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Bah! Next you'll be saying candidates should release their tax returns. What good is transparency if you can't hide behind it?

There's probably a law against that, or will be soon.

Right, we're looking for a non-violent, non-unpatriotic, non-ethnic, non-offensive sort of non-protest. And could you do that someplace we can't see it...? Thanks, buh-bye.

http://www.space.com/15584-solar-eclipses.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse Eclipses are described as being able to "sweep".

While we're justifiably concerned about the complexities of meeting another species capable of leaving their own homeworld via intelligent means, the majority of our detection methods are already aimed at much simpler biological markers. Light and heat signals can tell us much about whether conditions* in an exoplanet's atmosphere suggest life may be present. * Successfully used the phrase "whether conditions" in a sentence, won a 5 euro bet with imatfaal.

It is intriguing, but you need warp brakes to go along with the drive. AFAIK, the Alcubierre drive has no way to stop. I'm not sure the same principle in reverse halfway through the trip will allow you to end up where you want.

The verse could easily be about solar eclipses, something that was known at the time. This is a much more likely explanation, and doesn't require any supernatural knowledge or prophesy.

Not going to happen, because reality doesn't work that way. Good people can be wrong because they aren't well informed. In cases like that, a good person can be right and they can tell another good person why they're wrong in this or that perceived notion. You still have two good people, but one is wrong. Sorry but true. As an example, take this voter ID issue. Many good people are taken in by the seeming logic of making sure voters are who they say they are. But in actuality, voter fraud is a tiny, tiny problem because of the penalties versus rewards. And voter ID procedures are disproportionately difficult and intrusive. It's like suggesting we drape a cloth over the entire US so pigeons don't shit on statues. Or in the case of voter fraud, so they don't shit on statues of Millard Fillmore.

This is actually something I think should be addressed seriously by the public. At what point are you committing treason as an elected representative by swearing an Oath of Office, where you commit to serving in a good faith capacity, but behave the way you describe above? Does our Constitution not compel our representatives to defend it against all enemies, abroad and especially at home? The idea of blocking any legislation the opposing party favors (even when it's a bill you drafted) can't be defended in terms of this obligation to the Constitution, not in any way I've heard. So it doesn't please me at all to see Trump blur the lines even further. He already gets away with casual suggestions of beatings, sabotage, even assassinations, and no charges are brought. He gets away with calling prisoners of war, past presidents, and past presidential candidates LOSERS, and his numbers go up. If Trumps style of oratory infects our Congress further, will anything get done? As bad as it is, do the People really think it can't get worse?

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Fog. I sincerely hope a Hillary Clinton administration will address some of the fundamentals in perspective we've let crumble over the last 40-50 years. We let corporations suck the coffers dry with their version of personhood, yet we can't see spending money on things like space exploration or social programs as the sound investments they are. Instead, we have tar's privileged view that it's all giveaways and unfairly targeted. And it's a view shared by too many. I hope we can leave making money to the capitalist ventures, and start thinking about the People's resources in a more practical light. To me, this is what conservatism should be about. I think Hillary should seriously focus on socializing our healthcare and education, two areas where profit-as-the-focus provides inferior results. Better opportunities for better educated, healthier people might make some of our other problems much more manageable as well. If you strip the racism and fear from the conservative stance, hopefully you'll be left with the practical side that wants to do the smartest thing for the most people. Conservatively speaking, isn't it more logical to use public aid where it's needed, instead of for people who are already well-off? Or does helping defeat the circumstances of birth only qualify as progressive these days?

The part that scares me most is that the bigotry of the southern states is strong enough to overcome their long-seated distrust of Yankee carpetbaggers like Trump. It's like they're all lining up to help Harold Hill buy musical instruments to keep the kids out of the pool halls. I think of folks who drawl as normally savvy horse-traders with an aversion to slick talking northerners. Surely they were thinking of Texas and Alabama and Georgia when they coined the phrase about not suffering fools gladly? I suppose I'm going to have to update my caricature mental image of the South.

?! I don't think I've ever labeled anyone by calling them conservative. Usually, as in your case, they identify themselves that way first. Although if someone were to attack government financial policy by calling it too strict and regulated when its obviously lax and full of corruption, I would assume this conservative position was motivated by greed rather than any actual political stance. If someone were calling for banking reform, why would they be labeled conservative?

