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If we are doing it for the benefit of the Earth then perhaps we should also include the handicapped and people who have a BMI > 18%. I'm sure we can come up with others with a little thought.
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I think the most likely scenario for achieving FTL travel is for the laws of physics to change. Short of that I am unaware of any circumstance in which you can accelerate a spacecraft to the speed of light or greater.
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That is the reason women have trouble in STEM careers. Men are always misleading them on measurements.
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Theoretical relations with us and us being extraterestrial
zapatos replied to RookieScienceTheorist's topic in Earth Science
My first thought is that must be the longest sentence I've ever read. Whew! That is a rather specific scenario. What makes you think it happened that way? -
What is a joke? I missed it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon
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Just because you don't witness god doesn't mean he isn't there.
zapatos replied to MrAndrew1337's topic in Religion
I'm confused. I thought you were using the Wizard of Oz as an analogy to the path followed to find the truth about God. -
I really enjoyed this piece. Well done! Who plays the instruments in your pieces?
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Just because you don't witness god doesn't mean he isn't there.
zapatos replied to MrAndrew1337's topic in Religion
Good point. Unfortunately too many forget that they themselves once followed that path, and are quick to ridicule those who have not, or cannot, complete the path themselves. -
Just because you don't witness god doesn't mean he isn't there.
zapatos replied to MrAndrew1337's topic in Religion
Not exactly. God, and presumably unicorns, would be supernatural whereas aliens would be natural. Therefore the arguments regarding aliens can at least be made from a scientific perspective while arguments about gods and unicorns cannot. You concluded correctly that there is (roughly) equivalent argumentation against both gods and unicorns. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is valid. As an example, it is not reasonable to assume there are no aliens simply because we have no evidence of aliens. -
Just because you don't witness god doesn't mean he isn't there.
zapatos replied to MrAndrew1337's topic in Religion
You asked a Yes/No question, to which Itoero responded "yes". So yes, it was an answer to a question you stated. As a bonus, he then went on to provide his reasoning. It seems like you are going to have a duel whether Itoero participates or not. -
The following... "And black holes are invisible, and they move through space, and their speed is like the light of the speed, So we can say that they run through space, and they sweep" ...is not a valid argument for the assertion that the Quran is referencing black holes.
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Black holes do not travel at the speed of light.
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A 10gb file. You really didn't know that? And if what is? Data compression. Now would you mind answering my questions?
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Why do you have to save space? What part of your process has a limit on size? Why is it cheaper to send a small box? The amount of matter you have to send remains constant whether you send a small box or a large one. I also wonder how "cheap" it is going to be to dismantle something down to the atomic level and put it back together again. I recently bought a car made in Japan and they did not take it apart before sending it to the US so that it would fit in a smaller container. I suspect it would be cheaper to rebuild your package based on locally sourced atoms rather than to ship all the atoms to the new location.
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I fail to see the benefit of breaking it down if we are only going to send the same individual components and put them back together again. Why not send the package intact? When I make a sandwich in the morning to eat later that day for lunch, before I leave I don't separate the bread, mustard, turkey, tomato and lettuce, then take the components to work and put them back together again. I just bring the whole sandwich.
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So sorry! Hope my delay did not cause you any gastrointestinal distress! I swirled the water above a stack of plates and observed the top one quickly rising to the surface once I got the water moving fast enough. Prior to liftoff the entire stack of about five plates started rotating with the water. That was interesting. Did the water movement decrease the pressure on the top plate? I tried clean plates and dirty plates, with and without soap, and put them into the sink singly and as a stack. Generally speaking what I observed was that when the plates nested well (no food particles or irregularities in the plates), they stuck together whether submerged or if I first removed the stack from the sink. When I tried to separate them when submerged I found it was fairly easy to separate with little force if I did so very slowly. Once a stack of plates was removed from the water, the adhesion was noticeably stronger. At one point I lifted two plates by gripping the edge of the top plate only with my fingernails. The bottom plate stuck until I pried it apart. On a separate note, my wife now believes I'm OCD (or a bit of a nerd) for washing clean plates.
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Which is fine. But then we are talking about something other than what most people think of as Rights, and certainly not a Right from the perspective of what you see in Constitutions.
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Why can't rights be where? If they aren't on a piece of paper or somewhere similar, and if they aren't being enforced, in what way do they truly exist?
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I agree. To me the idea that rights are "just there" sounds too much like they were granted by a benevolent being.
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Given that government legislators can pass amendments, I think that is a matter of interpretation. It is true that the people vote in the legislators, but the legislators don't necessarily act as their constituents wish. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/ratification.html
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Unfortunately, no. It is not obvious to a great number of people.
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We are clearly drifting quite far from the OP. The reason I mentioned this is that the OP was concerned about radio-pharmaceutical contamination in a lab and if that exposed him to dangers. I was just pointing out that the half life for these type uses is typically quite short, which is to be expected as it is being injected into the body. In my brother's case, these are used for diagnostics and delaying a test is not necessarily the same thing as delaying treatment.
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Agreed. How often do you really need to deal with something like a volcano?