StringJunky

Minimum Energy expenditure, highest energy storage density and structural stability. Sometimes Nature does end up with the most efficient strategy.

We can all fart rainbows, without evidence, 'til the unicorns come home.

Merry Xmas.

It's how you live with what you've got that matters most.

Mental Illness + Firearms = Petrol + Matches

Thinking outside the box means discovering new correlations within what is already known.

No one is under any obligation to help keep your pet idea alive. The contrary response is normal from this kind of community..

Time is what clocks measure... everything else is philosophy. Let's agonise over the ontology of distance instead and see if we get any further.

It's easier to shoot than run after someone after just having lunch at Maccies.

Not so subtle then.

Is there hints of pareidolia in the OP?

I think B and W's solution to the rear energy problem is the most elegant; tuned lengths and compression to dissipate the energy. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrbTpjEXllGkgg1BA4qCNqTTeOX8rweQNH6hqhXcIrE9RzT3EUjM92nwQ

Found a higher qualilty version; link changed.

Genesis live from Seventies

I think it is a chess game and pertinent to my previous comment... gotta think twice before moving.

I like to see off-the-cuff reactions, as well as thoughtful ones... if we all agreed, we'd have no conversation. My first thought was what Turkey did (from my omnipresent computer) was triple facepalm material... not sensitive to the evolving dynamics of this quite fraught scenario. What's right one day is totally wrong on another; timing is everything.

Yes, just like that. You could also do a Saint of the Month banner for the person that stays the coolest the longest when dealing with creationists.

PDF direct download link; http://www.devon.gov.uk/geo-permianbrecciassandstonesandvolcanics.pdf

I see this site as 'in the trenches' and, so, we have no choice, if we are to disseminate the Scientific Word; how can we hope to enlighten if we turn away and ridicule those we desire to re-educate? We do need some clear lines of arbitration; what we will not put up with.

There's only one religion, science, and the only true way to investigate the world is with the scientific method. Amen!

It's true.... it is a basic tenet. PP is speculating.

My grandad knew Barnes Wallis. He used have a house at the gates of the RAF base where my grandad was stationed... Wallis was retired at the time.

There is no such thing as 'absolute' rest; it's always relative to some object i.e. moving in the same direction with the same speed. Also, from the position of the observer, moving inertially (constantly), he is always at rest.

Things I've seen mentioned are: i) Reduction in the overall consumption of red meat ii) pthaalates used in plastics to make them soft can mimic endocrine products, like female hormones. I don't see overall loss of masculinity, I see men freeing themselves of cultural expectations and being who they really are. Gender identity is not purely binary; male or female... there are degrees between the two..

Dense is a relative expression; dense as in denser at time zero than later on. Time is relative to something, so, if the universe was causally connected, then there is no other object to relate it to. It's only when space manifests then each part of the universe becomes distinct and the time for photon exchange becomes a potentially measurable property