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thanks for your reply,......basically i was just looking for a quick summary of philosophy's most important debates,....i use the "book" idea because i figured it would be a little more fun to answer than just "what are the top 10 philosophy.....etc".....and i was just kidding about writing the book myself,.....i was hoping peoples naming of the chapters would give me a good scope of where i could focus my own pondering. i have thousands of philosophy books and would like to jump right into the most recent and controversial ideas.

If some one were to write a Book, on philosophy and its most important , perplexing , intriguing, and mysterious questions, .....and this book consisted of 10 chapters, one on each greatly debated questions......what would be the names of each chapter? thanks for your replies,.....so i can get right to work on this book........jk

Philosophy is what philosophers do.............and from time to time,....philosophers crap.

hey buddy, i am a welder, and trust me, welding aluminum is a pain in the ass, my honest opinion and advice to you would be to get a welder, i attempted to MIG and TIG aluminum in welding school and i hate it, i refuse to weld aluminum but if you have to do it yourself, MIG is your best option trust me you don't want to get into all the crap involved in TIG, sharpening electrodes, switching currents , forming the electrodes into a "ball" using foot pedal,worrying about melting point......etc all at the same time, it is horrible......that's why aluminum welders make the large amounts of money you don't want to pay them.... welding is an art form comprised of many stressful considerations, machine settings, all your equipment safety standards and codes, travel angles , the crap is almost too much to list, plus most welds are tested , even x-ray tested for quality ...... as for "poor mans tig machine"...... not a chance, these machines are very precise and for a very specific purpose,.....much more specialized than a car battery.....

i agree, GIA your posts are boring me to death, if you cant understand the important role that religion has played in the development of human society and can only rephrase your misunderstanding of religious precepts into arrogant quips you'll be none the wiser.

markearthling im no big evolution fan myself, i find the mechanism of unguided chance mutation to simply be inadequate to explain the varieties of life and systems withing living creatures, but understand that science is not interested in the theories that deal with the supernatural science must try and solve problems with the only tools that science has, and that is the natural evolution is the only theory currently available that can attempt to explain how all these things happen absent of the supernatural just because evolution does not explain everything , does not give anybody the right to inject supernatural ideas into scientific query doing so adds nothing to the debate science does not necessarily explain things away from the supernatural and the supernatural explanation is not always needed when natural explanation is inadequate

alright, thanks for everyone's replies, as for the title "is the number 1 flawed" i am not necessarily picking on just this number, i guess what i was trying to get at was how inadequate can numbers be when subjected to certain theoretical math but my questions were answered, with units and formulas, the strictness of a single digit can be more malleable and useful and with our ability to create new fields of mathematics we are constantly able to reform our current views thanks to everyone, replying to my posts especially drrocket michel123456 soon i will have my 30 posts and ill be able to move onto the religion and philosophy threads where i am much better suited

evolution doesn't give animals what they need..........

try and make non-Newtonian fluid http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To%3A-Make-Non-Newtonian-Fluid-%26-Experiment-wit/

Pure evil

we use mathematics to probe the limits of our universe, its a philosophical issue that because we can accurately describe our material universe with mathematics , a mathematical basis for our universe is implied, but what if that is not accurate, and instead our failure to completely understand our universe, even our ability to ever fully understand our universe is because mathematics is too rigid perhaps the abstract ideas of mathematics invented by man fail because our universe is more analog then digital (i know analog and digital deal with something else, but its the best analogy i could think of at the moment, digital being mathematics)

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/159654/20110608/red-bull-killer-stephen-coffeen.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/159654/20110608/red-bull-killer-stephen-coffeen.htm

