Moontanman

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...

Could this shark be a window into how fish adapted to the land before they were able to live out of the water? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaulette_shark

Not to mention salamanders with lungs and with out lungs or gills...

No, not if you mean give you positive reputation points...

Citation please: Care to elaborate? I gave a link to this information... Modern humans are apes by definition... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution Convincing someone who is not honestly seeking knowledge is a fools errand...

In Florida the other day a guy killed another guy for texting while watching the movie...

If others can carry around their hand guns, why can't i carry my 12 gauge around with me? The 12 gauge pump is obviously safer than a hand gun, easier to aim accurately, much less likely to go off by accident and it sends a message of don't trifle with me...

No a cloned plant is not the same organism any more than your clone would be the same organism and animals cells can be grown forever as well.

In NC you can take a gun into a bar... what could go wrong?

Nothing can be immortal, even the universe ends...