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Assuming that it works, I think the biggest limitation would be structural integrity. The paper linked in this thread mentions that it generates power through vibrations on the order of THz. It seems to me that such a rapid vibration would quickly cause and accumulate microfractures until the piezoelectric material no longer induces a voltage. If I knew more about engineering, I could theoretically calculate how long this device would produce its ~1MW/cm3. I think you might be right on the energy balance here, as the power itself is coming from the piezoelectrics rather than space. The power depletion will use the energy used to make the piezoelectrics piezoelectric and to assemble the structure itself.

The jump directly from improbability to "God did it" is not a valid one.

Have you actually ever watched Tom and Jerry? I wouldn't categorize that as light.

So, you're basing your generalization on our sexually repressed culture despite the existence of other cultures which have no such problems.

If accuracy is wanted, the biology of the target should be taken into account as well. Take humans for example: a punch to the throat may kill a man, but an identical punch to the arm might just annoy him.

You need to at least take impulse into account. I=Fxt=p2-p1 The time in which the momentum change occurs determines the force applied. Force and pressure are both important in determining the amount of damage done.

That's really what I want to discuss. It doesn't matter to the election if it was warranted (or, as birtherism et al proved, true or even rational); what matters is how it will affect the public opinion.

Why do we wear clothing? Well, the primary function of clothing is to act as an insulator. It keeps us warm in the cold. You can see this by the varying amounts of clothing in varying climates (which also shows that the shame factor you alluded to is not only a secondary function, but is also not a universal one). Moses in all probability never existed, and Genesis was written in 800BC (iirc).

Now that it's come out that Pawlenty pardoned a child molester so he could open a day care center in his home (and the child molester has since re-offended and been arrested), do you think his chances for the Republican POTUS ticket have changed?

A recent arxiv paper seems to indicate that we may be able to extract quite a bit of power from vacuum energy via piezoelectrics and the casimir force.

The real Jesus forgives your Jesus for being an asshole.

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What do you mean?

Necromancy now. Hopefully, thread is now back. I like to Haiku.

It doesn't have enough gravitation to cause fusion let alone balance the explosive force of fusion.

The rapture did happen....the Amish have been beamed up.

He also says specifically in Matthew that the entire Law is important and must be followed to the letter until the end of days.

They're not trying to make black holes on Saturday, are they?

Energy. E2=(mc2)2+(pc)2. Using that equation, calculate the energy of a mere 100kg ship at rest relative to you. Then calculate the energy of that same ship at 0.25c relative to you. Is the energy difference large or small?

I fail to see your point. There's such a thing as natural theology. In my third post, however, I did provide Biblical quotes.

I wonder what the Bible says. Well, let's see. The only verse I could find that disapprove of abortion specifically is Exodus 21:22-25. "When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." Ah, so abortion is wrong! Not so fast; let's take a minute and look a bit closer. It seems that this only covers an extremely small subset of abortions. This indicates that if two men are fighting and accidentally cause an abortion, then they must pay a fine. The only time actual injury is involved is if the woman is hurt. This verse seems a bit too narrow to apply across the board about abortion, but the rest are covered by "Thou shalt not murder", right? Unfortunately, the Bible does not give a definition of murder, so we cannot tell whether the abortion of a fetus is murder. We can, however, gather some information from the above verse to make a judgement on whether abortion is murder. Consider that this verse is the only type of abortion that is specifically called out as wrong. That could mean either it is murder (all other abortions are implied) or that it is not (this is a lesser type of abortion). The punishment, though, gives us a clue. This case of abortion sounds like it might be an accidental death. Let's look at the punishment for that "Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate. But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death."-Exodus 21:12-14 So, we can clearly see that premeditated murder calls for death, but you go free for manslaughter. The punishment for manslaughter doesn't quite fit here. The abortion verse might also be for property damage, so let's look at the punishment for that. I couldn't find a verse specifically about property damage, but Exodus 22 goes on about theft. Basically, you have to pay for what you stole. In the one case of property damage (crops burned by fire), the punishment is replacing the crops. If we look at the accidental abortion as a case of property damage (which isn't all that unlikely in the times these laws were written), then we should expect the punishment to be restitution of the property! It's not very feasible to just give them another fetus, so it seems reasonable that the husband(the property owner) and the court should decide a reasonable compensation. While it does seem that abortion would be viewed as theft or property damage, the Bible is rather unclear. As far as I can tell, there's nothing there to say that abortion is wrong in general. If it is indeed equal to property damage, can a man be punished for breaking his own property? There are rather large assumptions in the OP. One of them, as I indicated in the OP, is a Protestant view of the afterlife. That eliminates limbo or purgatory.

Only if He waits until then to impart the soul. But then, why would He give a soul to a fetus that would be aborted?

It's a biological fact that the vast majority of pregnancies end in miscarriage(often without the mother even knowing she's pregnant). If the soul enters at fertilization, this presents a bit of a problem for the Christian anti-abortion people. If these unborn deaths send the souls to Hell, that would make God morally evil. As God is by definition morally perfect, that is not an option. This means(assuming the protestant tradition) that the unborn who die go directly to Heaven. Would that not mean abortion is one of the most morally praiseworthy acts possible as it spares a soul all suffering and delivers it directly to paradise?

I don't have an MRI machine, but I'd also like to volunteer to provide the.....uh......stimulation. Just make sure there's no uggos in your study.