Moontanman

If the truth be told the presence of a bacterium that uses arsenic isn't exactly unique. Other organisms, bacteria, algae and fungus use arsenic is various ways in their metabolisms instead of phosphorus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry More on boron life. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/boron-based_life.html Then there are the clouds... http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/03/131783352/arsenic-life-is-nice-living-clouds-are-nicer

Is an assumption being made here from the observation of one species of ant? I Have personally seen two species of ants move in lines of two lanes, each line going the opposite way. Some ants have more complex behaviors than others, some farm fungus or herd aphids, even store honey like fluids. Some keep slaves to the extent they are so specialized they cannot feed themselves with out the slave ants. Some ants sweep across the jungle floor never really stopping in one place, others live in trees that both house and feed them, in return the ants protect the trees from predators. Neither on can live with out the other, ants are cool....

I read a novel about time travel but they could only view the past. At first it was outrageously expensive technology requiring many gigawatts of power and the great moments of the past were viewed and recored for posterity but eventually the technology became cheap and required almost no power and the time viewer became nothing more than a way to be a peeping tom in the past and it was used to invade peoples privacy since any point in the past could be viewed everyones most intimate moments were easily viewed and time viewing just became another type of pornography. So next time you take a shower remember the future could be watching.....

Crows do some amazing things, they can judge the distance of a shot gun blast and stay just out of range. In one experiment a man walked into a field with a large card board tube. Sometimes the tube had a shotgun in it other times it didn't (I think it was weighted when it was empty) Crows were good enough at reading human body language to guess when the man had a gun hidden in the tube. Crows do a pretty good job of talking too, not as clear as a parrot but they get their point across, they will steal shiny objects, drop rocks on your head and if you raise them from chicks they will stay around where you live, almost like a half feral dog. Lots of people raised crows where I lived in WVa, they could be very aggravating. Maybe crows of the future will be digging out human cities in archeology digs and wondering what happened to us...

It is claimed by some people that they can hear the Aurora Borealis and high altitude meteors as they burn up. Both these phenomena give off radio waves ELF if i remember correctly.

What is the point of this message Rigney, are you trying to insult people who think everyone should have a fair trial? Do you think that a liberal doesn't feel pain or miss his friends and relatives when they are senselessly killed by one of these people? Are you trying to say our own laws, the laws we think make our society superior to other societies, do not apply to the people you mention? Do you really think that killing these people will keep them from doing the things you mention? it doesn't really matter if you kill them or lock them up in solitary confinement or lock them up with a sociopath whose only goal is to sexually torture as many people to death as they can for the rest of their lives. it doesn't matter because these people have belief, belief in some higher power that tells them they are superior and that they have to do these terrible things to get their reward in the after life. These beliefs are called religion, religion, when wielded by a true believer will always trump reality. Religion is where this crazy stuff comes from, yes the smiling simpletons who handle rattlesnakes and drink poison, or the ones who practice ritual cannibalism at the behest of their God's avatar to the ones who are chosen by God to occupy the earth first to the ones who say an arch angel told their ancestors to convert everyone on earth at the point of a sword to the ones who got their instructions from God via special books handed down by angels so they would know to marry as many little girls as possible and have as many other little girls so they can get them pregnant too, yes all of them are guilty of these horrific things because at some point Some one decided God told them to do these horrific things. A mission from God trumps mans laws, trumps his right to breath, trumps everything because God is impotent and requires his slaves to do his bidding. So how would you handle the problem differently? Would you handle the problem differently or are you just trying to poke those who do not share your religious or political views because you need someone to blame the ineffectiveness of our attempts to keep these horrible things from happening?

Then again it might be, what is your point? Wild speculation trumps reality?

I understand exactly where you are coming from, as a matter of fact i have used the argument of alien design quite successfully in the past but it does not remove the problem of how life really began any more than panspermia removes the problems with abiogenesis. Shuffling the designer back to before the creation of the universe solves no problems what so ever and has zero supporting evidence. At some point the designer has to come into existence from non design. Unless you suppose that a designer from the future creates the universe so it can evolve and eventually create the universe, this loop would continue on and on but I am quite sure it would violate some laws of causality at least. It might very well be true that the universe has a designer, i can think of many situations to explain the origin of the universe and the life in it including us but they would all be speculation with zero supporting evidence. So far there is zero evidence of any designer so why should we assume there is one? I see no reason to proclaim there cannot be a designer but also no reason to assume there is one... Interesting info... http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/fossils_ruins/origin_of_life/

Evidently we are still waiting on that chimp to give birth to a human baby...

There are already diet foods that will do what you need, as I said in another thread, I tried to use this 'stuff" years ago and after a few days it was so unpalatable i gagged on it and couldn't swallow anymore. While I am sure that "human chow" is possible to make humans with access to other foods would not eat it for long. They have "monkey chow" which contains all the nutrients monkeys need, I doubt many wild monkeys would eat it, caged monkeys have no choice.

Why not? If it is necessary to have a designer then why wouldn't the designer need a designer as well?

Rare Earth Elements in US Not So Rare, Report Finds Powders of six rare earth elements oxides. (Credit: Photograph by Peggy Greb, Agricultural Research Center of USDA) ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2010) — Approximately 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE) exist within known deposits in the United States, according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of these elements by the U.S. Geological Survey. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101117184451.htm

I would have to say no, once the brain is dead the person is gone, the brain does not come back to life. If you revived the person he would just be a body, no mind.

I have ridden motorcycles for 40 years, much of that, at the beginning at least, was dirt bikes, mud can be areal problem for a dirt bike but if you can get the traction you can go through it. The problem with making a motorcycle into a tractor will be traction. As it happens i have also plowed many a field, mostly with horses and mules but also with tractors. Pulling a plow through a field, even if the dirt is relatively dry will be a problem with the small narrow tires of a motorcycle, add that to the light weight of the bike and pulling that plow is going to be difficult if not impossible at least under the conditions of deep clay that I am experienced with. I believe that hooking the plow to the motorcycle would also be a problem.

You are assuming an unbroken chain of civilization, 2500 years ago was several civilizations and most records of 2500 years ago are lost. We are not real good at continuous civilization for 2500 years much less record keeping. Imagine if the library at Alexandria had not been lost we might have star ships by now, how many times in 2500 years has almost all information been lost?

Some one who promotes Islam?

I would be amazed if this woman was really a time traveler, I see no evidence to assume this but I would be equally amazed if she was a time traveler and was alone and had no communication methods. If you look at this from the point of view of a time traveler, she might have brought a communicator and if she did she would want it to be easily hidden and draw no attention but from her perspective a cell phone might be exactly what she wanted to bring. If she is from the future, a future inquisitive enough to want to see what was going on in 20th century Earth it indicates their information is somewhat less than perfect about the time period. Can you imagine if we were to travel back (for instance) 2500 years how inaccurate our information about that time period would be? From her perspective cinema, computers, and cell phones all occurred at the same time. She might have arrived thinking a cell phone was a great way to disguise her technology only to find she is 75 years too soon.

You can start looking here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

ewmon, you are operating on an assumption, the assumption that adult females do not have sex with underage males. In the real world it has not been that long that the idea of an adult male having sex with an underage female was unthinkable as well but it happened. When the female complained she was dismissed as crazy, no grown man would want to have sex with an under age girl. The same thing occurred if a male complained about an adult female having sex with him. It was crazy! Common sense said it didn't happen and when common sense says it doesn't happen making others see it does happen is very difficult. Not too many years ago even the idea of a woman enjoying sex was written off as crazy or lies or a mentally ill woman. Trying to say the world is going to hell in hand basket any faster today than it was 50 years ago or 150 years ago ignores a planet full of data to the contrary. 45 years ago there were female teachers having sex with young boys and I bet money that 45 years from now they still will be... It was just easier to get by with it 45 years ago then it is now... If anything such liaisons are less prevalent than they used to be so if we go by your reckoning things are getting better not worse.

Yes, that would be a big part of the draw, lol

Republicans Seize Momentum, Set Sights On . . . Light Bulbs? I am begining to really like politics...

I be sorry for the boobies CR, but I wonder how many people were distracted by the boobies and only read the title, ignored the satire and took the idea seriously...?

Cypress, you keep harping on design, for design to be significant in this it has to have a source, can you suggest a source? So far there is no evidence for design except assertions that evolution had to have design to happen. Who are these genetic engineers? You say that design is out pacing evolution, how does that indicate there is some other designer who designed us? if you do not have a viable alternative to evolution other than some mythical designer i don't see the point of your argument. I can suggest lots of things are real with no evidence for them, how is your idea of a designer any different? I'm not trying to be a smart ass cypress but all i see you doing is saying no it can't be like that with no suggestions of what it is like. So far evolution is the only alternative that is supported by evidence, this evidence might be weak to you but it is infinitely better than the evidence you have for some "designer with no name" Not liking a theory is not evidence it is not real and assertions of the existence of a designer need to be backed up with more than finger pointing at the things evolution cannot currently explain. So far science has worked quite well to explain evolution via natural selection, it's not perfect but until someone actually comes up with something besides a rapidly shrinking number of objections to evolution i think it deserves to be investigated further and to be taught as the most probable reason for the complexity of life on Earth. Your assertion of a designer is no better than saying some mysterious undetectable entity holds the earth in orbit around the sun because we don't know exactly what makes gravity work. .

Poll Finds Majority Of Male Voters Would Have Elected Naked Woman WASHINGTON—A CNN/Gallup Poll released Monday revealed that a vast majority of registered male voters would have strongly supported a naked woman in the 2010 midterm elections. Respondents also requested a longer, hard-copy version of the poll be sent to their home addresses. The online survey found that regardless of political philosophy or party affiliation, 85 percent of American men in every ethnic, age, and socioeconomic group consistently chose a completely nude woman over a Democratic, Republican, or independent candidate. "Male voters from 18 to 85 were shown pictures of the candidates running in the midterms elections and then a picture of a naked lady," head pollster Gerald Walton said. "Across the board, they favored the naked lady."