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What a pity! A couple of times I looked at his philosophy and thought, this guy may have a point??? Well, once I thought I had no peers. "WRONG"!

I can go there! but only in nostaljia. Recently came across this link from a friend that says much about wars and why most of our younger generation want to forget them. Things like the Alamo, San Juan Hill, the Maine, and Pearl Harbor. This is a short video, (film at the time) that brings home some of the heroics "marking" us as a Super Power. But aren't you proud and glad? At times we link our past and present together figuratively. But there are times we can only relate the two, "spiritually". I know the era, but fortunately; only the terror, not the horror.(http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid34762914001?bctid=672454611001)

Pangloss, we need people like you in politics carrying a pick handle to do what needs to be done. Sadly, it will likely never happen, but good luck! Here is a quick read on our military.http://defensetech.org/

Absolutely nothing!, but I'm sure you'll correct that for me.

After reading such a dissertation from a very young mind, in total disbelief; I'm much more amazed than appalled. It actually breaks my heart to think we have come so far, to have sunk so low. The flood gates are open! What can, or should we do now?

Bein' from down 'er I think public schoolin' is overrated. Todays kids should be home schooled. Many of the greatest minds who have ever lived, never spent a day in a formal educational setting. Some, if not all of them probably couldn't even spell Harvard, Carnegie, Prinston, or many of the names associated with higher learning. Yet, they did one hell of a job keeping this country together and safe to get us to where we are today. Wanna cut the pork, the fat? Slash the unstable, unrepentant and overpaid bastards who cause this deficiency in our nation. "Cut our military, cut our throats."

Being ignorant of the facts, I can't postulate a specific answer. But, is light matter? Are photons not like water, iron or lead when defining matter? I think not. Light is substance no matter how distasteful the thought of it may be. We look out into space perhaps a billion or two light years distance and try reconvening a universe we have only recently began to understand. Education is not in taking a blind stand on an insoluble issue, but linking that which you know to what others have found to be as truth.

Is light matter? Does it matter that light is matter wrapped in a small body, such as photon? We may be as far away from the final answer to this question as Amen Hotep was to what rocket science is today. But "Gravitational lensing" gives Einstein and his gang, a one uppance on anything we may find differently over the next century.

I thought my two part question was forthright. Ad hominem is as directed. Let me put it another way. You and I are both victims of a Ponzi Scheme taking away our entire fortunes. My $50,000 was inherited. Your $50,000,000 was through due diligence and smart investments. However, should there be a distinction in compensation if neither of us can prove our gullible investments?

Whether we know it or not, some of us (yours truly included) belong in one of these catagories, at least on occasion. No replies necessary, I plead illiteracy. http://1just4fun.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/best-of-jay-leno-jaywalking/

I wholeheatedly agree that there should be recompense to a person convicted of a crime they didn't commit. But how do we draw the line in fairness? Say for instance this fellow, (hypothetically) had been a felon with a rap sheet as long as your arm and with total disregard for the law. On the other hand let's say he had been a distinguished doctor, lawyer or a prominent dignatary etc. Other than the moral issue, should either role play into the issue of his compensation?

As much as I disagree with some of todays philosophy, your concept like mine "Sucks". As much as we both would like to be right about existing conditions, neither of us can substantiate one bit of our jargon. I have disagreed with the word 'gravity" for years. Yet, I can't make the distnction of how to present it other than as it is done. And Black Holes? Yes, they are out there! Maybe not in the form that Hawkings and some of his contempories evaluate, but that remains to be seen. Physically though, yes; they are there. We will eventually find out what it is all about through research, but certainly not through bullying tactics.

I can almost assume you have read: Les Misérables? Interesting and compassionate; but only a book. Disappointment is when you are only one number from winning the "big" lottery, or your girl friend runs off with your best friend. Bitterness is finding out the game was rigged, and your best Bud and girl friend had been planning the tryst for months.

Many of you have likely seen this item by now. Can't say I was stunned with it. But in essence, what does it say to us? How can thirty empty years of a persons life be filled again with anything other than bitterness? If something else, with what? Better to have said: "Alas poor Urich, I knew him well". Then, have let the chair, ax, rope, or needle do their job. By the time we get through sorting out what is just or unjust, the wrongs will have consumed us. "http://ww2.cox.com/myconnection/cleveland/today/news/national/article.cox?articleId=D9KHA7900&moduleType=apNews

If my one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater "neighbor" is being truthful, they have already landed. But you know how some of your friends kid around?

