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EMI should offer KC $150,000 for each song downloaded. After all, turnabout is fair play.

I want the motors, motor drivers and transciever. I can get a suit that will allow me to disable and steal them.

http://home.messiah.edu/~gdaub/armor/picgloss.htm

This sounds a little like it's OK to run one clothes dryer, try 10,000. So, if this is the problem you are raising you'll need to explain why the grid can manage the clothes dryers. Another common problem is to assume that an electric vehicle needs as much energy as an ICE vehicle burns. This is incorrect. Two factors come in. First, the heat engine efficiency for an ICE is not very high and it stays on when it is not in use, and second, electric vehicle us regenerative breaking so that sliding friction is much reduced. A pure solar electric car makes an average speed of about 20 mph. This is a 120 mile range while the Sun is high enough in the sky during a day: http://www.messiah.edu/genesis/carhistory.shtml. Doing a 50 mile range with a heavier car charged with solar panels that have a larger cross section than the car itself is not really an issue. Another way to make an estimate is to take a regular hybrid's energy usage and reduce it by three to account for the ICE inefficiency and then look at the energy requirements for a 50 mile trip. I'm not suggesting you've made a math error, but rather that you may be making some assumptions that are not correct. Let me know what you think.
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Photons for fuel: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

More like the eyepatched small white mouse secret agent with a hamster as a sidekick is losing his stateside vacation home.

The telephone booth is more apt as the comparator to the Police Box, and they've been disappearing for quite some time now, except we think of them more as places for superheroes to change into costume, despite also being used for time travel.

The blue corner mailbox only resembles the Police Box in its former ubiquity and color. The American Police Box is the Emergency Pole which have a light on the top and a single button to press to contact the police through something more kin to an intercom than a telephone. Those of the TARDIS variety you enter by walking behind it and utilizing a split-screen effect to disappear inside, similar to the general method of entry into the Master's TARDIS when in its various forms without obvious entryways.

Respectfully, this debate only takes place on internet forums and PTA meetings in backward states (I'm looking at you, Kansas).

I don't know the details, but Dr. Ray Crist at the college I went to worked on getting algea to clean up heavy metals since like the 70's until he passed away last year at the age of 105. Hopefully more people will work on this type of stuff... I don't think it takes a rocket scientist... though it probably helps that Dr. Crist was the director of the Manhattan Project for a time.

some links to start with.

http://www.otherpower.com/wardalt.html for making the alternator that makes huge power from low rpm's.

http://redjar.org/jared/projects/windmill/gallery. html for basics on the design we modified heavily.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1974_March_ April/The_Savonius_Super_Rotor
another link to the basic design.

http://home.messiah.edu/~jebeneze/WindEnergy/WindE nergy.htm

I have never really drawn up plans of our modification, put it this way slit more barrels in the rotors to make what looks like a "turbine". Using light materials is important here to make the thing to start and run in light winds. plastic barrels work great here. if you have the ability to form carbon fiber you can make it even more efficient in slower winds.

basically we mount it on top of a stub of TV tower guyed to all hell for strength. we then have a metal pipe structure around the rotor to hold onto the top bearing of the pipe that runs down through the bottom bearing where a pully is attached.

it's as simple as that.

Creationists are not open about teaching anything and letting anyone decide. They have a world view and will do anything to uphold it and get others to agree to it. It is not far from a creationist to the torturers of the inquisition who would torture a captive until he confessed, repented and accepted God. Then they would kill him, his sould saved the only justification they needed. Creationists are cut from the same evil cloth and care only about their delusional ideas about saving fictional souls.

Uhh...you're about 300 years late on that one.

Try going to and participating in the various "Creationist" and "Theo-evolutionist" colleges. Here's a few just to make it easy for you: Calvin College, Messiah College. And yes, there are some who will not allow anything else, but the majority are looking at all views.

Now compare what you find there to any state college, and you'll find a vast difference in who is providing thinkers. Colleges such as Calvin and Messiah challenge students to think against the grain - to challenge what is being put before them - yes, challenge creationism and evolutionism, and all the other theories out there. Comparitively, state colleges simply put forth "evolution or the highway".

There is actually a good book out on it called God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America. (Note: The author is not a creationist, far from it actually.)

