Moontanman

We are animals, how can we be better than animals? Please define what you mean by better than animals... Religion is a way? A way to what? How can belief in fairy tales be a way to rationality? What do you mean by impartiality?

Until you propose a mechanism for the Earth to expand your ideas fall flat. It's like you are trying to prove the moon and the sun are the same size in the sky while rejecting the heliocentric model of the solar system...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_spider There are social spiders that are both herbivores and carnivores certain species of both types display social behaviors, taking car of young, sharing food and various other social traits. None appear to be as advanced as insects, it should be said there are also social crustaceans and at least one land crustacean said to be dangerous to humans...

Are you talking about using ground water directly as a heat sink? Groundwater moves, it is generally not static, this effect should have an effect on direct ground water use or sealed buried pipes...

Can you show a relationship between speed and gravity?

You are going to have to be a bit more precise than that, If we have talked about this before I don't remember it... what are you on about exactly?

You can't create a zebra fish with lungs, zebrafish do not have lungs... If all you are going to do is make baseless assertions about evolution then I suggest you go back to answers in genesis, I'm sure they can make up a story to placate your insecurities about your ancestry...

So what are you on about? If you are going to get smacked get smacked for being direct not tap dancing around...

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I could direct you to a series of long videos that hash this out with Alan Guth, Hawking, Penrose, and many other leading cosmologists. It describes a cyclic universe with no singularity. I'm watching the series and trying to keep my head from exploding... I'm not sure if it would be allowed but it has my attention big time... It is extremely interesting and requires my absolute attention to even follow the bare basics. But it does explain how the universe creates itself... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHBBtsrU1g&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m

Not very far, less than a meter in many areas, we live on a cretaceous sand pile. You can dig a well with a water hose, lots of shark teeth and small bones are often brought to the surface when drilling a well... The groundwater is usually anoxic and at one time if you dug a hole would would flow out under pressure, still does in a few places like boiling springs lake. I use to scuba dive and in the bottom of some lakes there would often be what looked like a sand fountain as water flowed up through the sand... If you go deep enough you run into a layer of marl which is mined for concrete and graveling roads... The small quakes are called the seneca guns, I've heard and felt them many times, they are usually written off as offshore methane clathrate releases...

There is no local tectonic activity, the water table here is ~70 degrees, might be 68 to 72, I'd have to look it up to be sure but it has to do with the average air temps from what I've been told...

It makes perfect sense when you understand that is being asked, in the face of a lack of evidence the null hypothesis is not to accept something as true. You seem to be hung up on belief, people believe in a lot of stuff that is simply not true. Like the sunrise or moonrise, not because they are stupid but because they haven't thought out the process. Again the null hypothesis is not to accept the existence of a god. Stupid is not a word I would use, ignorant is usually more accurate term but delusional often fits well...

Ground water temps here where I live are 70 degrees fahrenheit, are you speaking of a world wide average?

The flood myth of the Bible is plagiarized from a previous flood myth portrayed in the epic of Gilgamesh, which is plagiarized from a previous flood myth whose source escapes me at the moment. The myths grew as each teller wanted to make his god bigger than the previous god but the flood story started out as a description of a local flood. Many possibilities for this flood from the Black Sea basin to the flooding of the tigris and euphrates rivers joining due to a huge rain event. I have seen a flash flood, they are impressive, primitive man must have feared them greatly.

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I have my doubts as well but nutrients are in human waste and sunlight provides the warmth...

If a planetary body about the size and mass of Ceres were to be captured by the Earth could it take up a stable orbit around the Earth? How difficult would the interactions be for the Earth Moon system to capture such a body? Also would such a capture take several years of interactions between the Earth, the Moon and the new body or would it be more of an immediate thing?

It's my understanding that during or just after the gasoline crisis of the late 70s propane and natural gas was proposed as a replacement for gasoline powered vehicles. Propane is quite popular in some places even today. Construction sites and other businesses use propane powered vehicles as do some fleet trucks. Propane is said to contribute to long engine life and it burns somewhat cleaner. Natural gas was also touted as a replacement for gasoline and quite a few vehicles were produced. Most filled up at home from natural gas lines with a small compressor. Neither gained widespread popularity probably due to limited places to fill up and the cost of conversion. Many car companies still offer conversions for their light trucks to allow them to use propane and natural gas..

Citation please...

That is what we currently see, dark energy will eventually make all things not gravitationally bound disappear over the cosmic horizon..

If you could do that with no energy input then it should be possible to extract energy from the system. Hence perpetual motion..

Yes magnets but magnets shouldn't be able to make that ball not only self start but speed up with no external energy input.

I know this can't be real but how do they get this to self start and speed up with no energy input?