farms are relatively soft, easy to process into everything from paper to dimensional lumber. Some trees are much harder than pines, oak comes to mind but a local blooming tree/shrub has the hardest strongest heaviest wood I know of. Some wood never floats no matter how dry it gets, other wood floats like cork when it's still green and full of sap. The point here that trees are about as hard and strong as they can be, making wood from bacteria would entail a huge effort, making the tubes that transport water, which by the way is one reason why wood is strong, making these tubes would be very difficult I am sure but trees make them as part of their structure automatically. I can see the possibility of using carbon micro tubes to make the cellulose slurry strong and use the cellulose to support the carbon tubes. i am sure there are many way sit can be done but every time I ride any where here I see thousands of acres of trees all in perfect straight rows on land that is not useful for any other purpose. I am an advocate of using plants to grow things like meat fruits or other useful things, sadly we do not seem to be very close to manipulating other life forms this way any time soon.

My computer is perfectly stable... When it's off!

Very nice, nice graphics as well. isn't this a turbine? Can it run on methane? Very interesting...

You might be correct, i think it will be a long time before growing pine trees on tree farms is replaced that way...

The really interesting part was how they interacted with each other, orbiting around, merging, breaking up and coming back together. It was facinating for sure...

I noticed today as I was drifting around my pool on a floating raft that i was leaving traces of shadows on the bottom. The shadows seemed to swirl around on the bottom every bit as dark as my shadow on the bottom, these swirling shadows would get bigger break up go into orbit around a bigger shadow, grow bigger break up and merge. Some of them lasted 3 minutes after they formed. You could only see them well at high noon. I was amazed at how much they resembled pictures of deep space where nebula and galaxies swirled around each other. I found that the best shadows were made with the least effort. Moving fast seemed to break up the effect but very gently moving caused the biggest longest lasting swirl shadows. They continued even after all visible surface effects stopped. The swirl shadows were independent of the glitter effect of the surface waves, a very neat effect, i am sure others have seen this but what is it called?

No, this is simply not true, the human lungs are not designed to use a liquid and water would have to contain far more disolved oxygen that is can possibly contain for this to work. Your kidneys would be a problem if you tried to live in freshwater or salt water but not breathing would trump any possible kidney problems... Now it is possible to breath certain halogenated carbon compounds but they carry far more oxygen than water can, possibly this is what you are referring to when you say it's possible to breath water, it is a liquid but not water...

I have my doubts about this Zolar, much like cellulose slurry, paper, fiber board, chip board, plywood, and oak planks can all be made from a tree, I don't see taking loose cellulose slurry and making an oak plank. I think the tree will make the wood far better and efficiently than we can by starting with a loose slurry.... It just seems like a up hill battle for sure, maybe wood working has tainted my view point on this...

I'm not sure what you are getting at with this IA, it will take many billions of years for the earth to cool to the same temp as the cosmic backround, neutron stars cool very fast, millions of degrees in just a 1000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/nstar.html

Yes, but in ten years at very close to C you could travel hundreds if not thousands of light years, to you the rest of the universe looks time dilated to them you do... which is real after you come back to you starting point? You have aged ten years they have aged thousands of years yet to you when you were traveling they looked as time dilated to you as you did to them but once the trip is over only your time dilation is real.

A cryptozoology site? How about this? http://www.falw.vu/~smit/forums/dinosaur_decline.html http://paleo.cc/paluxy/maps97a.htm http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/254/5033/835 I never said firestorm... I'll grant you that. No my argument is based on the cube square law... So we are down from tons of food to a few hundred pounds? A shrew sized animal will still starve far faster than an elephant sized animal. a human requires a certain amount of food a day too but that doesn't mean we will starve if we don't eat every day. There have been cold adapted elephants, there were cold adapted dinosaurs, dinosaurs lived to with in 5 degrees of the poles, cold would not have killed off all the dinosaurs so this argument line is not relevant. No, the amount of food an elephant requires is an average for mantaining good health, starvation takes a long time in elephants compared to shrews. A quick serach makes most of this a moot point... for both our arguments... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93 No hibernation or estivation required, scavenging seems to be a good thing to be able to do to survive an abrupt extinction event. No doubt many factors resulted in the extinction/survival rates across the K/T boundary but the idea of a last lone dinosaur freezing in the blizzard is just a fantasy...

You must live in Yankee land, they've been setting off fire works here for the last week the last three day has been intense with rockets and big booms. Tonight has been unbelievable, i have a dog who is terrified of the whole commotion. a 60 pound basset hound who thinks he should be in my back pocket the last several days due to the fireworks

That's a new one to me for sure and if indeed you had a small black hole you could use it to not only git rid of waste it should give off considerable energy while doing so!