aman

The world of reality existed when we were all animals running around the Earth at the mercy of natural circumstances. When we developed higher reason, we had the capability to dream, question, and change reality. Now reality has as much to do with us as it does with nature. It's kind of hard to prove something that seems shared by some intelligent people when it's not shared by idiots and defective minds across the spectrum. Just aman

It's because Bush didn't bomb women and children that Saddam is still in power. He could have tore Bagdad up but didn't. Bush 2 got stuck with a democrat congress the first 2 years and a house of cards surplus. Clintons economy wasn't stronger than the lies it was built on. Just aman

The edge of the universe seems to be universally less dense than the 3 degree background radiation from the expanding big bang. Otherwise it wouldn't be uniform in all directions as the edge travels into the void. Just aman

This site says that spce cameras have been capturing UFOs for quite a while. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/euroseti.htm They have a lecture you can download, about 1/2 hour if you watch it and the photos are kind of grainy. It's interesting. Just aman

The big Clinton surplus was monopoly money printed in imaginary accounting books and it all unraveled when Bush took office. Now our country is back to an honest economy to build with even though it is painful to finally address the problems. Jerry Springer has already sold his self respect in too many instances to be a credible representative. Just aman

There's a tribe in Africa that can be traced as our earliest common starting point and it's people are very unusual because of all their diverse racial characteristics. All are dark skin but some could be Chinese, American Indian, or even very tan caucasions. They still are nomads and speak with a clicking language. There was a special on NOVA last week about it. Just aman

If the US steps back and lets the UN handle anything I've listed, then nothing will be handled. The UN has no power. Just aman

All we have to do is take our helmet off and sneeze. Instant bioweapon and their all dead. One small fart should cover a square mile in the thin atmosphere. We are going to be sources of all sorts of contamination. Just aman

Iraq is not the only problem. It is the priority because of its potential danger. Remember 1 tbsp of Anthrax closing buildings up to congressional offices for over a year and then then think of saddam with hundreds of liters as just one example. We still have to keep India and Pakistan from nuking each other, North Korea contained, try for peace in Israel and Palestine, and then we are just getting started finally with the continent of Africa. It sucks but we are our brothers keeper. We can't do anything from a postition of weakness, cus that's just the way the world is. Just aman

I hope it's not true. They may look like perfect kids now but who knows what is in their future. I've had friends with progeria and enzyme disorders from natural births and it's very sad. To know that their chances of problems like these are probable makes this cloning criminal at this time. I just hope they are born really really lucky. They'll need it. Just aman

The nukes are what put the reigns on Stalin after WW11. Since then they actually have kept the peace between the superpowers of the past 60 yrs. I don't think we could have stayed out of war again without them. Just aman

I think grief is different from depression. Maybe levels of grief are natural but depression could be unnatural. There are some people who are constantly in an upbeat state from waking to sleep, like me, except when I'm grumpy cus I'm old. A person can't avoid grief but should be able to avoid depression by maintaining a healthy mind. Just aman

I saw a Guatemalen soldier who accidently discharged his machine gun on a packed bus. I saw a Colombian security guard fire a warning shot into a concrete floor in a crowded market. Dangerous is stupid people with weapons. Just aman

Posted in the Theoretical Physics Forum, Dr. Strangelove has an interesting paper (A Unification Theory) that has a different slant on what travel to the past would be like. On page 21 of his summary he has a section on quantum mechanics, it's only a page long but I don't want to copy it, I'm old and your young. If you go read it, you may find it very interesting too. Just aman

All we need on the moon is to build a big underground cave, make it airtight, and fetch some of the H2O from the craters to generate O2 to fill the air space. It really is going to be pretty easy to start commercially developing it in the near future. Solar power, mineral resources, low gravity, and ice. A mining engineers dream shopping list. We just need to turn the space station into a heavy equipment factory to build a couple lunar back hoes and dozers. Just aman

People with brain injuries who can no longer speak a word can sometimes here familiar music and sing the lyrics perfectly. Speech is on the opposite side of the brain from music and music is used in therapy to try to reconnect the speech areas. Music might be good for survival cus music sure makes it nice to be alive. Just aman

If the Palestinians could get rid of Arafat and get decent leadership, there might finally be peace. The peoples have gotten along before. Remember what 1 spoon of anthrax did to the US for months. Imagine kilos and then try to think of saddam as somebody we can just give more and more time. He needs to be removed yesterday. Just aman

If cloning were perfected. Anybody cloned today, if given a proper prenatal and post-natal supply of nutrients would be superior to an original which missed some of these during growth. Also a pre-knowledge of any defects could be addressed and corrected. As far as soul, the potentials can only be speculation until some facts come in the future. I still like diversity. Let nature keep trying to improve us rather than stopping with any specific dead end. Since cloning isn't perfected it should be criminal to attempt it now. Just my opinion. Just aman

I don't think he'd do it. He'd just give the nukes to terrorists and let them do it. Just aman

Bush needs to dump some money into some big aerospace contracts or our engineers will be on unemployment. It will be good for the economy in general. I say we'll do it. Just aman

I don't think Bush could understand much of what is here but he could probably get a decent science adviser from the group. I could nominate a few and vominate a few others for the job. Just aman

Science education involves how to gather good data and progress to working ideas. Adam does'nt need data and skips to the ideas so I guess the forum wouldn't work for him. Adam can skip my opinion because he has already said I don't know anything. Just aman

Raiders have some ex-Nebraska Cornhuskers on their team. That sews up their win. Just aman

I saw a program on the coelocanth that might have a connection to remote viewing. The coelocanth had very primative pre-lungs, pre-heart, vena cava, pre-legs, and a gelatin mass in its head which is now suspected to be some sort of electrical field sensor. All of these evolved in the human to what we have now except for this electrical field sensor, maybe? We still don't understand all the relative functions of the brain yet and maybe this sense could have evolved also to give us a sense of things outside of our general area. Just for thought. Just aman

Now the definition of pain is moving into the brain and maybe a scan of the area active during actual suffering would show when pain is experienced or overridden. As far as the reflex arc, it seems to happen in preparation for pain since it is short-cut back to the injury site from the spinal cord while the actual pain information continues on to the brain. Just aman