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Yeah. The fact that the Bush administration is increasing its body count every day is not lost on me either. Culture of life my ass.

Oh wow. I thought your name was taken from The Simpsons. I had no idea. I'll have to check out your papers as soon as I become less of a spaz.

I heard the deal is they sat on it for 24 hours to avoid it being the number 1 topic on the Sunday talk shows. They probably tried to cover it up completely but them being who they are, they didn't execute that well (no pun intended (maybe just a little)). The "cover up" is that Dick didn't call the media to tell them, and the media had no idea anything happened for 24 hours.

Money is fictional, of course it is misapplied and stunts our growth as a species. If I could pick my world, I'd pick one without religion, fiction, or money. I'm into reality.

Maybe this is all because you feel guilty about drinking. I feel no guilt at all and I naturally (without building up) have an abnormally high tolerance for alcohol, especially for someone my size (about 140 pounds). I drink heavily. And although I sleep a short period of time when I'm drunk when I wake up I'm well rested and collected and I've only had a hangover once in my entire life. I think that's because the whiskey I was drinking was cheap so I always reccommend the good stuff when drinking. There was this one time I had this nightmare where I died in a bizarre car accident. My dreams are always very detailed, and long, and I feel things in them so naturally when I woke up I naturally thought I was dead and I didn't know where I was, which was at my friend's place. I was watching her appartment while she ran to New York for a week. The chandeller was lit and it was very intense so I moved quickly and before I knew it was only a dream I was out in the street close to naked in the cold and I had locked myself out. I don't think that had anything to do with my substance abuse that evening, but that's the only reference I can make to a bad dream while drunk. I have hallucenated twice from alcohol (during a 10 month bender). They were both crappy hallucenations of brunettes in raincoats. Explain that to me.

You're brain can stay healthy well in to old age as long as you keep it active and learn new things, and stay healthy. I think if you constantly have sex and keep properly hydrated while eating fresh fruits and vegetables and staying intellectually stimulated while taking an 8 hour break to sleep every night, you'd live a long, wonderful life. But you couldn't smoke.

Everyone tries me to get a myspace, because I thought I was the last one left. I'm so glad Atheist didn't have an account either. I refuse to get one because I'm already surrounded by losers and my life has already been ruined.

Yeah, major sophisticated airwar aimed at eliminating the weaponry of the enemy followed by troop invasion. That's our bag. If leadership is taken into consideration 1940s Germany would smash us today, but only because their leadership was evil and competent where ours is evil and incompetent.

This is why I avoid the politics forum. Nothing valued here has anything to do with truth. It's all just marketing. I'll try to avoid this part of the forum more in the future.

No no. Rest very much assured that the vast majority of those who are real scientists very much see ID as invalid. The ID movement attack is against evolution which very very few scientists disagree with, especially when something as preschool as ID is used as a replacement. Evolution is undeniable and most scientists understand that. Make a note too, that engineers do not count as part of natural scientists, as ID publications like to claim. I love engineering, but it's a very different thing. I also suggest you read the opinion on the Dover Trial. And it has already been established that teaching creationism in schools is unconstitutional (I can't remember the case) and this whole movement has been designed to divorce itself from a Christian God and sneak into schools by allowing a broader definition of a creator than just God. Teaching ID in school is unconstitutional because it's promoting religion in public schools, even though it's trying to be sneaky about it.

I'm from Kansas too. Thank God I'm not in High School now, but I was in High School when this whole mess started brewing around 1998. ID by no stretch of the imagination science, and teaching it is not only a detriment to a person's scientific education (which a person who has accepted ID has signalled to me they are militantly ignorant) but education in general. It's only supported by people who have no reference to science at all and regurgitators of the skewed and misrepresented material the ID groups publish and sell in order to arm their army of idiots with arguments that they don't understand but were misrepresented at them in the first place. You can't test it. It's not falsifiable. And it's based in the supernatural (although the argument can be made that the part that aliens could have created life on Earth is not supernatural, but the possibility of God doing it (which is what this creationist movement in a labcoat is aiming for) all disqualifies it from having any validity whatsoever. So, make the distinction, it's not that it is a radical idea. It is an invalid idea (from a scientific perspective) and can't possibly have anything to do with science. Scientists have tried to goof on this whole mess symbolically with the spahgetti monsterism, and every scientist that I know personally boycotted the mock trial in Topeka because they felt there is nothing to argue, and they're right. As for the support argument, I bet if a poll was taken those who watch The Bachelor, Survivor, and NASCAR also support ID and are the largest part of their group. Behe (a PhD) supports it. I don't know if he's had a stroke, or he's been in a car accident, or he feels he's lived a mediocre life and feels the need to lie to himself and others in order to feel better about himself, or that he'll do anything for a little celebrity. Even if it does make him a boob. Also for the teach the controversy I like to say in response, "I totally agree. And more importantly we also need to kill all the unicorns because unicorn molestation is the leading cause of homosexuality, which is an abomination to God." Some get it, some don't. Watch out, they're aiming for library books now. Did you know that the school board chair has called "Beloved" pornography? That's frightening and it's the brewing campaign.

