Moontanman

Why do I keep thinking about a football bat?

New bucket list item... I have to have one of these... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq7wBYxGWqM

BTW overtone, I don't fear my neighbors, I fear psychopaths, sociopaths, the desperate, and the delusional, none of my neighbors seem to fit in any of those categories... Oh yeah, on another note the gun my friend found was found due to a cat dragging in a bunch of baby opossums and turning them loose in the house, the woman thought they were rats and tore her whole house part looking for them and in that effort turning up an old loaded gun behind the couch... Weird things do happen...

I am betting Enceladus will be the first object to have life confirmed as existing inside, it spews out geysers of water ice that have signs of biology and these ice crystals may be contributing to the rings of Saturn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus

If they are as fearful of the "other" as we are then i would say yes there would be racism...

The male penis was created? Come on all the rest that follows is nonsense due to that one phrase. I do suggest you read the other thread as indicated, it completely blows your initial thread out of the water and a side note lesbians are homosexuals and homosexual/heterosexual is not enough to keep people from having sex with who ever they want and then the concept of bi sexuality has to be considered...

yes but it was in response to a flawed question of my own, it's all techno babble of course, but the Voyager travels at 1000 c to 2000 c (more or less) maximum speed, the idea I guess is that a star ship that masses very little if anything is easier to push past light speed and then on to the incremental warp factors. Of course Star Trek apologists have commandeered the idea of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive as part of Star Trek cannon kind of a retrofit to a possible real world FTL drive. Of course everything from PC's to mobile phones is credited to Star Trek by us Trekkers...

This is an amazing conversation, no one who has three brain cells to rub together can believe every one has a right to have a gun much less military grade weapons. I live in the middle of the deep south "CSA" I have known people who had or maybe have small arsenals hidden in the ceiling tiles of their houses some have gun safes that are like fort knox. More than I like to think about probably shouldn't be allowed to have a pocket knife. Anyone who expects these people to give up their guns for the common good are delusional, I know I am not going to willingly give up my guns and I am one of the most reasonable people I know many are almost criminally culpable for acting like guns are toys or items of trade. in many cases it would be easier to borrow a gun than a car from most people. Guns often lie haphazardly around peoples homes, I had a friend tell me just a few weeks ago she found a gun behind her couch, she had forgotten she even owned the gun, it was passed down from other family members. As many guns as are registered maybe even more are unregistered, stored, maybe even forgotten. Six months ago the police were combing the neighborhood looking for a young man who had robbed a house, he had stolen a gun and he ran across my back yard and tripped and dropped his gun and ran back for it and picked it up in plain sight of me and my wife. They caught him and no one raised much of an eyebrow. If he had been carrying some poisonous substance there would have been far greater of an outcry. If you sit and think about it it is insane, everyone involved was around the age of 20, both the thief and the gun owner... I can't imagine treating a gun like that, a gun is a dangerous thing, when i look at one it screams danger as much as a poisonous substance label on a shipping container but then I know about shipping containers, hazardous warning labels and all the rest that comes from a life lived paying attention to danger, evidently not everyone worked for DuPont I am not trying to be funny, my wife and I sat for quite a while talking about being that close to some crazy person with a gun, if you stop and think it makes cold chills crawl up your spine but out and about it's not unusual to see people wearing guns and I know of many people walking around concealed carry. To me not knowing who is or is not armed is almost as disconcerting as knowing who is. You stop to pump gas the guy next to you pumping gas has a pistol, out for a walk you pass people who are obviously carrying not very well concealed guns. Growing up there were always guns around the house, ready to be quickly picked up to shoot at some varmint. It's really strange to be both comfortable with and scared of something at the same time. IMPO licensing and insurance much like cars and drivers licenses has to be the eventual answer. Guns are ingrained into our society in a way that's difficult for some to accept that haven't grown up with them, to a great extent almost as an extension of our manhoods if it wasn't for the simple fact of many gun toting women. The idea of guns protecting us from our government is misguided at best as is the idea that our soldiers wouldn't fire on our own citizens if it came to it, I am quite sure a reason can be mocked up to satisfy any reason the government would give it's soldiers to fight. I am not trying to stain our armed forces but they are mostly young and at this point used to doing what they are told and demonizing the "other" is what governments do the best. What really gives me pause is the ease that our own elected officials use the issue of gun rights as though it is a legitimate route for political change. I think the issue of humans having things like health care and food in their mouths is far more important than owning a gun and yet I have one, I must if i am to be honest label myself a sheep while the people tout gun rights label anyone who does not have a gun a sheep, I find myself at an impasse with my own hypocrisy in this fact. No one can seriously claim that the police can protect us from violent crime and so the idea of having a gun to protect your self (on the spot) becomes addictive as any drug that cushions us from reality, we know the illusion is a delusion we perpetrate on ourselves but it's impossible to really see the truth from the inside... The really bad thing is that 40 years ago in my neighborhood every Saturday night was like a small war, often with bursts of full auto weapons fire, now days shoot a gun and with in a few minutes the police show up, something about detecting a gun shot with sound and zeroing in on the location... just my 2 cents worth on the subject...

