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Interesting point that I never considered, thanks for that! Yet that increases my doubt about a SINGLE infinite structure called "universe". Thanks again. All we have seen so far are higher levels of finite organization (galaxies, clusters, and superclusters).

Thank you. It is "all there is" locally. We don't know about "all there is". Be careful to not equate "all there is" with "all we know". All we know is limited to the edge of the observable universe.

Ok, assumption is the wrong word. The OP states: "I keep hearing that the "Big Bang" happened everywhere" It happened "everywhere" only if there is ONLY one big bang.

Yes, and we cannot extrapolate that our big bang must be everywhere and everything.

Sorry, I forgot about starting this discussion. The point is not mine, but rather James Taylor. I posted that because it was written in a style that sounded unbelievable to me. James Taylor is president of the Spark of Freedom Foundation. "The word "freedom" sounds suspect to me. He has a doctorate degree in government from Dartmouth College. Frequency of severe hurricanes in his story is in landfalls on the US, and not frequency of such storms world-wide. There must be other things wrong with his article. He follows the climate denier agenda.

How can we assume "everywhere or anything" is contained within one big bang? In a multiverse model there are an infinite number of big bangs, and our big bang would not be "everything".

We begin with the assumption that a human could survive whatever hellish environment in which they are listening, such as on the surface of the sun or near a black hole, what would such a superhuman entity be able to hear?

Mike, what exactly do you mean by "producing a hierarchy of human life"? That sounds like a white supremacist concept, on the face of it. I'm sure you are a nice guy and not a white supremacist.

I don't know or care much about use of other prepositions, just the word "AT". Does anyone here prefer to say "where it's at" than "where it is"? Please stop using the absurd figure of speech "there is more than one way to skin a cat". I love cats! We had 2 lovely cat sisters that lived to be 21 and 22 years old.

"Mattis then delivered the military threat outside the West Wing on Sunday afternoon. "Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response — a response both effective and overwhelming," Mattis told reporters after meeting at the White House with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so." http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289 This sounds like warning of a pre-emptive attack on N.Korea. What are the "many options"? How exactly can this be accomplished? The US must have a number of spy satellites parked over N.Korea watching everything going on. The US must have been able to locate all the artillery within range of Seoul. The US could do a massive "shock and awe" attack by completely destroying the entire city of Pyongyang with a single fusion bomb of several megatons. Maybe a few more nukes to destroy major military installations? A few EMPs? At the same time thousands of cruise missiles could destroy most of the artillery and missile launch sites within range of Seoul. B2 bombers and F117s could stealthily deliver hundreds (or thousands?) of laser guided bombs on targets all along the border. These could all be timed to explode at the same moment. Then whatever artillery or missile launchers that are not destroyed in the first few seconds of the attack, could be destroyed with artillery that can track artillery to their source and destroy the remaining artillery within a few minutes. Maybe most of N.Korea's offensive ability could be destroyed in seconds, with others destroyed within minutes? The US always says they don't want to start a war, but that is to give KJU the false sense of security. What about the potential nukes N.Korea already smuggled into the city of Seoul waiting to be detonated?

In grammar school I learned that it is not proper English to end a sentence with "at", such as in "I don't know where it's at", rather than standard English is "I don't know where it is". Does anyone else ever think saying "where it's at" is an awkward usage? It is very common to hear it, so much so that is now seems standard, but to me sounds uneducated. Didn't those people learn in grammar school that is not appropriate English usage? Do many of you prefer to use "where it's at" than "where it is"? Does anyone else agree "where it's at" sounds wrong? I understand the wide acceptance of the use of double negatives in a sentence, such as in "he doesn't know nothing!" rather than "he doesn't know anything!". That puts emphasis on the negative, which makes sense to me because it communicates a negative. It just sounds uneducated.

In 1965 I was in summer grammar school when I learned the age of the universe was between 15 and 20 billion years old. Maybe the discovery of accelerated expansion, of 5 billion years ago, caused them to revise the age downward to 13.799 billion years, plus or minus 21 million years. In what year was this discovery made and this number arrived at? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

"We are confident of our calculations; we have been rigorous in our use of physics taking into account atmospheres, pressure and fluid dynamics. On Venus, the pitch of your voice would become much deeper. That is because the planet's dense atmosphere means that the vocal cords vibrate more slowly through this 'gassy soup'. "However, the speed of sound in the atmosphere on Venus is much faster than it is on Earth, and this tricks the way our brain interprets the size of a speaker (presumably an evolutionary trait that allowed our ancestors to work out whether an animal call in the night was something that was small enough to eat or so big as to be dangerous). When we hear a voice from Venus, we think the speaker is small, but with a deep bass voice. On Venus, humans sound like bass Smurfs." https://io9.gizmodo.com/5898514/what-would-your-voice-sound-like-on-venus No mention of the human voice sounding louder. Sounds under water on Earth don't sound much louder than sounds in air, sound just travel faster and farther.