First, thank you for an intelligent response. I find it interesting to dialogue with others about beliefs, but it tends to degenerate into flame wars (which is why it's often avoided).

Your 'sight test' example provides me with an analogy. I am aware of the fallacy of overextending analogies, and will do my best to avoid that.
I want to turn your argument against you. You say that if this experiment of colored objects is carried out, and the sighted person correctly identifies all objects, this will constitute proof that Sight exists, and that this individual has the power to use it. There are a few problems here that carry over to the argument over the existence of God. First, the blind in this instance have no prior experience with sight. Even if everything about seeing were to be described to them in great detail, it would be so far beyond their experience as to be incomprehensible. Those who witnessed this act would construe it as supernatural, literally meaning above or more than what is natural, because for them blindness is natural.

Second, put yourself in their mindset. There is one person who can do these wild things that nobody understands. He can try to explain how he does it using analogies, but it's still basically beyond your abilities to comprehend. When you hear about this by word of mouth, or even on the radio, will you believe it without witnessing it yourself? You may argue that the experiment was performed by a reputable institution, but I would argue that a reputable institution wouldn't even dream of allowing such an insane person through their doors, much less let him do his little tricks.

What I'm getting at is that being given incontrovertible proof is useless unless that proof can be understood by those who are listening. Even those willing to listen will invariably try to reason out how the feat was accomplished, and compared to the simple truth, these reasons will be incredibly convoluted and not only incomplete but incompletable.
Now for the dangerous part - I want to apply this principle to the argument for a theistic universe, the "fine-tuning" argument.
For the sake of space, I'm going to assume you know the fine-tuning argument, and point you to this paper if you don't.
In summary, fine-tuning theory states that the basic parameters of physics must be set to such specific values that it can only be accounted for by intelligent design. This is, in essence, the results of the seeing person's experiment - the probability that we (life) would be capable of existing at all (not to mention human consciousness) is so small as to be impossible - a much more distant prospect than the 1/24 chance that the colored objects are named correctly. For further discussion, I'll have to simply say "look at the paper," as Dr. Collins has done much more research and is a philosopher by profession rather than hobby.

Your breakdown of arguments by Christians and your following responses is absolutely valid. I will not even touch args. 1 and 4-6 because your accusations of circular reasoning and mistrust of feelings/senses are valid, and indeed shared by me. As for the other two, there are some things I'd like to respond with. I'll quote the args. I'm responding to, for context.

2. Yes, the NFL wide receiver argument. "I want to thank God for giving me the ability to make that touchdown..." Yet we never hear, "We were kicking the other team's ass when Jesus suddenly decided to make me fumble three times." Good people win the lottery. Bad people win the lottery. Good people survive car accidents. Bad people survive car accidents. What makes you, the God-fearing Christian, more special than the other God-fearing Christian who is now hamburger in their smashed up Toyota Celica?

I have heard the opposite - bad things happen to everyone just as good things do, and there are examples in the Bible (Job, notably) of people being angry at God for being cruel. Also, th

I've been involved in three of these races (Sunrayce '95, '97, '99) for one team, so here's some answers..
1. The route is not planned to avoid anything except really steep grades, and even then there are some pretty steep hills. This is because most of the motors in these vehicles are only about 14 hp.
2,3,4. The vehicles carry batteries with around 4 kWh of power in them. What matters is that with the different battery technologies, the amount of weight is different. 4kWh in lead-acid batteries is about 360 lbs., while 4kWh in Li-Ion is about 70 lbs. On a fully charged battery pack, some of the top cars can run at 55 - 60 mph for 3-4 hours. (That's with no sun at all) A solar car is really an electric car with a solar charging system.
5. Actually, no. Most people just stare and point. If anyone actually tried to throw anything at the cars they would probably be tackled because solar cells are really fragile.
6. The telemetry systems are allowed to be on a seperate battery system from the car's main power, because of the power drain issue and because of the way that the power must be disconnected, and still have telemetry going.
7. Theoretical top speed on the most commonly used motor made by NGM is approximately 72 mph. Not fast by most recognition, but when you are lying on your back 18 inches off the pavement, it seems mighty fast.