Moontanman

How do you keep it from catching on fire and burning up?

I have to admit I am a Trekie, I'd rather a janitor on the Star Ship Enterprise than POTUS...

While watching episodes on net flix last night I realized yet another connection between politics and Star Trek. In the old show the Klingons were supposed to be the Soviet Union not so thinly veiled but i was watching Voyager and realized that the Ferengi are a satirized version of the Republican party! Anyone else notice such comparisons between various races in Star Trek and our reality? I have been trying to figure out who the Romulans are but so far no sure ideas. of course there are many.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_races Of the many of course just a few are described in detail. Vulcans Borg Andorians Betaziod Cardassian Orion The list is long but how many are really just parodies of countries or political parties we already have? I know I'm bored...

Actually it's not that difficult but I lost several to bird predators and a couple to equipment failure. Moving took out a couple more, it's difficult to move fish sometimes and the water quality in the new house was horrific. The learning curve on new fish is sometimes quite steep, I had never attempted to keep these fish before and the current wisdom about them proved to be mostly wrong which didn't help much.

Yes, the last paddlefish is doing well, he eats enthusiastically, and will eat smaller fish despite the common knowledge they only eat microscopic creatures. I wonder about the small aquarium, how stable it could be, anyone could put tiny fish in a tiny container for a few hours or days but how does it do long term? I breed fish called mosquito fish, they are less than one inch long as adults and have live young. I have kept them for short periods of times in containers that only held a fluid ounce or so of water. Still it was nice that he had plants in it as well.

This is a very serious charge, while I don't doubt your veracity I do doubt that this is either wide spread or necessary but it is something that could be changed and should be. I would get behind any movement to stop such an atrocity. I grew up on a farm, any animal that was killed was killed as cleanly and quickly as possible. On the other hand I have no problem with killing to eat, we are animals and historically hominids that were vegetarian died out while hominids that included meat in their diets went on to evolve into us, we are omnivores, we evolved to eat meat and certain parts of plants, we cannot for instance eat grass or most leaves from trees. Most vegetation is inedible to us, we are also not apart from or separate from the ecosystem of this planet, we are the top predator, we are evolved in such a way as to require meat in our diets. This only partly true, cows, I don't know why we are just focusing on cows, but cows routinely graze on land unsuitible for farming and eat vegetation humans cannot eat. Again this is only partly true, cattle commonly are grazed on marginal lands, hill sides and flood plains where humans do not normally live. This is a problem, I think the use of antibiotics in this way should be stopped immediately. Humans, when fed a vegetarian diet expel methane on a large scale and for some reason so do old men no matter what they eat. As do I...

Do you have any evidence the Earth is moving outwards from the sun? Don't you think it's a bit more likely that Mars at one time had a denser atmosphere and was able to retain more heat than it does today?

I have a friend that actually built his house of out pine trees he cut off his land and milled into lumber. I thought it was kind of neat...

I'd like to add that just because you think you've witnessed god doesn't make it real either...

Ammonium fluoride is similar to water? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_fluoride It sublimes at 100c exactly how is it similar to water?

I live in the southern US, pine forests are about all we have other than swamp forests where you guessed more conifers dominate the scene, cypress grow in standing water sometimes several feet deep, pond pines grow along the edges of swamp with huge long leaf pines growing everywhere else. Pine is very cool wood it smells good and it is very pretty and can be stained to any hue, what's not to like? Oh yeah and there are all those pine cones... I'm not sure about the acid thing either to be honest...

Unless of course you have read this entire thread and seen that odds have nothing to do with it...

What? What does this have to do with a "gay gene" and can you substantiate such outrageous claim?

The Republicans are much scarier than I even imagined, I almost wish I hadn't started looking at this stuff closely...

Now we know where Todd Akin got his information about rape and pregnancy...

Yet more batshit crazy fear mongering from the republicans... civil war if Obama wins reelection...

Christians, the ones that do, only started to do so after the enlightenment. Before that Christians thought diseases were caused by supernatural elements. Only after science began to explain things by naturalistic means did "certain" Christians give up the supernatural causes. A theory has to be falsifiable, the supernatural is not... Religion, even the Christian religion is capable of deplorable evil as well, what would be your point? Christianity has historically been morally bankrupt, only after Christianity was gelded by the enlightenment has it been touted as moral and even today Christians call for the death of homosexuals, rounding them up into concentration camps, the teaching of creationism as science, sometimes violent opposition to birth control. The Old testament is full of morally bankrupt commands by god and even in the new testament slavery is condoned. Morals do not come from religion, any religion. So requiring people to suffer unnecessarily is moral? Why can the patient not choose to die with dignity? A woman should have the right to have an early abortion if she wants, i do not agree with abortion as a method of birth control but making someone have a baby who does not want to have one is immoral in my opinion. How do you get that from the quote you gave? Dogma is not reason... Not if you read what the bible really says...

I suggest you read the entire thread before asserting ID as the most likely way life came into being....

I am curious, did you bother to read the entire thread or did you just jump in here at the end and ignore all the evidence presented in the other 108 posts?

Let me get this straight, because you don't understand how they could have done it aliens must have done it?

Aw come on rigney, you promised...

Yes, hand waving is a great way to get your point across, please provide some evidence other than your inability to understand...

No they rely on fear mongering Why is a deity necessary? This is not true, I am an atheist and I don't think abortion is a good thing, that one example blows your argument out of the water. When it comes to religion it is a monster leading the blind...

Interesting that it is easy to show how religion controls people in nearly every aspect of a believers life from the food they can eat the sex they can have, who they can have it with and yet there is no evidence to support any life after death or even that religion is anything but made up myths...

Hire a professional, at least before you do anything that might get your self hurt get an estimate on how much it would cost to have the tree cut down, it might not be as expensive as you think.