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Flying does present some problems. Leaping is Ok, but changing direction in flight? I've heard stories of masscalancelation at Tampere, but I'm skeptical. Maybe he can change direction thru all powerful farts, Newton's laws would be preseved, but it would cause nasty (and smelly) hurricanes, but at the end of Superman I, he went faster than light to go backwards in time.

I've read that anti-matter is equavalent to matter going backwards in time,, so before you flame me, consider this if anti-matter is created at time=0 [The Big Bang], could it be that we don't find any because its gone to the time before Space-time existed?

It would seem that since the anomoly has been noticed in many probes, that one could compare the anomolies between different probes. If the anomoly is much bigger than the ones near to the sun, then it could easily be a MOND, or (could it be) that its because of the pull of other stars? If there is a bigger anomoly in the nearer probes, amybe it's a miscacluation in the solar wind or the pull of the planets.

Unfortunately, most "slow light" in reality is slow because it's absorbed, released and bouncing around, when the photon exists, it's moving at lightspeed, but not neccarsarily in the straight line that gets measured.

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Until you've built the space elevator, then use tethers or solar sails to move them towards the sun.

I've googled the gross mass for the shuttle & 747 Shuttle 2,000,000 kg 747 300,000 kg I'm surprised it can carry the shuttle anywhere, yet I've seen the pictures of 747s carrying shuttles.

Oh My God! We're impossible! I wonder what the probablity of the whatevers self-assembling into God.

Absolulety NOT! If he was ever convicted, an appeals court would reverse it because of theneccesity defense.

There was a mathemetician in 1932, who said most of technologies surpluses, since the Stone Age, most surpulses have been used for war, conventional or economic, and if we learned to coperate, we could live well on 15-20 hours work/week. As for globalisation, I agree it has increased tensions, but not nearly as much as some other ideas, say Nazism. One problem with globalisation that few realise is that the mamilian mind is set up to a certain size of tribe corrosponding to brain volume. In humans the brain corrosponds to a tribe of 150. Anthropolgists have corroborated this empiracally. I used to go to a city council for a city of 40,000. It was readily apparent that they needed better lines of communication, as theirs was to homeowners, and administrators, who played CYA, and were probably a main corupting influnce in the city.

Good Question! I read light is a wave/particle as a kid, and never once thought of it having a shape. Perhaps it's hyperdimenssional, giving us a hard time describing it in space/time.

I believe in the Spirit Realm, very much so, and I did my share of LSD, but I saw "The Late, Great Tim Leary" round 1975, and was he ever fried! Nothing he said made any sense. About this time, my yoga teacher said that focusing on psychic matters can create a condition "more incurable than cancer". Pschic powers can lead to pschosis, or in some cases, like Hitler's, the worst kind of evil. Don't be attached to the sixth chacra, go to the seventh, the awareness of oneness. Contacting the spirit is then easy, natural and safe, as it's a function of our interconectedness.

We can not afford to wait until we've proven that we're past the tipping point! This is not an abstract theory that won't mean much. The potential is devistating, therefore we must act since the danger is quite plausible. The only 3% number I saw on that presentation was where it said 97% of greenhouse gases are H2O, by weight. The critical question is how much each gas heats up the atmosphere. Also, of the "natural" outlay, how much remains in the atmosphere as a result of a lack of carbon sequestrestation in forests we've cut down? Bascule, that chart was hopeful. Anthropmorhic warming comes to 4Watts, anthropmorhic cooling comes to 3 Watts, so we we'll only have to negate 25% of our warming effects to have them cancel out.

There is a growing theory that space-time is a superfluid. http://www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/frame.html?main=/mindx/show_thread.php?rootID%3D61219 Seems a bit audacious that we could even hypothesize the "stuff" of space-time but it seems to follow from the data.

That certainly is great news for researchers and large corporations, I wonder how fast a room temperature or liquid nitrogen computer would be. I suspected that the final electronic computers would be chryo-cooled.

Lance is right, except that the correct term is conjectures. Back in 1967, homosexuality was considered a form of mental illness. About 200 years ago some "experts" considered abolitionism a form of mental illness. Social Science is about as scientific as creation science.

You're welcome, corporations are in buisness for profit, not for people, and meds can be quite addictive. Morphine was developed as a cure for opium addiction, herion as a cure for morphine addiction, and methodone as a cure for heroin addiction. Methodone is several times more additive than heroin, and may kill withdrawing addicts. The media creates false needs that seem only to be satisfied with things. I consider my recovery from depression a blessing as it helped me see what's really important. If you need more evidence that meds are not to be used like candy, this is what came up #1 when I googled "Eli Lilly" lawsuit http://www.newstarget.com/004554.html

If you feel you must have medication, do it, just realise that meds affect the whole body, not just the brain and have uninended consequences, Viagra was intended as heart medication, Cox2 inhibitors such as Vioxx are deadly, thalidomine's effectiveness in controlling new blood vessel growth caused birth defects, as fetuses need to grow new vessels. Treat your condition from an environmental point of view, surroound yourself with kind friends, relize that watching the TV news is only going to depress you, and not accomplish anything possitive. Also, when you go from 99% sure that there are some awful things in the world to 100% sure, you probably won't fight that fact, and will think about it less.

It's rare to see so many people in this forum saying "I just don't like the idea." That being said, I just don't like the idea of infinities, either. Infinite curvature seems to defy all reason. Inflation can be eliminated if the Universe was small before the Big Bang. I also like the idea of acceleating expansion based on laws we do know like magnitism and light pressure, rather than postulating dark energy. A small Universe would also explain superclusters but would it allow CMBR?

It is described by the Bell Curve. There is a 95% chance that the results will be accurate to within 2 standard deviations. A standard deviation equals the square root of(npq). n is the nunmer of people being polled p is the probablity of candidate 1 being voted for, q is the probablty of candidate 2 being voted for. The standard deviation is similiar for all .2<p,q<.8 so it equals approximately sqrt(.5*.5*n).

If there is a magnet in the glass and the gas is magnetic, maybe. Is there a such thing as a magnetic gas? Can you aerosolise mercury, and if so is it magnetic?

Edit: Here's a collection of National Review comments on the issue. My personal hero, Victor Hanson, writes: Quote: Zarqawi’s death is very important at this juncture, for symbolic in addition to operational reasons. Although al Qaeda in Iraq was decentralized, the loss of its prime strategist there will insidiously have long-term repercussions. And in the short-term it adds to the sense of momentum following Prime Minister Maliki’s selection of the remaining key three cabinet posts, in addition to tranquilizing, if only for a few days, the media’s obsession with Haditha. The Americans were wise to lower expectations, give center stage credit to the Iraqis, and note that Saddam’s capture likewise did not end the insurgency. Yet in a region where honor and sway are everything, the demise of this mass murderer only adds to the prestige of the new government at a time when it was desperately needed. National Review misstated who Zarqawi is. Al Queda's prime strategist is named Zahiri. Take a look at his picture. Zahiri assasinated Sadat. Zarqawi doesn't have a grey hair.

I've read that mitochondia is often the cause of aging in humans because they deteriorate faster than our cells. I've heard that's also true in mice, yet humans live 80 years, while mice live just a few. Is our mitochondria that much more robust than a mouse's mitochondria? If that's true, could ours be engineered to last much longer?