Moontanman

You stay lubed up, I'll continue to try and change the deal.

50 years ago being gay was reason enough to deny a person a job, a house, even a spouse. New laws stopped that travesty but the culture hasn't completely caught up as of yet. When slavery was abolished was it because the culture wanted to fight a war to change the laws or did two separate culture parts have to fight a war to force a law change? Yes but the grand leader uses those tools to control his people and religion plays into this in a big way. All the dear leader has to do is convince the people he serves god then he can do and get them to do anything under threat of hell fire. Religion is the most powerful tool a leader can have on his side. I am fine with "them" deciding for themselves it's when they decide for others that I have a problem with.

You seriously don't think laws alter cultures? True not all muslims follow the laws of Islam any more than all Christians or Hindus follow those laws however... I am i no danger of being "officially" killed due to my lack of belief as I would in many countries who follow Sharia law. It should also be noted that in many islamic theocracies leaving the religion is dealt with by the death penalty. It is indeed everyone's "we" just because you don't know you don't need a sky daddy to tell you how to live doesn't mean you do need a god to tell you how to live. Religion is at the core of most of our problems in this day and age. Far too many people rely on nonsensical advice from greedy grifters who claim the moral high ground while quoting scripture from a book that can be shown to be wrong about nearly everything that can be tested. This "book" is being used to garner support for converting our country into a theology run by oligarchs. Religion is being used to destroy our country by a man who comes damn close to qualifying as the antichrist, if I was a believer I would be quite certain of this. The Quran is no better nor is the religious writings of any other mythology.

What good does Islam do the world? We, the world, don't need Islam or any other fairy tale to run our lives.

A threat ahmet?

Sharia law violates the basic premise of human rights at nearly every turn.

Your premise is flawed, impacting asteroids do not slide or bounce like a bullet hitting the ground would, asteroids would not be physically strong enough. You made this claim and touted it as true over and over while never giving a single example of this happening or even if it could happen. I would suggest you bring some evidence to back up your assertion before you try to bring baseless assertions to our attention.

Please give an example of a bouncing asteroid.

Again, please provide a citation for sliding/bouncing asteroids, an asteroid impact releases outrageous amounts of energy. We need to see the justification for sliding/bouncing asteroids.

Can you give us any evidence of a meteorite sliding after striking the Earth? How would that work? What would a meteor have to made of to allow it to survive impact and slide?

Islam is just another religion, a man made mythology that serves only to allow some people to control others. No truth to the proposition that a god exists is any more prevalent in Islam than any other religion. Present a an assertion that Islam is the truth and I will ask for your evidence for this and critique or accept any evidence that can be confirmed. No particular positive or negative premise is given for Islam or any other religion here that I've seen.

No, I wear an outback hat and crocs. Occasionally I wear a pair of denim shorts with the hat and crocs.

I almost lost my job once by demonstrating the leidenfrost effect with molten polymer. I used to work for Dupont and we made polyester. I often ran experiments for various engineers which meant I got to work with various parameters of the process which involved hot polymer 350c. I found that as long as the polymer wasn't degraded I could allow the polymer to pour into my hands and I could mold the thick molten polymer with my hands. The water/sweat on my hands protected me from the hot polymer sticking to my skin. I once showed a member of management this little trick and he lost his mind! He thought I was somehow burning myself to harm the company or something and called to have me escorted off site. The engineer I was working for had to set him down and explain physics to the guy... I kind of felt sorry for him. Hey I drive a Jeep, I prefer off road wanker.

Interesting, I wonder how much hand guns account for the injuries or deaths compared to long guns or shot guns. In gun deaths overall handguns are paramount in cause of deaths. https://www.gafirm.com/legal-blog/commonly-used-weapons-for-homicides/

Good question, I do know of at least one that resulted in the homeowner capturing the invader but most of the time the invader simply chooses a homeowner he suspects is unarmed. From what I understand some reconnoitering happens in most cases.

