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Moontanman

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  1. No that is the rocket trail, no moon, the moon is not in that pic at all. The spiral is supposed to be part of the rocket exhaust.
  2. It's difficult to realy have one favorite but there is my list of fiction books I think are well worth reading. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein Hieros Journey by Sterling E. Lanier If you like series of books then these are great Empire of The East The Complete Book of Swords 1st BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: WOUNDHEALER'S STORY 2nd BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: SIGHTBLINDER'S STORY 3rd BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: STONECUTTER'S STORY 4th BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: FARSLAYER'S STORY 5th BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: COINSPINNER'S STORY 6th BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: MINDSWORD'S STORY 7th BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: WAYFINDER'S STORY LAST BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: SHIELDBREAKER'S STORY ARDNEH'S SWORD All by Fred Saberhagen Or the trilogy Titan, Wizard, and Demon, By John Varley Or the Ring World series by Larry Niven Oh the possibilities!
  3. So no way to know if they will really be stable or just more radioactive elements?
  4. Yeah but no where near as spectacular as the one over Norway! The one over Norway really looked weird this one just looks like a failed missile. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged If it was heads must be rolling somewhere for the failures!
  5. I actually asked a medical doctor about this one and the answer is no. blood doesn't contain the nutrients we need to survive in the quantities it takes to keep us alive, it messes up our digestive systems (results in the most horrific smelling excrement and gas you can imagine) Blood is not a food capable of sustaining us long term.
  6. I have several pounds of mercury, copper, bismuth, aluminum, a little bit of magnesium, titanium, lead, some tungsten that is probably an alloy, and silver. (some gold too if you count jewelry.)
  7. What I want to know is this, are these supposed super heavy elements thought to be really stable like bismuth or just semi stable like uranium? (yeah i know probably full of grammar errors....)
  8. Damn, you mean it wasn't a plausible supernatural paranormal hyper-technological alien super intelligence UFO sighting of a FTL worm hole appearing in the atmosphere over Norway thingy? ..... shiiiiittt....
  9. Neither did you jack ass, you make claims with no evidence, you did not provide one iota of real evidence, If you had I would have countered with evidence. Toasty did you favor by actually looking up what you should have done to begin with so you wouldn't' have asked such a ridiculous question!

