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Why did God create this life? This is a question on the minds of many, and I, as a Muslim, have a clear answer in the Qur’an. God Almighty says in the Qur’an: " [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed ". So this life was created by God for testing, and the purpose of the test is: to determine the place of each person in the afterlife, a person in heaven and a person in hell, and heaven and hell are degrees as well. Look at the students in schools, they go through many years of tests in order for their place in society to be properly determined, and also this life is a test to determine each person's place in the afterlife. The test consists of several things, the most important of which are: - Belief in God, so you cannot see God in life, because God tests you, do you believe in Him or not? Belief in angels, heaven, hell, prophets....etc as well. Doing the best things and letting go of the bad things. But there is a question some are asking: If God's knowledge is absolute, then he does not need to test us. Yes, God knows the result of every person’s test without the test taking place, but God loves that he be excused. - And if God places a man in hell without a test, that person will object that he did nothing to deserve hell, but after the test everyone will be convinced of his place.

Great rack for you here, Moon! And I don't normally do this kind of thing, but:

No. Not here. Not this thread. That discussion belongs in Speculations, or at least in Medical Science bc that’s what more of us will require to avoid going (joining the hordes of the ?) completely mad should that actually come to pass. My money’s on China. To get everyone to focus their attention on the explosion and scramble faster to seek out warmth for winter instead of focusing on any of the other things they don’t want us (or our various intelligences) paying attention to right now. Subterfuge, as it were, with a poke in the eye to the countries Hitler was working to conquer. But now I’ve gone and done it and Godwin’d the damn thread. I’ll see myself out.

You need to share the science of how you think you could do this. "Enwrapped with a lot of energy" is not a good start. Energy isn't a thing; it's a property of things.

The 'model' facilitates calculations and predictions. Don't confuse the 'model' with 'reality'.

Ah yes, mixtures of states. That doesn't fit the idea of clean separate dimensions, indeed. Well I hope @geordief gets something out this at least. It seems to me important to stress that Hilbert space is an abstract mathematical concept and one should not think of these "dimensions" in the loose way that the word is often employed in sci-fi, denoting a series of alternative universes to ours or anything like that.

13 is far too young for Steinbeck, or Shakespeare, for that matter. I'm trying to think what literature would work for middle school. Not many: those novels generally have adult content. I don't mean 'adult' in the popular sens of sex&gore; I mean complex ideas that require some mature experience and knowledge to appreciate. The Outsiders might be appropriate, Robinson Crusoe, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Wrong Box.... I can think of lots of science fiction students that age might understand, like and learn from. We never read any SF in school - wonder why.

Came here to say the same thing. Just finished rereading it again a few weeks ago.

Mulberry tree are very fast and easy to propagate. If you just cut a 2 foot tip from the tree branch and pop it into a pot of soil, keep watered it will sprout roots very quickly and should bear fruit within its 1st year. They grow fast and are quite hardy. No rooting hormone or fancy magic needed for them. I have 8 started from before winter and every one has buds and roots come spring. Might help to keep the cutting out of very hot dry conditions for a few weeks. I've never tried such a huge branch, not needed, but you could try reducing that by half and giving it a try as well as the tips as an experiment. Younger, new wood should work better though and the speed of growth is very good. It helps if you strip all leaves except the those on the top tips of your cutting.

I read The Godfather in 7th grade.

Anybody can explain how to extract sulpher from high sulpher content vegetables or eggs etc. please post if u do. Regards Amar.

I would say that it's 100% the usb power connector. USB plugs are a nightmare for working/not working. Sometimes you just move them a tiny amount, and they connect. If the blue light doesn't come on, then the power connection is not being made. It's usually the sockets, not the plugs, but in this case it sounds like the plug that's iffey. If you can get at it, try a few strokes of a very fine wirebrush. If you can't it sounds like it needs to be binned, unless you can swap the USB plug for a good one. Does the blue light come on with the laptop that it doesn't work with? That would tell you that it's not connecting up the power, either to the wall plug or the laptop, so it points to the usb plug.

I am working on a platform that does not have z buffering hardware support. I am trying to sort polygons in a scene according to z distance so I can implement the painter's algorithm, but I am having no luck. Currently I divide the game into regions and sort the polygons manually in each region according to what looks right. But I would like to know the mathematical solution. I don't have any cyclical overlaps and I don't have any intersecting objects but I do have polygons that touch. Thank you for your help.

The blue flame sounds to me like sulphur burning. I think if you heat pyrite (FeS2) you will drive off sulphur and form FeS and then in the presence of air probably you will get iron oxides. If you add HCl you will get chlorides, which can look pale green. I suspect your first picture, after addition of acid, could be a mixture of oxides and/or hydroxides of iron plus chlorides, hence the red/brown and greenish crystals. The later pictures seem to show crystal growth - rather nice dendritic growth in some of the pics. Would that make sense of what you saw?

