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What sort of instability do you think this would cause?

The description of that graph says: So, although it isn't clear that current temperatures are higher than in the past, it is also impossible to say that there have been periods in the past warmer than current. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png

Do you want to try that again. In English.

Not just less precise, it can become plain wrong, counterfactual.

What are you measuring the speed of the planes relative to? What are you measuring the speed of the planes relative to? What are you measuring the speed of the planes relative to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Other styles of programming language may not have explicit conditional branches, but must still have some mechanism to choose what operations to perform (such as the branhc table the OP suggests).

You didn't have anything useful to say about the question. And you polluted the thread with your usual ignorant drivel. (That is about what you say, not you: I'm sure you are lovely.)

I will let the moderators decide. As the original question was whether evolutionary theory is scientific; i.e. if the study of evolution uses the scientific method, I fail to see the relevance of your comments. Memories change with time. We are able to remember things that didn't happen, change things that did or forget them completely.

Because they are moving at the same speed relative to the Earth. Imagine the Earth stationary and the problem goes away. All motion is relative. You are mixing "frames of reference". In one (the Earth's) the two planes both flay at, say, 600mph and the earth doesn't move between them. In another frame of reference, the Earth is moving at 1,000 mph, one plane is moving at 1,600 mph and the other is moving at 400 mph. yes, that's a good example.

What is the speed of the jet relative to? If it is relative to the Earth, then it is moving at 1,600 mph and can quickly reach the destination. If it is measured relative to the same thing that the Earth is, then it is flying backwards and will reach the destination by going the other way round the world.

I can see that philosophy and philosophers can contribute to solving problems, perhaps by clarifying what the problem is. For example, ethics committees in research labs or hospitals might use philosophers to help them work through all the issues around an ethical decision.

Please keep your ignorant opinions on language in your own threads. Thank you.

Then maybe you should start a thread on that, rather than derailing this one. Maybe you need to explain what you think the word "random" means (in the thread you start on how memories are "random"). I suppose you could make an analogy like that. But it is so inaccurate as to be useless.

Of course we do... No wonder we get such nonsensical "theories" posted here when people are this divorced from reality.

I have seen a couple on another forum (cosmoquest). One (I can't even remember what it was about now) was a very constructive discussion with a lot of evidence to test the idea being provided and - unusually - actually used to test the idea. I think the final conclusion was that the proponent decided he needed to rethink or abandon the idea. Another appeared to me (it was rather over my head) to be just a matter of transforming the equations of GR so that the curvature of space-time was a consequence of time dilation rather than the other way round (or something like that). As far as I could tell, it said nothing new but it did get published in a reasonable journal.

No. When I think back to this morning, I don't remember random things like dancing elephants and singing bananas, I remember walking the dog and going to work. Evolution is the change in proportion of alleles in a population. Mutation produces some of that diversity. What on earth has this got to do with memory?

I don't see why you think that is random. We can, usually, remember what happened not some random thing that didn't happen.

I don't follow that. Evolution (in the context of this thread) is a process that occurs in populations of organisms. What does "motion" have to do with it? (Do you mean "change" rather than "motion"?) Not always. There can be major social changes brought very rapidly about by scientific or technological changes (paradigm shifts), by disease, war, natural disaster, etc.

I was unaware of this (and couldn't be bothered to look it up) but just came across this: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15456

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/86245-what-problems-does-philosophy-solve/

I though this was interesting enough to have its own thread ... (I am also from industry and have spent my career solving problems. Which is perhaps why I don't know what problems philosophy solves. )

Doesn't it say on the meter? For example, this one says cubic feet: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/383552656_19b69848be_b.jpg (I have no idea what eu.tt or cu.tt might be) Did you, perhaps, misread cu. ft. (cubic feet) as cu. tt. ?

What problems has any philosopher solved? (When doing philosophy rather than, say, mathematics or whatever other practical things they do.) Is philosophy supposed to solve problems; I thought its purpose was simply to analyse them and think of new questions.

Alpha and beta radiation. And, in our industry, cosmic rays and neutrons are also important. But I'm not sure any of these will have a significant heating effect in water. So I agree, electromagnetic radiation - particularly infra-red - is most relevant.

"Is memory more important than execution time?" Good question, which I didn't really notice before. There is no simple answer. It depends on the application. In some applications (embedded, typically) memory use is much more important than performance. In some cases, large amounts of memory can be used to improve performance (e.g. unrolling loops, inlining functions, etc.) Also, it is not always obvious which approach (if-else vs jump tables) will be best for a given requirement.