insane_alien

well, regardless of your definition of morning star (though it IS venus if you ask any astronomer) this still doesn't affect the fact that you keep dodging issues we bring up with the hypothesis that the great red spot of jupiter is the eye of horus. so answer us these questions(at the very least) to our satisfaction. 1/ how were the egyptians able to observe such a spot while lacking sufficient quality optics? 2/ how do you know the great red spot was even existant then? 3/ why does all the mythos and resemblance point more towards the eye of horus being the eye of a falcon? 4/ why do you think #3 is impossible?

eh?do you even know what you said there? you do realise we have historical records of the length of day from tree growth patterns right? they say the length of say was NOT significantly different from what it is today. JohnB has more credentials than you do. the morning star is venus by the way, not jupiter. this is because it always apprears close to the sun(just before dawn or just after sunset) and is very bright. jupiter is not called such as it can be seen at midnight(depending on planetary positions and so forth). you also still need to address how they could have seen the red spot anyway. you are the one making the claim, you provide evidence.

what does this have to do with the eye of horus resembilng the great red spot? in the chart there is a poor correlation with earthquakes and the rest. for the mechanism of how earthquakes change the rotational speed of the earth, its called angular momentum.

well, for one that picture is nowhere near to scale. and we do have a very distinct definition of a brown dwarf. 13-80 jupiter masses is required for it to be classed as a brown dwarf and jupiter has a mass of 1 jupiter mass(funnily enough). also, brown dwarfs are typically capable of sustaining deuterium fusion. jupiter is not(this is related to the low mass). also, with the earthquake thing, you need to realise that only the most massive earthquakes have a measurable change in rotational speeds of the earth and the change is quite evenly distributed as you have pretty much the same numebr of quakes pushing mass up as you get quakes bringing mass down. the tidal forces of the moon play a bigger role. and even then the difference over the time period is perhaps a single minute.

me either. luckily i don't browse the web often from my phone.

well, the egyptians certainly had lenses. but what they didn't have were good lenses. even if they did make the leap of holding two in line its doubtful that they would have been able to determine a spot on jupiter. perhaps be able to determine that it is not a point but rather a disk in appearance but no more than that. there would have been all sorts of spherical abberations, impurities andcloudiness going on. good enough to use as a magnifying glass for reading or examining things, but no good for telescopic purposes. this is the major reason telescopes didn't really get started until gallileo. lenses just weren't good enough until then.

decided to try accessing the site from my mobile. turns out that orange thinks its a porn site and that i shouldn't be able to access porn sites for some reason.

as i've said before, i miss the indicator for whether you've read the post or not. i'd have that back and thats really about it.

to be honest, i've never seen the point in the 'man laws' of bathroom etiquette. and besides, i thought the space rule only applied to urinals. anyway, i don't really give a crap about them. i'll use whichever's free. it's not wanting to sit close to anyone, its just figuring that the other person taking a dump is adult enough to be able to handle the fact that other people need to take a dump/slash too. man up and stop caring about it.

possibly a silly answer here, but couldn't you just buy a tape measure with inches on it and cut it to the appropriate lengths? or better yet(though more work) use it to machine a rod of metal to have the appropriate dimensions?

damn. i guess i'll have to adapt then. i didn't realise how much i used it till it was taken away.

he's hawaiian. he has the birth certificate to prove it too. also, there isn't anything unconstitutional about the healthcare bill. this has been covered, there ain't anything wrong with his eligibility.

no, i found that one. i mean in the thread itself. i don't have any images which would make this easy but there was a little marker that looked a bit like a post-it note on the bar at the top of the post with the user name that would be either orange(the post was made since the last time you logged on) or pale blue(its older than that). it's handy for finding where you left a thread.

a bathtub should work too, or failing that a sink.

there seems to no longer be a clear indicator of which posts you've read and which are new(the little orange bit on posts at the end of a thread) it'd be handy if you brought those over. also, i used to have threads set up to view as 100 or so posts per page instead of 10. not sure how you change that here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection its heat transfer yes, but it also involves the movement of a fluid. as for measurement, of course no direct observation can be made as we cannot get down to the mantle, but the observations of hot-spot vulcanism(hawaii is the best example of this) and seismic data as well as simple physical principles on the behavious of fluids when there is a temperature gradient.

yeah, there are so many factions of christianity that there have been cases of christian extremists attacking other christian extremeists.

i know perfectly well what convection is, far more than you seem to. especially as i have to deal with it on a day to day basis in my job. the mantle circulates, there are plumes and sinks. not only are these predicted, but they have been mesured. so the mantle is moving, as it's moving, it exherts drag. (is it just me or is there a bit of deja vu around here) just because there are different layers doesn't mean that there isn't any movement. espetially as the crust is a solid.(hmm, more deja vu) give it up gm, you're talking crap and you know it. nobody can be this dumb.

yes, i know he doesn't care. but its not going to stop me attempting to make him care. exercises in futility can be good for the soul.

how many times do we need to say it, the mantle is not magma. and you're the one ignoring facts.

this isn't in dispute, where have we suggested otherwise? i suggest you look up convection. a much studied area of fluid dynamics. not to mention we can measure it moving which means the situation is moot, it exherts viscous drag on the crust or physics doesn't exist. actually, the earth sciences do not require constant forces, they realise and take into account that the forces will change with time and expect it. what you said there is just false. and you are showing no consideration of timescale either. just because they're not jittering around and changing direction completely every few minutes doesn't mean that they are static. timescales for geologic processes are typically in the millions to billions of years. eh? all of science is built on well-observed facts. well observed facts contradict a geo-centric viewpoint for variety of reasons even without an outside perspective.

just nature.