Can't say I blame a G.I. from any war for wanting to go to school instead of working. He's paid for his education in full. Once a Vet gets out of that hell hole called combat, he simply wants to reminisce and kick back for a while. School? Man, that's a no brainer. WW2 was not a popular war, but it was necessary to get us to where we are today. Most of the guys coming home to where I lived, went back to the jobs they held prior to early 1942. The coal mines! I suppose being underground was better than getting their ass shot off. A few of those who attended WVU, WV Tech and Morris Harvey went on to better things. That was 1946. Today it seems that 'so many" feel our government is responsible to supply the same benovelance even though they haven't done a damn thing to deserve it but sit on their asses, and cry for more. Well, La De Da!. Don't get me wrong, many young people break their asses working night and day to get an education, and they deserve our respect. I asked a 12 year old lad this past Friday evening what he wanted after finishing school? His reply: "A JOB".

"WOW", I was going answer Jackson. but reading your reply, it's better that I answer both of you.The thing is, more than a good old boy attitude is needed to fufill the promises from either side of the aisle that neither party seems to carry out. There must be more than just a little grease applied to the frayed axles of this country. We are more than a 150 years removed from a devestating conflict that literally tore this nation apart in the 1860s. Sadly, there are enough radical idiots out there who would relish nothing more than destroying our total liberties because these freedoms don't fit their venue. And regardless of who is in office, this disaster could happen again; "posthaste". People willing to take something verbatim from politicians readily, usually realize too late that what they mistook for help, was nothing more than their own crudulity. Perhaps even stupidity! Politicians perform jobs, nothing more. And other than self preservation, few help their constituency little more than as a national gesture. Sprinkle a little sugar around and everybody is gonna love it. l look good, stand tall and scream like a wounded 'Banshee" when things don't go my way. But, if you elect me again; I promise to straighten this government out. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was America. I'm working hard to fulfill your dreams. But many of us tend to forget this braggadocio a year or so after elections are over. And ignorant people 'wanting something for nothing", don't really give a damn one way or another. Just gimme!

Is this "new" Republican pledge based on ventage ideas, or a ventage pledge based on new ideas? For the sake of this nation, it had beter be neither, but a pledge of ideas compatable to an exponentially changing enviroment. Few of us rationalize it, but the world is changing so rapidly it's literally a daily occurance. And whether Democrats or Republicans decree the mandates running this country, hopefully; the average Americans views will shortly be heard again in the rule making. If not, the fun may have gone out of the game forever. So!, get it together Republicans! "With his help", You've made an ass of Obama these past 2 years. You are in the drivers seat now, and best you don't screw it up. Remember, your good fortune was the concensual support of "elgible" voters who put you back into office. Keep that in mind! A new concept? I wonder. http://pledge.gop.gov

If life itself is only a dream, why should a spiritual world be any different? Awake, we fantasize materially. The dream world we sometimes live in at night, can't set us free of that.

If you are into electronics or simply want to tear something up at close range, a coil gun is a cool project. For practicality, get yourself a .222 or .223 Remington. With a descent scope and at 300 yds. you can do some serious plinking. Anyway, building a CG can be pretty expensive. Automobile ignition coils are not cheap unless you get them from a junk yard. Time you get around to buying all of the necessaties to make it complete, you may consider constructing a smaller hadron collider?

Quote] jackson33: One subject I've not seen in awhile here is terriforming mars or the moon, which would mean human adaptation to half gravity, not to mention the long journey involved with no gravity or another thousand or so problems, but I just don't believe humans could adapt in a short enough time period to make practical. You're probably right on both accounts jackson. As moontan said, you should post the topic, I would like to listen in. Like you, I believe it could be done to some extent, but not to colonize for farming or mining. The expense would be overwhelming. Until we can come up with a more efficient type of travel, reinventing the Sahara seems more practical.