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i think the magnets on the rail are in a fixed position facing one way, maybe if you engineered it so each magnet could swivel

thanks for your reply, i figured it would be painfully obvious, my concern is that in recent weeks, the pentagon has declared that certain cyber attacks could be construed as acts of war, but if people could steal anything worth going to war over, then it would be our own fault for making that info available. and the submission of info that sensitive into public servers would constitute some sort of dereliction of duty to begin with, meaning our government basically invited the intrusion, and failed to keep us safe

it seems to me with new threats of hacking from almost every angle aimed at every conceivable weak point, wouldn't it be simpler to remove our most sensitive information from servers connected to the internet? wouldn't it be simpler to remove our infrastructure controls from CPU's connected to the web? i understand the convenience of having these systems networked, but wouldn't it profit us to use only local networks for systems that are subject to remote control? i also understand that im not the first guy to come up with this idea. does anybody have any idea as to what degree in what areas this idea has already been implemented (im hoping , that most of our defense contractors and the pentagon already figured this out) i just prefer my sabotage, and espionage to be of the "mission impossible , drop through the air duct on rope through lasers" variety, as opposed to the "were a bunch of anonymous douchebags" type. thanks for any replies np

if you were trying to help, then i apologize, i may have misinterpreted your tone..... thanks for the reply and the link, its a little over my head but i gather from it that the magnets are not efficient enough at this point heard.

thanks for your reply Amitash, that was exactly what i was looking for also, any guesses on how much information is thought to exist in each cell i mean how much in bytes, like kilo, or giga if in fact that could be guessed i know a chemical code with at least double the complexity of digital code may not be easily compared and related and may in fact act in a very different fashion but is there any research addressing this?

hey hal, thanks for the reply, im no engineer, i have no stake in this idea , and therefore no "dog" in the fight, and no lesson to learn i figured id come to a science forum site and run the idea across a few real engineers , fortunately all my questions have already been addressed by other members, and i now see how this idea is not as viable as maybe i thought it could be. ive always known the only way to become less ignorant is to ask questions from those who are less ignorant than myself, so i haven't failed in anyway, in fact, id like to believe i came out with just as about as good as an outcome that i could have expected, although much short of my billion dollar goal. but i do appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule, to come super late into this thread and propose failure upon me i hope you accomplished your goal of making yourself feel smarter without having to contribute any actual intellectual stimulus or engineering expertise thanks, to everyone else

the chance of genetic deformation would double, ......probably just like incest

what if we......used 1 inch marbles 2 for every square inch of room, kept the amount of explosives at the adequate level to propel each marble to atleast one wall, and gradually reduced the number of marbles each trial by one until we had only one marble left, and charted results looking for the trial number when the marbles ceased to hit the bulls eye for good? of course......we would have to decide how large the bullseye would be........which brings me full circle to how we would try and quantify the odds of the fortuitous event.....determining the size of the bullseye is the same as trying to find the odds of a life allowing planet ..........DAMNIT......DAMNIT........i understand now, Drrocket, sorry for wasting your time.....

if binary is to 2, then genetic is to ?? basically , if you boil down to the most basic building blocks of the genetic code.....how many are unique?

not quite sure i understand your grievance, my first paragraph simply re-affirmed some of the more articulated points made, (which also lines up with your point as well) and my second , was just a funny observation.......

what if we......used 1 inch marbles 2 for every square inch of room, kept the amount of explosives at the adequate level to propel each marble to atleast one wall, and gradually reduced the number of marbles each trial by one until we had only one marble left, and charted results looking for the trial number when the marbles ceased to hit the bulls eye for good? of course......we would have to decide how large the bullseye would be........

wow, thanks again for the reply, my reply to spyman was just to thank him for letting me know the actual name of such previous inquiries, i am under no assumption that the drake equation can really solve anything i always read the criticisms of theory first....... also, from my initial post "5. i dont assume that we know how much energy is in the universe, and wouldn't want to burden anybody with trying to weigh all the mass in it either,.....just wanting to know what kind of math would be needed to start this kind of inquiry" so therefore, thanks spyman before i replied to to spy man, i did reply to your last post, again if you could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated, "okay, thanks again for your reply, allow me to scale this down a bit so we can forget the "god" word, and do away with the substance of the universe suppose we put a jar of marbles with a grenade in the middle of a 20x20 ft room, and put a target at the top of one of the corners what kind of formula could i use to try and predict how many marbles,size of explosion, and attempts will be needed before a marble hits the bulls eye?"