Moontanman

There is an hypothesis that planets like the earth are fission powered.. http://www.rense.com/general25/vore.htm

Can you repost that link? I still think that asserting that aliens colonising the galaxy are likely to ignore planets is the most supportable speculation regarding colonization of the galaxy, in fact I would go so far as to say that stars with vast asteroid fields would be most desirable and that voyages of thousands of years would be trivial considering you would be essentially taking your planet with you..

Wait! What? No one told me we get housekeepers!

It really brought the past to life for me, I used to sit around the fireplace when i was a kid with my grandfather and listen to all his stories about the early 20th century...

This old film is fascinating, it was filmed the year my grandfather was born!

I found an albino palmetto bug (southern for cockroach) it was in a dark pit that was only lit up every few years for inspection when it was opened. The roach was snow white and never changed color the few hours i had it. Possibly yours was another color mutation or they were simply different species...

Can you elaborate on that, I see no reference to impossible or possible in your link. Can you elaborate on that as well? So far all i can see that prevents a human chimp hybrid is whistling in the dark....

Inbreeding? I would think that is about as far from inbreeding as you can get...

It could turn out like a mule, superior in many ways than either parent...

You are welcome to grab a female chimp and give it a whirl....

No, it's some form of fossilized coral or colonial tube worms, all the tubes are more or less parallel, I have quite a large collection, i've been collecting them for more than 40 years... some are as big as basket balls but most while large are irregular shaped..

I have several rocks i collected from the ocean that have that texture, you can pour water through them, the resemblance is amazing...

You are correct, I am a Treker, the Prime Directive is just another way of asserting the zoo hypothesis which I would find amazing if true. For some reason, which puzzles me, many people ascribe some sort of superior morality to advanced aliens.. I doubt this.. If FTL is possible, and as much as i would love it i think it's an incredibly thin possibility, but if it is i would expect the equivalent of an old tramp steamer showing up looking for new trade partners to be more likely than the gunboat diplomacy of Star trek....

If you were in an atmosphere of pure water vapor you could suffocate but that is not possible under the conditions set forth by your in your OP...

Is this pertinent? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

Purpose? They are the result of plate tectonics, which is the result of dissipating heat from the center of the earth built up from gravity compression and radioactive decay.

Again, not you do not get your own facts... And this has something to do with what? The same could be said for a bullet entering the window with both of us in the same room, meaningless drivel... I don't think you have the slightest understanding of relativity... they had their own bibles? Interesting but still a nonsequitur.. This really makes no sense, I'd like to try and give you as much credit as possible. Can you elaborate? Are you suggesting I am incapable of original thought? No, they stood on the shoulders of giants, your analogy makes no sense.. I would say you can believe invisible unicorn farts are the forces of the universe, you would still be just as far as you are now into a deep lack of burden of proof... I'll give another chance, read this and see if you understand how wrong you are... Ok, I read it wrong, sorry for the inference...

I think this thread has digressed into the twilight zone but I would like to add one thing, maybe nothing, but When I was a kid, we had a science club, we did lots of sciency stuff, built and flew rockets, manufactured colorful explosions with powdered metals, we build bridges over small streams, yes we used math. One thing that was stupid in hindsight was our fascination with mercury, a man who lived up the road shared our fascination and he had a thick glass jug that contained one gallon of mercury, we all pilfered a glass stoppered bottle from our schools chemistry lab and filled it half full of mercury and kept it in our rooms, it was our club symbol or something, but we were all exposed over and over to mercury. Now 45 years later of the five of us all have had, have, or have died of cancer of one type or another, may be irrelevant but i often wonder if our exposure to the metal had anything to do with our health being compromised. Don't play with the stuff kids, it's really dangerous...

argumentum ad populum? Who is in the minority or the majority has no bearing on who is correct... It's not up to me to prove you wrong, you are making an assertion, the burden of proof lies solely with you! Then you should take back your assertions and admit you have no basis in reality for your assertions. Again the burden of proof lies with you not me... Again an argument from ignorance Again the burden of proof lies with you my only assertion is that i don't know Again an argument from ignorance.. Again the burden of proof lies with you! You can define a goat as a duck but it will not make the goat a duck... Argument from ignorance or burden of proof, pick one... What are they? Do you have any evidence of them doing what you say? unless you provide evidence then yes you did make stuff up! Again, changing the definition of something doesn't make you correct. Just your opinion, everyone has an opinion, you are welcome to yours but you cannot have your own facts! You change those truths every time you bend them to your own opinion... Again you are welcome to your own opinion but you cannot have your own facts. Sad and you have my condolences but meaningless in this conversation... You have no idea why I do not believe in god but more to the point you do not know my inner thoughts at all. My reason have to do with burden of proof, something no religion has. Meaningless drivel in this conversation More meaningless drivel and a large dollop of proselytizing... meaningless word salad Faith has no place without evidence to support it and yes there is a difference, GR and QM has real world evidence and application, belief gods does not...

You should get used to people making fun if you tell very many people this Belief, I was trying to get you to see why the concept of a god is silly with no evidence. May not? You want to base this on an argument from ignorance fallacy? So are computers, your point please? That is agreeable but you are leaving out complexity and the speed of light would put a big cap on communication of something as big as the universe... Here is where you run off the rails, you have no proof or even evidence other than an argument from ignorance. So far you have to provide anything but your assertions as evidence this is the equivalent of making stuff up... So far everything you have asserted is made up because not of it is supported by any evidence other than your belief, just because you think something should be one way or want it be one way or another is no reason to think it is that way,

Why does any of these things need a purpose? it's quite possible the way things are is just the way things have to be. It could be completely random or at some point we might discover why these things have to be the way they are. all we can honestly say is how they not why they are. It's like the water in a puddle waking to find the puddle fits itself perfectly, surely some other intelligence must have made the hole fit the puddle perfectly? Anytime you can reasonably replace the word god with "magical sky fairy" and get the same result you have seen why there is no need of the concept of a god..

If you read the bible you would have seen that the going free after seven years only applied to hebrew slaves. All the others were property as long as they lived and could be passed down to your children. So yes it was a life sentence...

That brings me back to sending a ftl signal to a planet 100 ly away and then return the signal would the signal arrive 200 years in the past

So FTL transmission is possible if both subjects are in the same frame of reference? BTW the comments section in that link are confusing the whole idea...