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Before you can lecture to anyone about the dangers of anything or about some hidden global conspiracy theory to hide true advancements from the public you are in dire need to prove such conspiracy exists. Have you any evidence to offer?

Exactly.

I beg your uberphysics pardon, then, my dear, but I am studying this now (I have an exam actually next week) and though I am an undergrad, I am not first year. Take it back.

Klaynos, Lorentz Invariats have anything to do with Lorentz Gauge? Isn't that related to relativity?

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I know, I wish they did too.

Right, well, I wouldn't recommend you test that on an actual live socket, ey? That would transform you from a plain idiot to a dead idiot. Unlike vampires, my special powers don't transfer.

Do you even know how to add numbers, Duration? All you do is criticize our math skills, so far you haven't shown you know what "minus" sign is. I revert to my original conclusion that you're a 10 year old boy with some severe boredom disorder taking advantage of your time off school to pretend you know something.

I've been in this discussion with you for about 100 times already and like a malformed baby you refuse to learn not to touch the socket. I think it's time I just let you electrocute yourself.

That depends on how you define "core". It's not the absolute middle. That's also irrelevant. I didn't calculate the distance of the Earth from some arbitrary point you may call "core". I went by your statement (that the Earth was once inside the sun) and calculated the distance of the Earth from the sun. Teh conclusion is that the Earth was never inside the Sun. Today the average distance between the Sun and the Earth is 1AU (about 149,598,000 kilometers). 4.5 Billion years ago, when the Earth formed, the Earth was at a distance of [math]149,598,000-4.5=149,597,995.5 \text{ kilometers}[/math] from the Sun. Let me make this bigger: The Earth formed at a distance of 149,597,995.5 km from the Sun. This is not "INSIDE" the sun, unless you don't know what the Sun is, or what distance is, or what "inside" is. This, under no definition whatsoever other than in your weird little mind, is "inside the sun".

Let's reiterate: When the Earth was formed it was 4.5 kilometers closer to the Sun than it is today. That is by FAR not even close to its diameter -- how is this "inside" the sun?

Duration, you're either blind or you insist on being an idiot. Look at what I wrote. 4.5 billion years ago the Earth was 4.5 kilometers CLOSER TO THE SUN. That means that the Earth is indeed moving slowly away from the sun, yay for you, but it never was INSIDE THE SUN.

Take it where? What does that prove? Did you even read the article?

The Earth-Sun interaction is a very complicated (and yet known) subject. First, we are moving away from the sun but the movement is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY slow and EXTREEEEMMMEEELLLYYYY tiny. That process is accompanied by the Sun slowing it's rotation, too. So, yes, technically we are moving away from the sun at an average rate of one micrometer a year. To make it clear: 1 micrometer = [math]\frac{1}{10,000} \text{cm} = \frac{1}{100} * \frac{1}{10,000} \text{meters} = \frac{1}{1,000,000} \text{meters}[/math] per year. If we ignore everything else that affects our planet (and there are many other forces at play here, including some that do not "play well" with F=ma, but we'll leave that for another time), and calculate just upon these measures how "far" away from the Sun the Earth was at the beginning of the Solar System, we get this: The Solar System is about 4.5 billion years old. The Earth is moving away at around a millionth of a meter per year. [math]\frac{1}{1,000,000} \text{meters} * 4,500,000,000 \text{years} = 4,500 \text{meters}[/math] That means that if we ignore everything else (hrm) we "calculate" that the Earth was formed about 4.5km closer to the sun. Considering the fact the Earth's diameter is about 300 times that (12,756.32 kilometers), this movement in such a large span of time is minuscule. Just to compare things, the Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year (much much bigger effect, though still small). This effect also causes the rate of rotation of the Earth to slow down (we "gain" about 2 milliseconds per a hundred years or so). At the rate the Moon is moving away from the Earth, it will take approximately a billion years (yes, read that again, a billion years) for the Moon to "break" orbit. You can no longer claim "no one answers" your question. A simple google search with show many more such sites with explanations and (if you insist) the math to back it up. Whoever is interested in the real science behind this (quite interesting) process, the information exists here: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=317 Here's a snippet: If you need assistance going over the math (it's actually not as hard as it sounds, just requires knowledge of second order time derivatives, I've done this in my Astronomy 201 course last semester), I am sure we'll all be happy to walk you through it. Of course, that would mean you will need to read the resource first and ask relevant non circular questions. I wonder what would happen first - the Earth break orbit from the sun or you actually dropping the "I know all even though I never opened a book in my life and have no clue what mathematics is" attitude. Either way, I am not going to hold my breath.

So should I be surprised my questions were (AGAIN) not answered?

He's even proud of the fact he trolls with his hands on his ears.

It doesn't seem like hulu are going to take it off anytime soon, so you still have time, but unlike a drama book, I don't think seeing the move while reading the book ruin the experience

You mean the 99,224,125 other times he repeated his mantra weren't enough?

Absolutely Cosmos (Carl Sagan) is up there in my top list. Whoever of you who are in the USA can see it now (legally, for free) in hulu: http://www.hulu.com/cosmos Also, "From the Earth to the Moon" (Docudrama, EXCELLENTLY made!, info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(miniseries) ) is close behind. It's telling the story of the race to the moon through a dramatic depiction of the events but using actual footage when available. BRILLIANT. VERY recommended, both of them.

That's STILL not answering my question. "Getting the rights they deserve" is not the same as getting the same rights as their heterosexual equivalences. Are you going to give a definitive answer, or do you plan to continue dodging the issue? Quite simply because right now (in the "status quo") domestic partners do not have the same rights as married people. An immigrant man cannot recieve a green card by creating a "domestic partnership" (or any other form of partnership) with another man. Heterosexual couple in the same condition can. That is only one example showing the inequality. One out of many. You are either dodging the question or you are trying to cover your anti-equality opinions with confusion. Pretty word-games or not, the current situation is inequality.You either support support equality and want to change the current situation so it will BE equality (and then we can start debating what is the right way of doing that, and what definitions to use) or you are against equality, for whatever reasons, and the discussion over what definition should be used is moot. Stop evading the question, scrappy. Answer.

Actually, I found my problem -- it was a particularly nastily hidden variable I just misspelled. Took me a while to figure it out. Now it's working but it's still showing "permissions error" -- and yet, it's just a "notice" and it works.. I'll run it again and post the notices, but it seems to be working now, so.. I guess i'm good.

You totally ignored my question, Scrappy, again. I will ask it again: You keep saying you support domestic partnership, but the question raised here is about legal rights. Those legal rights are *not* being given to "domestic partnerships". So by supporting domestic partnership and not supporting marriage, you either not support the legal equal rights issue, or you do support changing the law under a different "name" than marriage (for that matter, making sure that "domestic partnership" *equal* marriage in EVERYTHING other than the legal definition). I'll make it even simpler: Supporting the status quo means you support inequality, because the status quo does not give equal rights to domestic partnership. Which one is it? Or do you not support either? Please answer this time..

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