Sayonara

I think you think you're Morpheus (the crap one, not the classical one.) That's just stupid. His diaphragm is spasming, not his concentration. Use my suggestion. It has the distinct advantage of actually working.

You do not have a 128% efficient design: you have bad maths.

None, and never.

Like Blike said, we don't need to do this again. Please use the search function. Also, first post is a blatant emotion-jerker, probably being spammed everywhere: http://www.prwatch.org/forum/showthread.php?p=12454

Well, this is true. But things don't tend to be governed by rules that directly oppose their fundamental nature.

The movie was ambitious at the time, to say the least. Try reading the book (it's based on the screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, which was in turn based on Clarke's short "The Sentinel". It makes a lot more sense than the film does, because the film avoids pandering to the thickest viewers like the current "have characters point and explain" crop do.)

Get a straw, and drink half a litre of any still drink while plugging your ears with your fingers.

No*, but I've picked up a book. * Actually it's perfectly possible that we all have. Or rather, a wormhole has been in us.

One day, in the distant future, scientists will resurrect creationists using DNA recovered from fossils. Then everyone will be able to keep miniature ones as pets, to intrigue and entertain the whole family.

Kind of. It also means "twisted back on itself". Like your oblique abdominals.

Those tweaks are from Mozilla's Firefox support forum, unsurprisingly. I suggest going straight there for advice on modifying firefox.

The point of using a wormhole is that it sidesteps those laws by creating a predeterministic effect->cause relationship between the mouths.

As a control, presumably.

Like most forum features you (pl) demand we explain, it's part of the way vBulletin works.

scienceforumsdotnetite. Then there will be decades of argument over whether it's pronounced 'scienceforums-dotneetite', or scienceforumsdot-nettite'.

Or into the future with a fast high-orbit plane.

It might bounce off venus and come back.

Apparently you don't need to carry on asking questions then.

Yes, you can.

You aren't going to turn that into a gaming platform for $200 CAD. Although you can get a decent processor for that price, I'm going to bet that you'll need a new motherboard to go with it. Also a 512Mb DDRAM stick on its own will cost about $100 CAD, and you could do with a couple of those if you want to play the latest games.

An on-topic comment directly related to and affecting the discussion in hand, pointing out to Jacques one of the reasons he has not got the replies he had hoped for, in direct response to his questioning of said lack of responses. So, mind telling me why you are the thought police all of a sudden?

Yes. However that doesn't really mean anything, other than the fact that you need to start by defining a new framework of 'everything', without knowing what that everything comprises. In what way exactly did my "it doesn't really need an explanation" reply suggest to you that I was trying to answer that question?

Actually, I did not say "why do we need one?". That implies subscription to the belief that there is no answer, or at best apathy towards the question, neither of which are attributes I have. I said the big bang didn't really need an explanation. Assuming we believe it happened, that's all we really need to know as far as the rest of the universe goes. Insofar as we understand the universe, what happened after point zero was independent of what happened before it. This lack of explanation is not unique to physics - there is no science that describes events outside this universe. Obviously that doesn't mean that there wasn't 'a cause'. The creationist approach would be to suggest some made-up explanation, surely?

I didn't say it was outside the scope of our understanding; I said it was outside the scope of what physics aims to describe. Saying "creationists make invalid claims too" doesn't really refute what I said.

I see - that makes sense.