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Triple my bodymass in grams of protein is 726.75 grams of protein.

Sorry. 2.5x the "high protein" diet.

Back to your enumerated points (I'm focusing on your ridiculously-off-the-charts-high-protein/low carb/low fat diet)

Do you have Inuit genetics? Whoops.
Do you eat large amounts of seal blubber and other fats like the Inuit? Whoops.
Do you eat the mere ~100 grams of protein and ~200 grams of carbohydrate that the Inuit eat per day? Whoops.
Do you have Maasai genetics? Whoops.
Do you eat the very high-fat diet of the Maasai -- so high fat that a common treat for kids is fat boiled in water? Whoops.
Do you have Bantu genetics? Whoops.
"Northern" and "Southern" indians are not technical terms. Whoops. Did you mean to refer to a particular study or were you pulling that out of a hat?
Do you have any native american genetics from any group? Whoops.
Are you of the mistaken notion that people of different genetic makeups process foods the same? Big whoops. (ever heard of "lactose intolerance"? "Lactose tolerance" is an evolutionary adaptation developed in cultures whose diet included dairy. Cultures adapt to their native diets)
Have there been a ridiculously large number of studies on the negative effects of saturated fats? Whoops.

My average training week includes 30mins of weight lifting upon waking, 1hour of training for lunch, and 1 hour of weights/football/throwing everyday for 4 weeks.

That's it? You eat 600 grams of protein per day and that's all you do? For God's sake!

Look, you're free to destroy your body against the recommendations of all major medical organizations who've commented on high protein diets (and by "high protein", they're typically talking about 1g/lb, not 2.5g/lb). But don't try and pretend that it's somehow natural or good for you.

I'll stick to searching 'pubmed.org' for "milk, osteoporosis" and seeing the randomized control trials, thank you.

Culling out publications from obviously biases sources such as the "Journal of Dairy Science", can you find a randomized controled trial showing that unfortified dairy products have a protective impact on osteoporosis?

Such a result would be surprising given the findings of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health which followed 77,761 women and found no protective impact of dairy products on fractures.

A PubMed search will find this meta-analyis from Pediatrics on osteoporosis, or this article on the increased risk for prostate cancer from dairy consumption from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This study from the same journal notes "Over the years, doubts have arisen concerning the use of milk as a calcium source in the prevention of osteoporosis, particularly because of potential offsetting effects of protein and phosphorus." This letter in that same journal points out that living in countries with a high dairy consumption is a risk factor for osteoporosis.

This page from PCRM give citations to several studies on the health impact of dairy consumption.

See also this analysis in Public Health Nutrition which states, "Regarding associations relating the consumption of dairy products with chronic diseases, in Western societies consumption of dairy products has traditionally been linked to cardiovascular diseases (arteriosclerosis) and osteoporosis owing to their saturated fatty acids and calcium content, respectively. While the association between saturated fat intake and risk of arteriosclerosis is well established, the association between calcium from dairy products, together with vitamin D, and osteoporosis is less clear."

But even if you were right, deterrence will still inevitable fail for 5 Reasons. (That is, no good can come from US Nuclear Threats). Scott Sagan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University "The Commitment Trap" _International Security_ 2000 p. 85-ff (http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article& issn=0162-2889&volume=24&issue=4&spage=85 )

What is relevant, however, is to think through how deterrence might fail despite the United States' having made a credible threat to retaliate with nuclear weapons. Although it is not possible to assign relative probabilities to such scenarios,

nd then there are the smaller details: look up and consider how the sun, and the the moon have the same relative size

Um. So? Millions of years ago they didn't have the same size, as the moon was closer to the Earth. Millions of years from now they won't be the same size, as the moon is steadily moving further away.

no tree has more than 5800 yearly tree rings (and there is no reason they can't - these old trees were cut down, still living, in this century).

You can extend it back a lot further if you look for more than one tree. You find a live tree going back, say, 4000 years. The you find an old stump whose later rings match up with the earlier rings of your tree. Then maybe you find a petrified log whose later rings match up with the early rings on the stump. We have tree ring data going back 10,000 years. Here's an example of a study going back 7400 years.

Also, we have ice cores and varves with annual layers going back tens of thousands of years.

And please don't disappoint me by quoting some rubbish from the ICR or answersingenesis.

In the UK there are subscription services for institutions to sign up to. My University (Sunderland) curently has Safari on trial. There's only a handful of books available under the trial but it's a nice selection with some O'Reilly, Sams Teach Yourself, and some authorised books from Macromedia and Microsoft.

There's also Heron from the excellent people at Ingenta who put all the journals online.

It's nice to see my fees put to some good use rather than fancy lighting and LED information boards.

The article talks about liquid hydrogen but if this ever gets to the engineering stage I doubt that they would use it. Cryogenic hydrogen is difficult and expensive to store, dangerous to handle, and still really not dense enough for aircraft.

There are other solutions however: a variety of liquids are safe sources of hydrogen and can be reformed into hydrogen quickly. For instance, Millenium Cell has information on their process, quote:

In the process, the energy potential of hydrogen is carried in the chemical bonds of sodium borohydride, which in the presence of a particular catalyst either releases hydrogen or produces electricity. The primary input components of the reaction are water and sodium borohydride, a derivative of borax.