John Cuthber

Comparing it to the moral acceptability of the death sentence is pretty unhelpful too.

Strictly, |I think it only shows that they are not dipoles with a non-zero polarisability- but that's pretty much the same thing unless you presume that a photon is infinitely stiff. Have you heard of NMR spectroscopy? It shows that neurons are affected by them radiation.

"A large number of evil acts have been committed by atheist extremists. Lots of evil hints have been done by none religious people. " yes, but it wasn't done because they were atheist was it? That's the difference.religion tells people to be evil. Atheism doesn't. "Please note that in the bible, when listing names,father son ect, they often skip quite a few generations depending on the long line of ancestors, and the ones named were usually the "memorable" ones. This changed through out the bible." Where the heck did you pull that number out? Or did someone just make it up because otherwise the whole Bible looks a bit silly. "Also, quick question. Why are the native Americans even humans? After being separated for lon periods of time aren't species suppose to become 2 different species? This is an actual question BTW. " No strong evolutionary pressure to change and not nearly long enough. This is an obvious answer BTW. Your "actual question" didn't raise any issue with evolution: it just showed that you don't understand it.

Or, to put it another way, even though they showed they were idiots, rather than being sacked- they still get paid. I don't see that as a good thing.

Why is it pointless?- because it offers no point. Jail without parole puts them "out of the way". Aside from a small cash saving, killing these people doesn't actually achieve anything. Killing for a small amount of cash is clearly sinking to their level, but even that isn't the point. We ought not kill because we need not kill. We are bigger and better than that.

Meanwhile , on this side of the pond, we have Boris Johnson as foreign secretary.

About 18 kilos of carbon: about 1 part per trillion 14C. 1.5kgmol about 10^27 atoms of carbon about 10^15 atoms of 14C. So, you got the maths about right. Quite why you insist on reporting things like this to 3 or 4 significant figures is beyond me. If I happened to have exactly 7.43*10^14 carbon atoms when I got up this morning, the number would change by more than 0.1 *10^14 when I went to the bathroom. The 10^15 or so atoms of 14C in me will give rise to about 3500 beta particles per second That's roughly the same as the number of cosmic rays I get hit by. Only about a tenth of your natural radiation dose is from things like 40K and 14C. So it's hardly worth removing them - even if you could. And none of that has anything much to do with the OP. Microorganisms are very poor at separating radioisotopes. There's a fundamental issue with the idea. In general (there are known exceptions) most plants are fairly similar in their chemical make-up to us. they generally have similar needs for different minerals etc. Similarly, they get poisoned by broadly similar things an, as a consequence, they are usually quite good at leaving toxic minerals in the ground. The exceptions- so called hyper- accumulators are not generally used as food. Plants already separate out the toxic chemicals- they leave them in the ground. Trying to get them (or microorganisms) to do the opposite would be difficult. And it's far from clear that stripping the tiny residual amounts of these materials from your diet would really help life span much.

"Meltdown at Fukushima" Which? There were 3.

If the decision was down to me I might give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you didn't see that mod note when you posted a reply to my comment. The decisionisn't down to me. If you hurry, you might be able to avoid getting your thread axed if you actually tell us what the F*** you are talking about.

Thank's for mentioning homeopathy there. It makes it easy to spot that you have no idea what you are talking about.

The path of a dipole would be deflected by an electric field; photons are not.

And to kill pointlessly brings us down to that same depraved level. We deprive people of "rights" as punishment. But the criminal makes the choice to be punished; if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. But there is a difference between "the right to live" and "the right to decide to live"- ask someone who is terminally ill.

I can't fault the logic and I accept that the numbers are reasonable- I guess they are close enough, even if they are not exact. I'm also not unmoved by the animal welfare argument(s) But I don't care- I still like bacon.

But geometry isn't from geocentrism and pi isn't just from geometry.

There is still nothing here to discus.

Does this work?

Sod it. if I ever get the spoiler tags to work I will offer an explanation

Five points in scrabble.

This is not a self referential statement.

I think you will find that you do.

I promote one that works. Science flies you into space; religion flies you into buildings. You, on the other hand seem to be both promoting something obscure- because being difficult and unclear is a magically good thing and trolling.

False dichotomy. Why promote any formal belief system? Why not promote "actually thinking for yourself, considering the other person's point of view and remembering that if we don't hang together we will all hang separately", or some such? Now that may very well coincide with at least some bits of some religions- but that's not the point. It doesn't mean those faiths are right- just that they got lucky

Then why promote a book that does?

Indeed, and it turns out people call him God.

Are you saying that you only know right from wrong because you used the NT as a map, or do you accept that most of us are already a pretty long way down the road to decent moral behaviour anyway.