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A mystical experience as you suggested, is not evidence of anything other than a train of thought at a given time. Equating a so-called mystical experience as irrefutable evidence to the existence of a god is downright delusional. Einstein was correct. The OP is indeed a "childish analogy of religion". I already explained to you, I'm not an atheist, yet automatically (if not desperately) defaulted to that talking point to refute my point. An agnostic may have faith, but not blind faith. That's what makes them so. They give no credence to Zealots or fanatics, no less ones wrongfully perverting the tenets of science for justifying it. I'm outta here. I'll no longer engage someone who romanticizes and advocates illegal activity as a godly thing. Good luck with your uncontrollable outbursts of laughter, excessive sweating, increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure and sleep deprivation experiment or otherwise, buying a stairway to heaven. /mike drop

A drug addled brain and supernatural characters have no connection to anything, no less each other in a scientific manner. At least not other than psychosis.

Okay, so if I read this correctly, you're suggesting hallucinations induced from intoxication by psilocybin is merely co-incidental to otherwise supernatural or divine intervention?

What it does show, is individuals can have revelations or epiphanies at any time, for any reason. While it might serve some well in their lifestyles and behavior, it's does not suggest the existence of anything other than introspect (or gullibility) among individuals. I've known hardcore atheists fall to their knees when they've gotten themselves in a jackpot, if for only self preservation with the least possible effort. I was shipwrecked once while at sea in a hurricane. Other than fighting a losing battle with with a five gallon bucket, I was singing a song in my head. "Out on the sea, there is an island. Out on the sea, there is a place. Out on the sea, there's a wave with the power to save all the sailors from the dark and the deep." I was saved, but I am absolutely certain my thoughts were not the reason for surviving, but for remaining calm. The other crew member had no such thoughts, yet survived too.

The clinical study of psychotropic compounds are not predicated by the existence of god. It's not even measurable in the abstract, no less in reality.

What you don't seem to grasp is that is not science, no less just because you (or others) say it is. It's pure bunk. No methodology, no controls, not replicated on demand in all individuals. There's a hippy commune down the road from my place. Magic mushrooms flow through there like water. If you call sleeping in the same room with buckets of your own shit, stealing firewood, bicycles and food from the neighbors is a godly experience, I thank my lucky stars you don't live in this town.

Al I gathered from that video are pseudo-scientists hallucinating about others hallucinations. Chong: “One day I took some acid and played Black Sabbath at 78 speed.” Cheech: “Yeah? And then what happened?” Chong: “I saw… GOD! I'm agnostic. I am at my most introspective and divine self while paddling a canoe on a calm lake, walking in the forest or standing on a mountain, but by that logic, we're incredulous because we don't expect epiphanies from self-induced euphoria I hear it all the time, but that doesn't make it true either. To use an anaology, all I hear you saying is holy water and crosses kill vampires, but little do you understand, that we understand vampires don't actually exist.

So coffee is ungodly then?

One one hand, Republicans are demanding Mueller wrap up the investigation. While on the other hand, Trump is hamstringing the investigation by saying he's willing to to testify then not willing to testify or at the very least arbitrarily fabricating contentious rules on the forum and conditions for testimony. Meanwhile, the Republicans are fast tracking a supreme court nominee to thwart Mueller's findings and procedures (no less other authoritarian policies). By the way the hearings are going, it's glaringly obvious Kavanaugh is bought and paid for. Some suggest that may lead to a constitution crisis, but in reality it already is. If that's not banana republic politics and law, nothing is.

Yes you have. No you didn't. Wrong. The mods could not be more fair. In fact, they have given you all of the gravity needed to make your case, instead you've attacked them personally. They see their fair share of crackpots, soapboxers and whiners. You've demonstrated a semblance of the tenets of science, so I'll not suggest crackpotism, but you seem hellbent on the latter two.

1.7 million in the Crusades.

The abacus, and the slide rule, for example. Telex was an early online computer. It was fully mechanical. I suppose Enigma and other coder/decoder tools were technically mechanical computers as well..

1 and 0 gates are just switches. Transistors have many more functions. Amplifiers, drivers, regulators, convertors to name a few.

Unless you can gather spat fall naturally, artificial seawater is the viable option for hatcheries and growing food algae. It's not without it's problems, but it's otherwise easily contained and sterilized. Then juveniles are relayed to a open setting on simple lines suspended from floats for final grow out. Waves perhaps. Sticks, logs, kelp, grass, plastic will push it's breaking strength in currents. Although suggesting lesser nutrients at the surface, fouling organisms are their densest nearest the surface.

I run an aquaculture operation. One of the greatest issues with sea farming or other marine operations, is fouling. Regular cleaning is the single most labor intensity. Chronic fouling gives rise to competition for food and space. Hand scrubbing or mechanical washing exacerbates the issue by causing mass proliferation of species such as tunicates and annelids, some of which are deemed invasive. For that reason, power washing is banned. Waste water and manually scraped material cannot be returned to the water unless it's been treated. Some of the ideas in the OP are theoretically possible, but impractical. The ocean is a dynamic place, with tides, currents, waves and tempestuous weather. Drifting debris, namely rotting or dislodged kelp and grasses entangle gear until it sinks, drags or breaks then otherwise lost at sea. That may be true on the face of it, but at the cost of carbonates which are already low resulting from the effects of acidic pH. Ocean Acidification's impact on oysters and other shellfish CO2 mixed with sea water creates carbonic acid. Harvesting and disposing shell stocks in land fills, gardens etc after marketing removes carbonate from the ecosystem. For every ion of calcium or carbonate that's made available to aquaculture, it subtracts from natural recruitment of numerous other species.

Generally, folks don't send or get invitations for funerals. Invited to speak, yes but almost never to attend. To dis-invite someone demonstrates they were not proud... possibly even ashamed of their association with them in retrospect. Politics sure, but funerals are no place for hypocrisy.

The latter. Palin is a disgrace and an unapologetic Trump supporter/liar. All too often, the VP pick is not the personal choice of the candidate, but decreed by the single greatest campaign contributor.

Not if it incites violence or other uncivil acts. Trump is the news cycle today suggesting violence if the GOP gets a shellac-ING in the fall. Besides that, one would have to be a bigger idiot if they can't find Alex Jones on the internet. Boohoo, evil Googles blocking my INFOWARZ!! What a joke.

Well, he supports free speech, but from a personal responsibility standpoint. Today's Republican has abandoned the personal responsibility part.

Indeed, it's more about rightwingers expecting they have every right to yell fire in theaters.

It's Monday. Google is the enemy d'jour. Tomorrow it will be something or someone else under a lower bar. There's not need to discuss Google itself, because it only distracts from the point that Trump is a psychopath.

Yesterday, FOX News shut down comments on McCain's videos on YouTube. because of vicious comments, most from right wingers about the man. Today in their usual hissy fit, and despite every government building in the country doing so, the White House raised the flag to full mast. Politics aside, it's a sad display for veterans, prisoners of war and the families of the lost. There's no depth to pettiness when it comes to Trump. I'm sure he will loft a few egregious comments during his funeral, so he can steal that thunder too.

Not with Palin in tow. Some would suggest that's the beginning of the end for the US.

For the purposes of air and ground traffic control, aircraft use a transponder to identify aircraft on radar by flight number, altitude and position. Aircraft ID's may be associated to a flight number and position using a wide variety of apps or cross-referenced to arrival/departure/gate info. Likewise, workers in the system (fuel, baggage, food, sanitation etc.) are provided with this information as schedules or work orders. An aircraft ID is highly visible to the extent it needs to be and ought not be needlessly distracted by variable displays.