Moontanman

Maize "corn" is grown in many varieties, some very different from each other and used in several different ways. Many of these varieties of "corn" are highly localized, and grown in what amounts to extreme isolation. From a variety of popcorn that has many mini ears on each plant to huge ears that are used to make a variety of local dishes in places like Peru. There are 6 basic types of corn and many varieties of each. My own grandfather developed his own strain of sweet corn that he grew much of his life. It was small ears that were so full of sugar the seeds often burst open with sugar crystals when it was dried. I am not that familiar with rice or wheat but google is your friend...

Whoa, mine is only 5.07, I gotta try harder! 68,000 views and change, i always thought profile views were almost as important as points. At least it means you have gotten someone's attention...

The best sci fi short film I've seen!

A documentary is a poor place to get info, possibly a documentary might prompt you to start looking, but I can probably find a documentary that asserts the moon is a hollow alien spaceship..

Red Mercury? Can you give a citation that such a thing actually exists? From what i understand it is a urban legend... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury

from your own link: We are unlikely to ever know anything exactly about the Earth's core, it's forever out of direct observation due to the extreme conditions that exist there. All we can do is run experiments too build models that closely resemble what we observe. You still do not get to make up your own "mystery" to explain something your personal incredulity makes you doubt. skepticism is a good thing but being a skeptic doesn't allow you to simply make up stuff to explain what you cannot personally understand..

Yes, I would in fact like a real citation not some anonymous source on another forum... In fact the next anonymous source on your page puts the first in question. I didn't suggest the core reactor was a consensus of mai stream science I was pointing out that other ideas are out there that do not require some mysterious sorce you cannot name, that you cannot even give a coherent account of much less a citation from any science based source that agrees with you. You do not get to simply piss on established science because you don't "believe" or need to believe some fairy tail...

Moreno, when you make an assertion on this forum we expect you to backup your assertion with whatever evidence caused you to believe your assertion has merit. No one expects you to be a PHD in any subject you want to investigate but it is expected that you do give us more than " I don't understand therefore its not understandable." I'm not sure why you have a problem with this... can you elaborate? Believe is a bit less than precise term Moreno and I'm not so sure that everyone believes "all the heat produced" inside of Pluto is caused by radioactivity. Energy from the accretion of Pluto has to be taken into account as well as the heat produced from tidal forces in the Plutonium system. Then there is this concept: Pluto may be small but it could have some smaller version of this. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earth-03k.html Not necessarily, tidal flexing and impacts import energy to a body in space. Seems reasonable to me but I would like to see a citation for this. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earth-03k.html What would we find if we were to dig a hole all the way down to the centre of the Earth? According to high school science books we would discover a liquid iron alloy core and a smaller solid inner core at the center. For ten years, geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon has presented increasingly persuasive evidence that at the very centre of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a five mile in diameter sphere of uranium which acts as a natural nuclear reactor. Dr. Herndon likes to term this beast the "georeactor". Think of the early Earth as having been like a spherical steel hearth. A hot ball of liquid elements freshly formed out of the primordial disc surrounding our sun. The densest metals sinking down by force of gravity while lighter materials "floated" outwards. Uranium is very dense. At about 19 grams per cubic centimeter, it is 1.6 times more dense than lead at the Earth's surface. But deep within our planet density depends only on atomic number and atomic mass. Uranium, having the greatest atomic number and atomic mass, would be the most dense substance in our planet and will ultimately end up at the center of the Earth. The implications of this relatively new georeactor hypothesis are far reaching indeed. Not only does it threaten to change the way we view our own Earth and planetary formation in general but the very origin of the stars might need to be rewritten. I lost some of my post to an 40... something error, I'll try to clear it up after I eat...

PBS produced a show i saw last night discussing what they called Lazarus Taxia. Animals long thought to be extinct but then unexpectedly found. They suggested that the coelacanth would be an example of this phenomena. One of the reasons given is that some species simply become too rare or live mostly in environments that do not produce fossils with any regularity. A cambrian creature known as Anomalocaris has been found to have survived into the Ordovician seas from the Cambrian and was first only found in the Burgess Shale and thought to have become extinct during the Cambrian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris . The reasons this happens is due in part to the fragmentary fossil record and the rarity of actual fossilization of some animals due to where they lived or their rarity. One group of creatures that has always fascinated me are the dinosaurs, I remember being spellbound by reports of creature like the Mokele Mbembe supposed to be a surviving sauropod dinosaur. Other surviving dinosaurs have been suggest in cryptozoological circles from theropods to ceratopsians. Does this concept of Lazarus Taxia represent a real possible explanation or possibility of really ancient animals still being alive in some odd or unusual habitat?

Thanks, maybe they will make it clearer in part two but I won't hold my breath...

They seem to insinuate they do not need exotic matter in this "Froning" version but I can't see how. They never really make it clear..

To be honest, like almost any other technology, I would expect it eventually to become much cheaper. I wonder how much money it took to separate out the first plutonium...

Could antimatter be used to trigger a fusion reaction? If so this could result in fusion bombs that are much smaller or maybe even larger than current bombs and be considerable "cleaner" than current nuclear bombs?

I've seen that link but it doesn't seem to directly apply to the albecurrie froning warp drive. This is the video I was talking about: I seems quite a bit too good to be true but it does suggest a departure from the Albecurrie Warp Drive and the Albecurrie White Warp Drive in several respects.

Now I understand, you should understand that cherry picking data and dismissing anything you cannot imagine as made up will get none of us anything. While I agree that such a thing would be wonderful, suggesting that others must be wrong doesn't make your ideas anymore likely. Look at it this way, YEC, young earth creationists often think that disproving evolution it proves that yec is true. Nothing could be further from the truth. If they could disprove evolution, and this would seem to be highly improbable, would not by default mean they are correct. You have to find evidence that supports your idea, not try to cast doubt on the ideas of others. The idea that the heat production of planets is not well understood in no way supports your assertions.

Cherry pick much? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=2926 Again in my former link. Somewhat more recent data suggests... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus Btw, these assertions of things like diamond rain is not just someone's wild imagination, they were not jerked out of someone's retum last weekend while on a tequila binge. You seem to have an agenda here, could you tell us what it is so we can work it out a bit more efficiently?

Does anyone know anything about this version of warp drive? It has a very nice youtube video with great graphics and animation but little real information. This is about the only serious discussion of it but i can't really say I understand it. http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2437558 Fluid Dynamic Simulations of Warp Drive Flight Through Negative Pressure Zero‐Point Vacuum

so you going with baseless assertions?

I admitted I was wrong once but it turned out I was correct!

If you think I am incorrect please give a citation for that assertion. I am curious, did you not read the page i linked you to? if so then please give a citation as to why you think these assumptions are wrong...

There is said to be a tripe in the amazon that has no concept of god or religion as we know it. Not sure if that is relevant or not, this horse has been beaten to death and then beaten repeated after death. You are correct, no large society on Earth is really free of the influence of religion in some way... Raider, you do realise that children needs to be defined here. Some countries do indeed allow alcohol for young people, even children less than puberty.

Thank you for the citation. This is wrong and including it without differentiating from the quote is misleading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus http://education.seattlepi.com/planet-gives-off-2-times-much-heat-receives-sun-5420.html Not quite as mysterious as suggested.

I think it's difficult to even assert there could be such a thing as a Kardashev 3 civilization, the speed of light would limit the the size that a civilization could be and still be connected in a realistic fashion.

I would suggest you give a citation to support your incredulity...