Cap'n Refsmmat

Our view from Earth is not invalid, it's just not equal to all other reference frames because it's accelerating.

You state "According to the Principle of Relativity, all laws of nature must be valid and nature must behave in the same way in ANY frame of reference," when relativity states they must behave the same way in any inertial reference frame.

That's because you're misinterpreting relativity.

There used to be one, long ago, but it vanished (not sure why). We could start one again, but that would be dependent on someone bothering to put people on the list. Have NoScript installed? Yes. We'll try it again sometime. We used to have it displayed that way on the forum index, but each forum still had subforums under it. We recently reorganized and cut down the number of subforums significantly, but they were expanded out to all display on the index. We may cut down more later, I don't know. Thread on the subject: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25741

Stick it in General Science, and we can move it later for you if necessary.

A quick search dug up this website: http://www.fleascontrol.com/

I believe you can get flea powder to sprinkle over your carpeting and such to wipe out the fleas there, and something like Frontline to put on the dog. I don't know how much either costs, but those would be the safe ways to go about doing it.

I believe part of bascule's point was that the polonium is "glued" to your lungs by tar, whereas the potassium in your food just passes through.

Yes, we here at SFN love our irony.

It's a secret.

VirtuaStab™, patent pending.

You're making the unfounded assumption that it will bork up SFN all over again, assuming that our new plans for moderation won't work and the forum will turn back into madness. Then you ignore when I state that we'll have new ways of moderating the forums. I'm not sure just how easy it will be -- time to mess with vB again -- but at any rate what you say is possible.

Up to the point of insulting the person presenting the evidence. Presumably, a religious person will argue that it boils down to faith, and there's not much you can do to argue against that. It'll work the same way as regular bans do. Mods can set temporary bans and the whole deal. As for warnings, that's more difficult, so the likely system will simply be for moderators to recognize that someone is a repeat offender, send them a PM, hope they get better, and if they don't, remove them from the forum.

What would be the point of storing the entire galaxy's energy in a spinning disc? It would make life in the galaxy a tad boring.

It is indeed trivial to disable a user's access to a particular forum, and we'd likely use that ability to make P&R tolerable. If you contribute well to science but troll in the religion forums, we can fix that problem without banning you entirely. The use of tools like that, and more moderator attention, makes me think that P&R 2.0 could work. If we're proactive and stop trolling before it becomes a serious problem, P&R could stay. It's worth a shot, I think.

Send a letter to the Department of Energy suggesting they regulate nuclear materials in tobacco the same way they regulate other nuclear materials.

Following the Fibonacci sequence, maybe?

Sure, but my book said it, so it must be true. Just kidding. I see what you mean there. I'll have to go back and re-read the source to see what the book's author said.

I hear the hardest part was loading all of the elephants in boats and sending them to South America. A mite inefficient, but a great display of ingenuity. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Genetically altered to live in soil (not soil, just ground-up rock, probably) with no nutrients in it? Might be a bit of a challenge.

This assumes that IQ is genetic and not determined by education, which may or may not be entirely true.

Except time has no meaning to photons.

It's hard to make direct performance comparisons when there are several languages in use.

So are you compiling with Visual C++ or something then? You might want to check to make sure you're not using functions only available in Vista.

It's because an OpenDocument file (and an OpenXML file) consists of more than one file. There's usually a file with the text structure, one with a style sheet, and a folder containing any images used in the document. To make it easy to handle, they're all zipped up into one file so you don't have to deal with dozens of files sitting around for all three documents you have.