  10. Zolar if you realy feel like I was trolling you should report me, I still say you are dead wrong!

  11. You got me zolar, I'm a troll, I live to obfuscate your posts. Report me. Thank you toasty, 2.4 million years ago our jaws changed, I appreciate your efforts to show this. I still don't see the relevance of roman era jaw bones and tool use for processed foods since humans have clearly been processing their foods for 100,000's of years.
  12. I think one of the few true perversions is wanting to be a politician, I don't really trust the motives of either side but the Dem's seem less likely to round up people like me into camps and roast us than the Rep's but neither side is really the final truth. I never trust either side completely, anyone who is totally republican or totally democrat is a Christmas turkey.
  13. Yes mooeypoo, (looks down sheepishly) you make a bubble then put six other bubbles around it and the center bubble becomes more or less cubic. It is a staged thing and i was being a smart ass, sorry The idea of a square crater is just so out there it's difficult to take it seriously but I guess if you had a crater then four other impacts around it in in the exact place and you could get a natural squarish crater
  14. I've seen cubic bubbles, why not square craters?
  15. Zolar, why do you assume a large carcass? Humans often prey on small animals. A human is quite capable of eating a small animal raw, even skinning it with your teeth. a rabbit is easy to skin and eat, not very tasty raw but edible. A cooking fire makes any meat easily torn from a carcass, throw a deer carcass on a fire and meat becomes easily torn from the carcass, your whole idea of human teeth and jaws being too weak to function with out modern food processing is just dead wrong. Small animals make a large portion of the diet of primitive humans now, why not then? I think it's more likely that fire allowed the human jaw to evolve into the form it is today by making food softer and easier to eat. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged No zolar, not if the human jaw isn't evolving over that time span, troll am i? Report me for trolling then, go for it.
  16. First i happen to be trained in statistical analysis, you are dead wrong, at best you source is cherry picking data, you need to provide the source for this outrageous claim, the human jaw bone has pretty much been the way it is for more than 100,000 years, 3,000 years isn't enough to say we had to have modern cutlery to live. 3,000 years ago humans already had plenty of tools to cut up grind and other wise process food. As we did 100,000 years ago, even before the modern jaw bone hominids had tools to cut up and grind their food. You are not making sense when you argue differently. Of course you're not, it disproves your idea completely. Again 3,000 years has seen no appreciable change i the human jaw bone. 3,000 years ago humans were identical to humans today, why do you keep bringing this up? Neanderthals evolved from a common ancestor with humans, both species had tools more than 150,000 years ago they also had jaw bones that were really not suited to ripping flesh from carcasses. Yes were are discussing the use of tools because you said we have to have them to eat. AGAIN, i say 3,000 years ago we were just as human as today, so what is your point?
  17. Yes I merely provided a link, I looked it up because I had no idea what it meant, but it doesn't look promising to me.
  18. Yes we do Zolar if you were told stone tools only date back 5,000 years you were grossly misinformed. No human teeth are quite tough and capable of ripping flesh from bones but we prefer to do it with knives. Stone knives can be sharper than modern surgical instruments. Quite possibly "your dad" had weak teeth, old people would have more difficulty but the point is moot, stone tools were available for humans for hundreds of thousands of years. Again stone tools are more than adequate for cutting up carcases. Grinding grain, roots and tubers. I suggest you back up this outrageous claim, flint is available in many areas where volcanoes were extinct for millions of years and often washed down rivers far away from volcanoes. Obsidian was the favorite stone tool of choice but even quartz can be used to make stone tools. Why would they be limited to shale, that makes no sense what so ever. Even shards of bone can be used to cut flesh. You implication is dead wrong.
  19. He said the distance between the earth and the moon was reducing, a blatant untruth. The moon formed very close to the earth from a collision with a mars sized planet, the moon has been moving steadily away since then, the rate of movement has slowed down as the moon gets further away but the distance is not reducing by any interpretation of the data. The earths spin has been reduced drastically since then, fossilized imprints of tidal movements show this. I am quite sure he doesn't care to see his "god" shown to be wrong anyway.
  20. Zolar you are making some pretty wild assumptions here, humans can and do eat raw meat from carcases, (haven't you ever eaten raw steak by gnawing it off the bone?) it's rare in modern times but it can be done. Stone tools are more than adequate to cut flesh from bones to bite sized chunks if you insist on bite sized chunks. Humans were cutting up their food way before Roman times and cooking makes meat that is too rotted to eat raw eatable. Your basic premise is totally flawed, humans have been wielding super sharp stone tools and cooking for more than 75,000 years maybe 150,000 years.
  21. I've been shocked by an electric fence, it's not something I would do for recreation for sure. It hurts! I saw a pig killed by an electric fence, but it had been modified to give a huge shock by the owner because the pig had learned to resist the effects of the fence and consistently got out. he didn't get out anymore, he didn't go anywhere else again it dropped him like a sack of potatoes but that was 42 years ago, I am sure they have fails safes now to prevent that from being done.
  22. Well there is the school of thought that suggests life on earth was started by microbes from someplace else. Until we go someplace else it will be difficult to know if life everywhere is similar to life on Earth or if all life is unique or even if there is other life. There is the possibility that a species could develop technology with no real intelligence, why not an Ant or Termite type species that develops technology but not intelligence and manages to travel to other planets? Colonial insects do many of the things we equate with technology, farming, livestock, building. Could star travel develop this way?
  23. You are 100% correct species-jumping microorganisms do indeed exist but all life on Earth is related, we all share the same basic genetic codes. All of Earths infectious microorganisms have evolved to infect Earths life forms by using this similarity to their advantage. Life forms who share no history what so ever with us would be very unlikely to infect Earthly life forms. I once heard it described as us being infected by alfalfa wilt but many times more unlikely.
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