Does anyone know how much louder a sound would be on Venus than on Earth?

"Keep the statues. Change the plaques." I agree, but let the NEW plaques be very easy to read and briefly explain the TOTAL history of the monument, and how the character of the "hero", or his cause, is questionable. It's basically artwork, created to evoke an aesthetic response, but with the bad intention to intimidate. Public artwork can be ANYTHING of interest, even abstract structures. Why does it need to be a war hero? Or even a human being? It would not be appropriate to take a vote on the subject, and allow the majority of the community to decide to keep statues to intimidate the oppressed minority of the same community and NOT modify the plaques.

Recently I heard someone state on CNN or MSNBC that climate change has not increased the frequency of severe hurricanes in the past 100 years. Nobody disputed it, which amazed me. I did a little research and found this 2012 article in Forbes. Is this true? It states: "Let’s split the 100-year hurricane record in half, starting with major hurricane strikes during the most recent 50 years. During the most recent decade, 2001-2010, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average. During the preceding decade, 1991-2000, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is below the 100-year average. During the decade 1981-1990, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties the least number of major hurricanes on record. During the decade 1971-1980, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties 1981-1990 as the two decades with the least number of major hurricanes. During the decade 1961-1970, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average. Incredibly, not a single decade during the past 50 years saw an above-average number of major hurricanes – not a single decade! Now let’s look at the preceding 50 years in the hurricane record, before the alleged human-induced global warming crisis. During the decade 1951-1960, 9 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average. During the decade 1941-1950, 11 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially above the 100-year average. During the decade 1931-1940, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average. During the decade 1921-1930, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is slightly below the 100-year average. During the decade 1911-1920, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average. Global warming alarmists and mechanical engineers at obscure Minnesota universities may lie, but the objective data do not lie. During the past 5 decades, an average of 5.6 major hurricanes struck the United States. During the preceding 5 decades, and average of 8.4 major hurricanes struck the United States. “The hurricanes that really matter, that cause damage” are not increasing. Hard, objective data show exactly the opposite. Indeed, during the past 4 decades, the time period during which global warming alarmists claim human-induced global warming accelerated rapidly and became incontrovertible, the fewest number of major hurricanes struck during any 40-year period since at least the 1800s. Oh, and during the first two years of this current decade exactly zero major hurricanes struck the United States." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/05/dont-believe-the-global-warmists-major-hurricanes-are-less-frequent/#568a9f18f4de

Then in your opinion what is enough? It is called "whataboutism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Andy did something bad. What do you think about the bad thing Andy did? Well Bart did something bad too, what do you think about what Bart did? We are talking about what Andy did. If you want to start a discussion about what Bart did go ahead, somewhere else. So why not leave it up to a majority vote of the local population? Let them decide if they want a statue of Robert E. Lee?

Does that mean that a sound will be louder on Venus with it's atmospheric pressure 100x Earth, and softer on Mars with atmospheric density of 0.01x Earth? Would sound on Venus be 100x100=10,000 times as loud as on Mars?

That makes sense to me. It seems like this season has been accelerated, but that is not a "mistake" just a constraint. This compression makes more action and interest, imo. This season is very compelling. Can John Snow and Dragon Lady somehow lure Cersei into doing battle with the Army of Dead? Then show up after the battle to conquer the surviving army.

Interesting comparison in 5 recent popular votes (rounded to the nearest million). I did a little research to complete the grid and relied on your info above: 2016: Trump 63 - Clinton 66 2012: Obama 66 - Romney 61 2008: Obama 69 - McCain 60 2004: Bush 62 - John Kerry 59 2000: Bush 50 - Al Gore 51 The key to beating Trump is to allow him to self-destruct, or "turning out new supporters" AND flipping some of his supporters, whichever comes first.

Now is the time to replace confederate statues with NEW monuments to great people that MORE people can agree upon. Or modify some, as Steven Colbert recently proposed "Let's Repurpose Those Confederate Statues", or even by changing the riders on the horses to Revolutionary War heroes. Heroes of WWI were still riding on horses right?

The universe, or as I prefer to call it "our big bang", out at a distance of a Trillion LY is about 21 times the distance to the edge of our observable universe (big bang). It could look a little different, or very different, at that distance. How would it look at a great distance, like a googol LY out? No way of telling because even though our big bang is homogeneous and isotropic out to 46 Billion LY, that does not mean it will look that way from a viewpoint a googol LY away.

"McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-trump.html?smid=fb-share This presidency is no longer a going concern and may self-destruct at any moment. That is why Kim Jong is now watching the White House and waiting for signs of self-destruction.

Hi Alexcouch. May I suggest in the future you use a descriptive topic rather than a vague "An Idea That I Have" which doesn't tell anyone anything about your idea. A better title is "Composition of the Universe".

Are there many Union Monuments in northern states? U.S. Grant on horseback?