Moontanman

I'm pretty sure that is what he has, his picture was quite frightening, I've seen advanced tweekers that looked like prince charming in comparison. If I can remember where the article came from I'll post it but he has essentially irradiated himself by pursuing this endeavor over the years... If I remember correctly americium can be used to make a nuclear bomb but it takes quite a bit more than anyone could accumulate in a reasonable amount of time... but still less than the plutonium or U235 required. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/87734 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket

300%? That would suggest that a net gain in energy wouldn't it?

I read an article recently that said he was still up to his tricks but radiation poisoning had him close to death, his picture looked like the walking dead...

Citation please...

Yes objects can recede from each other faster than light, the edge of the observable universe will eventually recede away and all we will be able to see is our local group of galaxies that bound by gravity... What you are asserting here is not inline with the general scientific consensus, the universe evidently does appear to be accelerating at an ever increasing rate which will eventually exceed the speed of light and all we will be able to see is our own galactic local group, Imagine in this far away future when astronomers will only be able to see our own galaxy and nothing else, they will have no idea of the big bang or expansion...

Absolutely awesome cosplay cover of Bohemian Rhapsody... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oi7KPDi_yQI

Pretty much exactly the way I felt when i was diagnosed with cancer...

Why didn't the dinosaur make it across the road? He TASTES LIKE CHICKEN....

Can you cite any scientific study that shows that GMOs do any harm? I know they have the potential to do harm, a great many technologies do, use of pesticides and herbicides have the potential to do harm and studies exist that show some do but so far all you seem to be doing is asserting GMOs are harmful with no evidence to back it up except your assertions GMOs are harmful. GMOs have vast potential but to make assertions based on hear say and baseless fear mongering does no one any good... The very terminology used by GMO detractors like Franken food would seem to indicate all they have is fear mongering...

Reading this thread from the beginning is fascinating, from Humans being totally separate from any other hominid to some interbreeding with neanderthals to now four or more different species interbreeding in the human ancestry. Many arguments were thinly veiled racism and some were more of the eww mate with one of those ugly things and a few were simply based on how humans really act and some based on arguments of chromosome differences that were obviously wrong with examples all around us of such interbreeding among other animals. Great thread, very entertaining...

Scientists have begun to consider Einsteins "spooky action at a distance" maybe spookier than was first thought. Entangled particles might be the result of worm holes connecting the particles or groups of particles that are entangled. Even Black holes could be similarly entangled. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Spooky_action_builds_a_wormhole_between_entangled_particles_999.html

How is the data obtained via scientific naturalism not reason?

My personal definition hinges on what is scientifically accurate and the links I provide have other links listed to specific scientific papers to back up their hypothesis... My opinion is not enough, it smacks of either special pleading or appeal to authority, I have several ideas around the subject of abiogenesis, I think that to a great extent metabolism first makes a bit of sense and then these metabolisms were incorporated into early cells as they became more complex. T. Gold asserts that life is inevitable in the right conditions and is a by product of planetary formation. We, complex life, are the extremophiles on Earth, the vast majority of life, both in numbers and mass, is bacterial and requires quite a bit less than the optimal conditions of complex life and lives in environments complex life cannot exploit...

GMO is another one of those topics driven more by fear than data...

So knowing how the solar system works and the motions of the Earth is not enough to assume the sun will come up tomorrow?

The potential of GMO is obvious, taken to an extreme we can see meat being grown on trees but experimenting in the open environment seems a bit less than ideal to me. The whole pesticide in a crop things becomes a little problematical when you see the cross pollination and sharing of genes between food crops and experimental crops. I do see the benefits out weighing risks if reasonable precautions are taken...

Finished WWZ and now I am rereading an old favorite, John Varley's trilogy Titan, Wizard, and Demon...

You have to trust the NSA, they are part of our government and everyone knows the government only has our best interests at heart...

Ok, let's have a contest, Best TV commercial of the year! Who ever gets the most positive rep points votes wins... here is my entry...

I answered this in my last post. A virus is not a live even though they can be killed. A virus is not alive, it hijacks the cells own reproductive processes to make copies of it's self. Seriously you are going to give what someone asserts on another forum as evidence? Your understanding of virus' is fatally flawed and you need to back up those hypothesis with something than an your own assertions.. I'm not sure what you are saying here but to be alive is beyond just being a chemical, chemicals that make copies of themselves are quite well known, catalysts, and they are not assumed to be alive because of that property. I don't think you've successfully explained anything..

I remember using a "carbide" lantern when I was a kid, it used some sort of granular powder (CaC2) that when exposed to water it releases acetylene gas... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide_lamp I'm not sure if the energy density of this powder is enough to run a car for a reasonable distance...

My personal understanding is not relevant here, you need to understand that your false analogies of alive and dead are explained by the links. But if you insist... Life is that which reproduces with variation and maintains an internal homeostasis...

Life is that which reproduces with variation, homeostasis is also important, if clay reproduces with variation and maintains homeostasis then it would be alive as would fire but they do not... If a totally artificial machine reproduced with variation and maintained homeostatis it would be alive. Ophiolite I'm not sure why you are supporting Alan's view here but so far all his "questions" and "assertions" are from creationist 101... Lots of new findings coming out about life, Jack Szostak would appear to be among those at the cutting edge, I follow this subject very closely and I happen to agree it is a spectrum, in fact I would be surprised is life is not a synergy of several pathways, but Alan has to have conclusive proof of how life formed (more from the creationist play book) and as I pointed out more than once but Alan continuously moves the goal posts when someone get's close to an explanation... or ignores it completely. It's difficult to have a discussion when the other person will not accept anything but absolute proof... The very nature of the OP is all the evidence I need, the OP is a malformed question designed to trip up any one who suggests a possibility and is from the Creationist Science denier hand book... BTW the clay hypothesis doesn't suggest that clay is alive but that it acts as a catalyst to produce the chemicals of life... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis