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3/27/2012 12:42 am

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None. Unlike you, I'm not corrupted by stories projected on a wall.
3/23/2012 1:32 am

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sandman said:They change their perspective continuously. The big bang was supposed to result in a big collapse. This isn't going to happen. Global warming is a farce, driven largely by political forces.



Yes, scientific understanding changes over time, I guess there's something more stable and comforting about solipsism.

. said:Let's see the evidence that you can see 50 million light years into space and tell that a pinoint of light is a planet 1/3 the size of Earth with similar density that possibly holds water yet it has a high ammonia atmosphere.



Evidence from telescopes + knowledge of gravitation and spectroscopy. They haven't been able to discover planets that small. With the planets that have been discovered, we know their mass and orbits from the gravitational wobble it causes on the star. With a few planets, they pass directly in front of their sun, so the light from the star changes slightly; using spectrometry, the details of the outer atmosphere (or surface if it has not atmosphere) can be determined.

There's several methods used to determine the distance of stars and galaxies, (parallax, red shift, observing nearby variable stars and supernovae)
3/23/2012 1:08 am

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. said:Why are eggheads who discount nearly everything so willing to accept that we can see 4 billion years into the past at the moment of the big bang?
This is a theory like any else but they lap it up without question.
The scientific community prides itself on proof, so I would like to meet the person who has actually traveled 4 billion years into the past and returned to tell about it.
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They pride themselves on evidence. And they have mountains of evidence. (mountains are also part of the evidence)
3/9/2012 4:42 am

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vs.nli said:Sumeria as in 4,500 BC on. Catal Hoyuk is about 6,500 BC Jericho about 8,000.

But India is ancient.

Post ice age civilisation traceable back to the Altai Mountains, and the Gok Turks.



Connecting the dots is fun and all, but connecting dots over 10,000 years is a little extreme, you may be overestimating how continuous cultures are. Time: It takes only one generation to destroy previous traditions. Distance: 100 miles is really far when lacking hydrocarbons.
3/9/2012 3:34 am

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:cheers:
3/8/2012 4:16 pm

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MW.nli said:Women run most museums now. My museum employment experience included working with an all-female staff of 6 who were cycling together. I hid out in the attic a lot, moving things around.



Their menstrual cycles were synchronized?
2/19/2012 4:27 am

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Wondering if I'm the 2nd poster in this thread.
2/18/2012 3:33 am

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Statistically trickery.

Activity 1 --> done by many people
Activity 2 --> done by small number of people

90% of people who did activity 2 first did activity 1. Therefore, 1 is a gateway activity to activity 2.
2/16/2012 2:45 am

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You seem slow, do you need to go to the bathroom?
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2/15/2012 4:35 am

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How about you concern yourself with your own nation, outlander!
2/9/2012 12:28 am

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They can't find you with it. Those hackers talk a good fight.
1/26/2012 9:27 pm

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e-scholars. Sampling bias? You really think very attractive people would even bother with a dating site, and a free one at that?
1/25/2012 9:28 pm

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. said:Suppose for the sake of argument, the earth is the only place in the universe with life, and one day the planet just blew up and all life vanished instantly. The only thing from earth would be the voyager probes they shot out into the universe in the 70s (or other similar ships, if any). Suppose that one of those things has a computer that continues to process data for millions of years in space, even though there is no life or consciousness. Is that not still data too?



I don't think so, nothing in the universe would see it as data, and the computer wouldn't be smart enough to call it data.
1/25/2012 8:21 pm

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If you don't have conscious observers to point and say "data" then I guess it isn't data.
1/21/2012 4:37 am

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. said:I dare you.



I can't, your furniture would be ruined
1/21/2012 4:21 am

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I'm unable to comment in this thread because it'd turn the women on far too much.
1/20/2012 2:24 am

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You will always be remembered. *empties a bottle of Mountain Dew on his server* Wait, shit!
1/19/2012 8:16 pm

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. said:TIME TO TAKE IT TO TEH HIDDEN WEB, MY KNEEGROWS
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WERD TO YOUR MOTHER
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Time for some... oh... how about.. digital stenography!
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1/19/2012 7:37 pm

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Yep, creative destruction. All the automation and easy communication reduces the need for pencil pushers. I was thinking that two major careers might be under threat next are lawyers and doctors, but they have much more power than file clerks and can protect their guild.
1/13/2012 7:52 am

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. said:Would you do it for free if you were a millionaire and set for life?



Yes.
1/11/2012 11:09 pm

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. said:I'd like to interject that, you have no evidence, just "your word", and you're a reg, a reg's word isn't worth anything. (Sorry, regs)

:lol:



I see what you did there.
1/11/2012 11:03 pm

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I'd like to interject that, you have no evidence, just "your word", and you're a dot, a dot's word isn't worth anything. (Sorry, dots)
1/11/2012 10:03 pm

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1/11/2012 3:35 am

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Mozzarella costs a fortune. I wonder where the chains buys theirs... :shudder:
1/6/2012 5:03 am

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. said:Is this some kind of unwritten law of posting here, or did you just "make that up"?



I've noticed it, too. "Ferret is stalking Alina" is a forced meme.
 

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