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Tres Juicy

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  1. I know where I am and how fast I'm going - take that Heisenberg!

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    1. Phi for All

      Phi for All

      This morning I accidentally determined my momentum precisely, so according to Heisenberg I could be anywhere in the universe. Vacation!

    2. Tres Juicy

      Tres Juicy

      I drive like Heisenberg, I dont know where I am but I go really fast

  2. You are failing to listen to anyone else's point of view. You are not going to convert people on a Science forum to creationism. You are entitled to your beliefs, I hope they make you happy but do not push them on other people. It's rude. You don't see any of us joining religious disscussion groups and spamming their boards with posts about evolution. If you are unable/unwilling to look at any other point of view (even when evidence is provided) then this is not a discussion, it is a rant. You keep asking for evidence against your belief but you are unwilling to look at it or you dismis it completely Where is your evidence? Lets see you back up claims that clearly dont fit with Observed reality -
  3. I have several problems with some of the things you've said here... I will address the main ones. Firstly: Call me when you show why no half way chimp-human living transits appear; why did the on-going process cease. Do you accept that humans selectively bred modern dogs from wolves? If so, do you now see that it would be silly to ask "Why are there no half wolf/labradors?" The process didn't stop, wolves are still evolving to better suit their environment - they're just not evolving into labradors - thats not how it works Common ancestry does not mean that "some chimps turned into people" (evolution never said this - it is a straw man that creationists like to trot out from time to time). Chimps and humans share a common ancestry, thats all, nobody is saying that chimps are what we looked like 30 thousand years ago. Secondly: Every stated discovery made by ToE advocates, including alledged fossil findings, have been proven wrong, false and corrupt. How do you justify this statement? How can you falsify dinosaur bones found independently of each other in different parts of the world at different times? You've used the word "proven", would you care to share this "proof"?
  4. Also, if I were to argue for evolution from a religious standpoint I could say "God created everything and gave it the ability to change and adapt to suit its environment. He did this to give his creations a fighting chance." That way evolution and religion can all get along and if there seem to be discrepencies or things that don't fit well, I can say "God did it, he's cleverer than you are and maybe he doesn't want you to understand it. After all. he moves in mysterious ways..." (Again, these are not my beliefs, just an example) Would that not work?
  5. "easily proven", I am intigued, would you care to elaborate?
  6. Why do creationist's attack evolution so fervently? Personally I do not believe in a God or gods, but I dont see why if you do believe that, you couldn't agree that things evolve over time? Maybe the universe was created by higher intelligence (not my belief personally) and was setup as a system that could evolve and change. I have seen computer programs that were designed to evolve over time by by process of selection, if a man can do it surely God can, right?
  7. This statement is false
  8. I'm afraid this one's a little beyond me.... Would you care to explain it to mathematically challenged among us?
  9. Hi all, I do like a good paradox. I tend to hide this one in my internal emails at work as part of my signature: "Please ingore this email and disregard any and all instuctions contained herein" nobody seems to have noticed yet... Anyway, please post your favorites in this thread
  10. Ah... pretty cool
  11. My pleasure
  12. How would you transfer the power from orbit? I am not aware of any way to transfer electricy wirelessly and cables are space elevator tech. Or do you just mean reflected sunlight?
  13. The main bottleneck is simply the fact that we're 7 billion people now, and still growing! And there is nobody who is doing anything about that. Technology cannot solve anything if we keep breeding like rabbits. Agreed
  14. Unobtainium for sale, arbitrary prices... Get it while its unobtainable

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    2. Daedalus

      Daedalus

      I need some unobtainium. I somehow managed to lose mine after taking my medicine, Forgetitol... or was it Repressitol? I can't remember : )

    3. Tres Juicy

      Tres Juicy

      How much do you guys need?

