Moontanman

White, would be a doubtful way to conceal yourself in a non white environment, it might work in the Arctic but albinism is widely considered a problem for any animal in the wild...

I honestly see no way that two or more superpowers would go up against each other, Russia, China they know which way the wind is blowing a hundred years and they might have total global domination but by then they will be so watered down we wouldn't notice. The mid size players realise how worthless nukes really are but if you poke the bull hard enough you might be on the receiving end of a few MIRVs so accurate they hardly need warheads to kill a few people if you really know where they are. I don't think we are anywhere near as hair triggered as people say, use of a nuke by one of the little guys would get reprisal and I would bet it would be a thermonuclear warhead or two... but no way anyone who is really not involved would want to step up and kick a giant, them bombs ain't so small now days... but they are accurate...

I'm thinking genetic bottleneck from there being so few in the world it's causing inbreeding on a huge scale, it's happening in sea mammals, sea turtles, deer, I can't think of another reason to for many albino and leucistic animals in the wild..

Quiz lets discuss what this phenomena indicates....

Like most things in warfare, one side gains an advantage and the other side counters it... I have seen film of powerful lasers going through regular mirrors like hot butter though...

I would have to say I have a bit of a love affair with technology and tend to believe when I read in pop science articles. It stems from a mild childhood embarrassment when a teacher humiliated me in front of a science class because I had asserted that eventually lasers would be small enough to be hand held and that weapons grade laser would one day be a possibility as well. Star trek had just premiered and I was enthralled with it. He pointed that lasers required so much energy and enough equipment to fill the class room and how fragile they were and various things and of course the other kids laughed their asses off as kids will do. I now carry a hand held laser pointer in my pocket every day to remind me that authority figures are not always correct. Johns objections are difficult to counter but we've had lasers powerful enough to shoot down incoming artillery rounds for quite some time. I have to think that as technology marches on they will become more and more relevant to the military and punching through bad weather is close to the only stumbling block left. John was correct to be sceptical and my link gave no details that would allow anyone of us to to dispute Johns Objections...

So to talk to you about this we have presuppose a god as real?

Entertain with physics... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u2WXrR-Y6Zc/VCLdxNXv3yI/AAAAAAAAWz0/LIEkChQZ37o/w506-h380/timing.gif

I linked you to a video that explicitly stated that very thing. At this point in time mammals consist of four varieties, at one time there were many, primates are the same way, I honestly don'y get what you are trying to say...

Did you completely miss post #39 or are you using mistakes in a context i am not understanding?

Actually there are still areas suitable to mammoths and wooly rhinos Alaskan and Canadian wilderness areas are almost untouched by man and have a dearth of large herbivores and I wonder how siberian tigers would complete with kodiak bears. Room could be made in the midwest but strong fences to keep them out of populated areas would be necessary. The fences do work but in africa and india malasia there is simply not enough land to fence off. It could be done, it would cost trillions but create jobs as well. The malaysian rhino is the closest relative to the wooly rhino, indian elephants are the closest to mammoths. It would be an interesting experiment to see if humans can create instead of destroy, there are lots of creatures on the edge of extinction that could use a helping hand as well, musk oxen come to mind but there are fishes as well. The dwarf sturgeon could use some help from habitat loss and is small enough to breed in captivity for the aquarium trade, the aquarium trade has keep populations of fish alive no one else cared about http://www.fishbase.org/summary/8764, Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni[/size] or this sturgeon Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni [/size] I don't think it's unreasonable to move animals around, in fact it's what we do, more than any other animal on the planet we spread our domestic animals that often go wild and and even intentionally spread wild animals for various reasons, sport hunting and sport fishing being big incentives. Generally extinction is forever, we humans have both directly and indirectly caused the extinction of many animals, I don't think it's too much to ask to apply our resources and technology to saving the wild animals we have left. Manatees are a particular favorite of mine as well. This one has to be very cute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_manatee but we also have manatees on the east coast where i live and I have seen them a few times. We kill them with our boats by running over them! Freshwater dolphins that are being eradicated in their home rivers could be moved to the Mississippi, at least two species could live there quite well. There us a threatened species of freshwater porpoise as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finless_porpoise If we could just stop killing each other just maybe we could save some of the biodiversity of this planet before it's too late. Several years ago i proposed in a science organization a plan to help save the Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni and it's close relative Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni by captive breeding them and then stocking them recovering rivers in appalachia, In fact the river I chose as my model was the Poca River. It was given some serious consideration or at least it's merits were but at the time invasive fish were a big item and little support could be had for introducing new species. Even though fish and game do it with some regularity and with variable results just to please sport fishing not to save a species...

That is exactly what I am suggesting... in fact i would say that diversity is less now than then...

The Wisdom Of Emo Phillips I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips

You are still not seeing the big picture, lots of animals in those lineages did diversify but are simply not present today. This video while lengthy does explain that animals were at one time more diverse than they are today. At one time we shared this earth with several species of human, today there is only one.

Growing up in foster care is better than being abused and the parents need to be punished, retribution can be a large positive factor in the recovery of victims, see your abuser hauled off in chains can be very uplifting and helps to remove the self loathing and guilt felt by those that are abused. I regained my dignity by running my abusive step father away with a gun when he was beating my mom.

Rewilding is a very controversial idea, the american midwest has been suggested for elephants, rhinos and other african animals. I have been involved in conversations with some of the people who are going to be making these decisions, I doubt it's going to go over well, elephants roaming the midwest is not something Americans are going to sign off on, wolves and coyotes are controversial enough.

Mistakes in the bible http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientific_errors_in_the_Bible http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html http://atheism.about.com/od/biblecontradictionserror/tp/Scientific-Historical-Errors-Mistakes-Bible.htm I could go on and on...

I'm not trying to be insulting but you have no idea what you are talking about... Bats and whales diversified at the about the same time primates did and they are placentals just like me and you, at one time there were several other lineages of mammals other than the placentals who were quite diverse and if you include synapsids you have to include animals like dimetrodon, they were quite a diverse group as well and there were other more or less mammals that were also diverse. If placentals had made it to australia we would see so few marsupials you would be saying the same thing about them... To some extent it is the luck of the draw, some animals are better at competing and others just had the bad luck to exist when a mass extinction hit. I see no trends other than those that can survive do... Under other circumstances we might still have isolated populations of dimetrodon like animals... Think of turtles the only living representatives of anapsids and they predate dimetrodon and it's relatives by quite a margin...

Well sometimes they die, sometimes their attackers die, sometimes they go to jail, sometimes both of them go to jail sometimes they are so dominated they put up with it. If I was violated in any way reprisal would come, if not the police then... well.. bad things happen to people all the time...

Are you asserting that platypus and echidna are unchanged from their original form? this seems unlikely, there were at one time more varieties of these animals but now we have only there two, we used to have far more marsupials than we do now, I'm not understanding your assertion.

If you were raped would you just move on or would you want justice?

Yes and they were wrong, they found out they were wrong and changed their world view, what is your point?

Can you give a citation for that assertion? This animal would seem to negate your assertion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon At one time animals like this were in the mammal linage, not a direct ancestor but much like the platypus and echidna they are branches from the same ancestors..

When I use the word avenge sports is not what I am referring to, diminishing the idea of punishing those who do wrong is not a trivial thing and it is necessary in a civilized society. Yes some people do get away with atrocities but actively weeding out those people cannot change the past but it is good for the future of society...