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this is obviously not true. in fact, einstein HIMSELF said that psuedo-science is just NORMAL science in disguise. giving out a point system for finding psuedo science is even WORSE than the nazi's tracking down and killing all Jews. how many points did that get me?

the ether is not included in the calculation of a vacuum. "space" is a good vacuum, but not a perfect one, like YT2095 said. the only thing that contributes to the calculation of a vacuum is the density of the space in atoms per whaatever interval. the ether is not the only theory out there, and just because einstein thought it was correct doesn't mean it was correct. if there is an ether, then that ether IS space, meaning that more ether would equal to more of a vacuum. P.S. i might be wrong on parts of this, i only know about this what i hear (and logically conclude from what i hear)

no, not for high jump bycicling the legs would only make you more likely to hit the bar <edit> i suppose one bycicle kick would get you a little bit higher, although i have no idea why. maybe it just alighns you more correctly.

no, it would not change, because it was written AFTER the assasination attempt, just like you said. it was writter AFTER the time at which jpat1023 attempted to stop it.

well... it could be completely wrong but what i am saying is that it never changed you might have gone back in time and meant to change it or tried to change it, but you did not succed. if you truly did change it, then you must have misread the history book, because lincon never died. back in the past, you came from the future to save him. also, i suppose if there is a paradox with even this, then we could always look at schroedinger's cat.

i say: if we breed it for the purpose of sacrificing it, then there's no point in not sacrificing it. if we breed it so that it can live, then there's no point in sacrificing it. plain and simple (devil's advocate, my favorite position)

actually, if you trained hard enough you could learn to feel the vibrations the loud noise makes (it would be easier through a medium though) similarily, some blind people have learned how to use echolocation. and a bunch of what we taste comes from our smell. and a bunch of what we smell comes from what we see, hear and feel and many times, what we feel is partially sensed by what we see our skin touching, and what our muscle memory tells us, so we could train ourselves to use those instead of feel. but if we lost two or more senses it would get a lot harder. and i'd bet that we respond to almost all stimuli extremely similarily, but the slight variations and major variations in the stimuli itself add up to big differences.

that's my philosophy on life, but it's a lot more complicated and is just an advanced application of chaos theory. (complicated and just should never be in the same sentance, but it makes sense anyway. it's just simply complicated, complicated in a simple way. this is a different story...) [/b]get rid of "we can't travel to the past..." and you'll be even closer to making a decision. if we could travel to the past, it has already happened, so we wouldn't be changing the present. we wouldn't even be changing the past. all we would be doing is going back to a point in the past and doing what the history books say (no, the history books will not change to include you, they will have already mentioned you before you left, and would have ever since the person wrote the book. again, no, they did not change) and for those who can't understand still (probably a lot of you, since this seems hard for people to understand...). thing of time as a straight piece of string. you go back in time to pull the piece of string so that it has a crook in it. there is already a record of this string having a crook in it. you did not change the record. all you did was carry out the record. if you had not gone back in time, there was not record of that crook because no one went back to crook it. if your illusion of "free will" decides to do it later, even though at the current time you don't think you will ever go back and crook it, there will still be a record of it's crook, because in the future you went to the past to change it. so i guess my illusionary free will story is very much connected... oh well, here it goes, as simple as possible... chaos theory: a little change over time building up to a big change. my theory: infinite changes interconnecting and intereffecting eachother causing all other changes, including the first ones. that explains life (and has occom's razor backing it up to boot!) P.S. i just reread my post, it's probably pretty hard to follow... just keep rereading it and you might be able to fill in the blanks with other parts of the post that don't make sense at fist... maybe... or you just need to do mor philisophical thinking before my poor explaining skills can reach you.

well, there is a disease that makes it look like you age really slowly, but you still age the same.

i thought about it, but only for an hour the day before. . . when i was going to bed. and i woke up past noon (when i would have e-mailed you) so i couldn't really e-mail you, but i didn't really contribute much. . . P.S. a few times i thought from 1 to 6 and accidentally went on to 7, so those 7's in the numbers could be a result of something like that. . . just a thought.

thanks! "Be Happy, Stay well, and stay safe" in this order: you too, i'm sick so i hope i can, umm. . . . . . . . and a happy Hanukah, kwanza, and Winter Solstice, and any other holidays around this time of year.

thanks, ditto, and a happy Quanza, Hanukah, and Winter Solstace and any other holidays around this time to go with it

ah, okay. see, i live in a different time zone,and i have almost no idea about how the UK lottery works. so, how are the numbers picked? the reason i am asking is that if we just imagine the numbers on that little piece of paper, then as soon as you get the lottery ticket, all we are doing is helping those 6 numbers stay on that piece of paper . and if we just imagine the 6 numbers, then they could appear anywhere: 1 package of bread, 2 carrots, 3 potatoes, 4 tomatoes, 5 bananas, and a 6 pack of pepsi. that's not going to help the lottory very much . but if we imagine the numbers being picked, no mistakes can be made.

well, my parents do, and i look at it every once in a while, so i said yes.

yes, but it's not just laziness, it's also that intellectuals aren't very outgoing. and in addition to that, a few intellectuals look and act like nerds or geeks, not entirely attractive. another big thing is rape the bottom of the gene pool forcing their way into the next generation. pitiful. "crappy culture = crappy gene pool." story of the humans.

