Moontanman

Thanks for the correction, I should not have missed that one...

Thanks, I was too lazy to look it up, but I was sure I "remembered it" very interesting the two studies disagreed.

Must be? I doubt you can even make the case that it could be...

Well for me it would be when I die I would be god in my own cosmos and be able to make it anyway i wanted (might be why I am an aquarium nut) and yes I want centaurs!

Actually, if i remember correctly, it was a documentary and we all how "accurate" they can be it was asserted that is only occurs in some populations, the implication was it was a North American Population but it has been a while and I don't remember. OT, I really shouldn't have posted it, just confuses the issue...

From what I understand there is some gene drift from domestic dogs back to wolves as well. Black coloration evolved in dogs and was passed back to wolves at some relatively recent point..

Yes this can be demonstrated quite accurately...

No, science doesn't deal in absolutes... Science constructs models that conform to the data. The ancestors of mammals can be traced back in the fossil record to the Cambrian but since they do not have DNA from the time period they have to use body shape and structure. Dimetrodon is one of the more famous reptiles that is considered to similar to the mammal reptile link, synapsids really, reptiles is no longer considered to be a separate group.

I was changing the water on my avocado seedlings and i realised I might be doing something you are not that i didn't mention. I grow Riccia fluitans in all my jars, The stuff has pretty much taken over any standing water that doesn't have azzola in it, azzola is even more aggressive but both fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and the tree roots seem to be tangled up in the Riccia... Maybe? Maybe not?

So should a bordello. Depends on whether or not you like unicorns. What you seem to be saying is that your heaven is the correct heaven because you think it is and we are somehow wrong because we don't agree with you... I honestly cannot see how one heaven could please everyone, if there is such a place it has to be subjective instead of objective. This negates your claims quite nicely.

Are you asking if there is a modern animal that is ancestral to mammals?

This book is one of my long time favs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiero's_Journey

My take on Heaven is waking up and telling the ride operator I'd like to try be a god for a day ride next, that be a peon for a life time ride sucks...

My reason for this is to make an artificial star, as small as possible but still release energy at high amounts. A small body made up of 100% (more or less) deuterium, the idea is for it to radiate more like a G2 star but be small and used as an artificial energy source. A helium 3 star might be just as plausible/non plausible, the smaller the size that could be used to create energy the more useful it would be for ETI's. I do appreciate the math tables guys but this stuff is way beyond my megar math skills.. .

Does anyone know what the mass of a gas planet would have to be for it to be stable and fusing deuterium if it was made up of 100% deuterium? Or if such a body was made up of helium 3? I've been trying to use google to get some info on that possibility but evidently no one wants to know but me...

Why do you assert this? Why would it be important? Please be specific, what things exactly? What is the difference between complex and advanced life? You really need to justify these assertions, all of what you assert is completely baseless. Some evidence other than you simply saying it's true needs to be presented. Again you make assertions without evidence other than your own claims. Why do you think these things are true?

Life is expected to occur quite often around the universe. In fact a half dozen bodies in the solar system are expected to harbor life. Complex life could indeed be much more rare. If there is a civilization on a planet I would ask why you would think they would not? The same laws that govern our universe here that allow for space travel hold sway there as well. Possibly you are suggesting that technological civilizations might be rare? You are correct and I don't know of any astronomers that assert anything different. I am not sure what you are getting at here, any Earth like planets should contain similar elements to Earth's just by virtue of being Earth like planets. No, fossil fuels are not made of dinosaurs, that is a popular misconception, most deposits of fossil fuels resulted from the Carboniferous age. There were no dinosaurs then only huge swampy forests. Such deposits of decaying plant material is thought to be the origin of most fossil fuels. The only way i can see this being a problem is if the planet is metal poor, such a dearth of metals is not likely since planets almost by definition should contain some metals. But I see no reason to assume technology would have to take the exact same path there as it did on Earth. I am not so sure this is a fair comparison, other factors do come into play and I see no third world countries that cannot produce the basics of civilization. Again you are making assumptions that simply do not apply. Fossil fuels are not made up from dinosaurs and in fact are thought to be the remains of plant material laid down way before there were dinosaurs. I think you have made some assumptions that simply are not true..

Doubling the measurements of the proof of concept talk gives a volume of 1150 gallons...

Wasn't it Carlin who said that you could prick your finger but never finger your prick...

You have a point, they even think it's necessary extend the label to neo conservative or neo liberal. To me, and I realise it's just me, I think the extremists when I use a label for either side. But the blindly following usually applies to the followers who have no real clue as to what the leaders are doing. Like the extreme poor who vote republican, they are buying the executioner a drink so he won't be thirsty when he swings the ax. I guess why I use the term blindly following so easily is because both sides have strayed so far from what the terms really mean that you can hang almost anything on either label. In reality there really is no left, only a moderate trend from near the middle to right. No left really exists inside our government any more.

For what I would call a full sized version double the stated measurements...

The waste has been composted or the aquatic version of composting. No not murky river water, the sponge filters actually trap fish excrement, left over fish food, and plant debris and the flow of oxygenated water through the sponge and good bacteria as well as infusoria turn the raw ingredients into a harmless mulm (aquatic version of compost) that can be left to accumulate if you want but I prefer to remove at least some of it... Then you do not use composted cow manure? Once it is composted it is not nasty in any way and plants love it...

You are of course correct, If I had known Raider was inexperienced instead of dishonest I wouldn't have tried to hold his feet to the fire. I was the one who was giving Raider such a hard time. So the Nazi's were too liberal... Your statement about a well regulated private sector is spot on. I think it's important to mention that a good dollop of socialism is necessary as well. No society can be workable that isn't made up of good ideas, where they come from is secondary. In the US conservatism is generally associated with unchained capitalism, bribing our representatives to pass laws they want passed, fascism, destroying the Middle class, tax cuts that favor the 1%. The list is long and sordid and some of it is quite true. Liberalism, in the US, is generally associated with Over regulation, communism, restricting the rights of corporations, destroying the upper class, excessive taxation, and helping those who are too lazy to work. The list is yet again long and sordid and some of it is true. The unholy merging of the religious right with the political right is one big problem but will probably not go away until the religious right realizes how little the political right really cares about them and is only using then as an end to a means. Trickle down economics and citizens united have to be stopped before we all end up as surfs of the wealthy elite. Anyone who blindly follows a label is part of the problem as well.

God damn it is a curse fuck is just an anglo saxon word... coarse perhaps but not a curse...