Moontanman

While I agree it was probably a balloon, even a small one seen under such circumstances would be difficult to even describe much less identify, but are you suggesting we cannot spot sharks with sonar?

The article states that such a craft would have shown up on radar and there was no radar trace.

Why would you assume something shaped like an octopus would have to be a water creature?

I am not sure at all about how the genetics of this work but I have seen it happen in many plants. I am most familiar with cacti and I have seen various genetic defects manifest themselves in many ways. The cacti often seen for sale in plant stores that look like brightly colored cacti atop a green base is a mutation that lacks chlorophyll and has to be grafted to the green base for it to live. Crested cacti which are cacti that are mutated in such a way that the plant grows in a twisted or otherwise unusual way and can suddenly start growing back in the original way for no apparent reason.

Your link http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect.php#id--Why_Not?_Let_me_count_the_ways--What_If_I_Run_Silent_And_Cold? indicates a nuclear powered submarine or space ship using the same power could be detected to a range of 100 times the earth moon distance. The oort cloud is considerably more distant than this theoretical maximum of 128 light seconds, the oort cloud extending to one light year. While i am not sure of all the details a nuclear powered spacecraft somewhere in the oort cloud would be virtually undetectable by any current detectors. I am assuming a distance of between 30 AU and 50,000 AU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

More than likely the bush is a cultivar, a cultivated version of a wild variety, the branch you are talking about is most likely a part of the bush that has reverted back to it's original form. I say this because the rest of the bush has white edges on it's leaves that were probably selectively cultivated for. It's doubtful any physical or chemical damage caused this as cultivars routinely revert back to their original form and the original form branches should be trimmed away to maintain the cultivated look...

Most likely for what? I'm not sure what you mean by "weighted like it" Mercury is nothing like earth moon, Mercury is much denser than Earth's moon, it's resemblance to Earth's Moon is superficial at best. I would also like to ask what you mean by Mercury being Venus's intended moon, intended by whom? For Venus to capture Mercury would require some very complex interactions that are very improbable... Could you elaborate on this? Yes, the atmospheric pressure on Venus is 90 bar or about 90 times the pressure on the Earth, this atmosphere is comprised mostly of CO2 and Sulphuric acid at a temperature of around 860 degrees fahrenheit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus Mars no only has an atmosphere it is thought at one time it had much more than it has now. Now it's atmosphere is about 1/1000 bar and contains mostly CO2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars

So it's six inches long and is obviously half human? I often wonder why anyone would entertain the idea that an alien could mate with a human and have offspring... The very same people that if I told them i had a specimen that was half shark and half dolphin would be immediately skeptical but anyone can say half human and half alien and suddenly this hybrid is reasonable? While it's not impossible that an alien could be humanoid and a shark and a dolphin do have similar shapes at least a shark and a dolphin share 4 billion years of evolutionary history. The instant I read the half human half alien part i thought bollocks.... looks more like Beavis and Butthead had an abortion after anal sex...

No, an antiparticle only has opposite electrical charge... not negative mass....

These findings suggest that Mars was a protoplanet that escaped merging with its siblings. However The Earth acquired its large Moon there can be no doubt conditions on the Earth would have been different but that doesn't mean life wouldn't have adapted to a different Earth and saying that the Earth would be different because because it would be different actually only indicates the Earth would be different... not lifeless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PezT3n4To

I've read through this and if i missed i apologize but a lions share of Earth's heat comes from radioactive decay, some of it comes from the heat of formation and the rest from gravitational contraction. I see no need to postulate an arc tube like the one that occurs with Jupiter and Io, Other than your assertions can you show any such current loop between the sun and the earth? It should be quite obvious if it were true...

Even bullets fired straight up come down much slower than they went up, in fact they have a quite slow terminal velocity due to friction, an arrow would suffer the same fate if shot straight up... A human being dropped from 30,000 feet will hit the ground at the same speed as a human dropped from 1000 feet, the terminal velocity of a human in freefall in the earth's atmosphere is something like 130 mph....

Birds started as small theropod type dinosaurs, they climbed trees and ran fast to catch their prey. Dinosaurs had already evolved feathers for warmth well before there were birds. The type feathers modern birds have possibly evolved for gliding and or to stabilize them as they ran. Some of these early birds actually had four wings, their hind legs serving was wings as well. No in fact there were birds well before the impact that killed the dinosaurs, there were birds with long tails, birds with teeth, birds with all sorts of features we do not see today. Only a small subset of birds survived the K/T extinction to radiate out into the species of birds we see today. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/early-bird-species-had-four-wings-scientists-find.html?_r=0 http://www.google.com/search?q=primitive+birds&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=6dF2UZ6mAsfW0QX9-4HgCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=777 http://www.livescience.com/16105-cosmic-impact-extinction-archaic-birds.html BTW, pterosaurs were not birds or dinosaurs...

