dimreepr

I think its more socialization you mean, social conditioning is far stronger and tends to be applied by others on individuals (brainwashing) rather than self imposed.

In my youth I would clamp a pair of headphones to an acoustic guitar and use them as a rudimentary microphone, it can be done but the quality isn’t great. I don’t imagine you’d get very much electricity from this idea even if you seriously scale it up and find a relatively stable source of sound waves.

When a person moves to a new area they, from the start, begin to assimilate the local accent, seemingly subconsciously. Yet to the locals the original accent is, generally, still very strong, however if said person returns home they often sound like a ‘native’ of the region they’ve moved to. I assume it’s a social imperative of sorts but why isn’t the process more complete? The person enters a sort of half way house neither one nor the other, the social fit is incomplete and therefore, in some respects, counterproductive as he/she is markedly different, both, in the new and the old social groups.

I feel a new topic is called for. Keep your eyes peeled.

It can be surprising how short range this issue can be, if I travel 250 miles from my home near Gloucester to Newcastle they may as well be talking Swahili.

It's hitting the bars looking for women, I suppose you could call it “trawling”.

Wow that’s a tremendously selfish position to take, give a thought for the train driver. http://www.thisisdorset.net/news/4547664.The_worst_nightmare_of_every_train_driver/

We are social animals and war in general is a result of ignorance not an excess of knowledge, so in what way are we the problem? What is it you think needs fixing about ourselves? When, with science, we have found and understood what you think needs fixing, do you intend to force this fix on people? The metaphorical dice you talk of isn’t always ours to roll, previous extinction events had nothing to do with us and without science we are certainly unable to defend ourselves from future such events. Without a working knowledge of the future how can you possibly know we will lose? The only way to unlearn what is known is to undergo the very disaster you seek to avoid and effectively regress to the Stone Age, problem solved.

Without a working knowledge of the future it’s impossible to define any such line, even if one existed.

Knowledge leads to understanding, wisdom is understanding.

How am I supposed to post with righteous indignation now?

I’d be more inclined to view this so called evidence if both these sites weren’t trying to sell me a pyramid or connected items. Wikipedia takes a more objective view. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidology

I certainly don’t agree that “there must be a supreme entity of some sort.” Physics goes on shoring up the current theories and in doing so create ever smaller areas in which theist’s can point and say God must be there. At the same time psychologists describe the reasons, we humans, feel a need to have a deity of sorts to cling to. The pincers of science get ever closer to pinching out the flame of God.

No it really isn't and what films, that aren't fiction, have you seen? What makes you think we'll go mad without preparation? Pseudoscience isn't science and do you have access to the 400 year old razor blade? Some evidence of these claims please. Please let's not go down that road it's clearly not fake. edit/ Wikipedia doesn't think it's fake.

The fermionic condensate is made of matter and the BEC is made of photons and gluons? Does this mean that the BEC is a liquid force field (or maybe a superliquid force field)?

I guess we’ll find out on Wednesday but here’s some interesting reading in the mean time. http://networkedblogs.com/zsIH4

First, what are your sources? Second, what has this to do with aliens?

It makes no sense to you, or me for that matter, but it clearly made sense to those that built it. http://planetsave.com/2012/06/24/stonehenge-marked-the-unification-of-britain-researchers-say/

Probably not as the island had no indigenous people but instead was settled, most likely, by Polynesians about 1200ad. Also the language stayed close enough to the original that continued contact was almost certain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

This was an obviously poor attempt at humour, I should have used a smiley.

As an interesting aside the stones were quarried in Pembrokeshire 160 miles from the site. http://www.huffingto..._n_1158764.html edit/ and this is probably how they were built. http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stonehenge/construction.php

I live very close to Stonehenge; he’s got a point about the aliens they pop back once a year to make pretty patterns in the crops just to prove they did it.

Maybe, maybe not, it is of course pure speculation with absolutely nothing to back it. I prefer the null hypothesis to inform my conclusions on the subject. You are clearly an intelligent man with a strong mathematical/physics ability, but equally clear is your inability to communicate with humility and, to a lesser extent, clarity. This doesn’t mean you have to be nice to everyone, but assuming most others lack understanding is both arrogant and just plain wrong, many members here are your equal or better, I of course don’t include myself, but even I get your meaning, it’s not hard to follow, I just don’t agree with your conclusions.

What obvious facts you have provide zero evidence to support what you are calling facts. off topic what’s this got to do with your premise Nobody in this thread has suggested intelligent life doesn’t exist in our universe please re-read DH’s post #30 and many others. The observable universe has been measured http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe This has been explained several times. You clearly believe in this, but that doesn’t make it true and blaming a giant conspiracy, seemingly focused on you, just doesn’t make any sense. This thread has so far provided plenty of evidence against your assertions, you have provided almost nothing and what you have provided has been debunked. Closed minded is when you ignore all evidence placed before you in favour of what you believe, only you fit this description in this thread. It really is time to put up (evidence) or shut up.

It helps me in judging the quality and clarity of my posts. Not at all, I judge each post on content, not who writes it.