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When the OP admits to soapboxing an audience is irrelevant.

I imagine they have a suicide hotline recruiting "away teams" for the heaven's gate cult/religion.

You seem to have an unusually open mind towards satanic religions as well as all the other beliefs covered by the term "religion". Where does religion derive it's authority to dictate belief?

I up voted the religion comment because I thought you were joking, but now I'm not sure. Is it your position that this nebulous religion has some imperative to dictate what people should think?

When it comes to religion I agree with mr. Zappa. "a book of rules of ancient date designed to make you all feel great while you fold, spindle, and mutilate those non-believers from a neighboring state" -Frank Zappa

I don't believe anybody knows what I should believe. Who decides what should be believed?

I think one major difference between science and religion is: religion demands it knows the answers, and science is happy to ask questions. One path looks like a dead end.

Yeah, open mike at the imapred poetry slam! Black holes fold spacetime like 4-D origami World lines cross and loop and tangle The future is changing fast. The universe forgot it's past. Gravty dangles reveal the angles. down town frown clown crunchy brown sea kelp

Is a chimney a simple machine? It changes the magnitude of the air flow to a firebox and combustion efficiency. Or does the fire act as a motor in this setup? Wiki p says: "A simple machine is a non-motorized device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force"

Well, it seemed reasonable last night. Today the fever is down and I'll have to think about it. If it's H5N1 is it the flew?

The pop-sci version of massive objects accelerating to the speed of light says it would require more energy to reach c than all the energy of the universe, is it possible a color confinement analogy might take effect? If one could double the energy of the universe by accelerating a massive object close enough to c, could you get two metaverse? Like pulling a quark out of a hadron gives two hadrons.

To predict a geodesic path in GR, is it enough to use the lagrangian idea of action (kinetic energy - potential energy) when it's minimized?

Is it a quadratic Bezier curve?

2013 Si eats a turd 2014 his brother Phil becomes the new Sarah Palin If you haven't been exposed to Duck Dynasty, that makes no sense, but at least you haven't been exposed to duck dynasty.

Human endorphins harvested during sexual activity affect the aliens the same way mushrooms affect humans. The extra-terrestrial demand for naturally produced psychotropics is enormous. I saw a piece of it on Liquid Sky.

Is the creationist view that complexity only arises by deliberate action? How can they account for the complexity of a creator. I find it hard to understand why a complex universe needs a creator but a creator which must have equal or greater complexity than the universe can pop into existance from nothing.

Thanks for another enlightening challenge!

Had some time this morning to get a clue about matplotlib. Once we know the derivative, can't we find the antiderivative at a point on the parabola to get the equation? I'm unsure about integrals.

Well, I'm stumped.I was hoping to use the slope of the tangent ( m ) with y = mx + Constant to get the derivative of the parabola at (x,y). Right now I'm trying to get Python to plot it in matplotlib but mostly just reading the documentation for matplotlib. I'm looking forward to seeing your solution.

This seems like one I should be able to solve but I'm unsure if the antiderivative will give me the right function to parametrize.

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