It should be noted that the vast majority of money given to help the poor is filtered through religious charities which use the lions share of it to build churches, pay for vast estates for their pastors or priests and proselytizing, quite a bit of the money never filters down to the poor it was donated to...

Getting air and not being chewed up by the propeller....

When I was injured I was riding in a boat that hit a channel marker piling. It was 2 am , i was ejected from the boat and i sank to the bottom in 20 feet of water, my leg was broken and bent double the wrong way with the bones sticking out of my leg, my foot was turned around backwards and my ankle crushed and most of the bones in my foot were broken as was my right arm and hand, i had to swim for several minutes to avoid the out board motor which was still running and causing the boat to go in circles. The pain is not describable, my lower leg and foot were flopping around uncontrollably as I swam to avoid the propeller, the only missing was a shark attracted by the blood... I had to climb back into the boat in this condition as the other boaters were unconscious, the ride back to the boat landing was torture and the 30 minute wait for the ambulance was an eternity... no black out for me... As a side note being in the water lessened the pain somewhat but once I was out of the water the pain... I really can't describe it rationally.. returned full force...

Are these natural streams that you have cleaned out or artificial streams? I'm not sure what you mean when you say septic, do you mean an above ground septic waste system? If this is a natural stream connected with other natural streams then adding fish is something that you should contact your state department of fisheries about. In any case if the stream is connected with natural streams fish will migrate naturally up stream to fill the vacant niches if the waste water has been diverted from flowing through it...

I am going to have to come down on the side of freedom of information here, restricting information does not result in that information being unattainable or keep whatever is being restricted from being made. We have discussed everything here from child porn to atom bombs and restricting those things has had no effect on their manufacture. Atom bombs were once highly classified, yeah that kept anyone else from making them, given the right isotopes all you need is a machine shop and little regard for your own life, back in the day dynamite was available at many hardware stores, restricting it's sale really solved the problem of explosions being used to nefarious purposes. Somethings are simply disgusting, others are actively dangerous but making it illegal to posses them is more likely to make them widespread or at least very profitable than it is to actually stop them. Humans have a bad habit of wanting what is kept from them, in the aquarium hobby the best way to make sure a fish is widely desired is to make it illegal to posses. Piranhas are a good example, in some states they were outlawed, people's homes were actively searched and a great many fish destroyed but piranha breeders sprung up like clover in newly mown lawn, today only an idiot couldn't get a piranha if they wanted one... Stop people from making meth by restricting the information that describes how to make it, make possession of the anarchists handbook illegal, then expect meth to vanish or bombs to stop being made. It's the people who actually do these things that needs to feel the full brunt of the law, information should not be restricted, but actually doing what this information describes can and should be...

Interesting pictures, are these things you intentionally culture?

If you are referring to this then you have been sucked in, this is utter bollocks... http://thatsfoul.com/you-think-your-day-is-bad-now-it-could-be-worse-top-10-worst-ways-to-die/ once your nerves are destroyed you can feel no pain so most of these would be intensely painful but not continuously painful. The anaconda does not swallow it's prey alive or crush it, once your nerves are destroyed by fire you could not feel anything, drowning while horrific to contemplate is finite. All forms of death are finite due to... well... death but some are slower than others. I happen to be in a position to know something about pain having been severely injured and having to endure that injury for quite along time before rescue came, I always thought such pain would bring unconsciousness but it didn't and madness is not far away when you are in that much pain... while i wouldn't have chosen death i was glad when pain meds finally resulted in unconsciousness but the 18 months of rehab that followed were singularly painful as well... Oh yeah, screaming doesn't help much either...

Warp drive, whether Alcubierre type or the Star Trek universe which has co opted the same concept, time dilation is not supposed to occur within the warp bubble. Instantaneous is not part of the concept since time does pass while in transit.

the why is almost certainly to attract insects and or other transmitters of pollen...

Can you elaborate some on this? Why is this important?

No i don't eat it but most everything else does, koi seem to love it like candy. In azolla containers I grow fish, mostly Enneacanthus chaetodon, the Black Banded sunfish. In the vats where i want to grow other organisms I discourage the growth of azolla in favor of unicellular algae and bacteria that feed the Daphnia magna which is my target species for fish food production.