I have no idea starburg, and I'm not specifically sure at the moment exactly what it even really means. Does it mean that the overall output of color of all the stars works out to kind of a beige, or does it mean that we're kind of in a hole either because we're so small or because of something special about our location in the universe we can't see that if we had more of an overall view of the universe than we do what we'd see when we look out at night would look like kakis instead of darkness?

OH MY GOD. I actually heard this right when it came out (a few years ago). I remember it perfectly. I was very trashed and watching Nightline and Ted Koppel came on and in a bump to commercial said in his little manner, "Scientists have discovered that the color of the universe isn't black, it's more of a beige." Naturally I laughed and laughed and laughed. But I thought about it alot since that day. Then I started to wonder if I had made it up until eventually I came to the conclusion that I must have because something as bizarre as that would definitely have made it onto The Simpsons or something. Thank you so much for bringing this up. I guess it really happened.

From the above I was responding to your statements and not the story. Hey, if that's all good I'm anticipating a PhD in Chemistry from Berkely. I'm updating right now. Thanks.

Nature as in our actual environment instead of our fictional one. We can't make a public policy outlawing gravity or death and expect it to have any affect on either. All we can do is try to understand and cope with it. Science is actually just the process of using natural explainations for phenomena.

There is new metal research that is making alloys (I think a steel mix). But it's different. When you throw it in hot water is snaps immediately back into place. There also making frames for eye glasses out of the same thing. shigg, I wouldn't bend whatever you bend too much. The stress and fatigue will make it snap.

I'd like to point out that Mars is by no stretch of the imagination a vacuum. Next, plants need carbon dioxide to survive. Them without CO2 is like us living with our mothers until the day we die. In a vacuum you'd eliminate all the gas including the CO2 and the plants would be done. A guess a good question would be what plant needs the least CO2 to survive. But, if you are looking to "colonize Mars" AKA use plants to put oxygen in places where there are no CO2, they will not help you. The less CO2 consumed, the less oxygen produced. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. It's a pretty solid law.

I would just like to mention that to imply that science should change with politics is ridiculous. Nature is nondebatable and so science needs to avoid public policies in order to reach their conclusions as accurately as possible. To say it's somewhat justifiable to undermine Evolution and the Big Bang because the people who criticize it won the election is absolutely ridiculous. Evolution is not untrue from 2000-2008, it's true always. If you think it can perhaps you're on the wrong forum entirely.

Looks like Bush planted a flunkie in NASA and changed their policies about talking about global warming and making it clear that the Big Bang is "just a theory". This whole nightmare ended when Texas A&M called NASA and told them they've never heard of the guy, so he resigned. The story here:

Horrible analogy and you're missing my point. When you have the fundamentals and are explaining something less fundamental with fundamentals the explaination then becomes the sum of fundamental explainations, and that will always be more complex because you have more things the deal with.

I like the series. I wish there were more like it today on network TV. I liked the earlier stuff better than the later stuff, he started creeping me out but I'm not sure why.

Remember I'm the one who told you. I'm not about ego, but if you're going to attack me I want you to remember that I'm the one who told you. I don't have to debate or defend my statement because it's as true as nature. If you and I were the only two people left on Earth and we both voted against my statement it would still be true. Sorry. Sorry everybody. Sorry cookiemonster. I lied about that. I don't even know her. I was just fighting fire with fire.

No, time is not limited. And in terms of we exactly, whether it's limited for us is yet to be determined. For you personally, if you drown it's not because you've run out of water, it's because you can't swim.