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Season 3 - Foundation BuckGalaxy August 2, 2025 12:33 pm (Science Fiction)

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AI and the superconducting relativistic monkey collider RL July 26, 2025 10:14 pm (Off-Topic)

Trump's namecalling is no match for the Scots BuckGalaxy July 26, 2025 2:15 pm (Flame)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer ER July 26, 2025 6:58 am (CurrentEvents)

Retirement home Spirit cover -- yeah, we had better music. ER July 26, 2025 7:31 am (Off-Topic)

♫ I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late ♫ BuckGalaxy July 22, 2025 1:32 pm (Off-Topic)

How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump, or put another way... BuckGalaxy July 19, 2025 2:32 pm (Flame)

just passin' thru... ER July 16, 2025 2:08 pm (Space/Science)

Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein BuckGalaxy July 18, 2025 8:07 pm (CurrentEvents)

Colbert cancelled. ER July 17, 2025 8:20 pm (CurrentEvents)

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

Gingrich Ideas on twitter by FrankC January 26, 2012 7:23 pm

Fuuuuneeee liked a lot by Tony 2012-01-27 05:45:29
Ship some IKEA furniture to Iran and tell them it will make a nuclear bomb if they follow the instructions. These ... by Jody 2012-01-26 21:36:08

United States Air Force allegedly had a small mutiny during December, 1972. by bowser January 26, 2012 4:59 am

Thanks. I love any stories about fliers. by RobVG 2012-01-26 17:44:19

Fans remake Star Wars by TB January 25, 2012 6:41 pm

The wealthy and their campaign contributions. by RobVG January 15, 2012 10:06 pm

Sheldon Adelson recently gave Newt's PAC $5M to run anti-Romney adds in South Carolina. Adelson's wife just gave the ... by alcaray 2012-01-24 12:22:00
"Super Sized: Super PACs raise millions in GOP race." The Roberts court has made elections even more dependent upon ... by bowser 2012-01-17 05:18:07
- More information: by TB 2012-01-17 10:04:39
- The Republicans have created a Frankenstein monster, and they are starting to realize how its hurting them, not the Democrats. ... by ER 2012-01-17 08:21:05
T. Boone Pickens- 2million to SBV. n/t by RobVG 2012-01-16 22:10:47
The "Party of the Rich" might not be what everyone thinks it is. by TB 2012-01-16 09:22:45
Well, one thing certainly jumps out at you from these numbers. Artistic, talented and otherwise successful people seem much more likely ... by ER 2012-01-16 06:25:43
- Folks with a brain who are concerned with the issues seem to be Democratic. College professors are another good ... by bowser 2012-01-25 00:04:28
Oh here's a good one. by RobVG 2012-01-15 22:20:00

*This* is awesome!!! by Jody January 22, 2012 12:00 pm

"Embarrassing Jeopardy Answers" for 50 points... by TB January 19, 2012 11:23 pm

Color me naive...I don't get the donkey punch reference. I know they say it is sexually graphic...well couldn't prove it ... by Jody 2012-01-20 08:14:11
- Reminds me of so many memories in middle and elementary school.... Did you know that most 3rd graders in the San ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-01-21 00:37:17
  - Oy...now your getting in my area of dubious expertise. Not that I know what to do about it. My seven ... by Jody 2012-01-21 19:00:03
- I didn't know what it was either. Hard to keep up with all the new stuff.I just found out what tea ... by FrankC 2012-01-20 17:37:20
- Here it is, the Urban Dictionary. Wouldn't have thought of it. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=donkey%20punch by bowser 2012-01-20 11:06:06
  - I could spend hours on that site if I were just a bit more perverted. It it hard to believe that ... by FrankC 2012-01-20 17:51:25
- I don't get it either, not that I want it. by bowser 2012-01-20 11:04:23

Weather geo-engineering by Lindy January 18, 2012 4:28 pm

The artificial rain making has been around for a long time and new methods are being tested all the time. Like ... by johannes 2012-01-19 12:50:14
- Additional info From: http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/how-does-the-earth-system-respond-to-natural-and-human-induced-changes/ “Earth's climate system is "sensitive" to any of the aforementioned changes at a scale of 1 watt ... by johannes 2012-01-19 15:26:20
  - I'm aware of some of the NASA research (Never A Straight Answer). Should we playing god with the atmosphere? My ... by Lindy 2012-01-19 20:20:13
    - I agree with you, the experiments are happening all over the world and the experimenters do not understand the consequences ... by johannes 2012-01-19 21:57:02
I'm still not sure if any of you think this is still a conspiracy theory, and actually it SHOULD be ... by Lindy 2012-01-18 16:32:49
- Don't forget we now have a "Mysteries of the Multiverse" board here. by TB 2012-01-18 16:42:52
  - If you think weathewr geo-engineering is a "conspiracy theory", then yo need to educate yourself: These exponentially growing programs have no ... by Lindy 2012-01-18 17:00:50

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

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

Before asking if God exists one must define God. by bowser January 10, 2012 10:22 pm

Apparently "God" is that ineffable being to whom those who believe in him credit all responsibility for that which Man ... by bowser 2012-01-12 00:22:00
From The Edge of the Sea by ER 2012-01-11 23:10:28
- ER...that is beautiful. by Jody 2012-01-12 10:07:13
  - Be careful who you share that sentiment with. Although she died some time ago, to this day, Rachel Carson ... by ER 2012-01-12 11:30:26
    - I Goggled her...she sounds like an amazing woman. A strong woman. An enlightened ahead of her time woman. I would have ... by Jody 2012-01-12 21:09:52
Some things we must accept on faith alone. There are times when we have some reason to suspect that the ... by johannes 2012-01-11 20:52:33
- unless of course our galaxy is simply an atom in the man’s big toe.;-) ...don't laugh j....I have actually thought about ... by Jody 2012-01-11 21:19:43
Fantasy by RobVG 2012-01-11 17:44:44
- Assuming God has not ascended to higher plane, he is probably pondering a gigantic black hole at the center of ... by FrankC 2012-01-11 19:20:28
  - In a sense dying is life’s greatest adventure. SWEET by Jody 2012-01-11 21:22:05
- I love that Rob. I do believe in re-incarnation...long before it was *fashionable* and I come up with that realization after ... by Jody 2012-01-11 19:17:45
  - I believe reincarnation has been fashionable for thousands of years. by bowser 2012-01-11 23:46:32
    - Not *fashionable*...I should know, I was one of the founding mothers. It has been a rocky road. Eventually others will understand. by Jody 2012-01-12 10:05:06
      - Leslie Lemke by RobVG 2012-01-12 16:35:27
        
        Stories such as this abound...and don't forget Mozart! What began my thought processes in this area was an absolutely *took my ... by Jody 2012-01-12 21:05:05
At the risk of you not following my train of thought again, and blowing me off,...I offer, and I must, ... by Jody 2012-01-10 22:47:52
- I certainly don't mean to blow you off. There are several things you said I understand, and some I ... by bowser 2012-01-10 23:03:07
  - What else would make us look beyond ourselves ...It would have to be something greater. We begin by ... by Jody 2012-01-10 23:15:17
    - As a reference of time...maybe this would help my communication: By referring to creating God, I am talking about since ... by Jody 2012-01-10 23:33:05

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