Perhaps the components could be assembled in different locations, and brought together in drydock (vacdock?). Hundreds of thousands of workers, robots, drones, printers, engineers, scientists. By the time we're laying out the real schematics, it won't sound as monumental and unattainable.

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A watchmaker in the 18th century would probably have said the same thing. "There's a limit to how complex you can make any mechanism." I think the most important thing is to keep investing in space travel as citizens. It's always been an investment with generous returns, and it needs to be controlled by humans without profit as the primary concern. Private enterprise wants as few rules and regs as possible, but that won't help us build machines like this.

To invent something along those lines, I have to start with Mother Necessity. We'll always have a need for propulsion, life support, sensors. Is it necessary to have complex weapons systems? Are we assuming we'll need to blast something (or maybe ourselves) once we get some experience navigating space? I suppose it's inevitable. Imagine the first ocean-faring people who came up with the concept of attacking from one boat to another. It must have scared the willies out of the other guy. "Are you INSANE?! We're out in the ocean here! It's already dangerous enough with the weather, waves, and sharks, and now you have to start throwing crap at us?!" Having a moving perspective that broadens the depth of information we observe with telescopes would be a huge leap. We already gain much by having telescopes separated by Earth distances, so imagine what a starship could tell us about life in other systems, even without traveling there.

Gravitational singularity. Technological singularity. These definitions don't match.

I didn't say time was stopped in your example. I asked why it would act as a resistance to motion. I never intend rudeness; that seems to always be individually perceived. I'm sorry it came off that way. I was pointing out the irony of claiming, after underthinking about it, that science is overthinking about it. It seemed obvious that the answer is to think more about it, which you obviously have. Again, it was an observation, and wasn't intended to degrade, insult, or disparage. This wasn't my question though. I was asking for an example to help me understand the space without time concept.

I think it"s mostly everyday stuff that piles up on us. We tend to think in terms of big ticket stress (like having a heart attack!), but we usually have really good systems in most families for the big stuff, plus we recover from major traumas much better and more quickly than you think. But we blow off the bits like sitting in traffic, or dealing with drainers (people who always leave you feeling like you did all the work), or having the washing machine go out on you the day after you decided not to get the extended warranty. Just telling yourself "It is what it is" makes things worse. Choking the life out of anyone else who says it to you would be nice, but most countries are cracking down on that sort of thing. I like humor, and I think laughing and smiling reduce my stress a bit, so I try to have some reminders around that things are pretty good overall. Jokes are great (Did you hear about the guy who gets a heart transplant from a sheep? The doctor asks him afterwards how he feels, and the guy says, "Not baaaaad"). If I find myself running late a lot in the morning, I take some time at night to do a few things that will save me time the next morning. I dislike being late, but I refuse to get stressed out about it anymore. Take a couple of deep breaths, raise both arms in a V for victory (seriously, do this), and smile at the thought that your pump is unclogged. You got an upgrade! More O for you! We have lots of members. Aorta give you some advice too.

If the garment is in good shape physically, there are whitewash additives for white-only laundry that will probably restore it. I've never used them, but a flat I rented in Paris had some for black clothes. Your whites must be very white, your blacks very black. I think it's actually a law in France.

Can I have an example of "raw space"? Also, if time allows motion (stop time, stop moving, right?), how can it be a resistance to motion? This statement is absolutely delicious. It encapsulates the problem, its solution, and all the irony you could ask for,

If the garment was washed and put in the wardrobe clean, but came out stained, either something from the wardrobe stained it or something not visible is happening, like a possible reaction. It could also be that the garment is old, and the white dyes are degrading, making it seem stained.

I know that you don't like to talk about you-know-who in Hillary's thread, but you could at least acknowledge that, according to your own source, the other candidate only rated 2% above Bigfoot. 16% to 11% for honest and trustworthy. Good grief, our country is in much better shape than our leadership would reflect. This system needs changing.

But when you try to assert any right, it's only meaningful if that right is being granted to you. You may think you have the right to breathe my air when you come to my house, but if I disagree, then you need someone to enforce your rights. They won't just come automagically if I put on my mask and cut off the air. Besides, I think the concept of the People granting certain rights to everybody just because they're human citizens is stronger than some kind of automatic privileges. It forces both parties to acknowledge the importance.