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Highly recommended ER May 23, 2025 9:20 pm (Off-Topic)

At least they didn't waste a perfectly good bottle of champagne BuckGalaxy May 22, 2025 10:31 pm (Flame)

Re-writing history ER May 22, 2025 8:24 pm (CurrentEvents)

Taking a fresh look at terraforming Mars BuckGalaxy May 20, 2025 11:07 am (Space/Science)

the v and d correction ER May 19, 2025 9:49 am (GeekSpeak)

Clearly threatening language BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 3:43 pm (Flame)

Most common planet type in the Galaxy BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 1:51 pm (Space/Science)

Large Loathsome Legislation fails in committee BuckGalaxy May 16, 2025 1:14 pm (CurrentEvents)

Large Hadron Collider Eureka! BuckGalaxy May 15, 2025 11:44 am (Space/Science)

Plan(et) 9 from Outer Space BuckGalaxy May 13, 2025 10:58 am (Space/Science)

Shouldn't there be an Afrikaaner-American studies department in our universities? ER May 12, 2025 2:59 pm (CurrentEvents)

The April numbers ER May 8, 2025 5:59 am (Space/Science)

In the supreme vastness of the universe... by Jody January 13, 2012 7:58 pm

Our vastness is indeed supreme, especially compared to the pretty good vastnesses of other universes or the really inferior vastnesses ... by bowser 2012-01-13 23:12:44
- That was a vasty thing to say. by Jody 2012-01-14 08:53:58
  - I thing it was pretty half-vast, myself. by ER 2012-01-14 10:46:07
    - Avast there! Belay the puns, or belie somethingorother. by bowser 2012-01-14 13:28:44
Cause....... by FrankC 2012-01-13 20:42:08
- Interesting point, and possibly true. The corollary is that if no one hears it, the tree falling in the ... by bowser 2012-01-13 21:36:26
  - what is the meaning of it’s existence?... by FrankC 2012-01-14 13:00:08
    - Exactly right. Any meaning given by homo sapiens would necessarily be flavored and colored by homo sapiens. And ... by bowser 2012-01-14 16:53:14
  - If no one hears it, it never fell... n/t by RobVG 2012-01-13 23:48:11
    - If I heard it, it fell. If you heard it, it might have fallen. If a commie heard ... by bowser 2012-01-15 16:46:02
    - That is profound, not :) by FrankC 2012-01-14 16:08:34
      - Schrodinger's cat by RobVG 2012-01-14 17:23:27
        
        quantum theory is the true objective reality It can't be realized because every observer is subjective. by Jody 2012-01-15 02:56:41
        
        That paradox has been answered. Schrodinger first proposed this in 1935. The average life span of a domestic ... by bowser 2012-01-14 23:43:41
        
        Sorry, I was inundated by the absurdity... by FrankC 2012-01-14 18:39:37
    - ah gee...quantum emotions. by Jody 2012-01-14 09:37:15
    - Makes sense. It's simply resting, will get back up as soon as there is an eye to see, an ... by bowser 2012-01-14 08:07:49
- I just fell off my chair....n/t by RobVG 2012-01-13 20:50:53

Non-ideological, non-controversial post. by ER January 15, 2012 7:28 am

There is a powerful incentive to battle Romney down to the wire. Even if he opens up a big ... by bowser 2012-01-15 13:39:45
I think the days of floor fights and smoke filled rooms are gone... by FrankC 2012-01-15 12:14:00
The primary process is a complete dog's breakfast. by TB 2012-01-15 10:01:03

Freedom fry deja vu (excuse my French) by ER January 13, 2012 9:26 am

What kind of person or party would regard knowing a second language as a failing or a fault? That reminds me ... by bowser 2012-01-13 19:00:35
- If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! by Robert 2012-01-13 20:00:50
  - You're both right: I was making a joke and being facetious. by Robert 2012-01-14 22:58:57
  - I know you are making a joke, but I actually heard a fundamentalist once say, during a discussion of Biblical ... by ER 2012-01-14 10:41:33
  - I suspect you are being facetious, but read your Bible. The Revised Standard Version is good enough. Now ... by bowser 2012-01-13 23:09:59

Okay my little chick a dees... by Jody January 14, 2012 7:45 pm

I know exactly what it is, and apparently one of the people who commented also arrived at the same conclusion ... by ER 2012-01-14 20:17:39

How to get a cosmos from nothing. by bowser January 10, 2012 1:34 am

I don't have the smarts to be discerning either, but that's probably due to a damning California education. I'll be discerning ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-01-10 11:39:26
- I think that; “gravitational field energy” is an attempt to explain something that is not understood. The meaning of the ... by johannes 2012-01-11 17:27:35
  - ¡Basta! Coño. Como hablas mierda. by visitor 2012-01-11 17:46:58
    - Your opinion is valuable, Where do you base your assertion? Mierda también contiene un espacio, masa y energía. by visitor 2012-01-11 21:49:57
      - Y también tiene un hedor formidable. by ER 2012-01-11 22:41:42
        
        hedor que sucede The question was: Why do you think it happens. Thanks for the Spanish lesson. Minun vuoro opettaa sinulle Suomen kieltä. by johannes 2012-01-12 10:18:04
        
