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Actually, it looks a bit like you've seen two UFO fanatics on LSD.

Sorry, but this reads kind of funny.

No, I'm getting in touch with them all right. It's the fact that Leir sent alien objects for analysis that seem to not hold up.

About that... I'm currently checking with the labs you named earlier. So far, not looking so good. But until I'm done, Leir was apparently featured on Penn & Teller's show. Haven't seen it yet, but it might be worth looking into.

I'm saying that until these labs have confirmed their results themselves, we can't know the author didn't manufacture the reports himself. He might as well have made everything up, from the implants even existing to him sending them in to the labs, to getting the results he claimed. I'm not sure how to say this more clearly, but you can't take what he writes in the book as an absolute truth without confirming with the labs in question. Name the labs.

So the only evidence the implants are extra terrestial, or even exist, are in his book? And that doesn't ring a bell? Until such a time that you show reports from an unbiased third party, it's not confirmed scientific evidence.

So basically more anecdotal evidence? Where are the reports from the labs he sent the implants to?

You know what else has nothing but anecdotal evidence? Fairies. http://www.fairygardens.com/sightings/ Why give more credence to abductees than fairy sighters? Citation, please.

If you did, the only reason you'd mention the boxer would be to be snide. You wouldn't do that, would you? And anectdotal evidence from an alien abduction survivor isn't real evidence.

Guess I didn't even need to get home before you proved my "opinion" as fact. And you seem to have difficulties taking in information from this thread as well. I suspect a troll, but of course there could be underlying causes.

Sure. Try not to get the topic locked until I get off work.

One of the craziest attempts to introduce a conspiracy I've ever read. So many things wrong with that post, it's hard to know where to begin. You obviously know nothing about Tyson, and you seem to have no clue about what Sagan meant for the popularization of science.

They're all alike, only difference is their frequency. A "blue" photon is the exact same as a "red" one, except for its frequency (or wavelength/energy, but those 3 are all related to eachother).

A photon's energy depends on its wavelength. So two photons can have different energy.

You can try this, but you're not crystal clear about what you need. Maybe Flash would work as well? http://knpforschools.m.webs.com/site

Any fraction of infinity is also infinity. Saying 0.0...1% of infinity is as pointless as saying half of infinity, it just doesn't work. So if your numbers are derived from space being infinite and matter being a fraction of space, chances are you haven't given this enough thought.

So because space and time are infinite, matter takes up 0.00...1%? How much, would you say, is 0.00...1% of infinity?

From that article: Let's not go crazy here.

I don't know if you can access the code directly, but the the tool to use it is "tc", as decribed in this link: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem Hopefully you can find something useful there, or in the source.

From what I understand, NETEM is baked into the Linux kernel, so it won't have a main function. You'll have to figure out where the operating system calls the functions, then make a main function of your own from that. ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/gpl/AS1800/linux-2.4.27/net/sched/sch_netem.c

But if you blow up the balloon, every axis is expanding. Why can't that analogy be applied to the universe?

Right, after having had a look at it again, in peace and quiet, I've come up with a few ideas you might want to try. Again, I've never used ActionScript, so what I say might very well be wrong. In the 116-180 and 181-195 if statements, the call to gotoAndPlay() has an added curly bracket between the function name and the parentheses. gotoAndPlay}(180) // should perhaps be gotoAndPlay(180) Also, I'm fairly sure you need to end your statements with a semi-colon. With these two things in mind, try this and see if it works (separated the lines a bit for clarity) b2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,b2handler); function b2handler(event:MouseEvent) { if(currentFrame>=0 && currentFrame<=50) { gotoAndPlay(50); // added semi-colon } else if(currentFrame>=51 && currentFrame<=115) { gotoAndPlay(115); // added semi-colon } else if(currentFrame>=116 && currentFrame<=180) { gotoAndPlay(180); // added semi-colon, removed curly bracket } else if(currentFrame>=181 && currentFrame<=195) { gotoAndPlay(50); // added semi-colon, removed curly bracket } }

I'm an artist at heart, trust me. But take a look at this picture and answer something, if you don't mind. The green is this big thing that the universe is headed for. White dots are other galaxies. Yellow is Earth, while the orange blobs A, B, C and D are all galaxies at about the same distance away from us. Now, according to your theory, unless I'm getting you wrong, A and C would have the same redshift (for reasons you posted above, regardless of whether they're actually accurate). But what about B and D? They are moving towards the green Universe eater at exactly the same speed. So that means, they wouldn't be redshifted. In reality though, they are. Why? Edit: Sorry, messed up the image link. Should work now.

What language is this? If it's ActionScript, which it kind of looks like, I think you might be missing quite a few semi colons. Though I've never really used it so can't speak for certain about the syntax. Also, which of these lines produces the error? gotoAndPlay(50); ... gotoAndPlay(115); ... And so on.

I think that raises a warning flag right there. If he has actually tried to push out his ideas, and people would find them interesting or at least not absolutely baseless, he would be talked about. I see you've also asked on Randi's forum. While their forum inhabitants aren't perhaps the most eloquent bunch, they are good with finding flaws when it comes to claims of the paranormal. It's all a very interesting concept, but until we have evidence of any of it, it falls in the fiction category. Also, his anecdotal claims make him a bit less trustworthy in my opinion.