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The mods are generally pretty lenient as long as there is some well supported science behind what is being said. Another thing is how the idea has been presented, if an idea is presented as fact and the OP plans to argue about it like he or she has made an earnest contribution to the scientific community the mods will likely shut it down pretty fast. The reason for this--I assume--is pretty much the same as my assumed reason why you are making your points, they feel insulted. People work really hard to make their contributions to have less scientifically mature individuals come along waiving their big ideas around, and a lot of the time they really do not understand what they are even saying. Threads that deal with controversial topics are best addressed by maintaining them as controversial, where they are best presented as open questions under debate which is quite different from presenting them as fact. Would be, but for most individuals this would probably not be to their benefit and it would be asking an awful lot. I say most because there are those who enjoy living dangerously! I don't believe he was referring to his own threads, he may have been smug at points but I would expect that ignoring him is the most appropriate maneuver where confronting the behaviour might incite further such behaviour. I guess how individuals deal with their affronts are based on what the individual wishes to gain from their experiences. For me, molding those who do not meet my expectations into what I would prefer of them is more productive than chasing them away; unless of course they are simply impossible as individuals, in which case I terminate the relationship. I say this because I am interested in what drives your personal approach, and not because I condone his behaviour. @homie12 I would like to point out that my thread on little green aliens was opened in speculations by myself, it was not moved there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd-CFI4EhBU

Well, I feel satisfied with my investigation. : D

These are clearly macroscopic and not microscopic, at best it could be argued to be a stereomicroscopic image. But stereomicroscopic is not really microscopic it's more like slightly magnified. There are obvious indications of climbing plant growth that further defines the precise scale of this image. The mountains and the lake in the background, alongside the orange tinted cloud coming in from the left suggests to me that this is a close up of a vine plant either against or near a window in some particular arrangement, overlooking a lake. I see nothing to suggest any photoshopping of the image and I say this having done extensive amounts of work with texturing and photo manipulation using photoshop myself. Having spent about ten hours in microscopes over the last week or two I can honestly say you are barking up the wrong tree. Even if it is a stereoscopic close up of a plant--which it isn't because there is no backing plate for contrast-- . . . . .

It relates to what I am presently seeking to research--advancements in human cellular morphology, through application of technology, as a means of maintaining homeostatic functionality indefinitely. It's not an attempt to define what an alien should be, but to more clearly define a goal for our evolutionary future. I am unfamiliar with the works of either of Billy Meier or Richard Dolan but I will make it a point to investigate.

I can't dig through this thread and I haven't followed it at all but I just read the following and I liked it and so I'm posting the link as I found it insightful about the matter.

CO2 is bigger than H20 and so fine filtration is not really an option unless there is an ionic choke that selectively plays on the ionic properties of water. So the filtration device would allow anything as large as CO2 through but no larger. I believe you could accomplish this using carbon fiber nano tubules. Sugars and everything else couldn't pass through the filter because they would just be too big. Carbon nano tubules are not a fabric and so would not trap these larger molecules. Trapping larger molecules that can then be exposed to environmental air is how food born pathogens are allowed to grow. This sort of filtration device would be awfully expensive for a pop can to simply prevent overflow, but it would make for an excellent research project. You would gain a lot of knowledge in doing so.

If my post is out of place I understand, I apologize, and I thank you to just kindly delete it. I think that statements like these are more theological, and that they are made with the intent of sounding sophisticated, when in fact they are not. I will try to reword the statement in a way that might reflect the context under which it may have been given. With all things being equal, under principles of reducibility, because nothing is something, and therefore all things are nothing, anything can be anything. Theological conjectures like these are great at cocktail parties where everyone has had a little too much to drink. The sad reality of statements like these are they devaluate all of life as we know it. You mentioned smoking and this brings up another good point. Points of view like this actually have a very deep impact on the human mind. Often young individuals who are experimenting with drug use find interest in statements like these (i.e. high school and college students in particular students working in the arts.) When they do and they can't explain the idea in their head--or adequately debunk the concept for what it is--they can feel devaluated. Believe it or not but thoughts like these have been known to lead underdeveloped minds to suicide and I believe this is actually a driving force in their circulation amongst would be 'deep thinkers.' This is not really a math question and the persistence of some is kind of sick when you think about it no? At any rate, these are my thoughts on the subject!