        Finnish, right? I thought so from your accent. You didn't know you had an accent when you wrote, did ... by ER 2012-01-12 12:30:01
        
        I agree with much of what you say, the “The Mechanical Universe” series is something I have seen several times ... by johannes 2012-01-12 16:44:51
        
        Work by RobVG 2012-01-14 13:50:58
        
        These terms are defined, that is, we decide what they are. A mass when moving has kinetic energy. ... by ER 2012-01-12 17:38:01
        
        PS: If you carry a mass to the top of a building, it is said "to have potential energy mgh ... by ER 2012-01-12 19:17:24
        
        The dialog can become somewhat convoluted, perhaps I am the blind person that cannot see what you see. Several points ... by johannes 2012-01-13 12:42:43
        
        Here are the points you brought up as unclear, in the order you mention them a) "when a mass moves it ... by ER 2012-01-13 17:27:23
        
        I do not doubt mathematics or your ability to use it accurately. You do an excellent job with the ... by johannes 2012-01-14 11:20:10
        
        You're missing everything, because language is misleading. There are subconscious meanings to words that color your reasoning and lead ... by ER 2012-01-14 14:59:12
        
        Ahh…..Your last sentence explains your, and perhaps the rest of the science communities thought on the subject. It is ... by johannes 2012-01-14 18:21:26
        
        There is a reason for everything, but a purpose to nothing. Science tries to learn the reasons. Purposes are fairy tales we ... by ER 2012-01-14 18:44:12
- A lot of people are going to fiddle with this for a long time. by TB 2012-01-10 11:46:59
The question, "Where did the Universe come from? is usually answered "God made it?" That's not an answer, it's a ... by ER 2012-01-10 11:23:57
- When it comes to matters of defining the universe, my mind always cycles back to this: This universe has ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-01-10 12:02:23
- That first line ("it's a postponement of an answer") is a very good way to put it. by TB 2012-01-10 11:40:32
  - Its just a variant of "It's turtles all the way down." by ER 2012-01-10 17:38:03
    - PS by ER 2012-01-10 17:46:35
  - That's the standard answer, typically as cited below. I can't figure out any more how to code in a ... by bowser 2012-01-10 17:05:22
    - You don't have to prove negatives. by TB 2012-01-10 17:38:29
    - These fanatics are always talking about 'proof', or challenging you about 'proof', or 'show me your proof and I'll show ... by ER 2012-01-10 17:35:15
    - I just remember the HTML code for a link, which works better now than the "link" box does. In ... by TB 2012-01-10 17:33:30

Cruise ship runs aground, tips over by TB January 14, 2012 12:32 pm

I cannot imagine how something like this can happen: for a ship to capsize in water that shallow. Perhaps ... by ER 2012-01-14 13:31:35
- I don't know how much inherent stability a cruise ship has. by TB 2012-01-14 17:15:56
  - I can't speak with total authority on this; I am just speculating. Perhaps these ships are seaworthy, perhaps they ... by ER 2012-01-14 17:59:49

Ten 100-year predictions that came true by TB January 14, 2012 5:27 pm

"Town, cast as Romney's victim, says, 'Huh?'" by TB January 14, 2012 5:01 pm

The only universal quality of "God". by bowser January 12, 2012 7:15 pm

I agree with you in the sense that, any God that does not contain the concepts of a creator and ... by johannes 2012-01-13 14:37:47
- It's clear that God must have some cognitive abilities, some neurological organization. First, He created man in His own ... by bowser 2012-01-13 18:42:09
  - It seems that we are reading the Bible at different places, you seem to be reading about the creation of ... by johannes 2012-01-14 12:26:38

Ideological groups in the U.S. by TB January 12, 2012 7:38 pm

You forgot that to conservatives there is no such thing as a "moderate." Anyone one nanometer to the left ... by BuckGalaxy 2012-01-13 13:15:08
- That, like many other things I'm seeing here, is not true. by TB 2012-01-13 13:44:15
  - Just noticed this. "A leftist has to do a lot of lying about what he is to get elected ... by bowser 2012-01-13 23:06:22
    - Read the sentence again. by TB 2012-01-14 10:44:15
  - Remember, those are self-reports, and the "conservatives" haven't passed the purity tests. And the moderates couldn't. So these charts are meaningless when ... by bowser 2012-01-13 23:02:40
    - Doesn't matter. by TB 2012-01-14 10:47:25
And yet the President and House of Representatives are Democrat. Go figure. by bowser 2012-01-12 21:06:19
- The President is a Democrat because the last Presidential election was in 2008. by TB 2012-01-12 21:40:09
  - Nevertheless, - - - by bowser 2012-01-12 23:15:30

Nine European nations get their credit ratings cut by TB January 13, 2012 3:47 pm

Without saying the ratings aren't warranted, isn't that the same S & P that was giving high ratings to low-grade ... by bowser 2012-01-13 18:45:30

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