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A Taste of Armageddon RobVG July 2, 2025 8:00 am (CurrentEvents)

We've got company ER July 2, 2025 7:50 am (Space/Science)

All Along the Watchtower ER July 1, 2025 9:13 pm (CurrentEvents)

Birthright Citizenship RobVG June 29, 2025 3:34 pm (CurrentEvents)

To be blunt, NASA is now dead RL June 27, 2025 11:56 am (Space/Science)

Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

A radar-assisted collision by ER January 16, 2012 7:42 am

Not only did the ship hit rocks, it tried to eat one: by podrock 2012-01-16 11:47:56
- I'm guessing it rolled the other way because the ripped side was in shallow water and the other side wasn't. Basically, ... by TB 2012-01-16 12:07:44
  - According to some sources (BBC), the rock the ship is sitting on is not the rock it hit, saying the ... by podrock 2012-01-16 13:22:21
    - Either the captain was deliberately buzzing the island for kicks (bad idea), or he deliberately tried to run a quickly ... by ER 2012-01-16 13:52:12
      - The map is from the BBC, using data from Lloyds List. A more annotated map and more information can ... by podrock 2012-01-16 14:15:09
        
        More: A blog with a good discussion can be found at http://blog.geogarage.com/. by podrock 2012-01-16 14:21:42
        
        Double wow. Great site, thanks. by bowser 2012-01-16 20:24:15
        
        Wow. by TB 2012-01-16 16:19:15
        
        Now I wonder why the ship is pointed 180 degrees from the direction it was sailing. by podrock 2012-01-16 19:38:40
        
        I thought it turned around to try to get to the port. by TB 2012-01-16 19:46:01
    - Didn't know that (and thanks for the map!) Still, the "shallow water/deep water" theory still holds for the direction ... by TB 2012-01-16 13:30:56
I think your analysis is probably pretty accurate. by TB 2012-01-16 09:40:40
- It is a known fact merchant captains often put the ship on autopilot while in mid-ocean and there may be ... by ER 2012-01-16 11:43:04

Pravda update by TB January 15, 2012 8:12 pm

This post reveals a lot more about you, Tom, than it does about Newsweek, or Obama. by ER 2012-01-16 06:14:06
- No, it actually doesn't. by TB 2012-01-16 09:37:06
  - With Bush on the cover, it would just inspire me to read the piece to see what they were going ... by alcaray 2012-01-16 20:02:00
    - Yes, I read it. It's right here. The "long game" is the mantra of leftists everywhere. Decades of "jam tomorrow." by TB 2012-01-16 20:06:32
    - Welcome back. by ER 2012-01-16 20:04:24
      - Seconded. by podrock 2012-01-16 20:18:02
  - Revenge is a dish best served cold. I'd wait till after the election before I started gloating. by ER 2012-01-16 11:45:06
I'm a bit embarrassed for you, TB, and I take some embarrassin'! by bowser 2012-01-15 22:21:55
Good grief, he's even starting to look like Jimmy Carter. by TB 2012-01-15 20:13:30
- Maybe, but who in the candidates' clown car even remotely resembles Ronald Reagan? by ER 2012-01-16 08:03:32
  - But...but...Reagan was a moderate! I'm so confused... by TB 2012-01-16 09:42:30
    - Yes, but he was successful. Other conservatives cannot make that claim. by ER 2012-01-16 11:43:57

City of Ember by RobVG January 16, 2012 6:03 pm

The movie came out to a lukewarm reception, but the book it's based on was well-reviewed and won several awards. by TB 2012-01-16 18:34:27

Sciences "most beautiful theories". Fascinating! by bowser January 15, 2012 11:50 pm

I wonder. by bowser January 14, 2012 1:36 pm

More on the icebreaker story at Popular Mechanics. by TB 2012-01-15 20:44:10

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

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