Radical Edward

1) by random chance, certainly, but it would take a while. life is thought to have come about via RNA first though, not DNA. 2) because if it doesn't it dies out and something that does 'want' to reproduce carries on a genetic line of other things that want to reproduce. for somple organisms though, reproduction is a more mechanical process. desire doesn't come into it.

if you travel at c you get unpleasent infinities in the lorentz transforms.

however they like. It is well known that boys tend to drift towards boys toys, and girls do the same, right from a very young age. I see no real reason why children should be forced to fit some sexual stereotype based on what is between their legs; at the end of the day, as paraphrased from a novel by Iain M Banks "It's brains that matter kids, gonads are hardly worth making a fuss over"

anywhere in the universe? or just earth, given the constituents and early atmospheric conditions

you have discounted that fact that altruism is part of human nature.

furthermore, there probably isn't just one way in which it could come about. re: seeding. while life would still have had to come about somewhere, seeding would mean that there is alot more stuff for life to come about it, and alot more time for it to happen in, again increasing the probability.

it was quantum and it was Feynman, if I recall correctly.

Kleinfelters... or is that another one?

again, the "liberalism" has other connotations that don't nescessarily apply, and would stop alot of people from reading it. For example, I am pretty liberal, but at the same time I think that political correctness applied in copious doses is actually damaging.

anything to do with harmonic motion is good, because you can represent sin(blah) with e(blah) saving wodges of time when integrating differentiating and so on.

it does seem to have wandered off at a tangent.... but in my defence: It wasn't me, it was the one armed man!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2889127.stm The magnetic field appears to be behaving rather strangely at the moment, though from comments in this report, magnetic field flips which occur every 250k years or so don't appear to have any major impact on life..... of course it could be the myterious and infamous planet X having its influence, but I wouldn't count on it.

excellent plan. however who designs the test?

never is rather absolute. If the person in control, has the interests of the society and future at heart, then what ultimately is the point of democracy? The vast majority of peoples day-to-day lives does not change regardless of the government in power (can you really say there is any massive change in what you do during the day between now and under clinton? I suspect not alot) but by various events, that at large, are not controllable by government - such as september 11th, Enron and so on. Granted governmnet policy will influence it, but having a changing government every 5 years is, if anything, counterproductive, since a good few years of each governments reign will be spent undoing the work of the previous government (such as all the time in the UK spent removing things like the minimum wage, and NHS controls by the tories,m only to have Labour put them back again when they got in power)

explain string theory to a bunch of 13 year olds? here's some advice: "don't"

where was this inferred? if anything, quite the opposite since you said: you have implied that there are other arguments against it, and have at no point said that people with a more reasoned line of argument stand a chance of not being a hypocrite.

no need to apologise it's an odd name anyway, I thought you might just have typed it phonetically or something.

please try not to be too naiive. The US interest in Iraq is not as altruistic as some would have you believe. the first round of contracts for reconstruction (a billion dollars worth) were only given to US companies. the aid distribution contract has been given to a US company. US companies have their eye on the lucrative grain contracts, that if given to them, would cost Australia (one of the willing) hundreds of millions of dollars. It is only with pressure from the UK and other allies that the US is giving in a little and might allow other coalition countries to bid for some of these contracts. futhermore, your slating of france is unwarranted. please don't allow these debates to descend to that kind of level. people only start getting upset, and then personal insults start flying, which is not good for anyone, and definitely not constructive in putting ones point across.

here is a few thousand more: "Saddam Hussein's record of brutally suppressing even mild dissent is well-known. When the March 1991 uprising confronted his regime with the most serious internal challenge it had ever faced, government forces responded with atrocities on a predictably massive scale. The human rights repercussions continue to be felt throughout the country. In their attempts to retake cities, and after consolidating control, loyalist forces killed thousands of unarmed civilians by firing indiscriminately into residential areas; executing young people on the streets, in homes and in hospitals; rounding up suspects, especially young men, during house-to-house searches, and arresting them without charge or shooting them en masse; and using helicopters to attack unarmed civilians as they fled the cities." http://www.hrw.org/reports/1992/Iraq926.htm do you really need me to carry on?

it is Edmund and blackadder is comedy genius at its absolute finest. right up there with a few choice episodes of Red Dwarf. us brits have all the best comedy.

first subtitle, second title. or am I being awkward?

indeed: "... Appearing as a smudge of light to the naked eye in the constellation Andromeda, this galaxy is about twice as big as the Milky Way but very similar in many ways. At the moment it is about 2.2 million light years away from us but the gap is closing at 500000 km/hour. Andromeda is the only big spiral galaxy galaxy moving towards the Milky Way and the best explanation is that the Milky Way and Andromeda are in fact a bound pair of galaxies in orbit around one another. Both galaxies are thought to have formed close to each other shortly after the Big Bang initially moving apart with the overall expansion of the universe. But since they are bound to one another, they are now falling back back together and one very plausible scenario puts them on a collision course in 3 billion years. ..." source: http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/AGN.html the rest of what you said was still nonsensical though

who knows. physics appears somewhat undefinied at the singularity, apart from that it appears to be the end of space and time.

that was really aimed at bunnies4ever, not that he will be posting egain by the looks.

has faf had his post count reduced cos of spamming?