Have you read the book?

Maybe imatfaal--slips in question, what is an imatfaal--can give us a review so we can decide from there. I am not much into literature, and this is probably why my English teacher indicates to me that I am border line illiterate. My poor English isn't however reason enough for me to suddenly start reading; I require a little push. Will I cry, have a sudden bout of paranoia, not be able to turn my light off at night? Anything profound will do!

Do thrillers contain weird symbols that I will only be able to derive meaning from and be able to apply through hundreds of hours of painstaking mental labour?

Well that's kind of sucky; oh well! : )

I'm from Canadia where I am only issued Monopoly money--you know? Does he like thrillers??

SFN Blog Forum has seemingly stopped updating itself! I do not read the blog from there, but I found it useful in being able to give feedback for blog entries through the ability to assign rep points. Now how will I give ajb a point for his well thought out post on general relativity, gravity, and the curvature of space??

I'll definitely give this a try, I often find I pick too difficult a text for a first read and I'm left baffled. Having an overview that allows me to reach the concepts first is probably best. I've been looking to Phys Chem texts to fill in the gap. I think however that these texts have been supporting the very views that you have just pointed out as being maybe too strict in their adherence to ideas that might be better stated in other ways. They also tend to put a good deal of emphasis on the Bohr model as it applies to ideas related to equipartition theorem and--as Swansont has mentioned before--this isn't a proper way to address QM. Appreciated!

I think if it was rear drive + steer, cars would jacknife and people would die, often. Maybe if it was front wheel drive with rear wheel steering, there would be a functional mode of travel, but the end result would be vastly inferior. I have nothing to substantiate my claims, my opinions come from limited experience driving cars (8 hours total) and forklifts (10 years+). I'm seeing something for each in my head but I can't put it in words at the moment. Free body diagrams FTW? There have been interesting advances in independent 4 wheel steering!

I'll keep these points in mind as I continue my studies; thanks guys!

Ok, be gentle with me please, my physics is poor and English even worse! What I can't follow with all of this is the following. Schrodinger developed wave equations that model particle behaviour at <macroscopic scale, and these behaviours also tend to be lost at >macroscopic scale. As far as I know or understand, these equations are built on the principles of standing waves. This would suggest to me that there is a defined position. But now HUP comes along and says that defining the areas that a wave-particle will occupy can only be accomplished statistically and through probabilities, which to me contradicts the proposition that such elements could therefor be standing-waves. I have Messiah's book, translated into English (I might like to get the original French version someday) but I can only manage the first few chapters as it stands.

Well I posted a thread on MSDN, so maybe they can give me the low down, with a bit of smackdown. Thanks for taking a boo TonyMcC!

That actually makes sense, because the only programs it affects at startup are programs that want to connect to the internet. It does look as though it is searching for something. But that is SSMS, not the server itself. I've never had issues with SSMS . . . Meh, I'll go post on MSDN. The gurus should have an answer.

Why does having an active MS-SQL Server Database intermittently suspend the loading sequence of non-systems software at startup? Even with my Max-IOPs drive, it still hangs for a minute 3 out of every 4 or so system start-ups. This isn't an error, this much I know. It is simply a by-product of activity that I have never looked deeper into and am really curious as to the cause. **posting here before stackoverflow**

As Cap' has mentioned, but in addition there are external pressures crushing in on that central area. So even though the net gravity is weakest at that point, points further out radially are being pulled inward toward the center. All of these other points of mass being pulled inward ensure the fact that the center will not be hollow.