Moontanman

Obviously you have never lived with a woman who was experiencing menopause...

I think maybe she needs to throttle back on the 'roids... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClYRxU25Pw

Komodo dragons get to be 10 feet long and weigh several hundred pounds, they are vicious killers, and probably most important, not social. I'm not sure we have the same meaning for the word domesticated, can you define your usage? How much do you want to bet? Reptiles are not easily tamed, in fact most of them that we use as pets only tolerate you because you are too big to eat. Reptiles also do not walk long distances, their legs are not under them like mammals, reptiles are generally able to give bursts of speed but they cannot maintain this for long periods of time. Reptiles have little stamina. Diapsids, which is what you are talking about when you say reptile, reptile is no longer considered a valid way to classify animals.

I am considering a new computer, $500 to $600 range, I am wondering what the groups thoughts are on Desk Top vs Lap Top, I would eventually like to do CAD like drawings of Aquarium designs as well as things like space craft or buildings to illustrate my stories maybe some you tube type videos Most of what I want to do is writing stories and social media. Thoughts of the group?

I think Bernie represents a portion of the population that is tired of business as usual and want our society to move forward. The conservatives have screwed the pooch and their dishonesty and lack of respect for the general population has become to obvious even for the right wing nuts to ignore... That being said Bernie can't do it alone and we as a people are going to have to back the right people and make sure we aren't fooled again and again and again and again...

I think I am going to keep up with this as much as i can and see how it turns out, just when i thought I was getting used to things they way they are someone steps up and says nope they weren't that way at all! What a wonderful time to be alive!

Damn it man you've flung a craving on me! Flying squids anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_flying_squid Flying fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish hatchet fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_hatchetfish the hatchet fish wiki is hilarious, the wiki on it is dead wrong, they fly, I've seen them fly, they are not shaped like dead leaves they use the deep chest muscels attached to their keel shaped bodies to flap their pectorial fins... Spiders fly by floating on long strings of silk, they often travel very long distances Birds are to dinosaurs in the same way that bats are to mammals so it is no surprise that bats are the only flying mammals although there is some speculation that flight may have evolved two or more times among the bats, I'm not sure what the current consensus is. Then you have the pterosaurs, nether birds or dinosaurs. Flying is a very good survival strategy, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some extinct flying animals that we know nothing about and the birds used to be much more diverse than they are now, we only have one or two basic types of birds but there were several very different types of birds beforte the mass extinction that decimated the dinosaurs, both avian and non avian , some of them to me look like flight may have evolved more than once among dinosaurs but that is just my opinion. Then you have a great many gliding animals, lizards, snakes, frogs, squirrels. Imagine if our atmosphere were significantly more dense.. flying elephants!

I happen to be a big fan of thick chicks, curvy girls, fat bottom girls, big legs I have given it some real thought I think it had to do with my grandmother. We lived out in the boonies, no running water, minimal electricity, baths were taken by standing in a wash tub and pouring water over someone to rinse off after soaping up. I have a clear memory of sitting on the floor watching my grandmother bathe, I had to be a toddler, but she was a heavy woman and when I hit puberty memories of seeing her with he very long black hair standing in the wash tub were very clear. I'm not sure how but I think those memories had some influence on my choice of women. Where I went to high school most of the girls were either thick or athletic and still a bit thick, so much so that skinny girls were made fun of. Pregnant women are beautiful, they smell wonderful, they glow, the pheromones they give off makes a man want to protect them, be around them and yes they are sexy. See above! I always thought my wife was at her best when pregnant, I really think it's the pheromones...

I thought this was the onion or something when I first saw it, aether? FTL? Universal time? http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_special_theory_of_relativity_has_been_disproved_theoretically_999.html

There is no perfect wing, evolution has resulted in winged vertebrates at least three times independently, all of them significantly different but achieving the same or similar functionality. Evolution does have a direction, it drives toward successful replicators and it also has an inevitability about it as well, inevitably it conforms to the environment. Most mutations are neutral and do nothing, but such neutral mutations can be raw material to form new genes as can viruses inserted into the genome. i think it is possible to look at evolution from the perspective of genes reproducing genes, the organisms are just places where genes live.

You seem to be stuck in a repeating loop, the idea that biological systems had to exist before biological systems could exist. If you look at evolution from the perspective of the idea that "everything had to be in place for it to work" it does indeed look like evolution is impossible but the incremental steps to achieve the state that modern life forms currently occupy may not be obvious but life is here it obviously happened. We have no examples of primitive life to examine, all extant organisms are advanced examples of life. If you try to jump from simple catalysts that do nothing but make certain chemical reactions more likely to a bacterium you are looking at the equivalent of jumping off the Earth to the Moon in one step. New genes do indeed arise spontaneously but more often an old gene changes to allow it to function in a novel way, current research appears to point to viruses as a source for novel genetic material. The concept of new uses for old genes can be observed on a larger scale when an organism evolves a new body part. Did a fish suddenly grow a leg with all the attached bones, tendons, blood supply, and muscles suddenly? No, fins changed in tiny incremental steps over millions of generations to become legs, we see the end result but not the billions of failed changes or even the billions of successful changes. It is also true that the process of new uses for old body parts can be observed in nature from sharks that crawl around on fins from one tidal pool to another to turtles that breath with their anus, the biological world is full of examples of change over time resulting in new uses for old body parts of organisms. As for new genes arising the bacterium that metabolizes nylon is a prime example of a novel gene, no nylon existed before man created it, for a time it was an untapped energy source but as is often the case in biology a potential energy source didn't go long before a new mutation arose that allowed the bacteria to utilize the new food source. This is not a directed process but it is not random either, the changes are limited to what is chemically possible and the successes are driven by the environment. Evolution has been observed many times in nature from bacteria to vertebrates, given time all you need is an imprecise replicator that is plastic to it's environment, this process has it's limits but the limits are imposed by physics as are the possible variations.

Ok dudes and dudettes, what would you do if you walked into this coffee shop... after you changed your underwear of course..

Ooops!

Does making bribery legal stop it from being corruption?

This video starts out horrific, it is not for the faint of heart but the ending is happy. If not for the happy ending I would not have posted this.. https://www.facebook.com/374264522703108/videos/805137012949188/

Racing motorcycles is loads of fun, I raced several different ways when i young. Motocross and hill climbing being favorites. There often is tendency to leave pucker marks on the seat when racing motorcycles..

Actually the fact that bribery of US officials is legal would seem to support the idea of rampant corruption..

Airbrush, you are making quite a few assertions about the nature of ET, do you have anything but your own assertions that back this up?

Could you show us your evidence that the universe was created? Your feelings on the matter are not relevant. By using the word "creation' you are begging the question. A creation assumes a creator and you have not given us any evidence of a creator. The universe is better named by the "reality" would you then assume a realtor? You keep describing god as a him, again you are assuming your conclusion before asking the question. The actions of god as described in the Holy Bible are by definition magic. Why could the catalyst that caused reality to expand into existence not be a natural process we are just unaware of? I can assert that the universe was brought into existence by a brobdingnagian creature consumes dark matter and excretes universes but has no idea of what it is doing. I can assert this with all the confidence you assert that a god created the universe. "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

Growing plants, especially food plants is fun, I like growing tree seeds, bonsai from seeds is slow but you get to manipulate the plants from the very beginning. Cacti hybridization is really where my heart goes, It's good to hear others are experimenting with growing seeds. Another good thing about seeds is that they can be sent through the mail, I have some very unusual plants I obtained seeds for by trading seeds. I am always interested in what others are growing, keep us informed about how the plantation is going!

Do you have your heart set on anti matter? This may point to an alternative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket