Moontanman

Do you have a link to the video?

I do remember some bits of the article, if my memory serves me they suggested a boron target for accelerated protons. They claimed a net energy gain from this.

Deer and Elk, Moose, all of these have horns due to sexual selection, any defensive use is secondary, other animals horns and or tusks are also at least partly driven by sexual selection, ie the male with the biggest horns or tusks is likely to have the most mates...

Actually some schools of thought say the crest and the horns were a sexual display and only secondarily defensive...

Since most of the energy of a fission reactor is released as neutrons which are not affected by a magnetic field I would have to say no...

I did google it, not much to go on for sure...

Zoe, in science positive evidence is required for all positive claims... This would be true for any power source Zoe...

As for the roaches, as i pointed out there are 4500 species of roaches, only 4 are pests and we tend to label nearly all of them cockroaches, the roaches of the Permian are not the roaches of our time and termites are evolved from roaches or at least roach like insects as are mantis... Another thing I would like to point out is that while chickens are thought to be dinosaurs in the same sense that bats are mammals chickens are a part of a specific group of dinosaurs called theropods. Triceratops, while related, evolved after their ancestors split from the ancestors of theropods so chickens could not be used to recreate anything but theropods no triceratops, ankylosaurus, stegosaurus or sauropods any more than Bats could be used to recreate elephants...

Somethingtoponder, I suggest you get a better understanding of what evolution is and how it works, so far what you have suggested is nonsensical and has no connection to evolutionary theory... edited due to my own lack of observational skills, sorry lightburst...

Invertebrates with internal skeletons are poised to take over the land after the next great extinction... no doubt.. sort of...

Are there any reactions that allow aneutronic fission? I remember vaguely reading about the possibility in Omni magazine many years ago but I forget the details.

Yes, i think it's quite demonstrable that belief can change your life, I know quite a few people who have turned into jackasses over belief..

Yes, in fact widely related species have been used to bring embryos to term. It's done in farm animals and in breeding rare wild animals, i see no reason why it wouldn't work in orangutans and humans..

You'll get no argument from me on that, there is no evidence any god is real much less any specific god. Yet people all over the world are willing to not only assert their god is the only real god but they are the on,y ones who know the proper way to worship said god.. It would appear they matter to the people who believe... That gives those people reason to do what ever they want in the name of their god and In that way the concept of god does have real power...

Dinosaurs eggs are similar to fish eggs? Birds would drop them? Birds are dinosaurs, the eggs of dinosaurs were like.. bird eggs but for most species much larger and far to fragile to be picked up and dropped and still hatch... Yes there different species of roaches, in fact a great many insects are related to roaches, from termites to mantises, I am unsure of what you are suggesting here but if you are suggesting that there was some ancient cock roach that gave rise to all cock roaches I think that would be a vast over simplification of what really happened. I would suggest an ancient insect ancestral to all the insects that are in that group of insects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely...

Dinosaurs laid eggs, I would have to assume that an ostrich egg might do the trick...

Well other than the people i genuinely share interests with most are old high school friends and relatives with a few work related friends mixed in, a pretty good representation of the world.. well i kinda hope not but from what i see it is...

Well then you should start your own religion because you will find that with out laws to geld the religions we have now we would almost certainly go back to killing each other over who believes in god the right way... hell we do it now in some places and we certainly do judge people on what religion or what sub set of what religion they think is true... Again, religion, given real power, always results in conflict over who is worshiping the right way or the right god, often that conflict is violent and deadly. These things ignore the black hole of money that religion is, begging for many to help the poor while the leaders live in palatial splendor and very little if any of the money does anything but promote the religion...

Lately i have been trying to engage people who make those political and some religious posts where they give one side or the other down the road for "believing" this or that to see if they can back up what they assert... Guess what... so far all I get are talking points, no real discussion or explanation for why they think this or that is true. It's so bad that when i question gun control they run out of talking points and begin to talk about abortion. Or if i question religion i usually get blocked or told i am going to burn in hell fire and that if i was honest i would see the truth of the one true savior or something like that. I know that face book is not a real forum but somehow from the way these people asserted their view points I figured I would be challenged better.

I think it would depend on your definition of God as to how many believe in God here, it's a sure bet the fundamentalist Christian view is not as popular as it might be in a more representative sample of the population outside the forum... Looking for divine intervention are we?

I'm sure you know that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter but my guess it is due to space/time being flat that makes this constant.. well.. a constant. Maybe someone here who knows for sure can inform us.. oops, cross posted with swansonT

No, in fact it is this heat that drives plate tectonics not the expansion of the Earth, for the Earth to actually expand would require heat that would vaporize the surface or adding mass. for the earth to expand enough to have split the continents apart from a point where they are all joined to the point they are now would require adding something like 6 times the Earth's volume in extra matter. Not the present volume of the Earth but the proposed volume of the smaller Earth. for the continents to be all together due to the Earth being smaller would mean the Earth at that time was about the size Mars is today..

Azolla is like a watery lichen in some ways, a fern that is symbiotic with a cyanobacteria instead of a fungus, it's only limiting nutrient is phosphorus... I grow it in vats as a way to remove phosphates from water and as a medium to grow plants in. Water it grows in becomes clear and sweet. Here are some of my azolla vats getting started, they started out two weeks ago with a handful of azolla by the end of the summer i will have barrels of it just from my little operation.