Moontanman

Lets see, how would this go, Theist<----------------------------------------------------> Atheist lightning is the wrath of God<-------------------------------->Lightning is electricity from the sky Trying to control where lightning<--------------------------->Put this rod on your house or barn and it will strikes is blasphemy!<--------------------------------------->prevent lightning strikes! Now only churches are being hit...<-------------------------->Now! only churches are being hit... Church says unfair standard being used to judge science and religion when talking about lightning?

I think you are ignoring a vital part of this process, the shapes themselves. The energy of the surf doesn't just sort out material via some fixed parameter of the objects, the energy of the surf creates the shapes as it sorts them. The shapes or the idea the shapes are more or less complex is a human idea. The surf knows nothing of heart shapes or cylinders or tubes, balls, ovals, or some of the really bizarre shapes and things it creates as the waves pound down onto raw materials all sorts of micro and macro shapes are created by the ocean. Everything from the almost organic movements of inlets and barrier islands to dust sized grains of unusually dense sand and everything in between created by and moved and sported out by wave action on the properties of the particles and random occurrences like breaking and grinding of the materials. The surf breaks huge numbers of shells as it pounds the shore then sorts the different shaped pieces that are left over, the result is you find many of certain pieces of shells but never all the pieces of the whole shell in one place. Time is also a big factor, one day a small area of beach might contain 10's of thousands of a particular type of shark teeth, all sorted out and concentrated in one spot. The next day no trace of shark teeth can be found in the very same spot. The surf can create and sort on very short time scales and very long ones but there is no intelligence behind it, it's just what happens when you have raw materials and energy input...

I don't think you can necessarily equate non-procreative sexual desire (in humans or other higher animals) as some how bad or the result of some sort of behavior problem. Sex is used as a bargaining tool in social bonding in many animals across both gender and age barriers.

Talk about having issues, next he'll want a big gavel...

Define what you mean by super massive galaxy. How big is super massive?

Mostly by proxy via Thomas Gold but I would like to read some of those Russian papers if you have links to English translations. But yes, i think it is a very interesting debate, to some extent the ideas as portrayed by Gold are almost too good, he would suggest that life is a natural development of any planetary body with liquid water deep under ground, so Mars would (by Golds hypothesis) certainly have life (and oil) possibly mercury, most of the outer planets large moons even Pluto like objects.

In 2011 we will discover not just alien life but intelligent alien life....

Yeah, the ones with blue fruits emblazoned with a V

Considering that millions, if not billions of goldfish are sold each year for nothing more than live food for other fishes i can see no reason to expect any ethical constraints other than the ones you set for your self in using goldfish for any purpose....

Do you suffocate when you sleep? Fish continue to breath just like we do when they sleep. Most fish can and do pump water through their gills even when swimming.

I don't think the brain would know the difference but the living nightmare of "user aware advertisements" would be par for the course, lol. Quite possibly the brain would be center of a fantasy landscape of anything you could imagine, live out any existence just like it was reality. I could be Captain of the Star Ship Enterprise and you could populate your universe with imaginary people who would seem real or maybe other people might want to populate your imaginary cyberscape much like TV shows have fans. So if your cyberscape is most popular you could get revenues from users wanting to live in your universe and that would at least imply advertisements of some sort Damn commercials ruin everything Of course there is no chance such technology would be used for virtual porn

There are several gasses that condense at different layers, pressures, and temps on Saturn, the deeper you go in Saturn the hotter it gets but there is no surface in the way the Earth has a surface. Internal heat and heat from the sun drives the storms along with Coriolis forces. The weather on Saturn is not driven the same way as the Earth's weather but similar forces create similar effects like wind and lightning. Internal heat on Saturn is created by helium rain deep within the metallic liquid hydrogen oceans of both Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are quite different internally (they are basically balls of high pressure high temperature ice) Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants and made up mostly of hydrogen in it's gaseous, liquid, and metallic states but the effects still create storm patterns similar to Earth and other planets with deep atmospheres.

Where is a devout believer when you need one?

Yes, it's called a laser, or light bulb, or microwave, or heater coil, or fire.... Humans generate photons, something like 100 watts worth.

Saturn has plenty of water but a storm is not necessarily dependent on water vapor, rising and sinking "air" (in the case of Saturn mostly hydrogen) and coriolis effects cause storms.

For the most part flying fish glide, they can get quite high out of the water often landing on the decks of boats, they can glide a considerable distance. I've head them actually hit me, they are good bait, lol. Flying fish are not uncommon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish They are also quite tasty. The shrimp i was thinking about is really an amphipod, it comes out at night and escapes predators by jumping a couple meters into the air, a breeze can carry them several feet at least. I love living near the ocean...

If flying fish fly then so do some types of shrimp.

Smells just like bull shit to me...

That is an interesting idea, I am betting that crustaceans haven't been a big enough part of the land ecosystem long enough to have evolved flying.

Already have them, there is even a holographic entertainer in Japan http://www.realestateradiousa.com/tag/hatsune-miku-holographic-singer/ I'm not sure what you mean by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing

Runners high? Are you talking about physical exertion leaving you with a pleasant feeling that you have become addicted to?

I would agree that is the most likely explanation. Certain? I don't see how anyone can really be certain of that, 4.5 billion years is a long time... If you think there is no evidence then you have not looked very hard, the US Airforce used lies and deception to cover up quite a bit of evidence, the socalled studies they did were never meant to study anything. There are reports that are difficult to explain in anyway other than something not of our Earth but still not absolute proof. There is no reason to think there is not intellegent life elswhere either, md6536's response is spot on. As for our broad casts giving us away, new assessments of this indicate that it would be very difficult to detect our "leakage" from much more than one light year due to interstellar dust and debris absorbing the signals. A directed intentional broad cast could be detected quite far away but our leaking signals are not being watched by beings in another star system.

I think it's likely that crustaceans have the oceans dominated and insects have freshwater dominated but not to the extent that crustaceans have the oceans. Crustaceans have made inroads into freshwater and are quite common there, crustaceans have also taken up living on land but insects dominate the land similar to the way crustaceans dominate the oceans, insects in the ocean are rare but there are a few. Possibly crustaceans evolved in the sea and insects evolved in freshwater? http://cgi.unk.edu/hoback/marineinsects/home.html

I bit one bullet!