Radical Edward

I agree that we don't know enough to say it ends there, I am just trying to dispel the myth that it has to actually go somewhere - at least as far as we know.

as you can see, I have deemed this sig material

that could explain the sharp pain in my head on saturday morning.... that or the beer.

unless you are talking philosophy or humanities. I did a course on 'scientific writing' and most of what the people who studied scientific writing said, could be collapsed from 2 sides to a paragraph without much effort.

3 days to go before it becomes partially visible... I'm scared I wanna go home etc etc...

shouldn't we be suffering a bit cos of adams planet yet?

filling someones intestines with boiling water kills them.... ...... no sh*t sherlock. some of the data may have been useful. not so sure about now though. regardless of how it was obtained, it is now data, and can be used. I don't see why not. Anti-abortionists don't refuse vaccinations even though some of those were developed with the use of aborted foetuses.

how about Adamesque?

don't expect too much from him

I saw a very simple program based on this... essentially it was an evolutionary program that had these little creatures that ate resources, and wandered round according to some rules. if you had a low limit on the population, the behaviour was randome, but if you increased the limit, they all developed into waves of these little things that walked up the length of the screen. it was quite interesting to see.

unambitious, closeminded, nearsighted... there is a whole ream of ways to condense this paragraph to one or two words

what about the settlements?

is that just a manifestation of the simpler experiemnt that can be performed by poking a slug/snail in the eye until it just gives up trying to retract its eye?

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Exactly; it's obvious that this one is

I am starting to feel a bit irrelevant... I'm made of almost nothing of almost nothing.

I think you would have more luck describing an experiment that shows the discrete nature of an electron (milikans oil drop experiment, or Thompsons experiement) and then show the wave nature (interference experiments based on Youngs Slits) I could explain them in detail. however sadly I'm going to tell you that Google knows all

the wormhole thing is a topological argument like bending a rubber sheet over, poking a hole in it, and then connecting it to the sheet underneath. the same can also be done for a 3D space bent in 4D. my point was that the hole doesn't nescessarily go anywhere, though in fact, it does. it ends at the singularity.

supermassive black holes don't need supernovae to form. stick in the numbers and it turns out that the density required to form a supermassive hole is actually very low. oh, and the counterclockwise thing is also pointless on accoun of the fact that coordinate systems are arbitrary, and you can look at the galaxy spinning from either side. our neighbour, Andromeda is an awful long way away. I don't think it is heading in this direction either.

oh definitely. he's a speed typer don't you know... >100 words/min

I thought the flavours were up down charm and peppermint I went for top. I figure that if I had more top quarks me gf would complain less about me being underweight

That's what MrL was getting at

when is it you use "...and I" then?

I have always been interested in everything, and was known for asking questions about anything and everything... rainbows, generators, the lot... I have constantly had a craving for knowledge. Science I guess comes from watching the Open university when I was about 2 or 3.

I can find that in Halabja alone.