Moontanman

The ability of WISE to detect an alien space ship could hinge on it's ability to detect one of our own, could WISE detect this space craft? http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/ http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Exactly what is instantaneous trancendental teleportation?

I am curious Rickdog, how does your country handle illegal immigrants?

Um no, only a few fish that have evolved a mechanism to allow them to survive for short times with wet gills can do that, many catfish come to mind, the average fish cannot survive out of water for long due to the effects of the difference between water and air as i stated in an earlier post. Some fish die with in a few tens of seconds of being removed from the water, others like some catfish can survive long periods of time out of the water via gulping air into their intestines, some have a special organ inside their gill cavities, others can actually use their swim bladder like a lung. But your basic fish cannot breath air unless the oxygen is dissolved in water...

I'm not sure if yellow jackets would prey on bumblebees or not. Yellow jackets will prey on honey bees but bumblebees are quite a bit bigger than yellow jackets and can use their sting over and over just like yellow jackets can. Bumblebees are tough and will bite and scratch as well as sting.

I found a nest of bumblebees wrapped in an old blanket on my deck today and less than 6" away was a nest of yellow jackets! In the same box! Talk about a double whammy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jacket You would think they wouldn't tolerate each other in such close proximity! I know they didn't tolerate me finding them.

The main reason is that the fishes gill filaments need to be supported by water to expose all of their surface area. Out of the water the gill filaments collapse on each other and the surface area is greatly diminished, much like a mammals lungs collapsing.

Have a need to dream? Take large doses of melatonin, you will dream so big! But be prepared to feel tired for about two days after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin

I want to make a serious comment on this but every time I try silly gushes out

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At one time there were two or three of these survival type shows, They were pretty cool.

Instead of trying to engineer new bacteria maybe the bacteria that Gorillas use to digest their food, they are apes too and are completely vegetarian. The huge pot bellies is to allow them to ferment their shredded vegetable matter.

I tried to issue my wife a fatwah, she said I was one!

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I agree, the NASA release was very cautious, we really know very little about planetary chemistry at the temperatures on Titan. However if we were to find life so much different than earth life that it could develop and grow under the conditions on Titans surface it would say quite a bit about the prospects for wide spread life in the universe. Complex life on Titan would be an outrageous discovery and would pretty much destroy most theories that assert life is rare or has to be "just like us" Not just a bomb shell type moment , more like another "big bang"

Does anyone really think it really matters what position you are in when you hit? However, in WW2 a bomber crew man jumped out of his bomber and fell from about 18,000 feet, he lived but he fell through a pine forest and very deep snow and slide down a hill, what are the odds of that happening again! http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

I'd honestly say the odds of surviving a fall from 7 kilometers would be 0 Hitting water at 210 KPH would force your legs up through your body and kill you on impact (if you hit feet first) the impact would shatter not only bones but cause massive internal bleeding, i doubt you be alive to drown.

I'm curious, why would you avoid spiders? Big spiders are said to taste like crab. I have my doubts about the insects vs steak thing but lost in the wilderness steaks are fairly hard to come by... Fish are fairly easy to catch and small fish like minnows can be eaten whole. Earth worms are a good bet for food but ants can contain formic acid and are difficult for humans to tolerate. I've tried wood grubs, they taste like shrimp but are difficult to extract from wood with out an axe. Earth worms are nasty in consitancy but don't have much taste. Crayfish are good cooked in some way but are not good raw and can contain parisites. Shellfish are good and even deep inland freshwater clams are quite common and can be cooked in hot ashes. Not many creatures are truely inedible if you have... In the wilderness being able to make fire is probably the most important thing, many things that are inedible or not worth eating raw can be a decent food source if cooked. The broth from boiled grass would be better than nothing. Learn to make fire from scratch would be my advice to any human being.

Your idea is not as far off the mark as you might think, it just can't account for the amount of folding and such as we see on the earth. An old theory held that mountain ranges and valleys were the result of the earth wrinkling as it cooled. Plate tectonics is a much better description of what we see than a cooling shrinking earth. I like your idea of a much bigger earth having less gravity, this is counter intuitive to what most would think of a "bigger" earth. But if it had the same mass and was bigger the gravity would indeed be less at the surface. BTW I am pretty sure that creationist ideas say the earth is expanding not shirnkign and that the dinosaurs were possible because the planet was much smaller and less massive then.

DRDNA, it's not what you said that was arrogant it's how you say it. Why didn't you just say "God's word is perfect, man's interpretation of it is where any imperfections come from" Why did you find it necessary to add insipid analogies that leave it up to the reader to figure out what you meant? Your arrogance is displayed by your need to appear knowledgeable by obfuscating what you say so it sounds more profound than it really is. "God is perfect man is imperfect" is not a profound statement by any means and trying to make it sound like some special deep knowledge via analogies is insulting and shows you are really just trying to proselytize.

This has nothing to do with imperfections, a forest is full of imperfections, those very imperfections is what makes it a real forest and not a artificial grove of trees. Yes, a real forest does indeed need to be wild, you have missed the point of forest completely in your need to construct a mysterious analogy to hide what you are really trying to say. It might make sense if you weren't so arrogant you believe you have the absolute truth and are trying to share it with idiots. I said your analogy makes no sense in the context of our conversation, making such meaningless analogies to hide the fact you don't really know what you are saying is wrong. I've heard that arrogant crap all my life from the pulpit. This has nothing to do with inperfections, a forest is full of imperfections, those very imperfections is what makes it a real forest and not a artificial grove of trees. Say what you mean clearly, don't wrap it in an analogy so others have to figure it out. If what you say has real meaning it doesn't need to be obfuscated with analogies. My point would be that any error is in the concept of a perfect god.

How did the women find out, it was in mens room, right? I've seen some weird things in mens rooms over the years but this is quite close to taking the cake. i was in a mens room on the Outer Banks of NC once and it was wall papered in Playboy Centerfolds. I guess it takes all kinds of weirdness to make the world go round!

No, lizards do not lay eggs in chicken eggs, both chickens and lizards have salmonella bacteria inside them much the same way that most mammals have E. coli inside their intestines. Lizards have no way to lay an egg inside a chicken egg, geckos lay eggs that are small and leathery , marble size or so depending on the species, and no way could they lay eggs inside of chicken eggs.

hmmmm puppies forever, puddles and poop everywhere all the time, never ending.... i think I'll stick with my adult basset hounds, it too much time and effort to house train them. I agree skeptic, they would freeze to death, along with size they would need some serious metabolic manipulation as well. However I suspect scaling animals down would be easier than scaling them up.

I think it's already been stated but if you had an image of the earth that was not exaggerated it would look like a cue ball. Possibly a thin coat of paint would allow details to be close to life size in thickness?