A few quick suggestions. 1) Get to know (buy them a pint ?) your nearest CD/DVD repair shop. Some will have laser calibration equipment. 2) Hire a laboratory light source, you can get ones from NPL standard to school grade. Don't know if Griffin and George are still in business. 3) I think Radiospares or CPC offer calibration diodes for suggestion (1) at reasonable cost. 4) You are right, using the Sun presents special difficulties. This is why the earliest observers (Tyndall and then Piazzi Smythe) went up high mountains to observe the solar spectrum. It is worth reading the science of this in Chapter 3 of Sarah Dry's book "Waters of the World". She also references the original material.

Bit can contains value 0 or 1. If we group 8 bits it is byte. The all other data types have resolution in multiple of byte: 16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits etc. From computer point of view they are always binary. If typical computer application must print number to user, it has to convert binary to decimal (for non-programmers). It is just on screen. Internally it is is still binary. Conversion takes CPU time and memory. In older times sometimes was used BCD. Now I think it is obsolete. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal It could be found in e.g. embedded systems. Display and basic maths are easier and takes less time than full binary to decimal conversion (because they need multiplication, division and/or modulo.. which maybe are not implemented in cheaper weaker chips e.g. Atari/C-64 CPU Motorola 6502/6510 don't have built-in multiplication, division and modulo instructions). CPU has flags: zero, overflow, carry, nagative and others. Some CPU instructions modify some of these flags. Usually arithmetic instructions. If you subtract e.g. variable x0 from x1 (register from register/memory) and you get zero result there is set zero flag in CPU. What does it mean? That x0 was equal to x1. Therefore instructions to perform jumps are called je, jne, beq and bne. Shortcuts from Jump if Equal. Jump if Not Equal. Branch if EQual and Branch if Not Equal. They test state of zero flag in CPU. It is what is used by higher level languages if()/for()/while() etc. functions. And by Boolean to check its state and perform jump. What you see on the screen is just bunch of pixels with shape of digit.

ORIGINAL POST is obsolete. I made this YouTube video of Mars being terraformed. I plan on rendering a new version that spins slower so you can see the changes more easily but I wanted to ask a question someone else suggested. They were wondering if the ocean would be reddish in the beginning before the atmosphere was replaced with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. If you look a pictures of Mars the sky and ground are red, would the water be reflecting the red and appear more red? I know terraforming is a huge undertaking. I have a spreadsheet where I did the calculations for terraforming Venus and Mars. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gXUkVvdsvDMAcoRa-QjDw633MYGjqjJW5h6VEpKy-30/edit?usp=sharing To summarize the approach: They designed an Autonomous Self-Replicating Industry, that could collectively self-replicate (not individually). They released Thorium powered ASRIs on moons and in the asteroid belt to self-replicate, increasing their industry's size exponentially until their industrial capacity reached the pre-determined threshold. The ASRI built an aerostat for Uranus to mine Deuterium and Helium-3 for Fusion Power Plants. The ASRI was also released on ice moons to build Fusion based factories that convert ice into Hydrogen and Oxygen fuel. The ASRI mined the raw materials to build a Sunshade for Venus, which would cool the planet and eventually turn it's entire Carbon Dioxide atmosphere into a liquid ocean. The ASRI also mass produced Supertankers that use Hydrogen-Oxygen rockets (the only fuel abundant enough to meet the demand). Supertankers moved Hydrogen and Oxygen from the ice moons to the orbits of Venus and Mars. On Venus, the Hydrogen was used to convert Carbon Dioxide into water. Excess Nitrogen was transported from Venus to Mars. Oxygen was made from excess Carbon Dioxide. Supertanker exhaust (water) also helped create oceans. Some Urea was made from excess Nitrogen, Shriebersite was also saved from mining and both were used to fertilize. Solar powered electromagnetic shields were built at the L1 points to protect the atmospheres from solar radiation. This approach required two things really: commercially viable fusion power plants and an autonomous self-replicating industry. CERN seems convinced that fusion could be viable and I think self-replication is inevitable (humans are self-replicating machines after all). I think the biggest potential problem is actually supertanker traffic jams. I'm not sure how many supertankers you could have landing and taking off per hour on Venus. How many can you have in orbit? I am saying 600 years to finish but it could be longer or shorter depending on how many supertankers you can do without collisions. The industrial effort required is gargantuan by Earth standards but I think self-replication changes the game so that's okay, you can't really look at it through a lens of present day economics. This is really the only relevant research I could find: http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/TerraformingVenusQuickly.pdf http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/TerraformSRS1983.htm

The bible leans in favor of moderation and humility. Staying clothed and not showing off your health and physical attractiveness for the entire world to see is considered moderate behavior. While nudity and extremism would be more strongly correlated with liberalism. If you disagree with this basic assessment, I would be interested to know why. Aside from that, the rest of your points belong in a religious discussion and are too off topic (and uninterestingly inaccurate) to bother responding to here.