the poison from poison dart frogs comes from their food though, they don't make it themselves. they condense the poison from the ants they eat, and secrete it through their pores. although, i have no idea if toads make their own toxins or not. P.S. there are some bugs that can freeze too. there is also one microscopic creature that can live through practically anything, the water bear.

here's a :flame:: DAGNABBIT!!! that's wrong! we did not evolve from monkeys! the theory of evolution says that monkeys and humans have a common ancestor, meaning that we evolved from the same thing they evoled from. this in no way says that we evolved from monkeys. get your facts straight! well that was fun, lol

well, count me in too *starts meditating on the numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to appear, in that order, on the UK lottery on the 27th of december.* how exactey do they chose the numbers? that way we from different time zones can imagine those numbers being drawn in that order, as opposed to just being on the ticket.

yeah, i lost a few posts too, a couple of days ago.

i just want to add to the eyesight thing: they could be like "Daredevil." they could hear very well and use echolocation to imagine things in 3d. or, yes, they could feel very well, but that seems to me like it would be hard unless you could feel beyond your skin (like hair with nerves extending a long distance or something). oh, and i agree with Rasori with everything

well, there are some reptiles that give birth to live young, and like you said, they incubate the eggs inside their bodies. so i agree there i have no idea if you are right about the nocturnal/warm blood thing, but it makes sense. also, hair probably evolved from scales somehow... probably also to keep warm. it was probably actually a big leap from scales to hair, since small steps would be very inefficient, but i wish i knew exactly what could have happened.

yes, extremely good. though i wasn't able to pay 100 % attention to it since some kids were talking loudly through a small part of the movie. when someone said "shhhh!" they responded with "you be quiet." (stupid kids) then water started leaking behind the screen, making a very loud dripping sound... but it was very good, and like sayonara said, the action was very well paced

i could swear i replied to this earlier today... oh well. i realised that i was thinking of ball lightnings here's a site about plasma balls/ball lightnings here's a site selling "plasma balls" and here's a news article about it. <edit> i just remembered, i did post here already today. i specifically remember editing it 3 times as i found those 3 sites off of a search engine. i wonder why my post was deleted.... and i posted on the "Return of the king" thread too, and my post isn't there now... hmm....

the people that win darwin awards for the good of humanity i'm fine with that, i watch a lot of TV, though i much prefer new video games, things that actually make you think to solve puzzles and stuff. and of course, there are always newspapers and television channels that are also interested in teaching things ("Discovery channel" for example). a.k.a: "wisdom"and i agree that love can accomplish it, but lust only degrades it by confusing the two. i'm tempted to play "devil's advocate" here and say that people are who they are, and can only change if they truly want to, which most don't. my personal phylosophy is that how stupid someone is is a factor of how easily panicked they become, and their ability to see the big picture. some people blame video games, or South Park, or Marylin Manson for violence, but that's as stupid as it gets. these people are so stupid, they can't even see the medium sized picture of those things. all they see is "violence and bad language! oh my god! this is teaching people that violence and bad language is good! this is the devils work, and it will ruin humanity!" when in reality, video games, South Park, and Marylin Manson teach people the exact opposite of that. video games are about fighting for a reason, a reason worth fighting for. "South Park" has a moral at the end of every single episode. sure, "South Park" makes fun of specific races and cultures, but these people can't see that it's just fun, and anyone with half a brain wouldn't care about the jokes (especially the specific races and cultures). Marylin Manson sings about sex, drugs and violence, but would never ever sing about how good they are (i haven't actually listened to any of his songs, but all interviews i read said that the message he is trying to convey is how bad the things are). these people panick when they see things like this, and then they go on a riot and do drugs, sex, and violence. these stupid people are incapable of seeing the big picture of anything, and will never learn how to do so unless forced to listen to someone smart for once. i wish i was just playing devil's advocate here, but i'm not. the more i type about this, the more i get mad at people like this, so i will convey this thusly: they should all try to win darwin awards.:owned: honestly, i hope genetic engineering comes around, and someone finds the smart gene. then maybe we will be rid of stupidity once and for all. P.S. my sig is currently an example of a fun joke. it means absolutely nothing about anyone, and was something my teacher said to another class the monday before finals. the story is: he likes us AP Bio kids more than the Physio kids, and everyone knows it, especially him, so he said this to the Physiology kids just for fun. one kid in my class always picks on certain races, knowingly, and we all know that it is just for fun and that he doesn't actually mean anything. and in return we pick on him just for fun, but we all know that we don't mean anything either. my AP Bio class is only smart kids, and the best teacher EVER!!! who are smart enough to not care. if any of the stupid types of people were in that class, they would probably sue and cause a lot of violence or something, because they wouldn't be able to realise that none of our mean jokes are actually mean to anyone. that is, of course, if my teacher didn't kick them out of class first for starting said violence. P.P.S. i hope this post didn't offend anyone, because that was not at all my intent. P.P.P.S. if this did offend you, and you did, in fact, read my post, then ummm...... ;) hint, hint :owned:, lol

yes! try to think, "i am god, everyone else is wrong." then switch perspectives and think the same thing. try to imagine what each individual consequence would look like from one perspective, affecting everything else. then switch perspectives, make everything back to normal, and imagine the same thing on the first perspective.