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And why not, or rather, why can't they be? I find it absolutely preposterous that you are objecting to allowing two people who love each other to marry, on the basis of their sex and orientation.

It looks like Farsight might be making a comeback, so keep your eyes open and get your bingo card ready.

That's because you have yet to provide math, and predictions, and physical evidence for your "hypothesis". If you want to get rid of that label, put up or shut up!

I don't know, after reading all of lucaspa's posts (and not just on this thread), I'm beginning to agree with him that GM humans are probably not a good idea (except for maybe screening for terminal illnesses, but that's not really genetic engineering though...) , at least on this planet. The problem with the other side on this issue, as I see it, is that it is plagued with the "you can have your cake and eat it too" mentality; that there is nothing wrong with our lifestyles/habitats, we just need better drugs, more "advanced" food, or even better humans....

I know it's been a while, but have you guys come up with a verdict yet on whether there should be one or not?

Yes there is. Nope. Yes. Nope, wrong. Keep it up, the more you post, the closer I get to bingo .

How boring!

Alright people, get your bingo chips ready .

Around my area, Amtrak already built a bullet train between Boston and New York City, and between New York and Washington. Never rode on it yet, but the rest of my family has at one time though. The bullet train doesn't go as fast as it's Japanese or it's European counterparts though, about 150 mph. It's called Acela Express in case you are wondering. You can read more about it right here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express ============================== Other then that, every other mass transit system is generally poor. I have to walk 2 blocks from my college to use a bus, for example.

How about not. I quite like my computer plus it was expensive, thank you very much.

Oh, everybody just knows that this is just a diversion, so the government doesn't ever have to tell the truth about that alien mothership it keeps in their secret hangars .

I play violent video games and I'm not violent, does that count?

I don't think the Casimir effect could be used to solve any of our energy problems though; the energy density of the vacuum is much too low.

Well, here's my bingo card: http://www.scienceforums.net/crackpotBingo.php?card=a%3A25%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A6%3A%22School%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A7%3A%22Turtles%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bs%3A12%3A%22Priest%2FBible%22%3Bi%3A3%3Bs%3A3%3A%22Rue%22%3Bi%3A4%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Predicts%22%3Bi%3A5%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Strawman%22%3Bi%3A6%3Bs%3A7%3A%22Galileo%22%3Bi%3A7%3Bs%3A10%3A%22Censorship%22%3Bi%3A8%3Bs%3A4%3A%22Math%22%3Bi%3A9%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Topology%22%3Bi%3A10%3Bs%3A4%3A%22Like%22%3Bi%3A11%3Bs%3A5%3A%22Prize%22%3Bi%3A12%3Bs%3A6%3A%22Quotes%22%3Bi%3A13%3Bs%3A11%3A%22Metaphysics%22%3Bi%3A14%3Bs%3A9%3A%22Particles%22%3Bi%3A15%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Einstein%22%3Bi%3A16%3Bs%3A4%3A%22Huh%3F%22%3Bi%3A17%3Bs%3A3%3A%22Mum%22%3Bi%3A18%3Bs%3A3%3A%22You%22%3Bi%3A19%3Bs%3A11%3A%22Interaction%22%3Bi%3A20%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Religion%22%3Bi%3A21%3Bs%3A4%3A%22GIFs%22%3Bi%3A22%3Bs%3A5%3A%22Nobel%22%3Bi%3A23%3Bs%3A6%3A%22Eponym%22%3Bi%3A24%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Gedanken%22%3B%7D I guess I will start with Vishal.

Threads in this subsection can be quite odd at times.

I'm going to take a wild guess as I am only a casual observer.

That's not how it works. Forests and similar ecological habitats are a huge carbon sinks. If you cut them all down, then you release all that carbon into the atmosphere. The carbon that is being released was not in the air previously (or at least for a long time anyways). And this is only cutting down the forest, not counting the process of refining and burning, other damages, etc. But the studies provided already shown that wrong. It is cost competitive but not reliable. And that is a strawman. No they did not. They really only talked about the net energy increase ratio. And, all recent sources and data shows this claim not to be true, unless you are talking about sugarcane and not corn or switch grass. But then, not a whole lot of ethanol is coming from sugarcane in the first place. You have to go with more recent data, not the outdated ones. Sure they do. It goes without saying that since you divert more resources to ethanol rather then food, there will be less corn available for food, and especially since the demand for food is already still high. Also, farmers are diverting more resources to produce ethanol rather than food, so that takes into account. And the last thing is, is that the other products that are made with corn do factor in too, because they use the same resource. But my studies contradict yours and show that this simply isn't the case, and these are much more recent. You have to go with the more up to date ones. Besides which you haven't shown any data for your assumptions yet. Read the above. Actually yes it is. All you have made was a hand wave and an evasion. Well, to be blunt, the occasional oil spill would probably be preferable as that only happens once in a while and can be cleaned up much more easily then having to deal with the ecological damage that the large farms do, and it would take far less than 160+ years to fix, rather then the carbon emissions that will be released from ethanol production. And, nuclear power is quite safe, Chernobyl only happened because of incompetence with the Soviet engineers and bureaucracy.

Well, we already use magnets to generate electricity via a turbine, so it goes without saying that you would need them, because moving magnetic fields will induce an electric current. But, in every instance, there is a source of energy to actually make those magnets spin around the coil of wire, whether it would be from superheated steam (heated via fossil fuels, solar, geothermal, or nuclear), or hydroelectric, or a wind mill or tidal waves (which is still in it's experimental stage I think). So, if this ZPE machine actually does work, it would have to induce a current somehow (and a large amount at that). How it does this is the OP's problem.

Also note the fact that if you used electromagnets rather then permanent ones, those take up quite a bit of power, so does this process and the machine result in a net energy increase?

How I love the irony. Then why should we take you seriously? If you are going to tell us about this wonderful energy source and the machine that can tap it, it is up to YOU to provide all the details. Otherwise this is nothing more than appeal to conspiracy. I suggest you reconsider that then, because the link I provided doesn't seem at all favorable to the idea of ZPE in general. Why can't you just tell us the details? Provide a link? Tell us the procedure taken? The results found? How MUCH energy can be tapped with this machine? What is it's efficiency? How does it compare to other sources and processes of collecting energy? I mean, seriously, we are giving you a chance to prove yourself.

Read this for a reference as to what we are talking about: http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/296 And I ask you, why don't you just post a link that gives details on such a machine? Or a reference from a reputable source?

To the OP, why do you seem so reluctant to just post a link referring to this supposedly functional device? That there exists a machine that can tap into ZPE and that it is somehow being "suppressed". Not really. I know that the proposed machines that hope to tap into such "limitless" energy don't work. I suppose because they actually know what they are doing and have spent a lot longer then you have studying this problem. Plus, they also show math and reasoning and physical evidence that everyone can look at and verify, so I know that they aren't just making it up.

Hey, no fair! I called Bingo first!

Actually, that really is your problem. You are the one who is promoting this idea, not us. Because you are the one making the claim. We are asking our own questions, to you! All we are asking is for you to provide one detailed schematic of such a machine that can supposedly tap into ZPE. Of course, if you actually read the link I posted much earlier, you would have realized that such a machine probably wouldn't be useful for solving our energy problems.

TN is an abbreviation for Tennessee. TX would be Texas.