Ophiolite

I'm speaking metaphorically. Also note that real 'incineration' is not 'so much cleaner' than conventional methods for conventional waste.

Make up your mind. Are you saying something or are you not? Why would anyone be interested in doing that? Besides we all know Sayonara will happily distort facts on a pro bono basis. We are creating history here on science forums? Wow! So which species interprets these observations correctly?

Sayonara: "Then everyone will be able to keep miniature ones as pets, to intrigue and entertain the whole family." Hellbender:"who would want someone like that as a pet?" Aarddvark:"I bet the squishy noise they'd make when you tread on them would be most satisfying." Mokele:"The screams would make feeding time even more fun!" Ah, the objectivity of the unbiased scientific mind in action. (Now why do the first letters of your names spell out SHAM?)

Still successfully fighting down the urge to reply to your rhetorical question.

You have three children;two of them bright, outgoing, self-motivated, the third, bright but dyslexic, shy, scared of failure. Would you make no extra effort to help the third child realise its potential? I place affirmative actions programs at the same ethical level. Societies are families, writ large.

ecoli. I'll say it again. My responses were very serious answers formulated in comedic form. You may feel free to tell me my comedy stinks and my points are invalid, but please don't tell me I did not give a serious response. It is regrettable if the structure of my response was misinterpreted by you, but I am not going to abandon a range of styles that limit what I am trying to express because sometimes I miss the target. The use of the smiley to convey lighthearteness I have deduced from observed usage on this forum..

ecoli. Read with your brain on this one, between the lines. In my first post I've pointed out that an Earth centred Universe is exactly what the Greeks envisaged. If I I make that openly, as a point to a poster calling themselves Demosthenes, that would be rude, so I reminded him of it with some weak humour. In my second post I am pointing out that movment is relative. But also by making such a bizarre inflated claim that the Universe revolves around me I am agreeing with Demosthenes, and disagreeing:it is all relative! If all else had failed the smiley at the end says.. "Friend, this is a light hearted reply".. It doesn't say 'there is a serious message there too, if you want to take it.' I leave that last to each reader to figure out for themselves. Demosthenes - how were you reading my responses?

No. The sun, the planets and the moon and stars, and the Earth, all move relative to me. I'm fairly certain I am at the centre of the Universe. Any time I wake from sleep there I am. It's uncanny.

I undrstand the many worlds interpretation get's around the state of the cat by having it dead in one reality and live in the other. I'm not too bothered if I'm wrong, since I'm sure I'm right on several alternate time lines. All this pointed discussion has me in such a state I may collapse at any moment.

Glasses.Everything beyond twenty two inches or three months is very blurry without. I usually take them off to read, then step on them or sit on them.

Who determines they are terrorists? Judge/Jury/Executioner is another phrase that springs to mind.

Absolutely. Didn't you just post this in Universe 6749-a-4757-rt-456788m, but with correct grammar?

Research has shown that rigor mortis inhibits hiccups, so death would be an effective option, and practical if someone else's hiccups is bothering you.

No torture. Nothing that I wouldn't object to happening to one of my adult children. I want to be absolutely certain I maintain the moral high ground and not descend to his level. Besides this akward phrase keeps looping through my head - "innocent till proven guilty".

Incineration is so much cleaner.

I propose we acknowledge two types of perpetual motion machines, with machines defined loosely. Perpetual motion machines (Type I) (always emboldened) are the true, conventional type, that would flout the laws of physics. The second type (Type II) is the perpetual motion machine(always italicised), which receives periodic inputs of external energy, either accidentally or deliberately, which keep it going. And I humbly recommend that this thread be identified as a Type II perpetual motion machine.

Hellbender, I suspect you did not see this film on a full cinema screen, in the 1960s,, when special effects meant tomato ketchup for blood or sitting in a 'boat' in front of a back-projection screen. The realism was so far ahead of anything that had been done before. (Alexi Leonov, one of the first cosmonauts, and the first man to space walk, said to Clarke, after he saw the film "Now I have been in space twice.") Most people who saw it back then, liked it for the effects, though they didn't get the story. This has always puzzled me because I thought the story could hardly have been made simpler. Remember, there is only one character in the film. This point was echoed the year following the film's release by a certain Neil Armstrong. "One small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind."

Certainly. And judging by your name you may be ideally suited. You will have to start speaking ancient Greek, wear a toga, never sully yourself with experimental data (so a future career in string theory is possible), own a couple of slaves and think the amphora merchant's wagon boy is rather pretty. Good luck.

Perhaps you could consider a name change to Ptolemy..

Look into the practicality of terraforming Mars. Its topical, there are abundant resources on the web, and you get to read a great SF trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) as research.

Not quite sure where you are going to (or coming from) with that one. Could you elborate in relation to the other posts.

These tend to degenerate into a "god made me do it", "No he didn't" type of discussion. I am tempted to argue the case against evolution just to have some decent opposition. (I'm assuming your on the evolution side of the debate.) If you enjoy a good confrontation I'll do my level best to find something to disagree on. Welcome to the forum, by the way.

I surmise he's hoping to halt global warming by switching to nuclear power and is looking for somewhere to dump the radioactive waste.

As I always say in these circumstances, eschew obfuscation.