  15. A friend of mine had a similar theory about shampoo It went like this: Since he believed that shampoo was actually very bad for your hair and robbed it of the necessary nutrients, he reasoned thusly: The word "shampoo" itself is an emalgam of two words Sham and Poo Sham, meaning fraudulent and Poo, meaning excrement. "fake shit" he would say, "they tell you it's fake shit on the bottle and you still buy it..." My point being: Both "theories" are weak at best This story is entirely true by the way, this guy was a MASSIVE conspiracy theorist and had loads of similar and bizarre notions (including: "They!" put flouride in tap water to reduce your capabilty to think and keep you compliant), he was eventually locked up for his own good...
  16. 1. We have 7,000,000,000 people (one more zero). Damn, you're too quick! I was just about to click the edit button when I saw your post... 2. The sun shines with so much power, that its power on the earth is still several orders of magnitude higher than our (fossil) energy consumption. We can't use it though our solar methods are not efficient enough and we don't have enough investment in it. We could probably get it ready in time - But I don't see any atempt being made to do that 3. We can definitely generate enough power with sustainable energy. It's an economic problem (we don't want to invest that much in it) rather than a fundamental problem. So, if we switch on time, there is no problem. Same again, we're not doing it... Let's hope that the industry is ready to go once we're out of a recession (if ever). And let's hope that the Chinese invest in sustainable energy. If not we will be in trouble... Even if we do - what about transport? Transport is vital to business, the economy and food production
  17. Hi all, I am given to believe that fossil fuel can be thought of as "stored sunlight", since all the energy on the planet comes from the sun (either currently or at some point in the past). We are currently using the resourses of 1.4 (current) earths. http://ypec.wordpres...tored-sunlight/ Fossil fuel is predicted to be depleted in less than 100 years, and there is not enough "current sunlight" to sustain a population of nearly 700,000,000 people, and our massive rate of consumption. It is predicted that this means that we will only be able to produce enough food to sustain something like 15 - 25% of the population resulting in mass starvation, not to mention the obvious economical repercussions. With little ablity to generate power, most of our scientific and technological advancements are rendered useless or unusable. We will effectively have "unplugged" our power supply to the world. Scientific and technological advancement will grind to a halt and we will be forced to go back to agricultural lifestyles to sustain ourselves. society as we know it will break down. So, my questions: 1) How can science advance without computing power and machinery? (not to mention the fact that scientists would be far too busy gathering food all day to get anything else done). 2) As this is a relatively close deadline should we not be looking into alternative sources with more urgency? 3) If we as a species are to have any hope of (very) long term survival we need to colonise other planets. How do we that with no fuel? 4) What do we do if it comes to this point and we dont have an alternative power source? 5) What should we be doing now? 6) Shouldn't we as a species be concerned with our survival than trivial short term gain? (you've made x ££'s this year, but that's no good if you find yourself burning it (literally) for fuel next year. You should have spent your time more productively). Your thoughts are appreciated Thanks, Al
  18. Haha post the results (I'm secretly dying to know...)
  19. You cant expect people to do your dirty work for you I suppose you'll just have to remain frustrated and curious....
  20. Tres Juicy

    About time

    14:43 I do I do again
  21. some interesting reading there
  22. On earth at least. If the earth were to encounter another earth-sized object the two would attract at higher speeds because the force of gravity from both would be combined. Eg: The earth accelerates youur dropped hammer at 10m per second per second, the hammer is also to some extent attracting the earth but due to its relatively low mass this effect is negligable. Scale the hammer up to earth-size though and its attraction is increased
  23. A neutron walks into a bar and says "how much for a drink?" Bartender says "for you? - No charge"
  24. Ah... so the lines of force won't change direction and the field won't change shape in any meaningful way That makes sense Thanks SH
  25. Maybe Descartes was too vague in his definition of "me/I" and "exist"... "Cogito..." It certainly can't prove that his existence is true to how he percieves it. Although I can conceed that his ability to think goes some way to proving that he exists in some way, be it as a man or as a passing thought/simulation/delusion/waveform/... Surley he can't make any distinction between these using his fallible senses though. Thanks, Al
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