Moontanman
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I'd love to go to Vanautu, I'd probably be arrested, there is an animal there i would like to have it's unique and I would love to breed them, but they are off bounds, I'm not sure I could resist a freshwater hermit crab... Clibanarius fonticola The holy grail of freshwater invertebrate lovers like me!
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science vs religion. is it really a fight?
Moontanman replied to Dylandrako's topic in General Philosophy
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I went out today by myself to do a little collecting, first time out since my last surgery. My target species was Redfin Pickerel, but the prime collecting site is on private property and had a no trespassing sign up and the owner wasn't home to ask his permission so I didn't get to collect there. He had told me several years ago I was welcome to collect any time but now there is a fence and that was several years ago and I'm not sure the same guy lives there. No pickerels were caught. I did get the following species. Swamp Darter 1 Pirate perch 1 Blue spotted sunfish 3 Several gambusia with one black spotted male... Wait for it! Three tiny Sirens! I thought they were eels at first but when I put on my glasses it was obvious they were Sirens! First really small Sirens I have ever caught. They were about 3" long... I also caught two salamanders of unknown species several large turtles. stink pots and yellow sliders. I very large and unhappy red bellied snake, he almost filled up the net! I also observed two large alligators sunning them selves, I figured they were better left alone, they were about 8' long. More surgery in a few weeks so I intend to get out again soon, have to have redfin pickerels before you can breed them! I did try my hand at micro fishing but only a few large green sunfish were caught. A watched a fisherman near me in Greenfield Lake spillway catch a large mouth bass, he released him after a picture was taken. Michael
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Living forever on the surface of a small planet would get old sooner that you would I bet. Now if I could have the power of Q living forever might be fun but just being a human would be a bitch after a while I am sure. There is a science fiction story about a guy who slept with some powerful man's daughter and the Man took the guy and gave him eternal life (some sort of nano technology, and dropped him on a planet much like the earth when dinosaurs roamed. Every time he would get eaten by the large predators the nano technology would resurrect him out of the pile of droppings he had been digested into. He often got eaten several times a week and he remembered the entire process courtesy of the nano tech that kept him alive, talk about a living hell..
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Your new avatar... Ewww!
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things I used to love are turning feminist
Moontanman replied to Lyudmilascience's topic in The Lounge
I try to muddle through, wait till I come up with yet another UFO hypothesis and you'll see how fast I get shut down There is a lot of truth in that, Nancy is the greatest Lady in my world... She likes to be called Ms. Moontanman... -
things I used to love are turning feminist
Moontanman replied to Lyudmilascience's topic in The Lounge
Did no one get the play on words concerning one of our own and the music video? -
things I used to love are turning feminist
Moontanman replied to Lyudmilascience's topic in The Lounge
Nope married for 40 years, I wouldn't know what to do to be a ladies man... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hagv86L3c -
Can I be Q?
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things I used to love are turning feminist
Moontanman replied to Lyudmilascience's topic in The Lounge
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In what universe is what is being discussed here a sail? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_sail I am rather fond of this one http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~d76205x/research/shielding/docs/Winglee_00.pdf http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast04oct_1/ Am I missing something important here?
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Caught a snake in my yard today. waiting for my mouth to heal after tooth extraction so the titanium plate that used to replace my lower jaw can be replaced because it broke. Only the second time the doc has seen that happen and it was the result of a car wreck, I just clench my jaw too hard. So much fun so little time...
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Hah, Moontanman that's so true.
We have beautiful blue-tongued skinks in Australia. Where I grew up, there were a lot of them. I used to try to catch them to play as a child but I've since then stopped trying to capture everything I see! They used to know when it was feeding time and come to steal my cat's food
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Wouldn't time qualify as a forth spatial dimension in your analogy?
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Is it possible to create a fission (or fusion) thruster?
Moontanman replied to Paramecium8's topic in Engineering
There is always the salt water nuclear rocket... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket Pretty much a continuous nuclear explosion... -
Why didn't all homo sapiens migrate from Africa long, long ago?
Moontanman replied to Mr Rayon's topic in Biology
People look ugly when you're alone... -
Part two of story posted in blogs
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Religion evaporates in the light of critical inquiry much like the dew in the light of the morning sun...
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Ok, I am familiar with those, I didn't recognize the name "bubble" . The protean foam piles up here on the beach even today, huge piles as big as cars sometimes in the fall. I thought the bubble idea was more akin to oil and vinegar mixtures or maybe that is a different thing as well? Wouldn't the Miller Uray experiment be more like a prelude to the "bubbles" ?
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Bubble model? Link?
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Well those of you who remember I had half my lower jaw replaced by a titanium bar will be interested to know that the titanium bar broke, evidently me clenching my jaw against the pain in my neck and back caused the bar to break. Only second time in his career has this happened said the doc and that was due to a car wreak! Now I have to have the titanium jaw replacement replaced! Happy happy joy joy...
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I am sure it will work out, it's just the six months of recovery I am not looking forward to. Probably won't be that long this time but last time really took a chunk out of my life. It was like taking almost a year off, my life looks it too, everything is gone to crap around here. I was just starting to try and get things back up and running. My poor fish have taken a real beating...
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So until I can prove there are no fairies I should believe there are? I would say what is your point? Being an atheist in no way makes you correct about everything nor does it extend past not believing in gods. Atheism only addresses one subject, the belief in god.s Believing in something with out evidence would be misguided if it was about anything but your god, why should your god get a pass? This would include you as well I assume? I haven't claimed to be a philosopher, I am a skeptic... Faith is not evidence of anything, faith is what a bad salesman needs to instill in his mark.
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No, in fact as an atheist I cannot say if there is or isn't, so far no one has provided any real evidence for a god, so the default position is not to believe there is one. I can't prove there are no unicorns but that doesn't mean I have to believe there is until I prove there is not.. Science has nothing to say about god since gods cannot be tested.. No, I wouldn't say they are delusional, possibly misguided... Nothing wrong with being ignorant, we are all ignorant about many things, no one knows everything... So far the evidence does indeed suggest the universe operates by purely naturalistic means, nothing super natural required... My lack of believe in gods, any gods by the way, not just your version what ever that might be, is based on lack of positive evidence, not faith. I am first and foremost a skeptic, everything else follows from that.
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Exactly what faith based beliefs does an atheist have?
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I really wich someone would help me figure out why I cann;t see the main forum page or post new threads..