We have to have guns to help the greys fight off the reptilians, get with the program dude.....

You forgot about the warp field, it effectively reduces the mass of the space craft to zero...

Ok, 4000 teradynes, no wonder Voyager can maintain a stable cruise velocity of warp 9.95

It is a real measure of energy? If so what can I compare it with to understand how much power it represents? I ask because I was watching Star Trek Voyager and in passing they mentioned the warp reactor produced 4 trillion terradynes of energy per second, is it just technobabble or a real measure of energy? I tried to google it but my spelling must be off because all I got was bunch of companies with the word in their names...

Well 50 years ago people drove around in cars with 500+ hp and every stop light was a drag strip, people were getting killed and injured at horrendous rates, then you couldn't drive a car without at least liability insurance rates were a mile high for stop light dragsters and the like, the more you modified the car the higher the rates then the gas prices started to soar a double whammy hot rods never really recovered from... I hear some one named Wil E. Coyote has some bombs he wants to return...

I don't think it's as simple as guns/no guns, for some inane reason the more dangerous the weapon the more desirable it becomes. Kinda like the obsession with powerful cars just before gas prices and insurance rates went up...Hummm might be something there...

Um.. because Muhammad, peace be upon him, followers declared it has to be done... or maybe that was the followers of Jesus, or Krishna, Vishnu I've lost count but the followers of the opposition say it so it must be true... Hmmm doesn't make much sense when I read it either...

To loosely quote Aron Ra, "all of them cannot be correct but all of them can be wrong..."

This reminds me of what one of my very religious family members pointed out several years ago, and I might add with a completely straight face. "if every would simply praise and worship God we wouldn't be having these problems with religious violence" Yes that was the statement meant as a cure all for all the earths religions, she was quite serious and expected that if everyone was christian then there could be no war or crimes and no one would do without... When I pointed out that various groups of christians had been killing each other for centuries and disagreements in how to properly worship god had resulted in many thousands of denominations over the centuries and often those disagreements had resulted in small scale killing as well as large scale wars. She answered me simply by repeating her statement louder as though it's volume would somehow change its veracity. I think all religions are driven by their fundamentalist fringes, if you want to see how any religion would act if it actually the power of life and death look no further than any religions fundamentalist fringes today or how it welded power in past when it really did hold such power. Trace any of the main mono theistic religions back far enough or look far enough from it's current center and you see how religion acts when it's not gelded by secular society, look at religion when and where it really does have power...

Pretty much sums it up...

Spontaneous generation has to do with complex animals appearing in their current form magically, abiogenesis has to do with the formation of naturally occurring self replicating molecules. For some reason I can't get google to work but here is a short video that should get you pointed in the correct direction...

In what ways do we transcend nature? Anthropomorphism would seem to be your word to learn today... We are part of nature not apart from it, humans not only kill each other in mass numbers humans kill just for the fun of killing as well, nothing about humans shouts out our superiority... Shinning beautiful cities we can target in war while we sit around thinking of reasons to dehumanize the enemy I rather like the forest and spending time in the forest is one of the most exhilarating exercises a person can take. Your vision of the future sounds like hell to me...

I wasn't suggesting chondrichthyes were ancestral to terrestrial animals... I'm not really sure this can be supported by anything but speculations can you provide some citation for this?

A murderer, imprisoned for life, broke free after 15 years and was on the run. He broke into a house and tied up the young couple he found in the bedroom; the man to a chair on one side of the room and his wife to the bed. The helpless husband watched him get on the bed, straddle his wife and start to nuzzle her neck. His wife started to move her head violently, at which the man got up and left the room. The husband squirmed the chair across the room to his young wife and hissed, "Darling, I saw him kissing you. He probably hasn't seen a woman in years. Please cooperate. If he wants to have sex, just go along with it and even pretend you like it. Whatever you do don't fight him or make him mad. Our lives may depend on it!" "Darling," the wife said, spitting out her gag. "I'm so relieved you feel that way. He wasn't kissing me, he was whispering to me. He told me he thinks you're really cute and asked if we kept the Vaseline in the bathroom."

Ankit Gupta, you might find this interesting, cillate Tetrahymena, has seven separate sexes... http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/25/how-does-an-organism-get-seven-sexes/

There can be currents but there lots of if involved, this shark actually crawls onto land to get from one tide pool to another. I'm not sure if this sharks legs would help in currents, water tends to push pretty hard, most of the fish adapted to high currents are either torpedo shaped to swim into it or flat to cling to the bottom. I am not aware of a fish that would use this method to counter currents.. I've seen many fishes that hang around behind cover to avoid the current as well. things like pilings are often points of harbor in a strong current...