Sayonara

YT is such a party pooper

This thread has been dead for over a year. Kinda makes the ranting twice as useless, doesn't it?

It's an ongoing process. The Earth is not completely static. Movement and change alone DO NOT DENOTE LIFE.

Still not feeling that you really understand how to provide an alternative theory.

I won't pretend that it didn't help.

jsispat, I still don't think you understand how this works: If you are going to suggest that the Earth is alive, or has a cellular structure, it is up to YOU to provide an explanation as to how its mechanisms work, it is up to YOU to show how the observed evidence supports the theory, and it is up to YOU to show how this theory is better than the current one.

That's not how it works. The Earth being alive is your crackpot theory, you have to provide the evidence for it. This does not mean pictures of sap leaking from a tree or bits of rock that look like acne.

I am pretty sure that this force, if it exists, will only be present when the ships are very close together (i.e. not more than a few meters).

I suppose I phrased that rather badly. I mean it in the sense that Heinlein stepped back and allowed the reader to imagine the shortcomings of the system of governance for themselves, rather than that he explicitly laid it out in the text.

Compelling as an idea, or as a solution? Given that the novel mainly explores the shortcomings of the system...

Pfft, Batman has made more illicit improvised explosive devices than YT. Probably.

Disappointing.

The same way NDIS wrapper lets you use a Windows driver under Linux.

It's a serious issue.

I vote Batman.

Posted by you in another thread: It's a solid plan.

Oh ffs.

I think they are proposing that a new card be added to the standard Tarot deck, called the Ghost of Singularities.

"To me this looks like..." is never the beginning of a good hypothesis.

It does a little bit, but if you try to explain "earth growth" just with that you are going to be out by many orders of magnitude. Unless you count accretion in a protoplanetary disc. Oh wait...

So basically, what you are saying is that all you have is an argument from incredulity, and you can't provide any explanation for your alternative idea.

The fiend!

So basically, what you're saying is: Kenneth Miller can't be trusted to keep people's personal information safe.

No and no. No. Show mechanisms and evidence for them, then you get promoted to "maybe".

I was doing a BSc in computing, but had to drop it as my training course in the police includes its own internal work plus a foundation degree, so it wasn't feasible to study externally for the next two years. The OU courses are modular though, so I was able to use the credits I had already earned to get a lesser certification