Home invasions do happen where I live. https://www.wwaytv3.com/news-tags/home-invasion/

I apologize for that, not what I meant to do, in fact I am glad to see you in this thread. Few of us... well I can only really speak for me, and I have no training whatsoever, it's why hunting shotguns are all I own and one of those was bought by me when i was 12, I hitchhiked about 20 miles to get to a feed store ad bought it money I had earned by working for the local famers for the summer. That gun means a lot to me, I understand completely how a gun can be a part of who we are. But at some point we all have to stop making excuses for guns and I am not talking about you. Your expertise and desire to have a safe hobby is up lifting to me. I can honestly say you are the only person i know of who has the foresight to take yours and the safety of others seriously. Around here about all I get when trying to talk safety is how big a hole they can make in a person they decide to kill. All of us need people who can engage this issue without getting "testy" again I am sorry about that, please let that slide and stick with us here.

Let's not mince words, both of us know that the military grade weapons we are discussing is not semi auto handguns, how ever I am willing to include them in the set of guns that no one really needs to own. Handguns are very dangerous and prone to killing bystanders or people in their houses nearby, the danger is exacerbated by the general public thinking that handguns are the safest option and that anyone can handle a handgun. I'm betting you already know this being familiar with hand guns. I am sympathetic to hobbyists like you but the general excuse for owning a gun is home protection. A rifle, hand gun, or AR15 is not required for home defense. A small shotgun, like a 410 with number 5 shot will do the job and make it much less likely you'll kill the neighbors if you miss. The idea that anyone should be able to buy any gun and carry them around is nuts, nothing but postering. Owning a gun is a serious thing at least as serious as owning and operating a car. If nothing else owning a gun should require the same type of training, licensing, and insurance as owning and or driving a car. Hunting is a different issue but can be controlled in a similar way. I personally know people who own various semi auto weapons and shouldn't have access to a slingshot. I also own guns, shot guns, but still guns, and no I don't think no one should own a gun but the ownership of guns has got to be controlled... our children are being killed by this crazy idea of gun ownership being a right.

Are you for or against providing citizens with military grade weapons?

This whole gun thing is crazy, When I go to get gas the local gasoline seller, the gas "service station" died a long time ago, they have around 12 pumps and it's not unusual for there to be 6 or more cars fueling up. I filled up last week and out of 7 people fueling their vehicles 3 had pistols openly on their hips. One had a god damned 50 cal. Desert Eagle! I guess he wanted to make sure he could defend himself from any stray Bradley Fighting Vehicles that might attack while he was pumping gas. I live in a well known liberal university town! This shit is out of control! I think the path forward is clear, far from the general population needing the same guns as the military guns need to be confined... at the very least! Confined to your home and restricted to pump shotguns with #5 shot shells, 410 gauge at most! Personally I think we should be able to open carry knives not guns, but show up in public with a bowie knife on your belt and spend a few days in jail and be fined big bucks but carry a gun and you get special treatment. Yes I think crazy pretty much says it all about gun culture in the US.

Yes, very large meteors manage to land via stripping off speed via burning off much of their material due to "friction" most objects simply burn up before they hit the ground. Spacecraft get by with using the atmosphere to slow down by not plunging uncontrolled into the atmosphere and by taking a path that allows the frictional heat to be bleed off slowly via a shallow angle not by an immediate steep plunge into the atmosphere. Cooling systems? A cooling system that can handle 100s of gs? Yes the heat shielding will have to be quite special I am sure. Yes, I am sure it could be done, but at what cost? Yes very good cooling systems, if there any chance you could elaborate on these special/good systems you keep mentioning? You do realize the gun's breach would still be at ground level and the barrel would still be full of air that the projectile would have to move out of the way, think friction, you would get no benefit from raising the muzzle above the thickest part of the air since this would not change the problem of the package having to fight through the air in the barrel. in fact the rail guns I have seen illustrations of didn't even have barrels, do they have barrels/muzzles? Magic would do the trick as well I am sure. How high would the gun have to be to take advantage of this lower escape velocity? How much difference in escape velocity would you get by launching from an altitude of five miles? So you would just have to lug a rail gun to high altitude and all the fuel it takes to lug the rail gun up to high altitude?