Moontanman

TR, the story is far more important that the technology, don't worry about what the vehicle looks like make the story interesting, the suspension of disbelief of a good story can account for quite a bit of unrealistic background...

No No, you will notice these motorcycles are going quite slow, the faster you go the more the vehicle changes, various counter intuitive forces come into play. You have to employ counter steering if you are going much above a fast run and at speeds like you are suggesting turns would be very wide and totally done by steering in the opposite direction from the way you want to go. I'm not sure how having a loop across the top helps you ate all, at any speed much more than a slow crawl it would just flip you end over end and destroy the bike and you...

Could you elaborate on these issues? My thought was that logic in fact was or is instrumental in solving these problems, I see no way religion could contribute to solving either, in fact we are slowly seeing the tragedy of the commons spread over our entire planet and religion is if anything contributing to this problem not helping to solve it...

Religion is not just something you believe to be true I think it's quite easy to define religion, defining god is quite a bit harder. All religions share a belief in something supernatural but not necessarily in a god. Very nearly all religions, if not all, define special people who define what this supernatural belief consists of and what rules it's followers have to follow. All religions must proselytize non believers to survive and those that join must be equal to or be greater than those that leave or the religion fails to survive. Often apostasy is punished severely, sometimes with death. Often religions have written texts that demand followers belief on faith what those books say. Critical thought is actively discouraged no matter what photon propeller seems to want to believe. In fact in the Judeo/Christian/Islamic mythos it is often stated outright that when reality and doctrine disagree doctrine must take precedence. Most fundamental religions require apologetics to explain away the inconsistencies of doctrine and dogma While many religious sects try to stay away from dictating reality the fundamentalists always drive the religion by attempting to dictate reality, this series of videos is excellent for making that point, i know it's a long series but for anyone who wants to understand what religion can be when given real power this is very enlightening. Sadly the religious are often the people who least understand their religion...

Well It's your concept for a fictional book, you can give your characters any traits you want but in the real world... no...

Sam, I am not going to take umbrage at your quip about UFOs since I do not "believe" and only advocate investigation Of UFOs and decry the misinformation campaign fostered by the military over the years, as for schizophrenic I have never done anything the voices tell me to do... well not often... Yes it did, feudal system of serfdom, slavery, being tortured to death to if you pissed off the religious authorities. Religious wars conquering and enslaving or killing the resident populations, yup them older societies were wonderful... Religion comes to us now days with a smiling face a open hand and sweet promises... This is not what religion really is, go back to before religion was gelded by secular authorities, when religion had real power and see how benign it is.... The crusaders are what drives religion, the fundamentalist fringes drive the mainstream and here in the states the fringes are coming close to capturing the mainstream again. The last thing we want is religion with power... forums like this one would be used to track people like me and burn me at the stake... no thank you I'll take secularism anytime...

TR, it wouldn't make any difference how far off the ground you were going if you fell off. I've been on a motorcycle at well over 150 mph, i felt no force trying to tear me off the bike. I was hunkered down over the gas tank but I did see the speedo sweep past 150, at that speed you don't look at the speedo much if you want to avoid objects that suddenly appear in your path and at that speed everything appears quite suddenly. I'm not sure human reflexes are capable of controlling something much faster two or three hundred mph that close to the ground unless you were on an open flat course that you knew had no other vehicles that would be in your way and falling off at anything over 40 or 50 mph becomes a matter of luck and safety equipment to survive...

Creationist wedding hazard.... You'll need a prescription for that....

I'm not sure where you live but where I live giant ants are really solitary wingless wasps and can sting very badly so be careful...

What have drawn is not much more than a one man cage car. The essence of a motorcycle is it's contact with the environment. Speed and power are also important but on a motorcycle you are part of the environment not separated from it...

Your first picture didn't show but since I am very familiar with motorcycles from the very beginning to today I have a pretty good idea what it probably looked like. Having said that your picture denies the rider the the most basic thing a motorcycle gives. I am betting you are not a regular rider....

Having been a motorcyclist for 45 years now i can tell you that picture in no way resembles anything i would recognise as a motorcycle...

Snowball Earth is theorized to have caused at least one oxygenation event.

There never was one Semjase...

I try to give her the benefit of the doubt, when I was young I was all over the map with this stuff, it's easy to get caught up in mysticism by reading books, I am sure the internet has increased that by several orders of magnitude. Anyone with a keyboard and a pulse can post anything they like, has to be confusing... It should also be noted that threads like this attract charlatans like a magnet attracts iron filings. Dawkins has tweaked the noses of quite a few people who want to feel special by claiming special knowledge above the keen of normal humans. A huge number of people want to spread the illusion of knowledge instead of actually acquiring knowledge. As my signature says: “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking These people are dangerous not just annoying, they mislead, misdirect, make grandiose claims that cannot be backed up and ridicule anyone calls them on it to make the questioner look stupid. It's dishonesty pure and simple....

Actually the action of hard UV light on ice producing H2O2 is thought to have been significant abiotic source of oxygen on the early earth...

It's interesting to look at old photos and such to try and see anachronisms but I have ever seen anything that wasn't either vague or photoshopped...

That is the reason it's entertaining, if it was easy to figure out no one would watch him...

Anyone can make a prediction Semjase, I will predict a major earthquake will occur in the next month on the pacific rim... The key is to make lots of prediction about things that are either likely to happen or obscure enough to apply to many things, then the laws of chance kick in and I'll be right on at least some of them, the ones I'm wrong on are ignored, sampling bias. Actually yes, eyesight is explained by chemistry... I think krash has already answered that one...

I have an old friend who says he knows absolutely for sure he is not gay, he tried it and didn't like it....

Split Infinity, the harder you dig the deep the hole becomes dude....

It's them giant Precambrian worms you have to worry about...

What was dishonest? You changed the wording of my statement and totally changed what it said and meant, you did that intentionally, you are dishonest the rest of this post smacks of special pleading, appeals to authority and just plain snake oil which is what I would expect from what is basically a dishonest stance... Yeah, report me, I'll defend this position until the heat death of the universe... So what? Many religious scholars have contributed to science but guess what they didn't use religion to do it, so i ask again SO WHAT? No actually it was no answer at all... Meaningless drivel, you can think about the nature of the economics of elven culture as long as you want but it doesn't make elves real... If metaphysics has no more than this to offer I suggest you go back to arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, I will give you credit for giving answers that are nothing but bullshit warmed over a fire made of dried bullshit... I get it now, metaphysics is professional avoidance of really admitting you have no position except for an imaginary, invisible, all important nothing.... I asked you specific questions, you did nothing but equivocate and use dishonest tactics to change the goal posts... good job that... Dishonest sophistry? Really? There is honest sophistry?

WOW! Talk about a dishonest answer, is dishonesty the only way you can support your position? Here you go, defend this horsefeathers... Or better yet answer my question. Moontanman, on 28 May 2013 - 21:00, said: