Moontanman

What do your minions get to wear? Do you need an evil side kick?

The floating ice of the Arctic Ocean will no effect on the sea level if it melts, it's the Greenland ice sheet that needs to be protected...

Thanks for the heads up, better late than never, they were here last night, that probe was uncomfortable...

Yes it does, uplift exposes new material that was once at the bottom of the sea, this sediment turned to rock has a load of salt that used to be in the ocean. As uplifted material is eroded away the salt is taken away as well as it is exposed. Volcanoes around zones of subduction release magma that is essentially melted sedimentary rocks that were at one time at the bottom of the ocean as well.

Ants leave pheromone trails with no thought of the other ants following them, it's not a conscious decision any more than a dog pissing on a pole is a conscious decision to add his info to the info of the last dog who visited. Humans record abstract thought to pass down info to later generations and yes I would have to say that cave paintings was close to the beginning of this behavior. I can see how this behavior could have evolved from a simple need to leave marks on rocks to let others know you are here but the idea of recording complex and or abstract thought is a purely human thing...

Plate tectonics completes the circle, the sea floor is raised into mountains, volcanoes erupt melted sea floor that is sub-ducted... Why is this a problem?

I agree, most human behaviors are just a matter of degree between us and animals... You are close to what i have in mind, but animals also communicate, what we do is just a matter of degree but we do something with those abstract thoughts that no other animal can do... We record abstract thoughts outside our minds, writing is what we do that is unique, IMHO...

Cute but I'll treat it as serious, juggling is nothing more than manipulating objects, indeed rather advanced but still just manipulating objects, many animals can manipulate objects... Good guess but no ring, animals can also come up with novel solutions to problems.

If the Nuke isn't actually touching the object you want to "kill" I think the gamma ray flash would be the worst part of it for any living beings nearby. In the atmosphere the gamma ray flash is absorbed quickly by air, in space it would not be diminished by anything other than distance...

No, that is like saying you can step outside the universe and see the big bang from a distance, the North Star is not part of the Earth...

Stilts are just tools, advanced tools I guess but just tools none the less and animals make tools....

So you are saying there is no plate tectonics? Can you back that up with anything other than your Opinion?

Yes, I agree!

Name a point that is further north than the North Pole...

What sort of behaviors do humans do that only humans do? I can only think of one...

So you prove your point by ignoring anyone who mounts an argument you cannot deal with?

If we in our society allowed or encouraged sexual contact between adults and children it would not be the same society as we now see it. I am quite sure it would differ from ours in many ways, some would be very scary to us. Most scenarios of adult child sexual contact revolves around violence and the death or at least physical harm to the child. The idea of the child snatched away from it's parents for reasons of the destruction of the child are almost the only way we can think of it. I have sever doubts about the idea that somehow 18 is a magical age that allows children to be adults. Puberty would seem to be a more reasonable age if you take into account natural human sex drives of the post pubescent. Birth control, instead of being an evil thing as some religions make it to be would seem to be more of a way to return to a more natural mode of human sexual behavior. Of course it hasn't resulted in that and since the idea of pregnancy is no longer a realistic reason to avoid sex we use almost any argument we can think of to warn children away from the sexual desires they naturally have. We us everything from saving it for your husband, as though it is a special commodity and males are told early on to look for that virgin bride and that girls who have sex are bad investments for our love and emotions, sluts, whores, loose, the number of terms we have to negatively describe a sexually active but unmarried woman goes on for quite a while Of course men need these loose women to gain sexual expertise for the virgin we will eventually marry. The idea that men need this virginity for love or even marriage to be real is a big if misdirected part of our society The idea that the sexual inexperience of the child is some how something that should be saved for someone special in the distant future and not the child's choice is lacking in any real support anywhere but in the minds of people who want that innocence. The idea that a child's innocence is worth something is not a demonstrable reality, it is in fact the result of religion, female slavery, and males need to know for sure a child is his own. The male need to own a woman and control her is deeply rooted in our society, not all societies but ours for sure. Children are allowed to do many dangerous things, i recently saw where a young girl was trying to sail around the world, outrageously dangerous, i was allowed to ride motorcycles at age 14, i saw one other child die in front of me while riding. Children die every day from dangerous recreational activities but the number of people going hysterically nuts at the though of this is very small compared to what happens when an adult has any sort of sexual contact with a child. I know there are scenarios where sexual contact with a child is not harmful in any way close to the hysteria it often invokes. i think it should be looked at from the idea that if we we see the idea of protecting a child from anything that will impact them in the future we really need to look closely at what we allow to happen to a child. A child can be trained to do anything, as in adults some are easier to train than others and all react differently to what we as adults teach them. If we really take the care of other peoples children seriously (we of course all treat our own the way they should be treated) then we need to take a hard look at things everyone seems to think are sacred cows as far as children are concerned, if teaching a child about sex by lets say demonstration is a horrible thing that can only have negative impact then how about teaching a child to hate? Teaching a child Nazism, or white supremacy or black supremacy, or any other negative social system doesn't seem to illicit similar hysteria, we all say "that's not right, poor child, someone should do something" but the fact remains as long as it's not sex we can train our children to do and be some pretty horrible things but add sex and it becomes a crime beyond any possible pale.... a weird thing if you really put your intellect to it.... From child soldiers to child workers our world revolves around the exploitation of children and other helpless people only when sex is added does it suddenly become a fate worse than death. While the idea of sex with a child illicits the same response from me it does from others i wonder how much of the perceived danger is real and how much is just our internal religious programing, if the idea of a child soldier doesn't bring the same level of hysteria then something is wrong...

I have no doubt that some sightings do indeed resemble that sort of thing but that again is still a small subset of UFO sightings and it does not cover even a tiny number that need to be taken seriously, that doesn't necessarily mean they are aliens space craft but something really unusual is behind these things, some do indeed leave behind physical effects a few are so inexplicable it's difficult to imagine what they were with out taking into the possibility the accounts were something not of this earth.... To show the Air Force and the way they have dealt with it... One "sighting" occurred over a nuclear missile base, people on the ground (several independent groups from several independent directions) saw the UFO as it moved slowly over the missile silos, it was seen as it left the area by a commercial airplane crew, then the crew of a B-52 bomber, it was tracked on ground radar and the radar of the B-52, it was visually seen by the crew of the bomber as a physical object Huge, as big as if not bigger than the B-52, not a light in the sky. It was seen near the ground as a physical object as it hovered over missile silos, missiles went dead in the silos as it moved over head, the official explanation? Everyone saw Venus.... It may well have been something more mundane than a alien space craft but Venus? Piss on me if you must but don't tell me it's raining...

Damn, just what I needed to hear, my son is back packing across Europe right now, my sphincters are all tightly closed as it is ....

Lights in the sky is not what the UFO phenomenon is about... The fact that most people think this is due to the very successful disinformation campaign by the US Air Force... That is one very small subset of the UFO phenomenon. From sightings of multiple witnesses compounded by multiple radar sightings and visuals by a group of aviators who were carrying nuclear weapons the UFO phenomenon has never really been investigated, only debunked at any cost by the US Air Force, this disinformation campaign by the US Air Force still poisons the well of UFO evidence to this day.

The moon is a giant space ship that brought all of humanity here 6000 years ago....?

You of course are indeed welcome to your personal opinion but as i have said in earlier posts, i am a Dad if I had found an adult having sex with one of my children he would have come to a bad end for sure. But it doesn't explain why our society blows sex far out of proportion to any real life effects it might have and allows us to train our children in other ways that are very harmful, the children of the Westburro Baptist Church come immediately to mind...

Yes, a grounded wire mesh will stop EMP, as will enclosing stuff in a meal box. The flash of gamma rays would be the worst long range effect of a nuke...