Jackson, it's really amazing what humans have accompalished after only four billion years of preparation. We are blessed to be the new kids on the block, but many of the newbies want to be Cock Robin. I suppose that's normal, but just how long do they think they have to bring this good fortune of ours to fruition? The dinasours had to find out the hard way. Yes, had earth been of a different density, size and atmosphere, I'm sure things would have probably evolved quite differently, if at all. Thanks for the boot up, but some guys jut don't get the overall. No, only out of "ignorance" did I ask how plant and animal life could have survived as they have done, with gravity being the controlling factor in everything that happens. I knew there had to be a drawnout assimilation to arrive at where we are today. But after tons and tons of information, I simply find it hard to rationalize how things function as they do.[

You tell me? http://www.microbe.org/index.html) Microbes determine how all of the bio-geochemical processes work, (nitrogen fixation decomposition, photosynthesis), and produce most of the oxygen we breathe, and inhabit every environment our planet has to offer. Microbes are a term for tiny creatures that are individually are too small to be seen with the unaided eye. The term applied to prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea), fungi and protists. Archaea are bacteria-like creatures that have traits not found in any true bacteria. Protists include primitive algae, amoebas, slime molds and protozoa. We can also include viruses as a major type of microbe, though there is a debate as to whether viruses can be considered as living creatures. Bacteria consist of a single cell, and their seeming simplicity keep you off guard. They're an amazingly complex and fascinating group of creatures. Bacteria have been found that can live at temperatures above the boiling point of water and in cold that would freeze your blood. They could probably be centrifuged to a speed that would turn a human to mush and still survive. They "eat" everything from sugar and starch to sunlight, sulfur and iron. There's even a species of bacteria—Deinococcus radiodurans—that can withstand blasts of radiation 1,000 times greater than would kill a human being. Bacteria are among the earliest forms of life that appeared on Earth billions of years ago. Scientists think that they helped shape and change the young planet's environment, eventually creating atmospheric oxygen that enabled other, more complex life forms to develop. Many believe that more complex cells developed as once free-living bacteria took up residence in other cells, eventually becoming the organelles in modern complex cells. The mitochondria that make energy for your body cells are one example of such an organelle. The bacterial photo gallery includes Escherichia coli (lab rat of the microbial world, found in our large intestines helping us digest food and producing vitamin K which is essential for blood clotting), Staphylococcus aureu (lives on skin and nose and can get into the skin to cause boils or more severe illness such as blood infections or pneumonia. Over 90% of the strains of Staph are now resistant to most or all existing antibiotics), Streptococcus (also live on your skin and mucous membranes. Strep is responsible for strep throat and for certain skin diseases like impetigo) and Cyanobacteria (found in water and produces oxygen, they are the progenitors of algae and plants. The chloroplasts with which plants convert sunlight into energy derived from cyanobacteria that took up residence in eukaryotic cells millions of years ago.) Do I remotely understand everything I read? No! But I keep on reading, and things gradually seep in, so there's no need for a pity party. The steam temperature and radiation things was why I sent this. Animal life is really natures weakest link. The little critters that defy why, how and when, don't need our support. But we must have theirs.

Since I'm not overly impressed with Psychology 101, I suggest you read some of what I have asked, and how I replied. And no, pampered ignorance sucks. I have spent a lifetime working at jobs, not sitting on my duff, reading books and trying to be smarter than the rest of the world. While I've never begrudged anyone an education, I sense the malaise of stupidity only in those overcome with their own holier than thou success. My replyto jackson33. The link you gave was very informative. As I stated earlier, I'm not the sharpest nail in the keg. Until last May, my entire skein of understanding the universe was shorter than a sheepshank folded back on itself a half dozen times. Haven't progressed much, but the entire meaning of my questioning on the subject was innocent as hell!, and dead serious. And that was, with gravity being so strong at the earths surface, how do animal and plant matter manage to go against the grain, so to speak? Stand upright, walk, breathe, among many things. On top of that, our brains and eyes are such delicate insturments, yet a marvel at being able to oppose this thing we call gravity. Moontanman posted a fine article earlier this past summer "Abiogenesis". I believe that's right?, and I'm making a bit of progress. Gravity had nothing to do with that subject then, but it does now. There's one thing you have to be very careful of when using a euphemism of any sort though. This post may have suddently turned into a bible study? But as the link was rather vague, I would still like to find some solid answers other than the wouda, coulda and shouldas: or the if, dog, rabbit thing.